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The Brussels Post, 1917-10-4, Page 7r'cs� .. •ri`�i r j Jp'„-w•,-''�'� �r:r•aiYC.45ail+:�v�a;„.',�{5�+�'ru't�:i Conducted by Profe or HenryG. ss xYBel1 , The object of this department is to place at the ser. vice of our farm readers the advice of an acknowledged authority on all subjects pertaining to soils and crops. Address all questions to Professor Henry Bell, in care of -The Wilson Publishing Company, Llmitec Toronto, and answers will appear in this column in the order in which they are received. As space Is limited It Is ad•vls• able where Immediate reply is necessary that a `stamped and addressed envelope be enolosed,with the question, Henry G. Bell when the answer will be mailed direct. ECONOMIC PRODUCTION OF' WHEAT IN RELATION TO FOOD PRODUCTION Bev Henry G. Bell, Agronomist, Civilization is in the balance. At germination, and for the life of the �7/� Genese e4 6.Y /'fi!d.?'Ce(.eirr. (t)41 no time in the world's history has so beneficial soil bacteria at work in the Mothers and daughters of all ages are cordially !nv ted to write to this critical .a period faced the peoples of area where the grain roots stretch out department. Initials only will be published with each qu ation and Its answer in quest of food. Thorough stirring as a means of Identification, but full name and address must be given in each of the soil allows for maximum root letter. Write on one side of paper only. Answers will be mailed direct if growth with the consequentdevelop- ment of a strong crown, which in it- self goes a long way to providing the i the eaetlt. The fundamental princi- ples of democratic nations must now be successfully defended or de- mocracy is destined to vanish from the earth. The triumph of civilization depends upon nren, munitions, food and a patriotic devotion to the cause, Not ono of those. factors must be -ne- glected or triumph will .rest with our enemies. Thefarmersof this con- tinent and of Europa have done nobly A.E.P.:-Wo are going to sow it would be a one -season plant. The during' the past ear, but gigantic wheat this year on a piece of muck only way to prevent celery from seed- prop y gso i c land. It has had timothy hay cut off ing' is to transplant it `ate, cause it to months. face them in the `coming months. it for three years, a very good hay 'Cecil) each year. This summer it was ploughed as soon as the hay was taken off and has been thoroughly disced and cultivated since. It is a muck with sand bottom. We had no ferti- lizer to put on, and would like to.know if a basic sing or a phosphate. would be suitable, either one or both. Answer: -The soil on which you' are -planning -to grow your wheat• is relatively low in nitrogen'ancl will un- doubtedly give your a strong growth .E.O.P.:-Would you advise sowing of straw. I would advise you to add both lime and acid phosphate on land at least 200 to 300 lbs. of fertilizer that is to be sown to wheat in the carrying 10 to 12% acid phosphate spring? When would you advise sow- And 1% potash. You have handled ing the lime and how much per acre? the soil -correctly in preparing it. I would -,impress upon yob..the import- ance of giving the seed -bed thorough preparation. If the soil tends to be too open and light, follow the sowing with rolling and then a light harrow- ing. I have advised acid phosphate since I believe you need a, readily available form of phosphoric acid. A. i4IcE.:-I have quite a number of celery plants which began to go to seed three weeks ago; I tried cutting off the seed top as soon as it appear=. ed but it merely grew ep again. I sowed the seed of this in boxes the last •of February, 1917, and set the plants out in the open ground about the middle of June in clay soil which had been an old pig yard before. We dug trenches ten inches deep putting in the bottom five inches of rotted manure mixed with a little earth land planted them in this. Now they are grown to a good height, are kept billed and -look healthy plants but would like to know .the cause of it going to seed and how to prevent it. Answer: -The cause of the celery plants going to seed is that the tabit of the plant hoe -teen changed. In its wild state the celery plant tends to be an annual. The gardener grows it as a biennial, that is, he tries to get the full grown plant without the seeds. Yon see the same habit in wheat when you plant winter wheat seed or winter rye inithe spring. Very few of the plants send up shoots the first year, but some do. If you select the seed' from the plants which send up heads the first year, by the second and third generation you will have entir9ly changed the habit of the plant and make rapid growth by balancing plantfood, and hay vest it before it has an opportunity to form seed shoots. Possibly your ground is rennin short of ammonia or nitrogen. Th is the kind of plantfood which cause the celery stalk to grow. If th plants are small and 'slow in growth there is an indication of nitrogen be ing lacking: The addition of manur or a fertilizer high in ammonia wi tent to prevent this. g is s e 000,000 will be necessary for their own The Canadian Commissioner of Agriculture has recently made a state- ment that Canada will be prepared to export at least 200,000,000 bushels of 1917 wheat. The wheat crop of the United States will probably total 668,- 000,000 bushels, of Which at least 450,- e needs. Recent reports from the In - 11 ternational Bureau of Agriculture, Rome, indicate an increase in wheat for British India, of over 16%. Fav- orable wheat reports came also from Italy. A year ago a vigorous cam- paign for larger wheat acreage in the United Kingdom was successfully d carried out, but unfavorable weather e has damaged the British wheat crop d to so great an extent that in July it Would it be better to sow the aci Phosphate shortly before sowing th wheat, and how much per acre? Coul I mix the lime and acid.phosphate and sow both at one operation in a lime drill? Answer: -Lime and acid phosphate are both beneficial on land to be -used for wheat in the spring. The benefit of the lime is not so directly traceable in wheat yields but is clearly shown if the grain is seeded with clover and timothy or alfalfa. Lime may be applied any time this fall or through the winter, or if the' ground is to be left for spring plowing it could be ap- plied imifiediately after the ground is plowed, just before it is disked and harrowed. An application of 2 to 4 tons of ground limestone or one ton per acre of air -slaked limo will give -you good results. The acid phosphate can be drilled on at the time the wheat is sown. Modern drills are provided with both the seed and fertilizer dropping attachment. Applications at the rate of 200 to 300 pounds to the acre give good results. If you have • not manured your land just before the wheat, I would advise you to use a mixture of fertilizer analyzing 2 to 3% ammonia, which will pi Ovide nitrogen : to start the early growth of the young crop, and 10 to 12% phosphoric acid, which will greatly hasten its ripening and the plumping of its kernels. By no means would I advise the mixing of the lime and acid phosphate. Such a mixture would tend to turp back the soluble phosphoric acid in the acid phosphate to a form which is much more slowly available. off rit) Market Calendar If not commenced previously, crate fattening should be started in October, and all cockerels and Millets intended for sale carefully and systematically fattened. ' Market in October roasters .(crate fed), last old hens, roasting young ducks, old geese, old turkeys:: In mixing a ration for crate feed- ing poultry, one of the first things to consider is the palatability of the feed If the birds do not like it, they wil not eat enough to put on the flesh Next to this conies the composition of the feeds and: their cost. The ration must be palatable and' one that will produce flesh without costing too much, Clean, fresh water lessens disease among poultry. Filthy drinking wa- ter is the source of much trouble. The question of floor space for hens, like many other questions connected with poultry -house constructioy, can- not be answered definitely. The floc space which a hen requires depends on and prove ovo the best layers and will be stronger than the others. The last half of the hatch will be lower in vitality and'will be unprofitable to keep; the broiler or frying age is the time to dispose of these. Mak the last half of the hatch and dispose of them in time to make a profit. A. good incubator should prove pro- fitable on any place having sufficient room to keep chickens. Selecting Seed Beans. ranked 94% as against an average crop estimated at 100%. It is obvious then that the entire people of this continent must exercise every energy in conserving food; farmers, every in- telligence in producing more food; bakers, every economy and device in making the food stock go as far as possible so that the needs of our own and allied people may be met. Methods of Increasing Crop. The question the, farmer is asking to -day is, how can I economically in- crease my wheat yield? My answer is in five divisions; first, by drainage. Winter -killing is frequently Caused by surplus water not being able to run off or percolate through the soil, and as a result, freezing about the young wheat plant. Second: proper soil tillage, The advantages of proper seed -bed pre- paration are so apparent that it is un- necessary to go into a detailed discus - mien of the profit of good tillage in wheat. production. If the soil is to catch and hold d a sufficiency of mois- ture, it must be deeply stirred and thoroughly pulverized. Such tillage will allow for the desirable circula- tion of air, which is required for seed , stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed, Address all correspondence for this department to Mrs. Helen Law, 233 Woodbine Ave„ Toronto. crop with strength to withstand the cold weather of autumn and winter. The third method of increasing the wheat yield is by the selection of pro- per varieties of wheat and high-grade seed of those varieties, Soft wheat produces, as a rule, weak flour. Sound, plump, flinty wheat of either spring or winter varieties produces flour that rises well in the pans, and produces bread of line texture and quality, The Mirth method of wheat increase is by proper soil fertilization. Men cannot work without food, neither can crops, The tiny wheat plant must be supplied with a sufficiency of suit- able, well-balanced plantfood just as much ap the fighting soldiers at the front" must receive an abundance of well=balanced diet. The Question of Plantfoed. What can be done then to increase crop yields through attention to plant - food? First of all, the farrLier,can give the soil the most careful tillage, as al- ready stated, which operation will of i course bring as much of the soil i plantfood as possible into shape for, its consumption by the plant. Second,+ every grower of wheat should as far I as possible, manure his wheat fields. Livestock manure supplies three oft the important constituents of plant - food, nitrogen, which ca{ises the wheat straw to grow; phosphoric acid, which hastens the fipening of the crop: and plumps the kernels; and potash,' which gives strength to the crop to re-' sist plant diseases and hastens the fill -1 ing of the kernel, A shortage in any, one of these constituents of plantfood produces wheat of poor quality. In' this connection it should be carefully, noted that livestock manure, while it is good for most crops, it is somewhat unbalanced for the production of wheat, in that it carriep� a relatively, large amount of available nitrogen, a medium supply of potash, but a rela-' tively short supply of the constituent of plantfood that causes the crop to ripen, phosphoric acid. Investiga- tions have shown, therefore, that the farmer can very, profitably supplement farm manure with an addition of acid phosphate. Such an addition re- duces relative straw growth and in- creases the production of grain. (Concluded next week,) Patriot: -1, The new Trench Cap i .not nearly as long or bulky as the old "Balaelaya," It readies just to the ;neck, and is designed for wear under the tin helmet by da; s of milk, stir. in three cupfuls of Indian meal, or enough to make a stiff dough, Cools for five minutes, stirring often from the bottom, Take from the fire, beat in one-half cupful of powdered suet with a tablespoonful of salt and let it get perfectly cold. Then add three eggs, beaten light, with two table- spoonful of sugar, and, lastly, a table- spoonful of flour sifted three times with half a tablespoonful of baking powder, Make out into balls the size of an egg, flour your hands, wrap in clean cheesecloth squares. The dumplings will double their size in boiling, so make all allowance in tying them up. Boil ons hour hard. Dip into cold water for a. second, turn out and serve with hard sauce. 2. An ap- plication of hydrogen peroxide will take scorch stains out of silk. Potas- sium permanganate followed by sul- phuric acid will also remove them. I em sorry to say, however, that with the removal of the scorch stains the color of the waist is apt th be injured. If you find that this is true, it will be necessary to dye the blouse. 3. You] can remove' match marks from white paint by rubbing them with a piece of cut lemon. Home -Maker: - A well-balanced dietary supplies body-building, heat - and -energy -supplying and regulating substances in the right proportion and in sufficient quantity. Simple meals can fulfil all requirements. It is wiser to spread the variety of food over many days than to provide many kinds of food in each meal every day. Following are examples of simple but well-balanced meals: -1. Fruit, oat-' meat and whole milk. 2. Egg, bread, I butter, fruit or vegetable. 3. Bread,' cheese, tart fruit. 4. Baked beans, brown bread, apple sauce. 5. Mutton,' potatoes, second vegetable, fruit bat- ter pudding. 6. Milk soup, corn bread and syrup. 7. Whole wheat bread,' whole milk, prunes. These are not' ideal for all ages and conditions, but they meet the needs of healthy active adults. ing cap by night. You will require about a quarter of a pound of wool- , Canadian Khaki yarn at $1.75 a pound or five-ply Beehive at 28 cents a skein would be suitable, Here are the directions: Cast on 96 stitches, 32 on each needle. Rib 2 and purl 2 for 26 , rows. Knit 6 and purl 2 for 22 rows, Narrow second stitch on each end of needle until you have 4 stitches on Ieach needle.• Then thread the end of the wool with large darning needle and button -hole around the 8 left, leaving a small opening on top of cap. 2. I offer the following suggestions for the eleven -year-old brother's birthday party which you wish to make a patriotic affair. Write the invite- ' tions to the party on plain white paper, with a small flag in one, corner, Have your table set with red, white and blue place cards, a white cloth and a centerpiece of red, white and blue flowers. The birthday cake ,nay be decorated with the flags of the Allies. For one gamegyou could have a sort of "history bee," like a spelling bee. The prize should go to the child who can tell the greatest number of historical events correctly -for in- stance, who were the generals at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, who was Sir Isaac Brock, who made Ottawa the capital of Canada, what event are eve celebrating this year, etc. The prize should be something that has to do with the war -a war picture or a small silk flag. The other games should all have something to do with the country or the war, and, of course, the singing of "The Maple, Leaf," "Rule Btitaunia" and "0 Canada" ought not to be omitted. Be -1 fore they leave the children should sing the National Anthem, all stand -1 ing at attention. Sara: -1. Cornmeal dumplings may, be made as follows: Scald a quarts af!• INTERNATIONAL LESSON ' OCTOBER 7. Lesson L Psalms of Deliverance-- Psalms 85 and 126. Golden Text.-Psa. 126. 5. Verses 1-3. Jehovah's loving -kind- ness in the past. Brought back the captivity - Better, "restored the fortunes." In themselves the words contain no reference to restoration from exile; but the psalmist may haws in mind the change in fortune due to the restoration. Sin arouses the divine wrath, the divine wrath prompts Bean growers should take steps to the sending of calamity; hence the • secure good seed for next year's plant- withdrawal of "'amity proves that 1 ing from fields known to be free from the divine wrath is appeased, which, • anthrachose and blight. Seed from in turn, proves that Jehovah has for given or removed th 1 i plants killed by front .before the pods 4-7. e peon es s n,.. 7 The transformation has .been -are dry should not be used. marvelous • but much remains to be The use of good seed -properly done. If he only would complete his ripened, plump, intact, and free from world Turn us -Better, "turn to us," disease -is • essential for securing again, as in the past. The present large yields. It is crop insurance for distress shows that the divine wrath growers to lay in them seed while has not entirely disappeared; hence there is still opportunitythe new petitions, to inspect the 8-18. The psalmist stands between fieldb or they can pick from the cream his people and their God. He awaits of commercial stocks instead of hav- ing to take whatever may be available r later. . Seed from carefully selected, clean. several. things: (1) The breed of the hen; some hens require more space than others. (2) The naturs,of the food and how it is fed. Huls that are fed in a heavy litter during the Winter where the getting of, the food entails considerable effort will obtain all,the exercise necessary'without too much space. (8) Ventilation. -Tho house poorly ventilated will not 'ac- commodate as many hens as a house - properly ventilated. A few years ago when poultry houses were kept warm, instead of'being ventilated, it was,thought that each hen should have between 8 to 12 square feet of floor, and in all probability she did, but the. ennuibreed of hen does better now in the house properly .ventilated with 4 square. feet than her ancestors did I while theyare wet with rain or peace Whep the mercy, or hard, but, if Jehovah responds to the doted on the foie as rich as poultry nitrogen is soluble this manure may plants los` g =kindness of God and the faith- psalmist a plea, the 1 Jehovah'a reply to his plea, and then brings to the waiting people the as- surance that their God has not for- saken them; the manifestation of his pods grown in one's own seed .plant lovian ono and rentorain a complete deliver - are safe. Once the•beans have been s tion is at eopl8;Sa{nts threshed it is difficult to 'detect all per- haps better "his people;i" per - which have come from diseasedpods.. hsps better his favored ones, that is, those who are objects of special It by, consideration. Fear -Those who are is possible,moreover, in the seed plant the seed in Bills and truly pious. Turn to folly -The by epraying with Bordeaux mixture clause gives sense only if translated a premium. to protect the plants,lir•om anthracnose as -above, -"And to those who do not shoulde inter-, r even at an aepense not warranted e, turn to folly." Glory -The glorious ''rotor' as a continuation of the nrayerl Use of Poultryo manifestations of Jehovah, Mercy in verso 4 ("May reap . . Manure 25 or 80 scuta a pound. Since much larger plantings. The grower should . v ay of its potash, p see that no oma moves among the seed truth_ righteousness comp Back"). The beginningma, bo; There is no natural -manure in phosphoric acid and righteousness, that is, his fidelity to the covenant relation between himself and Israel, will become active. This will result in the well-being of the faithful among his people. The thought expressed in the first line of verse 10 is repeated in verse 11,1 that of.the second line in verse 12. Verse 13 is obscure. A slight change in the text makes possible the trans- lation suggested above which gives ex- cellent sense. Jehovah's righteous- ness, as defined above, prompts him to bless his people, who will enjoy peace following his glerious.manifestation. Psalm 126 closely resembles 86. Both express appreciation for past favors, both recognize the incomplete- ness of the deliverance, and both pray earnestly for a renewal of the divine favor. The historical situation reflect- ed in' Psalm 126 may lit. the ,same as that in Psalm 85.;, r orsee - y-0. noscrzoe me joy reit by those who had a share in the earlier transformation. Brought back -See comment on Pea. 85. 1-3. Zion -Re- presents the Jewish community. Dream -The experience seemed too good to be true. Said they -The sub- ject is indefinite; equivalent to "it was said." Even outside nations re- cognized the wonderful transforma- tion. Verse 3. represents the com- munity as appropriating the words of exceptional losses in it than in anyisire will not return the cost of her Di e nations an as recal mg the joy of rather branch of farrain ttn' • �% &forks `� • Doll Dreams I wonder what my dolly dreams When she is fast asleep? I s'pose She dreams she is a princess doll With, 'stead of her old clothes, A golden crown and satin dress All edged with snowy fur. Sometimes sire dreams of me, I guess - I often dream of her! Dilly -Dally Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Dorothy Hart. She was a dear little girl; but she had one great failing: she never obeyed promptly. She was never in any hurry and was usually late 'everywhere she went, Next door to where Dorothy lived was a little girl named Evelyn Vail. Evelyn had a Large collie, but no one liked the dog except' herself. One day Dorothy's uncle bought her a little yellow chicken. It was so rimed, fat and fluffy that she named it Fluff. Her mother told her to keep it in the little chicken coop that her brother Jack had made for it. One day Dorothy's mother told her to run out on the lawn, because Fluff was out of the coop and was running all around. But Dilly -Dally -for this was what every one called her because: she always was late -took her time' and when she got there she found that Evelyn's dog 'had eaten her beloved chicken. '• This taught Dorothy a severe les- r, THE REVOLT OF LIBBT j] The better to see over a growing Pile . of stove wood in Jotham Libby's yard, Caleb Peaslee craned his neck.. From the farther side t,f the pile came ,the sound of an axe plied industrious- Ily, and then the perspiring head and shoulders of Mr. Libby came into view. • Caleb grinned as he watched, "Gittin' quite a pile of it manufac- tured ahead, ain't you, Jotham?" he inquired. Mr. Libby started nervously and let his axe fall upon the block as he did .. so. He removed his hat and puffed audibly as he approached the tense where Caleb stood.. "I've got quite a pile, that's' a fact," he admitted with : touch of pride. Then he colored a little and faced Caleb. with a sheepish grin, "I ain't lottin' on lettin' my wife get out of stove wood again not for one spell, anyway." Caleb composed himself to listen. "What've you been dein' now that Mrs. Libby's had to train you for?" he demanded. "You might's well own up; if ye don't I shall ask her." Jotham reddened again. "I ought to be ashamed," he began haltingly, "and I be ashamed. I don't want you to think I ain't. But there's so many things to do on a. farm this time of year a man gets int the way of doin' the things that croet'd him wust; you know how 'tis yourself." Mr. Peaslee agreed heartily. "Well," resumed Jotham, visibly encouraged, "I've got into the habit of thinkin' that ''twa'n't so much mat- ter if I didn't tend out on the stove for every stick of wood that was burnt long's there was so many other things to do. Course I collate to keep wood ahead for my wife, but she's always gone out into the yard and got 'slough together for herself if I didn't happen to do it, and I guess likely I've got kind of slack. Of course, she's sput- tered and threatened me a hundred times with what she'd do, but she never done anything till yesterday. "Yest'dey mornin' I was out to the barn, gettin' the harnesses onto the horses early, 'count of havin' Jake Piper and Wendell Cooper cumin' to help me for the day, when she come to the kitchen door and hollered to me. " 'I want you should get me some wood 'fore you go away,' s'she. 'There ain't hardly a stick here. I've got to do some bakin' if you're cal'latin' to have them men step to dinner.' "I made some answer, and kep' on harnessin'. I meant to do it when I: got them fellers set to work, but I I didn't charge my mind with it. I never thought of it again till noon. I "But when we got to the house, ,'bout famished," Mr. Libby continued glumly, "it was fetched home to me all right. I took the harnesses off'n the horses and fed 'em while Jake and Wendell went into the house to get ready for dinner. When I come out 1 of the barn they was both out on the ,torch lookin' kind of tickled and red. 1 had misgivin's that minute, but I never had any idea -what was wrong. "'Well, boys,' li'I, 'come along in and we'll eat, and get back to work as soon's we can.' And with that, I stepped into the kitchen -and, Kellup, I hope I'll never have another feelin' like I had right then and there. There wa'n't any signs of dinner anywheres. The stove was stone-cold, and on the front of it she'd stuck a big placard; No wood -no fire! no fire -no dinner! 've gone up to Abner's for the day. "Well," finished Mr. Libby shame - o facedly, "that's about the whole of it. ko and Wendell managed not to ake fun of me right to my face, and turned it off best I could. I told 'em guessed they'd have to go home to inner, bein's my wife'd gone away. ut it's too much to hope they'll keep 11 'bout it; so I'm willin' to tell you e rights of it myself. But I'll tell yo one thing: if there's a woman in rlmouth that lacks for wood again, her name won't be Mrs. Jotham Libby." son, and now she has lost the title ,1 Dilly -Dally by being always on time. When her uncle heard of this he uougnt.-her another chicken, and we may hope that Dorothy will take bet- ter care of it than she did of Fluff. • �r � heifer must be credited with a calf and the manure produced during tw 1 ` �' ° ✓ years. The net cost at medium prices Ja 1 There is this great point in favor is then given in the bulletin as $44.77' m of dairying: It brings in revenue for the first year and $29.08 for the x 'every month of the year, and'in every second. At present high prices the 1 month the dairyman knows just what het cost for two years rises above $100. d' his income from that source is going Economy in dairying and care in B to be, There is another important breeding only good stock are there- sti ' point: Dairying is a safe Line; there fore necessary. The heifer from a th ' are fewer ups and downs and fewer low -producing dam and an 'inferior y th ti d I' g. the earlier experience. I What does it cost to raise a dairy 4. Disappointment has come; and heifer to one year and to two years there is need of a new manifestation old? of the divine'Ioving-kindness. Turn e again -The benefits of the former in-' Feed alone at medium prices costs is getting the maximum flow of milk terferenco are exhausted. Streams about $33 for the first year and $28 from each cow; while the slower milk- in_the South -The South is the arid for the second. Cost accounts of er, no matter how particular and production and maintenance. Fast milking pays. The man who can make the milk fairly boil in the pail and raise a lot of foain usually region to the south of Judah, called raising calves by the Ohio, Mas- -Negeb or South -land. The streams snchueette and Connecticut Expert - there, full of water during the rainy' ment Stations and the U. S. Depart - season become dry during the sum- ment of Agriculture were used se the mer; fellowiilg the drought the life basis for those figures. giving water returns, filling the people g with reloicing and hope. For a similar Labor, interest and miscellaneous life-giving return of the. divine favor overhead expenses must be added to the psalmist prays, I -this feed cost. The two -year• -old 5 6 Those verses b i t faithful he may be, often fails to get all that the cow would let down to the fast -milking export. We may bo certain that milk and its products will command relatively higher prices after the war than will grain and millfeeds, which are now atl to 't -out must be manure,according to the College of suffer greatly from leaching, dew, when 500r05 of the fungus caue- fulness; of the people, matt, then his glorioyy,g g ,ng anthracnose most readily are Agriculture, yet it receives from the Caustic lime should never be mixed Mariner the least attention of any of directly with poultry manure as it spread, The Country Girl's. Creed better. to reach out alsvhys for hi 1 e lAfter the seed is threshed the grow- er should pick over his seed by hand two or three times and throw out all damaged or diseases' beans end those not uniform in size rind color Even with 12, and 'where good ventilation is provided 4 to. 6 square feet is enough for the average hen, The first half of, the chicles hatched in an incubator contain practicillly all of the best laying hens hi that batch, They will grow, more rapidly, lay first HIGHEST PRICES PAID For POUL`i'RV, GAME, ' EGGS Sc LEATHERS Please write for pnrtteulars, stent :t 8 db„ .39 nonsec0N;'s- Market, Montreal and finer things. I boli g z r the animal excrements. Average mix- liberates nitrogen as ammonia. I believe that life in the counts is g eve in good: Y I od horse and cattle manure Poultry manure is rids nitro hard work and plenty of it, ''glory, a curries 10 iT ton life at its highest, 2 the best, I iii the brain and the muscle Pounds of nitrogen, 5 pounds of and low in phosphorus, These two behove that there I have the greatest n ale with which hos h conditions maybo corrected chance to develop into the womanly to accomplish my task of striving' and P P orio acid and 12 pounds of in and by dilut- overcomhlg, that I may be• randy for potash per ton. Poultry manure con- g re -enforcing the manure as the harder thin tains in comparison 82 pounds of follows. To ten pounds of the manure things which sirs to come, I nitrogen, 85 pounds of hos add six pounds of sawdust or some - ----.s.-_.,_ land 18 phosphoric acid Brand utldin is pounds of potash, Where similar dry material) and four pounds g greatly hnprovediordinary farm manure has a fertilizer of acid phosphate, This gives a ferti- by the addition of =isles or currants'1value of 61.60 per ton, poultry manure carrying 8 per cent. of nitrogen, A disagreeable job never becomes Iis worth $6 per ton. Eyen when pro, 8,0 per cent. of phosphoric acid and More attractive by sitting down and ! duced In small amounts such material .45 per cent, of potash, or about the dreading it, The beet thing to do it : is well worth carefulreservatlon, same proportion of plant food elements to go at it and get It out of the way Poultry manure should be allowed that are found in a 8-12-2 mixture but quickly, to dry as quickly as possible and be only one-fourth as concentrated. In Canada the parcels post system fake) stnndarde. I want to try niways Is restricted to 11 pounds, in the flat sections, which can bd taken apart to•keop 'myself sunny, sweet and nano; United States to 60. pounds. An ex - for shipping flat or roplased'if injur-. to liV'$ up to the very best there is in tensionof the parcels post system in od, hila been invented by an English- rite; to males tho most of every op- Canada is• one of the ver Y greatest 'than in South Africa.' ortunit togrow bigger, Y g t p Y gg`or, broader and needs of the country, woman i desire to be -lino, broad, commercially hand picked seed often sweet, true, wholesome, I- believe I few discolored beans are not ob ee- j ruggedness of tho landscape,the t{onablo for household use, evei�y such cp, seed when planted may spread diseaso beauty of Gods rowing things all to many neighboring plants, In per. around me, will mold and temper ray chasing beans for planting a,g ermine character; will give me higher 'ideals, contains many affected beans. While that' the broadness of the country, the , tion test should be made and only seed a greater depth of thought and n of high quality accepted, I All automobile bed made Of so e Y vii truer perspectivA of li:fo, than I could ever gain between narrow walls in a city with its shams, pretenses 'and b Food Value of Fish. In a series of articles on "Food and How to Save It," written at the re- quest of the Food Controller, E. I. Spriggs, M.D., F.R.C.P., writes con - corning fish. In these days, says the writer, everyone should. buy fresh fish so far as means allow, as it is a vale- able and digestible substitute for moat and eggs. The herring, the sprat, and the mackerel give much the best value. The salted herring is easily first at 10 cents a pound, or 5 cents each for good-sized fish, A great number of salted herrings have usually been exported, but should now be eaten at home. They must be soak= cd in water three days, the water be- ing changed four or five times a day, left in a basin in the sink, with tho running slowly for a day or more. oy must then be boiled, and are ex- ent Served, failing potatoes, with or beans and butter. If pertyy soaked they are also quite d fried, baked or grilled, A bloat- oe a kipper gives the seine amount nourishment ns a fresh herring. more costly salenon and turbot old be bought by those who can rd them, The ,salmon, indeed, as better value than, the cod at sent prices, Tho tinted salmon is al In nourishment to fresh fish, sardine has a high AIM value, mos doe to.•the oil in witch it is ked , ar tap cell rice pTh goo er of The alto afro giv pre eau pt city, In fVnis condition It will ._ , The lose but small amounts of its valuable mo constituents. Like ordinary manure For fighting Ignition yit t1 fires a pec it ferments rapidly when moist end monitor Hose nozzle has been (Toil gill: • will lose thereby a large perrentage ed to bo mounted on lumber stacking of its nitrogen, worth on tilemarketmachines. you Y never can -begin dare to die.