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Non three harelred arid sixty thousand PPP4rtment of Agriculture at:Wash:.
Supremacy of Marquis
Wheat:
The farther it goes the better it
geee cart fairly be pain of l‘larciaies
•wheat, Born in Canada at the Ottewas
Experimental Farm, it has come to be•
reeognized as the seeedeed: When: ef,
this country, end accordiree to the
Weekly News Letter, published by the
es Our Export Trade in Cattle.
Apart from the British. embargo
.question at preseet under investiga-
lion, Canada's export trade in cattle
ns brought prominently into the lime-
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i-rtgbon, D.C., has been founcrby the
specialists of that Department to be
Allowing Hogs to Feed Themselves,
Much of the labor of feeding stook
can be saved by the adoption of
light by the Fordney tariff recently modern meehods. This es partsculealy
-adopted by the United Slates Core true in the feeding a hogs, 'which it,
gTess. This placee an increased duty has been found make economical gains
.on all manner of articles of agricule when •allowed be take flood as they,
tural eeodiucinon, among which come desire it rather than to handefeed the
cattle, not intended for breeding, with animals at stated perlocia The self -1
• a duty of 30 per cent. ad valorem, or feeder for hags is not an untrie& ap-,
thirty dollars on every hundred del- pliance. By its use the animals are
liars the tattle may be worth. To what allowed constant access to a• SieniArn
..extent this will ,affect Canada's ex-' of meal, 'which is given in dry form.'
port traide in live stoclk with the' The feedis kept in a hopper which• ;
United States has of course yet to1 may be replenished from time to:
be determined, but it is worth obsterv- time. From the hopper the feed falls
ing that if 30 per cent. had been paid into the feeding trough as consumed
'upon the 294,000 head of cattle seal by the animals,
.acrese the border last year and which! A self -feeder to be euccessful must
brought $21,232,551, duty ameuinting be cheap, strong, tcapacious, portable,
.to $0,369,765 would have enriched the easy to construct, weather -tight, easy
United States customs. In this coral of reguletion for different textured
nection seine facts presented •by the meals, end most important of all so
'Live Steak Commissioner at Ottawa
.lare winthy of note. Previous to 1911,
••Great Britain took 60 per cent. of our
exports of live stock and the United
States 10 per cent. Between 1890 and
1906 the business with Great Britain
'increased from 67,000 head to 164,000
-head. Then it began to decline :and, in
1911, the exports amounted to 113,795,
'but in the following year they fell to
48,000 head. There has been no re-
covery to speak of since. In 1914 the
shipments to the United States took
an abnormal bound, the total being
206,446 head. POT the next five years
the trade was steady wound these
figures and then in 1919-20 there was
•'another big leap, the number of cat-
tle going across the border to the
'south, out of a total exportation of
.578,352 head, being 502,588, leaving
•sonla 15,764 head to go elsewhere. In
1920-21, the number going to the
'States fell to 294,000 head, but at that
'the duty that would have to be paid at
30 per eent. on value would reach, as
here stated, to upsvaedis of siscnnin
arranged that the contents will feed
into the troughs without any stoppage
caused by the blocking of the meal
in the hopper. Further, the troughs
must be constaucted to ensure the
minimum amount of waste such as
might be caused by the animals nosing
the meal over the skies or goiling it
by standing in the troughs.
A self -feeder can be readily made
by any handy xnen. For an average
farmer • a structure 4'x4' and 4' high
should be satisfactory. The feeder
should rest en three pieces of 2"x4"
scantling. The walls and floor should
have frames of the same material and
should be boarded with tongued: and
grooved material so as to be water-
proof. The reef, Which should extend
well over -the trougih, may constantly
form the door or ]id of the structure.
When used as such it is well to pro-
vide a prop to keep it operi when nec-
essary. Illustrated construction de-
tails for a self -feeder are presented in
Exhibi-bion Circular No, 93, of the Do-
nthion Farms,
Fattening hogs gainedi as follows in
Missouri tests:
23 per tent. faster on a ration of
torn and middlings than on corn.
32 per 'cent. faster on a ration of
scorn and linseed oilmeal than on corn
one. '
32.6 per cent. faster On a ration of
cern and tankage than on corn alone.
58 5 per cent, faster on a ration of
tern and soybeans than on corn alone.
17.6 per cent. faster on a ration, of
cern and germ oilnesal than on corn
• 7 4 per cent waster when self fed
than when hand fed the same ration.
Self -fed hogs require no more feed
to produce a given amount of gain
than when hand fed. When each feed
is placed in a separate "self -feeder"
the hogs will choose the different
• feeds, so that the gain will be both
ea.pid and economical. The saving of
grain resulting from the use of pas-
ture crops is frocan twenty to fifty per
cent.
• The kind of forage crops best adapt-
ed for hog pastures is illustrated, as
follows:
Blue grass produced 324.6 pounds
of pork per acre.
Clover produced 567.7 pounds of
pork per acre.
Rape end oat forage produced 354.1
pounds of pork per acre.
Rape, oats and clover forage pro-
duced 414.6 pounds of pork per acre.
Soybeari forage produced 117.6
pound's of pork per acre. Rye nsrain
forage produ.cecl 211.7 pounds of pork
per acre.
• Care with fire in the woods is a first
principle with good woodsmen.
For moles and pocket gopheee,
solve • strychnine in bottling waters
soak sweet corn in it twelve hours;
put a few grains in the gopher hills
and in all of the mole runs, One
treatment puts them alt to sleep.
1111111:11311113. IR III IA Nal& MINI
Critical•
• Periods
for FALL WHEAT
1111. At Seeding Time. ' •0
Dela,y seeding to escape the
0 Hessian Fly. Use ferttlizers
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to catch up wheat growth.
p 2. In Winter
Produce good top to protect
wheat, and, good rooting to 0
overcome spring 'heaving.
� Fertilizers produce top and p
A"F°StfLdi
3. ea no and Filling Time 'Of
Force early wheat growth di
IP by fertilizing at seedieg p
0• time, and escape droeght
and heat injury. 110!
0 Order Fertilizers Now
for your Fall Seeding• AO
0
Write for Free Bulletins,
Soil and Crop
P Improvement Bureau P
11 of the d
Pr. ariadlim 'Fertilizers AtseelatIon
/0 Room 14, Manning Artiside
n Tete vite
Onti
lak %Val
Ceeam of tartar given in the drink-
ing water every novn and then wards
off disease and keeps the blood of
the fowls ie, proper condition.
The inferior laying lien of the meat
type has thick, beefy pelvic bones,
with hard lumps atthe ends. Such
hens are not heavy layers. Sell them.
They usually weigh heavy.
Good laying is not indicated by the
amount of cackling a hen does. In
this respect, sometimes, hens are Hers.
The hen that makes ‚alot of fuss over
an egg is, timelier, but in ordinary
layer.
There is nothing better for either
olcl hens or chicks than dandelions.
Grub out a basket of •the rode and
tops. Chop very fine and feed. Mama
times my flock of hens has gone to
laying at once after a long period
of rest when given a few feedings of
dandelions. Chicks thrive wonderfully
on cued -cheese and chapped dande-
lions, and especially When a few table
or meat scraps are mbced in oc-
casionally.
Bicarbonate of soda is of great
value when placed in the mash or
thinking water. It will cleanse the
digestive tract of any sour or decayed
substances, and keep it in a healthy
sweetened condition.
Eggs rernein Smell even for weeks
in the warmest weather, land do not
appreciably lose in weight nor condi-
tion even if sent across the continent,
when no males are kept in the flocks.
However, it is always best if eggs
are • marketed within a week; the
sooner the better.
Water -glass is the great egg pre-
servative. It is a syrupy fluid which
pan be purchased from deuggista
Add one part of the substance to nine
parts of water that has been boiled
and allowed to cool before mixing.
Thoroughly stir the solution while it
is being minced and pour it over the
eggs, which have already beep packed
in ,an earthen or wooden vessel, Keep
In a location where the temperatere
never rises above 60 degrees F. The
eggs ehould not be more thaa a week
old. Infertile ones, are better.
Hints on Plow Adjustment.
• A few simple rules which are es-
eential in the adjustment a plows for
tractor plowitg are given by Donald
McDonald, a, well-knewn OW man.
1. Adjust the springs till the weight
a the plow beams and bottoms is
practically Wanted. _
n, Inteh plowat a point on tractor
drawbar midway between horizontal
centre of tractor and 'horizontal centre
If plow,
3. Added vertleed position of hitch
so es to be substantially level on works
11) 2021.
4. Bet levers for iirst position and
0 P,.9
to:105.31:i.cflatigv
tlirfeo7ers to Worleirin
When 91blidt$ is firtiehedly set the
leyere .transport noon end take
plow Oral trader to nerneet shelter.
Oesoperatiten, not eerepetitien, is the
life of busluese.
Don't pray cream 'on Sundays and
skinlemilic the rest of the wIwk,
the leading variety of cormesm wheat
grown in the Northern Great Plains
of the United State% This has come
about in the last seven 'or eight 'years;
Marquis wheat having been introduced
to the States in 1913, It is hardly
necessary to refer to the many victor-
ies that have been gained by this var-
iety at the annual soil products expo- I
sitions held in the States. They have:
been thoroughly chronicle& as they
occurred and have redounded to the
=edit of Canada, particularly of ,Sas-
katelee-wen. Frequent efforts by gen-
erous advertising have been neck to
introduce new varieties, 'but Marquis
has held its own and is to -day more
extensively grown in Seekatchewan
and in essme districts of Manitoba and
Alberba than all the other varieties
put together. Hundreds of varieties
of foreign and domestic wheat have
been tested by the Washington ex-
perts, but for growth in the northern
States none have peeved the superior
of Marquis. The better varieties of
DUTUTI1 wheat - have proved more than
the equal of Marquis in me or twol
particulars, but every one has been
proven by ,experiments to have a smi-
le'i loaf volume. Data obtained
at Washington on rust infectien
showed that Marquis had a lesps per-
centage than any other commercial
variety of common •spring wheat ex-
cepting only Durum. Each wheat
sample was analyzed for nitrogen, and
the crude protein content determined.
Marquis wheat had an average protein
content of 1.5.3 per cent. Other torn -
mon spring wlheats rather less. It
must be understood that these samples
were not all taken from stations et
districts favorable to the growth of
Margins.
Thresh Your Own Grain.
If you own a gasoline engine for
pumping water, sawing wood, cutting
feed, grinding grain, etc., there is no
more profitable investment than the
purchase of a small grain separator.
1VIncli grain le lost annually, or the
quality of the grain, is reduced', due to
inability to secure a thresher at the
;r thee, From experience, I knew
o.be a it
Melt .seParator will do just as
work as a large ones but, of
, not en reently,,though you will
PrpriSed at the 'capacity. Oise that
be esially (secreted by an eight cn.
horse -power , gasoline engine 'will
sh 'from 400 to 500 bushele of
e er' rn,ore a day, and the work
be done far more eheaply than
the hired thresher, • Better still,
have the satisfaction of knowing
we Can do the work any time we
reac-IY, not having to wait from
deys to three weeks for the neigh -
hood thresher to come around,
11442h 'often means h la of •led or
deree.ged grain if e rainy spell should
heppen to come while waitiag for the
metfit.
nAnether •advantage of the small in-
dividual separator is that after we get
• tbreugh our own crop (if we have the
time to spate and feel dispesecl to do
so), we can step outside and thresh a
crop or two for our friends -or neigh -
bore all of which will be practically
clear cash money.
•-1-low We Handle Straw.
We always fill our empty barn
nicays„ eheds and stable lofts with
straw to fullest capacity when, we
• thresh our- small grains. In one we
stere oat -straw for feeding with hay
and -corn-stover to. the horses, cattle
and calves. Another one holds our
wheat -.straw for bedding, strawberry
and raspberry mulches nests for the
swine and calves, and scratching
material for the hens. -
• 'Another mow helds the rye -straw,
corse and long, which is the best
materiel we can find for the winter
poirltry houses in. which the hens can
dig and scratch and never wear the
fibre into dust and short cuts. Last
airturna, when we shredded into our
been a quantity of oen-stover, we
bled, ourselves at no other task that
tokeep pitching bunches of wheat and
"On -straw into the %Jen vent of the
•blOwer, mixing it automatically with
the fodder. It made splendid feed, and
litsd to keep the fodder from pack -
rind molding in the mows as so
ten happens.
season we shall dere a quan-
•tity ef straw in reach of the blower
and mix this with corn -stover half and
half. Makes it go farther in feeding,
. and is e most splendid feed for -winter-
ing the animals that do little work.
If,Ilt fortune pursues you and you
hise everything else, keep your temper.
• Marketing Home
• By Grace, yal.Grey
• If you are interested in finding a
market for your wares you will fled
four: methods of selling: Direct ealee-
marnship, through ma,nufacturer'e
agents to w:horn you pay a ,c,omanission,
through advertising, ancl through per-
sonal letters to desirable people and
business concerns. Without a doubt
the first methods that of selling direct,
Is the quickest and the cheapest. „
It is quite possible to sell to a few
persons or to one large eoneern; and
if you prefer the latter course, it will
be 'well to call upon. the leading gro-
cers of nearby towns and -cities. You
will doubtless find that dealers are
wining to enter into ,arrangements by
Which they can depend upon a regular
supply of reliable product's.
Should this be your first venture in
the business world you may say, "I'm
timid, I can not talk to strangers, and
pride keeps me from telling my own
local dealers that I want to sell my
home-made goods." This is a wrong,
as well as a falsennttitude. You have
a perfectln good buitness proposition
to mane and good business men wil'l
take advantage of it. Have confidence
in yourself; that is tall that.is needed
to start in the business. You will find
nice people everywhere:I have always
been courteously received by business
raen, whether they, were butchers,
gTocer,s, •commission men, express
company employees, or heads of de-
partments in large, wholesale stores.
Provide .attractive labele for Your
goods, whether they be eggs or pre-
serves. It is wise to use the name of
your farm, so that customers will soon
get used to it and order "Pine Crest
Preserves" or "Shady Lawn Broners."
If you put your goods out in an at-
tractive form, guarantee their suer -
tor quality, secure one good grocer in
each town in which you sell, and fill
your orders promptly, you will be
surprised to see how much you c.an
sell.
In selling directly to the consurnera
the anoneyedi people are mast likely
to want your products, and thee are
the people whom you should seek.
Many housewives are out of town dur-
ing the summer menthe and would
gladly order their winter supPly 'of
irulit and vegetables from a 'reliable
persore Cell upon such people if it
is at all possible te do eo, tak htr with
you samples of your preclude put tip
in an attractive form. Tour goods,
awe worth more than ordinary mimed
goode arid nou do not bailie te 'eninntAr,
With them. Yeti nevie see "fancy"
P.,94.1„,e...nonat Pa‘rpini coenter; oe do
not pug a 'cheap Pelee upernyour pre-
'.:r.*Snnereesse,
en leen Wee go to irour%areaVoi
• ritervieer the manager's ot the
year own initiative or ask a friend to
recommend, you to them. • If you
really an prodiuce ,soreething better
than ordinary, you will ha,ve no diffi-
celty in seeing these people and sell-
ing to them.
Delicates.sen shops, tea-rooms and
clubs pay big prices for home -prepar-
ed food. Your express agent will give
you the names -of such private custom-
ers,' for express eampanies are willing
to a� -operate in every way possible to
help the farm woman place her pee -
dads and to assist city folks to get
country'foocl. Go to the exrn
press co-
peniy in Your town and talk to the
agent. Without a doubt he will be
able to put you in touch with desirable
customers. Having secured: their
names, write these people what you
have to offer and payment can be
made through the express agent. This
is -the safest way to transact business
between people unknown to each
other.
The second! method of selling your
goods is easy but expensive. There
are marry salesmen who veould be glad
to push yew goodS, particularly if you
have a good novelty. Salesmen sell
on eoMmissiert, twenty per cent. being
about the average. Mere are also big
jobbers who 'sell to retail stores. The
jObbers will be able to ,bring you big
orders if your peoducts merit it; but
here again the experteive commission
Meet be considered and only a large
ettbput. justifies this.' form of selling.
Many people prefer advertising in-
stead of the direct salesmanship or
Manufectineers agents. 'Seine of our
biggest (*teary trade has come about
through advertising, To build up a
trade in this way have ,circulters,, de-
seribing your products, printed, and
mail them to possible customers living
Within reasonable distance. The man-
ager of your telephone exchange will
get you a list of such, people. Your
pamphlet can be in the form of a let-
ter, with a destription of the varieties
end a Deice -list. Give it a. "catchy"
title, so people will want to read it.
A folder of .smeN size containing
about four pages is a good form. In
this folder or leaflet, :tell the reader
Who you are—that is, give enough in-
formation about yourself and your
essperierae in .canning and preserving,
or es a grower of fine poultry to give
strangers; confidence in you. Do not
be afraid to 5spend tee or fifteen don
lees in mailiug leanets; they will not
gest tench to print and ote-ceet pots -
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The Welfare of the Home
The Imaginative Time—By Anna Mae Brady
Mothers., did you ever ,stop to realize
the importance ef that period in your
development When hie little
tinged is free to wander over the hills
of fancy and he Ss finding so much
claffieulty in linking up the real and
the unreal? It is the opportunity time
of life and every erre of LIS t•O• W110011
is entrusted the care artel development
of a little child needs to study and
understand it in order thae eve may
make the most of it.
All of us are &earners of dreams,
and it is well that it 1s -so, for every
worthevhile act that :has been given
to the world was first a. &earn in the
mind of some person. Every book
that was ever written, every picture
painted, every field 'cultivated, was
first just a flight of imaginative fancy.
All of us go thris Sar, but it is not
enough to 'dream; we must do as well.
The successful person is the one who
thinks tover his dream and organizes
his thinking until finally it is no
longer a dream but a reality.
We grown-ups would give the gold
of Midas, were it possdble, if we might
have developed in us the power of
vision, the power to see life imagina-
tively. Yet our little tots from three
to six have this power to the nth de-
gree, ,and instead of fostering and
organizing in we do OUT best to stifle
it 49 4 trait not to he desired. The
seed of genius Iles in many ef ouri
children, and parents and teachers
who do not understand, do their 'ate'
mod to crush out the very thing
which later they wish them to have.
"But," you say, "if I encourage this;
will it not make My child untruthful?
Already he juggles the truth in xnost
ala.reving waye." M rnethere and lead-
ers of ,eleildren, we must be able to'
distinguish between a flight of fancy,
and a deliberate intent to deceive'
Fortunately for us the latter eases are:
very ram. If in doubt ask the child::
if it is a fhight of fancy he will tell,
you so,
What we need to do is to help the
child see his vision clearly and theni
furnish him with some plank material,:
with which he can make his dreams'
come true. Fairy tales are excellent
for the imaginainve child. Ile is liv-,
ing in their world and they :help ex-
plain for him that elmost inexplieable
thing .called life, Free hand cutting,
clay modeling and the reend table fur-'
nish material whieh will enable him,
net only to -see the :picture more .elear-
ly, but will also lead him to be a doer
as well as a dreamer, both a which;
are necessary.
The imaginative period, the oppor-
tunity time, comes but once, so let 1.119
make the meet of it.
Extension of Canada's Seed
Trade.
THE CHILDREN'S
During the year 1920 C,anada'.s ex- HOUR
port seed trade made a considerable
advance, owing in no small degree to
the efforts of the Dominion Depart-
ment of Agriculture and the Depart-
ment of Trade and Commerce. The
Canadian Trade Commissioners sup-
plied lists of prospective customers
abroad for Canadian eed. These were
communficated with and their require-
ments placed 'before Canadian export-
ers. In this way an increased' export
of seeds was brought .about to the
Unite,d States, Great Britain, France
and Newfoundland. To Ireland alone
approximately 100,000 bushels of fibre
flax seed, worth about $1,000,000, was
exported. In British Columbia, field
red and garden vegetable seeds,
amounting to 150,000 pounds, were
marketed through the United Seed
Gowers, Limited, Penticton, B.C. Some
75,000 pounds of mangel, owede
turnip, and field carrot seed, grown by
the Experimental. Farms, were sold at
current wholesale prices to farmers'
Organizations and individual farmers.1
It was deemed advisable to confine the
marketing of this seed to Canada, so,
that farmers might have the exclusdve:
advantage of using this high quality
seed: Circulars detailing the available
seed potato ,sappbes in Prance Edward
Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
and Quebec, proved an important fac-
tor in relieving the shortage in On-
tario. Demonstrations conducted on
117 farms in Ontario and Quebec with
mange/ and ,swede turnip seed resulted
in showing the superiority of home
grown seed over foreign. Seed labor-
atories are now maintained by the
Dominion Department of Agriculture
at Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Calgary,
and et those points some 28,000 tests
were ,carried out. Samples of wheat,
oats, barley, timothy, and clover were
tested for vitality and, at nalg.ary,
investigation was made into the effect
of frost on gerindnation.
Our Insectivorous Birds.
It may appear startling, but it is
a fact that if all the insect pests
ravaging our craps eould be sup-
pressed, and all the plant and tree
diseases eradicated, and the increased
revenue derived by the country there-
by 'could be turned into the Dominion
Treasury, there would need to be no
question of taxation. This idea is
largely substantiated by the fact set1
forth 'by thesEntornologist of the Do—
minion Department of Agriculturel
that a conservative estimate of the,
annual loss in Canada to field, orchard,
and garden crops clue to destructive1
insects is upwards of $200,000,000. As
our authority nays: 'T'o this huge dee;
vastation must be added the enormous1
annual destruction caused' by forest;
Insects, stored product insects, etc.";
Upon this statement the Entornolo-1
gist founds a well -sustained argument
in favor of the protection of insecti-
vorous birdie, such as the prairie
horned-lark, the robin, the eomewbat
despised crow, the red -breasted Nut-
hatth, the Western, Tanager, the
Myrtle Warbler, the Chickadee grouse,
gulls, and many ether kinds, In the
State of Teresa it has been estimated
that tree sparrows annually devour
something like .895 tons of weed seeds!
Speaking of :the robin, an inve.stiea-
tor in, Toronto found that a single bird
kept in confinelent at 165 cutworms
in one day. Another entherity states
that a brood ,ief prairie horned-iarks
eonstueed 400 cutworms in eee clay.
This same authority, namely, Mr. Nor-
man Griddle, Domini -on Entomologist
in Manitoba, declare.s that six crows
are capable of -consulting three bush -
o RiltVh.9.13,011.i.11 ;kilt seAgon; It
reenrcied that in ceiterni pious in
Ilifaniteba, areas of growing grain have
-1Av#Ved #071i 00r11014911 by the
petuom grasslioper owmg to the
Paesate ef bar flocles of gulls, la
light or 1.-e4t.tg iUvatifyito
be informed bsr the Domnit,d 1,3,10:irs
moiegist, Mr. Arthur Besot, to wit,
that the briporiance of eeotecting aur
useful birds is beeerning mete and
More teeognized, especially by fianrsere
and fruat growors.
Once upon a time there w.as an
ambitious mole who wished to amount
to eomething in the world. He felt
sure that there was more to the earth'
than the dark underground- turmels
that his family 'inhabited, although his
father told him repeatedly that there
was nothing above groimd worth look-
ing at.
The moles are rend -working
people, and this particular family
were employed in a mine and lug
early and late for their living. One
day as the little mole was at work in
a lonely comer of the mine he met
the old gnome who employed them
and got into a conversation.
The old gnome was in a paeticularly,
geed humor, having had mushroom pie
for his dinner, and as there was no,
one about, he condescended to be
pleasant to the little mole boy. When
Tommy—that was the mole's ranee—
asked -him about the earth, he de-
scribed, at great length, the forests
and meadows, the trees and blue skies,:
the sun and the stars, and he Men
told hien about people—which .was
funny, for gnomes do not usually be-
lieve in people.
Tommy could scarcely wait tin
evening that he might tell his family
the wonderful story. But his father
fell asleep in the middle of the recital
and Mrs. Mole was so busy over her
house accounts that she only nodded
once hi a while 'without even hearing.
Tommy was discouraged, and all the
next day he was turning over in his
mind ways and means of seeing some
of these things for himself.
One day instead .of going to worl:
with his father he pretended to have
an erran:cl to do for the old gnome.'
He dug up and up and up till at last
he could poke his head right out. He
looked all around; then he was so die -
appointed that he flopped down on the
ground and .cried. Imagine!
"Everything's just the same!" he
wailed dismally.
"What's the same?" A little fairy,
on her way to Visit a sick bird family,
stopped beside him.
"The gnome said the trees were
green and the sky was blue wed
everything is brawn!" wailed the mole
again. "Are you a person?"
"Not quite," laughed the little erea-
tura softly, "Inn a fairy!"
"Well, you're brown, too!" the mole
sat up and viewed the little fairy dole-
fully.
"Why, I'm piens!" eried the fairy in-
dignantly. Then all at once she began
hopping around in an ,excited circle.
"I know what's the matterl I know,
what's the matter!" she laughed, "You,
wait here!"
Off like a flash she scurnied, and just!
as the mole was about the do down)
into his hole again she returned with!
—what do you 'epose? A dear little'
pale 'of spectacles.
For, of course, dear heart, a mole is
almost blind and everything does look,
brown to hien—that's why he thinke
the whole world is like his dark, damp
home underground.
New these were magic specs and no,
sooner did Tommy look through them
than he saw all the beautiful things of,
which the gnome had told lenn—the
blue sky, the green trees and, best of
all, the dainty little fairy. All day 1194'
ran hither and thither, admiring
everything he zaw, and when night.
came and the stars came ont over the
treetops he could not go to sleep at
all!
"I will never live underground
agein!" he said delightedly. And hal
never did. In fact, he got a poeition
as thief clerk hi the fairy bank and,
lived happily for the net of his days.:
Isn't st a pity that all moles cannot;
have fairy specs?
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