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by agronomist thf department t for the use of our farm readers who want th9 an expert on any question regarding toll seed crops etc if your que j of sufficient general interest it will bo answered through thla tamped and addressed envelope is enclosed with your letter a ettp answer will be mailed to you address agronomist car of wilson pubhn co ltd 73 adelaide 6t w toronto blue lights in dairying can be placed at the herd of roth we have been accustomed to speak herds and the sending of two cows will of the farm fire protection by d williamson well you saved the barn any- 1 building plant and its a patriotic way i said consolingly duty for all of us to protect our farm yes by sheer good luck grunted buildings more carefully than we have the owner of maple grove farm pick- bce doing ing a dented fire pail from the cin- common whitewash with a little ders the wind happened to be added makes the best possible blowing the other way that was all fireproof paint did you know that couldnt you get a fire stream on it i thought you had a good water- supply i thought so too i had a pres ie blue lights in stock breeding in three times out of every four make suretank in the prt under my shop ning thereby how to attain the it possible to secure the male these and a gravitytank over it on a high est mprit rv individuals two methods of securing extra good iron tower but the fire started m meaning highest merit in the individuals j two methods of securing extra ku career in dairying there are two ftock to continue operations with are the shop and burst through the roof j doors through such partitions must be in a large connected mass of farm buildings fire partitions can be runj up so that a fire can be kept from spreading these partitions should of course cut right through the roofs and frame walls and can be made of brick cement block hollow tile or i metal lath plastered with cement all ways of obtaining high potential value in the young breeding herd of course there are really three ways but only two are practical for the breeder of small means the breeder who has considerable money to start with often goes into the dairy cattle business not because he needs the money but because he either wants a pastime or wants to leave some monument for himself which is very enduring and it is true that there is no more enduring monument than to establish a superb herd of dairy animals because with such an estab lishment it is a fact that many of these animals will become a matter of history and their offspring will march down through the ages as long as dairy cattle are kept which will be as long as the civilization of man is in the progressive phase 0ne of the quickest ways to attain the blue with the breeding herd is to buy a bull with individuality and excellent breeding that may be placed at the head of the herd it has been said by old breed ers who realize the value of quality in the products they have to sell that a man can put as much into a herd head er as the combined value of all his cows this advice is given out by so many good breeders of proven ability that the young breeder can do no thing better than to take the advice at its face value and invest in a bull whose quality cannot be questioned another way which is some slower but just as effective however is for two or three breeders to combine and take the very best cows or heifers they have at least two and send them to a bull of unquestioned super iority for breeding it is true that the service fees are sometimes very high but this way of getting extra fine individuals is much less expen sive than to try to buy males with the breeding and individuality that the young stock will have of course the idea in sending these cows away is to secure if possible a malo that both of them practical and have re- before we discovered it in two mi- ceived the sanction of a number of mites the iron supports of the tower practical breeders were red hot and crumpled up there there are a good many registered the thing lies he pointed to what scrubs in breeding herds all over the looked like a blackened tangled country and i have observed that tho framework of a wrecked zeppelin man who keeps only registered stuff is not likely to show progress mate rially better than the man who keeps only good grade stuff it is not en ough to keep stuff that is registered it is imperative to keep the best of registered stuff the surplus animals are produced from a herd kept on this now basis are always in demand while the surplus animals from a herd kept on the basis of registry alone very often drug and even opiate the market many people say if your registered stuff is all like that quality grade stuff is plenty good enough for mo and i would much rather have it in this way the market for pedigreed animals is usually discounted for the poor registered breeders by the good grade breeders it is necessary sooner or later in order to have ones efforts crowned with success to got the blue by securing a fine individual to place at the head of the breeding establish ment progress secured through in troduction of highclass females is pretty likely to be slow especially if the herd header is not in the same class with the females that are brought in nothing is truer than that the herd header is the index to the value of the herd and this being true one of superior quality must be secured either by outright purchase or indirectly by sending the cream of the females to a superior bull and de pending upon getting a son of this bull as a herd header either one of the last two schemes are practical but the last one is the least expensive of the two and is probably best fitted for use among small breeders of small finances especially if there are two or more living in close proximity to each other n of course when the towertink fell it landed on the pressuretank smash ing the valves off that my gasoline engine and pump were in the shop too the firebuckets had been carried off to slop the hogs and there you the horses stomach is small there fore if it is to eat but three times daily and has a large amount of labor to perform his food should be concen trated the amount of roughage the horse is able to take depends largely upon custom however better results will be secured and the animal will keep healthier and last longer if per mitted to eat lightly of roughage and liberally of grain but what grain shall we feed this is an important question and the an swer will depend upon circumstances if we have oats we may as well feed them if we are fortunate enough to possess corn and have no oats we need not buy them to mix with the corn in order to make a suitable ration the old notion that a horse must have oats in order to do his best work must go because there are a number of careful xperiments which prove that if the orse is fed either ear corn or oats in qual quantities there will be practie- lly no difference in results the ration adapted to the needs of e horse differs from that required the cow the cow must make jilk from her ration and to do this squires a large amount of protein jotein builds the body and carbohyd- tes furnish heat and energy the jste of the body of tho horse must bo jfeaired and some protein is needed iaff the great demand is for food that asw furnish energy this is where raj excels barley will practically the place of corn wheat bran be given in small quantities with lofer of these grains with good re- s all this isnt an argument against fire protection precisely the opposite my friend did not have a good fire system and so he lost sev eral thousand dollars worth of farm buildings with all their contents iron is far less fireproof than stout tim bers it bends like wax when hot and should never be used for a tanktow er unless set away off by itself the pressuretank should have been buried in the ground the pumpingengine ought to have been in a small isolat ed building and so on in these wartime days a farm fire is as much a national calamity as the destruction of a munitions or a ship- tightly covered with tin on both sides fireextinguishers are good things to have handy if you have a watersystem it should keep head enough to throw a good stream against the highest point of any building a pressure at the ground of thirty pounds will shoot the water about forty feet in the air us ing twoandahalfinch fire hose if you have only the ordinary gar den hose a very much greater pres sure is necessary the concern you buy your watertank from will figure it all out for you but the best possible fire protection is a sprinkler system there are dozens of good sorts on the markot and practically every factory large or small is equipped with one then there are all sorts of things you can do to keep fires from starting when i visit an old farmhouse i al ways examine tho chimneys very carefully nine times out of ten i find gaping holes right through the brick work just under the roof and then theres the danger of spontaneous combustion from greasy rags the danger from lightning etc a vital necessity in peace or war the operations of hydroelectri public utility companies are a necessity to the industrial and social fare of canada and are as essenti times of peace as in war this is one of the reasons we re mend the bonds of wellmanaged h electric and public utility comp serving growing communities send for list of hydroelectric acl i lie utility bonds yielding 6 to nesbitt thomson compai investment bankers limit mercantile trust bldg hamil 222 st james street monti good health question box by andrew f currier md dr currier will answer all signed letters pertaining to health toestlon is of general interest it will bo answered through these co ii aot it will be answered personally if stamped addressed envelope closed dr currier will not prescribe for individual cases or make dla address dr andrew f currior care of wilson publishing co 73 ai bt west toronto every hog that is killed in transit international lesson lesson xii jesus triumphant over death mark 16 120 golden text i cor 15 20 verse 1 when the sabbath was past this was after sunset on saturday for the sabbath ended at sundown mary magdalene and mary the moth er of james and salome luke speaks generally of the women who had come with him out of galilee 23 65 they were present at a distavee when the body was laid in the tomb as the burial took place late friday before the commencement of the sab bath sundown and the care of the body vas not completed on account ly tender touch that to the disciple of the sabbath the women returned as soon as the sabbath was over to complete the final preparation bought due to overcrowding or mishandling spices aromatic herbs and ointments means a loss at present prices of j for the embalment this was un- probably more than 80 to the shipper like the egyptian embalment for no as well as a waste of meat needed by incisions were made and only the sur- the nation mortality in transit or f age was cared for after arrival at the central market can t jjjj day m the be lessened greatly in hot weather by carefuliy noted by all thc evangelists a fn wer seeds particularly annuals heap and a beautiful flower gar- heawjr be had at a trifling cost by oll a few packets of seeds of 41s and sowing them now in well red beds in the open ground mers who ship their wool ct to us get better prices farmers who sell to the ral store k any farmer has sold his wool both and note what he says tcr still write tu for our jthcy will show vna how ruloso by selling to the store bjhe higher prtee ofnr firm be amc day wool is received nurwool toiy soawiiiba if n square dmurodi is 2 i y andrews rch st toronto i the practice of the following simple precautions on the part of shippers and dealers 1 when hogs are very hot during or after a drive never pour cold wa ter over their backs 2 before loading clean out each ear and bed it with sand which dur ing dry hot weather should be wet ted down thoroughly hogs in tran sit during the night only are not so likely to be lost from overheating as are the animals shipped in the day time with day shipments in hot weather it is highly advisable to sus pend burlap sacks of ice from the ceil ing in various parts of thc car in order to reduce the temperature and incid entally to sprinkle the animals with cool water the ice sometimes is placed in sacks on the floor but the animals are likely to pile and crowd arpund the cakes so that only those close to the ice are benefiter the ice should be sufficient to last to the des tination 8 do not overload crowding hogs in a car during warm weather is a prolific source of mortality 4 the feeding of corn because of its heating effect before and during shipment in hot weather should bo re- j duced to a minimum oats are pre ferable where a grain feed is neces- sary tho maximum maintenance requirement of hogs in transit for twentyfour hours is one pound of grain a hundredweight or approxim ately three bushels of corn to a car plowing with a tractor after i had been plowing with a tractor for a while i noticed that i was not finishing up the corners of my fields in very good shape of course i plawed thc main part of i my field by lands but i was leaving a goodsized headland and when the strip on each side of the field was j tho same width as tho headlands i plowed around the field throwing the dirt in toward thc plowed field at first i would plow up to thc cor- nor whilo making these rounds raise my plow as soon as i had them even with thc last furrow turn around and drop them on a lino with the fur row last plowed and so on around the j field just as i had been used to doing i with a team and sulky plow i by plowing a short distance past j tht- last furrow on the corner i found i that i was able to make corners with i no triangles of unplowcd land as had i previously been the trouble iihc and is to the effect that saturday night was just dying out and thc first streaks of dawn were rising on the darkness 3 who shall roll us away the stone they do not seem to know that the authorities have sealed the tomb the expression roll away literally is roll up and back since the circular flat stone was rolled up and back into an inclined groove and would have to be wedged so that it would not roll down again this is the character of such a stone seen by the writer in a tomb near jerusalem 4 looking up while they were walking along and talking they look ed up toward the tomb and were nmazed to see that the stone was roll ed away mark says nothing of the earthquake or that an angel had rolled i away the stone as matthew records 28 2 6 entering into tho tomb luke agrees with mark that the women en tered the tomb nnd that they found not the body of jesus some of the rockcut tombs in thc vicinity of jerusalem may be easily entered by person standing erect the burial niches are in lateral chambers in many places 6 he is risen he is not here the resurrection is here stated as an ac complished fact it has been suggest ed that the young man may nave been no other than jesus himself in distinctly seen in the dimly lighted sepulcher by the women who as yet had no thought of the possibility of a resurrection behold the place where they laid him there were no human witnesses to the resurrection but evi dences all around that the event had taken place the place was empty the body gone there were no evi dences of a violent removal every thing was in order 7 go tell his disciples and peter there was no time to linger in transport over the amazing fact they had a message to give to the stricken disciples in their darkness and perplexity it is mark only who adds and peter this is a special- broken by his own denial and by the death of his loved master the early announcement of the resurrection should be made it is also significant that this injunction to tell peter is re corded by mark the interpreter of peter he goeth before you into galilee this was to remind them of his promise to meet them in galilee the scene of his glorious ministry but they had doubtless in the confu sion of the last days forgotten that perplexing statement after i am raised up i will go before you into galilee mark 14 28 8 and they went out and fled from the tombtrue to nature the whole account is artless honest and strong trembling and astonishment had come upon them matthew 28 8 tells us that this first impression of terror and mental confusion gave place gradually to other feelings so that they ran to bring the disciples word it is maintained by biblical scholars that the following verses 920 form no part of the original mark gospel but that they are of a very ancient date and trustworthy material added to the gospel soon after the original draft was composed 9 he appeared to mary mark alone mentions that the first person to whom jesus appeared was mary she first ran to tell peter then re turned to thc tomb to receive the manifestation here recorded 10 told them that had been with cut out and fold on dotted lines 3t m e will you please explain nerve trouble how does it affect a person does it affect the heart answer nervousness may be an evidence of diseased organs and tis sues or that the psychic part of the individual the will desires emotions senses are out of joint and have gone on strike f this term is dear to the heart of those who are nervous and few of them would be willing to give it up for any other with doctors the condition is known under such terms as nervous excite ment neurasthenia hysteria and hypochondria it is perhaps best expressed by the term nervous excitement nervousness from real disease or from an impending event of serious ness and great importance is easily understood and it would be a rare person who did not suffer from ner vous excitement under such conditions even if he did not cry out and make a great time about it again a child with scarlet fever with parched mouth and heated body with unbalanced mind and uncontroll able restlessness may have his ner vousness or nervous excitement as a direct product of disease or a child of highstrung parents and excitable temperament is denied a toy or compelled to go to bed when he prefers to sit up whereupon ho cries and stamps his feet or breaks dishes or throws things at his moth ers head this also is nervous excitement or nervousness but has no direct rela tion to disease or a woman cries or laughs im moderately perhaps over trifles or is unable to keep quiet or has a fore boding of evil scolds or finds fault continually and we are compelled to say this woman is laboring under strong nervous excitement or simply that she is hysterical when nervousness proceeds from disease we must cure the causative disease to get rid of the nervousness and we cannot prevent it except as we prevent the exciting cause it may be an indication of insanity and show that mind and body require certain remedies whether they are suitable hygiene or food or medicines when nervousness is unassocatcd with disease the great thing is to train the will to determine persistent ly not to give way until victory or death results such a task is all tho harder if the will was not brought under some mea sure of control in early life nervousness may come to anybody but it is far more common in women and children than in men it is less common in women who work hard day by day than in those who have been brought up in luxury and idleness and who spend their timo in frivolity or in tasks which arc of no cdnseciuence children have it so often that it bcr comes a reflection on their bad in heritance ov their bad bringing lip the patent medicine makers deluge the market with all sorts of nostrums for nervousness gve them as wide a bertii s pos sible they arc very apt to make things worse and give you a habit besides asafoetida is not a pleasant j ing drug but a five grain pi often cure an attack of nerves i never heard of its forming an as idahabit useful also are infusions of cr mile pennyroyal catnip and herb teas dear to our grandmothe it would be well if we went j to these harmless remedies gafh and drying herbs as our foret did and substitute them for the w array of patent medicines willie went to fathers den took the racket down and then little rascalo got his nerve hear him shout ah ready serve him as they mourned and wept this discloses the condition of the discon solate group of disciples in their ex- tremo distress 11 when they heard dis believed it seemed utterly impos sible nothing was further removed from their thoughts it was only after tho most convincing and irrc- fragible proof that they subsequently preached that ho was risen from tho dead 0 do you guess or know one man says that ono reason many farmers are not more prosperous is because they have the habit of guess ing about matters of which they should have positivo knowlcdgo ho says many a farmer guesses at everything at tho tonnage of his hay crop never accurately known unless hay is sold at tho cost of fencing stone picking plowing cultivating manure spreading and the amount of j fertilizer used or given fields at tho amount of nnd cost of feed per cow and at the weight of milk returned at neurasthenia called by foreig the american sickness is not a ease at all strictly speaking but a collection of very uncomfort symptoms though it often leads real diseases or may accompany th it was first brought to notice by george m beard in 1860 it belongs to the intense period life particularly in men is essenti ly nerve exhaustion and is thought be due to a deficiency of oxygen in t blood a neurasthenic is always tin always afraid something terrible go to happen everything fatigu him or makes him dizzy or gives hi a headache and he is unable to cor centrate his mind upon anything apa from his own misery frequently looks well except for a jgatanf anxious expression and he imry ha fits of uncontrollable trembling 1 is forgetful and irritable troub with intcmnin or if he sleeps has dreams his skin tingles he lj flashes of heat his extremities i cold hi3 heart is weak and palpitf uncomfortably his arteries throb vision is bad his ears ring and h annoyed subjectively by ninplea tastes and smells his digestive paratus is constantly upset and 1 always on the lookout for some j ache or ail many causes may contribute tc condition which is based upor weak nervous system among i are worry grief intense hurry tf rich excesses of all kinds atnj eric extremes and unhoalthful oc tions indoor work favors jy nervous highly organized peop especially sensitive to it it me indefinitely but it never kills as it leads up to some fatal a chango in surroundings ma that is necessary to throw it off often the will power is insuffiij fight it successfully jf the only medicines which a able in treating it are cathartic gulatc thc bowels and simplj one who has it should breathe stay out of doors as much as exercise moderately sleep as possible by day as well as th and eat only simple food ps baths and sunlight are nll cheerfurcompany wholesatff ment and change and occurf useful measures of treatmche should neither ridicule nor ps neurasthenic ho is really wl not so sick as he thinks he b doctor or nurse who can wi fidence and guide him iif and kindly will servo as th sible tonic for restoring hisj nerves eri j nnl is is ayll ir tho acreage devoted to ce and at thc expense of tinati such crops represent atvit equipment repairs and aipo and actualaalue of stock jj annual periods to sue mind an accurato invenj pcrty is only useful asj for nn auction sale and ibl credit thc crops ho raisdall poses of comparison nj considers n waste of tis ishness farming is a busincs way to make an assur is to conduct it on the- principles known to b other lines ono mi his work conspicuou know that he is doing il smoketu