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by agronomist thl department is for the uo- of our farm reader who want the f an expert on any question regarding soil eed crops etc if y t of sufficient general interest it will bo answered through this column tamped and addressed envelope is enclosed with your letter a c newer wiii be mailed to you address agronomist care of wilson pw co ttd 73 adelaide st w toronto hog feed cultural methods for eastern canada soil sev its too may be emoloycd advantageous- ly in seedbed preparation especially management or cultivation the disc or r0 to restore eral phases is a very i mu cr blanket of soil to check ant factor in crop production on the evaporation of moisture it is also central experimental farm ottawa j usefu lement in the corn field a and several of the branch experimental fcw a aftcr sowin corn anu after stations in eastern canada methods the corn is up to stimu a rise in have been investigated for several temnerature in the soil to destroy years the results obtained have war- weeds and encourage germina- ranted the following recommendations tion of weed seeds to restore the tree tanglefoot a it will lay wti sty j longer than thr otr rubiluiicctf thee sticky mixture may be applied to the bark of the trw but they may j disfigure the treit fur several years j it may be neechnry to renew the barley will supply grain for hog i bands from tiim to till vvll lllt sooner than any other crop a large s material cieeiully if tin- tan- number of farmers have been asking j e r becomes hard or otiff or cov- about this crop because of the scarcity j erca ovor will 1 f of mature corn for feeding hogs this rao the use of band l uspccial- spring and summer and because com- recommended on very large rotigh- mercial hog feeds are so costly barked elm or hackberry trtnk that it barley is about equal to corn pound j would be difficult nnd exjkrwivu to good health question box ky andrew f currier md being made as applicable o average conditions on eastern canada farms cultural operations and imple ments ploughing is the basic cul tural operation it is therefore im portant and should be performed with care and judgment no definite rule can be laid down as to the best me thod of ploughing a safe rule how ever is to plough only when the 3oil is in shape not too wet especially if of a heavy clay nature plough deep ly in autumn as deep as the surface productive soil will allow turning an upstanding furrow plougl shal- essential mulch seeding this operation is now done by means of seed drills several types are on the market but the single disc drill is probably most popular rolling the roller is too fre quently used to rut a finishing touch to the field after seeding it may be fr currlor will answer all clgeed letters pertaining to health if yonj ouentlon is of general interest it will be answered through these columns if uot it will be answered personally if stamped addressed envelope is en- closed dr currier will not proscribe for individual cases or make diagnosis i adilrins dr andrew f currier care of wilson publishing co 73 adelaide bt west toronto hypnoticm i every drunkard knows until the a hypnotic is a drug which is given i or h become so saturated with ml oak are not ho to produce sleep it may do other j that siec ma bc replaced by delir- while corn does not need to lie ground badly attacked by the pest the ip- thingi two but i it causes sleep lum tremens for pigs barley should the grains j p c ar t favorite it hypnotic was formerly used by many are too small and hard to be masticat- r plants of the canker or measur- s hypnotics will produce sleep physicians not only to induce quiet ed and digested readily when whole ingworms when the injury from and will also produce bad and un- ami freedom from pain but sleep as well now its comparatively little given for that purpose i am happy to say the most important of the new hypnotics are the bromides paralde hyde chloral the coaltar derivatives and the synthetic preparations the bromides are often very efficient a3 hypnotics and as little harmful as any powerful drugs i know of paraldehyde is a relatively safe for pound for feeding hogs but spray mipl while the pigs may not like the barley j these insects in severe the trees may i desirable effects like depressant ac- very well at first they will soon be- uring may or june as if u uloii of die heart come accustomed to it but they will lle jad swept over them they mujyl such drugs are dangerous and do better if ground barley is mixed j be entirely stripped of their leaves by j particularly so when taken by the ad- half and half with middlings or some other palatable hog feed ciins are more rapid too when seme high pro tein feed like tankage is fed along with the barley and other feeds spray the orchard when the leaves begin to grow the cankerworms may commence to move up on the trunks of fruit and other trees bands of tar tanglefoot or used to advantage on light soils but printers ink if put on the tree trunks even then should be followed by the drag harrow to break the smooth sur face the chief use of the roller however should be to firm and crumble the soil before seeding it should not be used on very damp soil low in spring turning a lowlying especially clay let the surface dry or flat furrow plough well turn all the land and finish with straight even furrows and lands let the ploughing be a credit to the farmer a reflection of his character a stan dard for other operations and nn in centive to less thorough though willing workers to do better harrowing of the several imple ments on the market for performing this work the disc harrow is the most suitable for preparing soil for seed after it lino been ploughed thorough cultivation at this time is indispens able and the disc harrow should be used until the surface of the -eed- bed is smooth and friable and the soil immediately below is firm and solid the drag or spiketooth harrow first then use th crust roller to break the in time will catch many of the pests the best sticky substance fo use is flint corn for grain flint corn as a grain crop in oast- j fellow and snlzers north dakota will where implements are to be pur- em canada has not received the at- give an equally large yield of grain chased it should be borne in mind that tention that it merits at the pre- with a larger tonnage of stalks these larger implements requiring from i sent crisis of food supply it is the crop varieties should be grown principally thiee to six horses handled by one that can be increased without disturb- teamster provide a means of solving the system of rotation or cutting to some extent the present manual own the acreage of any other cereal labor problem besides the work we 00 not increase production if we done in this way is accomplished 1 cut down the acreage of one kind of economically and thus tends to keep 8 to grow another by growing down the cost of production of crops tho worms for small shade and v f a wellmeaning but inade- fruit trees any of the arsenical sprays quately informed friend will kill the cankerworms easily if ap- i i always best to have the ad- plied about the time the leaves begin vice 0 an intelligent physician bc- to appear the regular summer f experimenting with such danger- sprays applied in the apple orchard j oui tools for the control of tho codlingmoth and even physicians arc not infallible curculio will also kill the canker- j j suc matters and have been known hypnotic and i have often wondered worms the first summer spray in to overlook heart weakness or heart wn it was not more generally used the apple orchard should be applied injury or underestimate its importance just before the bloom and the second j their desire to relieve one who is in spray v be made immediately need of sleep after the blooms fall these two want of sleep or insomnia is a sprays should control the measuring- terrible affliction what would one i ends fatally worms very effectively not give for sleep when suffering pfiin hour after hour when one is sleep ing physical pain does not exist for there must be consiciousnoss in order to appreciate pain sleep is more refreshing than food you can live without food a long time many days but not without sleep chloral is one of the best hypnotics wo have but very dangerous must be taken in larger and larger dosc3 and sometimes forms a habit which the coal tar derivatives and the syn thetic preparations many of them at least are of german origin and are now tremendousiy expensive and hard to get i am very glad they aro not avail able for we were being swamped with them they were producing very bad flint corn we can increase the total ploughingmavie speeded up by i output of cereals without alteration or using twofurrow ploughs double detriment to our system of farming disc harrows make a thorough seed- utilization bed in the least time the horse disc its value lies in its feeding adapt- seed drill is efficient more sections ability added to the drag harrow reduce thoj as meal in a fattening ration it is time required for this work a hoaryheaded poultry theory is that thunder spoils the hatchability of eggs we got this idea from old timers as soon as we commenced keep ing chickens but our own experience proves that it is largely a superstiti our myth we have had many hatches that could not have been better jn spite of violent electrical disturbance of the elements quite often severe thunderstorms have come up at the time supposed to be most dangerous to the success of the hatch just a few days before the eggs were due to start pipping yet the number of chicks that came oet of the shells appeared quite nor mal and the chicks were strong and healthy we have also had good hatches in spite of blasting or other such shocks except when the vibrations were so near or severe that they leveled build ings or broke window lights even then we have found that the embryo chicks are not always killed or even harmed while we take no stock in the thun der theory any more yet we try to avoid all sudden jars or shocks direct to the egg as well as rough handling in shipment the success of hatches is almost always in direct proportion to the care gven the eggs when the fertility is strong my own and adjoining communities furnished the stimulus needed to help me out of my own rut now in place of confining my efforts to two or three staple crops which formerly produced only a meager living i grow limited areas of several canning crops i fattening hogs in a more intensive way and have j it can be hogged down in the field averaged a nice addition to the income j wit profit an acre or two of corn from the staple farm crops which i will f the hogs on an average still produce f this method can be adopted the plan followed in growing the with proflt by the ontario farmer in canning crops is to contract with the these days of labor scarcity manager of the canning factory to the dry sulks make excellent grow a definite acreage of some of the roug for dry cows or young cat- staple canning crops such as peas 1 t beans tomatoes sweet corn and small j last bu not least corn can be- in southern ontario although they ma ture perfectly in certain portions of eastern ontario and quebec earlier varieties than quebec yellow no 28 do not return a commensurate yield for labor expended labor the work involved in growing corn for grain is but little greater than that of growing for silage husking is the discovery of hypnotics was a blessed thing for those who suffer and the new ones are in many respects at least better than the old ones by the new one3 i mean those which modern chemistry by analysis and synthesis has given us in great numbers sometimes embarrassingly so and which also are greatly abused among the old hypnotics are al cohol opium indian hemp hyos- cyamus lettuce and hops the soothing effect 6f a hop pillow habits and i earnestly hope that foi all future time the germans will be compelled to be the exclusive users 01 their own medicines the additional item but this task can or a hop poultice used to be known in without an equal for cattle hogs or poultry in the unground or cracked state it is valuable in a ration for laying hens on the cob if used judiciously it can be profitably given to working horses the hnmature and small ears can be of fc corn hc fed without waste in the autumn tq decrea3e his acreage of silo corn in order that he may grow be done at the most convenient time in the autumn and made an evening of neighborhood festivity who should grow it the dairyman who disposes of his milk to the local creamery is tho man who can most profitably growand use grain corn if he is using silage at the country at any rate as a first class remedy but we seldom hear of it or use it now drowsiness from the free use of let tuce is familiar and the quieting ef fect of hyoscyamus or henbane was once highly esteemed after tho exciting effect of alcohol passes off it causes deep sleep as questions and answers m e 1 is whoopingcough con tagious 2 can it occur more than once in the same person 8 can il be caught by simply going where thers is a person who has it 4 is ther a cure for it or mubt it run its course 1 answer 1 yes it is extremelj contagious 2 it is possible through not a common occurrence 3 ye3 4 there are sedative drugs which may be takento alleviate the cough 1 know of nothing which will stop the disease after it has once started the best plan is careful attention to hygiene and diet flint for grinding the farmer who wishes to increase the output of grain yet does not wish to break his system of rotation by growing flint corn he is producing grain from his hoed crop the man who is without a silo and wishes to increase his hoed crop ho can grow corn for grain purposes with fruit by planning for such of tho j como j canada an important factor i profit likewise improving tho tilth and canning crops as will best work in the human diet many bushels of with a decreased number of standard j wheat cou be re for shipment tin can swells income farming in rut says my neigh- farm crops i can intensify my efforts and in some seasons double my farm receipts over my old style of farming for example strawberries beans and corn grown for the cannery may best combine with my regular farm crops and asparagus cane fruits and tomatoes may break better in regard to cultural and harvesting require ments for my neighbor but many of us are finding that we did not make the fullest and best use of a consid erable part of our time until we be gan to plan and systematize our work as was necessary to do when we took on tho growing of several canning crops under contract i feel sure that there aro many general farmers who will read this who might with advantage contract to grow a few acres of some of the can ning crops i have mentioned by join ing with several neighbors to delivor bor who was in a rut and now re- j cooperatively their produce to the joices in being out of it is getting factory even if some distance away i part of tho area indicated if we would use the various appetiz ing foods into which corn meal can be converted range of profitable production the crop should only bo grown where it will mature in an average season using the proper variety corn can be grown in practically all the older parts of ontario the east ern townships and many counties north of the st lawrence in quebec also many districts in the maritime provinces thc district representa tives of ontario with the exception of those in the northerly counties state that maturity is not the factor that prohibits the growing of corn the secretary of agriculture for quo- bee making a similar report for that province varieties quebec yellow no 28 is the variety that will succeed best over the greater cleanliness of his fields seed owing to the disastrous failure of the seed corn- crop in the united international lesson may 12 lesson vi jesus faces the cross mark 10 3252 golden text phil 2 8 verse 32 on the way going up to jerusalem moving steadily along states and canada seed is extremely talking as they went that it was up scarce each farmer should consult with his county representative as to a possible source of supply wherever flint corn has been grown thore can generally be found a few to the holy city may be remembered when we consider that jerusalem stood nearly four thousand feet above the level of the jordan valley jesu3 was going before and they were amazed afraid it is mark it is so firmly settled in a treadmill rou- j wit a motor truck such a plan of 1 short stalked variety giving a high tine of growing certain crops as to delivery our neighborhood has found yield of grain and maturing in the make it seem wellnigh impossible to nttempt growing other crops known to give better profits a leaf from his personal experience in breaking nway from the oldtime grainhay farming system i believe will inspire some others to do likewise to their profit and satisfaction hero is his stdry the establishing of several vege table and fruit canning factories in wajjte poultry egg8 and feathers highest prices paid prompt return n commission p poulin co 39 bonseconra markot montreal to be a great economizer of time and average season on well drained soils enables the growers of the canning in a hundred nnd fifteen days where crop to realize several hundred or the season is sufficiently long long- even a thousand dollars more from a small area of land that will not bo missed for tho regular farming opera tions moreover the building up of a great canning industry in this counl try is one of the important ways of bringing the kaiser to his knees by making sure of a great reserve food i supply in addition to the regular har- 1 vested products wg i men who have developed early produc- 1 a who notices tho position of tive strains out of old varieties not jesus and the mental perturbation of having made a practice of disposing tho disciples it seems that it was of it for seed these men are occa sionally a valuable source of local supply too often overlooked conclusion any person who is desirous of growing this crop nnd failing to ob unusual for jesus to go ahead of the company then thero was some thing in his appearance and spirit which awed them a crisis was im minent his anticipation of the seri ous conflict made itself known in his l countenance and he took again the tain seed this season should plan to j twelve that is fell back from his ad- secure it early in the autumn for an- vanced position and resumed his place other year as long as the price of wi them in ordinary conversation corn mills feeds and live stock reb to tell them tho things that mined by the service rendered so main as they now are corn for grain were to happen unto him this is now tho bestowment as a matter of per- will be one of the most profitable a time that he seeks to impress crops that can be grown tjvt noo any farmer so situated that he can comprehend so unwilling were they mature flint corn will find it profitable to entertain any thought of disaster to plant a few acres even though he to their messiah and to the kingdom who aro accounted to rule over the has to cut down correspondingly his he was to establish gentiles that is those who seem to were thinking about securing the best places in his kingdom 37 grant that we may sit one or thy right hand and one on thy left hand the positions of honor next to the throne itself the right hand hav ing the post of precedence in thy glory the glory of the messianic king 38 ye know not what ye ask they were to learn the difference between standing first and being first and that there is a vast difference between ap pointment and achievement they were also to learn tliat it is suffering not honor which marks the first place in the high roll of the kingdom aro ye able to drink the cup to be baptized figurative expressions to indicate a mans portion in life and the overwhelming power of calamity 39 they said we are able we are hardly to suppose that this indicates they had an adequate idea of the cost of drinking the cup and undergoing such a baptism it is rather an in- considerate and superficial answer- the cup that i drink ye shall drink ho administers no rebuke for their selfseeking but assures them that they shall verily share in his suffer ings in the pathway of their apostle- ship 40 to sit on my right hand or on my left hand is not mine to give for them for whom it hath been prepared not personal influence but fitness and that fitness is detor- sonal favor is out of the question no personal equation enters into it 42 jesus called them to him such a display of selfish ambition must have inteiisely grieved him they acreage of silo corn heaves absolutely cured n sny horse soy cafe no matter how ud 22 years of success is our reason for selling capital heave remedy vlth ornianoyivipv jnarant it must c ooirlorreoryur v utofonded a full weeks trial oa receipt of 5c staiujornllvcr to cover poetajro and wrapin wo will end you a full wee ulxl nlthall pftrtlcnlflrs juklgriarantcd ol fciiijicuon w ito now vtebftaqy scpplv moose 750 cocpcr strut ot uw 0a l free message to farmers hon t a crerar minister of agriculture has sent out the follow- 1 ing message to canadian farmers asking them in order to avert a fam- ino to plant every possible ncro in wheat let me again draw the at tention of tho farmors of canada to j the great need there is of planting i every acre of land in wheat that seems i favorablo to growing it the news that comes daily of that awful grim j struggle now being fought in frnnce j and flanders brings home to us clear ly and unmistakably this fact that after almost four years war human liberty is still in the balance the call for men is urgent and they must to the full limit of our power be sent their places at home must be taken by those who remain despite the j difficulties we must produce more food than wc have ever done before set apart all your land fit for growing crops and plant as much wheal as you can plan to bring as much new land on your farm under cultivation as possible nnd thus increase your acre age for next year it will be needed then just as much as now cut out amd fold on dotted lines you ou 10 v- lit tvaik tlu wire said will iis icadfl ol fun just let me take that parasol and ill show you how its done 33 the son of man shall bo deliver- rule ho would show them that men ed unto the chief priests and the rule by force by heredity by choice scribes he saw clearly that thero by flattery by intrigue but that few was no avoiding tho clutches of his possess the real qualities of leader- enemies ho did not seek to evade ship they lord it over them and the the inevitable issue but marched people become their servants directly toward his goal caring not i 43 but it is not so among you for himself but for those trustful dis- in tho kingdom tho loaders instead of ciplcs to whom he was to hand over being lord3 become servants nnd the the great work ho had inaugurated very highest become bond servant of and who were pitiably ignorant of the all the essential principle of the j great meaning of it all condemn him kingdom of god is to achieve great- i to death deliver him unto the ness not through preferment but i gentiles to him tho approaching through service rendered death was not an accidental tragedy 45 tho son of man came not to be but nn event which clearly lay in his ministered unto but to minister pathway as a part of his messianic even the son of man is not exempt i program it was not nn incident but from this rule he is the head of i a necessary part of his work these humanity and yet hc is the servant of i were bitter words to the disciples the all to give his life a ransom for j thought that hc was to die and was to many his death is tho sunreme ser- be delivered to the gentiles instead of vico for humanity he gave his life leading them to victory over the na- not merely in behalf cf many but in- i tions must have thrown them into stead of many here we have before utter confusion us the profound truth of tho vicarious 31 mock spit upon sacrifice of christ his life becomes scourge kill the climax of the lutron or price by which men aro indignities crucify him says freed from bondage matthew put him to death like the meanest and most abandoned criminal put it there after three days he shall rise again i a fin0 slory comcs fr t f t here is a prophecy which makes this i f t l utterance a revelation foresight re to k s j v might suggest that to go into the very seeing n slightly wounded austra- mldst of his enemies would mean dis- ilnn at the railway station the king aster and death but to affirm that ho walked up to him and said would rise from the dead at a stated ive often heard about you austra- n lifts this prediction above com- hans in this war mon foresight into divino knowledge j the australian holding out his 35 wo would that thou shouldest hand responded put it there ccrn ki f hi f thing but a modest spirit this isa inpprcd immensely pleased to be vory painful episode at a time when aicn as an cnual their hearts should have been deeply tlllfl incident is symbolical of the touched by the thought of the suffer- democracy for which tho allies aro i ing which awaited their master they fighting