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THE TWILIGHT STORY. CHAPTER THREE What Lady Hen Did. Do you rember I told you Lady Hen stayed sitting on her white egg, which she hid in the barn: all night long to keep it warm? Well even when daylight came around she just felt she couldn't leave it there all alone and didn't know what to do. But just then in flew Miranda Spar- row, When she saw the egg she told Lady Hen she was right to keep it warm all the time and not let it get cold. So Lady Hen was glad she stay- ed and sat there all of today too. The dark came again and she went to sleep the way she did the night before, But when the next morning came, my! but she was feeling hungry and.so very thirsty too. I guess you would feel pretty hungry if you just didn't have your dinner and would only have to walt till supper. time, wouldn't you? But Lady Hen did without breakfast and dinner and supper because she + thought the egg might get cold, She €ot just awfully hungry, so this morn- ing when she knew it was time for breakfast and the nice Lady from the big house was calling all the chickens 10 come as she threw out a lot of good grain, she looked out to see that no- "body was around and then she crept carefully out and ran over and she had a great big breakfast, Oh, it was good, and the water was so good too. But as soon as she was finished she hur- ried back, afraid the egg would get cold. However she found it wasn't cold yet because she was away such a little while, so she decided she would &€0 every morning and get something to eat and then hurry back again. After that do you know what else she did? You can't guess, why she laid another egg in the nest, then an- other and another unti! she had 'eight 1-2-3-4-56-7-8. Then she to herself, "Now I guess that's enough for me to look after." Miranda Sparrow came flying in one day after Lady Hen had the eight eggs and whispered something in her ear and then flew out again, and after she was gone Lady Hen did what she told her to do. She would fluff up her wings out big and then can you im- agine what she did? She rolled on the eggs and they didn't break for her body was so soft, but she did look funny. Then she put her bill down and 'turned over each egg. you See Lady Hen never had any bables before 80 Miranda Sparrow had to tell her to do that, Lady Hen had been sitting on those eggs a long, long time. Just think she wag there for three long weeks. Little boys and girls had their play day on Saturday and went to Sunday School on Sunday three times, going to school all through the week for three weeks and still she was sitting there. She began to notice no other lady hens seemed to want to have babies so late in the year, for here it was after the summer holidays, but she didn't like to ask them about it because then they.would know about her eggs hidden away so well in this nice dark corner, The very next morning something wonderful happened. Lady Hen heard something. If she had been the least bit deaf she wouldnt have heard it. Pretty soon the sound came again as plain as could be. Peck-Peck-Peck. Where did it come from? and here was another little noise only it had a wee bit higher sound, peck-peck-peck, and she got quite fussed up about fit. At last she peeked underneath her warm body for the wondered if some- thing was wrong with her eggs, and sure enough one of the eggs was brok- en and she said, "Cluck, Cluck, Cluck, well what's this? I don't understand it, but I better sit real quiet so they don't all break," but soon the eggs started to move and a hig piece came off, She thought she better look un- der again. When she looked under this time. oh what do you think she saw? a fluffy little head was peeking out of the egg and his bright little eyes were looking at her, Lady Hen was so ex- cited and hurried and covered her feathers around it so it wouldn't get cold, but pretty soon on the 'other side she felt another egg break and here was another little fluffy head, Oh, how cute they looked, She cud- dled them in under her so close and warm, and Lady Hen knew then these were her babies that she had waited for, for such a long time, The dark was softly creeping in around the cor- ners and Lady Hen told her babies about the lovely night for the first time and they shut those sleepy little eyes and soon all were sleeping. Next week--How about the next morn- ing? After The Pudding Comes The Cake The Christmas cake ranks next in Importance after the pudding and the mince-ples, and it 1s wise, when youngsters have to be considered, to to provide a cake not too rich or heavy. The Christmas cake, and not the pudding and mince-ples, as many believe, is the "last straw" 'at many Christmas feasts, Concentrate on a cake that is fruity without being too rich or heavy, An ideal cake can be made from the fol- lowing recipe: -- To a pound of self-ralsing flour add a good pinch of salt; then rub in half a pound of margarine. When the mix- ture is like breadcrumbs, add a quar- ter of a pound each of washed cur- rants, sultanas, and stoned raisins, and two ounces of chopped candied peel. To this add a quarter of a pound of fine white sugar and a tablesposutal of mixed spice, and stir well. Next take two eggs and beat them well, adding a gill of milk. Stir this in the cake mixture until the whole is thoroughly moulded together. Grease a cake tin and line with clean while paper. Put the mixture in the tin and place in a hot oven for twenty minutes. After twenty minutes the heat must be reduced, and the cake baked in a slow oven, After two hours the cake may be tried with a knife. If the latter comes out clean, the cake is done. If not, put it back in the oven and allow it to cook until the knife does come out clean, To ice the cake, allow it to get quite cold, then cut off the top until it is perfectly flat, Take half a pound otf icing sugar and roll out until MUTT AND JEFF-- smooth, Beat up stiffly the white of one egg with a pinch of salt, then add the icing sugar gradually, Take a bread knife and, after dipping it in hot water, prepare to smooth over the icing, which you can pour over the cake in spoonfuls, dipping the knife from time to time in hot water to en- sure smoothness. Then leave it to set, To colour the icing, cochineal or vegetable coloring can be obtained at any grocer's, and a few drops are add- ed to the icing before putting it on the cake. To make almond icing, work four ounces of ground almonds into the yolk of an egg without beat- ing, with four ounces of icing sugar as well, This makes a stiff mass which can be piled and arranged on top of the cake before the white icing is added. "Your wife seems terribly worried." "She is, She is worried about how fo buy 24 Christmas gifts with three dollars and a half." a SL "Economic ideals must include the ideal of beauty as well as the ideal Strange things=strange ways--have left their pristine traces among Canada's aborigines, Unusual, out. And in background may Here we see a mighty strange totem with wings. be made out prow of ancient dug- Life of Cut Flowers Pr. longed By Carbon The life of cut flowers, fruits and vegetables may 'he prolonged by stor- age in a carbon dioxide treated at- mosphere, show experiments reported to the American Chemical Society by Norwood C. Thornton, of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Re- search, Yonkers, N.Y, Roses, one of the most perishable of flowers, responded we!l to the treat- ment, Rosebuds stored in carbon di- oxide treated air for seven days were still fresh and open>d slowly with good color and shape when removed to warm air, while those kept for the same period in ordinary cold storage were badly shattered. Since florists have considered three days the maxi- mum period for roses, the treatment gave a possible gain™of four days. This is a new application of the principle on which all refrigeration by solid carbon dioxide, known as dry ice, 1s based. All living organisms respire, giving off carbon dioxide. This process, which leads to total decay in the case of cut flowers, fruits oxide Atmosphere and vegetables, can be delayed by the presence of carbon dioxide in the air. "To handle dry ice efficiently," Mr. Thornton explained. "Tt became im- portant to determine the tolerance of various plant organs to artificially pro- duced dioxide atmospheres. The re- sults show that some plant organs are improved for consumption by proper percentages of carbon dioxide, others have considerabls tolerance of the gas, and only a few require that mini- mal amounts of it be present. "During the treatment the pear be- came very soft and juicy, while the peach and the banana remained hard. The banana withstood 83 per cent carbon dioxide without apparent in- jury to the final ripening color or flavor. This concentration retarded the coloring of the banana so that it was approximately two days-longer in ripening than the controls, Citrus fruit withstood a relatively high con- centration of carbon dioxide without noticeable injury during or after the rage Yering." 3 Earth's FourHour Day Most people impatiently await the coming of the shortest day--because from thence onward the evenings be- gin to lengthen. The date of the shortest day de- pends upon the exact time the sun at- | tains its most southerly declination. It it does this before midnight on December 21, then that day is the shortest. If after midnight, then the 22nd enjoys the distinction; while if the time of most southerly declination occurs exactly at midnight, as occas- fonally it does, then there are two shortest days in that particular year. Stil more infrequently it sometimes happens that this time is delayed until after midnight on the 22nd, in which case, of course, the 23rd becomes the shortest day. Judging by our modern standard, one period of the earth's history all our days were "shortest days," for astronomers have shown that in very remote times the day lasted only about four hours. This means that for millions of years the day has been slowly but surely lengtiening, Its duration, in- of plenty." --Sir Basil Blackett, deed, has altered iu this direction even ts the time of civilised man. We know this from study of ancient eclipses, as found in Chinese records. --C.L.M.S. --y The other day a man, hitherto with- out a spot on his character, inquired with wellfeigned innocence: "How can five persons divide five eggs so that each man will receive one and still one remain in the dish?" After the company went all but dls- tracted in the mazes of this proposi- tion the fellow meanly said: "One takes the dish with the egg." The cause of peace is not the cause of cowardice, If peace is sought to be defended or preserved for the safe- ty of the luxurious and the timed, it is a sham, and the peace will be base; war is better, if peace is to be maln- tained. ep emree He Got a Plenty.--"Now," said the college man to his dad at the football game, "You'll see more excitement for two dollars than you ever saw before." "I don't know," replied the old gent; "that's what my marriage license' cost me." --'Malteaser" By BUD FISHER {ves & CAGATEENDRS [15 cai Fg 1S A SUCGESS, My HES Me SAME 's ' ---- ALW Ets esa EER Se A oh ENOUGH TO EAT 'grover : : ah HIGH HAT LL. oF TRAFEIC REGULATIONS] o ---- Conducted oi by Prof. Henry G. Bell, Dept. of Chemistry, ~ Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph 'The proves of 'this department © is to place at the service of our farm readers the advice of ac- knowledged authorities on all sub- Jects pertaining to the farm. Address all. questions to Pro- fessor Henty G. Bell, in care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Toronto, and answers "will appear In this column In the order in which they are received. When writing kindly mention this paper. As space'is limited it is advisable where immediate reply is. necessary that an addressed envelope be enclosed with the question, when the answer will be mailed direct before being pub- lished. Conyright by Wilson. Publishing Co., Limited. tions and -answers:+-- Reader:--1. I have a piece of clay ground which I have had In potatoes for two years and I intend sowing wheat on this mext year. I ask your advice in regard to th: best results. Would it be wise to put any more manure on? 2, What do you think about sowing oats on sod which is to be plowed next spring? Answer: --1. If you manured the po- tato ground heavily. i would not ad- vise adding more stable manure when preparing it for wheat. I would ad- vise, however, adding about 300 lbs, per acre of fertilizer carrying 12 to 14 per cent available phosphoric acid and 5 to 6 per cent potash, The reason is that stock manure is relatively weak in plant ripener--phosphoric acid-- and the addition of the fertilizer in question will tend lo balance manure and assist the wheat crop to make good root-growth and to ripen evenly. The potash will help the plumping of the grain. The fertilizer is best ap- plied through a grain drill with fer- tilizer distributing compartment. 2. Oats may be sown on sod land which has been plowed this spring. How- ever, the plowing should not be too deep, else the water supply for the oat crop might be seriously impaired. I prefer using plowed sod for potatoes or some other cultivated crop since cultivation gives a chance to rid the soil of weeds before the grain and Brass crops are sown. G.0.:--1I have fourteen acres of roll- ing clay soil to plant to beans next spring. Would like to get advice as to fertilizer, Would you advise using fertilizer on this land, and if so, how much per acre, and what kind? Answer:--Many bean growers have obtained satisfactory returns from fertilizing their crop. In tests carried on with beans in Huron County, by this institution in 1929, the average increase for fertilizing beans was 2.93 bushels per acre. The increases in the seven experiments conducted at that time, ranged from 0 to 5.75 bushels per acre. Good results were obtained from the use of 2-12-6 or 8-10-6 fertilizers. These are usually applied at the rate of 300 pounds per acre. Best results are obtained by applying this fertilizer through the fer- tilizer section of the grain drill, Many bean growers recommend spreading the fertilizer 7 to 14 days before plant- ing the beans. It you do not have a grain drill with fertilizer dropping sec- tion, any broadcasting machinery such as a lime spreader will distribute the fertilizer on top of the plowed ground. Careful harrowing and disking will work it in. When fertilizers are ap- plied through the grain fertilizer drill it should Le allowed to drop through the hoe on each side of the one drop- ping beans, but not in the hoe that is dropping the seed. If fertilizers are carefully applied as described, they supply available plant-food to the young growing crop and give it ma. terial assistance. Do not drop the beans on the fertilizers. P, F.:--Wae are contemplating grow- ing a small acreage of sugar beets the coming season and as it will be our first experience along this line, we would like to have your advice as to what analysis of fertilizer to use. One fleld is heavy ground with clay sub- soll. The other is black ground with gravelly bottom. acre of fertilizer analysing 2 to 4 per cent nitrogen, 8 to 12 per cent avail- able phosphoric acid, and 10 to 15 per cent potash. The higher potash fertilizer should be used on the blac] ground sicce muck solls are always short of this type of plantfood. For best results apply 200 pounds of fer- tilizer through the fertilizer attach- ment of your sugar beet dril] when planting the seed. Two hundred to six hundred pounds of the fertilizer should be spread on the ground by the fertilizer dropper grain drill preced- ing sowing of sugar beet seed. T. W.:--1, A five acre field has a clay sub-soil with five inches of block earth on surface, is it suitable for tur- nips and potatoes? 2. How deep should potatoes be planted and how Here are some of this weeks ques-, many bushels to the acre? Answer:--1. The clay soil with the | black earth on top if carefully worked should be &uitable for turnips and should produce fairly good potatoes. Potatoes as a rule do hest on gravelly or sandy loam soil. 2. As a rule po- tatoes should not be planted more than 4 to 6 inches deep. Ten to twelve bushels to the acre is considered a sufficiently thick seeding. M, F.:--1. Would it be wise to top- dress fields of whedt with manure for winter? We were not able to get the manure out earlief. Anewer:-- You will vised to top-dress wirter wheat with manure, especially if the wheat has not .made a very heavy top growth. Do not put too heavy a covering of manure, About 2 to 4 tons to the acre has been found to be most ef- fective. This will tend to lodge the snow over the wheat and will, there- fore, protect the wheat and gain more moisture for it. Ia the spsing as soon as the fleld is sufficiently dry! to go upon, it may be advisable to top-dress the wheat field with 250 pounds pe: acre of a' fertilizer analys- ing about 2-12-6. This will give the early growing wheat a good start and should 'help in the general vigor and vield of the crop. Fertilizers can be applied ac a top-dresser by broadcast- ing 'them with a lime and fertilizer spreader or by crossing the grain with a regular grain drill, applying the far- tilizer through the regular fertilizer section. Care should be taken to have the discs or hoes suspended so that they will not injure the growing crop. il m-- World's Most Wonderful Bank The recently completed head office building of Lloyd's Bank in London is probably the most wonderful in the world. It has taken more than four years to erect, and during that time 600 men have been engaged incess- antly upon the work. Labour-saving devices have been brought to a fine art. There enters, let us say, a customer who wishes to ~ What New York Is Wearing 'BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Hiustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fura nished With Every-Psttern f be well ad- : Featherweight tweed' , iovides a new appeal for the tailered. utility frock that will slip easily under the winter coat. 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