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If this is put off until spring the rush of preparing the land and seeding is likely to side-track the t work, ~~ J ; Oats, buckwheat and barley can all be greatly improved by running them through the fanning-mill at least once to remove all weed-seeds chaff, eM my . broken and light shrunken grains. It ct —, 4; is not uncommon by the use of clean, i Dr. P, Ba Tye tkdlensetat ick a inerease the -yield rm _.. | two or three bushels or' more an acre, See TRIAS FMA. ROR. MLNMATOR, | bat a gain of even ong bushel 46 the Monre: 10 to 12 a.m, 9 to 4 p.m, acre will mean high wages for the = and 7 to 8 p.m, time spent in getting the seed ready fw a BE Ee wut | fOr spring sdwing. Meg Pe Clean grain will run through the 7 DR. F. J. R. FORSTER drill more evenly, thereby insuring a 253 Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat more uniform stand. It also elimin- é “Graduate in medicine, Untversity | 25 Shrunken, and diseased kernels nt . $ “which seldom grow, or which if they Late tant New York Ophthal- | do grow, produce plants too weak and yay Aural Institute, P matey *s | small to mature, and these have the re ns # Iden Square Throat Hoa . ‘g.m,; to 5 a a effect of ‘weeds peteee of increasing " Hours-—10 to 1 the yield’ Uniformly plump, sound ly, Evenings—T to 8, Wednesday d Saturday only; or by appointment! (Phone 267.) kernels will. germinate better, produce Waterloo St. 8., STRATFORD. *. ~ , Advertising rates on applicatton, a Pdvertivements without specific directions wifi haha until forbid a duarard hej Riedingly. | | ee ngce for contract rtleements ined gee e.) B the Office by noon ny | ! i SG MALC LM MacBBTH, — rot | ublicher and Prop itor, 3usinessCards Sreaentnesrene~ “37 worl ~ = tee ham 4 t Medical. eae: Spraying Is Important. “Spraying is the most important single operation in orchard manege-| ment,” says a successful orchardist. “Because it is so important, some or- chardists have thought it the only thing: essential to produce good fruit ‘and they have sprayed their trees well, but neglected pruning,. cultivat- ing and fertilizing. This practise has generally resulted in failure or in INTERNATIONAL LESSON. Peter Stands up for Truth and Honesty—Acts 5:--11. o I-2, At the Apostles’ Feet. The money thus given for the common ; al #aense need was placed at the disposal of the Oe enh SOUR ees . _|prophets as the trusted leaders of the “Spraying fs the most expensive Christians. In chap. 6 the ‘story. is orchard operation. The materials for told. of difficulties and inequalities spray mixtures are expensive, and the than the ungraded grain containing small, weak kernels. Several farmers can afford to own and use a fanning-mill co-operatively, ‘or each farmer can own a small one individually, 2: stronger and higher-yielding plants | ANSON B. KILBOURNE ) CHIROPRACTOR Office at the Grand Central Hotel, Every Tuesday and Friday. Office Hours: 9 a. m, to 4 p. m. , wultaition and Examination Free | —— sa To Cut High Cost of Living. The high cost of living has hit a great many people right in their | which arose in the distribution of the cost of equipment and labor is pg errs ah and how an od ahora a Was | . ; aa ' Pa ; i } si pocksthocks, The: than. who rowan} = 16 cone ot materiale can Be dei ie a a veactahl devi. ah wean #oni sened somewhat by spraying ‘each’ P Gra ap egetable garden, a sma PONG SOt~) ee according to its individinal | t#S* which they much preferred t6 den and an orchard feels the $inch| 4 y a a4 ie oe ent =p Dis, _have done. by. others. of high prices least of all, for he has; M°®¢. For instance, Yellow Trans-| Ananias and Sapphira “kept back parent trees need much ‘less spray- 1 ot. ‘ > | ¢ ($RIM winuyr| . BY IDA M. ALEXANDER, MD. =i (<i‘é .é*dLC*@éz oe | EES: AN t | H] Milk is the staff of life, not bread. have “food’ >and “rest,” why not you,| B é : Ao eS | The baby begins life on it and grows| too, little mother? = wy. ee ee ee ot Aaondertully that tice year #Old Agel Do you know that pe tare Oe : The Toriures of Dyspepsia 3 should go back to milk and forget that| dren are not well fed? The utes | Many inexperienced blasters make} _ - - neat fal i it ever tasted meat. All of us would! ation of rural school children shows’ i | : F Ag waite “of placing charges too! Relieved By “Ttult-a-tives” be healthier and more good-natured) that five to seven out of eyery ten | every one 7 close up under stumps. The result gore , it we drank morem ilk and ate less; are half starved or quarter starved.’ beastie 26 44 apparent that it ia is that the stumps split instead of | _Lrrrtz Bras D’or, C. B. meat, | | This means that there are mothers ; 4 oe : “Atiee aint. ag ‘coming out of the ground. I believe “I was a terrible sufferer from |_ I smile when I tell you this, for I} who are working so hard at other) not. aue Cosme} : +P and Pts am in placing charges deep in the ground Dyspepsia and Constip atiowtae Cones well know how the average farm fam-| things that the mother’s most import, powder. - But the true womanly — : under the stumps. In that way, the} J had pain after eating, belching Be ipa oe bbs i andes Fo BS, pnt Wore nee ates a ee beauty comes from good health, a 5 are gotien out, large roots). constant headachesand did notsleep | sich aad fend pee iba ak a things are to be made| and this good health isa woman’s _ and all. | : bese a : a ed. 7 ‘e a seat a ages te “It is also important to get the siepege lg nat A ead pices told The, city dweller says, “I cannot’ different you mothers will all have; secret. a charge properly centred under the me +0 try Fruit-a-tives - Inaweek, | afford to use much milk at fifteen, to get together to make things dif-; _ , - eh eee * a Leas thachola daenk to the conkre|) 600n>aaras free of pain, headaches | cents or even a- dollar for enough’ given a hot lunch at school at noon, ical machinery and good spirits, Sa hey fail to take into consideration oe see Pee aed ee au ae fe aca oe son if Bal all << sa way. oe =F an active digestion. A body free 3 ‘ that the dynamite cartridgeg are eight , nies Vyspepsia. Icontinue eat ne ROR ORIB EY. > eG DOLLLE- e Mother whe is. a good cook! *. Pe ES SOR, ches ie and if: thee - four cart-| to take this splendid fruit medicine | baby, is gorged with milk! Even in| rarely has ‘large doctor bills to pay. | from pens and aches bee | ridges wee jodie into: one. of. Mhese( and now: I-cam well, strong and France I did not firtd a baby that was By being a good cook, I do not mean, & tonic known for over fif a RAL cok Be syst holes, it really brings the charge vigorous’’, ROBERT NEWTON. suffering for lack of milk but I did | the making of cake and pie: I ‘guose as the best “temperance” tonic ae Ke away over to one side of the stump. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c. ge Hee ee eSec eS =o hgood abe) apie Race ita and narvine for woman—namely, ee : . ; & fa Be id . : ‘ wt | té S a : >: e : ‘ E "ype ‘ ‘ ron Spey The effect of this method of loading; At all dealers. or Sent postpaid by feedings be bad binati ms ae . i aeaplineate TOD. Pierce’s Favorite Preseription. - Be is likely to he the splitting of the Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa eding's ad combinations of food.; bread, rice, macaroni, spaghe ; 1 ae : es stump in two. The side under which | acento | Do you realize that many people, mean good soups. I-mean the real Yt can be obtained in any drug — the charge is ‘placed éomes out, while! — | : are eraEyene because ‘they eat too food-things not the “trimmings.” ' store in liquid or tablet form, or ee the other side under which no charge ere Many babies are starving | If you would have the family well send 10c to Dr. Pierce Invalids’ ne was loaded remains in the ground, ecause they are fed too often, so, fed, you must think in terms of food | \ as - | : : often that the food taken does not values. If you would buy wisely for' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. have time to digest. | your household, .you mus® , buy in} . a # ai BN 44 Of course a baby is fed often dur-; terms of food values, I saw. one — Cleansing of the intestinal brace ing its first days of life for the gree AArTiOr's wife exchange | one dozen | is important. Take castor oil or ~ | Stomach holds but two tablespoon-' eggs for two packages of ready pre-| .%)_. fabte pile Such a j select a vegetable pill’ Such @ fuls. In one month the stomach capa-' pared breakfast food. There was as_ " ry yee ee oS city is doubled and then in all kind=| much food in one egg us in one whole ONC 16 composed — OL May-apple, Be nt ness you should allow: Baby more’ package of the breakfast food. How, leaves of aloe, root of jalap, and — oe re toa ore eke acy hours ne me RRL she oe saree ~ made into tiny sugar-coated pel- tween meals. thin a mother, of by not knowing food values? ae teat tela 19. ese ey should lie down to nurse her baby if} I know some who complain about | lets, to be had-at oviety pee 8 r she is working hard. It gives the the price of tea, Well,. the food a8 Dr, Pierce’s Pleasant ete baby more time and a ‘mother should; value of tea is zero, tea is expe.sive Oe ante really take time to enjoy feeding her, at ten cents a pound. I will not drink| (Teach the children to ‘remove’ their y g her, baby. Yes, and that baby grows fas-| it. -Why do you give it to your chil:| overshoes before entering the house, ter and is happied for taking its meals! dren? It actually does contain the; Have. them spread a paper down by slowly and less often. ‘(harmful drug, tannin, and a child’s' the stove to set them on, It. will It has been my experience that: sénsitive nervous system should not) save a tired mother/much unneces- Oy; babies are overfed while mothers are’ be drugged. Why not, give the chil-| sary scrubbing. mS underfed because they do not take | dren hot milk or oatmeal porridge or, C2 ee time to eat. T would not for the world | some other food that is largely made | This’ isthe time. for budget estim- = ee join the class of those who live to! of milk and served hot? Every farmer ought to make : \ DENTIST. part of the price.” They had a per-' ates, 5iiavo OOF, SEBBEN, D.D.S, LDS, | indsor Block, Opp. City Hall, \. STRATFORD 3 Phone 998. Gini evenings from 7-to 9 o’clock dee : Rowe px ant H. B. Morphy, K.C, Solicitor for Bank of Hamilton. LisTOWBL. MILVERTON, ATWOOD Offices: Listowel, Milverton. Money to Loan, Harding, Owens & Goodwin Barristers, Solicitors, &c. Gordon Block, - STRATFORD, ONT. Morey to Loan. BT. HARDING W. 0, OWENS WwW. 8. GooPwIY rr — al intent | Notary Pubiioc. W. D. Weir, - Notary Public Auctioneer for the Counties of Perth : and Waterloo. Conveyancer, deeds, willis, mortgages draws and affidavite madc. Village clerk, Office: Weir block, over Bank of Nova Scotia A. Chalmers, - Notary Public Conveyancer, Isevuer of Marriage License J.P. for the County of Perth. Real cstate bought and sold. A few choice farms for immediate eale. ONTARIQ — MONKTON, Voterinary. R. E, Beggs, V.S. VETERINARY PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office: Barr’s old stand HMotela The Queens Hotel Beat accommodation for commercial tray: éllers and others. Two large Sample Rooms. @8O.'F, PAULI, Prop., - Milverton, Ont Some Gecteticea ——| a large share of his living. One of the secrets of a good garden or orchard is to order seeds, plants and trees early. Send the orders in ary and March. Early orders are filled sooner than late comers because there is more time. Seed houses are likely to be short of help this year, so buyers should be. particular to order early. Trees, shrubs and small fruit: plants will not. be shipped right away, but at any date specified in the order. Ordering early insures a bet- ter choice of varieties. order another variety. If this-hap- pens early, there is time to order again. ; Go through the old seeds now, test them to see if they will grow; send for a catalogue and order what you need. Old seeds often will not grow. They can be tested by putting them between two pieces of blotting paper, kept moist in a warm room; or by planting, in a cigar box full of soil. Ninety out of 100 seeds should sprout vigorously. Remove Stumps by Blasting. Many farmers leave stumps in their fields because they think it costs too much‘to have them taken out. As I have had a good deal of experience in blasting stumps, I know that it really isn’t so very expensive. By using the stumps for firewood, con- siderable of the cost of digging them out can be gotten back, The rest of the cost is saved many times over by the lessened time required for plowing and cultivating, and from the proceeds of the sale of the crops raised on the ground the stumps oc- cupied. To give an idea of the dynamite needed for clearing land of stumps, I will submit the following figures: Recently, in six days’ time, I blasted 856 stumps ranging from six inches up to four feet in diameter, gether I used 182.5 pounds of dyfa- mite and 356 caps. to the seed houses and nurseries be-' fore their busy rush comés i er ‘ Ef tes ars tinction gals a ahah just about in half by the use of pro- Late in the season, varieties are’ t yi : often sold out and it is too late to| SfOWer to get His spraying done ie) ; | It is neces- | Sary*to have the spray on the trees. Alto-] | ing than Duchess trees. ‘Golden and Jonathan need fewer | Ben Davis. i “The expense for labor can be cut } example, two spray rigs and the right | kind of a supply-tank wagon will | Spray just about twice as much or- 'chand as two rigs alone. Or, to put 'it another way, two spray rigs with /& good supply-tank rig will spray | about or quite as much as four rigs | without the supply tank. “Proper equipment enables the | time, or more nearly so. when the eggs of insects hatch and. the small insects begin to eat, and also when the fungous spores are be-| ing produced. A common mistake’! is to spray too late instead of too) early. “Spraying should be done thorough-| ly. However, the trees do not need. to be drenched. Summer applica- tions should cease just before drenching point. Expert sprayers using angle nozzles, small-hole caps and high pressure can do a thorough job and stop spraying long before the drenching point is reached. This is the ideal which the average grower has not been able to attain, because he has not the expert help. “For several years we have been doing as much of our scale-spraying as we are able to do iin the fall. What remains can easily be done in the spring. Then after the growth starts, but not so late as to cause injury to the foliage, we spray again some of the varieties and sections of the or- chard that are most susceptible to scab and blotch, “If our fruit is more or less in- fected with scab or blotch one season we are not discouraged, but simply go after the spraying stronger the next season, with a determination to get the sprays on earlier and more thoroughly. Comparatively ~ clean fruit can be produced even on old, badly-infected orchards.” | _ Milverton Ledge No. 478 ; A.F, & A.M, G. R.C.: Meets every Mond evening on o full mone ev ig Ba is thelr h ; in J, B. Weir's Diock, Vielting brethren always welcome - Harrow, W.M, H, L, Nicholson, Seey - Silver Star Lodge No. 202 1. O. O. P, Meets every Friday sight at 7.20 in their . Sail over Bank ts Hamilton. Visiting brethren always weleceme . Henry, W.K, Loth, G.A.B ¥ 73.0. Pin.-Gecy. Ree Becy i] a W TEST Tut at tee source, Weak Muscles Strengthened A mem pereee Cured, Croas yea in many cases straightened when glasses are fitted by thie dvanced syetem. Children'seyeo accurately examined without asking queationa, SATISFACTION GUA RANTEED I ae _P.H. BASTENDORFF is Eyesight Soecialiat’’ MILVERTON, ~ ~ - ONTARIO ———— —_ een at ee een gh ae woe eayine Ft E Eh SF Ee Apples cored and baked with raisins in the cores are delicious. . + if 5 ee ae oe aia alia Ten minutes’ delay at each meal oe a - —— « % means half an hour of mother’s \time Jost each day-——or more than eighteen -+ten-hour days in a year: q ’ a Winter eggs are the result of good housing, variety in feeding, proper care, and selected females. A good poultry house is one that affords plenty of ventilation without drafts. The fowls must be protected, Fresh air never killed poultry, but cracks in walls and leaky roofs have often done so. There must be ample room in the house so that the hens have opportunity to scratch and exer- cise. Comfortable, busy hens never worry to get outdoors during cold, blustery weather. They are content- ed indoors—and contented, happy ‘hens are the ones that lay during cold weathery , RSE Eggs are the product of feed. We must supply the proper feed or there will be no eggs. Those who keep 200 fowls, or even a smaller number, will find the commercial scratch foods and mashes very acceptable. They are _bwell balanced and composed of a var- fety of-grains and seeds that are greedily eaten. Where a larger num- ber of fowls is kept, poultrymen gen- erally do their own mixing. Th |}make corn, wheat and oats the basis, and add to these the by-products— bran, cornmeal, middlings and oat- meal, z If mashes are moistened with skim- milk or buttermilk they will be all the better. The fowls will not only eat them more greedily, but a valuable egg-producing ingredient is added. Green food or a substitute must be supplied @uring winter. Some poul- trymen feed dried lawn _ clippings, some use sprouted oats (and this was the greatest innovation in the poultry diet), |\some feed cabbages, ‘ut the majority feed mangels, beets and other roots as a substitute. The fowls must have bulky food. Steamed cut clover hay or alfaifa_are also ex- cellent, The stock must be regularly at- tended to, fed at regular hours and especially at night, while on the roost; 4 kept busy. scratching. Houses and premises must be kept clean and the air of the house must be pure. Last, but by no means least, the stock must be carefully selected — each year breeding from the cream of the flock. ; All these things are necessary for winter eggs. OFfoasD The maff who is able to feed his pigs so that they will win in the hottest show-ring competition is justified in believing his method a good one. A successful breeder depends upon the following ration: One-third ground oats, one-third ground barley, one- third ground middlings. Added to this ration is a little bran and oil- meal. _ This ration is made up into a water slop which is fed three times a day to the little pigs, and twiee when they get older. In eddition to this’ ration, sweet skim-milk is fed twice a day as it comes fresh from the separator. This makes five feeds a day. a This breeder’s objection to feeding skim-milk in the slop is that it is al- most impossible to feed a sweet slop, or one that is uniform. He does not like a self-feeder for breeding stock. Air-slaked’ lime jand charcoal are kept before the pigs all the time. Very little corn is fed, except as a finishing touch to show and sale pigs, suckled sows and market hogs. macapt ac Sin es Simcsheyan ‘ High Cost of Living. © “We throw away ashes and buy soap. We raise dogs and buy hogs. We catch ten-cent wish with a $4 rod. We build schoolhouses and send our children away to be educated. And sll of us try to live according to the standard set by those who make just a little more than we do,” Is there any ons of ws who doesn't do at least one of these things ? * Grimes, | Sprays and cheaper mixtures ‘than | per equipment and management. For istand against falsehood, and for ab- : | solute truth and honor in all the trans- | the| cheat the Holy Spirit.” ‘sin of the hypocrite. feet right to do this, for the ‘money | was their own. But they pretended ‘they were giving all, that they might | ‘have the credit and the recognition) due to such a generous gift. They) ‘lied both to men and to God. Whether | ‘it was.the shame and humiliation of} ‘the exposure of their falsehood or| fear, excited by Peter’s words, that. divine vengeance might fall upon them, that caused the death of both, | or whether we must think of a direct, act of divine judgment, the terrible: tragedy of, disgrace and death must’ * have profoundly impressed the whole: community. Peter had taken his. actions of the church. He had spoken| in terms of the most extreme abhor- | rence and condemnation of the lie) that had been told. The fate of! Ananias and Sapphira stood, and con-| tinues to stand, as a most solemn and terrible warning to the liar, and especially to éveryoné who seeks by hypocritical falsehood to obtain a re- putation for piety or a standing in the church of God, 3-6. To Lie to the Holy Ghost.” The 'passage might be rendered “to try to This is the He fancies that he can deceive high heaven, or rather he deludes himself into believing that his fair show of piety is the real thing eat but I do realize that if this mar-' Will not my readers look their chil-; ); one, i hied unto men but unto God.’ vellous human machine of ours is #o-' dren over and see if they are plump: ing to do the best work of which it; cheeked and rosy, full of play, bright- | is capable, it must be fed: No engin-! eyed and full of laughter, noisy and | eer would cheat the engine of coal} rowdy even, because they have ~-so. and then expect to make schedule! much “pep” in them, but, “perfect | time. He watches the gauge and| pictures of health.” | When the pressure goes down, in! If they are not that, will you not | goes more fuel. The engitie gets! ask why? : “tired” after a while and must have Do they sleep enough? a rest, Do they eat enough of the right Let me ask you; if the engine must! kind. of food? ee ee ee en ee ee eee es on shes: 5 and is acceptable to God. There is and to wound the conscience of their no more dangerous or debasing form brethren is to sin against Christ. of living. Peter said, “Thou hast not! A man, to be true and _ sincere, i It is should be not less but more than his no wonder that at such an exposure! profession. His life must be filled and rebuke the heart of the guilty’ with reality; not shams nor — hypo- man sank and despair seized upon | crisies. Such a man was Jesus him. “It is a fearful thing to fall into, Christ, absolutely real, sincere, open the hands of the living God.” ‘and clear as the sunlight, making the Falsehood takes many forms, but, actions of His daily life everywhere it is always and everywhere a sin! correspond to His words. He taught against God. It was thus that Joseph; Well and he lived well. His life was regarded the sin of infidelity and dis-| truth as His words were truth. Of Kanne hich he was tempted (Gen. the devil He said that he “stood not 39: 9) . : David: in He preseod Set in the truth, because there is no truth Into “it should go the probable cost of doing the farm work for the — coming season, money set aside for tools, improvements. in stock and fencing. In fact, every- thing that can be foreseen ought to be included in the.farm budget, Then work to the plan the best you can. > e+ A rural philosopher says that a farmer. who can afford to own an automobile can afford to send his son or daughter to college, because money — put into a machine can never pay so well as money invested in trained brains. How about. the short course at your provincial agricultural col- lege? oo NEWTON WOOLLEN MILLS buildings, ©, tence, says, “Against thee, thee only, | have I sinned, and done this evil in! thy sight.” And Paul, in a well | known exhortation (I Cor. 8), re-| minds. those to whom he is writing | that to sin against their brethren, el | Good Reads, Good Markets, Good Profits Farming is essentially dependent on the condition of country roads; for whatever is not produced on the farm must be hauled to the farm, and many crops of the farm must be hauled away to the railroad stations and lo- cal markets. Farmers sooner or later learn the desirability of diversified farming. Perhaps no cause limits farming of this description so much as bad roads, fer the prime requisite for success- ful diversified farming is a good mar- ket./ This market may be either a nearby town or a city, or a distant market which requires railroad trans- portation. It is a well-established fact that market prices for even staple crops vary considerably throughout the year. Where bad roads prevail, farm- ers are frequently unable to avail themselves of favorable prices. It is common for farmers to find that they ean not haul their produce to market when prices are highest, because the roads are impassable, When the roads become passable the time for market has largely passed and produce is compelled to move in masses which frequently glut the market and break the prices. 7 Fluctuations in market prices may have several explanations. They fre- quently take place in regions where the local production does not equal the annual consumption.’ There are counties rich in agricultural possibil- ities, burdened with bad roads, where’ the annual incoming shipments of foodstuffs exceed the outgoing ship- ments in the ratio of four to one. Many such counties with improved roads could not only become self-sup-. porting, but could ship products to other markets. When the roads of the great pro-' ducing zones of this country are im-| and value of school work are much) impaired. The presence of poor roads | will prove,a hindrance to the econ-' omic consolidation of these smaller, schools into a large, strong, graded | school with high school courses, superintended by a competent body of teachers, — In districts where consolidated schools are established, there is a marked tendency for the school to become the social and _ intellectual centre of the community. Most of these modern rural schoolhouses are so constructed that they may serve the community as gathering places for public meetings of various kinds, The school wagons are frequently pressed into service to haul farmers and farmers’. wives to grange meet- ings, lectures, musicales, entertain- ments, short courses or institute work at the school. In order that the people may. receive the full benefit of their schools, the buildings must be readily accessible by means of good roads throughout the year. Nothing contributes so’much to the, efficiency of the, rural majl service as good roads. Essential factors in the value of rural delivery as @ postal facility are speed and regularity, and the attainment of a satisfactory stan- dard in these particulars is absolute- Jy dependent on improved roads. All social activity is dependent upon the gathering of people for some common purpose. It is not dif- ficult, therefore, to see the connec- tion between desirable social condi- | tions arid the improvement of public. roads. Social institutions, such as | schools, churches, and public amuse-| /ments axe more or less subject to valuation in any community, but they are by no means the complete mea-. sure of social conditiohs in that com-: munity. Those subtle and delicately | adjusted relations which obtain in proved, benefits will accrue not only any neighborhood are equally depend-_ marketing is distributed throughout ditions. It is necessary to mention the year, storage charges must de- these intangible things if one is to cline. This country is paying at pre-, have the breadth of view to under- sent large storage prices: on food-, stand the influence which makes for to producers, but to consumers. When’ ent in the community upon road cen- , stuffs. The disadvantages of freight congestion in the fall ean not be en-| tirely eliminated in many places, but good roads will certainly have a marked tendency to distr®ute hauling . over longer periods. . | It is reasonable to say, therefore, that good roads mean that diversi-. fied farming will be encouraged the area of profitable production increas- ed, the opportunity for favorable, marketing improved, and more uni-. form distribution of farm products: secured. a2") ; : | Bad roads inflict two-fold hard-: ships on the one-room district school. Where the school jis on a fpoor road, | ‘a common practise in severe weather. ‘ia to keep the children at home. ~The attendance is thus, at ,times, almost entirely depleted, and the continuity | — | their outhudings. ence ef good roads seems many times the fina? status of country life. Bad roads are often a handicap to social intercourse. Under thé worst road conditions all travel may be com- pletely suspended. It is not. difficult to seé such conditions, but what is more difficult is to comprehend the general improved social atmosphere which adequately improved road con- ditions cause inf rural communities. | Along improved toads there is a vis- ible tendency for farmers to improve the appsarance of their homes and In. fact, the pres- to stimulate latent self-respect into” practical expression, . There is no! wonder thit a bog’ of well-nigh im: pusable mud before one’s door should react unfavorably upor the entire family. in him.” ‘When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar and the father thereof.” The Christlike character is one of simpli- city and purity, without affectation or pretence, without false pride or boasting. The gifts which the Chris- tian offers, the service which he renders, are in his thought and inten- tion offered to God. 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