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PRACTICAL FARMING The Bacon Hoc- The fashions change in domestic animals, as well a* in clothing. Men are very much like h.-.-p. They ' hlindly fol- low leader* and for that reason do not always find good pasture. A leader *mong short-horn breeder* set* the fashion of red color, and red becomes a craze, color count- ing for more than quality. A breeder of jerseys wants black points and fawn and performance at the pail* counts for nothing if these fad* are lacking. In hundred* of ways, men overlook the practical and useful, and waste time and money on fancy points' of no real moment. Thi* ha* been true of swine, probably, les* than any other do- m*tio animal, a* swine are bred for money and not for their beauty of form or dispos- ition. But swme breeders have made many mistakes, which are apparent in weak con- stitution and liability to disease, and de- creased fertility, as evidenced Dy the small I liters of mo* t modern breeds. Tooexclusive a corn diet and continued selection with a view to early maturity, and intensifying the tendency to put on fat, have so far sap- ped vigor and vitality that whole herd* fall a prey to disease, and if they *urvive and are carved up in due time by the butcher's knife, there is such an excess of fat that the term " lard hog" give* a correct ideaof the use* to which they com* at la*t> Ro common i* tbi* excess of fat in pork placed oo the market for food, that there is an outcry against it among consumers, and packer* are calling and pay an extra price for pigs of light weight with fides well streaked with lean, and there is grow- ing up a distinction between lard and bacon hogs, with the latter decidedly in favor. To produce a bacon pig from the breeds that, from continued feeding, for genera- tions, on corn and other fat producing food*, have become predisposed to exces- sive fat, it i* necessary to feed light. This checks growth, and send* a light pig to market, and farmer* are, therefore, looking i for a tort that will convert food into flesh instead of fat. Such a sort would naturally be found in England where corn will not grow, and in Canada, where peas, barley and roots are quite a* important a crop a* corn, and niak* up a large part of thn feed on which pig* are fed from birth to market. In both, ihe Tarn worth and the Large Im- protrd, and Middle Yorkshire (or Large and Middle White*, as they are called in Kngland), are the leading bacon hogs and the favorites with packers and consumers. The Tamworth is rrddish in color, large, and coarse, bat very vigorous and prolific. The Middle Yorkshire i* medium in size, and much like the breed known a* I 'hi*s- hires in this country. Th* Improved York- ihire is the favorite bacon hog in England and is exported to the continent, in large number*, to improve th* local breeds, and the demand for thi* purpose i* yearly grow- ing. They have also been brought into Canada in large number*, and are already ene of the leading breed* there, working their way steadily to the front, and as they are, ai a rule, in the hands of experienced breeders, they are benomicg more uniform in typo and smoother, without thn loss, apparently, of any of their good qualities. Ihe approved form of the Improved Yorkshire is described a* follows : Hsad medium, with considerable dish above snout. Jowl rather light, ears medium, drooping at the tip. Neck rather long and thin. Hhoulder medium, deep rather than broad, but not narrow. Hack moderately broad, and straight or lightly arched. Side deep and rather long. Hind qnarUr* long and deep and of about qual width with fore quarter*. Leg medium in length and strong, bind Ires set well apart. Hair I'liitf, fine and plentiful. The Improved Yorkshires have been found hardy and prolific to a marked degree on the firms of Canada. Referring to this matter of breed* th* North Western Agriculturist of Minneapolis say*: No breed excels Improved Yorkshire in these respect*, and there seems to be no reason why they would not prove an acquisition in the Northwest, particularly north of the corn belt, where the food grown for them would be much the same as that which makes the Canadian hams and bacons preferred in the English markets. The pig* grow with wonderful rapidity, and while they do not mature earlier than the skjl and Chinaaand Herkshires.they bear crowd- ing well, and reach good weight* at ssven to nine months, without taking an exo**s of fat. In other word*, they increase in weight without becoming too tat for choiue bacon. A cross upon the Poland China, Berkshire and Small Yorkshire, produces a desirable pig, infusing vigor and strength of form and conr.titutinn when it has been impaired by generations of corn die! The sows resulting from one or two crosses would be invaluable as breeders. It i* a singular fact that in the United State*, the grsateit pork pro- ducing country in the world, the Improved Yorkshire is little known, an. I yet this breed U the modarn representative of th* Larg* Yorkshire of Kngland, the acknowledged progenitors of moat, if not all, the favorite breed*, both black and white, ef Kagland at this day, in every case giving vitality, vigorous constitutions tnd wonderful fecundity. It is remarkable that *o shrewd a people as the Americana have not tented the quality of so famous a breed and strengthened the constitution* and rein- forced the vitality of their favorite breeds from a sort that has always transmitted these qualities with certainty. The Amer- ican hog ha* run too much to fat. It may be the mission of the Improved Yorkshire to make a bacon hog out of him. Time will tell." _ Brooder Home forjnejBMl.. A brooder-house for one hundred chicks may be constructed at a small cost, th* illustration (front vie.v) showing where to place the brooder, altb* igh it may Iw place. i nearer .he rear wall if desired, leaving six Inches of space between the wall and the brooder, *o a* to per 1 1t the chicks te e.tnte from under tho brooder at all aides. Any kind of brooder that it intended for oss hundred chick* will answer, the object being to illustrate the brooder-bouse rather than the brooder. The brooder* made at present usually have a pieoe of cloth, cut into hanfiag strip* two or three inches wide, which hang down on the ride* of the brooder. The brooder he-use should be ten feet square, seven feet high in front and five feet high at the rear, tarred paper roof, th* eaiMiBg to be of npright boarae, lined inside with heavy paper, so a* to hare the building warm. The dotted lines, seen M the ead view and on the front view, are in- tended to show that a curtain made of nnonuii; iioosx FOB CMC BKOOD. heavy muslin may be arranged at the front, to guard against storms and winds, or it m*y be of glsss. Glass i* better, but muslin U cheaper, and may be arranged so as to roll up in favorable weather. In very cold climate* th* muslin will not answer, how- ever. The position of the brooder is also shown. The design of the brooder-house i* of a cheap one, and for those who have a small incubator, which requires but one brooder. Biilroid Station in The enlargement of I .iverpool street sta- tion, London, U proceeding apace, and when the alterations are quite completed the sta- tion will be the larcest in the country al- moit the largest in the world. The station will have eighteen platform* and twenty- lines. At the narrowest part of the ap- proach there will bo six line*, and with the new signal arrangement* and short block* it will be possible to run train* iu or out every two minute*. At present between 700 and MX) trains sre run in and out daily, but the enlargement will enable the com- pany to run in and out 1,(MO trains a day. All the Iran work I* English. In the roof the glasi is secure 1 by copper, and there i* not a bit of putty in the whole. Handsome open arches form a support for the new roof at the point where it j ins the old building. A feature is the new parcels office, INS feet ong by 60 feet wide, with the roadway*, in and out, each 30 feet wide. Also, a fetture will be the enormous addition to ths circn- ating spam ; that i* the area between the entrance halls and booking oIKces and the ilatform. Space will be gained in one way >y placing all the lavatories underground. The station Is to be lighted throughout with th* electric light. { Westminster Ga- xette. EMCCE OF AEITIC Eiri.S)BKM. The Preeeawl > P r.nil..n le rintl BJerllat and k.ll.l. ,il. In I llr.inrr. l.n.l. Robert Stein, of the United State* geo- ogical survey, Washington, ha* secured he co-operation of many individuals an I ooletie* in the proposed expedition for the he rescue of Alfred Bjorling and Kvald Callstenius, the young Swedish explorers, who are lost in Ihe Arctic and who have not been heard from sinoe the I'm. ling of a atter dated Oct. I-', 189*2. After losing heir vessel, the Ripple, which went aground in the Carey islands, the party started lorthward toward Koulke fiord, with the ntention of depositing further record* in F*andora harbor. It I* the intention to lend a* quickly a* possible to Clarence [lead, and to combine the exploration of Kllesmeraland with the March for the lljorling pary. A permanent rtfngs station will be established for whaler* and explor- er*, rendering disaster practically impossible in Northern Baffin bay, the most frequented part of the Arctic, and a base of operations will be provided from which exploration can be carried on leisurely and without risk. It is expected that in addition to the valuable scientific observations, extend- ing over a aeries of yean, the discovery nl val.ialde minerals and new whaling grounds will be made. Ho far $7,00(1 has been pro mised, about half ths sum nesded for the work. Fgfi of Pure Breeds- Order your egg* early, so as to avoid de- lay. Remember that the breeder may have no eggs when you write him, and mastl wait for hi* hen* to lay them. He wil always fill the order* that reach him tint in preference, and delay may result, fer which lie is not responsible. Do not wait until a hen become* broody. It is better to send the order for the eggs and take the risk of pro Miring a sitting hen when the eggs rrrive. If they resoh you too soon, keep them in a cool place and turn them daily. Do not deUy your order, however, u you will not receive them too soon. Here's Another- Little Johnny -" What does saitain mean, pa T" Pa" To sustain is to help." Little Johnny " Rut the paper says a man sustained an aocidant. 'in't an acci- dent something you can't help T" 1'a --" I think I hear your mother calling you, Johnny. Knn along; ' 'm very busy eow." CU1DIU NICKEL MI1S. An Interesting Chapter in their Early History- r^t The wrlilasl Ueeverr ef II cksl Tests ut la* Melal Experiments la Ibe I BII d Ktste* avy Tar*. A representative of a Toronto paper the other Jay met Mr. S. J. Ritchie, of Akron, , 3., at the Itosain Homo of that city, and i lad i very interesting talk with him on the nickel interests of the Province, in which that gentleman i* extensively interested. The effect of Mr. Ritchie** remark* wa* as follows : During the progress of the litigation still [oing on between those at present in con- trol of the Canadian Copper Company and the Anglo-American Iron Company and myself, I have frequently stated in my tes- .imony the origin of the discovery of nickel n the Sudbnry ores, but these fact* may not have come to the knowledge of your readers, and so I can probably beat answer jrour miestions by repeating, in substance, what 1 have already stated. As yon know, wnen these great deposit* were first discov- ered, and until a considerable quantity of .he ore was shipped to the Orfoid Copper Jompany.of New York, they were supposed a contain only copper. Nothing whatever was known of their car- rying nickel. When the Orford Com. jany put these ores into their furnace* .heir behavior wa* so peculiar that the men n charge of the lurnace were quite unable to account for it. Mr. Robert M. Thomp- son, the President of the Company, was equally unable to account for the ilraag* ippearanoi of the product coming from the urnace, to he directed hi* chemist to make a complete analysis of the or*. I happened to have been in the laboratory whuu that analysis wia completed and handed to Mr. Thompson. I very well recollect hit sur- prise. Without showing mo at the mo- nent what the result of the analysis wa*, te began to badger me by telling me that "before doing anything further with these ore* I had better see what was in them, and determine whether they wre worth working or not, and when I had fully ex- amined them I would probably be very much disappointed about them, a* he cer- tainly was." I supposed that he referred te arsenic, and assured him that they did not contain any arsenic, that I had already had them examined by the chemist of the Toronto University, by the chemist* of the Dominion Geological Survey at Ottawa, by the Shef- field School of Science of Yale College, and by the Smithsonian Institute at Washing- ton, as well as by the laboratory of Carnegie liro*. & Company and many other chemists. But he insisted that all their AKALYMS WUI CS11 , as well as those formerly made by himself, and that I would find it so when I oame to make a complete instead of a partial ex- amination of them. After gratifying him- self at the expense of my curiosity for soms time, he finally shoved me the chemist's report. Ths fsct wa* that he was himself unable longer to restrain his own wonder about th* matter, and told me so great wa* thi* discovery that the importance of theas deposits a* copper mines, although they were doubtless the greatest copper deposits of the world, would be completely lost sight of by this discovery of nickel. Ibis was, I think, probably, in July, 1887. This i* the history of this discovery, and the chemist in the laboratory of the Orford Copper Company at Near York, acting under thriiirerti.m of Robert M. Thompson, the president of the company, wa* the dis- coverer. This discovery raised th* ques- tion what to do with the vat amount of nickel which these analyse* showed was contained in theee great deposit* of ore. While thinking of this, I recalled sn sx- l> -riment which I had Ken mad* at the United State* Navy Yard at Washington some tan year* previous to that time, or in the spriLg of 1K76 or 1877. At that time yellow fever existed in several of the town* bordering on the Lower Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. It i* will known that the germ* of thi* disease are killed by frost, and that the prevalence of the disease ceases when the frost oomes. Atthistime 1878 and 1877 I was in Washington a good deal of the time, and stopping at the same hotel at which I did there was a sort of a universal genius by the nume* of John C amgee. He wa* one of th* must fertile-brained men I have ever met. He was not only a man of fertile brain, but he was a fine scholar. He seemed to be at home in every branch of science. Our rooms immediately adjoined, and he wa* much of the time in my room. He conceived ths ideaof building a ship which at would once be a great refrigerator and a floating hospital, and that he wouU' sail thi* ship Rack and forwards to these ports, and take those sick with the fever on board this hospital. The Senate Commit tu on Kpidemio Diseases re- ported a bill to the Senate to appropriate two hundred thousand dollar* for the build- ing of such a ship. It rrqi.ired expensive machinery. A* you doubtle** know, am- monia is used in the production of artificial ice, and Gamgee had to build an immense machine for the manipulation of this am- monia in seen ring the low temperature necessary for his ship. You may noc lie aware of the fact that liquid ammonia WILL GINMIUTI UAS at a low temperature, even down, to 10 or !."> degrees below r.ero of Fahrenheit's scale. The difference between this point and the temperature of the hot climate of the Southern State* gave an enormous expan sive agency to Oatngee'* ammonia, so much so, indeed, that the gases from it would permeate and g* through any ocstinary cast- iron, snd he tried many kinds of alloys to overcome this porosity in the iron, and to get a body of sufficient strength and close- ness of texture to retain aul held these gases. Months of effort and scores of ex- periments resulted in nothing but failure. One morning he said to ma . " I have been thinking what a close, compact body met- eoric iron has, and yon know that all meteoric iron contain* a oonaidurabls per- centage of nickel, and I have sent and bought a few pound* of niokel, and am foing to mako a cast to-day, in which am going to mix some of thi* nickel with the iron, and I want you to go to the Navy Yard with me and se the experi- ment." Wod, 1 ill 1 not know at the time what -.\- ii .retained, and your reader* may not know t*ia> all the meteoric iron in it* natural state probably oomss from some source outside our own plsnet. But I went to Navy Yard with him, where he was conducting all his experiments, aad when he had built an immense ammonia engine. 1 bad many times been tbsre with him before, watching hi* experiments. I helped him to handle .his ladles to make his mixture and bis cast, and when the oast cooled to try the several different pieoas of iron to which varying percentages of nickel had been added with the cola chisel and with th* sledge upon an anvil. Being pretty strong, I did! the principal part of the sledging. I shall never forge: the surprise of Uamgea at the result* obtained from those experiment*, which oontinued over two or three day*. Gamgre asked me te invite the member* of the Senate who were on the Committee on Epidemic Diseases to come to the Navy Yard and see ths result of his experiments. This I did, and Senator Harris, of Tennessee, who, I think, was the chairman of this committee, and several others of its members, went with me to the Navy Yard to see Gamgee'a final success. No patent for this alloy was ever take* out by Gamgee, and some dispute between him and the Senate Committee as to the management of this ship finally prevented the appropriation being made, aad the whole enterprise fell through. But he had made a great discovery, and one which wa* bound to revolutionize the metallurgy of the world, but he, poor fellow, has never received a penny for his discovery. If you will go into the Geological Vuseum at Ot - tawa you will see a very handsome ipsoimen of meteoric iron which was found in the neighborhood of Madoc, in Hastinp County. Now, i* it not a wonderful thought that, although Canada has many millions of ton* of both iron and nickel, some other woi Id, millions uf miles away, had to send her through the laboratory of the skies, such samples of its own material as would teach her how to utilize her own ; an-*, is it not even more wonderful, if anything that is suggestive is wonderful, that it should be throws from the heavens to the neighbor- hood of Msxloc, as if to say, here i* th* form in which you c\n utilize their great stores of ore* which are now nielos* to you! Doe* there not seem here to be a marvellous blending of the ideal with the real, a strik- ing combination of fact and imagination ? Is it not also wonderful that the formula fer the manufactures of our great steel pfants and workshops should be furnished us by some far-away and usknown world? la 1349 I brought to General Tracy's no- tice a knowledge of Gamgee's AT TUB STAVTTAKD some twelve or thirteen yean pisvioos to that time. Gserge Tracy was then Secre- tary of the Navy, and he at once seaout to find Gamgee, instituting a learch stl over the United State* and Koaope for hta, but h* was nowhere to be feond, and he was reported to be dead. Last summer, however, I learned his whereabouts aad waste to him, aad received a long letter from him. He is still experimenting In other field*, and others will receive the benefit of bis lal>on. As I stated befers, I told Secretary Tracy of what I had seen a mother of yean previous to that time in our own Navy Yard, and said te him that 1 wa< going to Kurope to see what prapresa had brsn mad* with this alley there, as I **4 noticed that the Iron and Steel Institute of Great Brit- ain had during th* provisos yer 13S* 1 directed some experiments to-ve/tnade with it, and that a report of th*ws*exper:msata had been mads to this twstrtute by one Jams* Rily, wno was the Manager of the Steel Company of Soatttnd.' He toloVme that the department-would like to send an expert with me, who would accompany me to all points that I night visit. A> cordingly, I.ient. R.H. Buckingham, of th* i navy, who wa* at that time oeoneoted with the American Minister's flice in London, wa* detailed to ge all over Europe with in* and to ecamii) into this subject of nickel steel. After our trip he made a re- port to the Secretary of the Navy. Upon my return home I also gave to the Secretary all the)inforraatien I hail gained, and urged upon him the importance of th* Govern- ment adopting nickel steel for its armor plat**. He finally ordered three plate* from Kurope two from France and one from England. The one from England was of ths character then used by all the British iron-clad men-of-war ships. One of those ordered from France was of plain steel and one was of niokel steel These three plate* were taken to the navy testing grounds at Annapolis, and set up aids by sids, and were then fired at by six and eight inch BUBS at a distance of lew than fifty feet. The result was that the British plate was smashed to pieces, the French plain steel plate was badly cracked and battered up, while the niokel steel plate suffered comparatively little injury. This result was a wonderful triutnpa for nickel iteel, and was telegraph- ed to the newspapsr press all over the civUued world. Congress promptly voted a million dollars for the purchase of nickel matte, and the department changed all it contracts forth* maautactureof armor plate to be made of nicksl steel. Th* whole of Uiat million dollars has been used in making these experiments, and in the purchase ol this nickel matte. In short, the Congress of th* United States appropriated an* spent a million dollars for the development of the Suilbury mine*, and for determining the use* and the utility of nickel. In con- trast to this liberality of the United State* Government, two or three of those at pre- sent in charge ot these great propertaea have for years been resorting to every means tc render all these properties uore muneralivs, and TO DEStaOY TUB VALfl both of the products and the properties themselves, with the view of beini' able to gather them in to themselves, and iu the carrying out of this policy they have made them thus far of comparatively little worth to the country in whieh they are located. I did not intend to say a word upon this matter, and, if the result of this contest were wholly personal to myself, I would not, bat this city and this country are til interested in the outcome. I want to go back far enough to say that after Secretary Tracy had fully satisfied himself of the great superiority of nickel steel, after Congr*s* had voted him a mil- lion dollars for the purchase of nicksl matte, he was even then afraid to change the whole policy of the navy by the adop- tion of nickel steel alone, iuitead of order- ing steel, until h* hvt assured himself of ths sufficiency of the supply of nickel, *o h* said to mo that he wanted to send a mission ef hi* own to examine the property and to make a report to him, and be watt- ed to have me go with them, aadihow them all over the property, a* well a* all tit* .* processes through which the material wa* put from the time it wa* dog oat of teo around until it wa* converted into matte. To this I agreed. Accordingly, Commo- dore Folger and Lieut. B. H. Buckingham, th* latter the same party who had """m- panied me through Europe, were (elected by the Secretary to go and examine the property. They came here, and, after pending four or five day* going all over it, they made the report to the Secretary which yon have seen. They report- ed, a* yon are aware, that there were sit hundred and fifty million* of toot of ore in right Yon probably do not take in ' th* full meaning of these tremendous fig- I nree, and you cannot in any other way than by comparison. They mean a tonnage move than five ' imes a* great a* all the iron ore which ban ever been shipped out of the whole Laki Superior region, including th* State* of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minne- sota, from the time the first ton wa* mined up to Uiis day. That i* a pretty nice Mttke for two er three men to conspire together and ask the court* of another csnntry te help them to appropriate to themselves. These figure* are no idle bubble ; they are the official report f an expert commisaion , sent out by the United Stau* Government, and all the test* since made prove the ac- curacy of their report. Very many test* of armor plate* havs been mad line* the first one of which I have spoken. The meet im- portant results yetobtained were tnose of th* Bethlehem Iron Company last week. At this trial a ten-inch gun was need. A solid coni- cal steel shot, weighing live hundred pounds, wa* hurled against a plate of their manu- facture, driven by a charge of one hundred and seventy two pounds of powder, without going through or even injuring the back of the plate. . Thi* plate had not beensuoject- ed to the Harveying process, to THIS Wo.11KKVrL KIHI IT must be credited wholly to the nickel. Still more wonderful i* the character of thu metal when it is known that It posse**- es an elastic limit of 45 per cent. ; that is to say, that if a piece of it were put into a testing machine it would stretch 45 per cent, of ilt original length, and all tail when the m-tal wa* cold. It* teniil* strength was equally great with it* elastic limit. The** result* are far the most im- portant of any yet obtained, and plainly prove the important place this metal is tonnd to take in the commercial world outside of iU use for warshipi and gun*. Il i* a str inge fact that every great im- provement in meultuigj, from the time of the Damascus and Toledo blade* until the preeent day, has tirst been utilized for war purposes, and nickel steal i* no exception. Speaking of meteoritie*, I can tell yen 1 lit UAKYELOCS KMCLTS whi .-h the Bethlehem Iron Company obtained last week from nickel steel, and of which- 1 hv j just told yon, w:ll be certain to have a most important bearing upon the Sudbury properties in mere ways than on*. A* yon know, England i* making large expendi- ture* to increase the etfioiency of her uavv, a* are all other Korofiean naval powess. Kng'.an I ha* no jtrmor on aay of her war v**els that can sven approach in power af resistance that now being froducol by tie Bethlehem Iron Company, aad there i* no known way for her to wcuresnch invulner- able character for her ships but to cloth* tliwm with inch material a* the Bethlehem Company U new producing, vis , nickel steel. Outside of Canada, France control* the balance of th* world'* supply of nicks], led it is net likely that England would be dependent upon the one country with whieh she is liable at any time to be engaged in conflict for the supplies which are in- dispensable to bring her navy up to the standard of efficiency of the present Jay, when she can absolutely control the whole situation by virtn* of the great supply ef this metal in her own greatest colony. I little thought, when helping John Ciamgee, sixteen or eighteen year* ago, to mehfireor six pounds of nickel in a little crucible in the United State* Navy Yard at Washing- ten, and pouring this metal in with the molten iron, what great and far-reaching result* were one day to follow the success of thi* experiment. I little thought that a few years la'er the Unite*! Slates (iovern- mont weuld be astonishing the metallur- gists and *tel manufacturers of the whole civilized world by making known to them the wonderful properties of the alloy which we were then attempting to produce on so small a scale, following the formula furnish- ed us by the meteor from the skies. I little thought at that time that the navy clothing herself with this material would make her- self mistress of the world. Ten or a dozen years had pasted away, and toe whele in- cident passed out of my mind with it, until the discovery of nickel in the Slid bury ores, when I at once recalled the whole affair. This is some of the history connected with one of Canada'* great natural resources, and in a very short time your people will know that at least with reference to this interest reality is stranger than fiction. Fattening the Chickens- The old hens, if they have been well cared for. need no special preparation for killing ; but the chickens, and especially the cockerels, may need a little extia feed- ing. The following plan we have seeii fol- lowed with excellent results: A lady whom we know, and whose chieken* had a repu- tation of being fat, used to shut fifteen or twenty cockerel* in a house made with a tight roof and tight back, the end* and sides being upright laths, niiled to a simple frame and placed about two inches apart. Th* house might be eight by ten feet on the graund. It wa* moderately dark, and yst not very dark, a* the light came in from nmierous slit* letween the laths on three sides. The furniture of this house consisted of a roost, a feeding trough aad a drinking vesee!. Th* cockerel* had all the water they wished to drink and all the aouad yellow flint corn they cared to eat. Core and water for breakfast, water and corn fur dionsr and corn and water for supper mad* their rations. And yet cockerels, lean whea thry went into the haute, were fat when they came ut at the end of iw<* er thrs* ween*. A still betUr method ef feediof is to give the chitheas a warn diet of corn meal inixe 1 w:ih Maiding wattr and allow- ed to cook through^ Fer 107 year* the Philadelphia Dispensary has been qqietly performing it* work. Dur- ing th* last llscil >ear J0,6t.i patients went treated by th* institaaiosV