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The Wingham Advance, 1907-06-20, Page 3• Largest Ostrich Farm. *4444 .4444.+•44-44444:444+++4eisa FAO DRAINAGE OPERATIONS Mrs. Pearson Has Nearly a Thousand Birds on Her Ranch. Via. Katherine Pearson, of Phoenix, larger anti eleo nitwit haudeviner in gen. Aria, nod Hexane., Cuba, is riot only the welt ealeeteeleaa ostrich queen of the western lanais- cese that I ceecet 1 shall add a good Many .N Lai :luring the nexe sleasole Tho Mie3 that are neer in Cuba, are very Itendsome stud have ber een vy much ad- mired, alley were iiitipped direct from Plante and were 1qm:tie of a mouth on the way. seitliouelt the voyege was un- wsually rough, not it bird wee lost Awl male (.4 1,11,111 was injured. "My farm la Ilavene, i8 a beautiful old Spaniel' enetio quite near the home occu- pied by general Lee when he wee eta "Shortly after our marriage he devel- - touted la anan, mid item near (Jamp. Co. hunbut. %elute I intemled to have it as a oped. consumption. After a few years, tho climate not liming proved 1)011(41, ;sort of a show farm at Bast, if the bires ehd, he dewed, to se to phomix, we are healthy 1. shall go in extensively for breeding.. seo o reason why It 0 110111(1 sold out in Florida and started breeding 1 nr uot be a euccose, but :still Nubian birde ostriches on the Phoenix farm with 250 birds. $leu apiece are too great a risk to "If my farm la Havana prove the sue. Vlore, but of tbe world at large. Her °stria farm near Phoenix is the Istrgeet breeding ranch in America, and the feral near Havana, on which she has juet set- tled forty-five birds, is the first of its kin! la Cuba. She owes more birds then an,y other woman ostrich farmer on tito fv.ce of the earth. "To begin at the beginning of my exs perience with ostriches, 1 must tell you thee my husband first bought; a farm A and a few bird e near Jaelssonville, eely hashancl wan becoming more fee- ' hie every day. I tried to do ray duty, and as a result I learned all the ins and Puts in breeding birds and selling featit- s era. ' "Since ray husband's death I ha.ve in- take until the cluteite has been tested. "$o far as the quality of tile feathers is concerned 1 ant sure it will make uo difference. Commie:teeny there are ten or more grades of feathers, but quality depends oe the breed of the birds 004 ereesed thaereage to thousand, the Way they have been liaodlecl more : e two ranking it the largest breeding farm in than on the. climate, America. On the Havana farm there "ehe oetnch plume as seen on bats has I are at present only twenty-seven ores gone thrpugh many waehings, bleachings ! and forty-five birds. It is only au ex- and eeerlinge after leaving the farm, on t prima', and 1 de not think it wise to the email. African birds the plumes ere get more birds until after these have Perfectly straight, but the NubianMare • proved the healthfulness of the climate. eutiod plumee by nature. That is the 1 'While in Arizona and Florida we ehlet reason for their great bea.uty. never loot a grown bird except through "I had at first it great desire to make ; accident. Tbe climate of Cuba may not .0 pot uf an ostrich, but after investiga- ! prove good for them. There are the long tion gave it up. When I found that they 1 reirly seasons, and ostriches aro not couli1 not be taught to cease the road eat; fead. of too much rain. We never ellen and that the omit we see in harness have • tered the grown birds in Arizona or to he driven between two lines of wire : Florida, but during the rainy season id feneing to prevene them from bolting I Cube. it may be necessary, The food, , too, is another problem that must be , solved, "Ostriches mato when they are about . ; throe and a half years old, and, like I pigeons, remain togethee, entirely faith- ful, until they die. At least, I have been told that they mate for life, and as far ! as I know, it is true, though, as I said ' before, I never knew one to die a nat- , ural deeth. In case of an accidental death I have known the widowed bird to . accept a seeorid mate, but not until after several years. "They usually lay two nests of eggs of • from twelve to fourteen eaeh, and you , can count on getting an increase of from ; ten to twenty-five chicks. I ha,ve often I known a pair of good breeders in a good t season to hatch every egg and raise a every chick. Then again I have known less than a quarter of the eggs to hatch and as few of the chicks to reach ma- . •"While I advocate using incubators to a certain extent, I am convinced that : it would not prove beneficial to a flock • to uee them altogether. So far as my : experience has gone the birds do not • lay any more eggs, and when their nests • are robbed too often they seem to lose all desire to sit. . "The proper use of an incubator on RA ostrich farm is an a.djunet in case of emergency. Where there is danger of the eggs getting chilled for one cause • or another it is better to take them at own to the incubator. "Sometimes, in spite of the care of the ; best breeding birds, a heavy rain will soak the ground in such a way that • the nest is filled with water. Then again, the male bird sometimes refuses to do his share of the silting, and as the fe- male never returns to the nest until her appointed hour, something has to bo done or the whole sitting is lost. "If they behave as they :should, the female sits on the nest during the day and the male takes his turn during the night. But if for any reason his lord- ship gets sulky he goes off on strike, and the female being equally independ- ent, tho nest la loft to take care of it- self, "But, as a rule, I think they try to do their duty by the nest. When tho chirke come, however, it is quite a enf- fetent matter. The parents see311 to be perfectly indifferent to their fate. Un- less the young birds are taken from there as soon as hatched there is great, danger of their being trampled to death. "This Jack of .parental feeling is not so much a failing of the heart as of the head. I am convinced. The ostrich is as senseless an animal as exists. So far as am able to judge they are absolutely and entirely. without brain:3. "You can teach them nothing, ana it makes no difference how long you feed them or how kind you are, they never even gat to recognize, you. They know their mate, and that is, I believe, as far as their power of recognition goes. • "ViThile I have heard, the men on the farm say they didn't oven have sense enougli to follow a leader,. I have noticed that if a bind in one pen began to run, pretty soon every bird on the farm was ' ruaning—for no apparent reason—just running. Whet, they are in full feather they make a pretty sight in running, • as they hold out their wings and so show the beautiful plumes underneath. , 'They do take pride in their plumage. When they are &et plucked they beeome • very sulky and seem to wiali to hide themselves. If a pluoked bird is turned ' with the tutplueked they fall on him • tooth and nail mid the poor fellow is made to suffer for his loss. ' 00striches are plucked every eight ak. months. I use the word plucked, though •. the feathero are seldont pulled, When ripe they are cut, and later when the old • quills have become perfectly dry they are drawn from the sockets by means of a. pair of tweezers. This is not the slightest bit painful to the bird and there is no blood drawn. "A healthy ostrich, and 1 never save a grown bird that was not healthy, will yield from $30 to e50 worth of feathere a, year. As year-old birds aro now smiling in Arizona for $100 apiece for the South African breed and $50 more for Nubiam, you can judge the yearly profite on it peer of good breeders. "The ideal food is alfalfa, with a little corn al night. For the chicks before they , are able to piek for themselves alfalfa s Levee are mixed with wheat bran, Lntil the Chicks are six months old they shoUld be housed at night and kept out of the tain or damp. After that time they Are as hardy 114 anyone eould wish and two months later aro ready for their iirbt plucking, "01 tours°, their Bret growth of featlo ata is not firet class, but it has a egioil market value. And every plucking there- • after becomes more valuable until at net - Luray, when the, hird is about three and •sit a half years old, or the mating time. • Until this time it is difficult to tell the Miles front the females. "When full grown the male birds are blank with white wings, While the id. maims are Lrewnish mey, er whet: ie kat** in the father trade as natural. The Nubian bird differs front the South Afriesist te, having a pink Meth. it it Was convinced that there was no use in trying to train them for the house. "As a busineee 1 understand and enjoy raising feathers, but as far as the per. sonality of the ostrielt is concerned— why, they haven't any sense; they are utterly selly. How ean they have a personality? They are just big, healthy idiots in the shape of birds." A GREAT TRIUMPli GAINED BY DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS FOR PALE PEOPLE. The Doctors of Mount Clemens Institute Prove the Value of These Pills in the Case of Mr, S. Harris, Government Inspector of Elevators at Hamilton, Ont. '(From the Stew, Dundas, Ont.) We were =eh pleased to see Mt S. Harris, the well known Govern- ment inspeetor of elevators of 1131111. ilton, in Dundas the other day, great- ly improved in heelth and appearance ' all the owners and within six daysbe since the leat time we met him. lie filed with the clerk of the municipality, is, known o many o a Star rea - whey it becomes as binding as the award . of an engineer, and may be enforced in ers, Mr. Harris has tecovered from a Like manner (R. S. 0. 1897, c. 285, s. 13, long and severe illness, and .is now quite able to attend 'his usual duties. 1)• But such amicable agreement at From this long Mimes many this stage Will seldom need enforcement, ed Mr. Harris would. never recover, predict -as the parties thereto will, of their own and the fact that he is once more accord, 1 ulfill their parts, and no for- cible to go around, very nearly as thee proceedings -will be necessary. spry as he did before he was attack- ed, is little less than marvellous to them. In reply to ,nn' reporter, Mr. Har - About two years ago, at the euggee- Mon of Profeissor Reynolds, the Minister of Agriculture authorized the Depot-. ment of Physics at the O. A. 0. to seed, out representatives among the femora to give itevice; on drainage ter those re- queeting it, The response to this p1. for of easietance lies been vary gratify- ing indeed. During the autumn of 1905 ana the whole season of '1000 many terms were visited and ourveye4, com- pletely or in *part, 041(1 the ewners fur.' niseeti with maps showing them the ole- vetions of the different parts of their i farms. the elope of the la,nd, the proper Outlete, and the best plan for drainleig the various slopes. This spring has wit- nessed a vast exteueion of the work. In our experience of :the past two yen's, we have 101131(1 a phase of the subject interesting. Every man for whom we have done work luts asked at wane stage, "What is to be done if one man refuses an outlet for the drain - ago water from' his neighbor's bruit Can he prevent his neighbor from con- structing such an outlet?, If not, must he bear any portion of the expense, Or must the neighbor bear it all?" The following is an outline of what should be done m such mei. Before any recouree is had to legal prceeduro the pareies concerned in a dreix affecting two or more owners sbould get together informally and en- deavor to agree on some apportionment of the labor and expense of construe- tiou and maintenance. When such meet- ing and agreement are not possible, then legal proceedings become necessary. The first legal step in the adjustment of a dispute about drainage matters is the formal ceiling of a meeting of tee par - tie e interested. This meeting is to bo called by him who requires the construc- tion of the drain. ife must nerve no- tices in writing upon all concerned, ap- pointing a day, hour and plaim conven- ient to the site of the ditch, and agree if possible upon the apportionment of the work, and supply of material for construction among the several owners according to their respective interests therein, and settle the proportions in which the ditch shall be maintained; the notices shall be served not less than twelve clear days before the time mated therein for meeting. (IL S. 0. 1897, a 285, S. 8.) Blank forms for the notices aro given in the act, a Copy of which may be had from the clerk of the municipality. Notices may be served personally or by leaving them at the place of the owner or occupant, with a grown-up per- son residing thereat, and in case of non- residents, then upon the agent of the owner, or by registered letter to the owner at the postoffice nearest to his lamb known place of residence. (R. S. 0. 1897, e. 285, S. 15.) In case an agreement is arrived at, it shall be reduced to writing, signed by lit ease an agreement is not arrived at, either .at the meeting or within five deers thereafter, then the owner requir- ing the ditch may file with tho clerk of ria related the early stages of the the municipality a declaration of attibck and •subsequent eufferings ersbip of his land and also a requisition which he experienced, and while he naming all the parcels of land to be did not court publicity, decided that affteted by the ditch and the respective in the public interest he would relate owners thereof, and requesting that the the eircumatanees of this wonderful engineer appointed by the municipality cure. Athout fourteen months, ago be asked to appoint a time and place Mr. Herres woke up one morning with In the locality of the proposed ditch at it stiff neck; try as he would, and at- which he will attend (R. S. 0. 1807, c. ter applying all the remedies extern- 285, a. 14), and examine the locality; ally that he could hear or think of, he an.d if he deems it proper, or if requested was unable to get rid of it. The stiffness by any of the owners, he may examine moved to the spine and shoulders, then the owners and their witnesses present, to his hips, until it made almost •a erip- and may administer an oath of affirm°, ple of him, and it was with extreme dif- tion to any witness examined by himo fieulty that he:could get out of bed at (11,...S. 0. 1807, c. 285, s. 16, 1.) Within all. As for walking it was out of the thirty days after his attendance the en - question with him. The attack became gineer will make his award in writing, so bad that he was unable to put On apportioning the work and the furnish - either his coat, vest or hoe. From time Ing of the material among the lands al- to time he called in varime medical men, none •of adman were able to give fected and the owners thereof, accord.- him much relief. It was almost helms- log to his estimate of their respective sible for him to 'raise his feet from the interests in the ditch, fixing the time for the performance by the respective floor, and all pronouneect his it severe ease 'of muscular rheumatism, giving him :owners' an sipper toning the main am - d t' ' tl • t • . Ing of the ditch, so that as far as prae- little encouragement as a, hie ultimata , titable eech owner shall maintain the recovery. However, one ineilieal gentle- man finally recomm,ended the bathe, arid ;11°Ition on is own land. (R. S. 0. 1807, ;13 a last eesort lifr. Harris deeided to c• 285' s. 16, 1). In case the work 0p- 11 1' d ' - • portioned to any owner is not completed Cna, Mich 'As is customary with in the allotted time, the engineer may all patients, lir. Hari:is had to undergo !let the contract for its performance to it thorough examination iit order to ee, I the lowest bidder, the expense charge- termire if the aystem min stand this ;able to the lead of the defaulting owner. rigorous !treatment. After several ex- I ( 1t. 8. a 1807, e• 295, S. 28). aininations hadl been made as to Mr. I Thus we see that a man es bound to Harris' tondition, the physicians there give outlet for the natural drainage finally decided that he was not suffering I water from his neighbor's farm, and, not from muzeular rheumatism at all, but ; only so, he ' is liable for mist of con - that his ailment was, of the nerves, and truction and maintenance in proportion told him that the baths would clo him :to the benefit he may be adjudged by late) or no good; that he required alto- !the engineer to derive from the drain. gether different treettnent, Mr. Harris I Parties wishing drainage surveying placed:himself in the bands of one of the ; done should apply to Wm. II. Day, De- physiciane there, and what teemed quite partment of Physics, 0. A. C., Gruelph. strange to dam, they did nothing for him There is to charge for the work, the but admuneter medicine in tho shape of • only outlay being the travelling expenses CgArilit+ 0LU, INsuvr POISONED SORIN, ULCERS, ITCH, ECZEMA, SiJNSURN, 1?to.,•0im1k3 and all okin injuries And discs** are cured by Zam•Buk. Mrs. M. A. Boorman, of Teterboro, writes : ".1 used Zarrellak for sore feet, end happened to get badly bitten by en •ineect on the neck. The pert became swollen and Inflamed. I applied. ZAM. • BOK, and la three clays not only was the inflammation and the swelling removed, • v.1all sign of the wounel had gone. free Pox can_iguk Sena 1 cent *Wont grqing, zg,n.ruk On. 11.p.r tn. ..•••••/... • •ROok,s,.......,,kamooa with the 1140 of the balaslco spring and comeequently le nut met with mail the end of the seventeenth century. Notwithe stanaing tlio fitee that the cylinder es- capement was invented in 1710, it is fauna only in isolated eteca in the eight:- cm:eh centut Almost all timepieees until the begise. ning Of the eieeteentli eentury were vertical teat:dime knelt:ewe having chas- ed eneee did not mane their appearance ba efe, the beginnieg of tbe eighteenth ceeleity. "Queen coieure" cases are not fend hefore the year 1700, watches with goegs not before 1780. Watebets eitli movable figures on the dial an(1 musicel watches occur only aroulid the eighteenth gen- 1112y. Watebes e,et with pearls came in- to vogue in about the same period. More or less valuable are the so-ealled egg watches, witteina with but one hand: watches withi fine openwork or exquisite- ly cbasca erteas, gold Emanuele:1 watches; which are enamelled, both inside and out- I side, watches in general which are Land- ; somely decorated in a,ny respect. . Those of ness value are: Chased watchee whose figures are torn off, ' watches with painted tombee cases (cop. s per en(Umele), watebes with eases in 1 "quatre colours" (the application of gold , in four volors), unleee they are bond - fully executed and well preeerved, watch- I. es with paintedcopper dials, enamelled watches Which are len-devoid of any artis- tic deeoratione, which includes silver and I gold wetebee. with plain eases and un- embelliehed dials, hgespeetive of the kind of works they may contain. GREAT RAILROAD RAILROAD PROPOSITIONS. $aeo,000,000 a Year Would Be Saved if Electricity Replaced Steam. Until recently then does not appear to have been any suggestion to conserve all the water power of a country to drive all the railroads of the same coun- try. Yet this is what it is now pro- posed to do in Switzerland. That thrifty little ceuntry epossesses no coal, but does contain many Alpine streams capable of direction so as to render high heads available for power purposes. A number of these streams have already been utilized both, for local powo rand lighting, caul also for the op- eration of mountain raitsvaae, Now, however, it is seriously proposed to develop the hydraulic power of Switz- erland as it whole, and apply it electri- cally to the propulsion of the trains on the existing main line railways, thus avoiding the necessity for importing any cope for railway transport purposes, awl developing the power resources of the land itself. Such an undertaking necessarily de- mands mast careful preliminary investi- gation d plann.ing, and. it portion of this work has already ben done by a. Government commission. It ecenas that the main requirement, taking the aver- age of the 'winter and summer service, • caile for a continuous development of 100,00 horse -power, -while the maximum load may become five times this amount. This letter estimate assiunes the pro- , vision of the beet storage methods avail- ablo, Ruch as the construetion of reser- voirs for equalizing tho supply of water, and the installation of olectrie storage batteries for meeting the daily load fluctuations, so that it will be necessary, for the success of the eeheme, that 500,- 000 horse -power of hydraulie energy be developed. It does not yet appear that the water powers of Switzerland are capable of meeting such it demaud, and the commission•Ints this side of the prob- lem under investigation at the present time. A her greater seberne than the above is that laid before the American In•sti- tote of Electrical Engineers by Messrs. Stillwell and Putnam, this being nothing less than the converaion •of the entire motive power system of the railroaas of the 'United ,Steam locomotives to electric tratstion and etationeti7 power houses. This paper inoludee it complete anelysis of the preannt operating costa of the railroads; under esdeting tions, eonvoaring these with a careful estimate of the corresponding costs for complete electric, traction. As a. coneequence of this investigation it appears that if the single -phase sys- tem, as ad Opted. by the New York, New Haven and Ifarteied Railroad, were in - staled on all the railroads of the United States, with generating stations such as nee now in aetual service, the itggregate cost of operation. now about $1,400,000,- enocre q peenpea eq ppm& ano.e 13 000 $250,000,000, This lama would require the installation of power plants deliver- ing about 12.500,000,000 kilowatt bours a year; fold assuming a ratilus of trans- mission of 150 miles 11 appears that a iniximum output of about. 2,800,000 kilo- wetts would be enough to operate the pins. Shortly alter he commenced this . of one man from Guelphs and these are entire 'railway serviee of the 'United States as it exited 1 11 1900. Compared ailet this magnified:it scheme the proposition under considerit- tion in Switzerland appears trifling. The Smaller plan, however, may Ana proba- bly well be put into execution first, and it may furnialt experience by whittle the later and greater undertaking will be guided.—Forme. autment he began to improve pereep- light, ne the railway f•tre ie onlyn ibly, and his appetite greatly improved, cent a mile each way for this work. Ho began to wolk around slowly at Hest, :Thus it person living 100 miles from but aeon was able to got around more ; Onelph would get his surveying done for than he could for a year preview. Ile $2 railway fare and 50e to $1 other ex was able to put on his coat mivest and ; /tenses, such as meals and cartage of in - began to feel like hie former ten. strumenta improvement was ise rapia and petters44 40 - ANTIQUE WATCHES. tible not only la himself, but to °there, that he was plied with all aorta of que,s- tioes as to his wonderful reeovery. The medical :attendant was gitestioned as to the meters) of the medicine which was being adminietered. fiftiolt to the:surprise of Mr. Harrel and other 1i:tektite there, lie was told that it was a well knotiot Cenadiati. remed,v, Dr. Williams' Pods rifle, and Was advisod to continue tam use for a trine on his return home. Mr. Herrin is loud in Ids praise Of tile van - derail eurative qualities of Dr. Williams' *Pixels Pills, and toneonted to make his t ime publie in the liopo thee he inieht hienetiti t1icr 8hnhI31rly41f11010J. ITarris Ims long been a rasident of Ham - Moe, being it well-known builder of eIe- e a ors, as well as Government Inspeo. , tor of the same, to that ids prominence Ana well known integtita is evitleftee tbet he is minces* in the etatainetate he muds. • Not Zanily Satisfied. , It'hard 46 /satiety some men, 3'llat AA Soett M they get ell the money they want they're dissatisfied beea.use they haven't ways enough to epend it, Do - trait Free Press. Counterfeits Med° so Ingeniously as to Deeeive tho Connoisseur. Considerable deception lute been prac- tised ou the unwary by the eale of so- called antique watches. It is a common thittg for the expert horologist to find ordinary modern watehea set in manu- fitetured antique eases. Some of these counterfeles are E0 ingeniously made as to deceive even the watch connoisseur. There aro ;certain markt:, however, whiohaerve as e fair guide to the inn thentielty of an antique %retell, and the following hints will be useful in deter- mining the age and value of old watalteee, Aecordieg to the authorities, tbe first watch was inventea about the year I500, The original pocket timepiece was cylin. +ideal in elitipe, and made entirely of iron, including the plates, pinions, wheels and pillars. Watches of ovalfornt did not appear earlier than about 1550. Mo -t, of nom date bulk to the period. around MIL It is prrAmbiti that tbera NITta 110 watches decorated with enamel before 1070. Watellee with alarm attachments AVV'Ta tarried in the /sixteenth century'. r Idea rant. 444 WAS 1nt-1'0410g 0917 With tier Eyes Opon. "I knew you were t fool before 1 mar - tied. youl" "I presume my proposing to you sat. isfied you on that point?" — Houston, Tex„ Post. •••••••••rdenkneAgb.ekost•••••••••••••Normlim••••* teeseesk; SOWING VS‘. PLANTING. wrril ronsT TREE% FORMER METHOD'S 1E8T.114TS. Reproducing a forest by sowing the seed airectly en the area to be put in- to trees is feasible. It is, however, A metboa Iiltle used on this ernitinent up to the Preeent, for it has been found that the cost haa been as great, at least ae that of plantioge owing to the high price of seed, ana the ellitivation which meat be given to the ground to be movn. A good toe(' bed, lo just as important foe sowing forest tree ecede on ae it is for e,ewing grain on. Hence whole area on which le se pit:posed to eow tree seed . must be carefully cultivatest, instead of 084 a email portion as in platteing. A great objeetiou to sodium ae pre- sent, as the high price of eced aud, in the Oahe Of 501310 :Teems, its sietreity et any priee. The preeent price of evitite pine geed, Tor example le $2 let *2,50 per Pound. In Germany it is custontery 10 scev six pottude of white pule :seed to the acre. Thus the expenditure fur seed alone would be ele to 615. Still) it would be pooeible to do with mailer quantities of wad, tliour;h in this country so lit- tle sowing has beam, dune thee we hard- ly have a otand•aril to go by. Mother disadvantage of seeding is that we cen never moult on getting a good roixed crap of trees by eeeding, have heel) ' Before a. rainstuon the eat nearly al- the whole area, varioue plans To avoid the expense of cultivating tried Often small te (seal ) • wave washes her face. Why? Some taken and. carefully worked, awl the claim that Um eta:a:sphere eacitee the vary in area from one sq. electricity in the cates iur, irritating her, seed sown in these. Tem: ;mots may -and tu uN'teutee the tiu:4114114 selisati*mA course, in every ease, Again, furrowe witehing herself. ft., the beet land being selected, of I she sots to ft, to 30 sq. may be plowed at some destauce apart maltstilif fahdeyre niesxtuo cat la the house a and the wed sown in them; or strips, SQ. loimacious parive, If the bird, site aud deur may possess a veral feet in width, may be propared. makes a sort of eibeeing nein: you may For nut trees, such as chestutit, oak, he s.ure there will be ram before nigbt. hickory and beech seeding is the best I1 you have an aquarium of goldfish way of reproduction. you may observe that they will beconie a vigorous root growth and are very ,Itey will dart about in the water and unusually active some sunny afternoon. Those trees, make awkward `wyear. s drtoothe bdleetway,sevto d even isthetho• tlap their little tails. 1.1a$ is a sign of f itow the nuts right on the area on which rain. One seldoin need fear getting wet you want the trees, provided you tan if he lives in the country. lioreesecows, keep away squirrels and such rtnireale, c6ahltijijahP°geesulidar°igtail"31'beetureek4t1-131nuev•ince another point of importance. It win no. neSrupuptosaenyotyou are master of a skye ter - her dog. No doubt you The depth of the coverine of. eoil ist Seeds to the depth of the longest diame, you never took notice of the fact that he have often seen him burying bones; yet wally be found soffieient to cover the • did this shortly before it rained.. ter of the seed'. In the deys when man wandered through the foreste a savage creature, ! clothed prineipally with sunshine and Mrs. V. Cheoret, of St, Benoit, Que.: &miles, he too1s. little care of the dog, writes as follows: "Itis with feelings It required all the efforts of the tribal of the deepest gratitude that 1 write to ancestor to take care' of himself. So the tell you. what Baby's Own Tablets have dog had to be on the look -out for a done for my baby. When I began giv- ; 'rainy day." ing him the Tablets he was so thin and ; n. Dogs in those days lived mostly on wasted that he looked like a skeleto • fowls. Now, hi rainy weather fowls are His digestion wasepoor; he was consti- phard to catch. So the early pet of man ated and cried day and night. I got a caught game before the rain began and box of Baby's Own Tablets and. from buried it, so he should not die of hunger the first they did him a great deal of in case the swan continued. 'ass in - good. [his food digested better; his stint still remains with the dogs. bowels worked regularly; his sleep was . Horsbecome uneasy as a storm an - natural; he stopped. crying and began preaches. 'They fidget and neigh impa.- to grow fat. I got another box, and tiently in their stalia. am happy to say before they were alt 1 As the sky becomes overcast asses used he was in perfect health, and is bray and show their asinine defiance of now a plump, rugged child. I always the inevitable. Before a storm cows lie keep a box of the Tablets in the house , down, and would advise other mothers to do 1 Some day you may walk into a field the same." The above is a fair sample and see a flock of sheep in a, corner with of hundreds of letters that come from their backs turned to the northwest. If all parts of Canada, praising Baby's Own 1 you wait long enough you will see a Tablets. The Tablets aura all the minor wind blow up from that direction. ills of babies and young children, and I At other times the sheep run and are absolutely safe, as they do not eon. bound over the fields, rearing on their tain one particle of opiate or narcotic. hind feet as if they were fighting ima- Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at : ginlary foes. • This indicates it distudb. 25 cents a box from the Dr. Williams twee of the atmosphere and the approach of a brisk storm. Hogs, as would be typical of them, grunt before it rains. When lions eat ravenously circus trainers know there is going to be bad weather. Then they take particular pre- cautions in fastening the pules and ropes of circus tents. Biras, also, evince feelings of discom- fort before inclement weather. Swab lows fly low, rooks caw discordantly and peacocks and guinea, hens cry constantly. Water fowls before a rain make a bee line fur a lake or river. The weather has a noticeable effect direct charge of the Dairy and Cold on fish of all kinds. Fishermen will tell Storage Commissioner, Ottawa. About you that trout become electrified with eight thousand individual cows are un- energy before a storm. As if in joyful der regular test, the milk being weighed anticipation of a feast, sharks disport If You'll Do Th0. Painting Yourself. get ikarne,w's .1)(sinte, If you intend to have it done -- insist that .the painter uses iketm.seW's, ratrits. ' They go farther—last longer—holcl their freshness and beauty longer—and, cost less in the end—than any other good, paint you can buy. write for east Card Series '40,', /Mowing how seam lames me palette. TO PREDICT THE WEATHER, I more aceommodating. Under thio spa tem an 4.'80 piano code the buyer $10a Watch Animals, Birds, and Fishes as and proportionally on up. Several of Very Reliable Forecasters. I the dolma in Cardiff, which is the Mag. est city and best businesa centre in Wales, imported American pianos im the past, but they have now practieal/y ieased to import them and. the ageaeiea for bigh grades bave been surrendered. A Chicago piano retailing at $300 finds a sale occasionally, but only the upper middle class and, the gentry go bound thet price, and such ordero are usually filled in London. & MOTHER'S GRATITUDE. Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. COW 'TESTING ASSOCIATIONS. Dominion Department of Agriculture, Branch of the Dairy and Cold Stor- age Commissioner. The work of the Testing Associations in Canada is steadily on the increase; over fifty, mostly in Ontario and Quebec, svill be in operation this year under the every teeth day, and the coinposite sam- ples tested every month. Reports are Beet monthly to each farmer detailing the total estimated yield of milk and butter fat of each cow whose milk he has weighed and sampled, whether he sends records from five or fifty cows. At the*Spring Creek Association, near *Woodstoele, Ont., for the 30 days ending April 1, 75 cows were tested, averaging 688 pounds of mills testing 3.7 per cent. fat. The lowest yield was 235 pounds of nilik d the highest 1,460 pounds, test- ing 30. Dixville, Que., month ending April 20, had alt average from 116 cows of 372 pounds of milk testing 3.7, the highest, yield of any one cow being 750 pounds testing 3.2. At North Oxford, Ont., 106 cows gene an average yield of 726 pounds testing 8.2, the mast from any single cow being 1,725 pounds testing 3.3, This cow as a two-year-old gave over ten thousand pounds in twelve months. She is owned by the Secretary of the Association ulere 81. Prosper, Quo., had only 22 cows for the first period ending April 20, with an average of 354 pounds of inilk testing 3.5. The number of cows will be largely inereased not month, The Bret test at Heene' Ont., for the thirty days ceding April25 showed art average from 50 cows of 670 pounds of milk testing; 3.0 The lowest yield was 200 pounds, and the highest 1,120, testing 8.4. The members of the assoeitition at East and West Oxfora sent in recoras from 104 eows.'average 700 pounds test- ing 3.3. The best inaivideal cow Imre gave 1,560 pounds testing 3.7. One good herd reeora shawls an average from 11 cows of 1,124 nounds of milk testing 3.11 or 35.7 pounds of fat mai. — sa • Limit of Human Strength. Experiments upon a number of men have thown that a man five .feet high ana weighing 126 pounds will 1121 on an average 156 pounds through a vertical distance of eight Mello, or 217 pounds through xt height of 1.2 jnehies. Others 6.1 feet high and weighing 183 pounds could lift the 150 pounds to it. height of thirteen inches, or 217 pounds to a height of six inches. Other men 6 feet, 3 inchee high and weighing 188 pounds could lift 156 pounds to a height of six- teen incluse-, or 217 pounds to a height of nine bieltere By a groat variety of ex- periments it was shown that the average human strength is equivalent to raising thirty pounds through a distante of two and one-half feet in one tecoAd. Mts. Daslanway -- "Women have more innate to/anion tense than met," Calnieue---"Nonsentel You cocasionally find a man who ie.ilizce that he is toe Old to gat married." playfully about slims before a. hurricane rises. Persons living "near rivers or streams ean gauge the weather by the croak of frogs. As tho weather becomes warm and dry or wet and disagreeable the frog's croak varies, ascending and de- scending in the scale of sound like a barometer.—Detroit News -Tribune. WELSH MOST MUSICAL PEOPLE, Good Singers Heard There Even Among the Laborers. The Welsh for more than ten centur- lee have been noted for their love of music, and no people in the world can now boast of as large it proportion of good singers among all classes, including the laborers. Concerning the trade in musical in- struments, Consul D. W. Williams, of Cardiff, writes "They have an institution named the Eisteddfod, devoted to competitions in music as well as literature and. the arts, nnd annual sessions are held in each neighborhood and a national session of five days at some important town in the principality, alternating between North and South Wales, Until this cen- tury the poverty of tee maims prevent- ed them from buying the more expensive inueical instruments, but the great ex- pansion of the mining industry is build- ing ap rapidly a well-to-do upper class of miners, shoppers, artisans and pro- fessional men. Representative men in the last-nanied class hese sprung into great prominence fent the greatest ob- eecurity. This industrial prosperity is opening the way for it growing faecal in musical instruments, and already there is it good market for the cheaper grades of pianos and organs even Among the "Tho prevailing methoa of selling it the 'hire-purchase syetent. She buyer ean .secure A piano and pay for it in twelve, twenty-four or thirty-six month- ly payments or on special teraus even FOR WOOD PRESERVATION. . imagml* Efforts of uncle Sam to Prevent Decay of Valuable Lumber. Uncle Sam is xnaking careful and elab- orate investigations of methods of pre. sieving wood which are expected to re. sult in the savings of millions of dollars annually by the prevention of decay. It has been determined that coal tar creo- sote is a most effective preservative of timber and a number of experiments are being made along this line. Those most directly and materially in. terested in the experiments in the meth- ods of creosote treatment are the rail. road corapanies, the mining interests of the country and the telephone compan- ies. Ali of these industrial expend mil-• lions of dollars every year in renewing timber which is made useless through rapid decay. The growing scarcity of the more durable words has made it lie- cessary for the lumber industry to turn to the less durable timbers. The eco- nomical utilization of many woods which are very susceptible to decay would be out of the question but for the possibil- ity of preserving them through treat- ment. ft has been shown in the experiments which have been made that the life of some kinds of timber ean be doubled or trebled by impregnation with creo. s°!ep ° representative of the forest :service is 110W visiting a number of the large eastern cities in the study of creosote oil production and the coal tars which furnish the raw eriaterial for it. The commercial use of preservatives will cheek the work of the insects and fungi which destroy the timber. e SCIENCENOTES. The Greenland whale is said io attain alt nagefloatingeofyears' Thpopulation of the world is 1,200,000. This means the people who follow the sea. It is said that tobacco users are rarely sufferers from cholera. Drowning represents one of the great- est causes of accidental death. The mountain ranges of Europe lie east and west, and those of America north and south. There are 48 different kinds of mater- ial entering into the construetioo of a piano and they are gathered from 15 countries. Ireland holds the record for centen- arians. The British Government owns 25,000 camels. The hair from the tail of a home is the strongest single animal thread known. The professional criminals of London outnumber the policemen in the propor- tion of two to three. The races of the world are numbered at 72, making use of 4,008 different tongues. There are about 1,000 reit- gi °Tillie. human hair crop is a, profitable and extensive industry. Five tons of it are annually imported by the merchants of London. The centre of the trade is Paris, where 200,000 pounds are harvest- ed. Annually, with a valuation, of $4,- (1.jare°•population of the globe is 1,400e 000,000, of whom 35,214,000 die every year, or more than one a second. Immigrant arrivals are overtaxing the capacity of Ellis Island. Compulsory adoption of the metric system has, been deofe.a4ted by the English Parliament, Scores One for the Dull. A bull fight in El Tape resulted in the matador bell*fatally injured andall tLe picadors being hurt. The bulls seem to have conceived the idea that they could take the role that was understood to be reserved to the bull fighters, and impartial people cannot Weenie them. It does not seem to be an ow/talon for sympathy with anyone, and least of all with the speetators, who contrib. tad money to see sport* u_mode of !laughter.— Pittsburg Dispateh. Along the Usual Lines. "I'll bet I could write a rural drama." inbeim giri haveyourtaploett.:'the twos the farm; in the +second, all handl eat a meal in full view of the audienee,and in act 3 c____64......._oxnes the retonelliailon. It's cinch." --Washington Herald. Miss Ann Teeic—Our family is it very old one. You know we came over in the 3f313'flower. Miss Pert—Did you have a pleasant voyage? :044100$244g6064,04944042******* 41$ A New Orleans woman was thin. Because she did not extract sufficient nourishment from her food. She took Scotett Emulsion, Result: She gained a pound a day in weight, IDRUOGISTSI SO& MID $1.00 40144045+54404.0.10/10442.444/041