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The Wingham Advance, 1915-07-15, Page 3GRANULATED SUGAR with the fruit you order for preserving. Tell him, too, that you want it in the Packages originated for Aga Sugar — 2 or 5 lb. Sealed Cartons or 10, 20, 50 or 100 lb, Cloth Bags. Then you will be sure to get the GENUINE REDPATH— Canada's favorite sugar for three generations—the sugar to whose preserving purity you can safely trust good fruit. EXTRA CANADA SUGAR REFINING CO., LIMITED, MONTREAL. 135 BUDDING IN THE ORCHARD. The most important reason for which budding and grafting are prac- ticed is perhaps the fact that most of our fruits do not conte true to type from seed, and will not grow readily from cuttings. Also many trees have poor root systems and are not adapted to the existing soil and cli- matic conditions. This can some- times be remedied by grafting onto other stock which is of more hardy character. For example, plum treed on peach roots grow better in sandy soil than when on plum roots, and the peach does better in heavy soil when growing on plum roots. Budding is the operation of remov- ing a bud fromone plantand placing it upon- another in such a way that it will continue to grow. No amount of skill will make it grow unless the two ,plants are more or less closely related. The stone fruits— peach, plum, cherry and apricot -- may be successfully budded upon each other, This is also true of the pome fruits— apple, pear and quince—or any .other similar group of plants. A stone fruit cannot be .successfully budded upon a poine fruit, or a pome fruit upon a stone fruit. An apple bud on apple stock are more apt to grow than if placed upon either pear or quince stock, and the corresponding relation holds true with all other groups of plants. The more closely related the plants the more successful will be the operation. The operation can be performed in either the spring or late summer. If one desires to bud in the spring, the twigs from which the buds are to be taken should be cut in early winter and stored in moist and in a cool place until growth has started in the trees, They should be of good, healthy growth and from 1-4 to 1-2 of an inch in diameter. The tree is in proper condition for spring bud- ding as soon as the buds have started growth and the bark slips readily. Summer budding is performed only after the new buds and branches have become well developed. Only those buds near the base of the shoot, which have formed in the early Dart of the season, and which are more fully matured, are used. For spring work buds which have formed the preceding summer, and for fall work buds winch have formed earlier in the sante growing seasorn should be used. They will also grow best when placed upon the correspond- ing season's growth, although they may be placed upon older wood. If an old tree is to be budded it should be heavily pruned in the winter. The ,following spring a number of new growths will start from the trunk and branches. Of theso the desirable ones can be budded that fall, or can with most be left until the following. spring, Spring budding can be l,rac- tieed on the apple, and trees cf sim- ilar character, which do not bear fruit buds on the current season's growth; that is, fruit buds form in the fall on the wood which formed in the summer months. For t.h:s reason budding on fruits of this character is always better in the fall. A sharp, thin -bladed knife of good metal should be used: Special knives with a curved cutting edge at the and can be Obtained from tine seed - man or supply houses. In seedlings the bud should be placed about six inches from the surface to remove it somewhat from the excessive heat near the surface caused by the reflec- tion of the sun's rays. It is often set on the north side of the trees, as this side is least exposed to the sun- light and drying. The wound to re- celve the bud is made by two incisions in the form of a T. The first cut is Made with the grain of the wood, about one and a half inches in length. The second is made across tho grain of the wood, at the top of the first one, With a rocking motion of the knife. The corners of the bark are then loosened with the blade of the knife and the stock is ready fer the bud, The bud is cut from a twig with a shield shaped piece of bark about an inch in length and one-quarter of an inch in width, Hold the twig with the base from you, and, starting about half an inch below the bud, cut toward vote The cut will be from one -six- teenth to one-eighth of an inch at Re deepest point, Which is directly beneath the bud, A poetioh of the Vt rood is removed with the bud. Now ln8ert the bud, pushing it well down into the cut. No portion of the pteee to which the ldid is attaclied should be left projecting beyond the eleft, and the lips of the bark should be fitted snugly around the bud itself. Beide always occur just above a leaf, If, letotvever, the leaf is cut off with .the Waite, leaving a portion of the Klett ata -1L, toe a.0 i n 111 ser v e as a handle to tile bud and aid materially in plac- .tiei -,. as. N.,t a L111,L Lae; i.uu poitit7 ,. tatty set grow 1f not placed correctly. �.. .....i should not be wrapped' totals- iu place. .No wax is needed. A sieve of milia aeout twelve incites in length is the best material tor wrap - Ding. 'lits protects the bun as well as bolds it runny in place. JJo nut wrap over the bud itself, but above and below it. 1i ruftia is not avail at.le, any soft cure or cloth may be used. In from two to three weeks the bud should have mated and the tieing material shuuld then be re- naos ed, as if left longer it will can - strict the stem and perhaps strangle the bud. If ttie operation has been successful the branch should be cut oft one-half inch or so above the bud to force the growth of ttie bud. On large trees budding is seldom Practised for comniercinl purposau. Such short-lived and early -bearing trees as the are generally re- placed If undesirable. Trees on which ' top -working is advantageous are as a rule grafted instead of budded. FARM NEWS AND VIE\\'S. The Wisconsin Station has made in- teresting testa to strove relative sires and weights in litters from young and old soles, with astonishing results. In these tests sows weighing an average of 4.2 pounds at farrowing time pro- duced an average of 9.2 pige per lit- ter, ttith a weight per litter of 27 pounds. From sows weighing 307 pounds the average number in the lit- ter itter was 5.5 pigs and the average weight of a fitter 14 pounds. Sows between the ages of four and five years averaged nine Giga to a Iitter and a weight per litter of 26 pounds; sows between two and three years old had an average 19.7 pounds in weight, and sows a year old produced litters of 7.8 pigs, with an average weight of 14.2 per litter. One of the most useful drugs for any stable is alum. It can be dissolved in er and used as a wash for saddle galls and abrasions cf the skin, and weak solutions of it are useful, as ' washes for the mouth or vagina. When buying a horse, pick up the foot and examine it for contracted heels, thrush, corns, quarter cracks and dropped soles. The toe of the hind foot tor ridges or circles left after at- tacks of laininitis. A mixture of pine tar and neatsfoot oil is a cheap and good dressing for the outside of the hoof. The following sprays are recom- mended for destroying garden pests: Squash Beetle—Spray with Paris green. Tomato Worm—Hand pick with gloves or spray with parse green. Potato Beetle—Spray with paris green and lime, or brush off in a shal- low pan and destroy. Cut Worms—Mix paris green and bran and`seread as a bait before plants are set. Put paper collars around young plants. Striped Cucumber Beetle — Cover plants with cheesecloth screens, spray with arsenate of lead, five pounds to 60 gallons of water. Army Worms—Spray with paras green, spread bran and parts green bait or plow a deep ditch with a steep side next to crop and kill them in the trench. Take good care of the work horses, now that the time is at hand when the farm stock, and especially the horses, suffer greatly from heat and thirst. Give them water and rest at proper in- tervals not too far apart. See that tho harness is fitted well to the animal wearing it. Failure to take thought for the comfort of a horse may result in Its being permanently disabled in one way or another, as experience has shown. Sueh vegetables as cabbage, cauli- flower and onions utilize to the best advantaga heavy applications of man- ure, A Joint Concern. When Rlchrd Brinsiey Sheridan was in distress, in early life, ono of his resources was that of writing fgg_r_ the fugitive publications of the dry, in which he Was materially assisted by his wife, and many years after his entrance into the spheres of politics he was heard to say that "1f he had stuck to the law, he believed ho should have done as much as his friend Tom Erskine; but," continued he, "I had no time for each Studies. Mrs. Sheri. dan and myself were often obliged to keep writing for our daily leg or shoulder of mutton; otherwise vi"9 should have had no dinner." One of his friends, to whom he conformed this, wittily replied. "Then I perceive it was a 'joint' concern." Bags Old ags Like New. Shabby leather bags, etc., may be improved in appearance by being rube bed over With well beaten White oi` egg and then 'polished with beeewait and turpentine, the filial rubbing bee Ing given with a atilt, clean ,btwrh, OUR PULPWOOD Consumption Has Tnoreased 10 Per Cent, Despite War, Some econoaniets hove termed thla the "paper age" from the ingreatpiug use of paper in all walks of life, Thie being the ease it is gratifying to know that Canada is one of the great Paper countries of the world and is destinedto become still greater in Gibs respect. A11 interested in paper and the materials from which it is produced (pulp and pulpwood), look- forward ookforward to the issue of the annual bulletin on "Pulpwood" by the roes. estry Branch of the Department of the Interior. This has n6W 'been tient to the printer and a few of the lead,. Ing facts from it may be. given. 1s apite of the war the cons=umption of pulpwood in Canadian mills was over 10 per cent, greater in 1914 than in 1913, Since 1910 the pulpwood consumed in Canadian mills has, alittle more than. doubled, The coneumptioat in 1910 was 598,487 cords and'in 1914, 1,224,376 cords. The commonest and cheapest kind of pulp, made by the grinding process and known aa ground -wood pulp, increased by 9 per soldier, who has returned from the cent. over 1913, but that made by Ypres front for a Pow days' rest, This chemical processes increased by over man took part in the attacks made 14 per cent. This increasing use of with the help of polsonoue gasps, and chemical processes helps the country he told me several details concerning greatly as the product is worth near- this new method of warfare, ly three times as much as the ground- "We lay in our positionsfor wood pulp, months," lie said, "and could never Quebec is still the leading Province push forward' a hundred metres. The in pulp production, having 31 active British machine guns were handled mills out of a total of 66 mills for all too well. We could not apiu^oaoh the Canada. Quebec produced 66 per enemy's lines. Then, on the first day cent, of all Canadian pulp In 1914. the gases were used we gained two Ontario carie second with nearly 37 kilometres. This was the result of per cent. of the total production, and the gas. • You should have seen how the other producing provinces in or- it worked. It was fine." My pleasant der were British Columbia, New acquaintance smiled a broad smile. Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The "Everywhere the bodies of asphyxiate total value of pulpwood consumed in ed soldiers. There was white foam on Canadians mills in 1914 was $8,089,868 their mouths, and their faces were and of that exported to foreign cam- black. Those vtho were stilt able to tries in a raw state $6,680,490 making resist were soon silenced by the bayo- a grand total of $14,770,358 for the net. It was t>< ghastly sight,) but it value of the pulpwood produced last was the greatest 'victory out company year. It is interesting to note that has had in, the whole war.' the proportion of pulpwood manufae- I asked him whether the gas was lib• tured into pulp in Canada is inereas- ()rated from bombs. "No," ho replied. ing over that exported in the raw "It is„put up in cylinders, lust like state. The bulletin containing all carbonic acid gas or oxygen. The cy- the facts of this industry will be is- linders—we call them bottle—w-sre sued in a few weeks and those desir- buried in front of our trenches, with ing a copy or requiring immediate only the outlet tap loft above the information on some particular point ground. When the wind was favorable may have the same furnished free by the taps were opened, and thick dark writing the Director of Forestry, De- clouds rolled towards the trenches of partment of the Interior, Ottawa, the minty. Then we received the or- der for the storm attack, and rushed for the enemy's lines. Of course we cannot use the gas always, be(rause when the wind is not blowing direct towards the opposing trenches, we etand a chance of getting some of it ourselves, el es and , that would be lessIea- sant, p "We had some experience of this kind of thing the other clay, when a British eIleii struck soine of our con. sealed gas bottles, and they exploded. The gases came into our own trenches, and before safety measures could be taken, fifty of our men lay dead on the srot. "Will you go on using them?” I ask-. ed. "I hardly think so." replied the soldier. "The last time we used them and ran up to the enemy trenches, in• stead of finding then') emptiest, as we had anticipated; we were received with a terrible machine -guts fire anti a rifle salvo, and we had to hurry back to our own lines. Apparently the men bad respirators on and the gas did not seem to have effected them. So if this goes on the gases will be useless to us unless, of course, we Lind something else, for Germrn scionc3 shrinks from Ito problem, however difficult it 1s." in reply to my definite question what the Germans thought of the em• t3ifferentiated in several ways from cloyment of gases he answered, "They those on this continent. area splendid weaves. Forwhat is the aim of nil arms? To make the en - GERMAN GLEE OVER SASES Ghoulish Delight of Officer at Suc- cess of Brutal Scheme.. Whose Not Dead From Results Quickly Bayoneted. An English paper just to hand /As the following regarding the Gorman delight over the effects of their gas warfare; Liege, June 18.—Received via Rotter- dam; Monday)—I havo had an instruc• tive conversation here with a German THE C. P. R. AND RUSSIA The traffic arrangement by which the C. P. R. will represent the Rus- sian Government in providing for through freight. ht services from the Do- miniminion on toRussia Trans-Siber- ian ss a b y the Trans Siber- ian Railway and the Russian Volun- teer Fleet, which is an auxiliary of the railway, Is an amplification of the con- nection which the company has sus- tained with the TransaSiberian Rail- way, which is a state-owned system. The Company has offices in Moscow and Petrograd in which it does busi- ness, the only railway on this contin- ent to have such offices in Russia. If it would seem strange that the Com- pany should do business in either city, it need only be mentioned that the C. P. R. is the only railway in America which ]s a member of the Round the World Conference of which the execu- tve of the Trans-Siberian Railway ine, witiclt the average Russian al- ways calls the "Transcontinental" line —this being the notion the system conveys to his mind. On this line there are three types of engine. The wood engine is a special type, which is not ' built at all on this continent, but it serves the purpose in the physical cir- cumstances on the system, which is 3.o emy unfit to fight. This the gas acs HER SHOES. complished in the highest degree, it may be that it is a cruel weapol, bit What the Woman Who is Well the whole war is cruel, and was it not Dressed Will Not Do. the Englishmen who used It first?" Your correspondent, being a neutral, The woman who is really well offered no reply to this last question, t —Central Newa dressed does not wear a smart fr,tck , and a becoming hat and the ruin her i a. whole appearance by clothing her feet EAR DRUMS AND DROWNING. in a pair of shoddy shoes, run down i at the heel and perhaps unpolished. ; Why Good Swimmers May Meet And yet many women who are fasted- I Sudden Death in the Water. tour as to their appearanoe, who would not think of going out of the } Sudden death of ,swimmers has neve house without their suits being well I er been explained satisfactorily, but it pressed, their blouses being fresh and is generally assumed that it is due to dainty, their veils adjusted in just the , cramps that affect the respiratory right way, will forget entirely to look ' muscles, The Medical Record says at the condition of their shoes. Per- there is another theory that "has haps these will be worn, and dusty never received the attention which it and will be made still uglier by being merits. Thls is that cold water pen - worn with a pair of soiled and crump- etrating the ear sets up an irritation led spats. in the delicate passages of the inner There is nothing prettier than well ear. It cites an address delivered by shod feet, nothing uglier than a pair Dr. Guettieh before the Berlin Otolog- of neglected, run down, soiled shoes, )cal Society, in which he revived this And now that •abbreviated skirts are theory. fashionable, the girl who wants to be The irritation of the labyrinth of well dressed will take great pains in the inner, ear by cold water might selecting her shoes, and once she has cause sudden paialysis, just as a purchased an appropriate and pretty pair she will take still greater .pains to keep them in good condition. Never take off a pair of shoes with- out putting a pair of trees in them immediately. This will help them to keep their shape and also will help to shock to it through a sharp blow,on the chin will cause a "knockout," The symptoms of the smtni ner and the tighter are similar. They can snake notions, but cannot direct them; they may become temporarily uneonseious. In the case of the swimmer, of course, prolong the life of the boots. When drowning follows unless some one there is the least suspicion of the helps him, heels becoming run down Send them to the bootmaker's immediately. and have them straightened. Nothing looks so shabby as a pair of crooked heels. Now as toisome of the novelties to be seen this spring, - n the first place the light top boot, Which has made such a favorable impression this winter, remains in vogue for spring, all the smartest shoes having either light tan or light gray uppers, Gun metal leather and dark gray tops are also considered smart, white a tan shod with a tan upper is very chic, ♦ . 4 Fires in the Philippines. The fighting of fires In the dry sea- son is a grave problem in the cities and pueblos of the Philippine Islands. House construction is light, the roofs being made from nipa palm leaves, the framework of bamboo and the sides of either nipa or sawali--a woven prod - 'not of certain species of bamboo. Whei1 tide material has been exposed continuously to the sun for several months it becomes As inflammable as tinder. Fires that break out In the nips districts always gain great head - Way before any kind of an alarm Can be sent in Oven where there is a fire department. Fires in such districts spread With great rapidity. In thickly populated areas it 10 not uncommon fol' a lira ter burn several hundred 10uSoll before it le stopped, i The Med. Record says that persons with perforated ear drums are those Chiefly menaced by this accident, al- though it may occur to others, And this in spite of the fact that children)' with large pert& ,tions of the ear drum Often swim and dive with im- punity. Didn't Want 'Em. "That beauty expert is a fake." "'Why?" "Wanted to give hie some wrinkles on .how to loolt: young." --Baltimore American. A tRUIT CHANCE War 1♦'lxrnishes Markets to Can- adian Growers.. ----_, .. As eliowing to same extent how touch good fruit -growing means to Canada, it is worth noting the amount of trade forutoriy dope by the coun- tries tit war that lies often for cul- tivation by this country, At the Canadian Fruit Gr'oWers' Conference held at .Grimsby last September Mr, J, A. Ruddick, Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner, stated tint he had staken a period of five years, and that lio had found the imitortatious of apples from Germany to 13ritain varied each year froth 5,000 to 3.4,000 bushel boxes, from Belgium from 100,000 to 500,000 boxes, from France from 50,000 to 676,000 boxes, and from Portugal trent 175,000 to 350,000 boxes, Of pears the importations v4tried from 4,480 to 50,000 bushel boxes from Germany, from 202,800 to 508,480 boxes from Delgfutn, and from 422,440 to 506,160 boxes from Portugal. Large quantities were also imported from the Nether- lands, which may not be available. Mr. Ruddick prognosticated an increased demand for dried and evaporated fruit from Great Britain for use in the army. In 1913 Canada exported of this line to the United Kingdom 121,188 pounds, to Newfoundland 10,899 pounds, and to Germany' 247,802 pounds. Of course the trade with Ger inany will be cut off, but the exporta- tions should expand in other direc- tions. THE ADOPTED HOME BOY. There are thousands of adopted children in Canada. The rural dis- tricts are full of them. J. I. Kelso, Superintendent of Neglected and De- pendent Children of Ontario, has Is- sued a leaflet in reterenee to these children: "What to the legal etatus of the adopted child?" "Can she take our name?" "Can this boy in- herit the farm?" are questions often asked by foster parents„ he says, poster parents can change the came of an adopted chiid to their own without any special authority, and it is quite legal for _the child later on to do business under the new name and also to marry. The chief diffi- culty is over inheritance. If there is no' will then the adopted child is cut off entirely from participation in the estate of the peter parents, It is absolutely; essential that a will should be made and the _words in- serted, "I give and bequeath to uty adopted daughter.— the stun of— ICE CREAM 15 A. FOOD A VALUABLE food if it's pure. City hairy Ice Cream is made of the purest ingredients, in a new sanitary building. We ship thousands of gallons to all parts of Ontario. The size of our business enables us: to employ experts and the most up-to-date methods and equipment. Keen business men reduce their meat diet dur- ing the sumltner and consume more foods such as Ice Crearn. Everybody can do so with benefit to their health. For sale by discriminating shopkeepers everywhere. • Look for the Sign. TORONTO. We wanfi an Agent in every town. —,' or describing the property or ar- N••NN••4N•i•••/N• + tide. This should be attended to ens, POULTRY WORLDwhi1e thefoster parent is in good THE health and not left until death threat- • IN FLYING CORPS G.T.R. Apprentice With the Brit- ish in France. Among the twelve hundred Grand Trunk men who have enlisted for overseas service are several appren- tices from the motive power depart- ment of the railway. These young men are variously employed, many of them in the firing line, with the Canadian Expeditionary force, while others have turned their technical skill to advantage in the other branches of the service Among those who enlisted from the Grand Trunk shops at Battle Creek, Mich., on the outbreak of the war was an English apprentice, A. J. Locke„ and the Master Mechanic at Creek eek has just• received the following letter from the young man's motherSurrey: who resides at Godalming, "I am writing to thank you areamuch of the gift of money sent through you to my son, A. J. Locke, and to thank you also for Your kind- ness to and interest in him while he was employed in the G. T. R. shops. I can assure you that both my husband and myself will ever feel grateful to you for the welcome you extended to him amongst you, and for the very thorough tuition which he must have had while with you, though, for a short time (these unforeseen circum- stances interrupting his apprentice- ship) which has enabled hint to go out and do his duty for King reed country. He is working as a fitter (first-olass air mechanic) in the air- ship factories of the Royal Flying Corps, somewhere in France, and 1 am glad to tell you that he is keeping well, working very hard, long home,too, cheerfully, loyally doing his share, amidst many dangers, to keep these wild barbarians away from our homes, and it is just what I would have him do. He is my one boy, and 1 wish #rw1 had others Who could help in this - ' fol etruggle, for such it is, and will be until we finally crush these cion - eters forever, which, by God's help, we shall do, at a terrible cost, we know, and great sacrlfi.e itt." ENGLAND AS AN ISLAND. Changes a Channel Tunnel . and Perfect Aviation Would Bring. Greht Britain is an )eland. Unless there is some great convulsion of na- ture to all time the Strait of Dover Will separate it front, the continent of Bitirope. Yet every now and then a renewal of the Scheme for a ()benne' tunnel 14 heard, and at this moment men are flying from England to; 1l'ranee and Prance to England. Suppose the channel tunnel to be made; suppose flying to be impxoved— and it is improving' every day --what will become of the island? What Will become Of the sea? They will be there and will be shown On the map, but to 1 all human !ntenta and purposes the geography will be changed. The sea will no longer be a barrier; it will no, longer be the only highroad from Binge: land to l~'rance. There Will be going to and front on or in dry land and going to and fro neither on land nor sea. Suppose this science of aviation to make great Widest and heavy loads to be carried in the air, what Will be - ,some Of t]ne ports, and what Will be-, conic of the seagoing peoples? The ports will be there, appearing as now on the map, but Birmingham goods will he shipped tit Bm irmingha Tor fdreige parte and Lithgow will ex - Dart mineral dlreat, saying goodby to, the Blue mountain and Ova tie Syde etev hari'or,--Sir Chariee T', Luca" in 1$400.04.•$OCM. ,u. i,: ;i:t d.14i e.(if�t,lBd •••••••••••••••••••••4 MASHES FOR THE CHICKS. Chicks grow rapidly when fed on Tablet mashes, but the digestive sys- tem does not develop proportionately and with too much soft food they often break down. The tendency of poultry keepers generally is to take one or other extreme in cases like this, and because of that many who find certain unfavorable results with the use of motet mash do away with it entirely, either substituting dry mash or using no ground .grain, says Farm - Poultry. When this is done, special attention should be.given to providing succulent food. The best feeding practice is to atter- nate mash and grain, and it is a good plan even when a moist mash i ' used to have a little dry mash where chicks can get it when they.:want it. They will eat, more when the food provided them is in a variety of forms, and the more you can get them to eat of suit- able rations, the better they will grow. Up to the limit of its Capacity the digestive power increases with use and suitable food. One of the best ways to feed eggs to chicks is to take raw infertile eggs and mix up, shell and all, with as much cornmeal or cornmeal and shorts as can be mixed with the egg with a stiff spoon. Don't feed this heavily, but give what they will clean up quick once a day. Stale bread soaked in warm water, just enough to saturate it, and then stirred thick with cornmeal and a little fine beef sorap, is another nnaslt much relished by chicks. Such things can be prepared in a moment.' No one need worry about such irregular dishes disturbing the "balanoee" of the ration. They give the variety that it acceptable to all creatures. It is a hard matter to seri- ously "unbalance" a ration by the use 0f any occasional meal, even of an aii'tiele far from the general ratio, and 'the artioles mentioned and others that people may prepare from waste foods they happen to have are not very far }from the Common ratio. PEED CHICKS LIGHTLY, Many chicks die from being overfed. •The little chink Is a fairly hardy crea- ture When normally healthy, but if it Is not fed carefully its digestive sys- 'tem is upset readily and death often results.. Do not fend the chick until it is thirty-six hours old, for it cannot digest the grain which you give it in addition to the yolk sac which is usually not completely absorbed at the time of hatching. A good- practl' a is to feed a little at a time, but feed frequently, Tho more often chicks are fed each day the less dangerethere is of overfeeding. 'When the'}chicks are quite young they should be fed five times every day. When they get to be about;six weeks ofd then they (Mild be fedititree or four times every day. Wet, sloppy food should be avoided always, Give the chicks dry cracked grain or dry mashes. The mashes, which are usually made of wheat, bran, cornmeal, crushed oats, tniddlings and beef scraps, aro milted thoroughly', and moistened with Water, or better still,with sour skim milk. If this mixture is dry fed it is given In eelf-feeding hoppers. If fed wet it is given in 'troughs. Cee that it is just slightly moistened, as foods Whiclt aro tbo wet de not agree with chicks. Do not feed too much hard boiled eggs at the start, as the chicks cannot digest it readily. If you have sour skim mill: avail- able give it to the thick& all of the time, as it is one of the best chick feeds, Feed 1n such a way that the eldeka will take plenty of a er )iso all of the LIMO, as It let ono Of our beat ohiok feeds. Feed often, and feed other feeds.—M.A. 7 ull, in Prairie, Farm and Home. SEPARATE THE SEXES. Cockerels and pullets should be sep- arated as soon as they can be distin- guished, which in most cases will be , when the chicks are five to eight weeks old. Keep the young males yard -1 ed together, so that they may be speedily fattened for market, but give the pullets as much range as possible. This will give them the constitutional vigor necessary for heavy egg produc- tion next fall and winter. Males which it is desired to keep for breeding pur- poses may be separated from the oth- ers a little later, when their character- istics and quality may be better Judged. POULTRY TALK. A wild lien in a flock is always a disturbing element. A turkey hen desires to be let se- verely alone during the laying season; she is very apt to change her nest 'When being watched. For each day there is same timely work in the poultry yard, which will give better returns than at any other tme. Look on the underside of the per- ches where they rest upon the sup- ports, for the rod mites, the parasites to be most feared by the poultry rais- er. Get after these torments with a spray pump and some good lice -killer, for the sake of profit if not for hu- mane reasons. When the mother hens and their, chicks must be shut up on a cool damp day, give them chaff from the barn floor to scratch in, The small time othy seed they get out' of the chaff seems to agree with them; they don't need much other food, The chicks that Iive are the chicks that pay, the aerie' vigilance is re- quired to keep many of them living. Be on the watch. Many a chick is caught in a storm at this season, and chilled to death. Always remember that a warm suns ny morning is the beat time to apply the grease remedy to a lot of lousy chicks. It is bad for the chicks to grease then) when it 1e cold and wet. But if too liberal 'with grease at any time, you will kill the chicks as welt as the Dee. Household Hints. To prevent glass dishes from crack- ing when pouring in a hot mixture place the Allah on a hot cloth. A few drops of ammonia in the dish water will brighten the glass atf3 sin vex. Suet may be kept fresh by chopping roughly and sprinkling it with a lit- tle granulated sugar. To prevent a tam -o' -shunter that has to be washed from shrinking, dry it over a dinner plate. To restore faded Bilks of their nat- ural color, immerse them its scapaula to Which a little pearl asst has been added. Nothing stings like the knowledge that you have allowed a fool to sting you.—Now York American, DRS. SOPER & wtIITD SPECIALISTS Piles, Eczema Asthma, 0atarrh. Pimples, oyspep►Is, Epilepsy, Rh*umntIem,ISkin, Kid. noir, Bloods Nerve and Bladder Mows*. , iuCall ar send blstory for tree advice. Medicine m lied In tsblet form, Hour, -lo a.m. to 1 p.m. and s to 6 p,.tt, Sundays—i0 4,m. to p.m. Co,tss1tetios Pao ORS. SOPER & WHI tE *1 Toronto St., Toronto, NI., Wh'IL.Wt[1dga MNn_tl9.A Thlf J, iTi'anul'ation. from Lille War Ga- zette, 3re March, 1915. This is a week. ly newspaper, issued by the terulans .n Lille, in German.) (Ily Lieut. -Col, )Laden.) As children many of us have played with it: soiree of us have seen an out- break of fire. I''irst a small tongue- like flame appears, it grows into a de- vastating fury of heat. We out here in 'the field have seen more than enough of it. But there is also the fire of joy, Of sacred enthusiasm! It arose from sacrificial altars, from mountain heights of Germany, and lit lip the heavens at the time of solstice, and whenever the home countries were in danger, This year fires of joy shall flare from the Bismarck Columna throughout the length and breadth of ilermany, for on 1st April, just one hundred years ago, our country's greatest son was horn, Let us cele- brate this event in a manner deep, far -reaching -and mighty! Blood and iron. Let every German, man or woman, young or old, find in his hart a Bis- marck Column, a pillar of fire now in these days of storm and stress, Let this fire enkindled in every German breast, be a fire of joy, of Holiest en- thusiasm. But let it be terrible, un- fettered, let it carry horror and de- struction! Call it HATE. Let no one come to you with "Love thine en- emy!" We all Have but one enemy, England! How long have we wooed her almost to the point of our own self-abasement. She would none of us, so leave to her the apostles of peace, the "no war" disciples.' The time has passed when we would do homage -to everything English—our cousins that were! "God punish England!" May He punish her!" This is the greeting that now passes when Germans meet, The Ciro of this righteous hate is all aglow! You men of Germany, from east and west, forced to shed your blood in the defence of your homeland through England's infamous envy and hatred of Germany's progress, feed the flame that burns in your souls. We have but one war -cry, "God punish England!" Hiss this to one another in the trench- es, in the charge, hiss as it were the sound of licking flames! Behold in every dead comrade a sacrifice forced from you by this ac- eursed people. Take ten -fold vengeance for each hero's death! You German people at home, feed this fire of hate! You mothers engrave this in the heart of the babe at your breast! You thousands of teachers, to whom millions of German children look up with eyes and hearts, teach IIATE! unciuenchable :HATE! You homes of German learning,•pile 11 fuel� u t the on this Etre. Tell na- tion the a tion that this hate is not un -German, that it is not poison for our people. Write in letters of fire the name of our bitterest enemy. You guardians of the truth, feed this sacred HATE! You German fathers, lead your chil- dren up to the nigh hills of our home- land, at their feet, our dear country ,bathed in sunshine. Your women and children shall starve: bestial, devil- ish conception. England wills it! Surely, all that is in you rises against such infamy! Listen to the ceaseless song of the German forest, behold the fruitful fields like rolling seas, then will your love for this wondrous land find the right words, IIATE, unquenchable HATE. Germany, Germany above all. "'Let it be inculcated in your children and it will grow like a landslide, irre- sistible, from generation to genera- tion. i t You fathers, proclaim it aloud over the billowing fields, that the toiling peasant below may hear you, that the birds of the forest may fly away with the message; into the ]and, that echoes from German cliffs send it re- verberating like the clanging of bells from tower to tower throughout the country -side: "Hate, hate, the accurs- ed English, MATE!" You masters, carry the flame to your workshops; axe and hammer will fall the heavier when arms are nerved by this HATE. You peasants, guard this flame, fan in anew •in the hearts of your toilers, that the hand may rest heavy on the Plow that throws up the soil of our homeland. What Carthage was to Rome, Eng- land is to Germany. For Rome as for us it is a question of "to be or not to be." May our people find a faithful mentor like Cato. His "ceterum cen- see, Carthaginem esse delendam" for us Germans means: "GOD PIINISII ENGLAND!" N.B,—A copy of this newspaper was found on a German prisoner captured during the recent fighting at Nowise Chapelle. It is of interest as showing the hatred for Great Britain which is being sedulously cultivated in Ger- many. This hatred is being encourag- ed and fostered officially by every possible means. • . Is Laws Made in Germany. Most of us have felt sorry for the hardly -used Belgians, who are im- prisoned for failing to salute or for laughing at a soldier, but it is only what tate Germans themselves have to put up with. A worthy citizen of Berlin was once imprisoned for a week because he laughed at the sight of a fat police- man chasing a student Who had dined not wisely but too well; while a wo- man was fined $5.00 because she told a clumsy mart, Who trod on her foot in a 'bus, that he walked like a hen. OE course, one of the most heinous offences is to laugh at an official; but the unhappy citizen Is fined for doing something, and another day for not doing it, A motorist went slowly through a little town itt the evening without sounding his bell, and no one was about; fined, A week later he sounded it well; fined for doing it too vigorously. If yon hang yeur bedclothes Out of window; fined. If they drop out as well; doable fine --two offences. If You run for a ear, and board it in motion; more money goes to tate pollee evils Nisi er. STRAWS. (Montreal herald -Telegraph.) Stratus shote which way the wind Is blowing. Tiritii!t privonars are now be- teg treated in a much better manner in Germany. Tito Aniot•iealtatnha89adrir's report phtees thio beyond all doubt. The fire-eating Count von b:,'ventlow, who has been breathing defiance of every - these and everybody, and has especially (ilctineta:hee hiintelf by defending the Finking of the leeeitania, has been Bat- tled en by the (German Government and the paper in which he wrote has been suspended. Germany, apperently, is In'. 'ginning to realize that after ell chi* Is riot t01nf;.-fo rule the, world, -,5n0, failing this, does not relish the idea; of being looked on as nn outlaw natter*.