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hbmwmiwm address communications to agronomist is adelaide st west toronto autumn care of stock animals much more quickly in finement than on range the care of live stock during the stormy weather of autumn and when things i about pastures are bare or dry is an im- silos nortant factor in successful live stock imsbandry there are many farmers experience has taught me a lot who feed well during the winter and about silos six spring but allow their stock to receive for my first ohe lrtsbaiidry there are many farmers j experience has i si six years ago i was ready j stovie four neighbors bought together and saved about 20 on each tank because they could be shipped together and the agent got them all on one trip orders can be sent direct to the manufacturer where there is no agent and part or all of the commission on the sales can be kept by the farmers it doesnt matter what kind of a silo you get there is a competitor who wants to sell let em all bid it may cut the price i used to think that the base for a wooden silo needed to be built on the ive made three bases each severe setback in the autumn due largely to thoughtlessness for the com fort and food supply of the animals the cause of the setback is the deter ioration in the quality of the pastures as the summer advances and the greater need of shelter in autumn than during the summer on the rich succulent grass of june which acts as a tonic as well as a food the cattle quickly make gains and the changed conditions come so gradually as summer passes that one is apt to be caught unawares particularly when the pasture gets ahead of the rock ursus kermodei of victoria bc is the only bear of his kind in cap tivity he wa3 captured recently on princess royal island northern british columbia by indians and carried by them into civilization he is pure white in color but differs from the polar bear wnen me paskuru new nuu v v- stock early in the season and appears of the latter two lighter than the one so much better than it really is the before it a tenfoot wooden silo weighs from 3000 to 5000 pounds a wagonload of corn weighs that i dont use any floor put in a foot of straw and let the silo filler get busy i dont have a foot of juicy water in dry wooly stalks of the grasses and clovers require the addition of succu lent food to keep the cattle in condi tion to make profits for their owners the most valuable of these succulent fodders are mixed grain when cut in the bottom the soil absorbs the juice the milk stage corn and sunflowers i have learned to build the founda- when fed as soiling crops roots should tion wall in circular farm it saves be added in the late autumn when the material it looks better halfinch abovementioned fodders near matur- thinner house siding wet and slowly ity it is very important in feeding that all changes be made gradually so that the digestive tract of the ani mal may not be disturbed unduly late autumn feeding should merge gradually into the early winter ration the shelter and protection of the animals from storms and cold are quite as important as the feeding during this period of the year the clump of trees or windbreak that was of great value to the cattle during the hot days of summer is of little value during the chill driving rain or cold storms of autumn it requires more mood than the animal can eat to sup ply sufficient body heat during a cold wet storm and the animal has to fall back on its reserve supply of fat to maintain its body heat this results in a more or less serious loss of weight cattle should not be allowed to lie on watersoaked ground or when it is covered with hoar frost they should always be protected from rain storms and heavy winds that might chill them ifrom about september 1 until they are permanently stabled frequently cattle that are in good con dition at the close of summer go into winter quarters in poor shape with their vitality greatly impaired due to lack of ordinary care oil the part of their owners just asrsoon as the flies disappear the hornectiinimals that are going to be fed fqr beef should be dehorned this adds much- to their comfort they feed better and canbe marketed with less loss from bruises the teeth of young animals should be examined and loose ones extracted the teeth of old cows should also be looked over to determine how theifeed can best be prepared for themr all the stock should be carefully ex amined for nee ringworm or other parasites and diseases -they- should be treated for all these pests and dis eases which multiply and injure the the childrens hour three good games to play through the circle pro- star appeared way up in the sky little jackie rabbit spied it first star light star bright the first star i have seen tonight i wish you may i wish you might bring me the wish i have tonight sang jackie i bet i can guess your wish said eating right to m right the farmer is profit- by juliet lita bane since time began we have entertain- and there is ed many superstitions regarding food ing by the facts that have been learn- little girls have eaten bread crusts ed about feeding stock it is just as to make their hair curl while oder important that he and his family pro girls have eaten carrots to make them fit by the information now at hani beautiful yet how few people stop and regarding food for themselves for it think seriously and sanev atdt thehas been proved beyond a doubt that food which they take into their bodies and put before their families scien tists tell us that we have entirely new bodies every few years how are you building yours while the whole truth about food is not yet known there are some things that we do know and if acted upon would save us much anxiety and actual suffering the day is fast ap proaching when we shall have doctors we have a few of them now who will treat through food and the ali mentary tract in a highly specialized way just as certain schools treat the muscles there is more ill health in country dis tricts than there should be when we read such articles as the national menace of rural bad health which appeared in one of our magazines not long ago and read similar reports in other periodicals we should think twice before making the boast which we have made for so many years that the country was a very healhtful place in which to live one of the favorite reasons given by investigators for this condition is the fact that we have not chosen wisely in selecting food for ourselves and for our children a new phase of the question- of if we choose food wisely we have a jcedi m probum of toki food right to expect t to build for us newj f inst disease dr tissues repair old tissues regulate g v mccolhim of johns hopkins body processes correct certain weak- unvcts has give us 80me inter nesses and protect us from disease mting fact3 but on b inni ha3 but we must choose intelligently if we are to get these results we can not do what we have done been made in this field he recom mends that we use whole milk a quart a day for every child and at least a for so many years think of what pint each day for grownups we r willie you wish you were home for would uke t and vo not realized the food value and 7 e uc a y w t t swan positively refuses to eat what the protectivetalue of mhk dr mc- length and sew the ends of each piece i guess hes no the only one who easi and what we i e p x rommfnfa s use securely together form players m wishes it said johnnie muskrat m the3e th must vegetometfor the same rea two lines at a given word the race but the three little woodland boys fc consideration to a cer- 7 the classification of foods will prove helpful in the planning of meals whe ther for a family or a large group bent to shape makes the best form material use sod for the inside form use plenty of stones in the cement it is cheaper and the mixture holds as thus well use a sandandcement top coat make it smooth slope the whole wall to the outside staves set out at the bottom if it is level setting up hire a man who knows to help you building a scaffold is cheaper than broken legs use the plumb or level often crooked silos are a nuisance put a roof on for looks and con venience only ive one silo with and one without silage is better without a roof i believe extend the roof three or four feet above the top of the silo this gives you head and filling room fill in the space between the top of thestaves and the roof with sheet or galvanized iron when the silage settles youll have full silo i used to keep three or four men in side filling now one man with a dis tributor pipe does as well men will increase capacity but wont improve the silage even distribution is the main point fne cutting pays our cutter makes it a quarter of an inch finer cutting packs better and makes better silage own your own cutter if possible two or three farmers can buy one co operatively ive tried everything ive ever heard of for sealing silage until wanted for begins each leader places one of the kept on i drifting for they could not u wemust also have elastic bands over the head and goes think of any way to get to shore as other p through it as the leaders step out ht grew dark they were tired fright- x- c i the next player in each line grabs the ened and sleepy finally the old moon heretofore our chief principal circle and does likewise and so on peeped his head over the hill and to s i been ythmg foods are grouped as follows down the line three times starting at keep from getting lonesome they told thi of f table and g 1 body bulldm m the best two stokes about him i pvidence that w get- elude ean meats poultry fish oys- fii vnrhf unties to eat all sorts ters clams milk cheese eggs dried the signal each time when it was only an hour past bed- ting the right things to eat all sorts ters clams milk cheese eggs time they just couldnt keep awake 2w t- j nut8 and other p rch any longer and one after another went f w p no jo j foods to sleep it was then that something the and m tme the cea3ed to group 2 frvsilhlft iis starchy foods furnish trouble us others were so insistent energy and consist of bread crackers out of three wins in case of accident such as catching the elastic on a but ton or breaking the manager calls time and the other side must stop until repairs are made happened n that we finally had to consult a doctor macaroni rice cereals breakfast jump the shot may be played by kerp unk perchug slash splash l were flours and other cereal from ten to sixty or more players a the old log ship had hit a stump i many oi inese trouoies werc beanbag tide to a rope is needed the and off went the three little sleepy caused by improper food we shall t players 8 in a circle with one in j woodland boys into the wa r vl gr 8 fatty foods furnish en- the centre holding the end of the rope this player swings the rope around so describe a large circle on the floor or players ai c v r needed the and off went the three little sleepy caused by improper food we never know but it is safe to say that food has caused more ills than and include butter cream lard have ever been suspected by either j vegetable fats salt pork bacon choc- patient or doctor your doctor can not and other atty foods fencing the poultry yard the first rule for fencing poultry is ground with a sufficien length of not to f ence it at a if you can get as 7nd steib errf matter they rope to place the bag n line w h thej good results by fencing the garden j x causes when cd ach peas lettuce potatoes tur- feet of those in the circle players and lawn fow on range w re- d 1 reip apples oranges berries other jump to avoid being caught around the ma i a more healthy condition and ankles by the rope any one caught j aso gather considerable feed that in this way must retire from the j w0u otherwise be wasted circle the player wins who longest j but if they insist upon visiting the retains his place or the one caught neighbors garden or range too much may be required to chance places a public road wi b neces- with the centre player and in turnj to fence them in that case one swing the rope must be sure to al them enough to play seat relay divide play- room for a flock of 100 layers a ers in two equal groups- each group square i 100 feet on a side is as gets chairs and arranges them in an as is considered safe if double even line far- enough apart to allow yarding is practiced from onehalf roo into run around each line without j one as much may be suffi- sponsible foods have been sorted out in many vegetables and fruits raw or cooked group 5 sugar foods furnish en ergy they are syrup honey jellies ways three divisions prove- quite dried fruits 5n candy satisfactory foods for maintenance a flye should be r esent foods for corrective purposes and the diet evfery day and about foods for protective purposes in the one of the entir0 amount ghouw first class we put the fats the starch- j be chosen from the first thi3 es and sugars the tissuebuilding insure en h bui and a foods water and the mmeras mate a generous selection from if you weigh too much or ton little the fourth group will insure the nec- if you are troubled with constipation essary bulk mineral substances and or diabetes or many of the other dis- organic acids many times when a turbances caused from lack of proper meal is analyzed one finds too much food you can correct these troubles f a too much protein or too much by choosing food wisely the starches s or perhaps not enough mineral and sugars build fatty tissues if they ma present with a little attcn- arenotall burned for energy and heat tion to selection using this simple nterfering with the other a bean- cient but w land is not too ex- bag is given to each leader at the s yarding will probably starting signal he quickly passes it to prove more satisfactory his neighbor who passes it on to his p netting should be stretched neighbor and so on to the end of the posts about twelve feet apart for line as soon as the last player gets heavier breeds this fence may be avoid them in large amounts if you classification as a guidctthe meal may it he jumps up and runs down to thej about fi f high but for leg- would cut down your weight bulky be p easily other end of the line and sits down in j horn3 it s be as high as seven or foods such as watery vegetables while it is not possible to say the feeding oats straw sawdust tramp- 1 th leaders chair immediately passing cven cight feet fruits and cereals made from the ast word on what to eat and what not it j the beanbag toward the end of the it will be easier to keep chickens in whole grain are all very valuable in to eat there are many principles line again to make room for him yard where shade feed and water curing constipation which if followed wisely would make every player in the line has shifted are always avaiab but if the fly- a farmer said recently there is for better health which is the founda- one chair toward the end of the line ing habit starts it must be curbed at something to this feeding business tion of better living it might be well the game continues in this manner on when one flies out of the pen my son can feed the dairy cows and to think twice before you eat at the whole line being ready to shift as thers are uke to follow you will f them less than i do and it costs any rate think more about it in the soon as the bag reaches the end payer find that certa chickens are the l too and they will give more milk future than you have thought of it in until the leader gets back in his orig- j worst offenders at flying out and in than when i feed them ill tell you the past act on the information you inal place tins ends the game lines cer cases it may be necessary to there is something to this if you just have seek more information and bet ing roofing paper newspapers an always spoils on top always wanted to try paraffin like women do for jell keep the hoops tight or the silo painted or coated inside depending on the kind they all need some care build a house at the bottom of the chute bigger than you think necessary it wont be set two silos so one chute can be used cheaper more conven ient use windows in chute and house earl rogers mineral matter for hogs an experiment in hog feeding has been carried on at the experimental farm at agassiz bc to determine the influence of feeding mineral mat ter to hogs the mineral mixture con- ihe top of the ground in this way these friendly bacteria are enabled to do a very valuable voik tor us this is science applied to a useful purpose so says prof r r graham we supply bulletin and blueprint t j to any one wishing to build a septic sistedof ground bone meal 8 pounds tank au necessary inloimation is grounucharcoal 6 pounds ground iven in the3e and by t helpful rock phosphate 6 pounds and salt 3 1 ggestions any handy man can build pounds this mixture was fed at the cost f cement siphon fitting rate of 3 per cent of the gram ration and tile amounts to about 5 the the other foods consisted of a mixture k be located cos to the of shorts four parts and one part each of vorn meal chopped oats and chopped barley theresults showed that in every instance wherq the min eral was fed greater and cheaper gains were made some of the lots received boiled potatoes in addition to the other feeds it is reported by mr house and the tile laid under the lawn or garden the farm water supply there are two main sources name ly well and spring both hard water and rain water soft any one s re uy w h hicks the superintendent who thinking of installing a modern vrater 1 system and plumbing in his home should make sure that his water sup ply is both plentiful and safely pro- conducted the experiment that the po system and plumbing in tatoes apparently had a good effect especially on the health of the pigs more particularly in relation to rheu matism as no stiffness was present in any of tho pens where potatoes were fed some of the pigs were fed regu- j larly at meal time while other ipehs had access to selffeeders the pigs that had free access to the self- feeders and received no mineral were the greatest sufferers from rheuma tism 0 tected from all possible sources ofcon- tamination much more water will be used daily under modern than under old conditions of service about 30 gallons per person per day ask the o a college to assist you in solving the following prpblems in this matter of water supply so says prof r r graham i 1 how to increase the well and spring supplies of water 2 hor to safeguard these supplies from surface contamination 3 how tomake more use of the rain water supply 4 how to get that fine spring water running through your house and the septic tank it consists of a large concrele5mk divided into two compartments by a verteal partition the size for a single house is about 4x8 and 3v4 deep this tank holds the sewage stables by installing the hydraulic ram long enough for a certain kind of near the spring bateriato destroy the solid nintter when tbcmiquid accumulates to n cer- iris and madonna lilies tain amount a nonchemical affair planted in august can be hollyhock seed caivedta aipnon emptied ore of the can be planted for next years flowor- chamhefsinto a system of field tile f ever try the double hollyhocks called hie absorption bed laid shallow he who permits his hens to roost under the ground any remaining upon the wagon wheels in winter need sewage is destroyed in th soil by an- not be surprised if there are no eggs thcr kind of bacteria that live rar comfort is a factor in egg production one and two play simultaneously thej j fesortto cropping of wings of course judy it out first one through wins chickens immediately begin to grow now feathers and use nutrients that the shipwreck should be expended for growth on the three little woodland boys eggs crop only one wing on each ter health is sure to be your reward plantingcurrants the best time to plant currants is in the autumn says the dominion horticvlturist mr w t macoun who continues if planted in the jackie rabbit willie woodchuck and fowl johnnie muskrat were thinking hard for fences six feet or more in how they might get to shore as they height a neater job can usually be drifted drifted toward the big sea on had by using two strips of their funny little ship the old sgsssfiss uultcmck 3 somewl bele pting ad on i this account their growth in the first season will be checked where the soil should be well tramped about the young plants to prevent its drying out after planting the soil should bo levelled and the surface loosened to help retain moisture log of course johnnie muskrat coud get back for he could swim but he was trying to think of some way to get his two little friends back with him if wo only had a paddle slid willie yes and if we had wings we might fly said johnnie perhaps the wind will change and a merry little breeze will blow us to shore said jackie but no paddle drifted by and they did not have wings and the merry lit tle breeze they wished for did not come so it was three frightened little boys that sailed along their log ship as they drifted along the shadows on the shore grew longer soon the sun went to bed behind a hill and still they kept on drifting then a little ens at the minimum expense happy prospect indeed you say they anticipate a very happy married life my dear all their relative are so angry with them because they got married thoyvo vowed theyll never visit them is in good condition currants espe cially the black varieties make strong j growth and the bushes reach a large j size hence it is better to give them i plenty of space as they will do better and are easier picked than if crowded five to six feet is a good distance to plant if planted closer especially in good soil the bushes become very crowded before it is time to renew the plantation strong oneyearold plants are the best but twoyearold plants are better than poorly rooted year lings- it is better to err on the side of planting a little deeper than is necessary than to plant too shallow a good rule to follow is to set the would be wholly undeserved they say shell probably win tho plants at least an inch deeper than j pco prize they were in the nursery the soil what she why to my cortain knowledge that womans responsible for at least a dozen marriages having a little spare time on his liands the cameramau decided on an airplane trip and this view of montreal from mount royal looking south is tho result yams belong to the yam famiiy while sweet potatoes belong to the j morningglory family irish potatoes belong to the nightshade family the windmill is the cheapest source of farm power and it ought to havo more credit than it gets one draw back to its usefulness is that frequent ly it is placed too high up in the air when the manufacturer sells the farmer a windmill he wants to sell him a high tower to put it on that is good business for the maker but not always for the farmer becauso there arc some locations where the windmill will do better work nearer the ground and there will be less dan ger from heavy winds give the old motor fair play and it will d- its fair share of the worlds work and board itself i