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Thursday, January 8, Zh S\ NN Office workers should use Litebuoy Soap Chink of the hundreds of justy germ laden things you must touch every day ! Think if the danger to your skin You need the best soap ~ ind more-- the best disinfect- ant You get both in LIFEBUGY neatTH SQAP \ts healing, soothing oils aad grateful disintectuats thor- wughly cleunse und disinfect Particularly useful tor bruises cuts, wind sores, ete The carboiie odeur sm Lifebuay bs 6 BROTHERS LIMITED, TORONTO, ONT. Winter Application of Barnyard Manure. ' Nate The winter hundling and care of barn yard manure has been a much discussed problem for the reason that there has been snauler: theulty in fling w practical futon. [ta all very well tu recommend riwental thar w aril the lass of val alan 1 constituents. bee e that 2 most spor ant factor requiring every feration, hat, ules the plan ean be carried ont in a pructienl way he far mer with the remnants of Iuhwur lef tw ue two prices far half wark Will such suggesions meth en all threshe ing storing in box stalls and manure pes or sheds; qiling in large heap in yurd y the field and lists tu) spreading ion the from the stable, Bach bh wivantage but when con present day practical standpa not "pass muster." (1) The box-etall and manure pit method ic a most le practice since there is a minim ss of valuable plant food constitu 21 Piling in yard and field hardly this requirement since the pil away the best of their | valuable nt food through a winter's wasting, (3° sot field; hiuling tuning im sniall pile fel ahve 1920 REL RE LE LE LP LL LE LY LE LY Hy OC '4 a NEWS FROM NEIGHBORING TOWNSHIPS | RPLELE RFLP LG LLG LY LE LO LE LE | j THORNTON ' (Too late for last week) ! ! A very plessant Christmas was spent | | at the hoe of Mr. and Mrs, J. R. Grey, | | Thornton, when « number of friends were |present. After all bud gathered, they sat down to a sumptuoun dinner. After | dinner was over they all adjourned to the parlour where shey bad excellent instrum- ental music und singing and numerous games, When the day was over they se: pars'ed after singing "God be with you till | we meet sguin " Among the guests pres. ent were Mrs, Harriet Smith and son of | Barrie and Mr, and My. Geo, Wilson and | fon of Alliston, week two former tesiden's of Thorn. | ton, Mr Mrs. Geo. Scythes of We ton, celebrated ther golten wedding. Mr. | Scythes is an uncle of T Seyches anil! Mrs. Sevthes as cousin of James Boake A Toronte paper gives the following jar Hiculare of tha gollen anniversary --""A | great family reunion ut which over one henered were uresen? was held last might w High Park Clib. Indian co: avon of the fiftieth annie of Mrs wl Mrs. i et Weston, Shortly clue in the afternoon a. re woe given on} meany old friends of atulanons snd emt wishen A Mer four commodions lub and Tousts were oer fallowerl on oh Poor at which speech urge Scythes wos horn seventy eieht gin Ireland bat he came tg Can dl Mere Scythes, whos wis Sareh Vane Boske, 1 1 ty filth year born ew Yurk Ci ily of 15, all « The counle were inure to where he groan wax in the milling busness, Moving to v thirty yeurs aco he went ante the rontruct'ng business which he cot Wwowhon he retired to Westc ildren by the murriage vd when iden n eight Iving sad wi the golden w ry at hone of Reann: F, € ethoitner Piano Co.; H. Lb. of Toronto, manager of the boot und chow merchant. 129 Bay streets JOA Tormte: Mrs C.F, Newell, of wnd Ry 1 mnipeg. Mr. Seythe vacumtediate relatives ef his own family und one brother of Mire Seythes represented che former gen nb They ure Mme oR Bowke. Mre 1 of Lockport, NOYo: amd BJ Bivke. Besides there were 16 grand sitended thi sruaon unl present. But two ais eb inten Lin four' elerevinen ths Methodist church whi are antinate frends af the femily. Rev, abn Locke of Branton Hey GMO Benen. ant Rev ROD. Shisson oof Taranto, and Res. Wallies Stewar, of Weston Anung the gifts prevented wae one af $500 an the fanily 'The Sunday School Xv Tree in the church Last Fray Pro night. Dee ceeds amounte Mis Rete Campbell of Toronty was home for the holiday Floyd Dyer of Toronto wus home for the holiday War. Maley of Barrie visited wih his ter. Mrs. Alfred Dyer. 2 couple of days 1 week Arthur Herrell and Maybell Herrell of The distribution of manure in small héaps Trronto spent the holiday with friends herr has an advantage over methods one und = Mr, and Mrs. Cleeg and ee hauling can be-done during win cost of this operation is much less than at a busy sea he year and facilitates the work being done on tim The tage is that there is a rion of fertility in the soil ¢ ununiforn crop sinee. invariably, the soil where the he heen is richer in the inore soluble elements of plant food, 14! The lost, buv by no means the least. toe The oustanding advantages which this method hus over all others are (a) THAT LABOUR REQUIRED IN HAND. ib) THAT THE SPREAD ON MADE. THE 'There are. however, limitations of condi tions which will permit of this practice, Preferably the land should be fairly level ni. if hilly, whould not be frozen when ap- plication is. made, Low: subject to flonding is wn tion for winter spreading. Direct spreading has been adopted on many progressive farms and is worthy of consideration on many others, Tt is sug- gested, therefore, that the manure sleigh be pulled under the litter-ear and the "direct- toctheslandeystem" given a trial this wi ter. By spring an experiment will have became # custom and one only appreciated to the full when the struggle 10 maintain indesirable loca- production begins, especially by those far- | mere who must take up the belt onother notch to go third wind w squabbling whether it hours or not 'at all, W. L. GRAHAM. le the rest of humanity is shall work Assistant Dominion Field Husbandman a ry MAIL CONTRACT SEALED TENDERS, addreséed to the Postmaster General. will be received Ottawa until noon. on Friday, Februs: 13-h, 1920. for the conveyance of His M: Mails, on a proposed Contract for four years, six times per week on the route | the home of Thome ferk Minesing & G.T.R.. & R.R.1 (vis Eden- vale) from the Postmaster General's Pleas- ure, next. Printed notices containing further in- formation as to conditions of proposed vide land. too. | ead upon their second oF | ly of Mid Mrs. Rob: lend spent Xmas with Mr. un ert Re Mis. Torrinee Hunter ynd Bessie Hunter epen Xmas with friends in Midland T Philliye. from the West. is visiting with his brotherinJaw. Thos. Wiley, for a short time, i Mr. and Mrs, M of Stroud sp A\Dy ley and Mr. Andrews and Mrs Lougheed \ai_Allondale wax ine for the hyliday. : Mr. Rogers of Brantford and Miss F. \Liseumb of Sudbury visited Mr. and. Mre Fred Brown, Chas. Johns of Kingston was home for e holiday. |_ Mr. and Mrs. J. Tyndale and family of Toronto spent Xmas with Wm, Lockhart Clifford and Lenhmer Lockhart of Tor- onto were home for the holiday. Harry Dyer is home from the West for HY winte Miss A. New of Toronto visited with Miss "Florrie Dyer last week. Mrs. Thompson Campbell is home ster snending some time with her daughter, Mrs. J. S, Ferguson, Stroud, STROUD (Toolate for last week? Dec. 29. --Following is the list of Officers | installed by W. Bros. Green snd Hew- json. St. John's Night. Stroud, for the year 1920. C.J. Allison-- | GW. Hewson: ; NWR N.H. E. T. MeConk . E, Chantler--Treasurer, » Black--Seeretary imer--8.D, NEW FLOS Dec, 30.--Earl Briggs and Elwood At. | iovom spent Xmnaw bolidaye at their homes ere. ° Miss Ruby_Kirkpatrick of Toronto and Albert Kitkpatrick of Lefroy spent Xmso rick. Mrs. Joseph Martin is spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Alex. Speirs, A few young people spent a very en- joyable evening st a New Year's party giv- Contract, may be seen and blank forms of en_at the home of Miss Ills Culham, Tender may be ohtained at the Post Offices Mrs. J. Robinson is spending some time of Minesing. Exlenvale, and at the office of | at her howe hone the Post Office: Inspector: Toronto, Post Office Inspector's Office, Toronto, Dec. 29th, 1919. . A. SUTHERLAND, Miss Pearl Train of Elmvale is spend. ing the holidays with Miss Stella Briggs. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Pickering of Toronto snent Xmas-holidays at the home of Mre. > Post Office Inspector. | 1. Young. CRAIGVALE (Too late for last week) Dec. 29.--Morris McCraw spent the Christmas holidays with his mother here, Mr., Mrs. and Grace Drew of Orillia vis. ited Mrs, J. Allison on Chris:mas. hatha Green went t0 Toronto for the ny. Mr. and Mrs. Wes. Maneer and daughter, Jeun. of Toronto. visited with Mrs. Geo. | Young for the lust few days | R. EK, Jones..was the guest of C. J. Allicon, Christmas Day. Dalton Roberson spent the Christmas holidays under the parental roof. Geo. Wright arrived home from the West in time for Christmas. . The Misses Reid of Barrie were the | guests of their brother, Will Reid of Craig: | vale, on Xmas Day. | Mr and Mrs. Morley Thompson visited Mrs, C.J. Allison for a day before leaving for Fort? William. | Mr. und Mrs. Hoover of Allandale spent | Chris:tnas with J. W. Hoover. DALSTON 0 lute for last w | Misses Mabel and Isabel Watson of Tor sas ar their home here, ' nt Emeron Hickling of ontn spent Xn Swert Brown ONC. Guelph. und Mise Ro Brown, Mies | Muriel Nelun ane Mus Gladys Hickling of Normal are hohdaying at their resjieetive homes here. Mr Bell of South River is veiting her ister, Mre ender, Mrs. Waller and daughter, ' ting. Miss Muriel Irwin i visiting her uncle Dr Roehardson, Barrie, Mies M. Pescock of Painswick has re timed home after visting with Mis R Brown, Pearl, spent | ¢ people ure enjoying the akut jun Mrs Lee Vieted the last week, dchildren of Or sister, Mrs Winter Care and Repair of Farm Machinery (Experimental Farms Note.! Let him use more muachinery then," | i the stock phrase snd cure-all preseribed | r know-it-all" of the farmer's: lab: sur problem. 'This ix yust what he has been doing for a generntion ar ever since city wages were cheinctly higher than those upen the furm To-day machinery has doubled in cnet because not grow | upon the land hy the free agency of sun. | hight like crops but as made in cies and by labour that exacts far more than the Thus there iv a bmi to the font to buy unl he ean substitute In other sive luhour far machinery "he farmer tw the extent to wh mechinery pemave Libour words neahinery is now + Farmers, therefore. ng to house ery mm sone since they Spree is still sourmp and since the life of 1 Haplemen' well eared for is prolonge i or five times e hfe of mychmery which a left in the open. An energetic furnier will nut allow hie hore or cow ta | stond out in the rain or snow. He will rush to get his erp 4 the ground on ume snd in the best possible condition and he will guther his harvest promptly anil \curefully 4 that there isthe Jewwst possible Hows, Many -- of us| will do all these things and «till allow a nurt of the toil earned revenue to be swal- weil uy in the purchase of sky soaring yneed machinery or in expensive repairs. Ser to it thar each implement wears out snd does not rust out, Every ene knows 'that it should be housed but housing under | any condition and not properly curing for jit otherwise. constitute very poor care Machinery may be just as well cared for if jit is allowed to stand in the shade of a {tree ax if stored in some of the leaky sheds. open sheds, poorly drained sheds or combined implement-sheds and hen roosts which ure found, | DO NOT MERELY GO THROUGH THE MOTION BUT SHELTER CONSIDER: ATELY, and before doing so, first list the repairs needed for next seasin and secure them along with an astortment of bolts. 1 rivets, springs ete. in time to have each implement repaired and resdy for use on time. An implement in repair at all times will have a longer life and will give more sutisfuctory xervice during ite life than one receiving irregulay attention, Secondly. clean and oil each mschine and give all polished surfaces an upplication of some, anti-rust preparation. Axle grease or other lubricant will answer the purpose, Another "'critter" occupies space in the implement shed, the twenty-four-hour-day. iron horse or tractor has arrived on the farm. To insure more efficient use of this implement next season there are two things that should be given special attention, First take «eps to put it in the best posible condition now. and secondly, learn as much fas pomiblé about the fundamentals of trac for operation. Read carefully the instruc tion book; newspapers, books and maga, tine articles also furnish n wealth of in- formation. If possible. a'tend one of the tractor schools' which will he conducted during the winter, Leave nothing undone that will fit you to become a more profie- | ient tractor operator. A properly fitted work shop is 8 necessity Jon most farms. It provides a means of uge/ quiring the "knack™ in doing repair work Again ut critical times. such ax harvesting or seeding seasons, one lone trip to town for repairs may cause a loss more than equal to the value of » well equipped shop. Paint. although last mentioned, is by no meuns the least important factor in prolonging the usefulness of an implement. Painted machinery on the farm is an excep. tion rather than 9 general rule, The chief utility of paint ig in protecting materials rather than improving appearances, Paint of good quality only #hould be used and the surface to be puinted should be dry and clean before the paint is applied. W. L. GRAHAM, Asst, Dominion Field Husbandman rs wage Familiar Faces in New Fairbanks Picture Tt rather looks as though Douglas Fair- banks is establishing x permanent stock company of actors, for in his new pic- ture, "One of the Blood." which will be shown at the Opera House Mondey and Tuesday next, there are a number 'of faces familiar to. Fairbanks' picture followers. This marks the sixth picture in which Mar. | Unless You Need One we don't try to sell a - New Starting Battery W. if! When the: the Gould. W have the equipment and the knowl- edge to repair storage batteries as well as sell them. If your battery can be re- i | paired, we'll say so. Six months' more serv- | i ice out of your old battery is dollars saved. Drive around andi tus fook it over, need a new battery, our customers buy ¢ handle it because we know importance of good plates. Gould Dreadnaught 'Plates are the strongest and the most rugged on the market i and are made by the sume men who build plates for the giant Gould Submarine Batteries. For good repair i work or a good, new battery, we are at your service, J. A. GARVIN i 21 Thompson St., Barrie: Phone 566 | ALSO GENERAL MOTOR REPAIRS di { Get your car looked over now i f We recommend The Battery with the DREADNAUGHT Plates the supreme { Square Deal Repair Service (1) Gold Com Potatoes gro growing from hand-selected (2) J. W. Lucas, an » (3) Some of his Porker: (4) Grade Percheron Horse: We are continually bearing about 'the farm boy who goes to the city, but we hear little about the city boy who goes to the farm Yet, just as Many farm boys have become suc- cessful business men in out cities, by luere wre undoubiedy many city boys who have become successful jarmers. This is more especially true in the countries that are being new- ly opened up such es Western Can- ada Among the winners ut 'he La- ternational Soil-Products Lxpos:tion heid at Kansas City recently ut least ue, If no more, of the successiu: exaibitors was born and bred in w cily ahd only became a turmer uiver he had reached manhood Join W. Lucas who won prizes lur white oats, brome grass seed, barley und rye, chad never been a tarmer nutil be seitied on bis homosivad 14 Cayley, Alueria, sixteen years uzo. However, Lie has set to work to learn wll be tid about this noble profess'ou and tbody cen say that he has made @ bad job of it Mr. Lucas was born in one of the cities of Eastern Canada {jkr many other boys whose parents are in moderate circumstances he earn- ed money after school hours de- Uveriug newspapers and in vari- ous other odd jobs. Leaving school, he says, be got a real job sussix dollars a week and later came West and worked in Winn pog for a yeur. He had always felt a desire to become a farmer, however, and {t ts Rot surprising that the call of the Cunadian Government for settlers for free homesteads at once appealed to 'im. He came to Alberta In 1903 and appeared with Fairbanks in "The Lamb," the first picture he ever made, and bas been seen in other victures with him. Albert McQuarrie and~Jay Dwingins bave like wise both been seen before with Fairbanks, py Dew" se - tong, female role opposite jas. ran! ampeau,. who pleys the villsia, has been with Pair. bunks 'for over a year; Lillian Langdon | For_these people at: lesst, the Fairbanks Company wanld neem' to mean eomathing very substantial and definite, | Fastern Canadian city boy, now wn {rom nand-selected tubers, heads, on Rosehurst Farm, Cay! S, used by Mr. -ocaied On bis bomestead in Cayley, iM tne southern part uf the province, He ts now the owner of eight bun- dred acres of jaud in @ block. aad is tuterested. besides, In sia and a half sections of land--4,160. On us| 139 bushels of outs to the acre aud 66 busheis of whcat to the acre. The} Quality of bis oats may be judged from the fact that for five years he Won the preu.er Louors for this crop | a we avverta Provincial Seed Fair, He bas also been a regular exhibitor aad prize winuer at the Interaational | Soil Products Expoxit.on and other exhib'uons held in the Uuited States | It has been Mr. Lucas' ambition to become a good farmer an. be bas) spared. no efforis to learn all he couid about bis profession. Le spent se Winters of 1912 aad 1913 in lowa! as part of his-agricultura. education, , Here he visited some of the best! farms in the State, asked lots of questions, saw a good deal and came away with as much knowledge as Le could gather. He considers these two winters spent in Towa among the best investments he ever made. He learned mucb about horses, cattle way they increase the yield, produc- ing ears true to type and uniform in size. He figured that if corn could be so much improved by selection the same thing could be done with the beads of wheat, oats, barley and hills of potatoes. He came back to Alberta and began to use this knowl- edge. Not ohly has he increased the vield of these crops but has Improved TAKE NOTICE 'We publish simple, straight testimonials, 'Bot press agenta' interviews, from well From_all over America they tentify to the merits of MINARD'S LINIMENT, the heat of Honeshold Remedies. MINARD'S LINIMENT 00., LIMITED, He sume year. | tary be bas produced us much as| and Marqmis ' Wheat' plot ley, Alberta, owner of this Western Farm. Lucas on his Rosehurst Farm. the quality and trne as well Tnstead of fields of oats, burley and other crops with heads of uli sixes he has now fields of these grams with heads nearly all alike By hast selection of poratoes. saving only the prohifie uilts true to type, he has been able to produce as high as irty-seven marketable potatoes from one hill. mM one potato planted a@ yield. of seventy-three pounds of potatoes, This ts a record difficult to beat any. whe: These are some of the things a city boy has been able to da on a farm. Not oniy has he become the owner of 8 large area of land but on this land he is producing er Ps of the highest quality and a@ maximum quantity. Practleally the whole of the crop grown by him he sells as werd at a higher ethan that obtained by the average farmer. aid the demand for what he pro:tuces is greater than he can supply Te ts uso @ preat heliever in live- stock, The success of John W. Lu should be 'nspirinz to many a city boy. "Any boy can do what I have done in this country." he says. "All Mt needs, {9 persiatence." To this may be added patience and a dpsire to excel, qualities possessed by most succedsful men, whether in elty or country, ' ina POOLE & PEARCE THE BARRIE DAIRY The Home of Pure Milk If Service, Cleanliness' and Quality Count Phone 772 |