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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL . MAY 1 Bible Teachings About Education. Deut. 6; 4-9; Proverbs 3: 13-18; St. Luke 2: 40-52.Golden Text- Pro v. 4: 7. Connecting Link* The ideal human society will b intelligent, as v.vii an industrious. It will value learning as it . .-iiiii-s labor. It will seek the healthy development t.nd growth of the mirul as well as of the body. It Will recognize that physical health fcnd industrial efficiency are promoted by education, and will seek the beat means and instruments of education. The trail-.:!..!: of its young folk will l>o, together with the feeding and cloth- Ing of them, its chief concern. But this training and education will be twofold, having regard for char- acter as well as efficiency, and aiming ! the making both of good workmen ad good citnens. It will seek the highest perfection of both mind and oul, both hoad and heart. The Pne rt of living together requires not merely diligence and skill, ami effec- tiveness in toil, but also goodwill and ywipathy, and patience. We have /lien upon times in which society, both national and international, hus become exceedingly complex, and the rijfht ordering of it demands the high- est wisdom. We have become familiar with all sorts of theories, some of them exceedingly crude or even fan- tastic, of reform and reconstruction, ml have heard again and again the cry of red revolution. Our safety lies In education, and a brooder and better edi; --it ion, and an education founded npcri Christian faich and morals. In n eJueabed I'hri :mn people lies our hop*- for the future. Deut. f>: 4-9. Hear. O Israel. The book of Deuteronomy, in its present form, comes to us from the early part t4 the seventh century before Christ. It is a new edition, prepared by dis- ciples of the great prophets, Amos, Hoea, Itaiih, and Mtcah, of the an- cient laws of Israel of which Moses was the founder. It* laws are on a Tery high level, and are accompanied by exhortations to obedience, based opon love to God and gratitude for all His great kindnesses to Israel. The book makes love the strong bond which bind* Israel to Jehovuh, and makes love, therefore, the ruling mo- tive of conduct for all good Israelites. The section of the book included in chaps. 5 to 11 has as its text the ten commandments (5: 7-21), and con- tains a series of fi.icly conceived and impressive exhortations to loving obedience, fidelity, and grateful re- membrance of God's goodness. The passage before us is held in high esteem by all good Jews, and is committed to memory and recited by them. Thoy often carry out literally the commands of verses 8 ar.d 9, writ- ing the whole passage upon strips of parchment and upon door posts. We ourselves would do well to imitate them in learning it by heart (v. 6). The first declarution is that Jehovah, the God of Israel, is "One." For Israel He alone is God. The prophets taught that He was God of all na- tions, and Creator of the world, and that other so-called gods had no real existence. The commandment, Thou shall love the Lord thy (lod is declared by Jesus to be the first and great commaml- ment of the law, and i-s joined by Him With Lev.. 19: 18 and 34 (Matt. l!2: 87-89). Thou Shalt Teach. This is first of 11 a command addressed tn parents. They are to teach the laws of reli- gion and good morals to thei.- children. The rafwenco t primarily to the ton commandments given in the preceding chapter, but it may very well include, In our application of it, all that the Bible teacm-s regarding our duty to God and to our fellow men. ft is evident from such passages as 4: 9 and Exod. 12: 25-27 that the teaching was to include the history as well as the laws, and much of the history con- tained in the Old Testament books seems to have been written with this teaching purpose in view. The chil- dren were to be taught by story as well as by precept, instructed both in the history and in the law of their people. Through that instruction they were to learn to know and love the God of their fath'ers. Moreover the teaching was to be not simply by lessons learned in school, but also by talk and conversation, in the house and by the wuy, both evening and morning. Prov. 3: 13-18. Happy is the Man That Findeth Wisdom. The first nine chapters of the book of Proverbs have been appropriately called the "Praise of Wisdom." The writer seems to have been a teacher of young men, for he frequently uses the term "My son" in addressing his pupils. Wisdom is to him the divine plan of the world. It is personified as God's architect or "master Workman." It stands for the divine order in both nature and human life, for both God's work and God's wi-II. A man'? wis- dom, therefore, is in seeking to know God's will and to do it. It lies in ordering his life according to God's plan, for thus, and thus i.:y can he live a true life. See, especially 1:7; S: 1-10; and 8. Wisdom is here presented as the source of true happiness, as the great- est wealth, and the most precious of all treasures. Wisdom promote* health and long life, as well as pros- perity, and it compared to the tree of life in the par.len of Eden. Those wh<i ate of that tree would live for ever, and no those who lay hold upon wisdom find life eternal. One can understand from this how it is that the New Testament writers represented Christ as the prfect ex- ample of wisdom, and the source of wisdom to all who follow Him. In Christ they recognized one who per- fectly did the will of God. In Him they saw perfect faith and perfect obedience, and they sough', to be them- selves led by His Spirit. Christ was "the power of God and the wisdom of God" (1 Cor. 1: 24), and in Him were "all the treasures of wiwlom and knowledge hidden" (Col. 2: 3). A true education, therefore, will not leave Christ out. The knowledge of Christ, and of God in Christ, will be its crown and completion. Knowledge without the highest wisdom would be barren and unfruitful. St. Lukr 2: 40-52. Luke's brief narrative of the childhood of Jesus culminates in verse 52, where He is presented as n healthy, well-trained and well-brought-up l>oy, advancing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man, to a strong, intelligent, religious and .social manhood. Application. In a new country such as ours we have to guard against many danpers. anil of the.se not the least menace is ignorance. An ignornnt man is dan- gerous. It is in the dark, uruswept and unwashed places that vermin breed and disease begins. Let in the light open the windows this is the remedy for the unhealthy room. We must maintain in our land an aggres- sive policy of Christian education; we must keep the nowcomer* from South- ern Kurope and from other countries where there Is little education, well- informed. We are not afraid of the light, we welcome it; Vu( we huve ovory reason to drOM the darkened mind. After years of experience in raising poultry on the farm, I find that my best aid in clearing the poultry houses of vermin is the kroaene brush. v For the eradication of the pestifer- ous red chicken mite I take an old brush and some kerosene, and go over alf the rocst supports, joints, seams in the nest boxes, uprights, and wall cracks with a penetrating coating of the kerosene. It is sure death to each and every mite it touches. I find that this is all the care needed in the hen houses, winter and summer, after the spring nnd fall cleanings and the usual whitewashings or croosoting of the interior surfaces, nests, and roosts. I examine the roosts occasion- ally in the winter, every three weeks in the summer, brushing the seams and joints with the kerosene. If there are any mites, they will appear. If none, you can be thankful. But if their numbers seem legion, go over every inch with kerosene. And this is not its only use. If the scaly-leg mite appears in your flock, take up the kerosene brush again and paint the scaly leg with it, being care- ful not to touch any of the feathers around the knee joint. Usually one application will kill the mite that works and causes this scaly appear- ance of the legs; but if not, I continue the applications until the legs are en red. The powder shaker, with a good commercial louse powder, is the eas- iest remedy for lice. But with a farm flock on range, with boxes of ashes and dust baths available, it is seldom that remedies will have to be re^ sorted to. The average hen will take care of herself under ordinary condi- tions. I us* the powder on the set- ting hens at least three or four times, being careful to make the last appli- cation a few days before the eggs are to hatch. The Strawberry Plantation. Whatever else is neglected, on should not fail to start a strawberry plantation during tftie spring. Any fairly dry area will grow strawberries. The ground should be one on which water will not stand during the win- ter to form ice. Manure at the rate of ten to fi/teen tons per acre may be applied and plowed under, or even more may be used to advantage if no other fertil- izers are to be used. It is usually considered wise to apply five hundred pounds of a 4-8-4 fertilizer per acre. That is, one containing 4 per cent, of nitrogen, 8 per cent, of phosphoric acid nnd 4 per cent, of potash. How- ever, if the soil is in good fertility this is not necessary and manure alor.a may be a!! that is r.ocessr.ry. All fer- tiMzcrs :' i.i '! be scattered broadcast and harrowed in. Thorough preparation of the soil by plowing and working deeply is advis- able. The land is finally levelled with a smoothing harrow and the planU set in rows three and a half feet apart and fourteen inches apart in the, row. Closer plan-ting is unnecessary and does not permit of easy cultivation be- tween the rows and opportunity of picking without tramping on the vines. The planting is done by pushing a spade into the soil, pres-sinpr it to one side and dropping a plant with roots spread fan-ahape into the opening, holding the crown of the plant to the top of the level soil and pressing the earth firmly around the plant with the heel or some other way,' and fin- ally levelling with loose earth around the crown of the plant. This is quick- 1 ly done. The importance of pressing! the soil firmly around the plant isj very great and the plant should b ! sufficiently firm, so that if> the plant I is pulled by a leaf the leaf will break before the plant will pull out. Onlyi young plants should be set; that is,| plants of the previous season's growth. ! The planting should be done early, in! fact, the earlier the better. Much of the failure with strawberries is due! to late planting. This is a job that can be done in the early spring, the! sooner the plant becomes established : the earlier the formation of runner! plants, and the earlier these runner [ plants form, the larger and better de- veloped are the crowns, without which strong stalks of well formed fruit are impossible. The summer cultivation should be shallow to kill weeds and form a loose surface in which the plant can root! without difficulty. As the runners! develop the cultivator should be nar-j rowed, so that the runners are not dis- ! turbed after they commence to form 1 plants and great care is necessary to' avoid disturbing the plant* at this ( time. Some of the runners may b| shifted to give a more even distribu- tion of plants along the row, and some . hand hoeing will be necessary to pre- j vent weeds from growing later. It is wise to plan for a new planta- ti'in every year, as it is difficult- to' keep weeds under control the second your without much hand hoemg. It will be found that the Senator , Durvlap is one of the beat varieties to plant. Blossoms are likely to develop on the spring st plants and these should be removed to throw all energy into the development of runners as early as possible. * * _ Addrec communication* to Agronomist. 73 Adelaide St West, T^ront* Minerals in Swine Ration. ibe of value only in cases of ferment*- It is true that mineral requirements tion, and then only for a very short for swine is practically a new thing! !> erlod * time . Extena.ve tests have in feeding swine, yet it promises to be|P r( > ven ^ lt ^ ehminated from the one of the fcremoit steps in improved ! ^ '" he * me torm methods of securing: maximum Knwthi^.^'J. 1 ^; ! and health. Practical feeders for yearsj"' have been allowing- their hogs access to wood ashes and to charcoal or soft e The minerals that are most likely to be deficient are calcium or lime, coal and the like for the supplying of | chlorine, sodium and phosphorus, these minerals. Such substances have, These are the elements that enter into been very good, and did supply some 1 the formation cf the skeleton in tna very essential material, and yet in the!l r ge r amounts. It may be possible few experiments that are being made ! that iodine is sometimes needed, but at any of the stations at this time! this only in sections where there are will bring out some very valuable! hairless pig, and that is due to the facts. Up to this time it seems that j fact that in some sections the soil is about the same errors are being made ! depleted in these elements ar.d there- in the use erf minerals to swine that fore the crops do not contain a normal were originally made in the earlier amount. This can be easily and feeding tests, in which they attempted : cheaply supplied. The following ma- to argue from the complex to the | terials furnish the minerals common- simple rather than from the simple i 'X U8 d ver V cheaply and at a very to the complex, which seems to be the l'K"t cost: Sodium chloride or corn- logical way to approach these subjects. ; mon salt - ground rock phosphate, It took scientists many years u> : 8rr und bone meal, either raw or awaken to the faci that some things steamed, wood ashes, and many others, about our common feeding practices Common salt or sodium chkiride would never be understood until we , furnishes both sodium and chlorine in began with the use of a very simple sufficient quantities. Steamed bone meal or ground raw bone meal furn- ration and then worked into a com- plex one, so that an accurate check could be made upon the true value of various feeding materials, under vary- ing conditions. The wonderful dis- coveries made during the past decade have been ample proof that this was the proper method of making the feeding trails and more actual history as to the value of feeding materials than has been accomplished during several such periods previous to this time. It is a common practice for some swine feeders to feed certain minerals ishes both calcium or lime and phos- phorus; wood ashes or kainit furnish potash, but this is not so often needed. A very good mixture consists of equal parts of salt and steamed bone meal; mother of salt and taw bone meal; unother of salt and -wood ashes; an- other of salt and raw rock phoephat very finely gr^rd. All of these may be mixed equal parts and fed in a self-feeder. Animals will consume about on* pound of such mixturos each month; this can be provided for in this way: Success is ten per cent, opportun- ity and ninety per cent, intelligent hustle. My Visit to England's Glass-House Fanners Fight the Corn Borer. Observations recently made in Corv.y, Ontario, particularly in the dis' . ict of St. Thomas, by officers of : the Entomological Branch of the Do- j minion Department of Agriculture,! nd others, indicate that the European Corn Borer found in Canada for the ; flnt time in August, 1920, haa come through the winter in a very healthy condition. The Department urges, therefore, the assistance of all farm- ' r in nlTeoted districts, in the efforts which are being made in controlling | this dreaded pest and preventing its further spread. The borer or caterpillar is the He- tnictlve stage in the life of tho in- ect uml It IN in this stage at the present time within corn stubble, pieces of Mtaik, old ears, or other; MtrU of the corn plant which were Urg enough to shelter it during the winter. Farmers, therefore, should iil/c- the importance of destroying,' at once, preferably by burning, all unused portions of corn stalks, cobs, WM-.KV tc. Crop refute around silos i:'i also that left during thn winter In I Infested corn fUlds should be carefully fathered up and destroyed by burning Folds within the infested district should lie kept free from weeds, as the borer lias been found in thick H'emnied grasses, ragweed, smart- woed, lambs' quarters, etc. Arthur (iibson, Dominion Entomologist. - - ^^_ - _ -_ , Making Biddy Exercise. A fairly common practice among poultry keepers is to suspend cabbage i-r mangel* in n string sack on a cord. The object of course is to encourage chicken exercise. I find it best, how- ever, to hnng the green food only a reaionable distance off the floor. ' Jumping is strenuous exercise. It brings parts under strain that the hen normally little uses. When u flock is' laying heavily, there is dwnffer of rup- ture If the cabbage is hung high. Dry, de, new litter, in which scratch HTnin is sprinkled, is a better exer- ciser. Cabbages and mangels may be < -IH| > ! to lioards or impalnl on wall spike*. I like to split the niaagels in Half. Any green food can be mixed and fed in n hot wet mash. An optimist is a man who believes be can grow even better vpjrrtjibles than the catalogue shewn. m f^O brands' of/baking ', towdev in Caitacta; a&d .le-fact that v tiiei*e is tribre* MAGIC BAKING POWDER used than all the other brands ; combined shows why Magic J Bahing Powder is Imown ''^ as Canad A's best The little river Leo, rising in south- ern Bedford, flows eastwardly across Hertford to the border between Hert- ford and Essex, where it is joined by the Stort, coming down from the north, and, turning south in a broad, I flat valley, it reaches the Thames near 1 the eastern limit of London, a total, course of some 50 miles. In this Lea Valley, there has grown \ up a great glass-house industry, more than 1,000 acres now being covered; with glass in a district some 12 orj 13 miles long, in which are half a dozen towns and cities of 5,000 to 50,- 000 population each. | The men engaged in this industry! had become so impressed with the, value of scientific research in the problems related to their work, large-' ly as n result of the Rothamted in- 1 vesligntions, that in 1913 they decided to establish an experiment station in ! theiir midst, having for its sole object the study of these problems. They therefore organized an association for this purpose, under the name of the Nursery nnd Market Garden In- ' dustries Development Society, Limit- ed. In the spring of 1914, a site of about two ncros, within the limits of the town of Cheshunt on the main London to Cambridge road, was pur- j chased and buildings were erected, ; consisting of an oftie, one botanical and one chenvienl laboratory, five cu- cumber and five tomato houses, and nn isolation house for pot experiments nnd disease inoculation work. The county councils of Hertford and Essex made small grants in support of this work; the Duke of Bedford contributed $'2,000; the members of the society raised among themselves a'bout $4,000 for construction and as much more for a maintenance fund, nnd the National Board of Agriculture and Fisheries ugroed to furnish nearly $10.000 for construction and mainten- ance. The equipment was not com- pleted until September. 1915, and by that time the war had seriously inter- fered with the work, although the work was kept alive and some pro- gress was made during the strenuous period of the war. From the outset the work has been closely associated with Ihnt at Roth- amsted, a part of it being conducted in the Rollinms'ed laboratories. With the rnd of the war increased interest was lukeii in the wmV of this station. The nunilxM 1 of shareholders increas- ed, nnd the larger unnual subserip- tlom permitted the cmp'oyment of specialists in r".tt!ni.>!;>i:y and p'.anl di/i-HM-: 1 .. Sum*- iiV'i (!' 'lit- chnva.-fcr of the wrrk nvay be gained by the fu! lowing brirt 1 summary of iru work re- ported for 1'Jlll: In an experiment < n flow VITSIH forced growth of tomatoes the forcing of tht< crop by raising the heat cauaeii an earlier ripening of a small part of the crop, bu decreased the total yield by about 10 per cent. Houses in which the moisture in the' air had been increased by overhead j spraying have given somewhat larger June pickings of tomatoes, in three seasons out of four, than thoae not so treated. In experiments with fertilizers on tomatoes the omission of nitrogen in- creased the yield, while the omission of potash caused a material reduction in yield. The largest yield was pro- duced by phosphates and potash com- bined. No further increase was pro- duced by the addition of manure to th chemical fertilizers. In the case of oucuml>ers, increas- ing the temperature above 85 deg. F. ' sufficed to prevent the leaf-spot dis- ease, and considerably increased the ^ weight of the early pickings as well as the total yield. Experiments in soil sterilization are being made in co-operntive commer- cial greenhouses, under the guidance of extensive research conducted in the Rothamsted laboratories, in which the; effect on the soil and on the growing plant of a large number of che:nical substances is being studied in com- parison with steam. Most of the difficulties encountered by the gardf ncr, under gloss, are due to microscopic soil organisms. These, under the glass-house conditions in which tie natural action of such organisms upon earh other is inter- fered with, attain an importance that] is not reached in the open field. [ Among these are the nematodes (small celworms that infest the roots) and the bacteria and fungi that cause the 'damping off" of seedlings, and some forms of blighting of the ma- ture plant. All those may be reached by soil sterilization; but there are other organisms in the soil that are 1 beneficial for example, the nitrifying bacteria. How so to adjust our treat- ment as to hut our foes without injur-*- ing our friends is a delicate problem of strategy calling for the most elab- orate scientific research. To the sola- 1 tion of this problem n very large part of tho resources of tho Rothamstod Station are now bo Ins directed. Charles K. Thorr.o. not for any specific action which they! Mix a pound cf the mixture with an expect to obtain, but simply because: amount of tankage that bhey will eat it has been a time-honored custom.!'" a*ot a month. If they are eating Such agents as sulphur, copperas, 'about fifty pounds of tankage per charcoal, seem to have very little, if; month, then add two pounds of the any, beneficial action for swine, and mixture to each one hundred pounds may. if not given properly, actually ;<* tankage and you are certain in this prove harmful, ami yet swine breeders wa >" t" at they get that amount. If have long used them in their tonk and ' he >' eating more, increase it. and mineral mixtures. We must depend j "* ! . decrease it. This should be more on our late experiments t tell ; ver T **! mixed and fed in a self- us about these materials. At this time feeder; most animals will eat about sulphur is rarely used as a medicine this amount of It, if it is fed alone by veterinarians, and then usually in|in self-feeder; this will defend an ointment for its effect in killing j somewhat upon the individual, parasite* of the skin. If it is taken | It is not advisable to attempt to into the animal's body in fairly large furnish all the minerals that ar doses over a long period it may bring needed by the animal in this way, but about a serious blood condition. It | there are certain feeds that are very turns the feces, or manure, very dark i r ' crl ' n rninerals, and much of the in color and gives it a very foul odor, 1 minerals should be supplied through and should be given in very small |them. Among these feeds are a tf alf a amounts until we It am more about it. : anr * clover hay, bran and soy beans. Copperas, or iron sulphate, is a com-! The ha >" can ** anj should be, fed mon remedy, and while it may be to brood sows in a rack during the given in small quantities for some, winter months, or when they are not time, it can not safely be given in;<>n pasture; sows will consume about very large doses; our latest irvforma- :<>ne to on-e and one-fourth pounds per tion on iron is that it is a foot! rather -'ch one hundred pounds of body than a tonic or a medicine, and later | weight per day when it is fed in this day veterinarians use it in that way. I way; the use of pasture crops, such It is also thought to be a worm dv-! a alfalfa, clover, rape and the like, stroyer, but tests have proven this \ also provide large amounts of miner- without any foundation ; it is very a!s for the breeding and growing ani- readily changed into another form mals. The mineral requirements for when exposed to the ordinary atmos- swine need occasion the breeder no phere and if it was to be given it alarm; it can be very easily handled, should be kept' as nearly dry aspos-jsnd quite inexpensively also; all it sible. With the knowledge that we requires is a little g-ood judgment in have of this material at this time it is doubtful if it is advisable to feed it to swine ; Charcoal is four.d in two forms, that which is made from wood and that from bones. The action of char- coal is that of an absorbent, and its function in the intestinal tract is to absorb any methan-e gas that, may be generated in the intestines. This can the selection of feeds, and possibly some simple mixtures that we have outlined in this article. 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