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FIX UP FOR THE WINTER.
Have the repairs 013 the barn
and milkhouse that you decid-
ed 'must he done before snow
flies
again beetst ukea care o .
And theethere were certain coo.
venienees
that you thought of
last winter and you declared
that you wouldn't go through an.
other winter withoutthern., Have
they;
been put in?
Winter will be here all too
soon and the fall work will soon
be out of the way. If the busy
summer has kept you from doing,
these things they should be look-
ed after very soon. It is discour-
aging to have to put up with it
conveniences just because we
didn't get time to fix things up.
Too often these things are put
off because we somehow hate to
start on the fixing up.' With
some people there seems to be
an aversion to doing things out
of the ordinary routhie, and so
the repairs and conveniences go
undone. Now is the season to
get busy.—Hoard's Dairyman.
GROWING DRIJG PLANTS.
Inexperienced Growers More Liable to
Failure Than Success.
[Prepared - by United States department
or agriculture.]
The cessation of the harvesting and
shipping of many crude drugs because
of hostilities in Europe has caused n
sharp advance in their market price,
,As a aesult, many individuals and firma
have written the department inquiring
about the possibilities of the American
farmer growing drug plants profitably.
The department's specialist in charge
of drug plant investigations has writ-
ten a number of these correspondents
that, although it is probable that a
number of important drug plants could
be grown profitably here if the present
high prices continue, nevertheless there
is a possibility of the early restoration
of shipping facilities, and, in any event
the inexperienced grower of drug
plants would be more liable to meet.
with. failure than with success.
Some medicinal plants, says the de
partment's specialist, may be grown as
easily as ordinary garden crops. Oth•
ers, however, require the special
knowledge and skill of the practiced
gardener. There are many varying
factors in the commercial production
of drug plants. The constituents of
many of them vary in quantity ac-
cording to the time of gathering and
method of drying, and a knowledge of
proper methods of harvesting and cur
ing is absolutely essential for the pro.
duction of drugs of high quality.
Even it the prospective grower pos•
sessed some knowledge of drug plants,
beginning now, he could scarcely hope
to harvest a crop before the late sum-
mer of 1915. In the case of some vie
rieties he might even have to wait un-
til the end of the second or third year.
after planting. Therefore, the farmer
who began at once might not find [rim.
self with a supply of crude drugs on
hand until after prices had returned
to their former level.
In any case the quantity of crude
drugs required by the market is tela.
tively small as compared with fruits,
vegetables or staple crops. Therefore,
numerous or extensive plantings by
individuals throughout the country
might easily result in overproduction,
which would cause a decline in the
market price independent of the con-
ditions abroad.
For successful production of drug
plants on a commercial scale there
must be an available market. Its ac-
cessibility must be considered, above
all things, by the successful grower.
The cost of production must be care-
fully estimated, and to this must be
added the cost of packing and ship-
ping to this market. The packing and
shipping expenses might easily make
the enterprise unprofitable.
Drug plants to be profitably grown
should yield returns at least equalto
those from other crops which may be
grown on the same land. The farmer
must determine that this is the case.
.The fact that much handwork 1s nec-
essary in the production of most drugs
is liable to make the cost of labor
high.
Of"
The Destructive Cutworm.
"Cutworm" is simply a convenient
:term applied to many different worms
all of which have the habit of cutting
.off the stems of young plants. Some
'work at the surface, others slightly
underground. They attack young gar-
den plants Psheriahly, but Held crops
OUTWOOM ATTACKING PLANT.
suffer also. The worms come from
eggs that were laic[ the previous fall.
'Weedy fields suffer most.
Deep plowing in the fall and early
Cultivation in the spring will control.
thin pest very well.
Another effective way of control is
to spread poisoned bran mash over
the ground in the spring few days
before the plants ;ire aspected t.U'
come up. The werme will eat the 'poi.
toned mash and die, -Tarin and -Fire
tide
Tho Slow, Sluggish, Torpid Action of
the i.iveris-Responsible for Many Ills.
Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills stimulate
the sluggish liver, clean the coated tongue,
sweeten the obnoxious breath, clean away
as matter from the
u waste and poisonous
system and prevent as well as cure all
complaints arising from a liver which has
become inactive.
Constipation, sick headache, bilious
headache, jaundice, heartburn, water
brash, catarrh of the stomach, etc., all
come from a disordered liver.
Mr. Victor B. Mc ent
ls Sandstone,
,
Alta., writes: "I thought I
would write
and tell you of my experience with
Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills, as I am
greatly pleased with the results.I re-
ceived by using them. I was troubled
with sick headache for a long time, and
would get so sleepy right after I ate toy
dinner that I could not do any work.*A
friend of mine, from Toronto, visited
me last summer and he asked me to try
Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills. He told
me they had done him so much good for
his stomach. I .used several vials, and
I found they did me so much good that
I can recommend thein to any one suffer-
ing from liver trouble"
Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills are 25c a
vial, 5 vials for $1.00, at all dealers, or
mailed direct on receipt of price by The
T. Milburn Co., Limited. Toronto, Ont.
The Periscope.
Tbe periscope, by wmcb a submerg-
ed submarine 13 steered. 1s a kind 01
tube with mirrors In it whereby what
19 happening on the surface 1s reflected
below. -
THE CABBAGE WORM.
Methods For the Destruction of This
Pest,
The cabbage worm is generally the
easiest insect pest to find in the gar-
den, writes Clarence M. Weed in the
Orange Judd Farmer. It is the thick,
green caterpillar that feeds upon cab.
bages, commonly doing much damage
to the forming heads by eating holes
in the leaves. These cabbage worms
batch from eggs Laid upon the leaves
by the common white butterfly. When
each worm becomes full grown it
changes to a chrysalis. About ten
days later it changes, again, this time
to a white butterfly similar to the one
that laid the egg.
In hot weather the development from
egg to adult butterfly often takes place
in less than four weeks, so there are
several broods of worms, each season.
In the more northern states there
A TRAP FOlt TnE nU'rni•'iFLY.
seem to be about three broods, while
further south there are probably four
ur five. Many remedies for this pest
.tire known.. On a commercial scale
urseuicals are used, but in the twine
garden this does not seem to ale a
desirable treatment except when the
Maths are small. A simpler way Is to
heat water in a teakettle to 140 de
green; then, pour a little quickly on the
infested plants. This kills the worms
with little harm to the plants.
A little insect powder or pyrethrum
dusted into the heads at intervals of
once a week will keep them in check.
The insect powder bought at village
drug stores is often old and worth-
less. It should be fresh and strong to
be effective.
When cabbage plants are left stand•
ing in the field after the heads are
harvested or when a crop that has fail-
ed to head is left to neglect the cab-
bage worms feed on them through the
fall, and there are so many more to
mature to start next season's crop of
butterflies. All such useless leaves
and heads should be destroyed by feed-
ingto stock or in some other way, or
a few of them may be left and kept
dosed with poison so the 'butterflies
will lay eggs on them and the worms
that hatch be killed. In this way
thee° plants will act as traps and at.
tract butterflies that might otherwise
deposit , their eggs on wild mustard
and related plants.
Cornstalks and Snow.
It is sometimes a good plan to leave.
some of the cornstalks standing. Ev,
ery fourth row left standing will hold
a lot of snow on the land. At the
North Dakota experiment station it
was found that one-fourth of the corn-
stalks left standing stopped about as
much snow as when all were left.
This will in many cases mean a good
deal to the next crop. The added mois-
ture will make the soil less liable to
blow, and the standing stalks will
cheek the wind a good deal, near the
surface, and this also reduces the drift-
ing. Better try leaving a few rows
and see if it does not pay.—North Da-
kota Bulletin,
EVERY 'WOMAN
.is interested and should knosi.
about the wonderful '. ra
Ea0'Wlt Whirling Spray
nnuuun 31mania
Ask your druggist for
it. 11 he cannot supply ,
the MARVEL, accept. no
other, but scud stampfor illus-
trated book--e0aled. it gives full
particulars and directions invaluable
to ladies. WINDSOP;SUPPLY -00.,Windsor•,Oat
'General A.gento for Canada.
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41 War Review
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HEN a few weeks ago
Grand Admiral von Tirpita
in an interview, declared
e
e*.na fleet
the U n
that
on
would begin a war
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British merchant vessels, few persons
could believe that he spoke seriously.
Few thought that the German Gov-
ernment would commit so flagrant a
breach of the rules of war as
by the Hague convention. Sun-
day's despatches showed that the
baby -killers of Scarborough care little
for rules or traditions and that the
threat was a serious one. On Satur-
day, the U-21, the newest of the Ger-
man submarines appeared in the Irish
Sea, stopped the steamer Ben .Crua-
chA.n, ordered the crew into the boats,
planed, a shell in the interior of the
vessel and blew her to pieces. The
crew landed safely pt Fleetwood later
in the morning, having been picked
up by a fishing smack. An hour af-
terward' the crew ci the Linda
Blanche, a smaller vessel, which had
been destroyed in the same way,were
landed at Fleetwood. The steamer
Kilcoan was sunk farther out at sea,
and her ceow were landed on the
Isle of Man:, The Kilcoan was a
small coaster'';of 456 tons.
The operations of the U-21 may
have involved'. a great tragedy. The
captain of the. steamer Niblick says
that when five` miles west of Fleet-
wood he saw a large, ship blown up.
He waited in ,the hope of rescuing
some of the crew, but none appear-
ed. He picked up 400 lifebelts,
showing that the ship lost was a
large one.
In the Channel, off Havre, the Brit-
ish steamer Tokomaru, en route from
New Zealand to Great Britain with a
cargo of 97,000 carcasses of mutton
and a quantity of clothing for the
destitute of Belgium, was torpedoed
by an unknown submarine. In this
case 120 warning was given, and had
the crew of 57 men not been rescued
by the trawler Hooper the sinking of
.the Tokomaru would have involved
the murder of all her crew. The Brit-
ish ship Icaria was torpedoed in the
same locality without any warning
being given to her crew. This is the
second occasion upon which such a
flagrant violation of the laws oI mari-
time warfare has been reported, the
first that of the Admiral Gantheume,
laden with Belgian refugees.
The destruction of peaceful mer-
chant ships without warning is as
dastardly a violation of all recognised
means of carrying on warfare as the
bombing of peaceful and undefended
towns by Zeppelins.
The warfare on merchant vessels
will be hard to meet, but Britain will
probably stop all traffic between Ger-
many and Scandinavia by the same
method. One suggestion is that the
British vessels be transferred to an-
other flag.
The week -end despatches disclosed
a big Russian army that has pene-
trated several days' march into Hun-
gary, and will force the Germans and
Austrians to decide the fate of their
country on their own soil. This big
force is full fighting strength, is turn-
ed parallel to the flanks of the. Ger-
man and Austrian troops, which had
been collected with much heralding
to advance into Galicia, and relieve
the siege of Przymsl. Now these ar-
mies have to fight the huge Russian
force for their life, or withdraw south-
ward, leaving a whole country open
to fire and sword. The Russian bear
moves ponderously, but he is mighty
hard to move. He set his foot down
in Galicia, and the united strength
of the German and Austrian hosts
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was unwire to move atm Peek, '. Von
Hindenburg's drive into central Poe
land appears to have been a costly
mistake. The Russians are now able
to hold him here while they are be-
ginning the process of cleaning the
Germans out of East Prussia, and the
Austrians of East Hungary.
Sunday's advices s said the Russian
advance was proceeding at every
point from Tilsit on the north to
Bukowina-on the south.
The Russians began to develop a
forward movement in the Mazurian
Lake region early last week an
d P ro-
gressed towards 1Loenigsberg, the
principal P city y an d fortress in East
Prussia. The fighting on the centre
in front of Warsaw was steady with
the Russians on the offensive..
The Austrians, having collected a
big army of a half million men in
Hungary, have begun a new offen-
sive through the Carpathians. The
Russians Withdrew so as to concen-
trate their forces to meet the ad-
vance, and ion Thursday at 'Yaslisk
Pass they crushed in the head of the
advancing Austrian Column inflicting
large and encouraging loses. This is
the third time that the. Austrians
have begun an offensive from the
south in this *ay, and twice before
they have failed signally in the en-
terprise.
The Russian Government has noti-
fied the Shah of Persia that Russian
troops amust enter his country to
drive out the Turks who have invaded
the Russian sphere of influence.
In the western field the big event
of the week was the attempt of the
German armies to celebrate the Kais-
er's birthday by attacks in force at
La Basse, Soissons and elsewhere.
The movements were defeated every-
where with losses estimated in the
three days of fighting, culminating
Wednesday, at 20,000 men. The
British forces at La Basses bad 900
men killed, wounded or missing. The
Germans left 400 dead alone on the
road from La Bassen to Bethune. At
Ypres the Freuch defeated a heavy
Gorman attack. At La Creuse the fir-
ing of heavy shells caused a land-
slide to a quarry, and two French
companies were cut off. They held
out for many hours before surrender-
ing. This success forced the French
to evacuate the Foulon Wood which
they later recaptured in a series of
bin Iliant counter-attacks.
In Business.
Attention. appliratton, accnracy,
method, punctuality and dispatch are
the principal qualities required for the
efficient conduct of business or any
sort.—Samuel Smiles. •
STARTING ASPARAGUS BEDS.
Much Time le Gained if Work le Be-
gun In Fall.
Those planning to start an asparagus
bed next spring will gain many months
11 instead of waiting they begin to
work now. A row a hundred feet long,
with the plants three feet apart in the
row, will furnish a sufficient supply
for an average family. Asparagus re-
quires a deep, rich, fertile, moist and
cool soil, a warm exposure, thorough
preparation of the land, heavy manor.
ing, thorough tillage iii the late au-
tumn and early spring and lastly roots
which are from vigorous, healthy
stock.
Bear in mind that In setting out an
asparagus bed the worts is being done
for twenty or thirty years and there-
fore
herefore should be very thoroughly done.
Use care in selecting the spotwhere.
the bed is to be so that there will be
no reason for disturbing the plants
again when once set. Plow deep, sub-
soil and turn in a liberal coating of
well rotted manure. Tbe plants to
give the most satisfactory results
should be one -year-old seedlings, and
it is well to order them so that they
maybe on band by the time the bed is
ready. After the plowing is finished
there should be a trench at least a
foot deep, into which about three incl°
es of good soil and well rotted manure
1 boroughly mixed should be turned in.
Then set the plants, taking care to
spread the roots out well, and cover
the crowns with two or three inches of
well mixed soil. The first winter. of
eou.rse, the plants winl1nud10' P101 murk
than n Enid 131/111, 0n. ait0n, the 11105
good frost throe on 101110 light,
strawy marrttre and drag the soil !mellt.
somewhat from 11le rile', of the trimeti
that the e•titc r may not. stl1 :l in 11
it 0-s frozen rn)1i') 114 Wile
and f r t I t 111
a t en, Mrs a of bed itopsn
brit t IP n old r d Ito
Wants, f
should be mewed off aril burled •rod
the whole hed be gone over with it
spike toothed burrow, with the spikes
Set slanting: then Senn afterward the
hed should be covered to the depthtb of
three,s
Inches with web rotted manure.
ff this is unobtainabl'e use old horse
manure to whichi have been added fifty
pounds of bonernetie fon every hundred
foot row of asparagus. 4File first two
seasons no cuttings whatever should
be made. Itis easy to injure a bed by
cutting too soon, so wait for a year or
so until the growth is well started and
to prime condition for cutting.
A Handy Feed Cutter.
1 bought twenty-four calves last
summer which I put in my feed lot on
Aug. L Some of these calves had
been' on pasture with their mothers,
others had been hand fed, and it was
quite a, problem to get them used to
a change of feed: The feed I had for
these calves was green corn, Kaffir
and prairie hay. I soon found there
was too much waste in hauling this
feed into the lot and allowing them to
do their own picking, writes 7. K.
Welch of Eureka, Kan., 4n the Farm-
ers' Mail and Breeze. I then went to
my shop and made the feed cutter
illustrated. The body Is made of 1 by
12 inch board, four feet long, with
sides of 1 by 0 inch pieces. One leg
was used at the back end and two in
front, the latter extending eight inches
above the frame.
The knife lever was bolted to the
top of the left leg to allow the right
band for cutting. The knife was made
of a short piece of crosscut saw blade
fourteen inches long. This knife cuts
square across the end of the box.
With this machine one loan could cut
up enough feed for the twenty-four
calves in from three to five minutes.
Tbe feed was cut in one-half to one
inch lengths and fed in troughs. Kaf-
fir and corn were thoroughly mixed in
cutting, and the calves cleaned up the
mixture without waste. They had this
green feed until frost killed it and did
well on St
Was All Run Dawn
MATH HEART TROUBLE
AND NERVOUSNESS.
When the heart does not do its work
properly and the nerves become unstring
the whole system becomes weak and
run down, and needs building up before
you can feel fit again.
Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills will
do this for you.
Mrs. Hugh Mosher, Chester Basin,
N.S., writes: "Just a few lines to let
you know what Milburn;s Heart and
Nerve Pills have done for me. I have
suffered greatly with heart trouble and
nervousness, and was all run down. I
used lots of medicine, but received no
benefit until I was advised to try your
pills, andldid so, and before I had finished
the first box I felt so much better I
got 5 boxes, and am now well and strong.
I can truly say they are the best medicine
I have ever used. I cannot praise them
too highly. I recommend them to any-
one suffering from heart trouble."
Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills are
50c per box, 3 boxes for $1,25, at alt
dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of
price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited.
Toronto, Ont.
A Word to the Wise on Fence Buying
When You Buy from the Dealer
YOU PAY
l—Manufacturer's factory cost (including mater-
ials, labor, machinery, superintendence, etc.)
2- Manufaeturer's advertising cost
3—Manufacturer's salesmen's travelling expenses
4—Man ufacturer'ssulestnen'1 commissions
5 -Manufacture 's interest on dealer's "time.
account"
6 Manufacturer's allowance for, bad debts,
'y -Manufacturer's profite
$ Dealer's property investment (store, stock,
fixtures, etc )
J- Dealer's interest on customer's "time-acc'ts"
1O -Dealer's allowance for bad debts
11—Dealer's profits
When you Buy i)irect front Page
YOU PAY ONLY
1—Manufacturer's factory cost (including mater-
ials, labor, machinery, superintendence, etc )
2—Manufacturer's advet tieing cost
3 -Manufacturer's profits
And the other eight big items which
you don't paw represent the extra
actual value ot: Page Feil ee over ordi-
nary fence theravtugyou keehin your
pocketevery tinge you buy Page Vence
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18 -bar, 48 -Inch 00.43
20 -bar, 60 -inch ,...?, .48
Set tools 8.09
3 -ft. Gate . .. 2.25
12 -ft. Gate 4.20
13 -ft. Gate'. 4.45
14-11. Gate ; 4.70
25 lbs. Staples .75
251bs. Wire: .70
001101T• PAID ON ORDERS OP
$10.0)1 OR OVER .-®n.:
I co'
When you buy ordinary
fence through the dealer—you
are paying donee bills for 50c
worth of fence,
Vlibell you. buy direct
front 1°1d ft' you net more
nearly 100% real value:
for youV 1no11ey than wit11.
0diel' fence boseghtin. any '
other way.
Mail your order to PAGE
to rtay. Freight ht paid an orders
of $10 or'over.
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