Go ot en “one: half err the year or more through ignoran: - using unsuitable feeds, be made very Br A pranoniier at Thi 8 Snneratane is for the es ‘einen af readers wh we tg sie nistlon an expert on ai uestion regar a oil, seed, crops, eto, fe of sufcen are nt nswered- ae column als stamped and addressed envelope Is enclosed "with your letter, slater Will be hialled- ta ‘fe you. Adaress ee care of Wilson fpustishing Co, Ltd, 73 Adelaide St. W., Torcnta. ed_in’the stable during | ant eeding. during this - period may, mm account of its from ie 3 Jargeextent on the e methods of winter Yeading followed. Economical feeding d scant supplies, but the using of the kinds of feeds and feed combinations that will be likely sts Bits re the best results -at the ty, ay digestipility, nutritioi The ab economical ration must liberal feeding of meals is advisable to balance the roughage to provide the heavy milking cow with an extra supply of nutrients in less “bul ‘A poui of grain when the cow is fresh is aie valent to several pounds of grain after the cow has decreased materially ue her milk flow. Feed ‘one poun meal for every pounds of milk produced; as her lacta- five pounds of milk ce The following are two well balanc- loes not mean| per variety and 0: a) mum ed cs rations for the 1,000 pound dairy cow suitable to the individual needs of farmers throughout the dis- trict:— No. 1- nips or mangels 40 pean, ease ture composed of & ground ba Pus ae tes ae cake 1 ae and cot 1. part. This meal fel Me ie rate ot 1 pound corn ensilage 30 pounds, meal’ mix- fast composed of bran.5 parts, cot- mp. seed 2 parts, cake 1 part, fed ee the rate of 1 Se ie set mi produce, of the same tem- per: eee an account a study should be made of the requirements he. aria animal. In #) est-br vary in their productive ability, therefore to obtain the great ofit; records should be kept of otk miilk and: teed, ear-tonts ‘he| made occasionally to ascertain if it ee ld pay to increase or decrease the ration and| gra’ Ce, in order to make a maxi- = ould be housed under the mos! f: orable conditions, that is, in regard to cleanliness, good ventilation, plenty of light, with ee. bedding and porns a groomin; A should Rave “all: the “goad = Rian enohawe din matolass wits ait selene ene euian a tiated by her arate aly pee nity of fresh water and fro three ounces Trak uddedto"her feed da! ly. SPDatrr Many remedies can be given destroying lice on cattle. About i simplest and most effective is any good coal dip or disinfectant. This product now is on sale in almost every town and it is cheap and ef-|er who market: fective. The market demands” vary in dif- ferent ee of the country. Some i for brown cage va nd in others the white egg sells at a ie eggs in small quanti- te will elder elie that any dis- netion is made but it will pay him ce keep one breed of fowls so that the eggs will all be of one color. If eggs are sold to a private trade animals ail over, the lice would be! it pays to grade them and only sell destroyed at once, but with a small! cartons containing eggs of one CoE erd this is impracticable, One) This gi he age a more pleas- could get a bunch of cattle in a steel |ing appearance and buyers will bi enélosure and spra: hi i jmore satisfied even though there is force pump and have it quite eftective.| ino ‘ence between the: quality of The practical way is to pee this dip | the Saee of mixed colors and the an ra brush a ply it graded pa pecially on the back of the neck and) the! withers clear up to the horns,| Put it figs Mipsly se rub it in with | t a brus! this two or three | tabs me isaevals of about one week you will ey te tee the lice. OFo05D) Corn and oats ground together, equal parts, make a fairly good ra tion for brood sows. grain feed will insure Soe wel developed pigs at ‘farrowing time. Sui cH a ration, while not a strictly bal-| A number ante? one, will produce the desired properly nourish their litters. BO ABER A Raa Houses For Hired Help. Homes are the great ‘stabilizers of in- civilization. advanced ing labor Wate! De irenting. tea bent, losses that result trom constant shift-|4 place. 8 a Te- sult of this recognition, many large ing from place to industrial concerns provide neat and attractive houses, which they rent to their employees at reasonable rentals, Such eases are usually merely com- mercial propositions. less dissatisfied labor Aaa, pint: aly, arin the war, of Great Britain and the United blished model towns for States estal efficiency have surpassed all expecta- 13. Herein lies one of the remedies for employed seen e ss lly, is, in most instances, dependent on the home pstescaitings of hi forts and decencies of. life. The addition. energy to ik. s-| One of our customers always liked brown eggs because she said that they than clear white segs. cha Mike di whites end the best, be- saviaetfood rings can be located in a white egg a little quicker than in a pa egg. In-other words, when a ditieuty in telling if Personally | we eith@r color is very attractive on per- fectly fresh eggs and the main point of one color or the oe Blasting Stumps. In clearing cut-over land of stumps, there are many ways, both economical and expensive, but the resuits are the same. he pocket-book is hit hard if some time and thought are not Henk in i eoyisiterinig the most eco- nomical, at me same time the most Hadieal method, of Peetes are using samp pullers, and after pulling the mp’ they: find ie a hard job to move, Paviclaly the white pines in clay solls, ‘They sometimes are ten feet r more across the spread of roots Sy as bad as it was before it was pulled. practical and. evonoraical is to brea ith dyna mud stump To it from bottom side and sexe’ a all cavity that will hold about two or three sticks of dynamite oe: having been if y lake oh oe hard part of # ts, in the centre. ‘ake clay and aud and make the cavity and place the explonvs, packing small compact mass. cartridges. will be suificient, or three fifteen * inches long and prime with No. 6 blasting] 5 cap, place in centre of dynamite and n-| Place on top the paper that was used for cartridges. pile some mud on “top, plenty’ of it, dod pack firmly. ti year. was ‘ended without —Mixed hay 16 pounds, tur-|i in und for every 3 a Am | has circled the gl | been renovated. ite #ell feat stock: that ia either al - leave it alone, in which condition it is| of hi A method that I have found both! them it into a} ou “There are no wheat reserves in the A to-day. For the 8 tory of the aie ‘the 1917-18 Ae eserves of prob of. the si ‘ine ces is enabl- ed Great Britain to create erve of breadstuffs. that covered possibly ree ., | other ee countries, the reserves in Great Britain are negligible. The fea tor tec ot betas apparent. The United States Food Adminis- tration says “the world will not be safe from hunger” until a reserve of three hundred million bushels of wheat has been established. It _will which another 150, a eee bushels of heads rar be set asi 8 the United. States harvest- d ae ae large: 000; making a grand total for the United States and Canada of 1,090,- 000,000 bushels. 7 the Unite tates harvested about 625,000,000 bushels and Canada 250,000,000 bushi hé excess in the whoat op in the United States and Canada for 1918 over 1917 is not larg United States y eonumes ormal about 500,000,000 bushels, quires about 100,000,000 gatas for desl: © Canad normally * requires about 40,000,000 bushels for seed. For the past two years Canada has had fs crops that were only average. A fairly good crop may be expected next year, but if the United States has i in 1919 as bad a crop as they had in 1917, ae if both the United States als Conags thle: cgrits craps sien they had | in 1916-17, America will be faced with conditions in 1919 which will wipe out all the poasible) reserves that may be piled up in 1919 by .con- servation aud ites From td facts ie conclusion is evident rvation programme. ft does age Boyer ae leaat tHE crop years is of little value, for the best efforts in conservation may Le offset by a single bad crop next y The Bulwarks of France. jobe. a. Age Batis, Sweden and Nor- and ij many in 1916, the im- Preteen wi ae of a world running down hill, . Nothing was For four years houses have gone he ainted, cars SPS t whe wor pan into the state of an abandoned But this is not visible in Hracce, wi eae ane largely to the wome me serena helageliee They have done the Russian into the Sa ic js as a lover that French man shines fort r lover. From babyhood she studies n. turn S ead she her is an Love w' m have been famous There ‘they have history is largely due to the re air-| Broken by se e. ou UATE CLOSE an Au YOUR EYES, SIMPLE YET IT MYSTIFIED, COVER BUNNY — PRESTO CHANGE, pie ON THE OTHER STAND, HOW STRANGE ‘The Child at The Gate. Clove to the lutticed gate oe stand3,| Her little face peers thro e whole wide world of cede Lies just beyond her view. e Small, eee hands stretch toward That ae me barring gat She poniers in her ‘childish eons Why pee ane To pl bette her tect Baie rare ean The brown eyes fiash, the baby heart Burns with unreasoning wrath, Her bare toes ache to feel the dust }Of that long-stretching r Beyond Her mother said that shining path Led up to God’s own towers. And God, her mother says, takes care Of little, wandering fee! Then why do stronger reads ae aut That dear, far-reaching. street? ‘The gate is shut but in the years ‘That come, dear child, we trust The long road may be good to yous And other bars, that Be found shave ae Samal hate 7} You ey ae wise to see Were put there by the ind, For your security. Old Heroes S| Who knows what hours of night their bor lies knew, ea bist wondering | tryst That we might “eke hearts and ey Upeg. pte sears so beautiful they thé drudgery. They Daily they walk with us the city wark behind. The essentials oi life Birodth: are performed . with Whom angels proudly ministered 5 hey have tilled eyes grown wise with p: The epeparet of a loyalty full true. You ape 6 ee you who would Hold in yOu keeping compensation Give them “the honor they have ae women exerted over men. MINERAL — Anyone familiar with the feeding, technically as the ash a general statement as to the or earthy requirements of Be roe may be made, certain a may appear at various asee AU ate ‘mal’s existence 0 a definite lack e an ap- ration, te f the required mineral or salt, in the soil that grew the foo re, of course, specific feeding is required. wants in the foregoing connec consuming earth, slate, weathered stones, ashes, wood, ete. If they are pen-fed, some two or three of these sae available materials ma: pplied, Even under out-door con- ns, however, many large feeders prove supplemental mineral and’ e fee these, charcoal e Faricuk ee ground rock phos- ate, ground limestone, lacked Tinie, bone tesl, Wwood ashes; sa are the most important. A readily at oc] .{meal, slaked Jime cat ae OF ris blood flow of the dam. eee which usually accomp: For the Sucking, Pig: Fl shoal be oipiiatly. senpiad-and at lowed to run outside at the first pos- sible moment. \_ Por the Fattening Pig: | device, will allow the hog to apnens th | the demands of the — sy: eke. ey with the heavily-fed hog, ¢ adie 2O8HL Uni oaat caer iysaaleata both from the mira and medicinal standpoint osphate, bone Sh eine supply. practically all where the farmer knows the natn accessible supply a a mixture of the BS E paween living and existin this|up and used for fuel. —Always.look| above is advised eral correc-| doubt exists as to the necessity system may not be intolerable, but|up s0 as to dodge anf pieces that] tive of possible “deficiencies in the) salt pF i stic. ani every efficient Jaborer desires a home | come a t all times have your] mineral constiti as aoe by; mals require it ih greater or lesser where he can enjoy @ reasonable mea- | back % the on when firing dynamite. the regular ration. quantities. With the hog it = pies mire of privacy-and i ‘Th estas orien ars ‘Gena Haka aati ferable to allow free choice rathei Fai would do well to jearn treating ndeiees that lie on the * an to ‘force the consumption of de- from ic industrial | groun SR. Breeding Stock’ in’ Winter:| finite quantities. - Salt, ee should be added to all mineral or could be leased small rental, or simply be used as a Gl fanpeiairae to encourage mar- n to work on farms, inless such ate ntages are provided, it fs néeless to complain the- -searcit; und inefficiency of farm labor, for os best laborers are sue to seek for em- ployment: where ti petent and the inefficient will find thei way i Abaliicdalian the farms.—A. D, eof The Bpat substitu st pice ed for a 4 pinta “ot bres ies ee m B* pin Nein Slant Farmers’ Account Book. your Farmers’ Account we were told by our pastor?” That a letter see ny received mmission of none ‘habits a ‘armers’ Accow fang blanks for “s simple but com- prehensive system of farm accounts, wall je sent on request to any farm- er who states the number of acres of ‘or Sods, earth and ashes are easily sup- plied. Charcoal may be purchased es of coarseness or cobs, or wood, of its malar constituent, Seas) is an excel rective, of strong, oy tructure, & mineral deficiency of the dam’s ration during gestation is on responsible, w other probable Bignce are diftieule to ascribe. es pigs at birth, a phenomenon aitenly explain de-} as J tong he work: Nilere the apetoy 1eiees eae eviaeea eh Te ee ered re neces~ a oes diversified indicated. The are so small, mparat y, that the cost will prove almost seailuible The growth and levelopment of hogs, ae Shoe eu cannot will “txely ie “greatly Penettieds ee “a sie as Stronger} two G ree “with reverent | s them. = “the winter farrowed litter should have access to absence | €ai Fattening pen-fed, should Ge Gecane ‘feet. He says in per! |. #Youwill no doubt be interested to | learn about the’ carrying out of the Tt certain- ly didn’t seem feasible, as it does now, that he would pve up all those ships without 2 nOree “Well, ie pe the greatest We were out before the ole a tts rand fleet this tim ect ti my’s beet en shies. Yanks a a ‘were ther: lay : the six ‘lights’ reported the e ing. First came ‘the satleshipa then the battle cruisers, all in squads of five each, led by a dinky uae destroy- er or light cruiser. A few miles be- hind came: their: Hastrowea hemme: in by two lines of our little grey devils. “Tt has been a beautiful day and as there eee several newspaper and n the seas, and the navy has done her we towards winding up the ‘Watch n the Rhine.’ are only waiting for the army to put the. tin er the care and maintenance aa ane taken the ships over, all ¢ Bae Sela hc crets being revealed now. I'll give you one. The Germans admit de- feat at Jutland. ‘They also say i Becous, andthe elotone® whieh are termed two of the hush ships, sank tw the fact that they were sunk during action in the Heligoland Bight, Nov- jember 17, 1917,’ po asst SUNK THIRTY U-BOATS British Channel Barrage Consisted of ‘Two Lines of Anchored Skips. Vice-Admiral Keyes, who was pre- sented with the freedom of Dover re- cently, said that the Dover patrol had accounted for 30° submarines between January 1st and the 30th of Sep- tember. ‘und has been ce Northcliffe es se £10, 000, to \ sateol Vice-Admiral Ke; gets satisfied | t tie Demeen writh himeelf-or hevsel; vad is above Dover, vets | learning, growth stops dry rot by which the greutest suce f the oe — = noticed ate rg 8 % y . ‘ nti-submarines were achieved. He) ocx at the same time I did. He lines of specially built was impossible for anything to pass thent Gn the sivfact Underneallewerd masses of submarine devices. The duty of the patrol craft wa vent submarines passing face and to drive them down to the perils ridden below and then drop depth charges. ‘These saeeancen Tae so successful that by Septer this year submarines aatiopen: the coe Passage. There was definite enemy proof to site January A918, 2 fied, Under the vighted barrage were many others not yet definitely located. eee ene Ring, Happy\Bells. d| Ring out the old, ving in the new, Ring, dappy bells, across fe snow; r is going, let ef 2 Phe him | Ring out the false, ring in seer: Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and ‘poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Bi ‘out the want, the cave, the sin, faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ting out, my mournful w But ring the “fuller minstrel in. Ring out the thou: Ring in the pent years of pence. Bue in the yaliant Bik and ive te larger \dlier han: Rug out the 3a dai of the land, Ring in the Christ be. [Seay BOT ‘ehny so. lat Bact sting. negerotlge oes a ae day: England or the World has ever | OF & yy een though at lesser spec 1s ok and longs must 8 to ” | cipal facto: dN 6 | mic is suggested ‘Many have tad ‘> define siedp, but T do: not knew of ny’ definition that is entirely tetany or inclusive, | f cause of sleep is not the same for} People nor for othe same person al th time, but. this we can say, mee ese sleep may be it is al- consciousness, not necessar. iy Catone for light sleepers spake on the slightest disturbance. On the other hand. it may be so stupefying that it resembles the unvonsciousness nthe brain is paraly: tive in. pene sleep the nutrient processes of thi and working hours. Pi urinary and some of the other parts of the machinery are on half-time, We know thit anaemia of the brain will cause unconsciousness and seemii é@ this must be the Site rin ogc sleep. Fur-| ti thermore since ‘tl poisons, drugs cireplating in the ood is seen, the drowsiness, stupor and unconscious- ness which follow their use it is fair. of the body, especially the urea, the polsouooa fatter absorbed nom? Gaal: intestines and bladder, and the ma- terial generated by the excessive work of muscular tissues which gives us the feeling of fatigue are all con- Ca ek ed eee aries reat: | tributing factors in. inducing sleep, aie aden Ge Wileth ke he, ROluaey anbeculee dys to tna ue rth, jg the muscles controlled by the will,| i °| is quiescent and rest for the muscles is essential to life. Like every other machine, the human machine, if worked continuously, soon wears out. People who are always suffer severely if they can lie guietly in bed a sufficient number of hours without jmotion brain activity, though of course ba miss the great boon of peaceful coi tinuous sleep. That the brain is anae- by the loss of color in the skin as the heart slows down on t and the blood accumulates the venous ee of the circulation. The obiett f sleep is recuperation, re- wal, renovation. is relaxati jon of Bode muscles, rest of brain and nerve celis, like rest in an electric presume that.the waste substances | ©! poor sleepers do not) suj ae, to the. “Tenewal of son y ae is More important than— gnony some pe ve gone set ‘ood three or four weeks, few if ‘aukt go_as long. withbut lea Most people are used up if sa i srithont sh ‘orty-eight, hours... Thar = geet mee ‘that or eee, for different people and at different periods of life. An infant sleeps al~/ healthy development. In mature lif eight hours daily satisfy most ape women frequentiy being able to tion of vital force and furnish suf empe: pecially during the =the AEA mont Geniietend and Answers. B. E. L—Eight years ago I suffer- ed a fracture ot the spine. un- wall m much niles with constipation. hysician, and wou! glad if you would tell me what I could do. Answs ree you really have such a uu have stated, I should Nera be aoe help- less and think it would be wise if could have eee medical at- nition. I could riot I might si that I ‘should think eae: you would be benefitted by the occa- sional use of an enem taining about one quart of hot and ieps and 8: tapiegnooihl, ohiiruer tine—the turpentine being carefully and thoroughly mixed with the soap and water. A, thirty thousand, pounds sterling fu ich | Wi Ring out old shapes of sa disease; - out the narrowing lust o! "3 ea wars orate c ld, a CAN YOU BE TAUGHT? suppose everyone starts out in lige with the wish to be a success. Even the yeriett derelict in the be- out a doubt, hoped to e his ease and have -an d name in his community. But a se none of anes fail through ons big smash nor that any of the suc- cesses make good by one sudden piece of good luck. Success or failure, to my notion, is a culmination of little things. Little by little success things. ancient writer knew wl “Take up the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines.” is the little things we must atch if we want to Wi And the biggest a: the little things is Salle accumulatioy led: Have you ever fottesd that the really big, successful man or Se is never ond Pe with that Te Hie that was Maan and ambitious one anxious irst. he | pregnant sow. a mixture conta He he soc pena: seo aoe RUALE: Bata able-to Hae at’ shaker Uheoane a eae inviting aboot Aa ee =| slaked lime, wood ashes, and out the stiffest gale. They were pro-| .. 45 eagerly listened to everything will frequently prevent the LS | vided ‘with the most powerful search-|0 O56 wanted: tp. tell. him. Ad- These constituents are cheap and; lehts. One line ran from Folkestone anyone ad FaPlioRha ees eauily ‘srotutble: SoAside trom thete| Grisnez. A second extended geross |!" OPO dhe and’ resignations ie cae erecta tural food, in winter, /¢He channel. seven miles westwards. | (4° Coan -ae managing editor. at the Toots sapply much mineral constitu:| Scores of drifters ahd small craft) oT C¢ three yeats,. fe took him just ents in themselves and in the earth Sich patrolled the Meat ae inter-| tives months to lose his job. Why? of darkness were so thick that it Because as soon aa he got it he decid-_ ar aeenwis 00 big 0 learn any-! thing from anyone. ter of fact, be couldn't ve deena eh ey, bab weing meme Story: and handling mes and’ depar ments are el jifferent things.” ‘This chap imagined, though, that: be- cause he was the “boss” he must not t | listen to advice som anyone, no mat- ter how many mi vs’ experience! they had had. “He refused to learn’ and he lett the are a failure. more modest. He | Hit was never too important to listen to the grcenest reporter who thought he had an idea that would help the paper. e ing the job. w into success, pe is still growing, and will eonbnne 0 grow as long as he contin ie rn. ‘The law holds true with every wal of life. Just now we are seeing i itch not parla any t¥ouble about u: the new foods nor getting along with a Timea allowance of sugar. It is! never could see wii sot ‘out. thelr own, and ness, their number is small, who are doing the complaining. woman. who chi ye, pres and light cakes, heaped with ave disappeared, ~ But en 1e WO- thi set iS Aout to iat new vas ‘of cooking and bak- i. x. cares! aa! the tn te, aN BY Cheying 2 got used Yb this} ahove learning from anyone? I have,|V sof the Last Supper. oe se Be “Live!” way of -baking they don’t ‘care whether they take up the old way in or But the women who never would ay. can’t tle anyway, they # have what they tee And they won't try to like a ae ‘They are failures. because they ena patriots for the same reason.— D. Bie gy Rahs Sit SOME CURIOUS SUPERSTITIONS The hate oni of These Wide- liefs. < Man's ou is in excess of his ower to interpret and understand; consequently he guesses, says Mr. J. Arthur Hill in Chamber’ ’s Journal, and ett thirteenth of the first He Sete an Old Norse legend says j that the twelve great divinities were | dining at Valhalla.when Loki, the god -| of discord, appeared, and a quarrel with Balder occurred in svhich Balder, The Friday superstition arose be- cause the crucifixion is supposed to have taken Leck on that day. Soma persons think that it is unlucky spill salt bave Judas Iscariot seems to be spilling it in Da Vinci's pocture Others think that t- it is beeause salt is a symbol of in- cor cgere Be a spilling it is thexe- fore a ee roken friendships and _ general uy There ae Some curious and very widespread customs of a superstitious nature {times say sneezer. In similar circumstances the Romans used to say, “Jupiter preservo you!” The Greeks did the same, and the custom was ancien even in the Jems; ee ne evidently knew ati 1 of its ori ; When a S Hind ee the bystand- nd tl eze) ‘With you. ” The Zulu thinks ne ae is a sign that the Wa ‘its are with him; other people: est eve that it Tee that evil icles ate being expelled. Bad le about the danger of looting the’ fi ee Se = ‘The: ld beasts already in & ‘ | sugar an aie i a Macuiler Puneet oe for “The vigil pate personal libert; * sists in the Fare and svillingness lof man ara are Inward { ch raiae ye neh al tne , cane Henry Ward Beecher, /~ \