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atidres communication toa 73 cdealde st vett toronto part of the limited ration goes to ward the maintenance of her body why lights make your hens lay more eggs kittlf any and there nothing seems so strange i is any without lights is used 5ssiffixr2 to tertal fact that artificial light used at night in the henhouse will increase egg pro duction yet it is a fact that they will do that sometimes as much as 100 per cent and if you are not us ing lights on your flock no matter how small the flock you are losing money using lights costs nothing extra either in time money or equipment almost every commercial poultryman some pullets start the fall with a fair lay and when the ration begins to run short draw material for mak ing eggs from the rt erve in thelr bcdies when this supply becomes exhausted they have to quit now let us see just how a lantern can best be used take an actual ex ample suppose that it normally gets dark at five oclock and on dark days half an hour earlier it doesnt get r naji an nour ear ju ounui has adopted the practice in the last ht m unti about 7 or 730 in few years and not a few farmers have 1 the mornm there are fourteen been practicing it successfully for the in which the hen goes without last year or two even on small farmj u use the i an hour u xv- i and a half at night and the same in the thing is very simple use anyi the mornine we have a feeding period kind of a light an ordinary farm- l thirteen hours instead 0 ten and barn kerosene lantern works fine the fasti period reduced from hang the lantern in the henhouse fourt hours to eleven a period in while milking and doing the chores after dark at night and before sun rise in the morning see that the hens have plenty to eat and drink thats all you need to do and your egg production should at once double itself since it is so simple how do we explain it well first of all remem ber that the lights have no direct bearing on the matter they are only a means to an end it is a feeding problem pure and simple a hen is an eggmanufacturing ma chine the feed she eats is the raw material for the eggs her system manufactures the more feed she eats the more eggs she makes she cannot however see to eat in the dark so as the days shorten in the fall and winter she eats less and which the hens have become good and hungry but not starved and empty for three or four hours which would have been the case had the lights not been used another practice fast becoming popular among poultrymen is what is known as the night lunch the birds are allowed to go to roost at sunset about three hours later the light is hung up and the hens feed for an hour it is then only about ten hours before sunrise and that night lunch easily lasts until the early feed in the morning electric lights of course are hand iest an ordinary kerosene lantern does well one lantern if the globe is clean will light a floor space of 100 square feet in a 20x20foot house two lanterns one at each end of the the childrens hour stts f house are enough they should be irmfll 4m 2i hung about three feet above the floor chance to eat more feed and she atj one 40watt electric light in a pen lvw lay f 20x20feet will do although two may sw vn l j h be be th a aould be hung as it is no fun to eat in the dark if a t three f frqm h fl you dont believe it try it yourself some time biddy goe3 tombed with the sun and your egg factory just like any other factory under the same circumstances is not running at full capacity because the management has failed to supply a lighting system for the laborers to work by the farther north you are the shorter are the days in fall and win ter and the- more night light your hens need the hen has eyes that are absolutely blind in the dark she is helpless and has only one thing to do which is to sleep and that is ex actly what she does without lights the hens last feed at night has to last a very long time until morning so that when she comes off the roost she is literally starved you may say some hens lay under these conditions true enough but that hen is not the average hen but a very efficient manufacturer of eggs and even that hen will either increase 3ier production under lights or pro duce the same number of eggs a whole lot easier so far as going against nature is concerned she never meant that a hen should lay at any time but in spring tho natural breed ing season we have to work out our own systems for getting outofseason eggs especially winter eggs if the hens ration is short or feed ing practice faulty the first thing the it is very important that the hens have feed and water while the lights are on the feed can be a mash in selffeeders or boxes or some scratch feed such as corn wheat and oats at the rate of about five pounds per 100 birds or preferably both mash and scratch feed as spring comes on and the days get longer the length of time the lights should be used gets shorter at the rate of five or ten minutes a day until the natural night pericd is only ten or eleven hours in the event that the night lunch system is used turn the lights on five or ten minutes earlier every night until there is only a short time between sunset or dark and the time of the night lunch in any event stop the lights gradually this is all the instruction necessary for this practice and no matter what practice you follow otherwise the ad dition of night lights will be found extremely beneficial confront a difficulty with confdence and it will soon cease to be a difficulty a scrub bull on a good farm is like an inkspot on an otherwise cleanly written page the use of system enables one to do things with the least wear and tear hen does is quit laying solf-preser- 1 be a system man even to the extent vation demands this so that the first of water and light systems people in country 17 ill out this coupon now let tii send you investment items each month and adoise you from time to time what it would be safe and profitable to buy royal securities corporation limited 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3iagic whistle robert scoiied had always kmged for a dog but in the apartment bouse where he lived dogs were not allowed when the family moved out to the country his first question wa now may i have a dog ill try to get one in time for your birthday was his fathers reply dont forget that tomorrows my birthday robert said es his father started to town one morning that means the dog doesnt it said his fafcaor weh ill do my beat when the automobile came in sight that afternoon robert went running to the gate there was no dog to be seen perhaps hes asleep in the foot of the car he thought wheres my dog he cried as he swung the gate open his father smiled i couldnt man age to get him today he answered then as roberts face fell he added but dont give up hope he felt in his pockets heres something your uncle dick sentyou he remarked robert took tho package and un wrapped it slowly why its 1 whistle he said a special kind of whistle was the reply your uncle dick said tell robert that the way to make it do the best work is to blow it with three short notes and a long one best work what does he mean asked robert doubtfully well hes coming to see us to- mtorrow father answered then youll find out im much obliged to him for the whistle said robert father do you think ill have that dog beforo long i think you will his father re plied when uncle dick came the next day he left his car down at the vil lage garage and walked up to tho house robert was practicing on his whistle hello uncle dick he cried this is a dandy whistle thank you youre welcome said uncle dick do you blow it the way i told you to for answer robert put the whistle to his lips and blew three short notes and one long righto said uncle dick i think that whistle will serve you a good turn sooner or laterbob robert looked puzzled what do you mean he said then he added i thought i was going to have a dog to show you when you came but i havent uncle dick loved dogs as well a3 robert did but he only nodded lets take a walk down to the village he suggested when they had gone some distance uncle dick said how loud can you blow that whistle anyway bob ill show you said robert he put the whistle to his mouth and blew and blew as loud as he could uncle dick laughed just suppose that was a magic whistle he said and you could summon with it any thing you wanted id blow for a dog answered robert go ahead and blow said uncle dick robert chuckled if i thought i could blow a dog to me he said id blow till your ears couldnt hear with that he blew such a blast that the hills rang three short notes and n long one suddenly he saw a dark object dashing up the road in a cloud of dust it dashed straight toward uncle diek and him to roberts astonishment the object turned out to be a small black spaniel e the sunday school lesson february 4 the grace of gratitude luke 17 1119 golden text enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him and bless his name ps 100 4 lesson setting thos2 who think that a ministry of healing would make lhe preaching of the gospel a tri umphal march have something to learn from the incident of our lesson hero we have christ healing men afflicted with a dread disease yet ninety per cent of the men thus healed went back to their life of health and wholeness untouched by a sense of love or gratitude they re ceived the- gift and straightway for got the giver only one man returned to give thanks to the one who had wrought the cure for the blessing re ceived and he was an outsider i ten lepers asking for mercy 1113 vs 11 12 as ho went to jerusalem jesus has been repulsed by the sa maritans of the village that com mands the entrance into samaria from the north then he travels eastward their faith in him for they were not to be healed and then go to the priests but to be healed as they went to the priests their very starting for the priest shows a measure of faith jesus says priests because one of them was a samaritan he was to go to his own samaritan priest the jews had no dealings with the sa maritans but in this case misery had drawn them into a common compan ionship just as in a calamity of na ture such as a fire or flood animals that are natural enemies will be found together vs 15 16 one of them that he was healed as the lepers went the healing came they saw and felt the strange change i it blesseth him that gives and him that takes arid one might go on with the comparison tis mightiest in the mightiest it becomes the throned j monarch better than his crown j there are some who affect to despise gracious acknowledgements well everybody despises obsequious syco phancy but i thank you is often a true sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace we do well to remind our selves as well as children to say thank you remembering the great gratitude of the samaritan who fell down on his face at his feet giving him thanks praise god from whom all bless ings flow the samaritan not only thanked jesus he went on to give glory to god applying this lesson to the lives of folk today the first and most obvious observation would be that we should glorify god for healing when he saw that he was healed he glorified god every one knows how natural it is to pray for healing when one is really ill should not the impulse that drives us to god in petition persist and consum mate itself in giving god thanks we should learn st francis song of praise for gods great gifts be stowed on all praised be thou my lord for brother sun so beauti ful so bright for the moon whom as sister we greet for brother wind and for air and cloud for one of them was immediately filled with a great grati tude ho thinks immediately of him j sutr water humwlhotyndorfng who was responsible for this blessing service for brother fire so cheer- towards perca along the borderland j and gives glory to god and thanks to flt and bright so mighty so strong the lituo do was almost w-irrrnno- between samaria and galilee there jesus he was as eager as the others for our sister dear mother earth ur was alm wa him ten men that were lepers to be restored to home and friends lof al the protector nourisher and the most terrible disease among the out gratitude is his first and strong- kg from dearth many of us are jews it was called the finger of est impulse he was n samaritan franciscans on thanksgiving day himself in two roberts eyes here he cried rhone here pup i god being thought of as a sign of then as the dog leapt on him the gods anger leprosy was nothing boy ashed where did he come from short cf a living death a corruption and whose 13 lie t of all tho humor a poisoning of the he came from lhe garage jevttofhh wtolebomylt said uncle dick irth vltir wasleemed an incvabledisease and f 01 a lime emm aim were rector- election and this habit like s3 til y was eaueu nsnntavy conditions d to society the samaritan went others is tile rcsu of pract you want lum of living and pooi- food which stood cleansed body and a changed the one from whom least might be aml we lnav have other holy days of expected was the one who showed remembrance but a constant joyous the deepest realization of the great- slirit of kratillk for lifes common ress of the blessing bestowed upon nlerc comes either as a special gift him the nine jewish lepers went to of god or is obtained with a great the priest with their flesh like tnc sum tho susta habit of devout re- flesh of a ittle child and were restor- voiwiinn and this habit likn all what cculd be done the man who- sold me that little j v 17 were there not ten cleansed where arc he nine the heart of a prop for doors we find the following described prop for outside doers a great saver of time and it is always on thejob well i surely do want him robafar off they dared not enter the heart and was restored not only to ertciiod j village nor could they draw near j human fellowship but to grateful fel- then uncle dick explained that jesus for the leper when he saw any lowship with god when roberts father failed to find a- one approach him must give warning dog he himself had effored to see h crying out unclean unclean not even his nearest and dearest may jesus was touched by the gratitude of pi small strap hinge on the come near him he is an outcast from the one and pained by the ingratitude of the doot six 01 cight fellow- he added tcld me that he fa r ches from the end and nine inches i was used to coming to a certain call 1 mercv on us if they cannot ministry on earth how many were j rhals why i rent yon the whistle- j to jg they can crv aloud tomesscd how many were ungrateful i bluntly sharpened and about and the message and thus arrest the attention of but in the response of the samaritan inches long is fastened to the other robe- tuss i laugncki iw inui oui2tjt iitit- 1 right he said three cheers for it n k i new testament we i v rr to keep the brace off the grorvi three shorts and a long- yonthv ft roman tunon s h t in lise a st c is companion w lrtruefarhmavexn ess measures and appreciates the gift fastened to a screweye near the lower isf in look a sigh tcvv when gratitude gives heed to the giver of end cf the brace run through another i the gift and the motive of the gift scrcweye eighteen inches above of wood hteen u iiv issc ihim and tlms arrest tne attention of l wk l oaiutriuni wt v v robert wlio was liavinf a grand the master their cry expresses not ne t wider possibilities of his end of the hinge when left to itself sso with the dog looked up and only the greatness of their needs bat ministry the measure of jewish re- this strip will drop to the ground and tighed its a maic whittle ill is an indication of faith in christ asuponse was not to be the measure of form a brace rations for ducks royal securities corporation limited a jclil c3 montreal imifax 5s king street west toronto st john winnirjt aacr v york lormvn w p nfiiis dranch mafuflcf he saw them looked on them with glance that took in the whole story of their life its misery its loneliness a good ration for laying ducks mil j ho pdessness his heart of divine sists of equal parts bran and corn g0 out to them meal to which is added twenty peri 0ne uper gives thank- m19 cent low grade flour then add about y l4 shelv yourselves unto the onequartcr green fond and ten per the thought of pity was cent beef scrap with a sprinkling of j immediately by the word of oyster shells and grit during the- power the leper who was healed of laying season the ducks might bel his leprosy must show himself to the given three feeds a day while ntl priest who alone could permit him to other season two feeds would be sufi become a restored member of society i fieiont the manner of feeding will eh 14 describes all the rcgula- depend somewhat on the size of the tio 1 restoration to i range and it- condition if ducks have and niar 01 whicri water and niarh land graze they will gather of their feed at certain seasons command that they hould present themselves to the priest carried with it the implication ecil at ther cry for mercy was o he gratitude see3 not only the worthi ncss of the gift but the unworlhinc3s of the receiver nine cleansed iepers find their way to the priest one is driven first to the feet of god arise go thy way thy faith hatli made thee whole the joy of the nine lepers going home is not to be compared to the joy of the other going home the the door- change in the- nine is a change of 1 the hinge and then to the second cleat of the door the siring should be long enough to permit the brace to drop to the ground a nail is then driven in the door far enough from the top screw so the string when hooked onto the nail will hold the brace up against charles b ward nobody cries when a scrub bull dies stored spuds too must breathe or theyll rot provide for ventilation in flesh in the other change of heart application todays lesson has a felicitous title the grace of gratitude it is potato bin a grace a fair beautiful thing cour- tesy is a delightful element in human t n k tnc i0 cultivate th intercourse the pleasant word ex- mental garden for there are weeds presing recognition and appreciation snong thoughts as well as among answered at the same time he tests i is ike mercy- it twice blcsaed cropj