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sse the farm wood lot according to the 1910 census the value of forest products produced on the farms of the united states east of the great plains was close to 200- 000000 in 1918 over 100000000 cords of wood were burned on am erican farms or sold off the farms to r 73 adelaide st west toronto town and city dwellers throughout add communicaton to agronomist 73 adelaiae j market m inikrv i either the weight or number y pro jy on t average farm is f f j m have to make a claim against the bab t thaq r united manv farmers today hke to ship compan or you have a dis- g sf w t0 ft wiiwte ith your commission man j raore selling it to the poultry buyer in their and weight are very essential of cquntry em u t- vi- 114 t to a satisfactory settlement in encx is fqundforfarm labqr and the buying public in all the hirger durin w cities c specially grow more discrim- inating every year or at least they become more particular and any poul try offered for sale must be nearly perfect in dressing and conformity as a general rule homedressed poultry roes not sell as well as city dressel for the reason that the scald ing is imperfectly done and the chicken have a spotted appearance which irrts their sale the retail dealer therefore wants to buy them at a dibcunt of two to five cents per pound as compared with citydressel stock in shipping dressed poultry see that it is thoroughly cooled before shijping and wrap the head of each bird in a piece of paper to prevent any moei from tripping on the other chickens pack in barrels or boxes and shir by express or truck in shipping live poultry the fol lowing precautions should be ob- serred do not ship any culls thin stock or diseased chickens they are not sale able and you only pay express use lessly if you aa shipping enough stock to do so grie your poultry when put- ship early in the week the and hauling logs ties pulpwood kets in the big cities are practically p timber and cordwood even in the thickly populated portions of the over by thursday noon ana unless there is a short supply friday is bar gain hunters day shrinkage is a big factor in ship ping and should be taken into con sideration when deciding whether to sell at home or ship to the nearest big market the average shrinkage on chickens is from five per cent on aged stock up to ten per cent on young chickens if you feed heavily before shipping the shrinkage will only bo that much heavier turkeys shrink from ten to fifteen per cent and ducks shrink the most the shrinkage on these seldom runs less than fifteen per cent the most popular breeds of chickens are ply eastern townships of quebec where the farms have been cultivated for well over one hundred years it is quite common for farmers to handle from 100 to 200 cords of firewood in a season this year stove and furnace wood is selling for from 10 to 1450 per cord this will give an idea of the important part the farm wood lot plays in helping farmers through periods of depression or financial dif ficulty in many sections considerable rev enue is derived from the sale of maple sugar products forest areas conserve moisture for springs and wells act as windbreaks zith and barred rocks and rhode a laridscape more active island reds these if in good con dition always command the best prices leghorns black minorcas anconas and other undersized breeds are not wanted except at a marked reduction in prices generally two to five cent per pound under the first mentioned breeds if they can be obtained onetrip ting it hi cops for shipment heavy i coops are the most desirable to ship pringe- ii one coop heavy hens in they weigh about twelve pounds in aniti and light stock by them selves v not crowd too many birds in a ceo- one dead chicken pays the express on another coop slat coops weigh thirtyfive to forty pounds at the present express rates it costs twentyfive to thirty cents more to ship a slut coop than a light in warm weather esipecially many i one and you then have to pay twenty coops arrive at market with two to fivo deed in each coop because the shipper has crowded too many in a coop always weigh and count your poul try when you ship do not guess at cents for the return and you do not always get it returned in shipping for any holiday market drip early prices are more likely to be lower the day before a holiday as every one is filled up by that time the matter of mineral elements in the hogs ration is important especi ally in our north country where for months at a time the ground is frozen bo that hogs cannot root in it the exact proportion of the ingrer chents used to make up a mineral mixture however is not so important the object should be to see that min eral elements such as the hogs sys tem demands for proper development and such as are not provided in the food in sufficient quantities should be available in some other form in ashes salt lime and sulphur will be found most everything that is needed some bone meal or ground rock phosphate will help and should be added if it is available charcoal is good so is soft coal but charcoal is simply an aid to digestionaivi-soit- ooal is valuable mairvyfor the sul phur it ivw- the four ingredi- enti irrsl named along with charcoal can be secured anywhere and cheaply and we will do well to supply them as a guide to follow the following formula is good wood ashes one the cheap feed is often expensive in buying feeds as in buying fer tilizers too little consideration is given to the actual feeding contents of the bag that holds the contents too often the main consideration is the price per ton buyers need to keep in mind the fact that when they buy digester tankage oil cake cottonseed meal etc they buy protein that will balance up the carbohydrates carried by the homegrown portion of the ration many feeders in past years more frequently than now have used a forty cent protein tankago be cause they could get the former for a few dollars les3 per ton than the lat ter the truth is that unless itho got it for twothirds orjc- of what the sixty n c goods cost they were fooling themselves the cost per ton for bags and freight was just the same as for the better goods and it was just as much labor to handle a bag of the forty per cent its feed ing value so far as protein was con cerned was only twothirds of the higher grade and higher priced goods it always pays to figure bushel charcoal one bushel rockj per ton of the particular material that phosphate one bushel salt one peck eoug in feeds do not consider lime one peck and sulphur one peck it 0i1 y frfeg o pr per a ways analyze it into the cost per pound of the particular feeding in gredient needed to balance the ration that is what counts and what is bought not so many tons of feed at so many dollars a ton here is my method of breaking calves to milk put the heifer in stanchions with her left side next to a partition put on halter with long tierope bring head to right as far as possible put the ropo around right hind leg from tho rear and let it come out under rope around leg put leg in right po sition to milk draw rope tight and tie securely to something behind heifer sit down and milk tho heifer can only move her leg up and down usually in from one week to ten days the heifer stands like an old cow i have seen men lick a heifer in breaking them in always try kind ness first it is not necessary to mis use a heifer if broke in this way ss dairying will grow as a basic farm ing industry because it makes possible great savings in the production of nearly all farm crops lice on cattle every satisfactory treatment for cattle infested with lice and other parasites is an application of raw lin seed oil one quari of the oil is suffi cient for eight or ten cows apply the oil with a brush or rag especial care should be taken to make the ap plication thorough en the upper parts of the neck and ong the back from tho poll to the bise of the tail at tention should also bo given to the shoulder tops the folds of the udder and the escutcheon be sure to use raw linseed oil and not boiled linseed oil the latter- will irritate the skin the treatment should be repeated in about two week3 and thereafter about once a month in tho winter and utilize land unfit tor cultivation every farm should have at least enough home grown timber to supply fuel fence posts and lumber for re pairs to farm buildings a little care given each year to fire protection proper thinning and util izing of the timber would nearly double the yield from the average woodlot instead of slashing half grown trees of the useful marketable varieties for home requirements if the less valuable varieties windfalls and trees showing signs of insect damage and rot were used the re maining trees would make more rapid growth open spaces should be avoided as much as possible because once a grass sod is formed the growth of the trees is checked tops should be lopped to ensure more rapid decay and to lessen the danger from fire the main idea is to keep a blanket of leaves and wood on the forest floor to hold moisture and encourage the growth of the young trees it is bad piactice to allow sheep or cattle to pasture in the woodlot because they destroy the young growth which should come on as soon as the heavier timber is removed of the hardwood trees the hard or sugar maple is the most valuable besides supplying sap for sugar making the wood is valuable for fuel the manufacture of agricultural im plements furniture hardwood floor ing and distilled products other valu able hardwoods are birch beech brown and white ash and elm bass- wood and poplar grow more qujcjr than other deciduous tses and are usefiil49f reforestation among the conifers spruce is the most important wood supplying the bulk of the tim ber and rough lumber for building purposes besides it is useful for pulpwood and pit timber pine is not t plu t i t 15 id jlbeal old counfrgr treccfr ogdens liverpool 22saaaas3e3 for those who roll their own ask for ogdens fine cut in trie green packet it is the best gmaabn the sunday school lesson january 21 the prodigaison luke 15 1 124 golden text there is joy in the presence of the angels of god over one sinner that repenteth luke 15 10 lesson setting our lesson today is one of the three great parables nect that failure with himself it is not a failure of money or food or friends but a failure of himself the fault does not rest with the far coun try but with himself how many spoken with a common purpose them all they are the parable of the lost sheep the parable of the often found in farm woodlots but is lost silver and the parable of tho hired servants have bread i useful for manufactured lumber firlbost son the pharisees murmured perish he is now thinkmgof home and hemlock are used mainly fori against jesus because he kept corn- building lumber and pulpwood cedar p with publicans and sinners peo- makes the best shingles and is also 8fi28ggi used for telephone and telegraph ua and saving can only come by poles crossties and fence postsj seeking true religion is a seeking tamarack although not a common not a separated thing god is a seek- wood is very durable and is valuable ing not a separated god it is orfe for fence posts ties mine and crib thing to keep company with sinners work timbers i for the sake of the evil in them it wherever there is plenty of mois- is another t se company busjit seems rather the fiiststep in turn a second erowth usuallv anrinws sinners for the sake of the good open con 0 error it is his nem heart not his stomach that leads him i leaving home 1113 homeword will say i have sin- v 12 father give me the portion lned his first words are to be word3 up where the heavy timber has been removed because of their rapid growth tho spruces firs and poplars v u jyni oods by mosaic law each child of confession how different from often supplant the original hardwood j po n got the proud words with which he went forests fully stocked with trees an rations these portions were away v 19 no more worthy to be called thy son he feels that he has for feited his place in the home he has acre of soft woods will grow at the distributed during the fathers rate of one to two cords per year will j lifetime supply posts or pulpwood in 15 to v 13 took his journey into a far 25 voars and saw logs in 20 to 40 country it would take some time to longer any rights there make me years ilardwcods grow at the rate convert his portion into monev but as thy scr v of onehalf to one cord per vear alas soon as possible he said farewell j to a a p that his cord being equal to about 500 board i to the old home and the old life in father sees fit to give him it is hs feet of raw lumber by proper man- his foolish way of thinking he wished 1 to see and know and taste life and agement rocky waste and swampy land if allowed to grow up under forest may be made to yield a worth while income srt5 tm bnud up your breeders maintain their health insure thefertility and hatchability of their eggs its easy pr0 poultry regulator u guartntottd to put your fowls in perfect con- dltloo and kwp them strong and vigorous makes am lay mors eggs fertu oggs the eggs that produce big hatches of worthwhile chicks ton mcner bck if you are not stifid imi in cod sold h dlacm brurrrlwm fkatt fooo co of canada umfc stsw cwuw an tovoaco 80 mack says straw 1 have been trying of late to teach the choreboy tho value of straw for the stock straw under foot i mean straw on the farm is one of tho things we like to be extravagant with you know how good it feels to crawl intoa nice clean comfortablo bed it feels the same to the cattle they will lie down a great deal if they have a comfortablo bed to lie on and if is then that the feed they have eaten is gotting in its good work robert mackie the faithful scotch herdsman down at the college said to me soon after he took charge there you kin na hae thim contented if they hae to sleep in the filth neither kin they do well if they are not con tented and comfortable if i hae to be short on either i would rather be short on hay than on straw plenty of feed in the racks and lots of straw underfoot that is what we like and the cattle lie down chew their cuds and grunt as much as to say so mote it be pratt 5 yc aft ok service the practice of thrift gives ari up ward tendency to the fe of the in i- vidual and to tho lifa of the nation it sustains and preierve the htghcjt welfare of tho rac that he thought could not be done at home doubtless the father who saw him afar off when ho came back watched him till he faded out of sight doubtless the elder son was too busy in the fields to say good bye the prodigal went as all prodi gals go with full purpose gay cloth ing and jaunty step and light heart wasted his substance with riotous living the prodigals idea of liberty is license the unrestrained following of ones desires he wasted not only substance but soul ii thinking home 1417 v 14 when he had spent all when prodigals scatter money they gather friends of a dubious kind it did not take long to drain the prodigals purse a mighty famine to be in want famine was common then as now in eastern lands the famine aggravated his poverty i v 15 joined himself to a citizen of that country became the slave of a gentile master a great degradation for a jew for tho prodigal who had parted with money and character still retained his racial pride sent him to feed swine another step downward he must feed animals abhorred by the jew v 16 nr man gave unto him ha finds the far country not only food- less but loveless the husks or carob pods which the swine ate are all that stands between him and actual star vation v 17 when he came to himself the first step towards coming to god is coming to ones self he realizes that his great adventure has become a miserable failure and begins to con- fathers will not his own that is to be supreme the least that his father will give is more than ho deserves v 20 a great way off his father saw him because all this time the father had been waiting and watching for his return the shepherd seeks anxiously for his lost sheep god must wait longingly for the lost soul had compassion his fathers love goes out to his son ragged footsore gaunt and miserable as he is ran and fell on his neck he does not wait sternly for words of confession or turn away he riot only sees his son but sees through him and reads all the inward story v 21 the son said he begins his little prepared speech of penitence v 22 but the father said his fath er interrupts the unfinished speech he does not wait till he asks a slaves he began place but immediately proceeds to give him a sons place bring the best robe a ring shoes all three things signify a restoration of the prodigal to his filial place in the homo the restoration is immediate it is complete it is loving vs 23 24 bring hither the fatted calf it is also a joyful restoration there was always a calf fattening for festive occasions this my son was dead to all intents and purposes this saying of the father gathers up the whole parable a sinful man may for get or despise his sonship but god cannot forget his own fatherhood nor the sonship of the sinner his love seeks his love searches his love waits his love has compassion his leve restores application we have been so accustomed to the title usually given to this most beau tiful ant precious of all the parabicj the prodigal don that we are apt to overlook the truth that it is equawy fitting and perhaps more so to call it the parable of the loving father the father in the parable well and truly represents the love and longing of a normal human father for his children of course there are some who fall below this character- our lord takes this tender relation ship at its best and says to us god is like that only better if ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall ysur father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him the test of all good things that the heavenly father gives is love forgiving love buzzing up the land that baking washing lifeless un productive land is the merciless ban dit who robs the laboring farmer of every possibility in the way of profits this bandit can be outwitted i have done it i was helped to do it by an outcast this outcast is a plant in the past we shunned it there was no place in our busy lives for it but there is such a place today and let me tell you that plant is none other than sweet clover sometimes a cow or a sheep will not eat it but they can be trained that is however unnecessary since the land can be buzzed up to virgin conditions without making hay of the blooming branching sweet clover yes this can bo done while the farm er is gathering in cold hard cash from the land now you are listening well before you turn your car et me tell you to plow that sweet clover under use a chain maybe or anyway do anything to get the soil on top two or three crops will make land mellow active full of vim and pep and ready to do what it did first after the forest was harvested did i forget somethmg yes you remembered it that cold hard cash you will need some to start with un less you have about twenty good swarms of bees for every ten acres of this sweet clover i find that these busy bizzing brothers are capable of gathering the cold cash from this sweet clover when honeymaking weather is reasonably plentiful a score of healthy swarms will secure within the little cells almost a ton of tho sweet nectar at eighteen or twenty cents per pound well figure it yes the total is larger than from beans or corn or oats or wheat of course you might need a litho lime to satisfy the calcium appetite of this vigorous plant you will have to supply this if in days gone by the j appetite of clovers has used up tho native stores but lime paves and makes sure and safe the narrow way j which leads to production on a virgin soil basis everchanging humus and home- generated nitrogen must be mined j into these emaciated soils sweet clover is my proscription it has tl kick three doses will bring back ths worst cases you may need to sup plement with a little commercial fertilizer then let the bees payjtbs bills as i have done soeftiel hagwr man