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ugges crop the soil? ; Answer--You would do well in the seedbed, first having given it a dress- ing of from two to five tons of manure the acre; then seed it to an early ety of oats, such a: 0. A. C. No, 72, or Daubeney, using about 1% bus. of seed to the acre. Seed this with about 10 lbs. of Common Red Clover and 4 lbs, of 'Alsike to the acre, ~ The oats will harvest early, and the clover should get a pretty good growth by fall. As soon as it has made a sat- sisfactory start in spring, instead of ov > cutting it, plow it under, and you will have enriched your soil by a good ad- dition of organic matter. Question--(2) What is the best fertilizer to use for potatoes on sandy soil, and what quantity should be ap- plied per acre? Answer--Potatoes on a sandy soil Hoos) . Don't expect to succeed with hogs if you give them any old thing to eat. Pigs must be fed clean wholesome "food if you wish to eat fine Hams and bacon of delicious flavor. The ill-smelling pig-pen is a relic of the past in up-to-date farming com- munities, : Cleanliness is the watchword for success with pigs. expel worms from hogs the fol- g prescription is right for a pig hing about 100 pounds: San- , five grains; calomel, two grains; areca nut, two grains; sodium bicar- bonate, one dram. Keep the hogs off feed for about twelve hours and give the dose in a slop of middlings* The evening of the same day give a mash of wheat bran. This will flush the bowels. Gather all worms and burn them. Worms often are the forerunner of disease. If hog or pig has a big appetite and thriftless condition, hair, it is a good indication of the pre- sence of worms. mina mnie ~~ CMlecsles™ . water in the sheep barn. Give _ best you can find? will, Sheep will stand a lot of cold weather, but draughts are as danger- ous to them as to other animals. Do not crowd the flock. Exercise is very essential to the ewes and the coming lambs. 4 regularly, and be quiet and the flock. Sheep appreciate well-modulated voice. Provide for plenty of clean fresh it fresh every day. ' Are yours just sheep, or the very ~ When a sheep does not chew its cud or eat, you have a sick sheep on your , Good treatment is to take the sheep out of the flock, it in a 'sunny yard.or. pen and give it .a chance to drink what pure water it Don't urge it to eat, and be patient, ; A The man who lets his flock get a part of their living by pawing through ~ the snow shows a lack of wisdom. Ice-cold water must be warmed up That costs with dry dead I should receive a fairly high-grade fertilizer ou will do well to use one carrying from 4 to 5% ammonia, 8 to 10% available phosphoric acid, and as much potash (up to 8%) as you can get this year. If you cannot buy « fertilizer with a high amount of potash, you will do well to apply wood ashes, up to % ton to the acre, work- ing it into the soil before you apply ithe fertilizer. If you do apply wood ashes, be sure to treat your seed potatoes with formalin in order to kill the spores of the scab which is like- ly to thrive where wood ashes have been applied. In applying the fert- ilizer, if you are putting on' 1bs, or more to the acre, apply one-half through the fertilizer attachment of the grain , if you have a grain drill with - fertilizer attachment, or spread it broadcast over the potato . GENERAL BROWNSELIF, Special Enyoy from Russia to Great Britaln, in the matter of important wrmy arrangements. The lady is his daughter, : Road, Toronto. 8. W.:--1. Efficiency is indeed a word to conjure with, and nowhere is it more needed than in the Canadian household at the present time. A food expert gives the following five ways in which he estimates twenty per cent. of the money expended for food is wasted. 1. Needlessly ex- pensive material. 2. A great deal | thrown away. 3. Bad preparation. 4. 11. He distrimuted--Through the twelve, as Mark makes clear. We THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON MARCH 4. and then going down between the files giving them out the loaves broken into halves. They went round again, till all had enough. 12, 'Broken pieces--Not fragments, but half loaves which the men had not touched. 13. Baskets--Small ones, such as Jews were accustomed to carry about, according to a Roman writer. In the other story (Mark 8. 8) seven fisher- Lesson IX. Jesus Feeds The Five Thousand--John 6. 1-21. Golden Text--Matt, 6. 11. * field before the last harrowing if you soil and apply the rest of the fertilizer tachment of the potato planter. It is not advisable to apply more than 800 lbs, to the acre through the fert- ilizer attachment of the potato plant- er; hence any excess of this amount should be worked in broadcast when preparing the potato seedbed. StuseSoased) If a horse has a loud, dry, hoarse cough, becoming moist later on, loud and frequent respirations, dullness, ropy saliva from mouth, bowels costive and urine high colored, and stands continuously, he is showing symptoms of bronchitis.. See that he has comfortable, well- ventilated - quarters, excluded from draught. Apply mustard to breast and sides. Steam nostrils, holding, head over boiling water with a little carbolic acid. Give cold water with 3 or 4 drams nitrate of potassium in it. When inflammation subsides, give dram doses each of gentian, ginger, and sulphate of iron 3 times daily. If hay is kept in front of idle horses all the time they will pg swing it, to their own detriment and at the waste of a lot of good feed. It is more economical to give a| small feed of grain at noon than to stuff them with hay. Give just as much hay morning and night as will | be eaten up clean in a reasonable time. | Study your horses. 'Some require more roughage than others to keep them in condition. Some horses wil never stuff themselves with hay, no matter how much is given them; oth- ers will eat everything in.sight. The intelligence of the feeder must control the situation. Bring the head-stalls into the kit- chen at night if the stable is frosty, or cover the bits with smooth leather, Neyer put a frosty bit in a horse's mouth. The idle work horses and the celts | | | leave them out until they are chilled; that doesn't pay. Don't let them slip, and don't ira fat F i £ Ed £ i do not have a drill distributor. Thor- | oughly harrow this fertilizer into the (o.co"98. jt through the fertilizer dropping at- | 1| an ordinary day's wage (Matt. 20. 2). Be very careful with the breeding! clusively Gentile city, gave its name' : ' to the lake; it occurs only here and in that found In Acts 0. 25, and denotes John 21, 1. The town is mentioned in| ~ 14" The Prophet--"Iike unto" 5 vers was named from the then| noses. See Lesson Text Studies for ruling emperor, Tiberius. Febuary 11, verse 26 3 Followsd--Somne in boats, put eta Slip ' mostly on foot round the north end of I OR a oo fo nd he vangelisya| WOMAN GETS MILITARY MEDAL. interpretative word; he could never! think of them -apart from what they "signified." Army Nurse is First Woman to Re- ignified." utain_Th high 4 ceive Medal. for Bravery in Field. . in--The high groun . aE southeast of Bethsaida Julias, toward| For the first time in history a wo- which town (in the northeast corner Man has won the Military Medal, and return journey, keeping near in shore, cry in the field." as we gather from Mark 6. 45, as most| She is Staff Nurse Catherine Mar- probably explained. The crowd had garet Carruthers, of the Territorial not much further to go by land from, Force Nursing Service, and the honor Capernaum to Bethsaida than the boat ,,\ awarded to her is announced 'of- by water. Apparently Jesus landed g.i.11v in the London Gazett in a quiet place and went up to rest si yein ine Lonoon. twazel e. on the hill; Mark tells us that the peo-| ir Douglas Haig mentioned her in ple had to somé extent got to the his despatch of November 25 last. eastern side first, Nurse Carruthers was bravely carry- 4. This is not a mere note of time:| ing on her work of mercy, calmly the Evangelist is thinking of a feast| caring for the wounded in very dan- that is to supersede what the national! gerous circumstances in a "hot" apostasy made only a feast .of the|regionin France. She wns eventu- Jews, eternally connected with Pass-| ally slightly wounded by a shell which burst near the spot where she was on over b the event of a year later. Ga OF the neighbors town duty. The courageous nurse has now no real evidence for another Beth- recovered, and has resumed her work saida on the western shore.) He |among the wounded fighters. might be supposed to know where a] Miss Carruthers, whose home is in large supply of bread could be bought. | Ireland, was trained at the Royal In- But as one who had so quickly realiz- | firmary, Glasgow. ed the gresties of his Master (John' She afterwards joined the Terri- 1. 45), he might also have been ex-|i,.js] Force and was posted for duty at the 4th Territorial Hospital, Glas- gow, a few days after the war began. pected to feel sure that Jesus could eal with, the emergney. Here he Some months later she went to France, where she has been doing failed, as he did in John 14. 8. 'In John 12, 22, as here, Andrew comes to valuable work in the face of danger. lms. his help. 7. Shillings'--Philip makes a busi- nesslike estimate of the amount, which would give them, say, half a loaf each: if that was the allowance he had in mind--for the loaves were only the size of buns--ommglenarius would pur- chase about a dozen. A denarius was Gallant Little Battle. South Africa is ringing with the Northey's Rhodesian column in Ger- # n man East Africa kept at bay and dis- to his forceful brother. But it was he y persed 260 German and native troops who brought Peter to Jesus, and he The Springboks fought from 10 in the was clearly, for all his quietness, : DAs 10) " man, only named as an appendage} morning until 6 o'clock at night with mah te be defended on. Re {oh i y k= ey--Compare v. 6. -6,| checked a rush by the askaris who, in showing that barley was only one|a state of panic, retired with 85 casu- {hind ] price of Wheat, , Note how |alties. The defenders had only two be Ri 4 details > Tend be Bory cartridges left, says the Exchange the one period when this was the case; | Telegraph Company. it was soon burnt up by the dry yer - Paper From Grass. 8. Andrew--A quiet inconspicuous weather, as we see well in India. The| men--This does not mean that the wo-| Han and eho a eo ow of; The Governmerh of the South Af- them, and the rough estimate of num. | rican Union is investigating the re- bers--made, perhaps, by Philip--was Sources of the country fin regard to ' made from the men only. papermaking material, of which large 11. He distributed--Through the quantities are known to exist. Vast | comes ee (verse . 23).|areas of native grasses are to be " vi ucharist the 3 A name of the spiritual feast, sry, and it is to these that special in- I * | vestigation is now being directed. ~ RECRUITS FOR NAVAL SERVICE The Women of Cat Bi Support Campaign for A N Captain the Hon. Rupert Guinness, A.D.C,, CB, C.M.G., RN.V.R., Senior Officer of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and his wife, Lady Gwendolen Guinness, salled a few weeks ago for England af- ter having n in almost every town of any size in Canada Sydney and Halifax on the Atlantie, ;te- Vancouver and Victoria on the Pasi tit was to organize Committees to secure . recruits for the Overseas Division of the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, and the work which they launched and which was unreservedly helped along by the Hon. Mr. Hazen for the " ; Canadian Government, has already had splendid > results, and hundreds of good recruits have joined \ Zendant Offered by (ne Navy under the auspices of the R.N.C.V,R. m Pe Before leaving, The Lady Gwendolen made ar- rangeménts to have a specially designed souvenir pendant distributed through the various recruiting centres to the Mothers, or Wives--or Sweet: hearts influence had helped to secure recruits. es This pendant is a ) one of silver--gilt--and bears the motto | "1 helped to serve." e is now, will 5 we are informed, being distributed by the Committees be worn by many women as a badge of honor, as well A Verse 1. Tiberias--An almost ex-! pen's baskets were filled: the word is! of the lake) the disciples started their |it has been awarded to her "for bray- | stirring glory of now 25 of General | "| good market can be made to ) became found in different parts of the coun- | _| them, shrivelling them up until all tdea of its | i Failure to select rightly according to | season. 5, Badly constructed ovens. | Protein foods are eggs, meats, fish, | icture each disciple filling from the beans, peas, cheese. , Starchy foods | putting .ord's hands the baskets he carried,'sq the grains--wheat, rice, rye, oats, | t corn, etc, and potatoes. ~ Fats are nuts, cream, butter, lard, fat meats. | Minerals are contained in carrots, let- | tuce, spinach, beets, parsnips. A well | ! balanced meal consists of one protein, | two starch, two mineral and one sweet. | | You will see therefore that beans and | { peas should not be served with meat. | 2. The proper height of working sur-| face for a woman of five feet three jnches is 29% inches. For every inch | n a woman's height there should be a | variation of half an inch in the height {of table, ironing board, sink, etc. 3. Time savers are: Food choppers, bread mixers, cake mixers, washing ma-! | There is also a long list of elec devices: irons, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, toasters, grills, per-| colators, fans, ventilatorss. C. H. D. :--1. A cleaning liquid for | the nails can be made as follows: One| dram tartaric acid, one dram tincture | of myrrh, two drams cologne water, | three ounces water, Dissolve the acid! in the water, mix the tincture of] | myrrh and cologne and add these to | the acid solution. Dip an orange- | | wood stick in this, apply to the nails, | A NEW BRITAIN. | | Lloyd George Spirit of Grim Deter- mination Seizes Nation. Herbert H. White, business man- | ager of the Harvard Unit in France and England, has just returned home, | after two busy months, and, in an interview in the Boston Globe, he pm that the war in Europe was, | never more serious for all concerned | in it than at the present moment. A | great change has come over ( L | pecially since Lloyd George and the { Committee of Five took charge of the war. Mr. White says that since George took office the people of Great Britain have been made to | feel and realize the full--the terrible seriousness of the war. Lloyd George seeks ne |its seriousness nor his own determi Lloyd ither to hide n= | ' MORE DIVIDENDS loss of only five killed. A volley | This Year, If Ever, the Opport |. Address all correspon for ; | | castle ort Si udense his department to Mrs. Helen rea . itai hs i e5 (Metermination Britain the past few months, and es-| oo 4 ihead" has come. and polish with a chamois skin. When eating soup the spoon should dipped" away from oneself and th soup be taken from the side of the bowl, not the tip. H. B.:--1. To disguise castor pour a small quantity of lemon juiel in a tumbler, then add the castor and on top of this more lomon juice. The acid taste completely disguises the oil. 2. If tapes of about 4 inches in length are sewed to the tops of stock< ings and each child is taught to tie his or her stockings together beford them in the wash basket, the ime and trouble taken in mating the stockings when they come from the wash may be avoided. This is done at many boarding schools and is fou to be satisfactory. A. F.--1. To set the color in ging= ham put the garment before yashing : into strong salt water. Let it 8 for ten or fifteen minutes and then dry thoroughly and as quickly as possible before washing. Adding one tea~ spoonful Epsom salts to each gallon of water in the .washing is another good way to set color. Of course; under present dye condition, some dyes will rur. in spite of all you con do. * 2 Rice should be stirred very slowly into chines, dish dryers, silver clean pans. rapidly boiling water ad the water tric | kept at a brisk boil if the rice is to be flaky and not mushy. It should ba stirred lightly with a fork, as a spoon will crush the grains, 8. A cloth should be wrapped tightly around a frozen water pipe before pouring hot water over it to thaw it out. 4, One pair of stockings will make a capital iron-holder if split and folded neatly, into a square, quilted and bound rou the edges. Slip a piece of asbestos' cloth between the folds to keep the heat from the hand. ation to go at it in a serious and re- lentless manner, and. to pay the full price in blood and = treasure and in such sacrifices as that relentlessness will entail. And apparently that is what the British people want--and that is why! they are submitting, without a mur-| and sacri! in the' conditions never known mur to such fices as were country before. The day of "laissez faire" passéd in England--the day of and work at has grim: "full -- pr Fools rush in whire angels fear to tread. What a lot the angels on earth owe to the fools! "Nobody ¢'n say our town ain't lit! erary," said the old cowman. "Not" asked new arrival. "No, cause we killed a poet here once, just so we could build a monument to him." FROM GARDEN CROPS une Time for Making Money From Vegetables. | Five acres of Ontario soil near a easily support a family in comfort. In pota- toes alone the returns would run, un- | der ordinary prices, at from $100 to | $200. per acre. From $400 to $500 | per acre can be made from cauli- | flower. Many. people will be inclined | to regard these figures as exaggerat- ed, but they are facts, and many cases | | can be pointed out to substantiate our | statements. ! With. proper soil treatment, the | average garden will produce at least | a half more than it now does. Several | things must be borne in mind, how- | ever, to make a success with garden crops, such as onions, potatoes, cab- | bage, ete. The soil must be suitable, | cultivation must be thorough, varie- ties the best for the district and the market, and good salesmanship. | The plot selected for the garden should be well drained, and must not | be shaded to any extent. Drainage takes away surface water rapidly, and | keeps the soil water away from the surface, thereby allowing the roots to grow deep and the air to enter the soil and aid in decomposing it. Fertil- ity ig another most important feature. | The need for fertilizer is shown by! low growth and pale color in the plants. Stable ure, bone meal, or good commercial fertilizer should be used to renew the elements required by the soil. a Germination. Crops are often lost through the failure of the seeds to germinate. Don't blame your seedsman for this. It is usually because in planting the soil is left loose about the tiny seeds, and the dry atmosphere penetrates to vitality is destroyed. Vegetable crops as a rule are sown in rows, and in every case, as soon as the seed is lengthwise of the drills, and again firmed by the roller or back of a spade. For want of this simple pre- caution, perhaps one-quarter of all seeds sown fail to. germinate. Again, for the same reason, when setting out plants of any kind, be certain that the | soil is pressed close to the root. We, have seen whole acres of cauliflower, bbage and strawberry plants lost; glect of this precaun- ca solely through ne tion. Value of Rotation. In order to secure maximum yields, and to keep down weeds, the system- atic rotation of farm crops is un ac- knowledged necessity. Why not, therefore, plan the varieties of vege- tables and their planting time so as to secure a continuous and abundant (supply of good, fresh green things? It is just as easy as any other method of garden management, and it is much more satisfactory. / £¥ For example a crop of radishes, ture nips, spinach or lettuce sown in April, will have ripened so that the gro can be cleared, dug up, and manured, and again used by the first of June, when such crops as cucumbers, peas, tomatoes, or sweet corn can be plant< ed, and so on all through the list. The crops should be moved around from year to year, so as to give the soil a chance to recuperate. Where a number of successive plant- ings are desirable, as with peas, it is an excellent plan to plant a third or fourth crop between the rows of the first crop, removing the vines of the first crop as soon as the peas ha been picked. } The observance of the foregoing suggestions, along with instructio for planting, which most reliab seedsmen supply with purchases § seeds and plants, should enable @ sown, it should be pressed down in i thoughtful and ambitious pers.in make, a success of growing the the drill with the foot, then covered mon dnd most popular s up level by the back of a rake, drawn RRR aed tables. eh . Fr