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The Clinton News Record, 1918-2-21, Page 3aria : a •_`''*w;"+'",,:- ;s^'- fly Agronomist. •1'ht* Department is for the use of our farm readers who want the .advice of an expert on any question regarding eon, seed, crops, etc. If your question le of sufficient general interest, it will be answered through this column. if 'stamped and addressed envelope .is enclosed with your tetter, a complete Gnawer will be mailed to you, Addreae Aeronemist, care of Wilson Publishing Coe Ltd., 78 Adelaide St, W,, Toronto. 'Growing Carrots, Beets, 'Mid Spinach, when alternate ones may be eemoved ler. seine unexplained reaeon the carrot does not seem, to be es much of a home garden vegetable as son',o others which have not so much food value and are not ae toothsome or en- joyable in as many ways. I Have no- ticed this to be the case in many parts of the country, and yet it is very ex- tensively grown by market gardeners and must be eaten by many in the cities. TO' get a well -grown ea1'rot special attention must be given to the soil, Which . should be light in toxtaire, very fertile, deep and warm, The carrot has a long growing sea- son. The early ones niay be sown now and others successively through the months of May, June and the first half of July in such quantities as will give a summer supply from the first plantings, and from; the later ones what is desired for winter. Cover- the seeds thinly with fine •soil, and to make sure of a good 'con- tact between it and the seeds tread along the row to make it firm, es- pecially when planting the late ones, when the : soli may be solnewhat dry, Keep watered enough to maintain an even moisture, which will hasten ger: nunation and insure a more even crop. The carrot' should be grown quicldy to insure freedom from toughness of the centre, Culture of the Beet The beet should have a soil made 9f fibrous loam, well drained acid -well enriched with good rotted manure. It is one of the crops which should have a quick and uninterrupted growth to insure tenderness, and this can best - be had in such a soil. An ordinary garden soil which may have a clay -base may be made better for beets by being dug deeply, chop. ped fine, worked into condition with the rake, and have a heavy dressing of rotted manure dug into the trench. If feasible to do so, heavy. soils may be lightened by the addition of sharp sand applied when the soil has been dug and worked in with tine rake. ' The first eerty beets are raised from plants grown under glass and set out at this time. These plants aro not expensive, and several dozens will be sufficient for the ordinary home gar- den. When buying them be sure that the slender taproot is not broken off, which is sometimes the case when they are•Ysot carefully lifted from the flats, or indoor -seed bed, The main -crop early beets sown out- . doors should be planted where they are to manure,' It is customary to set them around the edges of the beds, as well as in the beds themselves. They s make a goad edging for the beds of almost ash vegetables, and this makes for economy of space. The practice of making a hole with a stick and dropping in the seeds is not a good one, as it is difficult to provide close • contact' between the seed and the soil, eomethiag which is very necessary. The best plan is to sow the seeds in drills one inch deep. These can be made with the hoe, which is better than the back of the rake, as it does not pack the soil in the bottom of. the drill. Set the seeds an inch apart, in order to get a good stand, as some may not germinate, and when they have gained their third leaf they may be thinned out to two inches apart in the rote, These plants are allowed to remain at this distance until the leaves touch, and used as beet greens, or sauce, tops and all. Thin is 'n great delicacy when properly cooked and dreasecl with • butter and seasoning. From the time .the beets cone through the Soil (sooner if the weeds get the shout of -them) give thorough and clean cultivation, Break the crust'whfch forms after all rains and keep up'the dust mulch. The best ,stimulant :Cor th early beet is nitrate of aoda, tit the rate of 100. pounds an acre, which works out for the small garden in the propor- tion of one-third of an ounde to a yard equate of soil. It is applied by dis- solving in water in the' proportion of R' gallon of water to an ounce of the nitrate of soda, and watering along the rows and `not all over the beds. Some Edible, Greece Foremost among edible grating? spinach. This is one of the most irnpo Ant crops of both the commercial d home gardeners, yet it is not always choice as it eau be shade to be by proper culture, By some it is regard- ed almost es a spring medicine, hav- ing a diuretic effect, When properly cooked and served it is both nourish- ing 'and appetizing. Spinach is an early summer and fall vegetable, being not up to quality in midsummer,' as it will not stand the excessive heat and dryness of our northern climate. For spinach- the ground cannot be ,too rich. It will give best results when light and porous. ' The richer the soil is, the snore delicate and suc- culent the leaves will, be and the finer the flavor. It is best when planting spinach to- drop the seeds. rattier thickly to insure a good stand, the surplus to be afterward thinned out to six to eight inches apart, according to the ma- turing size of the variety grown, Another good greens And salad plant is the uplandtress, which is also a stranger to more gardens than it should be, as it makes a most appetiz- ing salad and greens, when need as spinach is. Should be sown in rich moist soil and have free 'cultivation, Sow it thickly in drills, -six inches apart, to force leaf growth. Fre- quently small sowings are best, as it' soon runs to seed if left stand. The il'holesmne Endive For a fall and winter salad rind greens plant there are few the equal of the endive, and it is one of the mos/ wholesome of them all. For ate use make sowings in June in the eed bed or out of the bay place, and when three inches high transplant into the garden beds (where some early crop has been yemoved) a foot apart every way. Keep growing all sum- mer by regular watering oriel continu- ous cultivation, and when nature in the fall blanch by tying up heads in waterproof small paper bags, when tey are dry. If done 1111011 they arewet the heads will rot. They can be taken up, root and all, and stored in a dry, cool cellar end kept several months, It would seem hardly worth while to advise parsons to plant dandelion, as this so-called weed is so widely dis- tributed ae a pest, Yet few persons have any idea ds to the great super- iority of the cultivated sorts over the common wild dandelion when used either as a cold salad or as boiled greens with a sour dressing. FRITt�o Boys or ,,Girls xISImsi rairesi31 ciritenr reeenwetreent Mil all letters, agut'as, ported ,t -so collum ' ' . Rubber typo,oit0 and slur able. iron baht•, and a perfect 1'806 roller. eon i e used fol welting lettere. addroa- sJ�g envelope%, b111 -Reties, tags,-ets fiend as yvur name end address and We will send you 30 packages of out• lovely. onibaeee( lt0astar postcards to soil at.10 cents a pacdcag'o (0 lovely cards i'� 00014 package), When a014 81110 08 tu,' money (Wee dollars) and we will 00401 )OU the typewriter. all v11017;08 0/^0001,1.1rQJf1�1L-W4T815186. fleet, es. *077,0Fra10 Sponge the foliage of all broad leaved plants, such As palms, carrel= lids, aspidistras, rubbers, etc, ' ):Io s ee uouni, only ,more so. Meat is needed, and it.is not yet too Jae to breechhowe for spring pig's, Bowe that aro bred now will ;farrow toward the last of June, to time for the pig's to get the benefit of rape, so .-beans or ether pasture, Late June pigs can be made tp .weigh 200 pounds before Christmas, if they are kept growing all the' time. Satisfactory prices for Hogs arecertain, Should the war cease ins- ereeditttely there' would still be a great demand for swine, because the coun- triee abroad' whose her'ds have been. 'depleted will need foundation stock with which to start again, ilei ruse of their prolificacy, host famish the best means of relieving the present neat shortage," Two lit- ters can bo produced in a year under' t' most conditions. In four •years the Tomato seeds mays'be started in 'possible iner,,aso from one sow is 1,002 the house the middle to .the last of hogs. This is based on the assump- February for- early plants. Keep tion that the sow produces two littera the, plants growing slowly to make of six pigs each in a' year, and that them low and stocky. Too much heat will develop tall, spindling, uldesir- able plants, half of the pigs are females, and that each gilt should farrow when one year old end every six months thereafter. NUTRITIOUS SCHOOL LUNCHES the rt_ By Caroline L. Hunt ndi as i The lunch at school has.. long been ooesldered by thoughtful people good opportunity to teach the eons Position of foods, the • principles o nutrition and the best and safes ways of handling and preparing foods Now that. everyone is interested in food conservation and is ready and willing to de leis bit in the way of say ing, the educational opportunities of the school lunch are increased many fold. ' This is particularly true in cases where part of the ltinclt is prepared at school either in connection ,lvith the course in home Economics or other- Wiee. - -• 'Po begin with the school lintels can be made a means of teaching one of the simplest and least , complicated facts about foods—their fuel values. Every child knows the difference be- tween a good fuel and a poor fuel. He knows that green wood does not burn well because it contains much water which must be driven off before the combustible parts of the wood can be used, • IIe 1 rows that a piece of hard coal of given size gives off more heat when 1t burns 111a11 a piece of soft wood of the same size even when the wood is dry. If horned in an engine the coal twill produce more power and do more work. It may be said, there- fore, to have more energy oe more power stored up within it. As a rule, however, even in times of peace, •1t is thought much more economical to use wood near the place where it is' grown -and to carry coal which is far less bulky to distant places where fuel is needed, Foods of various kinds; milk, meat, eggs, wheat, potatoes, apples, and others, aro the fuels of the human ma- chine. They burn within it and pro- vide it with the power to walk, run, or to take long tramps as soldiers often have to. Some are bulky and some are concentrated fuels and it is the concentrated fuels that we aro trying to save for transportation as far as possible. •- An interesting class,exercise can be made by asking pupils to pick out from lists of foods those which pro- vide the greatest amount of fuel or energy per pound. There are many ways in which potatoes ctul be used in the school lunch potato salad can be carried in the -lunch basket,' This is easy to prepare, for salad dressing can al- ways be kept on hand and extra po- tatoes can be cooked when dinner is prepared OPotar In planning the poultry campaign for 1918, a rigid culling of the flock is necessary. If trap -nests have been used the farmer will know which are the high producers and these can be retained for breeders, In general the' late moulting liens are the best layers and this forms a simple plan of increasing the flock averages on the farm. Band the late moulting hens .and use thein exclusively in the breeding pens. The poultry housing for the farm flock will be a factor in the success with the bird`s during the- year. A. house should be este a well drained site and face the south, '1t should have an open front and be free from all draughts, - It must not he overcrowd- ed. Allow four square :feet per bird and the poultry will have plenty of room if the house is clean, A clean house means that it is free from mites and lice, cobwebs, dirty litter and ac- cumulations of droppings. If the birds are not given free range they should have ample room to keep the supply of green food from being eaten to the ground, Shade is tweet,. eery to give the birds protedtion from the hot'sun during the summer, Wind- breaks will be of great value where the poultry yards are swept by the Prevailing winds. The farther who desires to increase his production this year will undoubt- edly need an incubator. Artificial ','EE T IR `ROLLED GOLD LOOKET AND. OHA$N 135 sive fine twirlerttet roiled stl0 erialri telt* of 01 oliwrlid tq be ;R i 1851 le reekstgas os 12g tgkale1 reeteetde J,gfg wio W.1k1 send I NµeteeenndeybitothePao In N CA hatching means good prices for early beoi r le s and the pullets arrive at the coliditien for laying before winter. The early hatched birds have a long growing season and always seem to have more vigor. In every way there is a lot more satisfaction in maturing the poultry before the uncertain weather of late fall and early winter. 'Artificial incubation :means that brooders are necessary, They insure propel• care for the young chicks dur- ing the stormy weather of spring and increase the nunsber • of chicks that it is possible to raise. Brooders of the right capacity should- be ordered so that they will arrive at the farm long before they are heeded. Nothing will discourage a :farmer mere than a suc- cessful hatch from the incubator, fol- lowed by the loss of half the elocl- or more because the brooder cisme a week late. In making up the war rations for neglected, the farm hen, green food must not be 'lected, It pays to raise enough. naegels on the home farm to carry the laying hens through the Winter. Cut clover and sprouted oats are valu- able to keep the birds in healthful condition and incroase the'production of eggs. Silage is being used for poultry with geed success by some breeders, It is not irnp'oseible to be -1 lieve that the laying hoose of the fu -1 }are will have some form of a silo as part of its necessary equipment. A chicken silo may prove as valuable in producing winter eggs as the dairy- man's silo in keeping up the miiit'pro, duotion in winter, livery year the value of green food in the Hen's ra- tion is snore appreciated by the farm- er Who seriously mattes an effort- to make life pou)tey.profitable. Hviislt Hedges To Go, One of the pretty features of the .English landscape will.undergo drastic changes as,a result of the great a ri cultural programme this year, Hedge. rows in /nogg' p eteee will have to go down mid thousands of trees which have Wide spreading roots zntuat lie removed to allow ploughing, t is be., !laved by many that 'Cho teen% after the war will be the adoptlnn. el the e,anadialt style of laodechpe, with lawns miinus fence0 and Yted$ae etl);tl rounding homes. A. good dish to prepare in school is a creamed potatoes, for it requires few - utensils, If stove -room and time are f limited, the pupils can bring cold boil - t ed potatoes in their lunch boxes and . the white sauce can be .prepared at school. This dish offers a good means of - bringing a little milk into the school lunch and gives the teacher a chance to show that other fats than butter can be used in cooking. Any -whole- -some fat—beef dripping's, chicken, or bacon fat, can be used and skim milk can be used in place of whole milk. Like potato salad, creamed pota- toes can bo varied by combining the potatoes' with outer vegetables—peas,, beans, carrots, turnips, and so forth. Curry powder gives variety and is, not unwholesome if used in very small amounts. re • variety G, at can be secured in potato salad by varying the flavoring material, Almost any vegetable can, be combined with the potatoes. The egg -yolk and skint mills dress- ing mentioned here offers a very good way to use egg yolks'which are good 'food ,for children. Egg Yolk and Skint Milk Salad Dress- ing i,1 tablespoonful salt, 1 tablespoon - fee sugar, tri cup vinegar, ;t tea- spoonful mustard, 1% cups of egg yolks and 'skim milli (4 to 8 yolks, the rest milk). .Ittlb together the dry ingredients so as to get the lumps out of the mustard. Add the other in- gredients and cook in a double boiler to till the mixture thickens. Curried Vegetables 3 cups cold boiled potatoes cut into dice, 1 cup peas, carrots, turnips, or other cooked vegetables, 1 sliced onion, ;!i cup fat, yi cup flour, 2 cups mills, whole or skim, 111 level teaspoon curry powder, 3z, level teaspoon salt, Cook the onion in the fat, being care- ful not to brown it. Take out the onion and add the flour. Cook two or three minutes. Add the milk and cook tilt the mixture thickens. Add the vegetables and the seasonings and reheat, Savory- stews in which the flavor of a little carefully browned meat and of onion or other highly flavored vegetables is extended through a large amount of potatoes are too well known to be described here, They are acceptable clishe§ on cold days at school. So far we have spoken of the use of potatoes as a means- of saving wheat, The intelligent child will be likely to ask why wheat should be conserved rather than other cereals, oats, corn, rice, and SO fot•tli. Oae answer is that wheat can more con- veniently be made into bread than the other's and most people feel aggriev- ed unless they 600 have part al least of their cereal food in this form of L bread, They are willing to eat some J in the form of breakfast foods bis6 s 1106 all. The time has conte, unfort- unately, when - if everybody every- where 'is to have bread. every day, we in Canada, must economize on this great breacimaking cereal, wheat. The reason .why wheat can be made into bread more easily than other cereals. is because it contains gluten, P. good class exercise consists in mashing the gluten out of wheat ri flour. Directions for cluing this can be found in any good text book -on foods, This might be followed by an effort to find gluten in Tice, corn flour or in flour made from other cereals. Rimed) be a failure of course but it will be enlightening. fi Many ways of using other cereirls so as to reduce the amount of wheat th bread needed will occur to mother and sf teacher. Boiled rice can easily be w carried in the lunch basket or pre- 59 pared at school, When eaten with C mills, syrup, honey or stewed dried fruits, it makes a good war -time dish, n The rice saves wheat, the mi11c saves ht oat, and the honey or fruits save tv cane sugar, INTERNATIONAL LESSON FEBRUARY 24, Lesson VIII.-- Jesus Teaching BY PParablha; L'1ie Growth 01' The 1CingdUni--A1ax')t 4, 21-34. " Golden Text, Iso, I12.1 , 9. Verse 21, The crudest ikon of lamp used by the peasants is a terra-cotta saucer with Its edges pinched togethi er, to make -place for the wick, Light is :not to be covered up, but to bo set forth: The word given by the Mas- ter 1$ not to be kept ill secret, but to he sent abroad to others, The things of the Kingelom are not mysteries to be hid away, they. are not secrets which may not be understood. On the contrary, they are •to 'be made known for the illumination of men, "Ye ore the light.of the' world." The Christian life 15 not to be cloistered, but to shine forth. Not a nunnery or a monastery, but the highways of men is the place for a Christian dis- eiple. 22, That it should be manifested— Truth is for great ends. Eventually it is to come forth so that the world may share in the revelation,- T11is manifestation is not sudden, but silent and gradual from a faint g}ow on the horizon, until the heavens aro filled with the ligh1t , 24, Take heed what ye hear—If you wish to know the mysteries of the Kingdom give careful attention to the word that is taught you, and he not inconsiderate or thoughtless hearers, 211". He that hath to him s11a11 be. given—'Phis is a fundamental late of the Kingdom. Knowledge Lerma from more to more. The gift of in- sight, when. used, briegs.larger in- sight, while failure ro seek to renew leads to the blunting and deadening of the power to perceive the truth. The only condition for knowledge of the truth is sexing, knocking, asking, and ever searching. Thus there is an ever increasing richness in the life of the inquiring soul. A man' who has much knowledge will be con- tinually adding• to that knowledge, and oh the' other hand, he who has but little, unless lie add to it his store will tend to decrease, 26. As if a man should cast seed upon the earth --This parable 'is pe- culiar to Mark. The interest centres here in the seed which has life in it self and will produce according to its owls laws if only it be given an op- portanity, 27, 28. Should sleep and rise night and day—He has done all he can do when he casts the seed into the soil, and can new only go about his usual duties, leaving the seed to mature, to e sun, air,an •ram. When the fruit is ripe—When "ort€hof is Pay Better Than k'ver Bigger eroim cannot bo slime by lncreasi'tlg ao 'esgel" Shol•teige of labor Malts that impoasl'bl)o, Grow loaner crops without i11ertstiOnc1 LAND, LABOR or S1 ID by using R� 1 - ?A ff +�q"" DA G9 IlGn s FE pl! 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Currier, care.of Wilson -Publishing Co„ 73 Adelaide St West, Toronto. - - Varicose Veins Among them are . clerks; bookk eep• When a bunch of veins which have' ars, house -servants and others wile been inflamed and swollen break down have little active, muscular work. and become a running sore, it. is a Women who wear tight garters of varicose ulcer. lift heavy burdens often get varicose Varicose veins are simply enlarged veins, alio sufferers from, obstructed dilated and sometimes thickened vanes, They may not cause very much a possible consequence and the result trouble or they may beeome inflamed and give rise to all the symptoms" .nay be painful, serious, or even cion - which attend the disease known as th d phlebitis. 20 W1'i They may be superficial or deep, the process is completed comes the or both, and when they are deep it is harvest. Thus the kingdom of God not easy to make the diagnosis. circulation in any internal organs, - Bear in mind also that inflamma- tion or abscess of the veins is always . grows, silently, sweetly, tiv orderly A number of veins or only a single and successive stages, a spiritual order one may be varicose, appearing as moving according to its own laws dilated, knotted, bluish cords, some- reaching;,marvelous results, times hard and sometimes soft. 30. How -shall we liken—Alt na- ture may be laid under tribute to 11- They are usually on the lower ex- andlustrate the spiritual movement' of tremities, but may extend to the ab - the kingdom of Cod and become full domen, especially when Die circula- of symbols of spiritual realities. We tion in the veins of the. abdomen is are not to think of the natural world impeded, for example, by the pres- and the spiritual world as two sepe- sure of an abdominal tumor or a cle- rate and distinct kingdoms. Rather veloping child in the later months of 'the entire universe is sph•ilual iti that back of all is God, who is not out- preg'ltaney- side of nature, but present in his Veins are poorly supported by the world, overseeing the steady develop- tissues surrounding them, their everts hent of his kingdom. tare thinner and less resilient than 31. Like a grain of mustard seed— those of the arteries, and the venous In the earth, In Matthew -the seed circulation always has to .we're up hill, is sown "in his field" (143, 24). In against gravity, Should.supliuratian occur, the aim - Luke, "in his garden" (13. 191. .The For a. partial safeguard they have seed is not indigenous to the soil, but valves at short intel'vals to prevent cess must be freely opened and drain• it comes from without the soil. The back -.flow of the blood, this tendency' od, kingdom of God is not of human The disease is a surgical one and it being great in those having Weals is very important that it should be hearts, tt•eak or flabby tissues and treated by one who understands its who stand all day at their work.- underlying principles. In such people tilt veins gradually gel dilated, the valves knotted. Some- QUESTIONS AND ANSR')J12 tl d' g1Y s y times these veins get hard and thick, W. K., Jr.—Is there any cues'' or re- m t d 1 t A and the circulation makes new pants ,lief that you know of for astlunn? Some - to -day in the fields about the sea of for itself, like a"brook whose channel Answer—There are many ways of Galilee. is obstructed, Or the pressure of relieving this annoying trouble. 32. Great branches—This mustard the struggling blood -current forces the though the only way that I know of Ps however, must be different blood serum into the surrounding tis- to cure it is to change one's residence from the plant described in the text, Sonic writers tell of a mustard tree sues, making them thick and hard un- toi-on elevation of at least•2,000 feet. tit Jtidea whielt attains to tt great til a slight injury or even continued Cigarettes of cubebs, rolled 111 nitrate height, "as tall as the horse and his der," - 33. Many such parables—of which genus to life. In the minor degrees of this die - case there may be only moderate ati- noyance with a feeling of inability tc bear the custonsary task. But even such cases must receive attention or they will rebel and be troublesome. The external support of a rubbbel bandage, carefully wound from toe; to knee is most comforting to Cleat sufferers. It should be removed and cleansed With an antiseptic solution at night and re-applied the next morning. If the veins are enlarged and pain- ful, rest for a week or two, lying 01 a couch by day, with the foot ole, vated at least six inches. Should actual inflammation occur, rept 111 bed is imperative with eleva- .. Don of the foot and the constant use of antiseptic lotions. teem, though the divine .germ must evelop in human Life and civili'ration, ess than -all the sends—With the ews "small as a grain of mustard eed" was an ex -pression for some - ling exceedingly mall. The ordinary us'0r pant as w"a know it is seen Mark gives us only 0 selection. skin eruption around the ulcer and Small in its bunroidtings, silent, and there may be }haemorrhage from time gradual in its unrtllrl!ng great in its to time. consummation---1nce the mustard SuRerers from varicose veins tire seed ---such is the kingdom of God. They were not to despise -the insigni- cant beginnings, for great was to be he future of the small seed placed in e human soil by the divine Sower, hat madness to send ful•tl1 a group linlettcred peasants to coimer.the orld! Yet behold to-th r tl of potash paper, are often used with sort t • results in the sluggishI ressule s sn 1 n which i0ay not ]teat relief 'when one has an attack of There niey also be eczema or other asthma. Also, relief may be attain- ed by inhaling the smoke from burn- ing stramonium leaves, Even in- haling simple steam will sometimes bring relief and break the spasm. easily,and meir•be unable to do lard But the most effectual relief is found world 111 a change of residence, reading branches of the fingdom of od in the earth! 34. Without 0 parable epake he of unto them—Not .that he limited niself thereafter to parabolic teach- g, Expounded—IIow careful lie as that they should understand his scat mission!, Yet, they did not g _�..� ---- �.-_....- and could not fully grasp the signi- fi s„ 0 Lessen the Lambing Losses, Several weeks before lambing time, ewes are best divided into lots according to the time their lambs are dee, Crowding around feed boxes, jumping over ditches, pushing through narrow 'gates and rough handling Cance of his wonderful dies ogee " when trimming the feet are likely to fools and slow of heart to. believe" cause ewes to cast their lambs, is 'the language be used even dor- Immediately before and during e the lest few days he was with lambing time, the before herdsman needs to em. II was 116 this soma interval be an the job night and dn'y -needs pre- el he said to thorn,- 'I have roan- vent the loss 'of lambs frons chilling Ings to say unto you, but ye can- not bear them now." They were to and from other preventable causes, As wait for another expounder, the.Holy soon as a lamb is born the herdsma rummy r0iiiD'.l 4S" Fol CUT OUT AND FOLD ON DOTTED ,UNC.5 a jn th p th th I7aoh day, with spr'inkling can and hose, ..tete the garden Willie goes; Tt't4 thoughtful afire like 011ie you how,, That makes the lovely flowers grow, n Constipation causes touch suffering and loss among horses fed principally on timothy hay and corn. A little oilmeal, some alfalfa or a little clean silage daily, or a tablespoonful of Epson salts every day or two in the feed, will regulate the workings of the intestines. The tendency of mares to fatten ase pregnancy advances during the winter trust be guarded; else the mares may become so fat as to interfere with the development of the foal, Abortion may result front failure to guard against this condition. Good grain rations fat• colts the first winter are: Two parts corn,'five parts oats, three parts bran, and one part - oilmeal; o• four parts oa!s, one part corn and one part bran. Spirit, who was to take up his mss- will clean the mucus from its mouth sage and show them its supremo sign1fic11nee, . ' There she be no waiting. of the and nostrils, If the lamb is brought to the ewe she will clean and dry it If she refuses, a pinch of salt sprinkled on the lamb will help to watchful variety of tiny other kind overcome her backwardness, In an in farm end gar:dee work. What he hoar or two, if the Iamb is too wean required is hustling activity; abso- 'tui stuck, it should be helped. lute gild complete preparedness, with ileal is tlto''hest medicine :for week no holidays until after the have wen lambs. If the shed is cold, warm the war.' Everything needed should woollen cloths wrapped around the he readyanci on hams the mulnent it yeanlhigs •will put heat - into their is 1'equired, and it wilt• not he with- bodies. The cloths need to be cluing - out propel' forethought and planning, ed 00 soon as they Iola their 11eat•. It »1ng be necessary to feed tvealc lambs by hand, giving' a spoonful of, the mother' poll. every' ;Caw hour's, The e'we'an�het' tenth should be kept in a Pen by themseives for a few days tin. tit the lamb becomes strong. Free to Girls Ws 441177 give thts teem/UM 'tree/mil fie' 01 thea bhgrgre to any eirl or ]dile*' 08441045 4er wee111'4 ChM* n *el. 0f i'7k,Nter roe blit}enamel) 'Araeolei to or ratted tent gleet and 010 am oeih. 4114 115 160111' 7 1008. end we 44111 MAO 0011 the rt4'f8. }(en, * le, 4, d the, e, tone', any. We 'alit" cent you tee meted - 101. Atldsekr/i zO lkittiON 00, RPM 9d', + '1OAON'I' , QNT, insecticides will „purely be needed by gardeners and 2i'u16 p6'dwcrs, Deal. tee's •0hould olitahi a111915 supplies and have them on hand ready to treat the demand so growers will not he kept waiting until a stood part of their erring have been destroyed and grow- ers should plate their order's im- ttiediately, having the goods deliver- ed as early no possib,3. Plant lice should b8 counted on itgt-."'. this year, Be fullp.ptopertt, Trays which are about two or three inches deep and similar to the shallow wooden boxes -used by Canadian gar - denote:, called flats, are filled with early potatoes by English gardeners, with the seed or eye end up. These are Rept in :Cull light withont heat, Immediately befoz'e planting all the epl•onts eycopt one are removed, The, Where eve then planted -front ono io. three its a pot according to the size of the pet. At first the.pot is only'; about .half. filled with earth and, is1 gradually filled tip as growth pr;tttt- gtessee, lrinaliv Was gee made ' well prepared soil hi the garden, dos which the potatoes in the pots are' transferred without disturbing , ti131 roots, The object is to obtain ray{ early crop of potatoes. • r7ilu r -c eftJ'1 h e"r..