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are, therefore, inclined to keep all chief. care of | Pedroom windows closed the mildest weather. The, be for those Not wealth for the few,|ing a mistake. but welfare for all, must be the aim.| A person who is snug in a. warm 1,| The ideal of the good shepherd is the|bed may safely breathe the rawest alr ideal of the right-minded ruler. that blows, providing that he inhales APPLICATION. it through the nose, as intended by en age of th 5 The colony of Jews was planted in| nature. Those who think of tho nose continued for a period of | Babylon, oa perhaps it was only then | only as a detective agent for protee- : ther more than a score of years. {that they bethou, themselves of | tion against bad smells may be sur- across the north side of the house and| Psalm 137 [rents a vivid picture|the strange import of their prophet's| prised to know that one of its most around to the east side, we secure a of the exiles in Babylon, their home. message. But Jeremiah was ack fmportant functions is that of warm- jonate love for the She "Ghoge" captives, He sta; with Ing up the air so that it is of suitable that t must alwa, spill Hilissl care Through replacing the little porch :| witha deep" verandah that extends t deal of enjoyment. In remodel- their ny ie R tred 5 t ng the old house It has given us a oa, thelr hatred with the "di ot et Bavpt, an oxlle. temperature for the lungs. handy kitchen with a dumb-waiter and 'their. treacherous and heartless, too, from Palestine A younger man| There is no question that weak and a basement that occupies nearly, mio ite neighbors. heard voice of the Lord in the|lungs are often so because their own« the full floor area inclosed with high, ivity. He knew Jeremiah|er persistently leaves a large part of should give good control, About 8'to 4 weeks befors harvest if mug- In the Niagara peninsula peaches generally are not sprayed for brown| vot, as they receive only the dormant re tion for scale-and y ~~ "eurl. H, however, later applications are applied, self-boiled lime sulphur, ol following out one popular plan ! of hoP-lot sanitation the central house 'scrubbed with boiling lye water and sprayed th. a 'The pens are then bedded with clean n.pens. : . # When the pigs from ten hari mie to two weeks old 16 SOW, out' of the * wettable sulphur, or sulphur dust';: should be used. The first brown rot application on plums is generally de- Tayed until the shucks are off ihe The brown rot fungus lives through the winter on the mummied fruit that hangs to the tree or falls to the 4 ground. Mummied fruit that falls to . ied will give rise in the spring to; "microscopic, stalked, -. fruiting bodies which produce the _ spores that initiate blossom infection. However, if the mummified fruit is plowéd deeply under they are unable duce spores. This is the reason and cultivation of of raising hogs in a sanitary way. Roundworms and. filth-born diseases are prevented. 1 i As a result of having available the ground and is not too deeply bur-| plenty of pasture another link in the chain of economical production is pro- cup-shaped | vided, and one of our cheapest and] is used to a greater extent. These facts are the basis upon which the principles of a definite sys- tem of hog-lot sanitation have been worked out. The idea being none other than to raise more pigs per sow] marketable age, to raise them reasonable length of time and at ficiently low to insure a fair best feeds ing (before the flies are bad) on y: In some clubs iis own beef and takes it quartered "are hauled to a al) worth-while plece ;| tenac 3 course in home economics at the East- \ School, Kingston, théy linen and other supplies which the nurse required for a patient who had burned the fence and raked the yard. Some shade trees were set out and old rose bushes pruned. When the grass started, we had the satisfaction of knowing that our neighbors appreci- ated the change.--J. G. The yard of an old neglected home was plowed and graded. The house was painted." A hedge of lilacs were planted on this slope. At the north side of the house shrubs that did not require much sunshine were planted. Along the borders, spirea were put in. the house a bed of giant pansies resulted from two five-cent pacRets of seed. On the end of the front porch boxes of climbing nasturtiums were placed. These were supplied from three packages of seed. Maples from til they! the woods were also planted in the yard, while a few rosebushes, secured from a generous neighbor, found their proper place in the arrangement. dry, smooth walls. Upstairs there are three bedrooms and a bath and sewing room. Closets and draws are abun- ern home. We thought at first we could not offord to make these changes, but by doing much of the work ourselves, it has cost us comparatively little and we are glad we did it. One can find r.ore elaborate farm houses, but every dollar in this come from our hundred- acre farm.--J, E. M. dt min ' Farmers' Days at 0.A.C The 0. A. College live stock has always enjoyed an excellent reputa- tion with the farmers of the province. It has never been exhibited at the fairs, but we are going to have a live stock parade at the College on Farm- 100 head of excellent College stock lined up on the campus it will be quite a little show in itself. At the same hour the departmental floats will ap- pear in parade to illustrate the pro- gress of agriculture during the past 'half century. Farmers from all coun- ties are coming, All roads will lead to Guelph during the 0.A.C. Semi- While the results were transforming, it cost us just a little more than a) ana a For Home and Country GIRL'S JUDGING COMPETITIONS. This year a number of counties of Ontario are having competitions for girls in judging household exhibits. In mest cases these sempatitions are organized by the Agricultu pre- sentative, a coach for the girls being sent out by the Institutes Branch for a few days' instruction previous to the competition. In a number of dis- tricts, the Women's Institutes have assisted materially with this work by offering prizes, catering for the con- testants on the day of She Gampetition, furnishing material to be judged, etc. In- South Simcoe, the Institutes are themselves organizing a' competition. These girls' judging com fons not only provide practical ~up Wor tie science; they establish in the minds of the girls | standards of quality and a pride in producing only the best, We feel that any assistance along this line is a : of 'home: economics work. for, the Women's Institute. LOCAL: EXTENSION WORK. 'The Westbrook Branch of the Fron- 'omen's Institutes did a unique of 'extension work when, in con- on with the pupils of the short ern Dairy J served tea > Shout Suny dies of 8 Sy ovnehip W 4 forming a branch of the Women's In- stitutes," 57 Tei Tea was served at the close of an i. The Dis- address: by Miss Cha; ~ | committee, gave Centennial. . mittees on Bettér Schools, Home Econ- omics, Public Hewlth, Publicity and Immigration. . The « School Committee met the teachers upon their arrival for the fall term and found temporary board- ing places for them.' They arranged a reception for the teachers and par- ents. At the opening of the new school, this comntittée arranged the refreshments and the entertainment, taking care of a crowd of about seven hundred people. Perhaps in this fea- ture, as much as in'any other, the In- stitute won the warm appretiation of the school board. A piano was pro- wided for the school, the money being raised partly through teas given by the Institute and partly through a dance given by the teachers, with which the School Committee assisted. «The Home Economics Committee has been instrumental in introducing sewing in the public school. The primary teachers volunteered to give an hour a week to teach sewing to the senior girls and the Institute pro- vided the necessary supplies, also gave prizes for the best work done. The Committee on Public Health assisted the Public Health nurse at her bahy clinics, sent home-cooked dishes to a tubercular patient, bought not been in town long enough to*be settled. They served tea to the mothe ers at a baby contest at the fair, They arranged for addresses on dental hy- giene and goitre, these addresses be- ing given by a dentist and doctor at the regular meetings, When the school tg! nurse found a number of girls who were under weight, the Institute, st the recommendation of the heakh , prizes to the girl who dant. Furnace heat, electric lights herds. *| and running water complete the mod- ers' Days, June 12th and 18th. With ter of the Compare John, ch, 10.' The p! et denounces the evil rulers of Is: as false shep- They have been utterly selfish, caring only for their own enrichment and the satisfaction of their own de- sires. "Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the sheep?" Ezekiel believes that rulers should tale, et and before La Sis for jhe we ng of the people, and especial- ly for the weak, the erring, and the n . He declares that Israel's Princes have not done this. have ttened themselves, but they have not fed the sheep, and they have no care for the sick, and the weak, and the injured, and those which have been driven away or lost. The calamities which have come upon the Joorle he charges to the folly and selfish greed of the rulers, vs. 11-16. Behild I, The promise of God is that he himself will replace the false shepherds and will care for his flock. His especial care will be for the lost and the wandering. They are to him objects not of wrath, but of compas- sion. He will- "seek them out" and will deliver them. The promise is espe- cially for the scattered exiles and wanderers of Israel, whom God will bring again to their own land. The picture which is presented here js one of delightful security and peace, "in a goul fold, and in a and under the over-shadowing, ever- 'watchful "care of their 'divine "shep- herd. Vs. 25, 26. There is a prediction in v8.23 and 24 of the coming Messianic king, foretold by Isaiah and Micah and again by Jeremiah. He will be, 80 to speak, an under-shepherd, car- ing for the flock of God, who will make with them a "covenant of Jooce." ensuring peace and prosperity or the days to come. All "evil beasts," that is, probably, foreign invaders and oppressors, will be driven out of the land, and even in wood and wild- erness there will be no fear of harm, at pasture," | the task of this younger prophet-- Ezekiel--to carry on his older broth- er"s work, and to sustain the sinking livered. first half of Ezekiel's book is concern- ed chiefly with the impending down- fall of Jerusalem. man, or exile. reconstituted on the soil of Palestine. | There God would give it a second! chance, was one of hope and restoration. 4. A very important part of Eze- individual responsibility. Jeremiah saw plainly that religion was more an affair of the individual than of the state, but it was reserved for Ezekiel to put this truth in the sharpest possible way. What is the succession of ions differ on details, but all agree that Ezekiel must be placed high on the roll of honor. and died in Babylon. geous and successful Ezekiel taught his Lord was mightier than the idols of Babylon, stronger and more moral than the gods of the cruel empire, thing on its side. Ezekiel's great Costly Cockerels. I walked into the store of a local produte buyer one day and found: him candling eggs. "Do you make a separate grade for each of those four cases?" I inquired. "Five," he corrected: "don't forget the discard. That grade will not go to market, of course, but it costs the farmers of Canada a grand total of $600,000 a year in round numbers to produce it." i "That's a lot of money," I finally contrived to remark. "Isn't there something farmers can do to relieve themselves of the burden?" "Sure there is," he snapped. "It is merely a matter of general agreement to 'swat the rooster' And if every farmer in this community Would put that advice into execution I could throw away that candling device and buy eggs blindfolded. : "Why, do you know," be continued, warming up, "that the average tem- perature of this section of the coun- try during July and August is suffi- ciently high to start the process of incubation in a fertile egg? |" "T would not say that a fertile egg would hatch at a temperature much | less them 100 degrees, but I do know, from my own experience, that incuba- tion often begins at 70 degrees. The strength of the embryo, of course, de- termines just how long it will develop before it dies f lack of heat, but it does not require many hours for it reach a point where it - will be (dled out of a shipment, or, at least, take a low grade. And a weak em- stages of its development. posed to a temperature of less than infertile egg will decay, they merely dry up." ---- ei The Big Idea in Corn Cultivation. It is frequently a long time between ting of that principal to use. There is the case of the dust-muleh theory of cultivation. tell us that weeds were a good thing because weeds spurred on the farmer to keep the cultivators going. cultivation does the erop no geod. and sugar-cane fields. Cheap paper is made from sugar-cane e smothers out the weeds, and a maxi- at all, corn;-one of our cultivated crops, old- of the master's heroic voice. It was (oo 4o0 inished. religion of Israel would have dwindled | the wall. were the evidences of the all-powerful | attempt. paganism. That religion was a gor-| has been will be again, and are hold- affair. But{ing the line with dogged tenacity, : eople that the! ynowing no doubt, that when good ------ fortune again smiles down upon the farm those who have kept fit will be that for the time being had every-|the first to benefit. The capacity of " land of ca; Fhypter 800d Shohatd? She chap well, and his blood had often bounded | the margin of the lungs unused. The faster through his veins, at the sound| tissue is never inflated and so it de- the breathing apparatus is seriously dim- It may not shorten life un- hearts of his fellow-exiles in Baby-|less an attack of pneumonia or other lon. Let us set down in order the| affection of the lungs is experienced, different messages that Ezekiel de-! but it certainly reduces the feeling of well-being, vigor, pep, and purpose .1. He supplemented Jeremiah's pre-| that a person in normal health should diction that Jerusalem would fall. The enjoy. Many articles, and even books, have been written urging that this be over- 2. But Ezekiel was mainly a watch- | come by adopting daily habits of deep astor of souls in the land of | breathing, ete. Stand before your open s duty it was to prepare the| window and take fifteen inhalations, Jrople for their new role in human | filling the lungs to their greatest ca- iistory. He never halted in his be- pacity, is common advice. lief that somehow the nation would be | ot well considered. The average per- son simply does not do that kind of { thing. He may attempt it and keep it 8. Consequently Ezekiel's message | up for a few days, but not one in a hundred will persist for a year. But it is The best plan is to engage every HOLDING THE LINE. kiel's preaching was his doctrine of day in some work or play that is Had men t not preached to the individual before? Jeon tous: ales You brenthe despe All hail to he who holds the line-- a the man who steadfastly sticks to his lace of Ezekiel in the task through eritical periods! ebrew prophets? Opin-| gands of farmers during these days of doubts and fears and discourage- But for him, the|Mments are fighting with their backs to They are determined to see On all sides |the thing through or go down in the They have faith that what Thou- It is not dollars alone that make merit was that he answered perfectly |these men hang on, work hard and to the need of the hour in which he| live on hopes. Rather it is the desire lived. He bore his people on his heart.| to gee the fulfillment of an ideal. Much of the reward that comes to the embryo of an egg in the early|us on the farm, comes not in dollars and cents and swelling bank accounts, "On the other hand, assuming as|but in rich, neat fields, in bounteous you said, that the embryo of the egg | Crops, in luscious fruits, in slick live died within an hour after it was ex-|stock, and beautiful homes. Perhaps -it is this thought that has only are 70 degrees; you still have to contend|led to the realization that farming is with the possibility of the dead em-|not so much a business after all, as it bryo setting up a process of decay.|ls a mode of life. ] And that is what really happens in|backs in painful and strenuous effort, the production of a rotten egg. An|work long hours, and do our very deteriorate, of|best when dollars course; but its contents do not often |reward. We do these things because ambition spurs us on to accomplish the things we have set out to do, to reach the goal that is of our own making. We do not bend our the It is these, mom, who are not easily led aside from their chosen pathway, a discovery of a principle and the put- he So\Dot sidewmach Tay white: toward the attainment of their ideals, Th d whether the way be smooth or strewn ey used to| with obstacies, that are to-day "hold- ing the linc." It is they who form the But great balance wheel of civilization, long and exhaustive trials have shown ho keep I pe yond Yom going et that with weeds otherwise eliminated make this country safe and * lesive . 3 {room therein for comfort, song and Out in Hawaii they are now using! laughter: Again, All Hail to he whe paper instead of the plow in pineapple | holds the liffe! bagasse, Spread down the rows, this re Trees at the Water's Edge. Where it is desired to get trees and mum crop is produced with a mini-| shrubbery to take root at the edge of mum effort. The soil is not siirred|a stream or any body of water whose 3 : erosive action seems to defy all efforts ! The big idea in cultivating any trop to check the wearing away of land, is to keep down the weeds; yet with! try this: Take old poultry netting and catch style implements, designed primarily! it up into bag-shaped receptacles. Fill vit live long enough fo: form a io produce 4 dust mulch, ate still fn] these with rocks of all sizes up to. g. use. - Somebody may yet hit on a het-| foot or so in diameter. Cut the shoots ted implement design for weed-killing| of the shrubbery or trees to bé plant purposes. Then will pass the old dust-| ed about two feet long and. thrust mulch theory, and attention will be|them, with whatever roots and earth centred on weeds, where attention be- | possible, down among the rocks, Place yi longs. 0 ¢ Fah "| the wire bags, with the shoots in dly in thix dives-|c n thi Ful t 6 y led me out to see'a magnifi-' and ent ith cent field of corn. © © 7 lgnd acoumulste ind, araund " "This field," he said, "I' cultivated | confined stones will more than replies 1 4 ne, © that ivashed away: until the send out enou s to tuke