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LE 0s and cathedrals, Ypres, Arras, were all familiar to the 1 Reims to a few, only, except. 3 h picture and story. In a recent 0 Digest" the rebuilding of 1s described and In the tejling, . its return to other magnificent and we wonder "why war. lon Day, May 26, the Arch- ardinal Luocon celebrated high| in the nave of the Cathedral of| _ for the first time since the war. ) t time 'such a ceremony took Pisce was September 19, 1014, when onsignor Landrieuy, then Vicar-Gen- eral of the Cathedral, sald mass before 1 one single worshiper, Bombardment # of the town was in/progress, and shells bursting overhead interriipted his read- ing of the liturgy. That night the woodwork of the Cathedral took fire and the whole edifice was gutted, * Since that time the bullding has been in disuse, save for one chapel and part of the ambulatory on the forth side of the cholr, walled off from the rest. (Now eight years of patient work in re storation of the interior are crowned by the ceremony noted. A new altar stands In the last bay of the nave, RE -- eT "1 cifelle, where, HSE dren leader of the expedition, Dr } L. Austin of Tuckahoe, she will take on supplies and & moving picture out- kimb E F 2 o i & § 1 ® = & Here more fuel will 'be taken for the Yoyuge along the Labrador coast. The primary objective of the ex- but nothing of 1 untfl-last week when one Busted by | a Y temporary alt ule "| pedition is the blue goose, an as yet he tafled, Li shot by Seiest Sumerville, at Satinend separa nsepts, Point, Quebec, which ve diminutive choir is formed by the few = ndred miles east north-east choir-stalls which escaped destruction. FARM NOTES * dence that rough handling is the cause hv goose hiss from efi it was id What is done hag come in part from 7: Jol most of the es By She Bust ged. The two tags ere Dow in my the beneficience of outsiders. Mr. John . Retain Milk Flow With Green of 'those Hogs. were shi direct passession. D. Rockefeller, "Jr, gave 6,000,000 tain the plat it 1a evident that the greater b ded , 3 ,000, Feed Dart of the injury occurred in handling Now, I have decided to 'tag ffty or one hundred each winter for educa francs, only one-third of which has yet at farms and shipping stations, - Lack . been spent. Denmark's gift amounts a to 1,200,000 francs, Norway's to 200,000 The farmer Who sxgects i Tan | of proper loading chutes af farms ang Hom pp hh ivi 5 ne franps, while double the latter amount dairy herd successfully m Plan | loading chutes at station yards is un-| Th tos, 3 Dot for an adequate supply of green feed | 40 hagiy responsible for a big por- Please pickup dead crow Shen ine bas been guaranteed by Great Britain, The French Government has advanced about 1,000,000 francs a yehr, so that so far, 11,000,000 francs have been ex- pended on the restoration. In a de- tafled article in the London Times one sees what the war did to this glorious to carry his cows from the time the pastures begin to fail until real win- ter feeding begins, This is a critical period and if he allows his cows to fail in flesh or in milk production; he ean: | not expect profliable returns for hia labor. The money their legs just above their feet for ease sof oni it big -- tags. In other words, I 21. asking your ures. Surely: humanity' financial Co-operation, but please dou't ask me interest will induce everyone hanrling to liberate over one hundred. year interest will induce everyone handling [oF they are altogéther (00 murderous- equipped to do their part in preventing 1¥ destructive on our desirable 'song, these inhumane: and wasteful condi Insectiverous and game birds. More REIMS CATHEDRAL heritage of the Middle Ages; one, how- Bxp : : ' - At the erimental Farm, Nappan, g over, please don't burden me with en« aver, ouly. ot She Tuized faze Is Sed Foysouen had bown Smashed.o bits. both to fire and changes of tempera- TOB ACCO NOTES sufficient green feed is supped to tgss, Pe quiries about the net which, if put in : church the {ran hich has the advantage that h whose memories are perhaps fading sept crossing looked as if a he pan: ture, and which hay the : carry the milking herd from about tho Ww ANT AGRICULTURE A aan # aré here recalled: Much Accomplished "To any one who has not seen the Cathedral in' its ruined state the re- conditioning of the nave may not soem, at the first thought, a great deal to show for eight years' work. With- out 'having visited the building in de- tail and traced the course of the de- struction to which it was exposed for four years it is diicull to redlize to what extent its maso: wag shatter any part of it can be replaced at any time without touching the rest. It has the simplicity of a boy's set of 'Mee: cano," and its clean, exact -lines. when seen from ghe inside of the Poof are a joy to the eye. The same system is being used for the churches Of St. Remi and StJacques at Reims, and It seems singularly well adapted for the -there 18 danger of killing it. In ex. purpose. When once the slabs are periments described by the Publica cast In quantity, construction is ex- tions Branch, Department of Agricul. tle was left of the magnificent thir ceedingly rapid and economical. The ture, Ottawa, the best results were teenth-century stained glass which had , roof of the nave has taken only thir- Samson at Gaza, had tried to pull down! th epfllars on top of him. One of the four master pillars had been-hit by a shell of the heaviest caliber, and its drums so shattered that they barely held together, A great gash in the roof had brought down tons upon tons of masonry, completely burying the high altar. Severa' great shell craters yawned in the floor of the nave, Lit. Cliitivating and: Topping Tobacoo. Cultivation. -of the ..tobaecco- .erop should begin from 8 days to 2 weeks after transplanting. It is< advisable not to 'cultivate too closely around the plant until it has taken root as tion about five jnches deep and each obtained by making the first cultiva- twentieth of July until the pastures are done and they are stabled for the winter, which would be about the last week In October," The number of days which it will be necessary to feed green feed will, of course, vary from year to year but to be on, the safe side 4 one must figure on about one hundred ! pounds per cow per day. ~The man to with ten cows would then require ten that agricul tons of green feed and to he sure of prot having enough he shoutd 'plan on hav- dustries act, and put forward claims Adopted. The Pasex, England, Farmers' Unl- days and it will take at least twenty 'of has Toquestad all other branches GIVEN PROTECTION Essex Farmers' Union Request #ov { Stiport in Resolution In at one catch. I gave the plans of same free of charge to the United States. weit, who, {h turn, placed same "hands of the United States Biological Survey, Washington, D.C. to distribute blue prints and specifica- tion of 'same, tres of charge, to any person interested enough to build one. | Application. for 'same 'must' be made pport Pe of the be. placed under. the ding of In- direct to the Biological Survey, Wash. ington, D.C, = ° a nig an excess over and above what for a substantial duty on imported he actually thinks he will need. On barley for brewing, with the demand oye e soll, two acres should yleld that the importation of flour and the t for these requirements. The exportation. of 'milling offals Ys pro- pls 'which we have found most gatis- hibited; that the importation of con: factory is a mixture of oats, peas and densed milk be prohibited and that tches, seeded at the rate of ane and potatoes and' bacon only-be allowed Weiss bushels of oats, one 'bushel to be imported under license and in! 1 of peas and one-half bushel of v itd not Sealy require- ed and' dislocated, or to estimate at its proper worth the work which has been accomplished. In 'September, 1014, after. the first bombardment and the fire which followed it, people spoke riready of the Cathedral ag ruined. The jamage done was dea immense, | e fire started with scaftoling, which at that date. stfll surrounded the whole of the gorthwest angle of the bullding, testifying to the work of tient restoration which had been ried out during the previous forty years, all in vain, as §t proved. The Games were fed by the fnasses of straw jhich had been laid {4 the nave as a )d for 200 German wounded Who had | )sen collected there, 4 the chalrg and yoir-stalls, Sod, lagt ot 1 by fie oak beams of ali Jays the. great Rok ed, while Jisw meltéd lead from the roof poured down in streams from thie mouths of the gargayles, en the fire died down the outer root was gone, leaying the stone vaillting bare to the sky, the belfry of the north tower with its eight bells had crashed tg the ground, the thirteenth-century stained glass of the clearstory and the great rose window ' over the west door were pitifully shat tered, and a great real of thé stone work, both inside and out, inglpding many of the exquisite carved-stone fig- ures of the facade, had cracked and perished in the heat of the fire, all d the windows of the clearstory| teen months to build. the apse, and rain and frost were ASad L subsequent one' more shallow ' until ag; 1.088, towards 'the last not more than a 2- fast completing the ruin. "Outside the Catherral much of thé| "The most grievous and most irre- inch depth fs réached. The cultiva- stonework of the towers hung totter-|pafable loss 'Is that of the precious 'tion should be stopped as Soon as the Ing and ready to fall. The facade was stained glass which formerly filled the tobacco has been topped, as cultivat- gashed and splintereu. Of the thirty-| main rose window above the west door, ing after topping delays ripening. {five great statues of the main porch | the windows of the clearstory, and. The topping, according to the bulle- five. : Siding the Queen of Soon and those of 'the apse. Much of its perish- tin, should be done as soon as the! ote o famous smiling angels, were ed in the fire; the rest was mostly majority of the plants have develop- A decapitated and most of them were brought down by the bombardment, ed fort red or ot leaves. Post. | Per acre. There are other Stops which ' jments ot ry to su home [sadly mutilated. The smaller groups and could only be collected in tiny poning topping until' large number, Misht prove satisfactory but taking produc and statuettes had fared likewise. fragments from the floor of 'the of plants have developed flower stalks, ODS year with another, the abovefcrop Havoc had been played with. the light- Cathedral, The piecing of it together retards ripening, increases the pro-| can be depended upon tqglve a satis: New Wall C Covering That or stonework of the exterior, such as has been: the work of M. Jacques portion of stalk to leaf, and reduces factory yield of succulent and nutriti- Washes fhe corbels and gargoyles and the Simon, whose family has had the care. the yield. ous fodder--Kenneth Cox, Dominion, ngs and tracery of the windows. |of the stained glass of the Cathedral protecting Tobacco Plants From | Zxpefimental 4 Form, Hanpas Nappan, N.8, This was particularly the case at tha for 200 years. He has succeaded after | Cutworma. { 4 east end of the church, which had had long and patient work in reconstitut- Difterent methods 'of combating the CARE \RE NEEDED to bear the brunt of the shelling, Con-| ing, partly with the original glass and' =" an 'enemy. of tobacco The Bruising of Livestock in. Shipping © Causes Heavy 'Many Tongues' "When eight thousand delegates to the World's Poultry Congress arrive in Ottawa next month, this eity will be the host of the greatest cosmopoli- tan assembly that has ever been seen in Canada.. Over forty countries are to be represented by delegates. They are coming, from . every - continent. . Interpreters seem lkely to be in de- mand in Ottawa stores, restaurants and hotels, as well as In the Congress hall and Exhibition Grounds. The of: ficial 'languages of .the Congress are | English and French. The value of | being able to speak both languages P 4 The annual renovating of the house usually reveals a need for a certain amount of new papering or calcimin.! will doubtless be made apparent on ° In. or other wall freatment. numerous. oceasions during the nine * There is owseblstzable deoora- days. e biggest. delegation: will ~ tive wal oqve! will endure! naturally be from the United tates, {for a considerably longer time than | Ottawa is in the happy position of paper and may be cleaned with aety betug able to converse with Anieri- thus obviatfiig frequent repl visitors without an interpreter © 'This material confes in dry form by. ™ Scottish delegation will be separ the pound, and is mixed-with water to | ate from the English, but 'the Bcots a consistency slightly softer than will doubtless speak _Hoglish for the plaster. It is applied directly 'to the purposes of the Congress. There is . plaster after the old paper has ben one universal language which can be | removed, or if the paper is. still d by aM 'nationalities, that smooth 'and fast to the wall over its is, the language of courtesy. Ottawa entire surface, the composition may is no stranger to the art of receiving : applied over it. dis ed guests. Ottawa oft * Application to the walls 1s made dens' will neglect no" opportunity to with a small brush. Any color de-'ghow' enti and hospitality to the "sired may be chosen, or a mixture of cosmopolitan concourse at the World's os that gives something of a batik Poultry" Congress."--Ottawa Citizen. siderable stretches of the gallery|partly with facsimiles, the rose win- hich rune round {he roof of the nave dow and eight of those In he clear. ye" ominion: Doparément of Agtious on the outside had been completely |story. Enough of the original glass "on Tobacoo Growing: in' South. destroyed." ' remains to flll three of those In the. yo cio Ontario, Applying a poison: Losses It Was wo ours before the fist apse when the time comes." ed: bran mixture broadcast on the | iho report of the Veterinary Direc- jase of vegtorncion ould be Degun, When attention is turned to the out- fleld after tranéplanting has. proved tor General just to hand, this para- was spread, some cracks filled wich side of the ehurch, the means are at be the most satisfactory method of graph appears: -- e i cement, loosened blocks secured with hand 'fqr the restoration of the muiti- control, The mixture is compogged of . There does _ not appear to ny fron hitches, and arches supported. 'U3@ of sculptured /figures that adorn G0 pounds of Wheat bran to 1 pound ad in the of ship- with brickwork. When work really it, though & copy can never equal the of Paris green, 1 gallon of molasses, ping and handling of livestock as the commenoced-- , original, Plaster casts of the most and 14 gallons of water. Two light losses from bruises are relatively lar "The whole of the floor had to be famous figures, celebrated throughout, applications of the poisoned: bran on 'ger:than tha year previous. 'Much of repaved. Hach pilar and arch had fo the World as jewels of medi art, ive days have Proved more ef- this loes could undoubtedly be avoid: be separately doctored before the roof exist In the Art Museum of the Tro- fective than one heavy application. . ed if even reasonable care were exer coiild be touched. Under the constant 240r¢ In Paris; and the Department remeber _cised in the driving, shipping a hammering of the bombardment the °F Fiué Arts has in ite archives a ° I have seen many scenes in this handling. Gross Faire: Bi | arches" had sagged away from the S°ries Of photographs ' of practically House, but I have never seen one that than ignorance fs the un vi artistic sense of the whole world, but every retail in the seul f a y good to --David of this unnecessary loss." : 2 The dogoestion = be. it was little compared with what was | TAMILS; dou Tig 13 gome Instantes a Cashion), La pe ty of Lioyd Goren AB. ay. a) The loss suffered by farmers ats le, which' 1s th a A rion =| : A to foliow. = Until the. very end of the &ap.< each stone had to be a a ---- 1Aat Jackort w¥ery yout tiougivonre: o 1t may be oneiol any desig s Detroit Plans Flight | war the Cathedral remained in the fire- apaiatcly = > TTT less, dnadequate or. antiquated meth: are more elaborate, The finishes are | London put back into place, uncil the correct i curve of the arch was restored." Then™ immense structures of scaffolding had to be erected to enable the masons to* deal with the vaulting of the roof, A which was open to the sky in several CHR 3 places. ' y ods of bandiing and shipping. suitable for m, from the kit-' one by New Yoi , stock fs. yory: serious. o> wort f:- oe | "chen of an unpretentious home to the " and" erlin, Detroit 1s pisniing d wing-room of Santsuse cue: thee ght from that sity tu. London; se los Fang thi pA in "Patches, zone, constantly under fire, and at times, as in April, 1917, exposed to a merciless b x i Clever Work, Fre "The restoration of the outer roof Us asa problem in itself, which has been solyed by the ingenuity of the archi: tect, M. Deneyx. The roof which hai : | been destroyed in the conflagri: September, 1914, 'was 'made hf | Seams aud sovered: with lang. 'At the