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The Brussels Post, 1919-5-1, Page 7The Farm Needs Modern Equipment,' With the return of our rural sons' to the old houses, we shall sisal that; mental changes have taken place -in malty of them which will utter thslr; whole lives. A large proportion of the young. farmer boys who entered our nrmY and Ha 'a• ael•VIee abroad, or under- went military training at one of our large military posts, were away from honlo for the first time in their lives. The experiences which came to them on the field of battle or on the drill field were broadening. They met young men from various other stations of life, gathered to- gether frim all corners of the coun- try, and they got new ideas about the world. In a majority of cases the young men were Intimately associated with mechanical things. They' learn- ed how to assemble and operate trucks, .or tanks, or airplanes. They studied motors, big guns and bridge building. No hatter how much or how lit- tle of tnis knowledge the boys car- ried away, they did retain 'the idea that in the world in which they live there are mighty forces which can be used for doing man's work, and these forces are all symbolized by the word "machinery." The big things were done by mechanical means, directed by the guiding thought of man. nl our farmer noys get nec on the farm, that thought will come back to them. On a hot, dusty day, when driving the favorite old team in the field, both man and beasts working hard to get their work done, the recollection will return of the traction engines that yanked the big! guns out of the mud, or pulled big' loads along almost impassable roads. On the farms where brawn alone is relied upon to get the work., done, the boys are going -to do some sober thinking about the words "me- chinrry" and "power." Either those thine must come to the falin, or the hot eel! i,;o to the locality where me- chanical power is recognized and used. Many farmers now have an sl+.torrohi1e; it seems as essential. in a business way as 'horses Mines plows for the field. There are hundreds of faro's in Can- ada l'trge enough to warrant FERTILIZER A'1 A 14 DENS. LAWNS, PLOw51R9. X,:. mwete y-ertllizer. Write George Stevdns Peterborough. Ont. `°''X will oay high- est market price 1:1A:4414 or ir8tTS and Ginseng Roots years of reliable trading. P.erence--Union Rants of Canada P:rito Cor Tags. N. LVER, 220 St. Pau) St. W. Slantrca1, P.Q. ROOFING MAS.AT:BON BRAND Ready T0"O'.n.g, Asphalt Slate shing- les, Wall hoard. Building Papers, Moor Paints, etc. • \Vrite for prices and samples. Save money by buying direct. Ytti'eri ERMtD BROS.79 Towle 50' NATIVE SEED CORN Grown in South Eaoen Selected at husking time. Pegged and. rra.e cured. Limited amount, ORD'G.R EARLY. 1018, No. 7 22,26 per bus. White Can 3.26 Bailey 2,26 ' Golden Clow 4.00 ' North Dakota 4.00 " " aafig Pres. Cash with order, Darius Wigle, Kingsville, Ont. VARICOSE VEINS? Wear This Tion-.Elaatio Lased Stocking SANITARY, as they may b: washed or boiled, AagirS'x'A3L11, laced like a legging: always acs. COMPORTABLM", made to measure; light and dur- able. C0O'�, contains No Ttubber, 1.,1300,000 SOLD ECOSTO25IC.AL, rest 52.50 each, or two for the slime 11mb, 56.60, postpaid, Write for Catalogue. and Self -Measurement Blank. Corliss LOuth Specialty CO. 514 Now nuke 261,1)1, Montreal, P.Q. ft. nV. POs?, 5 ALn, Canadian hoot Seed. Raised from the best stork by Dominion Experimental harass. St'I't'r.v LIS11TED. 7TrIees as follows:-- =anggelo-- 60 iba. and over .,,,,,..., 65r. 111. 200 600, 1000 40e. 2000 " 464, " Svredo Tlllmll ,, -- 60 iba. and over ase, Il+. 100 00e. 600 76c. 1000 .,....,.,Ole. 2'teld Carlota-- 0 lbs. and over Ono. ll. 21, ,.,,.,.,,., a1r. 10o20c. 200 " " .., ?Sc.7Sc. •' b'rol{cllt paid and sacks free, Net pavnllnt bank draft 00 Anes frnnl date of invn,ca and 05, allowed for cauh i 40 days from date of tnvolce Particulars n.boala, varieties en apse!. oaten. the prelims() of a farm tractor, er ether nloderu nlnrhieery, that yet lark the essentials of good farming. To the father the new made of farming maw not have -111e sane ap- peal as to the son. Nor will that appeal be as strong to those who stayed at home to work In the see- ond line trenches of food production, But if a boy, by directing the opera tions of a tractor capable of pulling three plows, can do three 110106 as much work in the same time as he could by driving a team of horses, that boy ought to use the modern equipment. Farmers are, to a certain extent, dependent upon the weather for the success of their operations. When they surround themselves with the modern equipments to get, their work done more quickly and at the right time, they virtually take out insur- ance against the weather. Many farm owners have more than paid for their up-to-date machinery by forcing through some single piece of work that saved their crops, in spite of bad weather. Kill the Potato Bug Early. Kill the Colorado Potato Beetles, or potato "bugs," eery in the season btfore they start raising their fam- ily of hungry little buglets. The par- ent beetles spend the winter months in the ground at a depth of from two to several inches. These em- erge in the spring about the time the potato plants come through the ground. Early in spring they may he seen flying through the air look- ing for a suitable place in which to lay their eggs. They feed on prac- tically all plants of the potato fam- ily, attacking potato, tomato, egg- plant, ground cherry and jimson weed, as well as other weeds of this family. Tho female deposits her eggs on the under side of the leaves. These eggs are yellow in color and are laid on end, in bunches. A single f001010 is capable of producing be- tween eighteen and nineteen hundred eggs. As soon .as these hatch the small larvae or "slugs" feed on the plant until full grown), when they drop to the ground and enter the soil where they change to a naked, yel- lowish colorer. pupae. Within a short time these pupae change into the hard-shell beetles. These climb out and begin eating the leaves of the plant along with the larvae. These insects eat a quantity of food out of all proportion) to their size. It has been estimated that the po- tato crop of the country is reduced each year more. than ten million bushels as a result of attacks by insects and diseases, If spraying were not practiced at all this figure would bo much larger. The Lotal number of bushels lost every year to the above two causes can be con- siderably reduced by the right me- thods of spraying. Nearly every, community, where potatoes are grown, contains those who either do not spray at all or else do not spray as thoroughly as they should. Think of the female beetle with her eigh- teen hundred eggs and spray early before they hatch and the young be- gin to satisfy their enormous -appe- tites. The Colorado potato beetle is not a difficult 5110080 to control if begun in time. The use of a geed arsenical, properly applied, will keep this pest from doing very much damage. Spraying should begin when the plants are about six oar eight inches high and should be repeated about every two weeks (10 long as the plants are growing. During the past !few years arsenate of lead, or lead 'arsenate, has been the most univers- ally used poison, supplanting Paris green. It has the advantage of con- taining less soluble arsenic, and it is this latter which causes the burning of the foliage. The lead arsenate will also stick much better and be less liable to be washed oil`. Calcium (arsenate, or arsenate of lime, is now being put on the market and is a very good poison for the potato "bugs." It is cheaper than arsenate of lead and requires less of the poison to do the same work. This poison can be applied with water or else put right in the Bordeaux mix- ture. LAS '�' SONG HIT 4'ts;,• ., 11 .fi(5 rlael.TOWI) Snit' P EVE.+.X41Rn A al'r ICCI:1,4We (.111.1 Falnothne, 1101w,•,•n lildaight and 1,3„11 NA.bndy Mts. X'111 Do Alabama l?p.11 tied 0a0,0 (11x1 of Minn 4'10) Holo. fru,,, Virginia W,,it 1+„t• his I Want (0Sc., If My Uaddy'n come I:,,n,o, The whole seven comp will ho sent prepaid on receipt of price together with our complete Ilst of popular nitisl0. We will i iso place your name on our mailing list to receive notice of the new conga as they cense out. Send the dollar now and get the music by return mail, Ideal o g Publishing e n p 17 ADELAr�B AT. ll sS C s> �za� ' a � �l fa� � ®.y TORozeao '^="-rwaxx S"'rA mcvm+.uar •+ryma,uaRae;' ADVERTISINGTHAT PAYS By R. G. KIRBIY. Advei'ti.,ing of the products of the a+lvertised. The writer has no grudge As soon us the guests have re - UR PROBE DY i RS Ii L I� LA 4, Mcthers and daughters of all ages aro cordially Invited to write to this department. Initials only will bo puhllehed with each queston and Its answer 40 ,h means of Identhlcatlan, but full name and address must ha given In each letter, Write on one side of paper only. Answers will he mailed direct if stumped and addressed envelope is enclosed. Address all correspondence for this department to Mrs, Helen Law, 235 Woodbine Ave., Toronto. H0,0. ---Stere is a plan for a "school party." Invitation are is- sued something lino this: "'School will be in session at the home of on Friday evening at eight o'clock. All supplies furnished, You are cordially invited to attend." farm is being found profitable by praetitlal farmers. Live stock ad- vertdeing has been proven of the greatect importnnce in selling stock at a profit. A farmer with pure- bred cockerels weighed them up and estimated how much they would bring on his local market. Then he thought that they were pure-bred and of a breed that was popular in his community. He placed a small advertisement in the paper and -sold them at a price twice as large as their value for meat and they were worth the increased price as breed- ing stock because other farmers' needed new blood of that breed and the birds were vigorous and of good type. Without the assistance of ad-, vertising the birds only had their meat value. The advertising reach -I ed a class of customers 'who could put such stock to even more profit- able use and thus could pay more money for them. A farmer with -a pair of pedigreed • watch -dogs of a popular breed hall eight pups for sale. He advertised in his town paper ,anti sold them within a week and had to refuse several orders. Several farmers' came a long distance to see the pups) and in every case made a purchase) and the breeder did not even have the, trouble of crating them for express.) In other cases the pups were crated' in small boxes and shipped by ex -I press and reached the buyers in good I condition. Many farmers fear to ship animals by express and never do, when it can be avoided, Possibly the losses in express shipments are - emphasized so frequently that we. forget the large number of satisfac- tory shipments that are made. The use of proper packages that are care- fully marked is one of the necessary factors in making advertising pay. In advertising poultry it pays to study the stock for sale and then de- scribe it as briefly and accurately as possible. Some buyers like to know the strain of fowls for sale and whether the birds are bred -to - lay or exhibition stock and they like to pick up those points from the first 1 advertisement, If the buyer is after hatching eggs he will wish to know something about the will. stock. Many advertisers sell only hatching eggs from mature hens and not from pullets and this is a point worth mentioning in the advertising. I When a farm is for sale advertis- 1 ing is necessary to place that fact ! before a large number of prospective buyers. Often a farmer places a sign before his house when the farm is for sale. The neighbors read the sign and the. farmers and motorists see it, but often the man who is looking for such a farm is living in a nearby city or on a farm in another township and he ,vil1 not see any roadside sign and not know that the place is for sale if it is not Peace Gardena. IL is time to 00011 over the earth in your gardens anal get it ready for the vegetable and flower .families. All the boys and girls who plaited war gardens had so ninth fun and saticfactidn cut of thein that there will. he 11111 0 no lean:. gardens 41110' year as 1040, 1ald'we1'11 111111 vegetables ere eat the; only flange that give in gardens!! Melo null hive grow atrenger and: hesli111rr nn l hap tier. Any of you who have read "111e Secret (Inrdce," by F1 nnees I -To lgaon Burnett, will )cro v tali;,, It is so wonderful to meats things grow and know that: ttitima,. your care and effort that lit - !c La0e5 Of ground would he of no Ise to .itself or the world, tot's all have gardens, even if they are very tine anew! DIi, M. 0. Si Ai rl 'Central .lexporiseen let 1 •rent, (ilio.: 1, stili'es In rover sixty, u,. t. . .ill The world's moat ernes:ed river Is 1bo Jordan, which wonders nearly against the real estate men but be- lieves that many farmers could find more satisfactory buyers for their farms if they would handle the transaction themselves and do their own advertising and not turn the deal over to any agent. Of course, the real estate mets that advertise to sell farms and demand a fee in advance should not be patronized by farmers with land for sale. When a farmer wishes to sell his land, he, should first make it as presentable' as possible, then advertise in papers, that reach both farmers and city, .buyers and then deal with honest buyers who appreciate good farms, and do not waste the farmer's time! trying to trade questionable securi- ties or poor city property for the land, Advertising often locates a bona fide far buyer in the most. unexpected place. It is the cheapest method of placing honest facts be- fore a large number of people. It is not only the cheapest but the quickest and the best method. When cows and calves are for sale, many farmers keep them longer than is necessary when they only adver- tise on the farm sign board. Often they try to sell to friends or neigh- bors who are really not in the market for such stocic. Then they try the advertisement which places their stock before many buyers and some of them immediately prove to be in the market for the cattle. The foun- dation of the pure-bred live stock business rests on faith in honest ad- vertising and the farmer who at- tempts to make the most profit from pure-bred animals without the use of paid publicity is making a mistake that costs much money. Even grade cattle can often be sold at good prices by advertising, as many farmers need another good grade cow for their herd. At the present time there is a fine demand for dairy cattle having even a fair producing ability and such cows do not need to be sold for beef as there is always some buyer who will pay more for them than beef priees if they still have any value as milk pro- ducers. A short advertisement will usually locate buyers for such stock that will pay more for them than the stock buyer. The farmer with the pure-bred bull calf for sale might wish that a hun- dred thousand people would march down his road and read his sign say- ing that the burl was for sale. He might be willing to pay several dol- lars to obtain an audience of that size. It is certainly lucky that he can buy a little advertising space for a few dollars that will tell his story to all.those people. The farmer on the back road and the farmer near the large city have about an equal chance to sell theirlive stook through the mediumof advertising. The price is the same to each. INTERNATIONAL LESSON MAY 4. Lesson V. 'Man Made in the Image of God—Gen. 1:26-28; 2:7.9; Eph. 4:20-24. Golden Text, Gen. 1:27. Gen. 1:26-28. In Our Image. To the Hebrew writer this would, of course, mean the spiritual image end, likeness of God, For the teachers of the t'oliglon of Jehovah were em- phatic in declaring that God had not revealed H-Imself in any materialform, but only as a Voice (Deut. 4: 12, 15), and that they should not at- tempt to represent Him by tiny grav- en image (ICxod, 20: 4) Dent. 4. 15- 18). The Creator of the world is not like the images which the goldsmith make.; (Jar. 10: 1-16). "The Lord is high above all nations, And His glory above the heavens. Who is lige unto the Lord our God,That hath Itis seat on high?" It is therefore in hind end heart that we aro like God, like Himin reasonand conscience, In thought anis will,. in power to love road Irate, in wisdom to plan and skill to per- form. But through disebe;iiencc to Goll we have marred that likeness, and we can recover it only as, through faith and by the grays of His .,Spirit, Ian become imila0ors of Jesus Christ. (2 Cor.:!; 1:1.) "TCnow yourself as ye lul; ars+,' Said. ProfessorT. 1T, Green, ''add you will know the truth of (:cd, feeedoie mai in1n1a1'tallty." "Let them have dominion." Com- pare ,Psalm 8: 3-8. Thus, we are taught, God associates man with Himself in the government of the world, He gives )nim God -like pow- ers, for the right use of which he is responsible. Ile puts, eo to speak, the weld of living things .in his core, to be controlled and used, but never abused, by him. Gen. 2: 7-9. Formed Man of the Dust. In this second account of man's creation the language is bolder and more picturesque than in the first, in chapter 1. There God created in His own image; here He forms, as a potter forms the clay, and inbreathes the life of the soul (2: 8). The es- eential truth is the same. Man's in- ner life, his soul life, is derived from the breath of God. This statement, as that of 1; 26-27, is made of all men, without distinction, And so all men everywhere, in all ages, are children of God, made in His linage,deriving fron Min theirlife. Com- pere what Paul says in Aets 17: 24- 20, and also Antos 0:. 7. "A garden." Tho land of which the Hebrew writer is speaking was southern Mesopot- amia, between the Tigris and En.. phrates rivers, the land so recently delivered by British arms from the misrule of tiro Tasks. Once fertile and productive and the Immo of a' largo population, with great end rich cities, it is capable of being restored, tinder wise government, to some measure of its former. prosperity,! The history ofthe land has been like' that of humanity, made by God to be very good, but marred and cor- rupted by sin and folly. The Hebrew writer uses the sine 010101 story do a symbolic or figurative w,Ay. The garden meals to Mitt 1110.11'SPrimitive innecenee and happiness. 'files ' tec e of !Life" represents the moved their wraps they are ushered ruminto the schoolroum-41 large ru that has been previously' prepared by removing furniture and, if possible, arranging chairs so that two may work as partners. A schoolmaster is in charge. Small numbered tab- lets are distributed, The person having tablet number one must that for partner the one whose tablet bears the same number and $0 011. When all are paired off, a bell is Lapped, the school seated and each j pupil answers the roll call with a proverb or anything that best suits the hostess' fancy. Old-fashioned: Schoch songs are sung and work be- gins, On the first page of each tablet the pupils find these questions to gna- wer: What letter is (1) A vegetable? (2) An insect? (3) A clew (4) A sheep? (5) Part of a house? (6) A large body of water (7) A direction to oxen? (8) A bird (9) A beverage? (10) A verb of debt? Space is left for the answers, which are respectively: P. B, Q, L, C, G, J. T, 0. Next comes some ":1rabineti: work." (1) Five hal:died plus a large boat cq,'als without I1011t. (2) ('rc thousand plus a poem equal; man. nor. (3) One thousand plus help equals an unmarried woman. (4) Five hundred plus a preposition equals a great noise. (5) Five hun- dred plus uncooked equals to pull. (6) Fifty plus a kind of tree equals part of a whip. (7) Fifty plus a finish equate to loan. (8) One hundred plus competent equals a heavy rope. (9) One plus to scold equals angry. (10) Five plus frozen water equals wickedness. The correct answers arc: D -ark, M -ode, M -aid, D -in, D -raw, L -ash, L -end, C -able, I -rate, V -ice. A quiz in "physiology" conies next:' Of the human body what are these: (1) Two established measures? (2) Two musical instruments? (3) Small articles used by carpenters? (4) An article usedeby artists? (5) Steps of I a hotel? (6) Two dedicated build -I ings? (7) Two graceful trees? (3) A large wooden box? (9) A male, deer? (10) Two students? Correct answers: Feet and hand's,! ear -drums, nails, palate, insteps,1 temples, palms, chest, heart, pupils. Lastly comes "literature." What' author is: (1) A river in Italy? (21' The side of a porker, cured? (3)1 An affliction of the feet? (4) A do- mestic animal and the noise of an -1 other? (5) A number, a vowel and light of day? (6) A dark mineral: and a low line of hills? (7) A native of the north of Great Britain? (8) A slang exclamation? (9) To agi- tate and a weapon? (10) Not short and a nickname for a boy? A Little Girl's .131g I3iiasI11ess. A "8 Poultry Cheb aucccsscs know no north, no south, no oast, nor west; neither do these successes belong to the boys alone, The "little women" have fully shown in their club work In raising and improving poultry that they ran keep shoulder to shoulder with the best of the boys. At this time it is a year's poultry experience of a little fourteen -year- old girl 1 want to tell you about, Answers: I'oe, Bacon, Bunyan, The plucky practical little poultry - Cooper, Tennyson, Coleridge, Scott, woman in quedtion is Mary E. Bayne. Dickens, Shakespeare, Longfellow, She commenced her year's poultry The answer to each first question business by taking over her father's is given as a starter. After work is Poultry stock valued at $800, and at 000cluded tablets are exchanged,Ithe end of the year she had made a teacher reads the answer and all era net profit of b0 per cent., or 1400. marked. f Her $860 poultry investment in- Intermiesions are given to liven! eluded houses, fixtures, one small In - up the "work." During these, apples euhator, brood coops, fenc+:ng, 100 or otl:°r simple school treats are pas -,bushels of Yoed, and 860 hoes and sed or brief games played till "school 10008, ing males, Her years stock of calls," liens, pullets and breeding males at Ithe end of the year had been increas- Farm Boy:—Why not organize a! ed to 500 fine birds. Besidee, the band among your companions who family was supplied generously love music? Other boya have done throughout the yeas•. Her estimate so. We know of One band of fifteen, that the eggs and poultry consumed pieces whose member; are all farm; by the large family and farm work - boys living within a radius of three I ers, together with the poultry man - miles. These boys meet regularly! oro turned over for farm use, was a each week for practice and they 11ave:fair equivalent for the farm - become so proficient that they are, grown grain and sour milk fed, and in demand for all club programs and; W0.0 so considered by her father, picnics that are held in their county.! Her flock of old and young birds Get up a band and show that your 1151 -a range of about eight ex-yes— district is alive.pasture and orchards, and after Somebody:-54Wi11 you treat this harvest they gleaned the grain fields question confidentially so far as my! and ranged at will. name is concerned, though I am sure, Miss Bayne, .in order to build up it may interest others. I have a' better poultry stook, selected thirty brother who, as well as myself, ds a! of the most promising hens, which farmer. He has two children; son; were mated to extra good, pure - who is sixteen and daughter eigh-! bred males in a separate house and teen. He has Mut the boy through. -yard. As a result her present flock high school and purposes to have him, is markedly superior to the hens she attend Agricultural Cullege because, had last year. he says the two of them can get more'. It is -,specially interesting to know out of the big farm if one of them—, that Miss Bayne guaranteed every this is one of the partners, Farmer; egg she sold to be fresh, clean, and & San, is "on" to the latest things int, of high quality in every respect. One scientific farming, It is purely a I of her best customers for eggs was financial investment on my brother's ; a 1oea1 hospital, which paid her five part. The daughter has been a littletoten cents per dozen above the witch with housework ever since she' country -store quotations. A portion made mudpies. For this reason she' of her eggs were sold to customers was taken out or school when she at a distance, shipped by parcel post. was thirteen and she practically: This young poultry keeper found takes care of the whole house while there were many "ups and downs" her mother gives her attention to in her first year's experience. Hawks raising every year a larger flock of and other chicken enemies cut down chickens and turning out more gilt- )ler profit, and poultry diseases took edged butter than they need to make'some tali; but, on the whole, she —if it is made at the expense of a' overcame all difficulties after ex - young girl's future. Will you say: periencing more or less severe losses. something in your excellent depart- All told, her chicle losses did not nient about this?" ' exceed five per cent. , There is more to be iter.; than we! Miss Bayne did all the poultry can give spare to in 11110 particular work unaided. except a little help department. This form of injustice' from a younger sister, and the clean - is not peculiar to the Farm. When hog and whitewashing of the houses, parents cannot see the :alae of a life; which wort: was done by hired help. above the accumulations of worldly! Leghorns and Rhode Island Reds possessions and the carrying out of are the stock Miss Bayne is develop - their own personal ambitions, we ing, The Reds she depends on main - feel as though there ought to be' ly for fall and winter laying, then some way for them to see It. This! they go to the block, and the Leg - department stands for law and: horns snake the big spring and sum - order, for a certain amount of pa -I mer drive for eggs. It is her ins - rental authority, for children's rev-: Swerving purpose to add an average erence and obedience to parents. But, of two or three dozen eggs per hen and this is a big, grave but: when; to the output of her flock by Men - parents fail in their obligations to -i tifle breeding under the supervision wards the soul given to their care,! of her station poultry adviser, coupl- shall they not expect those souls to, ed with her own — study and expert. seem to fail them sooner ce later? Ilinenting.--F.l. If this daughter should some days strike out for herself, determining �" to have the education and opportun-f :+e tral her RIGHT—who shall blame her? ity for larger development which is b�gfi�9 f M� al/ 9 favor of God and communion with Him, and the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" repre- sents the simple law of right and wrong which from the beginning man must choose whether to obey or disobey. Through wrong choice and disobedience he lost his inno- cence, lost the favor of God in which was his true life, and the consequent alienation from God is symbolized by his expulsion from the garden and by death. No truer description of sin and its consequences has ever been written. Eph. 4; 20-24, Even as Truth is in Jesus. Through faith in .Tests Christ and through imitation of Yam we regale the paradise we have lost, We are reconciled to God, We re- turn. to Him in penitence and in lov- ing obedience. His favor is restored and we enter into the blessed life of communion with Hint which is the foretaste and promise of the life eternal. We, who had lost our birth- right, become again the children of God. "'naught in him." We put away the old corrupt humanity, spoiled by sin, are "renewed in the spirit" of our mind, clothed in our true man- hood which is in the image of God, or, as Paul says, "after God hath been created in righte01slless and holiness of truth." This is what the atonement means. This is what Christ does for urs, He brings us to God, His death reveals to us God's love. Arbor Day. Friendly tree, this is your day, So we'll stop our work and play And talk of you, And all the good things that yva do. Standing still and quint there, Sandier, brandies into nil', Making pleasant shade around. Delving far beneath the ground, Holding ever cafe from harm Little nests within your arra, Standing firmly whets you are, Reaching up to touch a star Growing, working, just as I, Seeking God within the sky. The Spick -Spas Dress. A mincing maiden, Dorothy Bess, Went eat ono day in a spick -spall dress. Her heart was light end her head was high. She said, "They will look when I go by!" Then just ahead of her, in the way, She sate where a rippling puddle lay. She saw it plainly, and then afar She heard tho "Honk!" of a motor ('ar. There was Something that whispered low to her, "Wait where you aro and do not stir," Bot her mind was on the spick -span dress, And toward the Puddle minced Dor- aflly Rosa, She reached the puddle. her head held high, As the motor car went trhizzing by. The things that happened Pal let yon ghees, But oh, what a eight wale the spirit - span dross) Bespattered and erose, alas and slacks She did not mince as she hurried hack. But she said, "Next time I Will wait —700 8011— When Sometbing whispers like that to mol" It is the common practice of many stockmen nowadays to dehorn the !stocker and feeder cattle or calves they intend to keep for feeding. The chief advantages of dehorning are convenience and economy in the feed lot and. in shipping, with a slight ,in- crease in market value. Animals being fitted for baby beef should not be dehoened, as with horn breeds the -age can bo told approxi- mately by the horn, and when the horns are removed the buyer may suspect the anima) of being over the age limit. and consequently cut down on the price. If. a feeder is raising his own calves, the hest method of dehorning will be found to bo an application of caustic soda or °auntic potash when the calf le a few days old, at the time when the button can be felt through the skin. `Vet the stick of caucus slightly, end rub it well into the skin over the born after first clipping the hair off the region. Do not ;et the stick too wet or .it will be Iikely to run down over the side of the )lead, burne ing off the hair and causing needless pain. When de&h000511g in not done at this time, it is edvh, able to wait until the horn has made a fair growth and diets use either the saw or the clip- pers. Clippers are 411ieker and less painful than tic saw. They make a 01ean0r rut, In either case the horn should be cut a little below the union of the horn and the skin., or it will begin to grow again. The beat time to dehorn is in April or October --that is, neither in really colo) weather nor fly time. ..._...-_._.}...._.-..Air The skunk is not only a v(tluable (ur-bearer, lull also one of tato (18813).. er's boot friends) for ,it desteoly qualhtities of harmful 1nseo.ta to would otherwise do enormous dant• age to cloys.