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mals can be freed of the disease by thoroughly 'washing the ringworm 'areas with warm water and soap to remove all crusts. An application of a fifty per cent. solution of tincture of iodine applied once a day over the area will destroy the parasite and - permit nature 'to complete the repair. 'Where the infestation is widespread 'in the herd a general clean up of the = 'stable or 'yard is advised, with liberal 'use of strong germicidal solutions and whitewash. The disease appears year after year in the same stables, due to the fact that this parasite is a hardy 'one 'and can live over the summer "geson on the walls, posts or mangers of the stable. 'If there is ringworm "in your-herd now, get it off your cat- "tle and see that the germ of the par- "asite is moved out of the stable at * 'the time of spring cleaning. Dollars every spring at public sales of 'recent infection. ¥ tevenson. POTATO SEED--LARGE, SMALL] : OR MEDIUM? do'you fancy your roast beef rare, | médigr orwell done? And how about 4 r 'potato seed--or is it safe to Ige one's fancies in potato seed? Among potato growers theré are some geed large, small or medium? re are two arguments which are 'eommonly advanced in favor of I seed. It goes farther or can ut to better advantage than large d if small enough to be plant- " lo there is less danger of its ng in the ground. . But if one ects maximum yields of potatoes tr polity 'to economize on seed. tity of seed planted, other ing -equal, determines 'the y secure a maximum stand two ways. Plant small seed _pleces close together, the small pieces tending to produce hills with few 'stems or plants; or large seed pieces apart, these seed pieces throwing more stems to the hill. In her words one-ounce seed pieces planted eight inches apart will give very' few more plants' to the acre than two-ounce seed :pieces planted Xtéen inches apart. So one really econontize in seed and get a stand. 'Small seed for ex- hit ! Do not be afraid of getting seed potatoes too large. If the resulting crop is too large it is not the fault of the seed. You are not planting it thick enough, Large yields come from large seed pieces cut from large seed tubers and planted as close together as the fertility of the soil and the moisture supply will permit. -------- et wry l ROSE GROWING ses tities) A garden without yoses lacks some- thing that everyone enjoys. No plant 'has dethroned the rose as the Queen of Flowers, and yet many of our productive gardens yield never a rose bloom. We can, however, grow roses and good ones, almost anywhere in Ontario, but to do so certain funda- mental requirements have to be observed. t during the disased plants seldom develop large; Y small Tots in autumn and| The large, tubers from any potate : [ I 7 i 'winter. Cattle and horses running out | C¥oP are the progeny o most, vig-| | 1 ' Pi pasture during the summer -and,°rous and ae the most prolific | | exposed to sun dhd rain are generally vines in the field, and their heritage ___ pretty free of the parasite; The win-| 3 passed on to the text generation.| } © ter is the ringworm's season of Potato" seed 'large--but how large? In 1% C3 Te - y development due largely to|Selecting seed choose the . largest TT Tack of attention or faulty manage. |SPecimens in the stock if you like, so x 'ment of the herd. : long as these large tubers conform Treatmen t--Affected animals othe Nios the vaviety. According _-- be ted : ; e crop is grown it may separa and isolated from own mati 1 Ey ; a .|the larger tubers always represent! | g Ped _| the most vigorous types. From the : iv ror o| ® Sede g Sumijersis] field, potatoes Aas. and' may be 'over weighing from one pound to one and. : ont infeition 1s small the. affcied ani. | 2 Dalf Pounds ars' safoand.sane| {=H wllingher--. a aT 8 Se . - " pre ---------- two or three buds. By low pruning new growth will start low down, pro- ducing more long-stemmed flowers and the appearance of the bed is im- proved by keaping the growth low. For freedom of bloom, roses require considerable moisture and during a period of dry weather water them as the rain does, by wetting the earth to a depth of four or five inches and letting this answer for a few days. If the beds are r Arequently a dust mulch is created that helps re- tain the moisture. Light soil requires more water but a well prepared bed obviates - the necessity of constant sprinkling. . ein laden lili The Only Thing Lacking. "I can give you thirty dollars a month and board," said Farmer Bent- over. "Fair enough! "replied the applicant for the hiredmanship. "Now if you can husk corn with an automobile and New Weights for Bacon Hogs. {David and S 1: CONTINUATION OF THE STORY--We a el oe Ji 'and 55 se 2 {of the ten tribes, had much the la: two | § srael was the kingdom , inclu all north of Ju- ' |dah an t of Jordan, and was rich- | er, more populous, and more powerful {than Judah. But Judah had the ad- vantage of being more Jsolpted from the outside world and less subject to its tations, and Judah's kings in- he "the ideals, the ambitions, and the prestige of the grea feign of glomen. 'he kingdom of Judah remained, therefore, compar- atively stable, and its royal line, with one Hagic exception, unbroken for three hundred and fifty years. But Israel's kingdom was torn by frequent revolutions, its dynasties were short- lived and evil, and it came to a dis- astrous end when invaded by the As-| syrians after two centuries only of troubled existence. The historians have little good to say of the kings of Israel. Jeroboam set an evil example for those who came after him, and was remembered as the man who "made Israel to sih."| His first act was to fortify Shechem and make it his capital. Then he established national sanctuaries at Bethel in the south, and at Dan on; the slopes of Mount Hermon in the north, so that the people might not be tempted to go to Jerusalem to| worship, thus recognizing how strong A change has been made recently select. dard, hogs to come within this class Swill weigh 170 to 220 pounds, off car; at stockyards, or 180 to 230 pounds, fed and watered, at stockyards or local shipping points. To come within this select bacon class, the hog must have length of side. length of the ideal "Wiltshire" is 36 inches from neck to knuckle bone. The hog should be of uniform depth with trim, straight underline; the head should be of medium length with a slightly dished face, broad forehead, and rather small firmly attached erect ears fringed with fine hair; the neck should be well muscled with no tend- ency to arch on top and below, in the vicinity of the jowl, should be trim and not heavy or flabby or coarse; the shoulders should be smooth and compact; the back should be slightly arched from neck to tail in the weights of hogs grading as According to the new stan- tronage of the northern shrines, he an a bond of unity lay in the common! religion. By his endowment and pa-| hoped to break that bond. At these! 5'shrines he set up images of Jehovah stroke fr !in the form of golden calves, thus de- !grading the worship of Israel's God Ito a level with that of Baal, he made {new priests who were not of the old priestly families of Levi, and changed The standard the date of some of the ancient great festivals. Ch. 18: 20. Ahab appears in some respects to have been one of the best of the kings of Israel. His father was Omri, the founder and builder of Samaria. He himself fought cour- ageously and successfully against the Syrians who invaded his country and | besieged Samaria, and at one time, as Assyrian' records show, his armies fought side by side with the Assyr-| ians against Assyrian invaders from the east. His treatment of the van-/ quished king of Damascus was gener-| ous and kindly, and he proved a brave 'and faithful ally of the good Jehosh-| japhat, king of Judah, whose son mar- f ' | 'mammon.--Matt. 6: 24. 'and their priests and prophets." The immediate result e been a th' hlupions a of se Jer he tarot my of I lo 8 | had escaped, but were in hiding under the care of the king's steward, and robably with the knowledge of the ng himself, who cannot have favor- ed the persecution, but was 'morally too weak to prevent it. Eljjak, before ted. th Be en i icted Tedie land the 'three years. In the third year he suddenly appeared and ¢hallenged the king and the Baal worshippers to this 'meeting at 'Carmel. There must have been widespread discontent among the Sople or Jezebel would have sought to prevent the meeting. Per- | haps she thought, however, that her | numerous prophety would gain an easy victory over Elijah. E Aa "I'who have endured a hard win Every spring quite a few Jarmers ber: little help, or who have had illn in the family, or who want to leave the homestead to younger hands and move to town, seriously consider buy- ing a home in the mearest town and taking life easy. Some farmers start in an over- cautious way, and are the bane of every real estate agent. They set a price, usually an extremely low price, and refuseto consider anything above that figure. Knowing the value of land well they refuse to believe that town" property has advanced, and argue that it is highway robbery to ask such prices as town residents expect, Real estate in town has kept pace rising in value with country places, and the farmer who wants to buy a modern house in a good location must: pay for-it. It is far better to buy | would have certainly been taken by . 22. only. At Carmel Eli ife stood alone. Had he failed, his | a place in good repair at a fair figure {than to trust the glib-tongued agent that "a couple hundred dollars will! } the fierce partisans of Baal. There Much depends on a favorable loca-| will provide me with one I'll take the tion: It is boskeep it away| job." from the walls of the house. The soil i fei When lacing a new belt which is to next to the building is usually too dry from thel gg over fixed pulleys or fixed shafts, with a well sprung rib dropping ried Ahab"s daughter. The evil influ- straight; the! ham should be smooth ence in Ahab's life was the clever and and tapering, having no excess bulges unscrupulous princess, Jezebel, daugh- of "fat." Well 'finished hogs are of ter of the king of Sidon, whom he were other prophets, but they dared not show themselves, and many people who had not bowed the knee to Baal (19:18), but they dared not yet to take his part. He stood alone, sus- tained only by his faith in God, and he stood firmly, not halting (that is, "going lame") between two opinions, as he said the people of Israel and their king were doing. Vs. 86-39, Let it be known God does not always reveal himself in this way, nor does he always decide in such a way as this, the issues between faith unbelief. But Elijah's case was a desperate one; and the lightning om heaven that kindled his sacrifice, was to him and to the as- gembled people, the answer of God. APPLICATION. God has usually advanced his own cause through the instrumentality of rsonalities--Moses, Elijah, Amos, Paul. But even such great men would be powerless if it were not that the people were already feeling after the same truth, Your great men like Paul, or Luther, or Calvin, or Wesley, light the fuse, and the explosion takes place. lijah lived in a rough age, a rude and primitive time when the light of true religious faith was very dim. Therefore his treatment of his fallen priestly foes furnishes no guidance to us who follow the method of Jesus. In the past men have justified re- liglous intolerance and persecution by an appeal to Eiijal'y order that the priests of Baal should all be slaugh- tered. That was view of our Christian faith, Let us quote Farrar again: "Far wiser is the humble minister in Old Mortality, an unenlightened +| the best fill: with for roses. he building itself is sometimes very try- ing. This 'action, together with the confinement and lack of free: circula- tion of 'air, are favorable to: mildew and red spider. The -aspect .of the rose garden po-| should be such.as to provide abun- dance of light and free circulation of air, and at the same time: gheltered from exposure to cutting northwest winds, A southwest or southeast ex- posure is usually. good. It is a mistake to mix up roses with other plants for the reason that roses need all the plant food usually avail- able and the soil needs frequent culti- vation. Beds should not be wider than will accommodate two rows. of plants so'/laid out as to be easily reached from either side. . Indeed a single row might be preferable be- cause the gardener should be able to prune the plants and cut the blooms without the discomfort of crowding between the more lusty members of his thorny family, . Better air eir- culation is also thus provided. Roses need good soil. Ground that will produce fine crops of tomatoes, corn or even potatoes, with a little pecial preparation can be depended) 8] upon to yield fine roses. The best soil is a heavy loam. Roses require intensive fertilization. Rotted stable] probibly ' To make a rose bed excavate to a depth of two and one-half feet, then 2 Ayer of 8 and manure and bonemeal are fertilizers, k,| worth of their baskets, aprons, -| brooms and other § g| assumed the mar d| creer. "| inspection for the schools of the town acid| und surrounding country. the following rule may be followed: Cut the belt short so that it will be tight. To do this, stretch a light wire over the pulleys and get the exact length the belt is to be when stretch- ed. For each foot of wire make the belt from one-sixteenth to three- sixteeniths of an inch short, depending on how likely the belt is to stretch. If the wire is twenty-four feet long, for an average belt ope should allow medium width throughout, indicating a full deep loin and a long well developed rump; finish is of the ut- most importance. Promises make debts and debts promises. -- metre - To get rid of rates, use equal parts of cornmeal and plaster of Paris, ap- plied in spoonful amounts in the fields and ditches, about buildings, and. in one-eighth inch per foot and so cut three inches shorter than the wire. One of the best regords of all the nineteen branches of the Women's In- stitutes of Elgin, as shown by the recent historical survey made by the members in that county, is that of the third oldest,. Rodney, which has a variety 'of good deeds to its credit. ,Organized in the spring of 1906, it began with a membership of 38. ' During the Great War it devoted 'itself. almost entirely. to Red Cross and war work, and every appeal for supplies or money met with a ready In 1912 the W. I. built a grand- stand in the. agricult nds. On two occasions they put 'na sale of articles made.in the Institute for the Blind, selling: about $400.00 of years ; agement of the Pub- lic Library and have also employed a man to ke:p the cemetery lawn in créer. The members of the Institute 'were instruniental in securing medical For a number ~ One little girl in the town, the child of poor parents, was S0 very Cross- tha and, place a han Hor Home and Country 'A Variety of Good Deeds to Their Credit. home and country, ciple. of and around the burrows: object properly. The W. I. sent the don, where an operation was success- fuily performed end the eye straight- ened. They have also sent scveral donations to the local Children's Shelter. It was the W. I. which organized the Girl Guides, the Boy Scouts, and the Horticultural Society of the town and placed electric lights in the park. They have also managed the Old Boys' Reunion for several years.. Mr. McGugan of Toronto has offer- ed prizes amounting to $50 a year for five years for an oratorica' con- test open to the school children of the Township of -Aldborough, and has asked the W. I. to undertake tke man- agement of the contest. This they did very successfully last year and and planning to hold the 'second con- test in May of this year. They have brought Government onstratiog-lectur courses on child to the Victoria Hospital, Lon-| | married, and for whose Baal he built a temple of Samaria, 16:29-83. Mount Carmel was a high promon- tory, or spur, of the central mountain range, some distance north of Sa- maria, which extended westward and overlooked the sea. Its sides were clothed with vineyards which gave to it its name. Here it was that the king called a great assemblage of the peoplé of Israel. . 21. Elijah; a man of Gilead, had appeared as the leader of the pro- Ape of Jehovah against the bringing in by Jezebel of her god Baal and goddess Ashtoreth, Reon SIOr7ES Billy Pig Learns Cider. BY ENOS B. COMSTOCK. his is the story of little Billy Pig and a very funny mistake he made, not such a stupid mistake either, when one stops to think of it, Billy was very fond of apples. He would go a long way to get to an orchard if he thought he was to be rewarded by: finding a few nice red apples on. the ground or somewhero within reach. Blily had a most de- lightful recollection of having cnce found a pail of nice sweet cider on a doorstep and he had gotten a delicious taste of it before being driven away. Now Billy had no idea how cider was made but he was a bright little pig and always on the alert to learn something. Home Nursing, Dressmaking, and Do- themselves study at their regular h : subjects, they consider will be for the following the pris] by all, and "If, mestic Science to the community, and, 'monthly meetings: whatever e good of ass, it on." = holes had been bored in the trees and k: | pluced on the ground under them, One day in the carly spring, he and grove when Bily discovered that a number of the trees had queer little {in things driven into them, about a foot from the ground. "Troughs," he heard the farmer call them. Queer name. Just above the trough: small irom, these h.ies something that look- cl like water 'inickled down into the troughs and dropped ints the pails "That," said Mother Sow, "is maple sup. In the spring it flows up through the trunks of the trees and, in order to get 'it, men tap the trees as ycu seo them, You may taste it if you average production of 8,385 Ibs. dike: Of course Billy "liked," so he 82 in fest percentage, and 526.5 1b. a drink of sap from one of the fat, The increased production in the "He was somewhat disaproint-| ver the ; Sheglaver uf apple in their protest good his mother were walking through al i | Association 'have been using pure- bred sires for years and have been j they have been testing for only two k when he withstood Balfour of Bur- leigh, in the decision to put to the sword all the inhabitants of Tillie- tudlem Castle." "By what law," asks Héhry Morton, "would you justify the roy that thou would commit?" "If thou art ignorant of it," said Bal- four, "thy companion ig well aware of the faw which gave the men of Jer- icho to the Sword of Joshua, the son |of Nun." "Yes," answered the divine, "put we live under a better disposi- tion, which instructeth us to return for evil, and to pray for those who despitefully use us and perse- cute us." apple treel If you want to get sap, you must tap a maple tree." "But, dear mother," replied Billy,! very seriously, "I do nob care to get| sap. I want to get some nile apple cider. If maple sap comes from a maple tree, why doesn't apple cider come from an apple tree, Isn't ib apple sap?" "No, apple cider comes from ap- ples, Mother Nature sent the sap up the tree trunk and along the branches to the blossoms and finally into the apples themselves." Billy Pig gave a very discouraged grunt. "If apple-tree juice is apple cider," he complained, "why isn't maple-tree juice called maple cider?" But Mother Sow heard the farm- er's wife rattle a pail down in ths pig yard and toddled off to see if there was something to eat, So Billy Pig's lesson came to an end. ---- py re Dairy Record Keeping Pays. The milk and fat records of the Brampton, Ont.,, Cow Testing Assn- ciation, says the Dominion Dairy News Letter of March 10, show very i clearly the value of selection, good feeding, and pure-bred sires of milk- jing ancestry. in obtaining high aver- age production in dairy herds. Al- though the farmers comprising the selecting the best and eliminating the poorest cows as opportunity afforded, years in an organized way. In 1922, in six herds, number 84 cows, the average production of milk was 8,046 Ibs., the percentage 8.76, and the fat production 808.2 lbs." In 1928, six avhile it is being turned back and forth on a floor until all the grain is turning from time to time before sowing. the other man we should never envy herds numbering 98 cows had anjbe fix up this place all right," when the paint, the plumbing, the foundation, the furnace and the plastering arg de- fective. Materials and men are hard to get, and the man who expects to repair an old or run-down house must multiply the agent's statement by about ten and then not be surprised if it runs beyond that figure. HOW FAR TO SCHOOL? The distance to the stores, to church, to school, to places of busi. ness and to work, if the farmer ex- pects to work or any members of his family expect to work, should be taken into consideration. The number of mail deliveries, the drainage, the fire protection, the possibility of rent- ing a vacant lot near by to have a garden, the neighborhood, and a dozen and one other factors enter into the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of the family. The majority of farmers think the edge of town where they can enjoy all the advantages of town and coun try combined is the ideal location, but usually such a selection results in dis- satisfaction, The keeping of a cow that seems to promise so much fails, because there is no cow pasture within a mile or so; keeping a pig gets the owner into trouble with the town laws; the mail comes later than fs did on the farm; the dust is unbear- able on account of the great amount of traffic where all roads lead 'to town; deliveries from the grocery store are few and very uncertain; water, gas and sewage problems loom large in the housekeeping problems, ete., ete. The wise plan is to select a con venient house as good as you can af- ford, in a good location, for such a house is always saleable, and if the farmer decides to go back to the farm it is easily sold. Sy Lin Varieties of Barley. Variety is not everything in the growing of grain, but where condi tions of soil and climate are the same there is a wide difference in the yield between some-of -the--better- varieties and the commoner sorts grown as "just barley" in some .parts of the country, Manchurian, known as Ot- tawa No. 50, says the Dept. of Agri. culture at Ottawa, is one of the most desirable varieties of barley to grow. Tested side by side with other good orts it has year by year yielded igher crops, This is a selection from' a kind of six-rowed barley supposed to be of Asiatic origin. It ripens, early and stands well on the straw of fair length, It possesses one weake ness in that in windy climates the heads have a tendency to break off and the kernels to shell out. Another sort that has stood the test well at Ottawa and the other experimental farms and stations is known as On- tario Agricultural College No. 21. This also is a selection from an Asia tic sort. variety resists wind better than Manchurian and it drops its awns more readily in the thresh- ing. It is blamed for being more liable to smut than some of the other kinds, but this is readily overcome by treating the seed with bluestone solu~ tion made by dissolving five pounds of blpestone in fifty gallons of water, or foPmalin may be used in the pro- portion of one pound to forty gal- lons of water. Whichever solution is used should be sprinkled over the pile moistened. It should be dried by nine ni If we knew the inside history of One-half olive, will on humans or it, and it 3