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•"\- '^^^, Pl^ AMrtM cemmuntcaUOM U AaroMmitC 7)' Adauui* St. WMt. Torosu THE SEED CORN SITUATION. In a normal seaaon in oar aiied- «om-Krowing areas, the com planu! mature their aeed sufficieittiy early for it to become wetl hardened while' still oa the stalk. Thb harden lug j process consists largely in loss ofj moisture and is necessary in order; that corn nuiy go into storage dry; «noagh to prevent moulding of the com or frost injury to tiie genu. Unfavorable weather conditions daring tite latter part of the past growing season resulted In large quantities of com failing to dry out or mature sufficiently to produce flrat-class seed. Unless such com was artificially dried before heavy frosts set in, its vitality is sure to be impaired to a largra extent. Such a condition calls for fore&ight and good judgment on the part of the prospective buyer, foresight in ike matter of early purchasing, as seed com is likely to be scarce, and good Judgment in testing the germination of all raed com bought in order that sufficient may be planted to ensure a full stand. The present seed corn situation should aiso cause La to give thoughtful j consideration to the question of th«j variety of com we intend to plant. | On the whole, seed of the earlier- j maturing varieties is likely to be in, better condition than the later-: maturing sorts. A variety of com! which reaches at least the glared | stage in any district during an aver-! tge year is therefore likely to be the J safest to grow this coming season from the standpoint of the quality j of seed that tt will be possible to buy. ; Not only will the chances be better | for securing satisfactory seed of suchj a variety, but the odds ara equally i good that more actual feeding valuei per acre will be secured than wouid| be the case with moat later sorts. ! It would seem to be the policy of wisdom, therefore, for all prospective: purchasers of seed com to (1) buy' early (2) buy a variety that will al- most reach maturity in the district | concerned (3) teat thoroughly the germination of alil seed before plant- ing. â€" G. P. McRosti«, Dominion Agr«>- stoleeiat. A PADDY PARTY FOR MARCH 17 A Paddy Party to be given oa St. The ftrat stop in Bftamey CaaeleJ Patrick'* Pay, ou March 17, could no: H«re :he juiio points out the Blaraey help hut be a w-j n^erry one. It stcce, \rhi:h each OMSt kiss. Thia is would not be natural to be iZiS or a piece cf u^iaHn narked off into ijiiun at a ^b e all decorated in Irish sUMies with orje painted green in th» gieen, or to keep a fcraigfat face centre. This Li hung on :he wail, and through the merry games which this each gr-eet mast try fee kiaa the Blar- day is iure to bring forth. So if you ney sione by ctaiiding afaoot two f««t »!'« planning a party for this last of away from tb* ti~ail and beading baric- the •.yinter months selecf tliis felic^touj ward uc-.il he sctaaKy kijaaa the gteen j day for the event. j spoc in tbe mialin. The very atiiletia You mijjh»; iand out your inrit.i- will be «ble to do it. b'jt the ochem If this a priae I tiona like little high hats. Cat tliero will have to be bielped .^ong. from ?titf jhiny black cardboard or conteet is cot too oneqiiai I paper making the crown part doublo could bo awarded to the ooe who I so th^t the invitation can oe wri:ce*i kiesed the spoc most exactly in iam \ inside. A particularly good way to centre^ ' make them, if yea can call an artist j^ famous fortare (fis-lorore weil ia friend to your help, is to draw a com-j.tjjg ^^^^ ^^ ^ J^^te. Into this, the ieal paddy face, mako the hat (iouble i ^^.^ g^y^^ ^y j^^^ ^..^^ ,^ ^^j. f^^^ and separate, and after cutnng a slit l ^f ^^^ ^^^ jnt^ jj ,j ^he time of the in th« double hatâ€" like a paper do IT j^ descent moon. This ia so arranged that a mirror surrounded by artiflciaJ Mr. Ccsgrove. tii-? president of the Irish B^ee State, is back a: work In Dublin after a long stay at Nice, wliere h« went to recover iiis health. He is shown with hij wife and son. Liam. Results of Co-operative Ex< porunaits With Fann Crops in 1924. hat â€" slip is on Pat's bead. The invi- tation in eitiier ca^e can be the ^ame. Write it in Hmeriok form. In green ink. something like this: I am passing around this high hat. And I know you won't hate me for that. For it comes to invite You for Tuesday night HOGS. March and April pigs get to mar- ket before the price collapse that Boys Make Money Wtih Their Tractor. One of the few tractors owned and When these boys first bought a trac-l tor, some three years ago, all their fri«ida prophesied that it would lose comes late every fall. At no other operated in this part of the country ! time of the year does it pay as wwlljjg ^^^ed by my brother James and to take an easy chair down to the ^^ friend, Glenn Storer. hoghouse and sit up with farrowing sows. Early spring nights are almost al- _ ways chilly. The new pigs are apt I^ money "There isn't enough to crawl under their mothers, in|^<,rk on the smaU farms w« have search of warmth, and get crushed.! ^jj^mjj here to anything like pay one 1 find it pays to be on hand to effect j j^ ^,^ ^ tractor," they argued. But rescues in case of need. I tj^ boys thought they knew how to Y'ear after year, every spring, Ijggj ^^j^ f^j. the tractor in seasons have sat up with my sows. It is not ^jj^ tj,^ .^^^k on their own farms as inconvenient as it sounds. I bundle up warmly and take a good lantern along. The night passes quickly. I half doze in my cliair, keoping one eye open for possible mischances to the increasing families. Long ago I leam?d to distinguish moss and painted mosjin rocks ia tilx- eti to reflect the picture ot a bride: A« each girl leaves the well, she Is aske4 not to tell the others what sh* haa seen. For the centre of the tabJe from which the refreshments are served nam a tall hat turned cpeide down and fined with 3 ferndish of ahamrocks. ! If you can get an oid hat, it would be unusual to sCit the hat in several places and let some of the Batoral shamrock leaver poke through the boles. Pass around plates on which you have a gieec pepper stoifed with mashed potato salad, with sprigs of parsley "growing" i.i it. brown bread and butter, ja.'idwiches with very thin slices of tongae or corred beef be- Ontario in comparing th? results from Northern and from Southern grownjeed potatoes. The average an-; To a party in honor of Pat. caal vield per acre from the Northern' ^jj ^^ opportunity ic the world is „^ ^ -It' ^'T "T^ ''" '^'^ ^'^'^'^^^f^'^ ^J^."' offered to the hostess on this occasion The c<M)perative espertmental work the Southern grown <e«d, lfelj,ushe^. ,^^ ^er decorations. She has snakes, with farm crops .n connecUon with in evtry one of the seven years the .^^^.j^^ potatoes, pipe*, tali hat- the Ontarw Agricu^turai and E.xp^ri- Northern gi-own seed gave a higher ^ ^^ f^^ inspiration. The sham- mental Union IS rapidly approachin;^' average yield tiiaii the Southern ^^ j^^ „,;,„ ^ ^^^^ ^^,^. Its pre-war magnitude. In 1^2, there ^own 3eed. j^jj^^^ ,.f ciecoration. The little thrtel were 485 more experimenters than m, In an experiment extending over ,^^^ -^^^^ ^^ j,^ ^.^ [„ -^ , 1923 and 578 more tha.^ three years: four years and including in aU thir- ^i^j^ ;„„, ^^^n tissue paper or card- ago. There were m all forty-two dis-, teen tests tne average annual yi^d j^,,^ ,„,^ ;^„,„„ ._ ^^a i ,_.. tinct co-operative experiments with' of oats per an farm crops in the past year. Theeej the application oi ten tons oi t>arn- f^rent lengths in the inchided various twts with grain' yard manure 58.4 -tyusheU from the portieres. -An idea which U not so cookies cu- in the shaoe of harT« crops, potatoes, field roots, fodder: appucaticu of MO pounds of 3-8-3 ^^^nerally used for the March party is ^^S^cl^ p LT^nd^ ''^S!^^^ '"^iJ^"-. â-  ferti^r. 56.4 bushe'^s from the ap- .j^ iHsh fairj-. or "wee foU^" This 'Xri^^'^^^f'^;^^;, ^-_, Tboee vanetk. of gram crops phcation of 200 pounds of 1-8-1 fer- ^<,^h make a verv k>veiy idea to work tfait f^-h ^t^ST^Z f^S^t which gave the highest average yields tiUzer and 51.2 bu^ls from l*nd ,p,„ ,,, -j^ ,i,i:j^.fp,rty. with a Si feuS Soever 1^^ .. .. „ ^hich^ received neither manure nor Ashing well for the grab beg in one - "• -^ ^"^^ fertilizer. corner of the room, and a ring of pix- Fcr detai.ed information regarding ;« dancing around a circle of green theee and other co-operative expert- ^^^3 ^^ "ston-s" for the cercr*- nients the reader is referred to th* pi^^.^ ^^ the table. The atones could forty-sixth annual report of the Ex- t^ ^^ize oackages ot cacdv with a .r.^ ,^^ t^X froâ„¢ '^''â- '*' ^"-^ ^'â„¢"« "^ ^^^ ""^ "'^'^ ^-^n ^^ breld. coffee poured from m ion ot ten tons of bam- fe„„t len^h, in th^ doorways for flavored with pistachio nuts, Ld smaU of grain per acre in tiie separate ex-; periments in 1924 were as follows:! Oats. O.A.C. No. 144; barley, 0„A.C. No. 21; buUess barley, Guy Mayle:' spring wheat, O.-A.C. No. 85; buck- wheat. Silver Hull: field peas. Pot- might .Vnd be awarded for if your evaoing the requires otse. any Was negligible. In order to supplv ^ ^ . this work, they bought a smaU grain- it^^: '^«-<^ beans, Michigan No. 630425; perimectal Union which is now being tiny' favor in each and w^pped furtfae* entertainment, or if yoir wan! to siibstitute a game for the journey throug'a Ireland, try the following: TE.V ?.\T .OljrWSSS. separator, a wood-saw and a small mill for grinding feeds. Last spring the boys not only plow- ed their own ground but also plowed quit© a bit for their neighbors. This soy beans, O.A.C. No. 211, and winter printed and which will be distributed orown or gray paper. between the combative squeals of the! plowing was done at a cost of about new arrivals and th* choking moan ' go cents an acre for oil and fuel that maans that one of them is being! j^^^p finishing plowing the boys disk- crushed. Tt i!« well to shoo small | ^d part of their ground with the trac- waniierers back to their mother's side.jtor. As soon as this disking was dons wheat, O.A.C. No. 104. I from the Dept. of Agricirfture, To- Grown-ups will enjoy the regul-a- Thc highest yielding varieties of ronto. Ontario, a few weeks hence. tion Paddy party better probably, and roots In the co-operative experiments Ontario farmers wishing to e.xperi- to give it variecv it might taie zhn were: Mangels, Sutton's Mammoth ajent with field crops in 1925 sho aid form of a sight -seeing tour through Long Red ; sugar mange-lB, Bruce's write to the Field Husbandry Dept.. ' Ireland. There will have to be a Giant White Feeding; Swede turnips. 0..\.C., Guelph. asking for the spring jaunting car, of course, and this can •r,„ ... .. . . unt . g to Keep t>aiance'l m a clothes of February. wfcon' they â€" E. V. T.. will be safe from chill. POULTRY. The first step toward successful breaking up brooding among hens is to get them just as soon as they b«^ ;;7^ ^^.^ ^.^ gin to brood. If you allow them to sec the tractor was placed in the shed, where it could be hitched up to tiie mill two days each week to grind feed for the neighbors round about. Along in the summer James's pond became almost dry and the tractor was given the job of pulling the big used in digging a , , , , new one. , for two or three da>^. they are; ^.jj^^ ^^^ ^^^n ^^„ became ripe' usually very hard to break. By start- j^^^^ ^^ ^^.^^^^ ^.^-^^j Tractor was mg the first day they show inclination j^^^.j^ ^^ jj^^ binder and went chug- toward brooding, it v,-tiU only tak* a; ;„ ^^.^,. ^^jji ^j^ ;„ ,^ ^^^ day or two to break them up. j ^hen. without a whimper, he backed LsuaLy tha best way is to go m at; ^^ ^^^ separator and pulled it out night, taking out any birds which are^^ j^ threshing grain. The boys on the nest and putting them in coops; ^^ about a $1,000 run with their with s.atted or wide bottoms Feed; j^p^^^^er last summer. j them nothing but mash feed, with. Thrashing time was scarcely over p.enty of green food and water. '.^^„ silo-filUng time arrived and the Stanmg brooding hens is absolutely i j^^.^^^ was put to work filKng siJos. Perfect Model: and field carrots, Ren- nic's Mammoth Short WTiite. The following gives the average yield in tons of whole crop and in liubbels of shelled grain per acre per annum of each of eight varieties of corn tested throughout Ontario under ^ ^., ^ J.â€". â€" ^.â€" ..^ -w* .«^ .^w..^.^ jauuuiii'g c&r, oi cvurse, emu uiis C circular of co-operative experiments be that old but always amusing sfj which will be printed about the end of trving to keep balance.! in a cloil The Pat which destroyed tiie hole, Patch. The Pat that is imitated. Pattern.' The Pat ot high birth. Patrician. The Pat as old as the hills. Pat- riarch. The Pat who is "hard to keep, Patience. The Pat who protects your ideas. Plant Rapidly Growing Trees. w'no loves his country, who is like his father, that is heard in the nars- basket swung between two chairs by Patent. putting an umbrella or broomstick The Pat who gives you a free ride, through the handle. Each guest must ', Patrol. take his turn in the jaunting car. and, The Pat .\ report on foreign practices in muse be required to pick three sham- Patriot. similar conditions for eight years: timber growing reveals the fact that' rocks off the "pack ot a chair just The Pa: Golden Glow, 9.5 and 65.15; White Cap in private forests rapid growing tr«e« witiiin his reach. If the party needs Paternal. Yellow Dent. 9.4 and 61.4; Wisconsin are most fa\-ored. This has popular- any livening up. this stunt is sure to! Tboj Pat No. 7, lO.fr and 60.6; Bailey, 9.5 and ized the poplar tree. Its exceeding ; do it. 1 erv Patter 159.5; Salzer's North Dakota, 9.1 and rapid growth, the ease with which it ^ 56.4; Longfellow, 9.0 and 54.S; and can be worked, and the many uses to Gompton's Early, 8.5 and 52.5. ' which it can he put. have made it s; In seven years' co-operative experi- favorite. Ash. larch and Douglas fir' ments the average results in yield of are also planted generously for the; grain per acre per annum from three same reasons. j different seed mixtures were as fol-j ^ | lows: Oats 1 bushel and barley 1! _. ... , , To raise turnip-rooted ce.ery or, soup celery successfully, the bottom; wrong, as it throws them dfar production and they are usually month ov six weeks coming back. off Gel Machinery Ready. Repair parts for farm inipleaK'nts ! j^^^ _ should be ordered months abroad of|^.„^ sawing. There ' the time to put implements in use. be-j patches of timber on The farmers who own silos own a *i company silage-cutter but hire the power to operate it. Without even a breathing spells mil- ; let. buckwheat and soybean threshing followed silo filling and close on the of the threshing season came are still small . , patches of timber on nearlv every Ottuse there is orten a considerab.ej f^^m in this neighborhood. Thus it is delay in obtaining parts owing to thejt^t ^^^^ p,.„y f^^^,^ ^^ ^ fact that that particular imp-ement , p^.^ ^f ^^..^ f^,^ his winter's supply {• no longer manufactured, and thoj ^j f^y ^he trac-tor's ample and part ordered has to be cast and nsa- , .j^^y p^^.^^ gains him many friends cmned after the order is received. | ^^^^ And moreover, there is sometinjes' ^j ^i^;, ^^^^ November l'>, wood wedta of de.ay m transit by freight. '^^,,g j^ ^^ ^^^^ „, ,^ ^ ^^ Besides a gram famier* t.ma. iSj^^^^ ^.j-, continue to be the case for w«th far less ni winter than m sum- ^^ ^,^ ^ come. Then the tractor Oats 1 bushel and barley 1- bushel, 2.104 pounds; oats 1 bushel, barley 1 bushel and Golden Vine peas tg bushel, 2,019 pounds; oats 1 bushel, barley 1 bushel and Wild Goose spring wheat }i bushel. 1.913 pounds. In the 890 successfully conducted tests throughout Ontario in the past seven years, the Green Mountain po- tatoes gave an average annual yield per acre of 203 bushels and the Irish Cobbler of 177 bushels. j Boiled vegetables should not be fed; Within the past seven >-ears 475 1 too liberally, or they will produce separate tests were made throughout ' bowel troubles in fowls. | ' 1 â€" - I Home Educatioo *TiM ChiU** nr«t Schsei la Um Famliy"â€" Froeb*!.* leaves must be kept pulled off. Other- J wise there will be large tops and no| largo roots. We raise "ooth kinds of celery and found out this secret our- selves. In the fall we pack the roots in boxes of damp sand, and they: keep fine until all used â€" Mrs. W. S.i mer, so he can better spare the time to tinker up inipleraeuts in winter. It is necessary to replace worn o«tj f^'foV his frie-.d: equipment with new; ; ^ will move back into its shed and while away the cold winter davs g^rinding W. I. C. '^â€" 1. When repair paits can tx. longer: Cement in Lime Makes Good bo obtained. 1 Wk'» k U'. Advisable, when repair parts! VYniiewasn. would cost more than a new intple- A gooii whitewash for stables, nii'.k- ment, j houses, pig per.s, h<?n houses, or any 3. Advisable, whan new impl-<.»-m?nt|otlier bui.di'rg about th? farm, may be would provo more efficient than tho made by using two parts hydrated old one. I lime. n.nd one part ceinent in water. It 4. If a considerable portio:i of an 'dries ^»artt and will not tub off. Bet- impien^.eut is wor.; out. or if it is of , ter rt salts will be had if hot wate.- a too a:!tlquato<l model, it is usually' is u»e«i to mix. Mak? about as thick economy to buy a r.aw impl?in?nt. '.«s paint. J. .M.. P. •A groat many farm implements last tha Ufjtiow of the farmer, if wall' eared fo;". .'•nd minor repairs niado whcM neciiid. Kor exampl.-. n'.y fatiter erected n windmill forty- five y<»ars: agi> x\hich continues to pump water a* wl-.er nei\-. .A double ham«*s was in alnK>st daily use. except Sunday, for, thirty years, being washed and oiled oncv a year and repr.ired as njideJ. Very m«!iy farms are not equipped with erough mechanics' tools so that t)M owoar can dj any repair jobs otker than to toggle things together with Ktiing wire. A larger assort- men*, cf ntachantcs' tools would pay Butter asad Cheese Exports. By :hu News Letter of tho Dairy and Cold Storage Branch at Ottawa i: is ascertained that during 1924,' 22.343,939 lbs. of batter valued at $S.iX\).512 were exported from Cae- : ada compared with 13.1T3,7U lbs. valued at $4,905,608 in 1923 ; aI?o that; 121.456,600 lbs. oi cheese valued at, $22.5T5,Ti7 were exported Ln 1924 compared with 116,201,900 lbs. valued at $28,445,401 in 1923. It wil be seen that expcrtations of butter last jrear. -.>xceeded those of the year before by 9.170U22? lbs. and of cheese by 5.263,-, TOO lbs. .\bout thirty per cent, of th< cutter :n 1921 ajid SO per cent, cf tb« ' ch*>ra went to the United Kingdom. : Nearly twenty per cent, cf the butter ; \4-cr:t to the United States, or 4RJ.613 lbs. over IS per cent.. 459,643 to Ger-' many, and 265,019 I'os. to Panama. Childish Fearâ€" By Edith Lochridge Reid. "You'd better behave for that I heard a mother say to a child that policeman's looking at you â€" he grabs was impatient about staying in bed little boys that cry." So spoke Don- for the necessary time after an at- ald's mother when her small son was tack of nseasles. "If you don't mind making a scsno because she didn't h.'wo I'll send you to the hospital and the a penny to let him get 8on>? candy nurse will eomo along and strap you from the slot machine while they were right in bed and not give you aiiy waiting for the street car at the cor- dinner." nei-. Less than a month later Donald How much better to have read tof ****^- '»*a''8»'"<t ^oge' got separated from his tnoth?r wh?n the resftless tot or planned surprises' Who has bevn m.Tje uodarsecretary they were watching a street parade, for her or to have played a n-yw recordj to the French ministry of labv>r. being A blue-coatevl officer attempted to on tho Victuva. Sh.> should have help the child locato his home and willingly stayed in bed because she parents but Donald was so terrinsd to loved her mother and had bee*^ taught have the polic*n>an touch him that he to rtspect authority rather than almost had a spasm. The nervous through fear of being sent to the hos- shock of feeling he was in th» power pita!, of thi» man he had been taught to fear, left him half sick. Ths price of the table fowl is as much regulated by the method ot dressing as it is by quality. ^ Matings should be mad* at ieaat 4 ; month before you intend to ihcubats i the eggs. Wood ashes must not be mi.xed with ttio poultry manure under the roots;.' It not only injures the fertiijeing; value cf the manure, but is likely to be injurious to the fowls. the first woman ever to hare become a me;t:bcr of a French sovcrnm^at â€" • â-  'â- - "Bad luck" in pou;iry keeping is nothing more r.or less than anothor name for wrong management. am Miw ana»«. Oi>t Promiies That Mucii. Edwin "\ad we'll be as happy ss gxxKl interest on the investment, if the •"^ aiarried couple that eter Uvea." owner is faiKy handy with ti>ol9. Angelina "At least i,s htppy as any "Good E<juipn-.ont Makes a Good """''•*' ceu»ie r*rm»r Better." b*.'aus» h« c»»i do ««;^e»" m^re work, hotter work, do it in the^ proper ;:>«*©«, and at less sxpease. i -A. K. Cv i that ever Ilv«:l to- l««VJC Ne. t»^'». .Ml tho large, successful poultry farm3 of to-diiy started in a small way and gradually built on a firm f(m«4stvou. Or.;.' only tbes.»ds to walk the streets of any city for a day to hear similar i-emarks by parents, "The conductor will throw you off the car," or "See that man watching you â€" he'.l chase yoa with his cane," tbe«e are typical expressions to quiet or frighten chil- dren becaus:« tho parent is tci> weak in discipline to control th?m in any ethsr way. Recently a doctor remarked confi- dentially in describing the trouble he had tncountered with u frightenotl child. "Some one ought to wake up mothers to the fact that it is very serious to have a child fear the d>?c- tor. This child to-d ly had been taught that 1 carry terrible things in my black bag fur children that coax for A threat to a child always denotes a weakness in tb^• tie that binds that child to respectful authority. Why, does a mother need to tell a chiid a big black K^ar will g?t him if 1k> doesn't shut his eyes and go to sliVpT' Probably i>ecause she has managed his bedtime very erratically. Perhaps or-^l night, he went at sevsn .and tb,> next | night if the family wanted to go to a j movie he trai'cd along and was put toj bed at nine or lat:r. Now, to-night. | because there «uv guests and Son; must be dispi^sed of summarily b? is told he mu,-t so right to slo.>p or â€" then follow th» penalties (hat will coma if he disob.ys. ali of which instill fear into his heart that lasts until he is old enough to bcctime disiilusioned. Cau't we aim to b.ive our childr.^n ONTARIO^. Iniproveiiient II* STOCK LIVESTOCK Coinnvittec rir> dess-jrts and fall out of trees be-, do right becau?;.' it is right, and not caSse they distibey. She raised her beca'we they fear doctors, hojpita's. temperature scvtral degiv-s t-.ghtmg offic-rs and bears? Let us dj\-»lop m^ off." j caution and judgment but not serse- .\rd tho esse is only one of many, less fear. Many Farmers Buying Pure Bred Bulb Otitario is fortunate itt having ma.ny Ptir« Bred Breeders of p.ovcit merit, and the stock they produce bring fame to Ontario. Ontario farmers are rapidly getting the idea that the herd that pays is tne only one to keep. Follow the lead of successful farmers by get- ting j^ood Pure Bred Bulls. Your Agricultural Representative knows the breeders of good bulb in your countv. See him. G001> BULLS PAY DIVIDENDS