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2 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 192£ )iSm Notes f Oats As An Annual Hay Crop. For some years a series ot tests has heen conducted at the Kapuskasing, Ontario, Experimental Station, to determine the suitability and productiveness of oats when used as hay and to ascertatin the most suitable varie-, ties to use. The results of the experl-/ ments show that oats make an excellent annual hay and when properly cured are relished by nearly all kinds of live stock. For best results in pal-atability and yield they should be cut when about 10 to 20 per cent, in bloom. Thirteen varieties of oats were under test. Almost all of them gave good yields of both green and dry material. Some of the ranker growing kinds such as Abundance, Victory and Banner generally give the largest yields, but it is doubtful of the quality of the hay is quite equal to that produced by such varieties as Alaska and Llgowa. An account o fthe experiments is given in the latest report of the superintendent of the station, which may be obtained from the Publications Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. Rape, Kale and Cabbage. There are certain fleshy annual pasture crops such as rape, kale and tome varieties of cabbage that are not used in Canada nearly as much as their value warrants. To bring these crops to the attention of farmers with the hope of leading to their more general use the Dominion Experimental Farms Branch has recently issued a pamphlet entitled "Fleshy Annual Pastures in Canada," which may be obtained from the Publications Branch of the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa. These crops thrive under a great variety of climatic and soil conditions and they yield surpris- j ingly well even where the summer rainfall is very light. New land may be used to advantage for growing them and on muck soils they are frequently more profitable than any other forage crop. These fleshy annual crops have been proved experimentally to be excellent pastures for sheep, swine and cattle, particularly young cattle or fattening steers. In poultry runs they are a good free-range food for most kinds of poultry. Instead of being used as a pasture they may be cut green and fed directly to the same types of animals and are particularly relished by poultry. On account of the fact that rape and kale may be planted profitably quiti late in the spring they may be used in connection with weed eradication. In this case the land should be plowed early and cultivated until late in June causing considerable weeds. Then the rape or kale, when sown, wil soon cover the ground and largely prevent further growth of weeds by shading. The Peony a Popular Perennl The peony ranks as one of the popular of perennial flowering plants. At the Kentville, Nova Scotia, Experimental Station, dates were kept of the appearance of the first blooms of a number of popular varieties. The blooming season was shown to begin over a period of practically two weeks. The earliest to bloom in 1926 was the white variety Bestiva Maxima, which opened Its first buds on July 1st. Other white varieties were Duchesse de Nemours, which opened on July 3rd; Marie Lemoine, July 11; Cou-ronns D'Or, July 13. Of the pink varieties the first to open was Marie Crousse, July ; Triomphe de l'Exposi-tion de Lille, July 6. Of the deeper pinks Edulis Superba opened on July 4; Livingstone July 11 and Rubra Superba on July 13. Of the red varieties Henri Demay first opened on July i and Felix Crousse three days later. Garden Roses. Roses have been under test at the Central Experimental Farm for forty years and observations on the relative hardiness, attractiveness, blooming season, freedom from disease and general merits of different varieties have been made and recorded. Some BOO varieties are now being grown in the flower gardens of the Farm. The results of these years of investigation are given in a bulletin entitled "Hardy Roses," which is distributed by the Publications Branch of the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa. An sresting list of roses recommended Sunday School Lesson ANALYSIS. April 22. Lesson IV--Jesus and the Home,-- Mark 10: 2-9, 13-16. Golden Text--Honor thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise.--Eph. 6: 2. I. christ's protest regarding the sanctity of the home, 2-9. IL his blessing of the children, 13-16. v Introduction--We find our I/ord concerned to uphold the sanctity of the home against current tendencies to disrupt it and to weaken its influence. In particular he protests the laxity of current ideas of divorce. Divorce was permitted, under certain circumstances, by the Mosaic J (Deut 24), but many of the Jews apt to interpret this permission though it meant that divorce ha place in God's holy will for n Jesus denied that this was so. The Old Testament law was not a sanctioning of divorce, but only a temporary admission of the tragic fact that sinful human nature fails t> live up to God's holy ideal for the home. Over against this temporary concession of divorce as the lesser of two evils is a fallen condition of human nature, Jesus sets the original will of God in creation, and forbids divorce as entirely contrary to that will. Upon this declaration of the sanctity of marriage, Christ's blessing on little children suitably follows. I. christ's protest regarding the sanctity of the home, 2-9. V. 2. The question whether the divorce of a wife by a husband is lawful is put to Jesus by certain Pharisees-Their motive is rightly declared to have been of dubious honesty. What they wished was to involve Jesus in ne pronouncement to which they ild give an anti-legal sense, and so discredit him with the people. Observe that the law did not in any case permit a wife to divorce a husband. Vs. 3, 4. Jesus' answer is to refer his questioners to the law. What did Moses ordain in this matter? They reply by quoting the permission granted in Dcut. 24: 1-4. The scribes at that time were all agreed that divorce of a wife was legal: they only differed as to the grounds on which it might be granted. Some of them were notoriously lax on this particular point-They considered that any trifling disagreement or dislike constituted a valid ground. And so they threw to the winds the holy intention of God in marriage. The words "bill of divorcement" mean really "a separation notice." It was considered that divorce was justified if it was carried out in legal form. Vs. 5-9. Jesus at once negatives whole idea that divorce has any ph in the will of God. The Mosaic legislation on the subject he declares entirely .'due to the "hard-heartednes-s" of the Israelitish nation. They had from primeval times practiced the custom of divorce, and what Moses sought to do was to curb this If Jesus' repudiation of divorce is here made on three grounds- (1) The law in Deuteronomy had relation merely to a "hard-hearted" time, an imperfect stage of society, v. 5. (2) The true will of God is expressed in the original creation of the family and of the marriage-bond, v. 6. (3) The marriage-unica is holier than any other union on earth, holier even than the relation of children to parents, . 7. Consequently, Jesus says that. ! men desire to know the will of God, ; is plain. Husband and wife form n indissoluble partnership, nay, ingle personality in God's eyes, v Therefore, the bond between them, being constituted by fiat of the will, must not be broken- This only perfect ideal for man, as God intended him to be. Record Sheep Heads Caught ONTARIO AND THE CORN BORER Canadian Experience Proves the Worth of Effective Clean-up Regulations As Seen By "Michigan Fai MAKING PROGRESS Within a stone's throw of the great by Prof. Lawson Caesar, provincial productive agricultural counties of. entomologist. Michigan, lies a laboratory--in South-1 These eight counties, witn the ex-western Ontaro--wherein the Eur-' ception of Prince Edward and part* opean corn borer has demonstrated in | of Norfolk and Oxford, were so a most convincing manner that it is heavily infested in 1926, the report capabie of inflicting serious commer- states, "that had the boreT multiplied cial damage to the corn crop, and, in as rapidly as it did In Welland and a great many cases, of utter'y ruin- several other counties not under the ing fields of this basic agricultural Act, almost all of the cornfields^ would commodity. , have been ruined." But while King Corn has tottered in 1 0116 to the clean-up last spring, in his sihoes, and his vassals in untold Kent an^ Essex Counties, the ram-numbers have forsaken him for other her of borers was reduced fully fifty crops, the Ontario Government has P«r cent, in spite of a fifty per cent, of the elusive mountain sheep were recently captured been fully aware of the dagger car- reduction in the com acreage. In El- by Jim Brewster, of Brewster Transportation Co., in the Banff Territory. The »ed by this European pest. From the ?n County, there w heads captured are records for tie sizejhe one on the right being 19 inches flr&t- th« Government hjas^tolled lnc^B-with the other 18^, this measurement applies from the highest point on the acqua horn to that on the opposite side. ! witn measure These*sheep are often seen from th|i windows of Canadian Pacific trains and with tQ6 aftermath of what would which travel through that district and tge often a great inducement by their follow if he corn borer were allowed sheer beauty, for tourists to return and hunt these animals. They naturally to become established in this great take artisic poses, often seen posed on he highest crag of mountains, to be agricultural empire, alarmed by a slight rustle and away th«y go, fast as the wind, jumping here ] In fact, Ontario agricultural lead-and there from one point to another until they reach a plateau of security, i ers dId everything in their power They are game worth hunting and the hunter who secures one Is usually get their farmers to pvold the Immensely proud of his prowess with his rifle. reduction i ifestation from forty-seven Canadian farmers ana seven-tenths per cent, in 1926 to s of the problem, approximately thirty-eight per cent, combat the pest! ^ 1927- Similar decreases in borer population were noted in Norfolk and Oxford Counties. Lambton, Middlesex, and Prince Ed--ward Counties had a slight increase in the number of borers last year. For various reasons, it was very difft-Icult to get a satisfactory clean-up in It's How One Thinks So One Really Is Bruce Barton States a Basic Truth in Short Article in Ne Herald-Tribune THE MIND CONTROLS iall gardens is given in the bul- i The ietin. They are all varieties which have been grown successfully at Ottawa. Anaong the roses in the list are three Hybrid Perpetuals of outstanding merit. One, Frau Karl Druschki, is acknowledged to be the finest white rose in cultivation. It is a strong, healthy grower with an abundance of bloom throughout most of the season. Another very popular hybrid perpetual is Mrs. John Laing, a rosy pink, fragrant variety which does well in town gardens. The third variety Is the Hugh Dickson, a very attractive crimson, shaded scarlet flower, vigorous ,and a free bloomer. Hybrid Tea Roses recommended are Caroline Testout, a reliable, bright warm pink variety, Gruss and Teplitz, a very fragrant and hardy crimson rose, and La Tosca, a pale pink. Pere-tiana roses recommended are: Mme. Edouard Herriot, a free vigorous bloomer with a wonderful combination cf coloring, Souvenir de Claudius Pcrnet, a beautiful yellow flower, and Willowrnere, a hardy, continuous bloomer of unusual color.--Issued by the Director of Publicity, Dom. Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ont. There can't be a Klavern at Indore II. V. 13. It was the custom for moth-s to seek a blessing for their chil-en from any distinguished Rabbi oi teacher of religion who passed through their midst, and so we find them here coming with their children to Jesus. His disciples, however, showing in this matter a very im->rfect understanding of Jesus' warm iman sympathies, tried to hold them back. How, they argued, could he who had on his mind the solemn interests of the kingdom of God, be expected to concern himself about children? Surely children at such a time ere beneath the Master's notice! V. 14. But the disciples in this matter had reckoned without their host. Jesus was indignant at their u rantable interference, and ot ided the children to be brought. children! for such not interested The kingdom of God not is they! Jesus declares that ire nearer to the kingdor grown-up peopl< says, "The kingdom belongs to such." How so? Because (1) God loves them (2) their innocent natures, not spoiled by the world or tainted by sin, are full of an infinite spiritual promise (3) their humility, their simplicity, their trustfulness, ther willingness to receive are just the qualities needed to lay hold of God's highest gift, his kingdom. At the same time (4) the same qualities are a rebuke to proud, self-seeking disciples. Vs. 15, 16. So Jesus points his disciples to the example of the children and says that even grown men may take a lesson in righteousness from them. Only they who recover the childlike spirit can find their way into the possession of God's kingdom. We must all in. the things of God begin at the beginning like the children. 'Two Million Marks in Legs Arrive Here." These legs are evidently well armed against adversity. Not long ago the newspapers re ported a curious case in Kansas City, A defaulting banker, who had ruined his own life and the estates of many others, was locked up in jail. Whereupon he proceeded, in the words of report, to "think himself to death. organic disease, but, deliberately casting aside all d( and fixing his thoughts upon death, he compelled his own mind to destroy him. The late Thomas R. Marshall in his autobiography hints of some similar tragedies in the career of Senator Ollie James. He says: "The death of James, in the full flush of his manhood and in the splendor of his intellectual attainments, was especially distressing, if I am correctly informed, because he suffered from no actual disease. He really died, as I was told, from mental suggestion" Of all the realms of knowledge, that which the mind has explored the'leaS* ^-whenever the richbrother carried more kinds of surance than any man I have known. If care and continuous self-protection can extend our years, he should have lived to be ninety at least. But he <fed at fifty-three. The poor brother had little enough chance to think of himself. Night and day he was at the beck and call of every sort of affliction. He got his feet soaking in the winter rains. His sleep was broken by calls in the night-His meals were snatched on the run. j»At the age of sixty he grew very tired and went to a sanitarium for a three-weeks' rest. They said to him: "You have the arteries of a man of ninety- You are likely to drop dead at any minute." Whether he ever gave the verdict any thought I do not know. He was very religious man, and his idea was that he was doing the work of Another and would be called away from the mind itself. What does age do to our health? How far can love lift us out of our limitations? What effect have anger and envy on our arteries How much of the difference between a one-horse-power man and a hundred-horsepower man is faith? Having no scientific training, I can ask these questions without being able to answer them. But I look at folks as I go along, and recently I saw an interesting contrast. There were two brothers, one rich and the other a poor physician attached to a social settlement. The He died at the age of seventy-five. I attended his funeral, and this is the thought that was in my mind: Suppose, when the specialists warned him, he had stopped his work and begun to take care of himself, to "think about himself," wouldn't he probably have died as his brother died before him? Not being a scientist, I cannot tell. But when the laws of the mind are finally discovered and charted I suspect that one of them will ba this: If you do most of your thinking about other people the chances are that you ill have ten more good years of life. A Resolve Not for a myriad little things will I Droop gradually, and at the proper Close down my eyes, and breathe with pain, and die; it some day there will be a hill to climb Too steep for climbing; some day while I yet Am strong and young, I shall attempt a deed Beyond my strength, and in my failure get me, But I will follow you up to the day That marks the place where you go on with me, There I will stand, and cast my staff away. --Helene Mullins. The American Temptation LondonDaily Express (Ind. Cons.) : (The new American Immigration Bill is being framed to give still greater preference to British subjects.) This 1 and is a direct challenge to the whole j ceases, movement for promotng emigration j taning within the Empire. Every family that age to leaves Britain for a non-British coun- j the regulatii try is a definite loss to the Empre. i lng them how to meet the regulations. The Empire question is beyond every-1 The inspector resumes his work in thing else a population question. But | the spring as soon as field operations what is being done to solve it? . . The commence and works through u Dominions and the Home Govern-! about June 10. It is his duty to it have been equally to blame for ! that the act is complied experiences which state and federal agencies are now tryiag to help farmers in the United States to escape. On the other hand, Ontario farmers assumed a passive attitude, until severe losses were suffered in the great corn-growing areas of Essex and Kent counties. The situation finally culminated in the passage of the Ontario Corn Borer Act in 1926. In an effort to avoid the Canadian experience, a similar law has been passed in Michigan and other states. The operaton of the law in Ontario should prove of interest to Michigan farmers. The act was put into effect in eight counties in the Province of Ontario. Ths law is very similar to the one passed by Michigan, Ohio, and other states. The clean-up regulations are virtually the same in that all corn debris must be disposed \>t prior to the time when the corn borer moths are expected to emerge. sons who fail to comply with the regulations may be fined a minimum amount of ten dollars and not more than fifty dollars for each offense. Offenders may be brought into court repeatedly and fined until they do comply with the regulations. The administration of the cotii- borer act Is performed by tlie Ontario Department of Agriculture, which corresponds to our State Department of Agriculture. The work is in the charge of Professor Lawson Caesar, provincial entomologist, with headquarters at Guelph. The provincial entomologist is empowered to appoint one or more supervisors in each county to carry out the provisions of the Clean-up work in cities, however, is done by the cities themselves, as cities, or "separated towns," do not come under the county council, or governing body. Upon notice from the provincial entomologist such localities are required to appoint an inspector, and, as a result, the enforcement of control measures n municipalities Is usually done by the police. The county corn borer supervisor k about September 1 continues until fall plowing This period is spent in ob-a estimate of the corn acre-be cleaned up and explaining to farmers and adv having thought out and solved 5 central problem long ago. While it remains unsolved our Imperial heritage is simply being muddled away. While Prohibition is reigning, everybody and that the clean-up is accomplished in accordance witln the Clean-Up Law Effective The corn borer population was duced in five of the eight counties in the 1927 compulsory clean-up are; Ontario, according to a curvey made Who Said Pie? THIS ONE WOULD FEED MORE THAN FOUR . World's largest pie in the making: Huge pastry, 30 feet in circumference and ne? pared on a mammoth outdoor oven in Los Angeles. Insead of four and twenty blackbirds pie with thousands of prunes. counties. In Prince Edward County, one of the difficulties was the common practice of using narrow instead of wide plows. "A narrow plaw will not cover stubble and debris satisfactorily and this gives an opportunity for many borers to survive," srtates Professor Caesar. Clean-Up Area Enlarged Outside of the eight counties which were placed under the corn borer act last year, the pest has multiplied rapidly, thus emphasizing the need of clean-up measures wherever the pest is known to be present. In most districts there were apparently twice as many borers as last year and four times as many in some localities. Due to the large increase in borer population in these countes where the Corn Borer Act was not in force, eighteen additional counties have been added to the clean-up area for 192. This action places all of Southwest- north of Toronto under the Act, and also an area about six miles wide along Lake Ontario from Toronto to the east boundary of Hastings County. As indicated by the report of the provincial entomologist to the Minister of Agrculure, the large increases in borer population in Ontario during 1927 took place in those sections of Borer Act was not in effect and where ~" compulsory clean-up regulations were not prescribed. To repeat, as Professor Caesar has-stated, had the borer multiplied as rapiddy as it did in Welland and several other counties not under the Act, almost all of the cornfields would have been ruined, if clean-up measures had not been resorted to in the Canadian Corn Belt last summer. The experiece of Canadian farmers with the corn borer has been costly. It has taken serious commercial damage and ruined cornfields to awaken the Canadian farmers to the economic danger of the corn borer. But now control measures and cleanup regulations have become established farm practices in Ontario, and farmers are solidly behind this program. Michigan farmers might well profit from the experience of their Canadian neighbors and avoid the embryo stage by co-operatng one hundred per cent, withi the state and federal governments in their program to control this alarming crop pest--tie European corn borer. An excellent start was made last spring. About Butter Butter served in restaurants or hotels often is kept in ice water to prevent its melting, and it always acquires a white appearance. This pale color is caused by the fact that the coloring matter dissolves in plain water. A dairy inspector for the California Department of Agriculture has discovered that the addition of a small unt of salt to the water will not only preserve the color but also add the flavor, as the salt used in seasoning the butter also has a tendency to dissolve when clear water is used. Salted water will also keep the butter in firmer condition. Right. -"I'll be glad spring - 2nd Bird--"So will the fishermen!" Wuxttry Speshul! "Oh, Mother, our Young People'! Conference was so exciting! W« voted to abolish war.' 'Chinese are itching for Highei Tariffs." But will they come to tha scratch?