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poultry how to cure pork should the combs of the flock or salt is the most necessary ingre- even of the male birds become frosted dient in the proper curing and preser- home education the child flret school to the family froobel j the birds should be isolated immedi- vation of meat for a good cure it i ately if the injury i3 serious and if is absolutely necessary that you use a- ddre communication to agronwlttn 73 adelaide st west toronto the preparation of for seeding possible handf uls of snow held over good salt by this is meant one that the comb for ten or fifteen minutes is free from all impurities and adulj until most of the frost is drawn out terations the extra cost of apurej then it should be anointed with car- salt should be disregarded when con- bolated vaseline frequently until the sidering c safe cure for your meat dry cure for pork when your child confides in you by edith lochridoe reid if i could just be sure that my about it and see if we can find a bet- children tell me everything an iter way to act next time the child anxious devoted mother exclaimed in now feels your sympathy as well as an earnest tone when discussing childj your regret and he will be-wicour- for 100 pounds of meat use 8 lbs pro at a little informal gathering aged to make further confidences just a fin test recentlv conduct- ft- salt 2 sn made into syrup of mothers because you have treated him in a a hog feeding test recently is to provide the birds during the cold 2 u fe 4 ounces black r ed at the central experimental farm wioter month3 withjvarm drinking vmea grain milk and milk substitutes acute injury has disappeared for pigs i one of the most important means of in preparing grain for seeding pur poses a good fanning mill is prac- a o iaa v pe tically necessary the proper adjust- ojj jjni waten simply means drinking ingredients and divide into added black well they never will tell you quite mantoman fashion rather than in a all they do or thing or see or hear hurt condescending manner second mother somewhat the sooner a mother recognizes the ucauy iiewaary xic psvji wjiwir i fiiix ingredients and grainto be ceaned the size of sieve skimmilk are capable of giving great- ffesh warm water before the birds all t thrj days g tu whwis to have the unqualified semxn amit s h depend on thrsizeorthe grains er and more economical gains when ule time a1iowing a bird to drink ice s confided et our b w and r to be cleaned and also on the make of such feeds are used tosupplement the t cold wat in the winter the barre and let fetf in f bo very charitebl in our aa ll ur nlal ration nnt nn v liidarc tha nmiipt mn htm tl c i u h u iiy tuauiauil ti vw our child will disobey and do wrong the fanning mill use however if any m ration not only lowers the production due to th b formed for three weeks avj nt i sieve if he is furnished with a one pound sample of the grain in question in cleaning grain it is desirable to use a top sieve with perforations just big enough to allow the kernels to lac meal the hogs were placed onw aro pendent i the water and og enougn u d d 3 d p pass through the straw chaff and g m other coarse material and seeds not f- rvr 77 wanted will be carried over the top latest gains with the lowest meal and delivered separately the air consumption and at considerably the blast should be heavy enough to blow lowest cost per pound of gain in hve dirt light kernels and many of the 3 made the lowest dmly ful way with her boys and the power honesty and truthfulness from baby- of her discipline lay in her own simple hood but because he is seeking to de- thotest lasted for 90 days and for water thai adhereto the wattleswni f 10 pounds of pork used 9 lbs words i try never to act shocked at fend himself from something that he the first 60 days lot 1 was fed meal f there and it will not be long salt 2 lbs brown sugar 2 ounces what they tell me imagines is worse than lying and and skimmilk lot 2 meal and milk before serious injury will be done to saltpeter 4 gals water make a brine the bird weed seeds clear of the good grain the lower sieve should be smaller a c f i a cent more per pound than the top sieve and allow the weed lot 2 m vmrier maje eeeds and broken kernels to pass the fact is that not many children right there is the point i wish to stress of the above pack the meat in a bar- do things that their parents did not about inspiring the child to confide in rel and be sure that it is covered with do when they were children we may you he must not feel that your re- hogs this brine the bacon and smaller not like to admit it perhaps but even proach is going to be so severe that pieces will need to be in this brine so why should we always imply in he would rather lie than face it ra- corn may be safely relied upon to aboat four wcc and the hams a our discipline of a child who has done ther he must go to you with the feel- form the base of the ration for young six we the larger hams should be wrong that he is tho only one who ing that he is to receive a fair and gains consumed slightly more meaij be it is such a good hog paced in t bottom of the barrel ever was at fault this method may respectable hearing from a judge who food the mistake is often made of the second highest gains but consum througltthefeed should bthexc considerably more meal22 of a x tu t pound more thari lot 1 and cost 199 cents more per pound of gain than lot 1 for the remaining 30 days the three i ration while the milk or milk substi tutes were withheld from the remain- der of the hogs the outstanding feature of this enough to keep the top sieve thinly covered this will tend to carry the rough material over the end it is usually necessary to pass the seed grain through the mill at least twice lo w dlvlded 0 iii t of each lot continuing on the former before a thoroughly satisfactory fvo sample is obtained if oats and bar ley- are present in large quantities when cleaning wheat it will pay to let a fairly heavy flow cover the top it u i part of the test was the good showing sieve even to the point of allowing r r t 1 some of the wheat to pass over in made hogs receiving prolac oder to insure the removal of the me t lot de ff aver eatest amount of oats and barley i g 1a a h we i a feed cost per pound of gam of 616 when the grain on the home farm cents as compare to lot 1 on meal is not suitable for seeding seed should and skim with an average daily purchased from a thoroughly rehi in of l33 po and a fe cost rh source and preferably registered povmd of gain of 6 cents w rial of a variety proven suitable jt u 0 mea and milk powder made to the district it is not economical to sow poorly an average daily gain of 133 pounds with a feed cost per pound of gain of graded seed or seed containing weed j 934 cents the check lots from which seeds weeds in a crop entail a direct i the milk supplements were withheld loss as they take up space moisture made a uniform daily gain of one and plant food they also add to the pound in live weight per hog at a cost cost of harvesting threshing and j of 645 732 and 759 cents per pound handling i respectively short courses at ontario agricultural college farm power course farm tractors for outdoor work and gasoline engines and electric mo tors for inside are very rapidly find ing favor on the farms of ontario for the large number of tractors in troduced during the past few years it has been very difficult to find skilled operators and especially operators with a thorough grasp of the funda mental principles underlying the con struction and operation of gasoline engines many inquiries are received at the ontario agricultural college day by day from those wishing in formation about motors of various types used for inside work to afford an opportunity for in struction along these various lines tnere is offered a short course in farm power at tho ontario agricultural college beginning january 22nd and extending over a period of two weeks amateurs being either operators farmers or farmers sons are particu larly invited any man or boy may enter the course providing he arrives at the mechanics building oac at 9 am on the 22nd of january ment of the ontario agricultural col lege the work covered will include lectures on the care and handling of dairy cattle the production and care of milk veterinary science crops for the dairy farm systems of ventilation in dajry barns and the care and use of milking machines along with prac tical work in hand separators butter- making soft and fancy cheese making and milk testing no young dairy farmer can afford to be without a course of this kind if students are unable to remain the full period of two weeks they may stay one week or less farm dairy course the importance and value of a knowledge of modern dairy farm prac tice will bo demonstrated during the farm dairy course january 21st to february 2nd at the dairy depart fruit and vegetable growing the culture of tree and small fruits for both amateur and commercial growers in all parts of the province will be covered in tho short course on fruit and vegetable growing given bythe department of horticulture ontario agricultural college january 21st to february 2nd the course will be as practical as possible the best methods used in vegetable growing will also be given in detail the prac tical work of fruit growing will con sist of budding grafting pruning planting packing and marketing the fruit and market packages in vege tables seedage cuttage picking out potting transplanting marketing and market packages that they may cure the better the work very well when the child is tiny understands and sympathizes he relying upon it exclusively although i wno sn0 be weighted with a heavy and inexperienced but it will never must not be consumed by your wrath one of the most relished grains corn ight to keep thj mea under the hold his confidence when he is older nor frightened and humiliated by your is not a perfect or complete food in brhe at a hmes j a child in the wrong feels like any scorn if he does get up the moral cour- ltsclf and except for a brief period if the pickle becomes ropy the meat sinner he usually wants to repent age which it takes to make confession when the hog is in the fattening pen shouid be removed am thoroughly and make a good resolution but how kindlv sympathetic reproof is al- lt should always be fed in combination j wasned a the container is thor- can he do so if we are sitting over him ways helpful and constructive sugges- with foods high in protein that help to sca the meat is repacked weeping and saying 0 i am so sur- tions of conduct will not destroy the round out the ration tankage of a a new brine added when pick prised and i never thought my lit childs confidence but i doubt whether high grade is perhaps the most popu- com remov the meat wash tie son would do such a thing acting shocked at a childs misdeeds lar supplement and although the cost i thorough and when dry smoke to seems high it need only be fed in small quantities say half a pound a day to an ordinary brood sow tank age not only supplies the necessary protein to balance the corn ration but is rich in those mineral elements good chestnut color the sugar may be omitted from this cure if desired guernseys as producers rendering lard the leaf fat renders the best quality of and hou mixed a noticeable feature of the contents which the hog must have in order to with the gut fat theleaf fat may be r no ft record of per hef the ear l p formance of purebred dairy cows it is chopped or ground with the rest nnhi w t nn tiv ktnv we may more truthfully say i am ever inspired him to act square and just as sorry as you are that this has play fair lets choose a safer way happened lets talk a little more to face his confessions develop properly wintering bees in a cellar the cellar in which bees are being wintered should be well ventilated but not draughty the best temperature in the early part of the winter has been found by the beedivision of the experimental farms at ottawa to be around 48 degrees fahrenheit to wards spring it will be found that the bees become restless in this temper ature a somewhat lower temper ature should then be provided from 42 to 45 degrees has been found satis factory with more fresh air the air in the tee cellar must not be too dry nor damp enough for moisture to condense on the floors of the hives f 177 fi 7 r 7 n published by the dominion live stock of the fat trimmings of the meat one 5 v a b branch is the advance therein record- must be careful to pick out all lean u j t n tc w fw ii f iul atl ed of the guernsey breed in the pre j vious report only 24 cows figured but parts for they will cling to the side of the kettle burn and discolor the lard rnu 1 j j i 1 j in the present report there are 64 of the chopped or ground fat is placed j vr 1 1 n a atf 1 which number 35 are owned in nova in a big kettle or roaster with only enough water in the bottom to start the cooking it requires some little experience to know when the lard is fully rendered after the little white blisters turn the childrens hour bruin is taken to a new home it had been a long walk for bruin and he dropped down wearily by the scotia 21 in british columbia 2 in post where the man had tied him his ontario and 3 each in saskatchewan i foot pa him where it had been and quebec a herd of six guernseys pinched in the trap the muzzle hurt was kept at the nappan ns expen- nose and pressed beh his cars me farm in 19 and 1 if only the man had not come so brow on the cracklings and they float p for year up sg won thought the lard may be removed from the esa milk record table of the breed rol rabbtj he felt sure would me iara may de removed irom tne 1 iwiiy ivauun no 1 j v stove shortly when the cracklings f co some interesting pro- have come to help him but now that can be lifted out with a paddle and fi fm the t ref e the man had led him so far away immediately fry themselves dry the av butter test was js67 doubted he would ever see process is complete i p c a avera of 50 his friend again the lard is then removedfrom the tx fj pva oo j the t w the bees should be kept in darkness fire and strained through a cloth into for 100 pounds of milk was helpless to do anything for himself and the profit over feed cost was j he felt very lonely and friendless and 10831 per cow one of the cows wished for someone to talk to who and be left undisturbed ijars or pans stirring slowly while a bee cellar to contain many colon- the lard is cooling will tend to whiten ies should be furnished with an air shaft to draw off the foul air the draught being regulated by dampers good insulation may be secured by having the cellar wholly underground or in the side of a hill and the fresh air may be jirought in through a six- inch or eightinch earthenware drain pipe laid under the ground it store in a cool place cost investigations in relation to milk and butter fat production in investigational work with dairy cattle conducted at the ontario agri- kings blanche of hillside has made- understand his animal language two 365day official records one of he was not quite sure whether the 12230 pounds milk testing 623 per boy was his friend or not when the cent and yielding 752 pounds fat i ma had been ready to shoot him with and the other 11826 pounds of milk his bang bang gun the boy had saved with an average test of 593 per cent him and had always spoken kindly to yielding 702 pounds of fat both re- him but the boy had helped the man cords were made in the mature class put on the horrid muzzle that now a threeyearold has made a record of the dominion apiarist in bulletin cultural college to show the compara- 7307 pounds of milk testing 535 per tive economy of milk production and cent and 391 pounds fat a four- no 33 new series entitled bees and how to keep them says that the date on which bees may be taken out of the cellar in spring depends upon tho condition of the weather it is usually about the time when the first willows are in bloom but it may be advisable to bring them out earlier if they are restless and dying fast they should be brought out when the p of ayrshire mu weather is mild but too cool for them holsteins and that on milk production butter fat production with the differ- yearold has a record of 8026 pounds ent breeds it was found that the hol- of milk and average test of 518 per steins produced milk at twentythree cent and 416 pounds fat the feed cents less per hundredweight than did cost of the herd for the year was 1- the ayrshircs but in producing a 04219 and the value of production pound of butter fat there was only 03 and progeny 107610- cent difference it was found that o a fight for life and cash the loily of keeping- considerable gums of money in the house is again shown in the case of mr clayton phelps a welltodo farmer who has long considered hismoney safe in his own keeping doubtless some watchful and dis honest individual discovered that ho paid his bills by cash instead of by cheque through a regular banking in stitution and as mr phelps homo is situated on one side by itself as he is somewhat deaf and lives alone with his sister it all looked like an easy place to rob but the two robbers had reckoned without their host for thoydid not know what a game fighter the farmer would prove to be nor how his sister would outwit thorn by slipping out of the front door and summoning help nevertheless mr phelps had to do bvle with his assailants for nearly sn hour ho defended himself with bs axe he was shot in tho forehead oid fortunately the bullet was about iv quarter of an inch too high to provo fatal tho men escaped and have not toon apprehended at this writing- as soon as his condition permitted jlr phetyw sorted over his cash which amounted it is said to several thou sand dollars even the silver which ho had in the house and his bonds and placed them in a bank for safe keeping sooner or later those who keep valu to fly at once preferably late in the afternoon of the day before a good fly ing day is expected to select the day the forecaste of the dominion weather service published in the daily news paper may be helpful o an enameled kettle which has been allowed to boil dry should be filled im mediately with boiling water cold water poured into it in such a case would cause the enamel to chip it cost more with jerseys but they the jerseys produced butter fat a little cheaper than did the other two breeds there was very little difference in the cultivation of the blueberry a perusal of last years report of the dominion horticulturist makes it impossible not to conclude that it thirsty and hungry should be in the hands of every rt didnt seem to understand and vegetable grower and every orna- are animals mental gardener it describes tests u but he did not know hurt his head and made it impossible for him to get away in a few minutes the man and boy came out of the house and led bruin toward the barn they put some straw in a little shed and tied bruin near it he could go in and out as he wished but was always dragging the big chain after him boys and girls never have something heavy tied around their neck all day so dont know how dis agreeable this felt to the bear as the little boy started to go away bruin tried in every way ho could to for the first time one day several vcge and ornamental shrubs ducks waddled into the yard to eat the green grass ran to her mother calling o mam ma come quick and see these chick ens have rubber feet fulthatv all these actions bruin was trying to tell him something it was nearly dark before he saw i the boy again this time he brought bruin some food and a small basin of helen was visiting in the country ma with all the principal fruits and c a page for instance is devoted to the in great glee helen cu 0 the blueberry in conse the powdered milk industry by b a gould president canadian milk products limited the first commercial manufacture of milk powder in canada was at brownsville ontario in the spring of 1904 the process used was the hot roller process which is now becoming somewhat obsolete the product was quenco of many inquiries bring re- watw he set the food and water just coved by the division regarding the jngide of bruin j hou3j and ran cultivation of that fruit two members of the staff were told aff to make an investigating visit as to the situation in the lake st john district of que bec and the blueberry areas of new brunswick and nova scotia one away as quickly as he could just as if ho were afraid the water was not half enough to quench bruins thirst he could eat but little of the food for the horrid muzzle wouldnt allow him to get his mouth wide open far conclusion reached is that there is a en0 great opportunity under cultivation la night bruin laid down on to increase the production size and hu gtrnw bed t h and quality of the wild blueberry by elm- twrst hjs foot ined niro he mating the poorer individuals and d g and hj dreamed lion pounds of canadian milk will be marketed in the torm of powder the future of the industry in can- ma hafo upv date shjfs horrid bang bang guns pdntirig at methods and assured capital as wees s ti fjf of b tra read to him if he moved j j tion in size and quality it was ob- as good selling organizations are hkel d ft kccnt burnt ly to succpsd a great deal of work land providink ft h not been i must still be done to get the k brnt dur th last two years pro- investlgatwns in connection pro duced the best picking it was also with cost of maintenance ables in the house arc sure to come to entirely unknown and lacked some of grief theft or fire are liable to men- the valuable qualities of modern pro- aco at any time mr phelps had a cess powders such as complete solu- house safe but in the hands of a skill- j bility etc the growth of the use of ed burglar this is not much protection milk powder in canada was therefore j necessary to yield a firstclass pro- b d that bushes older than threo tho attempted robbery at the very gradual and a small production duct it is not enough to have modern j four car did not produce as la rgc phelps homestead took place at about was all that could be successfully 830 in tho evening as the robbers did marketed not even soeir to think it ncccssnry to the first modern sprayprocess wait until the family had retired powder was also made at brownsville to have ones possessions cared for in 1909 when the original plant was in the safest possible way is surely remodelled for this purpose the ad- good judgment and the small expense i vantages of the powder produced by entailed is more than offset by tho this process were such that its use poaco of mind gained physical dan- has grown rapidly today there arc ger for the owner of valuable pro- ten producing plants in canada mak- perty and other members of the family ing powdered milk of various kinds as well attend keeping such posses- the greater part is skimmed milk sions in the house powder but there are also considcr- banks with their vaults as impregiablo amounts of whole milk powder nablo as they can be made with their burglar alarms with their night watchman with police surveillance and of cream powder manufactured as well as special kinds of pewder such as modified milk powder protein and fireproof construction are the milk powder and ice cream powder of beef cattle or lour years oiu not proauce as largei t sanitary equipment at the manufac- f as much mi as thc bush cost investigations conducted by the turing plante but the equipment nnd ps this indicated that a system of anlmal hsubandry department of the methods of the producing farms must beneficial where agricultural college with also bo uptodate or the product will not be of the highest quality much j wztmfaw harm has been done to the industry from 5q ccnt sand sq the average cost of feeding breed- by the marketing of inferior powdered on soi d qn gand ln beef cows in the college herd was milk and t is only by expensive ex- j excellent plante says the re- 15 ccnts p da the cost of labor penence that buyers have learned that f d j milk powders of the same chemical f 1 1 ing much brokendown limestone analysis may nevertheless vary gieatj y j ten horseshoes nailed over the this industry will become one of ata door will not prevent the bad total feed and labor cost per cow per cultural methods can be adopted bce ca following inter- por cow per day was 7 cents the value of the manure per cow per day was 58 cents and tho cost of bedding per cow per day was 19 cents the rapidly growing value to canada if that one sh badly nailed on a tho manufacturers are able to keep foot p the quality of their product second to none the homo market is capable of further development nnd foreign mar- there is a virtue in the cow she is full of goodness the whole landscape proper storehouses for valuable boilt is estimated that during thocurj kcts are open for tho right kind of looks out of her soft eyes john bur- longings e j w i rent year more than one hundred mil- powder roughs year after deducting the value of ma nure was 6935 the average weight of beef calves born duing thc year 1922 was 7733 pounds 5- estimates place tho total pojctition of the world at lfioofim000