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Addreos cpalMialloations to Agroaornist, 73 Adela1de St, Wept, Toren
to
- Rolm For Sheep Pastore.
Rape is the ideal forage eitop for
shell. It net only lends itself ad-
mirably to intensiye systems of sheep
farming but it yields more and better
green feed to the twee and at loSe ex-
pense than any other cop in the long
liet of eueeelent summer foods. It
tides the flock over the dry, hot sea-
son,. vthen grasees ere dead and field's
brown, and it continues to grow and
furnish luxuriant grazing late in the
fall. It is extremely feasible to sow
rape for fall pasturage and tun the
flock onto the suceulent plots when the
common pastures are exhausted or de-
stroyed by early frosts. Nothing
qua% it for ewes and lambs during
the nursing periods, and for weaning
lambs it is incomparable, carrying
them from mother -milk to self-sus-
taining lambhood with scateely a sign
of shrinkage, Rape is unexcelled as
an autumn food for starting mutton
sheep and lambs on the profitable road
to full grain feeding. •
The feeding 'value of rape cannot
be too highly exploited; it is not a'
feed of week or mooth, but may be
sow.n at successive, intervals so as to
pravide -continuous pasterage from
early Tune until late autumn. One acre
of rape feed in connection with a lim-
ited grain ration will produce as many
pounds of mutton as two thousand
five hundred pounds of corn and oil
meal. Growing lambs and breeding
ewes made greater gains in live
weight on less supplemental grain
feed when pastured on rape than
alinilar lambs and ewes on clover pas-
ture.
A field of rape and sufficient Part -
able fencing to provide tbe flock with
fresh grazing as the occasiou demands
will be of great value in maintaining
the breeding ewes and conditioning
the lambs into that desired quality
and excellent condition so important
on the market. The portable fences
permit of frequently changing the
ewes and lambs that are 'being con-
ditioned to new areas of the rape field
as soon as the crop is consumed. When
first turned in upon a field of rape
sheep and lambs should become gradu-
ally accustomed to the change and
allowed to have continued access to
it, unless in time of storms, and, when
once removed, care must be taken not
to put them back upon it when hun-
gry. If the sheep get a moderate
amount of grain feed in the morning
before they are turned on the rape
field the danger of bloat and digestive
derangements ie to nine extent lessen-
ed. Access to salt and to other kinds
of pasture crops is desirable when the
flock is pastured on rape. Two kinds
of rape seed are upon the market; one
i's the summer; the other the winter
annual, or biennial rape. The summer
rape is not suitable for grazing, be-
ing grown commercially on a small
scale as a food for birds. One should
insist that Dwarf Essex seed be sup-
plied. The usual cost of rape seed is
about eight cents -per pound. As a
rule, three or four pounds of Dwarf
Essex seed per acre, sown in rows
twenty-eight inches apart will give
the best results. Rape thrives best on
a rich, fertile soil and better yields
Questioning the Soil.
Before attempting to grow alfalfa
and soy beans on our farms it is well
to put the question of inoculation to
the soil itself in a practical way. By
planting a few rowof toy }mane in
various parte of the corn fields it is
easy to examine the roots of the
plants and determine if the soil will
need inoculation to make the Cron
certain. Alfalfa may be tried out in
a similar Way by using a quart of
seed per etre in the cloves and tims
othy seed mixtufese in teeding ord-
inary meadows. If the plants make
good growth and develop tubercle
upon the roots is safe to assume
that inoculetion is not essential to
make tle. 05'O 0 seecese.
Upward of 350,000 distineb species
of insects beve been described, the
Majority of which are, in some way,
irdurions, and at 'least as Many mote
remain undeeeribecl,
Bny Thrift Stanipe,
always result on land that le well
martyred and fertilized end given thor-
ough prepaeetion befoite the crop is
sown., -12 planted in rows apd ealti-
stated it will prods.= a maximum
growth of foeage.
Rape is a quiek, tank grower: Ia the
moisture conditions -are favorable for
the seed to germinate quiealy tlae field
will be At for grazing in seven weeks
after owing; Seile • having a cold,
wet eubscat ere unsuitable for rape.
I And that the come does best On an
easy -working clay teem, well antler -
(henna and rolling enough to pveveet
standing water in case of excessive
rainfall. Land intended for rape pro-
duetiOn should be plowed early and
thoroughly. tempered before seeding,
Newly plowed land never grows good
rape, as the moisture e_yaporates too
rapidly and the growth and develop-
ment of the plants are ehediced, Rape
can be very successfelly grown if
sown at the last cultivation of the corn
crop. We • have seeded one or two
acres of rape with corn for several
'pears and find that a. large crop of
forage..ean be secured in this manner
without additional preparation of the
soil. Where the corn crop is removed
and put in the silo the land is soon
ready for pasturing. When the rape
plant is about twelve inches high it
is ready to turn onto, and if not grazed
too closely it will continue to produce
forage until frozen clown late in the
fall.
•Rape is an efficient weed destroyer.
Where one desires to check the weed
gropth on a badly infested field the
preferable plan is to sow rape before
the weeds mature. This thorough till-
age of the soil at this time materially
checks weed growth and the heavy fol-
iage of the rape shades the ground so
that the weeds seldom grow and ma-
ture a seed crop the same year. Ordi-
nary frosts and cold ,snaps will not
interfere with the edibility of rape.
The sheep may safely be pastured
until cold weather comes. To prevent
a waste of forage, plans should' be
Made to stock the forage pastures suf-
ficiently to utilize all of the forage
possible before weather conditions
prevent the flock from remaining out-
side.
If a larger area is planted than the
sheep can consume, young hogs may
be turned on the field to assist in con-
suming the -crop.
Danger Prone New Diseases of Wheat.
Aside from rust and -smut, Canadian
wheat crops have been found eernark-
ably free from destructive diseases.
Recently, however, there have been
discovered in the U.S.A. twe• new dis-
eases, "Flag smut" and "Take all,"
about the presence of which there has
been felt considerable alarth. Now up
to the time of writing, Canada has not
been invaded by either of these new
troubles. But groWers should beever
on the lookout for these and any other
obscure trouble with which their prac-
tice has not made them thoroughly
familiar.
"Flag smut," so called because the
smut occurs on the flags or leaves of
wheat, is easily recognized by the
long streak of smutty stripes running
The Welfare of the Home
Don'ts for Mothers.
It is quite apparent that a certain
number of babies must be artificially
fed. To this' end we will endeavor
to point out some of the dangers,
which we trust will serve as a guide.
DON'T ask your neighbor nor your
relatives how you shoield modify the
milk for your baby. They mean well,
but remember it requires scientific
knowledge to 'dictate just how each
and every baby should be fed. Con-
sult your family paysician. •
DON'T feed the baby every time it
cries. Reinember the capacity of the
stomach of a new-born baby is very
small. It only holds from one to two
tablespoonfuls, and should not be over-
loaded, and the feedings should be far
enough apart to give the infant time
to rest and to,digest what it has taken.
Most specialists now agree that, as
a rule feeding every three hours until
the flith month and then feeding every
four bouts is enough, although some
maintain that for the first - month
every two hours is not too frequently.
Furthermotee during the hot wea-
ther, your baby may be thirsty but
not hungry, and, therefore, every baby
should have a little water every day.
From one to two tablespoonfuls may
be given between feedings, -two or
three times during the heat of the
day.
If you insist on nursing -the baby
every tinie he cries, the baby is going
to cry until he gets fed.
If your baby does not go to sleep
soon after being nursed, or does nob
quietly coo wheo laid dowri, it is pro-
bably an indication that it has not had
quite sufficient, and in that case yea
hold consult yoor physician or
otherwiee take more liquid nourish-
ment, particularly milk, and a little
more gentle excrete° in the open air.
DON'T leave baby's milk stanclitig
in the kitehen exposed to germs. If
you have no refrigerator place it in a
Vogel with a cloth around it, prefer-
ably woollen or jute, which should be
Twat damp at all timee, and keep in
O cool part of the house, or dollar,
constant evaporatioe continually hold-
ing cloirgn the temperature.
DON'T lige your baby ae a play-
thing, and don't permit other people
to do eo, with the pretense that they
are entertaining the baby. At a mat-
ter of fact, in the majority of 6598,
the baby is entertaining them, when
it thould be resting. Leave the baby
alone as mean fte passible. It can
entettitin itself better than you can.
Plate it 11 5 rug, devoted with a clean
sheet, 6n the fiber 60 015 a Set mat-
treee, 'Where it call kick its linthe icl
time how much . more effectively it
can exercise both arms and legs when
lying on its back that whenlying en
your knee entertaining you.
DON'T give the baby a pacifier or
what is commonly called "Baby's Com-
fort." There lamentably seems to be
a feeling, especially among young
mothers, that when a child cries, if it
is given a comfort to suck, everything
possible has been dens to soothe it.
Don't forget that infants acquire
habits very -rapidly, and, once ac-
quired, they are difficult to break, If
you rock your baby to sleep, for in-
stance, after a few times, you will find
it difficult to put it to sleep without
rocking. The same applies to singing
children to sleep. All such devices are
means of engaging the baby's atten-
tion until overcome ley sleep.
The "Comfort," of all habits, is the
most filthy, the most dangerous, and
the most unpardoodble. Every nation
shoald pass legislation prohibiting the
050 01' everi the manufacture of these
public nuisances. Mothers that would
not think for a Moment of taking theit
babies to a place where there is any
infectious d:sease, do not hesitate for
a moment to give their child a "rem -
fort," and they have 'beeo soil to
put .the "comfort" in their own mouth
to moisten it before putting it in the
infant's mouth; and after the babe
has had.it for a while, it falls out, and
may fall on the fl000, and become eon-
trimineted in that way,—or, if it lies
out for a while in the ohild's cradre,
in the sultry summer weathet, it soon
becom'es covered with flies. It is thee
picked atm and pet into the child's
mouth again; and still you wonder
how the child contracts disease! It
does not reqpire any scientific knowl-
edge to recognize what a filthy 'habit
this is, and what an appalling 5011MC
of danger; and, unfortunately, these
"comforts" are most frequently ivied
with children in a run-down, fvettul
condition, evhen they pre most sus-
ceptible to. itifectiOrt.
In additiori to this, there is a great
danger of producing deformity of the
mouth. It is claimed to be not an
unumial explanation for a change it
the areh of the mouth, and. for the
production of protruding meth, par-
ticularly the two jaw, which, aftei
the front teeth arc mit, may even ex-
tend opt over the lower lip. Remember
in no ittetanee vffititevee .1.1 a "com-
fort" a pettier° of good, and, there.
fore, nothing will justify its tin, It
is probably one of the greatest men.
toes of modem Ones, and its infinite
facture almald condinneed l.y all
deinonstrate to you len very sliott goverithente,
•along the leave, The efreeted Pitlas
aleo Maw a peeuliar tangled and
twisted eppeeraece af; thQ 'Nano
Were WOVrid around the stem, Ally
tespicieus plant amid be sent to the
Divieien of BetanY, Eisnerimatal.
MUM Ottent-
e
"rra'ke all? as the name implies,
takes all and is probably the most
serioud wheel; disease known with the
exception of Viet. TO certain coun-
tries, indeed, is the more iterieus,
as
IS entiphatieally claimed by the
practical grower as well as the scien-
tific observer, The recognition in the
new is net difficult. "Take all" 15 4
root disease spreading from below up
the stein for about 1 to 2 inehes, dis-
coloring the stem darle brown, The
affeeted plants may be Milled up very
easily, their anchorage in the ground
is yery loose es compared to a sound
plant. The affected plants turn yellow
and finally die, taking st0aw and all.
Both diseaseare meet likely con-
veyed by iofected seed gralm.henee it
is most important to "nip these die-
easee in the bud" and report all suspie
eious cases at once. The nes of for-
eign wheats for seed is cautioned
against; particularly wheat Orem
Australia is under suspicion,
• In order to Make a record, a hen
must lay not only long but heavily,
Irs ordev to lay heavilyashe must bave
sufficient body capacity to digest 'large
.amounts of food rapidla, Large:ca-
pacity in laying hen is shown by
a body that le deeper at the rear
end of the keel than at the front end,
The under line should be fairly
straight, and the back should. be com-
paratively. horizontal.
A small capacity ben stands erectly.
The body is either very shallow or, in
the case of beefy individuals, the ab-
domen shows a pronounced sagging at
rear of keel. •
The comb, wattles and ear -lobes en-
large or centred, depending on the
ovary. If the comb, wattles and ear-
lobes are large, full and smooth, or
hard and waxy, the bird is laying
heavily. If the comb is lianm thetiird
is only laying slightly; she is not lay-
ing at all when the comb is dried
down, especially at molting time. If
the comb is warm, it is an indication
that the -bird is coming back into pro-
duction.
When a bird stops laying in the
summer she usually stereas molting.
The later a hen lays in the summer or
the longer the 'period over which she
lays, the greater will be her produc-
tion, so that the high producer is the
late layer and -hence the later molter.
The length of time that a hen has
been moltirig or. has stopped laying
can be determined by the molting of
the primaoy feathers. It takes about
six weeks completely to renew the
primary feathers next to the axial
feathers, and an additional two weeks
for each subsequent primary to be re-
newed.
A good leaser is more active and
nervous, and yet more easily handled
than a poor layer. A high layer
shows more friendliness, mid yet more
elusiveness, than 'a: poor bird,' A
lot -
producer is shy and stays on the edge
of the flock and -will squawk when
caught.
A high producer one year is, gen-
erally speakina, a high producer in
all dim years.'
Financial Notes
Ottawa—The work of findieg out
the value of the Grand Trunk Railway
System common and preferred stock
will be commenced about the middle
of September. '
Regular Div;dend on Canadian Bank
of Commerce.—The directors of the
Canadian'Bank of Commerce have de-
clared the regular quarterly dividend
of 3, per cent., being at the rate of
12 per ,cent. per annum for the quarter
ending August 31st, payable Sep-
tember 1st to shareholders of record
August leth. The transfo books will
not be closed.
13ridgeburg—Every shopper
crossing to the Cannclien side returns
with 'sugar from 100 pounds to 1
lomat since the lifting of the expor-
tation ban by the Canadian Board of
Commerce. • As eugar is eow selling
at 24 cents per pound, many Buffalo
merchants are auying sugar in Can -
ad arid selling it In the United States
as high as 30 cents a pound.
Vancouver—Within the next six
menthe, a fleet of sixteen steamers
of the Canadian Merchant Marine, ag-
gregating I 30,000,tons, will be operat-
ing from Vancouver, according to a
message received from Ottawa.
Twerve of these boats have beee built
on the coast and the 'balance will, be
taken from the Atlantic.
'Slightly Betts(' Export Dematvl for
Wool.—Recent despetches ftom the
central. svool markets of Europe indi-
cate a slightly better demand, bot as
yet there is no "established price, says
the monthly letter of the Canedieo
Bank of Come -wee: The outlook fot
growers is not, lowevo, wholly peasi-
mistic, as stocks* et finished textiles
are being rapidly depleted, and slight-
ly lower prices are hestening that pro -
CM. TA a taunt time manutecturers
will be compelled to obtain raw wool,
and ea they again becortio buyers, a
pvice will be set thot may oot approxi-
mate thnt of lad year, hub will never-
theleite be relatively high as compared
with the pricee moon; prior to the
war. , Oo the basis, of 1011) maces,
Canada:a woc11a ijll use materiels
to the ohm of $10,500,000, to obtain
A finished viaduct valued at $25000,-
000. "IShe vange of good t is extensive,
insItsSlilsg' twetal suibbigs, •-setatai
' broadcloth, itomopuns, &Otani: and
overcootinge. Those in eloso teach
with the induetry look with confidence
to the halve, and have no doubt but
that their home trade will be ectained
even should pre-wat conditions return,
with intensive conipetieion ardai Elio-
, °peat roille.
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SWARMING BEES
,
By W, SANDERS.
The SIVarill is a phenamenen pe -
whew to bees, There ere other ineeete
that live together in .eolonies, but
nenally their methods a naturel in-
crease. take Mao in eonnection with
o PeVied 125 their life -history in which
the coloeial life is Ter the time being
suspended. The humble bee, Sox ex-
peeses the winter in a dormant,
eonaition like the majoritY of insects,
the queens being the only eurvivore,
end the rest of the bee periebing.
Then in the spring these tiumble-beee
queens each start ufp a nest of their
own, With the honey -bee, however,
life is impossible except in 'the Sorm
of a colony ',and therefore it must
make good the roues of veinter and
disease by increasing, not 'only the'
number of individuals' in oath hive,
th
but e' oumber of hives, or colonies,
by swarms issuing frima the more
densely populated ones, Without this
method of increase, bees would long
ago have become extinct, for there
is a certain amount of mortality. of
colonies all the time.
Swarming is marked by the most
m
rearkable exhibitions of instinct in
the life of a colony. We know that
by the Vine the season is for enough
advanced Tor owarming to take place,
that all the bees from the season be-
fore have come to the end of their
lives. . They only • live long enough
alter waiter to nurture the first batch
of their successors, and from that time
forward the succeeding .generations
are very rapid throughout the active
season. We uee the word "genera-
tions," but strictly speaking, it is not
accurate, for the queen, which lays
all the eggs_in the colony, frequently
lives several years. It is not, however,
ths fact, as has often been supposed,
that the queen "leads out" a swam
or that she has any special function
in the matter. A swarm -will eineege
with a virgin queen who has only been
out of the pupa stage a few hours
and such a swarm will behave exactly
in the' same manner that their pre-
decessors did in past years. Al] we
can say about it is that they know by
instinct what to do, and that is an-
other way of saying that we do not
understand it.
Raise Thousands of Young.
Do not specielize too much, lost you
etivength beccine your weaknees,
By all mcans 'sli7oeT-iTliati you are
olive; bet do it net by Icitkibg but by
A strong colony of bees build up
their numbers very rapidly in the
spring of the year. From the time
when they come out of their winter tv
quarters, and the 'eather becomes
mild enough for them to break the
cluster they form to keep warm, until
the first flowers begin to yield boney,
ths. bees raise thoueands of young
Ones, the process of which consumes
the remainder of the stores of honey
laid by during the previous season.
When the nectar- from the new see -
son's crop begins to be secreted by
the flowers in any considerable quan-
tity, which usually occurs at the end
of May or the beginning of June, the
bees are 'beginning -La feel rather
crowded and it is this crowded con-
dition that constitutes the most ob-
vious stimulus to swarm. The amount
of ventilation afforded ay the entrance,*
and. varying with its size, is also a
factor in the case, and bee -keepers
are advised to give plenty of ventila-
tion in warm weather, and to give
plenty of room by adding supers in
order to hold back swarming, for
swarming often cuts down the honey
yield in a serious manner.
Preparation for Swarming.
The actual process is interesting.
The first step is the raising of queen
eells within the hive, for as the old
queen ahvays accompanies the swarm
tbe hive will need a new mother. The
queen is hathhed from exactly the
same egg as a worker bee, and in fact
O worker is but an incomplete queen.
To bring such a worker egg to full
maturity a large cell is built, known
Lo the bee -keeper as a "Queen -cell"
and in this the baby queen passes her
larval and pupa stages supplied with
a much greater abundance 'cif food
than a worker is given. The result is
that the queen not only reaches full
maturity and is capable of mating and
fertile -egg laying, but the process is
shortenectand in place of three weeks
the mature queen will emerge in abou
fifteen clays, The bees do not, how
ever, wait so long before swarming
and as s general rule the swarm wil
issue On the that e
at wnn day after the
queen -cells are eealed, that is, Offal
the embvyo queens hove reached th
pupa stage. ,
Bosicles Oft raising of a queen to
succeed the existing one, the bee
make various other preparations, Th
bees quit wet -Icing, and "loaf," as bee
keepers often say. They hang outsid
in great benches if the weather i
warm,. end in general the normal lif
00 the colony is disrupted. - A coupl
of days before rwartning the queen
ceases to lay, 50 that she may be abl
the better to endure Lae long flight t
the new horne, and the bees se:ta OU
SCOULA to search met a suitable plae
tor the swami.' to begin hoosekamiing
21 niny he n hollow tree, a cleft in th
rocks, the chininey of a vacant house
ot some och place, but there is n
doubt that the beee select their desti
nation beforehand, for the swarn
eventually takes wing and flies direct-
ly in a stwaight to the new spot
and enterS without hesitation, A
neighbor of ours last seeson found, a
numb.et of bees ordering a drain that
was placed to carry off rain from .44
sieeping-poreh, and are enough •livio
day e later a ewarne arrived and took
posseesim • A eeerby bee -keeper
smoked them out end hived thern be -
fere they bad • made themselves too
17;i1naaltlyb°1111inee,
ne warn( 'day, usatilly
*
S. Ileeutiful
in the mottling, a maist of bees rushes
violently oat a the hive, mid after
circling wildly in the air for a time
thee eliseter -on the 'branch of a toe°,
oo a poste oe some other cohvenient
place. The queeo is usually amongst
the last to leave Ana bev nressrles is
necessaVy before the swarm will con-, '
tinue on its wdy. IT by any chance she'
gets lost the bees will return to the
hive from which they came.,This fact
is made use cif ie some of the plans
for swarm control, and by clipping the
eruees wings so that she cannot fly,
the retern of the swarm is ensured.
Hewever, thinbees viten kill sach a
clipped queen when they find she can-
Oot storm, and then swarm ivith the
first virgin that emerges, so that the
plan ehoula only. be ased where the
bee-keeperecan be at -hand to perforn
the neeessary operations,
It is a notable and beautiful, sight,
to see a swarm emerge, and for a few
moments the air seems to, be filled with
bees with flashing wings, whilst the
sound can be heard at a considerable
distance. Our own bees are located
quite a little distance from the house,
yet we haye been on some occasions'
apprised of the swarm bihearing the
loud humming from indoors.
A swarin,may hang clustered for a
few moments only, or for several
hours, Usually at least a couple of
hours will elapse before they are like-
ly to decamp—indeed, cases are on
record where swarms liave emerged
and have built their combs and re-
mained in the open air on the cluster-
ing place. One is tempted to wonder
whether these ewarms issued before
the scouts Ilea located a suitable plaee
for them to go, or if not, what the
stimulus is that makes the bees break
up their cluster and proceed upon
their way. However, the fact is that
they will, sooner or later, decamp un-
less hivecl.
Hiving a Swarm.
Tais process coneists of shaking the
bees into an, empty hale, or in front of
it. In the latter case; if a few of the
bees dot to re-enter the hive the
remainder will follow without trouble.
If the bees are shaken onto a cloth or
other smooth surface the process is
facilitated. If the breach of the tree
on which a duster is hanging.can be
spared it is often possible to cut it off,
-and to carry the brancla metre and
all, to the 'hive. It is then dumped in
front onto a cloth and the bees are,
almost sure to enter. If a branch can -
pot be, removed, •or if the bees are
clustered on it post or other unremov-
able place, then the hive is brought
near and placed on the ground with a
cloth before the entrance, the bees are,
gently dislodged with the hand arid!
fall in a bunch before the hive. Then,
smoke is blown on the place where.
they had been, to prevent any ,from
returning and soon they will be all in
their hive.
There is very little danger of stings
in handling swarms, for the bees are
all filled with honey in prepaeation for
the building of comb that is the first
essential in their new home. When en
tbis condition a bee will seldom sting,
Nervous people often dress up very
elaborately to hiva a swarm, but the
experienced bee -keeper will seldom
trouble himself with anything more
than a veil to protect his face, and we
have often taken swarms in the ban
hands and placed the bees at the hive
entrarice. The novice, however, had
better take precautions,
In practical management, the pre-
vention of swarming is desired, as it is
band that swarming lestens the crop
of hooey. Where, however, a swarm
t actually does take place it is good
_ practice to remove the parent colony
to a new stand and to place the swatm
on the place ,previously occupied by it.
The swarm is thereby reinforced by
• all the bees that have marked the old
e location as their home, and will pc -
duce a fair crop of honey, whilst the
"parent colony" is weakened suffi-
• ciently to pee -gent afterswarms, and
e will therefore not be wakened still
_ further by them.
e In the production of extracted
wm
s honey, sarcontrol is aecompliehed
O by raising brood to the upper portion
c of the hive, but in comb -honey pro-
duction this is impossible, owing to
e the necessity to crowd bei into the
O little section honey-boeet, For th'e
t comb -honey man, therelove, swarming
e is uite a problem and the text books
, of bees are full of pities of different
e merit, for its •control. In general it
, may be paid that extracted honey pro -
O auction is to be recommended, and the
_ comb -honey left to experts who can
s specialize on this line,
AT THIS SEASON
is LOSS OF APPETIT
0007 eonriOri, many 04800 it iS
ri
due to impure bleed, whieli cannot
give the digeetive orgens LIiestisins-
bbs neeeueary 2ur the proper per -
fore -lance of their funetieeti,
Thousande know by experience
tlsot Istood'S liareaperilla restores
appetite and Would advlee you to
giro it a 1:01al this seaeom It origin -
abed the successful prescription of
o fronouo physician. Get it today,
Telse I5ood's ?Ms if you happen
to need a Ian tive—they. deal gripe.
MAKING BOUQUETS
We all know people Who tell us that
they "justsleve flowers," and yet we
wonder, when we see the way they
iandle them, just how much the blos-
ems really do mean to them. Those
who really care for flowees never
handle them roughly, nor are they
ever guilty ef neglect, They want to
enjoy them so long up there is a ves-
tige of beauty left. Neither do they ,
ever pluck More 'blossoms than they
can care for, nor lift roots as well
as blossoms, All these little traits
indicate how much they really appre-
ciate flowers.
.During the last few years we leave
been aroused to a deeper. interest in
the aet of the Japanese, who can
teach us many things. They have a
knowledge of plant life that is gen-
erally recognized. Each season they
introduce new varieties of plants that
have a definite individuality: Their
colors are true and the constitutions
ef the plants are strong and vigorous.
This is all the result of the attention
they pay to detail, one thing we are
apt to overlook.
They are not only horticulturists,
but they are artists as well, •and in no
way is the real artistic side of their
nature more in evidence than in the
way they arrange their cut blcssoms.
'rile grower may be a mere or less
practical business man, but the man
who handles the blossoms is an artist
who studies their arrangement.
The scheme of decoration 11111Si be
harmonious, the composition pleasing.
the receptacle must be the right kind
of shape, the surroundings must be
suitable. These are only some of the
things to consider; there are seven
rules:
First. Avoid all angles,
Second, Use much foliage and few
flowers.
Thiad. Only on rare occasions use
more than one variety of flowers in
any single ingangement.
Fourth. Use only the foliage be-
longing to the variety of blooms you
are arranging.
Fifth. Never crowd a composition,
Sixth. Study the composition from
four sides,
Seventh. Place each branch or blos-
som as nearly as possible in the same
position that nature placed it in the
growing plant.
The last rule seem to me the key-
stone to the success of the Japanese
in handling flowers. They realize that
we cannot excel nature in creating
beautiful effects, but eve can follow in
her lead.
In the -country, where there is an
-absence of brick walls and where na-
ture has been the decorator, we see
few straight lines and many curves.
We also see a variety of coloring, but
with the green predominating. While
there may be a great mass of foliage,
there is no effect of crowding. Again,
no matter from which angle we e•-lew
a vista the effect is pleasing.
A great deal of the saccess in mak-
ing a pleasing arrangement of cut
foliage or blossoms depends upon tho
receptacle in which they are placed.
, A vase or howl should bear the same
relation to the flowers it holds as the
frame to a picture—it is a setting
which should enhance tile beauty. The
receptacle itself should never be orn-
ate; the outlines should be simple anci
the color subdued. There are so many
i artistic shapes that are quite inexpen-
sive that it is hard to give definite
, suggestions ns to which are most suit-
able, Most of the pottery 051505 are
, good—the dull greens or grays are al-
; ways desirable, so sre many of the
brass saapes. 0.2 course, the latter
; need constant care in order to keep
, them in shining order; however, if
, the subdued tones ere chosen, espe-
; cially pieces having a green cast, you
I will find it unnecessary to keep them
• bright and shining, for they are more
, beautiful when
1 Flowers are never well displayed in
I an elaborate cut glass vase. Plain
-glass shapes of simple aceign, through
which may be seen the stems of the
flowers, aro effective. A large glass
bowl of nastortiums is always* charm -
Mg. 'The color scheme should be al-
ways consicleted. How lovely are a few
yellow tulio cr jonquils in a coppet
or brass urn; the brilliant yellow of
the blossoms, the sage green of the
foliage mid the dull tones of the metal
blend so woedeously.
Nasturtiums or violets, of course,
should never be put in anything but
a low receptacle. Apple blossoms and
pink clover ate poems when arranged
in a common ginger jar; the grayeblue
of the porcelain and the shell pink of
the biome make a charming color
scheme,
•
Muscle Massage in Rickets
Given by New Method.'
As an aftermath or undernourish-
ment clueing the wet period, rickets
1105 become 0 conimon disease among
thildtee 111 Clermeny, etimulate
Use flebby mueetes of- these little
patients, Without risking malformation
of tho softened bones, many cutiout
devides halve ,coniti Into Use; In treat-
ing the jaw end eeek muselee, for ex-
ample, die subject fs laid on 1111 in-
clined board, while the nurse stando.
at the bead end manintilateS a herneos
,of two strove,
i3eei Once l'Cont 0 Poona.
Mod 'beef sold for a cent a potion
in the reign of Queen Elizabeth in
England,
Canada, measuring nearly 4,0(10,000
equate miles, is the largest Britielf
poeseetion; the smallest is Gibraltav,
less than .5 miles square,
The word aristocracy originally
meant the rule 'of the best men.
It is better to be the 'best of a low
family than to be the worst of a high
family.
A two.facea Man rtalially tette bare-
faced lies.
.e-ae fade, s aei o" en:et-feel'
1104
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There isn't a member of the family need stiffer from indigestion, sick
headaches bilious:lees, fermented stomach, otts, 'f he ot she *ill take
Charriberlidnai Stomach:old /Aver Tablo. They cleanse the Si,01:0/1011
arid bowels and stimulate the liver to healthy act vity ond tone tim the
whele systein. Take one at nigLin Mt and yoti'reR1G:ti.T in the morning.
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