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a. 'a pool way to feed pri of last season," the farmer. "In April, 1918, Toe aplaige eighty head of October pigs. 1 fed thém a half-feed of and run * them on alfalfa until . st 20, when I turned them into a six-acre field of ninety-day corn. They weighed one hundred and ninety pounds each when '_ they went into. the corn, and when I sold them, September 20 ey averag- ed two hundred and Aas pounds. De-|. livered to market they brought $19 per hundred pounds. Thus, each acre + of corn, which would snake about forty "bushels per acre, me eight hun- dred pounds of pork," which at $10 per hundred, $162." "Another p scene ey was ask z be ® though or profitable ed $15 o hi to nto $183 hogs," and oP he th to crowd 'these 'pigs from - f to the finish. I shall try to keep t growing the summer by ding grain with: their pasture.' fifteen ih A into the corn field unti! they eady forthe market ey will be on hdl feed, and I believe the I can get a to market the more profit he will make me, if T can make him weigh hundred and twenty- five pounds or. more, "It.takes feed to yi [alata ¢ the that isn't growing; so much to put on eo 1a a in a a to Sows & Lame, Eat on the shodts, * mainly with {egumes or rape, "hogging down" a "field of early. finishing with a self-feeder on shelled "corn and tankage. In hs s way early spring pigs from good blood strains younger |" corn, and then Sally" 1 hor will bay Some hens that are bordering on the acts 80," she con-| -- but it seems that every time -| that I get a certain amount of cream collected it sours before I am ready. So I have to churn before it gets too sour or Yancld. Even then it does not ave that clean sour taste it.used to! have, did some hard thinking, wid gs far as-I knew shé was Yery par- ticular- in 'her buttesmaking. I won- dered if it could be something wrong with the separator.r We went to She machine and took itlapact Well, it was coated park thick rds of rancid cream and sour milk that had -been left there by careless clean- ing. It was a-wonder to me that the cream did noteome out of the spout sour, "Now this looks as though it had not been 'washed and cleaned as it should have been," I told her. "Don't you wash it at least once a day?" "Now I can see what the trouble is," she 'exclaimed. "Mary, ¢ome here," she called, and the hired gir! came in. "Mary, ". she asked, {don't you wash this separator every day as 1 told you to?" : "Well, it's like this," .and Mary hung her head. "I've so bus lately that I could not wash" it' every day, so I thought that if I ran some warm water through it that it would go-all right until I got a chance, but honest, I never let it go over a we " ed wh was a new girl and never ha ort ere butter was made, 80 she did not i the. importarice of a clean separator, but we had found the cause; and after that there was no ore trouble. 1 have known of others that seem to be careless in a way similar to that of Mary, though perhaps not quite s0 bad. » But such methods, while sav. ing=work and time in one way, others, capse ha Beavy loss in | There arb. slackers even in poultry- 8 bloods] great activity during hot weather, but "| there 'are some which become so lazy that they are not worth their feed. "Those are the hens that cut down their egg yield. Hot weather is worse | have to go back a hundred yards from "| the water. rule; hens do not. show | Will nest wood, dump your is best, Make pot-holders pc the let- é| ter S, have plenty of them to hook wit siaks five of these in pos atch with hemlock boughs. Over the botighs scatter pine needles thick- ly and then more boughs on the top; this covering being placed with tips towards the 'ground, like shingles, yout: shelter will be waterproof. To make it windproof you close the back end with upright poles a foot apart between which you weave more boughs. Such shelter is' not advisable for more than a week at the most, as it is not sufficiently dry or ventilated. If you intend to camp in one spot "by lake or river, a large 9x9 wall tent is best as it is more roomy; but if 'them | little dead together to hang a kettle as cloze to, or far from the fire as you wish. The cooking fire should be made of hard wood, to avoid flames. The best cooking is Guys over glowing coals, Pino and soft woods will not make a good bed of coals. Start with kindlings, pine 'needles, dried leaves; r-hard wood. When you have a bed 'of coals there will be little e, or no flame and a small amount of smoke but an intense heat, really more heat than softwood in a mass of .| flames will give. For a long stay, nail Yoxes to a tree to hold your staple groceries, and drive {in nails for your kitchen outfit. A strip of tarred paper above and below will keep out ants and other v | insects," as they will not cross the tarred paper. ' Below that, protect from squirrels with either tin or barb- ed wire, A dbzen sheets of sticky fly put around the trees above and below as neither animals nor insects will get 'across it. For a stay of two weeks or more it is worth while to make a shelter outside the sleeping tent, and make a you are planning to journey about from one place to another on lake or and change of scene, or seeking berry it"may be put up and "struck" or, taken down, in one-quarter of the time its double rows of tent pins and stay ropes. 'The A-tent ordinarily is: held in sition by three poles, twé uprig one at éach end, with a pin dn the top, this pin passing through poles in the top pole. . Such poles are heavy and take up considexable room in a boat or are heavy to carry: if you pack your outfit. They are also too cumber? some for canoe traveling. A long and the pole-pin eyelets at the top of such an A-tent, the rope passing down from the outside, running berieath the width If the rope is on top it will make the tent leak in a rain. Fasten the rope to two trees, tightening it a lit- tle"every day if the weather is dry, of loosening it a trifle if it is rainy, for in wet weather it will shrink and smay break apart: in the night, during 'a rain and drop the tent on you, a most uncomfortable predicamelt. For a campsite always select a slight knoll if possible, even if you A slight knoll or bit of rising ground is easy to find no matter how slight the slope all around, if it phed water. Pitch your tent on top of this and in rain' storms the water will never gather under your tent. To keep dry is the first health rule of ping. Cold air will never 'hurt you, but dampness is dangerous. for hens than cold weather, for the winter month a hen with any lifé to keep warm. molting period, having oid. heavily will |-'camp cooking into the water near you 'land never tpss it "mear, you on the If you cannot find a little knoll, the next best thing is to dig a trench around your tent and a little ditch at the lowest point of ground so the rain run off the tent into the ditch dnd 'be drained. away and any water Howing down from higher 0 into the diteh instead Never toss the refuse from your unless it is a swiftly running river, ground. Refuse tossed insp still water' will attract water snaked; i 3own on the ground it will decay and be u- healthy and attract flies and mosqui- toes. Mosquitoes .may be malarial, 4 river, seeking new fishing grounds | fields, a small A-tent is best Decause that you can handle the wall tent with | strong rope may be threaded through, average of the tent and out fhe other hole.|: Ge rough table and bench for your dining room. A good supply of butter helps the food supply but this and canned evap- orated milk spoil quickly in hot wea- ther unless you learn the trick of , keeping ' them. Within wo or three feet of the watér dig a hole below the water-line. The water fills 'the hole to a height of a foot" Then .y6u place rocks in the water until they come: just abéve the surface. You may place your crock of butter, your can of milk, your | package of pork and such other "foods as spoil quickly, in this "refrigerator." Have a cover to put over the top and roll a heavy stone bn this. Everything will keep here as it would in the efrigerator = except in 'the Safe of thunderstorm, when the milk 11 spoil, but~in that case it would spoil anywhere about the camp. 'Make 'a little shelter under some tree near the camp and put in several bushels of dry pine needles, pine cones, +birch bagk and tiny dry %wigs. Be sure that this is covered over so that it cannot get wet.. Never use-this for kindling your fire in dry weather, Save it for rainy days and for such emergencies as when you come home after dark and it is difficult to find kindlings. ™ For a party of four you will need: four quilts, two blankets, two rubber] blankets, two short-handled axes (be- cause you are likely to lose one), a short-handled hoe for digging trench- es, plenty of rope, extra suit of old] clothes and underclothes, plenty of fishing tackle, frying pan, two kettles, coffee pot, eight tin plates, four steel knives and forks, plenty of nails and spikes, six cheap spoons, two large | spoons, one clasp knife, two butcher knives, eight S pot hooks, five pint tin dippers, one toaster, two cakes sand soap, two bars soap that will float, four dish towels, four, Turkish towels, rags for dish Slothg and a small kit containing gauze, for bandages, cots for injured fingers, needles, thread, Satety pint <0 t-plaster, carbolated ne, Jamaica ginger, and Epsom salt "For supplies take five pounds corn- meal, four double loaves of bread, two pounds coffee, half pound tea, four, cans roast beef, peck potatoes, half peck onions, five pounds sugar, five pounds salt pork, four cans evaporated milk "(which is much. better n the condensed milk), four cans clanis, four cans baked beans, three pounds crack- girls' camp J include other dainties, ey are called, ers, with the butter, _ These sup] lies, 'the; ers, together i if fro 'you 8 farmers should Of ent for four hungry boys So i) CEL Ea: find how little space they take. Pack raping ing place by boat; pack the bed- "one'bundle and roll it up with te You will then have Plenty x 1 in your boat. a long rope out in the sun hes! between paper is bettey than anything else to! Ca table bed ever invents best method for carving Sulkp Suties far a Jarey of Zour up in seams, of two. Je} ork. is way you 'get the most on out of camping for you have one whole day of absolutely othing to do and even on your work- you have plenty of leisure eals for little fishing trips and games and the busy days but brighten the pleasure of the free days. If two farm girls can make with two farm mothers, mo more ideal vasatior ean be imagined: ~~ Boy Scouts, Girl -Guides and Koun- try Folks Clubs, under! wise leader- ship, can have no better fun than camping, "days | yo 8 and over these lay| .. The Land of Nod. Would you know the way to the Land + of Nod, Where the sunset fairies dwell, Where dear little darlings, misty- yed, On snow-white ponies sleepily ride To the sound of a drowsy bell, bell; And the hum of a seaside shell? There is a way to the Land of Nod, By a slowly ebbing tide; On which the boats go dropping down With sails of snow, like my baby's gown, Till the sleep-river grows so wide, wide, "wide, One scarce can see to the farther side. . There's another route to the Land of Up a mountain steep and high, And warm-clad climbers, hand in hand, Go softly up to the starry land, ' And there on blue cloudlets they lia, lie, lie, And cruise by blue islands of -the sky. And so they come to the Land of Nod, By the shimmering, star-lit way, And niddy-noddies come in bands And take the white-robed travel- ler's hands, And iy them in Dreamland they ay, play, play, Till they melt into mist at peep o' day. ' A Save Grain by Clean Threshing. There is no doubt that a great deal of grain goes into the strawstacks every threshing season. Not so much as some people believe, and not enough in many cases to make it pay to thresh the strawstacks for the grain in them, ut enough to make clean threshing necessary. Before the thresfing -season ended last year, twenty-two states of , the Republic to the south, where efforts toward cleaner threshing were carried on, reported an aggregate saving of 16,000,000 bushels of wheat. Other states, although they did not give figures, reported greatly reduced har- vest losses. In addition to wheat, at which the clean threshing campaign was especially aimed, there were cor- responding. savings of other grains which are harvested. and threshed in much the same manner as wheat and usually with the same machinery. An average of several thousand tests showed that raking shotk rows Xr about one bushel of grain an acre, In the past this operation hag been an infrequent practiok. Figuring 'this year's wheat crop at about 1,000,000 acres, a saving of one bushel an acre' would mean $160,460,000, at $2.26 a bushel: A corresponding saving might be effected in Canada. Tie time of threshing depends on weather conditions. In region subject to heavy rainfall only a small part of small grains 'is threshed from the shocks. . Threshing. from the hei re- Sip eus he 0 to y's red inka time. Besides," tack grain can ine threshed later!when help is not so hand 4 get. . Grain threshed out of the k must be very dry if it is to keep well in storag In some small neighborhoods sever- al farmers go together and buy a thresher, running it with their trac- tors. In still other instances an indi- vidual owns a small thresher, $300 or' so; and threshes at his-own oline: fo This plan amine for gover ay. oy nih elle' widows. should ve' Just : 2, 46; a hese 'picture of! e Fellowship of of the first shi ¢ been laid aside.. ao apostles 'mingled freely with their and nstructed them. There were prayers and songs of praise and words of goodwill for all. * Because were 'many ; popry among them, e who had posséisions sold th aL all shared alike, and new adherents were being welcomed daily to all the privie leges and happy comradeship of this new life. This was the beginning of a movement which was to spread rapidly to all nations, and which is yet to conquer the world. Phil. 4: 10-20. Your Care of Me: Paul was writing #from a Roman prison, into which he had been cast. upon his arrival in Rome in the year 60 or 61 A.D. About eleven years before, on his second missionary jours ney, Paul had come over from Asia into 'Macedonia and had preached the Gospel to the Philippians; founding there the first. Christian Church' in Europe. He had been 'driven from" Philippi by persecution; butNreturned: thither some five or six years later. He speaks of the Philippians in terms of warm appreciation of their con- stant and unfailing kindness to him, and of the care which they had of him, See 2 Cor. 11: 9, and compare verse 15, When he first left them #nd went" to 'Thessalonica they had sent him gifts (v. 16), and again he was in: Corinth. But during his Tong im' prisonment in Palestine they 'had: "lacked opportunity" to, help him. Now, hearing. that he was in Rome and in prison, they sent Epaphroditus' with gifts for him. Paul says, "Ye' have 'revived your thought far me" (v. 10 in Revised Version), and speaks of that which they sent as "an 'odor of a sweet smell, a 1 sesgpiable, wellpleasing 4g, God." Epaphroditus had journiyed seven hundred miles to bring these kindly gifts. While in Rome he had been, busy ministering to Paul and helping! in the work of the Church. Paul calls' him "my brother and -fellow-worker! and fellow-soldier, and your messeng- er. and minister in my need" (2: 25.) But he had been taken 'seriously ill and was near to death. "For' the work of Christ," Paul says, "he eame nigh unto death" (2: 30), probably having, encountered severe hardships on 'his long journey, /but even in' his illness his: character shines forth brightly, for he was "sore troubled," not be! cause he was sick, but because his friends in Philippi had heard and would be anxious (2: 26). If Epaphcoditus is a fair sample of the Philippian Christians, then they! * were good fellows indeed. Paul speaks particularly of their "fellowship. if the furtherance of the gospel from! the first day until now" (1: 5), and of; their fellowship in his affliction. (4: 15). It was that sense of comrade- ship, much more than their gifts, which pleased and comforted him. He could have done without the gifts, for he had Igarned self-denial in a hard school . (vs. 11-18), but their love for! him and care of him and thought for him were unspeakably precious, It is, he said, "not because I desire a gift," but "fruit that may abou to your account." He did desire that they should be the kind of people who would be thoughtful and generous, and would do kindly deeds that would be to their eredit., He desired that' their credit account should be large, that they 'might have a rich reward from God. For, he said to them, "My God. shall supply all your need gc. cording to his riches in glory. by Chrisk Jesus." fellowship existing between Paul and the Christian folk of Philippi is ex« ceedingly beautiful. It is just such a relationship as should be everywhere between . fellow-members gf the Church and between the members and the pastor of the Church. When selfishness -and strife enter the life, of the Church it decays-and dies. Bet.' ter "to bear all' things, and endure, offences with all' patience, than to destroy such a Jellowship! ako . Writing Ur Und Difficulties. : Edward: W, oh a "Hewspaperman, tra ling rom 7,000 to 8,000 feet in the air; sometimes abqve the clouds and oud rng aE toa rey in the bipl an mejoisl rucks in cities of horses. an qndn ing in grain, time | or. . Er Fin so number of "Pages of windows in th fu 17 tied with serous 53 ats The relation of Christian love and a