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•^»Jf Mdr*M Mmmuntoatten^ ta AgnMiwnl^ M Ad.Uid. •». W««. To«««« "DIE-HARDS" OP HOG TRA- DITION. "Some people object to what they -Ckll propsganda in favor of the bacon hog, and claim that they can raise the kurd-t^pe hog more economically. In The chief cause* of pigs of the right type not grading "select" are: 1. Overweightâ€" Over 210 lbs. at the market Fed too long, possibly wait-i ing for a rising market j 2. Heavy feeding just after wean- ing; pigs pushed on heavy fatteningi EATONS Complete Radio Map of Canada and the United States, showing all Broad- easting Stations, giving Call Numbers and Locations. The New Eaton Edition Price 15c ^T. EATON OL TORONTO CANADA five years' experimental wwrk with six ; ^^^^ g^^j^ ^ barley, buckwheat and breeds, both fat and bacon type, we^^^j^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ weaning; have never been able to pick out any j ^ p^j. feeding Pigs starved or one breed aa better than others for | gj^nted in early life or held until old, economy of production. As a matter ^^^g^ ^nd rough before they are up of fact, strain has more influence than; ^ market weight; A SL P atrick's Da y Party In Honor of Fat and His Rg BY MYRTLE JAMISON TRACHSEL. The Ice Supply. It la a difficult matter to carry on dairying during the summer season! without a supply of ice. Indeed, un-j less one has a particularly cool cellar,: a supply of ice adds greatly to th*. comfort of any household during the! . oi.»„i.i .»,-. i.r.»t. c^ heat of the season. The storage of A pasteboard pig bearing the verse "Poor P.KB.e." Should she lau^ «r rnattfr: any un- .riven below miirht be used to summon even smile while saying .t. she be- ice is a very simple matter; any un- given below might occupied comer of a shed will ser%'e the guesU. A pig cut from an lor the purpose. A rough board en- vertising page could be used aa closure ten feet square and eight fe? t pattern. hifd» will hold enough ice to provide The Turkey »nd Its Peculiarities. ad- comes the piggie and must BO"«al her a best while on her hands and knees 1 before one of the men. Should shs ^^ I manage to keep a straight face, poof J , „ . , ,,n ,i^„a'oif^r Shure and ye must be comin' along pigfrie must try to make some other 50 pounds per day *»^ 130 days, after i^nu y v^^ ^j.^^^ ^.^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ allowing for a 3,"/^''l^^^^'"°";„\i^J Ye may talk about pi^ in the good fry the second time, especially if he The smaller tne quanu y ^^^^^ brogue, | remembers to scratch his buck against So plaze don't stay away. : the leg of her chair. March 17th. (Time Place -) Next you might play "Pigs in th« i Parlor." Partners for this game are wastage. stored, however, the larger is the pro- portion of waste. I Provision must be made for the 'â-  drainage of an ice storage. Unless ! the soil underneath is of onen texture. You might let an old Irish motto, fg^^^ i,y cutting heads, tails, legs, „ ^ ., a .. ,mth « hung up in a conspicuous place, greet ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^f cardboard pigs. Th« , . .• «f 1,* "• ^t , cover the floo with a ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^j^^ ^he letters ^oys will search for the girl who ha» The wild turkey is a native of few inches of gravel. A foot of s^- ^^^^j^ ^ ;„ ^^^^^ „„ ^ ^^ite card, ^j^^ j^co needed to finish his pig. North America, and years ago ranged dust should then be put on to receive ^.^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^ Ontario Dairymen's Convention. He feed or a mistaken idea of what the •tates the ease as Professor of Animal finished bacon hog really is. Husbandry at the Ontario Agricultur al College, But there is a still weightier reason •gainst the objection to the bacon hog. It is that the lard hog as a paying line I WANT MY HOTBED READY AHEAD OF TIME. It is a mistake to wait until you are green irepe paper 1\^^.s^ pjgg a^e to serve as models. A smuU potato and fruit knife ar« few strip* . . , , iL â-  . ,- * J.T. * .,„„ „.,., â€" - of Kreen paper and toothpicks. courses of the Mississippi and the dust on each of the four sides ana ^^^^^ ^ ^jj,,^ ^jjj probably need to The bovs car^'e pigs from their po- Missouri, and to the Rocky Mountains, an equal quantity on the top will pre- ^ verbally in English. Sham- tatoes, using the toothpicks for taiU As civilization advanced and popula- serve the ice even through a long hot ^^^^^ potatoes, pipes, Irish hats, and ^nd ears. The girls may make dress- breed upon this point," 4 Under finishâ€" Pigs not finished f^^^ Canada to Mexico, and through- the ice. The ico should be tiiken from ^^^j gmoothly along the edges to The statement was made by Profe«-'to the desired 1% inches of fat down ^^t ^^ ^^^^ forests that extended a pond in blocks which can b.? built J!^ ^^ent the frame. The motto "Gaid ^^.g^ ^^^^ couple also a sor Wada Toole before the Western the back, generally through lack of thence to the northwest, along the up into a solid mass. A foot of saw- ^^.jj^ ^ Failthe" ("A thousand wel tion increased, the wild turkeys reced- period, provided a roof protects the ed and decreased until now they are mass from the sun and rain, gradually becoming extinct. I Plans of ice storages of small and The wUd breeds (known as the large dimensions are contained in North American. Mexican and Hon- Pamphlet No. 2 of the Department of duras) live on worms, insects, berries. Agriculture at Ottawa. Reference is for farming in Canada is "at the end "ctuuUy ready to sow ««eds befo^ of the rope." but the field for the starting the hotbed Start it up now bacon type is only just being opened. a»d ^/'« ®7'"5^^78 ^" "^^r"^^^^^ ...., ..v,.^ -.^ _,.,.,„. • nm.u» a,.v. .«..,,...= ...... ^ .•. o This is not a newVsition, but the V^^ ^.l^^^^'l fZ^ TtJZ. i" October^and direct their course to -^ P^!^ li !« }l!f^I" r/^Z; busy while others are arriving. To pasteboard harps might be used :is gg^ fluted ruffles for the pigs' necks, decorations too. But plenty of cut- g^ „py other sort of decoration, out pigs are necessary, for this is to when the work of each sculptor hat be a "piggie" party. been sufficiently admired, ask the The brogue of old Ireland â€" the guests to bring their chairs into a speech of the evening â€" will keep the close circle to play "Moving Piggie seeds and grass. They flock together made to ice wells, which are usea m ^.^^^ ^^^ tongues of the eirly guests Up." Take as many of the potato -that is, the farmer's product as it - W^^d from manure. Thejr«sh ^^a rLran'dTf^ungry dur^n^ «n^ six feet in depth with ice, is leaves the farm^an o'nly be wide f.,^ fll^\^ l^^Z^^^L ±^. t the winter, are apt to become so bold said to hold about four tons, and assured when the market for the ^a^^" ^f^f * fermenting pile or be familiar as to enter farmyards outcome of that hog-that is. the collected for several days and saved ^^^ packer's product in the form of bacon »>? ''>'• ^^ P"'?^*- ^" ,? *''*' v'T^' -is also wide and reasonably assured, all longstraw and coarse Utter should THE MATING SEASON. United States Millers Need Our Wheat. The Northv/estern National Bank paraffin thing. ' as possible. Should a player drop a The stone in this instance is a pyra- potato piggie, he must recover it by mid of stones. Some of the "stones" his own efforts and without putting are pieces of taffy candy, colored the others down. He then starts moss-green and wrapped in bits of them all on their way again, but ha paper with twisted ends, must leave the circle. Ilis chair, how- Only in the home market is there room "e taken out. ^anure inai "as oura-j ^^^.jy j^^ spring the hens leave the Review, published at Minneapolis, others are bits of pebbles or small ever, remains in place for the lard types and even that is ^^ or fire-fanged will be useless for, ^^^j^^ actually shunning them, and Minnesota, pays high tribute to the rocks wrapped in the same manner, declining because of the growing taste , "**P,'""P**f^- . ., ., ' roost apart The males, however, are qy^j^^y (,f Canadian hard spring The guests, in turn, are blindfolded In Canada for leaner bacon, with close j ^^^^^ there is a consiaeraoie am- ^^ ^^^^^ ^.^.^j^ ^^^ loudly express their ^heat in the following quotation from and allowed to kiss the Blarney trimming to remove the fat and vrith ??!*..,/'. _rJ,S^.^'i." „Tf.,* „ "w,4 «f anger or love, whichever it may be, in their December issue: { Stone. Then they are told to take a "Flour mills in this city are run-- piece . as a souvenir. Should they consequent waste. Supply has already ?J'°"^'l ^f 'T/^*^ .Tl^'^ V „tl PiU that soft strain peculiar to the cock,j nearly overtaken the permanent de- its own bulk of litter or leaves. Pile expressed by the word "gobble.'' Ining at one-half capacity or less, and draw a piece of taffy, they are in When someone has left the circle, have a helper quietly take him into the dinins^-room and scn-e him with refreshments. As othci-s drop out they should be spirited away and served without letting the others mand. j up the whole in a neat square hMp.i -^^^ disposition of the female is. as ,.}jg°output is booked almost entirely luck; if they have a stone, they may know what is going on. Those who Packers must more and more look ""^er cover, and m as .^^'""i,^ P , a rule, more mild and gentle than that f^^ domestic trade. Canadian mills, on be allowed to try again later. Of are left in the circle, and are trying to the export field as the only one in*^ J^^*^ ' *"t *^'*j f ^ \ tion °' *^^ ma\e. When leading out her ^jje other hand, have been reporting course, any amount of blarney is per- so desperatx^ly hard to retain their which they can expect enlarged trade. : Y^"â„¢^, start rapia lermen a . ^^^^ ^f young to collect their food, gg i^rge an export demand as they nfcsible after one has kissed this hold on the slippery piggies and get For the English bacon trade, only f^ . ^^,f^.^^^ Ti?^ H M Tt un though so large and apparently so can handle. Even at the high rate of famous stone. them across the ever-growing num- our select hogs of definite bacon type turning it msiae out, ana pue 11 p po^^e^fui^ ghe affords them very little juty it is being found desirable to "Poor Piggie" is a variation of an ber of empty chairs, will eventually again, tramping it dovim nrmiy as you protection against the attacks of any bring wheat across the border to Min- old game that never fails to bring wake up to the fact that they are the rapacious animal that may approach neapolis for domestic use, though the screams of laughter. The players are "grane" ones, them. She rather warns them to shift amount is not large; there was a no- seated in a circle. A boy is asked to You miijht s'-rve refreshments cafe- do so. Add enough water to make it again thoroughly moist. will serve the best buyers Those who "object to what they call propaganda in favor of the bacon nog" may choose for themselves either the continued raising of a hog of which there are already too many and 80 choose entering into still keener competition among themselves or they may take the more businesslike way of dropping their prejudices and chang- ing the types of their hogs to conform to market prospects. The average farmer also â- will have to choose for himself whether he will listen to the somewhat insidious propaganda of those who "object to bacon hog propa- 1 ganda" â€" the die hards" of the old! . . . * -i „:„,-* „„!„„+,„«.. f ,., . • ., , , I SIX inches of soil, six if any plants are tradition â€" or examine the reasonable- 1 . , ,. .,„ . ^u„\,„:^ u^^ J! XI. 1.1- X X X J , to c>e grown directly in the soil. Fer- ness of the public statements made by n t 1 jLt « <â-  „,„ <«?„«â- â€ž>> men who handle the product after it ''^''^^^ ^ '"^ZTr, ^J^f^b ^.^Lrf t^« has left the farmer's hands. These,**' ^^JT I/thf .^^w^^nfh in the last resort, must be the men'y°""8 plants, and the greater _depth ror ine oest rebuita xnis operanuii ^^^ themselves, and does not prepare ticeable increase during November, be the poor piggie. He gets do\vn on teria style. White and should be repeated three or four times so that the whole mass will be heated evenly through and through, other- wise the hotbed when made up will be "spotty," and the results will be very uneven, especially along the edges. For a small frame of two or three sashes half a cord will be suffi' to defend them With our domesticated turkeys, lay- green signs Importations into this district â€" chief- his hands and knees before one of the set up at intervals along the table ly, if not entirely, for manufactui-e in young ladies and squeals in his most call attention to the food piled before ing starts in spring. They hide their ; Minneapolis â€" are reported by the pathetic manner. While he squeals, them. The signs bear the legends: nests in some retired, obscure place, j Customs Service at Duluth as 11,- makes faces, and does anything else Blarney Sandwiches, Sod Sandwiches, The hen sits with remarkable perse- 602,631 bushels during 1P20; 8,763,- becoming a pig, the girl must show Shillalahs, and Irish Greens. In spite verance, and if not removed will al- ggY bushels in 1921; 343,165 bushels her appreciation by continuously of the sound of the names the food most perish with hunger before entire- in 1922; and 1,010,123 bushels for the stroking his head and murmuring is most inviting â€" and digestible. • .. T^ 1 1^ 1,^ „i„„»^ Sr. fi!! ftntr,! ly leavlng the nest. She generally lays first eleven months in 1923." cient. It should be placed in the frame .^ ^^^ morning, and often continues ^ after it is fermenting hotly, and fii-m- ly packed down in a solid mass one or two feet deep daily, until from fifteen to tiventy Potato Disease Investigation. TWO TPPr nPPn i ^^^ ^^^ ^^^"^ '" * season, governed , investigational work carried on by On too of this I nut from four to according to the age of the hen. Young ^^^ Department of Botany of the On- Un top of this 1 put trom rour to ^^^^ ,^y ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^g^ hens. ,.j^rio Agricultural College during the In the second laying the hen hardly i p^^gj. gj^ ygj,rs has brought out the ever exceeds ten or fifteen eggs. following facts: That selected, certified seed pota- toes give much better results than the THE CHILDREN'S HOUR BEST AGES FOR MATINO. The best matings are either two- ri/ THE GREEDY MOUSE. Late one afternoon Roily Rabbit . â-  .,1 u- -.1, u- ^ -lis not needed except where radishes, !p:":,,r:;;,;":;itr"~nets'or'a cock- """""^''^''^ ^^?^ potatoes which have ^„j g^uin sat reading the latest edi- :^.^iiPlL';l,r'^!'r.t''i:?iP^::^!i lettuce, beans, or 'some other ^^S^'i:T::L:t::^^^^^^^^ ^â€" 'Vion of "Woodland News." "Little Glennie Squirrel, wlio lives near Woodside, fell out of a hickory j "That noise was in the bedroom and I we can't get out the window." I "Hero is a knot-hole, we will run in here for a while until everything is quiet," said Billy. But right in that little knot-hole Roily h:id set a trap for naughty thieving mice, so that was the last of Mackie and Billy Mouse. or a low according as his hogs «»it rableT to brgrown dir^ly in the sSiL; ^^!' 7"th^^^^^^ of this province in the past or do not suit heir customei-'s de-| ^^^^ „„,/^„ „^ ^^^ 3^^^ are^'-^l :i^. *' 'iteLs and a singVe^^^^^ '^^''^ N"'^'^^''" °" 5"" '11^ P°^^ x... - -. mand. A definite premium for the, ^^ ^„^ {^^^^ .^ ^ ^^ „, f^^ment- "an t^ke care of f^om ftfteeTfo t^en- *«^« ^'^t ''' ?'^^ V^^^ °" l^" ''^'•' nut tree and broke his leg. Doctor I ing manure available, the hotbed may ^^^^^^^ While thT goSr hVs a "P «^ ^^°'^ >'"P"''*^ *'^°'" ^'^ """'-I Woodchuck set it for him and he is be built directly on the manure pile, ' greater influence on color and shape ThitTn'Tert "' '''' '""'"" ""''' """'" "'""^' right type is already in force and is being generally paid by packers, who- ever may now be intercepting that premium on its way to the farmer. That should be enough to prove the good faith of the packing industry in urging a greater production of the bacon hog, not simply because it dif- fers from a lard type but because mil- lions of consumers after the packer insist on g«tt!ng a lean, not a fat, bacon. That in certain sections of old On- ! now doing nicely," said Bruin, read- by embedding in it a bottomless frame ^^ ^^^ ny, large hens are needed tarirexcdLnt seed potatoes can be '"? ^ P'''"* ^^ '^' ^«^^* "^^^• of suitable size, and putting the soil j.^ produce big turkeys. • excellent seea poiaroea can u« ^_^ ^_^ , , ,.^,, on top of the manure within this Turkeys are more creatures of habit produced by continued selection and frame. A frame 6x9 feet will accom-l ^j^^„ ^^^ other of our feathered fowl, """Suing- modate three standard 3x6-foot sash I have used this simple method very eflfectively. The manure must be actively fermenting, and the pile must be in the full sunlight. and will come home to roost at night | if one will make a practice of feeding them, however lightly. In the selection of breeding stock, the aim should not be for great size. Powdered Skim Milk. Seeds for Sale PmI County U not«d for Its hlEh-quaUtr seeds. ' After the hotbed has been made up ^^^ ^^.y^^ vitality and sure breeding, and the soil put in, a thermometer ^y^^ ^^^^ ^^^^. ^ot be too large. In should be plunged into the bed and g^jecting hens, one must not be influ- watched for a few days. When it ^^^^^ ^ ^ weight. Good form. Underground Garden Irrigation. Where the natural rainfall is insuf« ; ficient for intensive gardening pur- 1 poses one of the best and most effec- I tive ways of furnishing the moisture Too bad for such a little fellow. ; to the plants is by underground irri- Perhaps we can get over to see him gation. This will be found advanta- to-morrow. Here it says that a robber geous for three reasons. In the first held up Jimmie Fox and stole his gold place the water thus supplied reaches the roots, where it is wanted, and there is a minimum loss by evapora- tion. In the second place water is saved, and in the third, there is no crust to form on top as there is when watch and chain, when he was return- from Glenwood. That is not far fMi 8«>i House, Brampton. OQt.. I. io«t«i In u.., o^^V registers 75 or 80 degrees with ^^^ g^^^^ ^ square bodies and •miy centâ„¢ of uii< disirkt It bx Urm Quiniitiei the sash left Oh, then it will be safe -. - tt Qrlam. Variesatnl uiil Sixclal AiraKu, lUil Cloren. Alslku, Sweet CloTen. Tlmotliy, etc., wtiloti tn 9oM direct to farmen. any part. In an; size lota. Writ* at once for prlae list PEEL SEED HOUSE. Branpton, Ontario BABY CHICKS Queen City Hatchery, Breeder and distributor of husky, healthy Chicks and Ducks, ten varieties. Write for catalogue and price list. 2 Llnsmore Crescent, Toronto, Ont. to begin sowing seeds. breasts are needed. Practically the No plants ^^^^ ,g ^^^^ j,, ^j^e male. It is im- The comparative values of powder ed skim milk and powdered butter- "^^ milk were found to bo about equal if**' „ ,, in experiments carried on at the On-, Brum, said Roily. tnrm Aoricultur-il Collese The av- Then a gentle "tap, tap, tap. , . ,. , , erage totll Ss per plfwere 121^' When Roily opened the door there: the water is applied to the top of the pounds for those fed on the skim milk stood a little mouse with his clothes Srowd. , , , j • xu Sowder and 122.8 pounds for those all ragged, his face dirty, and ^vith a When the ground is plowed in the fed on buttermilk powder. Although very hungry look upon his thin face, spring it is gone over with a lister, the feeding value of these products is "Oh, please, Mr. Rabbit, I'm hun should be set in the frame, however,: '^^ J 'Xve an unrelated male in K'^' ^^^ ""'-''^'^'^ ^^'"^ ^"'' ^°^^ """^ ^ry. Could I please have until it is 10 to 15 degrees coolel^ . P^'^^J^"",^ Y^i.^'^^ j~ the high cost of the skim milk and to eat? It is little I have â€" F, F. R. J; ' >n''ree'l>"g «'" '^° '""'=", buttermilk powder makes its use pro- several days," begged the li hibitive as live astock feed. We Have an Asparagus Bed BY MARGARET HENRY. Mother had raised and sold aspara- The third fall it was very bushy Take No Chances Twist and t\xm fts b* iDftT, rour horM cannot Ret «»&y rmm th* 3aretj Softp on tha S%I«ty Hal- T(*r Shank. Now Mck to pr«-wv vrlMi* stiink romilute. fct 75 tanu; 30 cents mat of F(irt WiUiftm. Soap* oiUr srll at i c«nr« etch. Wot roar protecUon, tb« Sa*«ty nailer Shank U now sui>i)llwl with blua thf^ad ninalns throusb tt. lulit on iha genulnai Tber covt no mora. Saul a post car now. for book of stabla h«lpi, sbowiac thfl n9wr<t moner-aa^tnf hors* tpaclalllM. S£Srit!i^^?m n Water St., Stratford, Oat. POULTRY There are two main points to be con- sidered: First, the selection of birds that have the characters desired; and secondly, a further selection from these of birds that can produce off- spring as good as or better than themselves, .so says Professor W. R. Graham of the Ontario Agricultural ^,1,^0 she was a girl and thought it a scythe and later burned them College. 'would be nice to start a bed for us ^,,,3 fourth spring the bed wa-s a Many arc of the opinion that "hko children to have for our own. She ^.^^g ^f ^â- ^^g j^^^ ^^j^ij^g ^^^^y morning begets like." In general, this is true, planted a package of seed and before ^^^ ^^^ arranged to sell it to the gro- but it is true for general and not for g^e covered it, she planted radishes, ^^^^ g,,^ hotels. The early crops sold particular qualities. It is true that lettuce and onion seed in the trench ^^j. oOf. g bunch, later it was IBc, then a male White Leghorn mated to White „ith the asparagus seed. The aspar- .^ f^^. .^-^ 3^^ „j tj,„ g^j ^j ^y^^ season Ltghorn females will breed chickens ^gus is slow to germinate and makes ;^ brought 10c a bunch. We cut it that are White Leghorns, or that have ygry slow growth above ground the ^^,^j.y nj^ming ^yjth a knife, going forming alternate ridges and fur- please have something â„¢Y' .These will diflFer probably ten eaten for "''^''*s *" height. It will be necessary ttle mouse. "Come right in, poor little mouse, and we shall see what we can find," said Roily kindly. Soon a bountiful meal was prepared to go again over the grround with the lister, and the second covering should result in furrows twenty inches deep, or better. In these the two-and-one- half-inch tile is laid. If the furrows are rather close together the tile need for the hungr>' mouse, and how he did ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ,„ ^^.^^.^ ^^^^J. ^^^ ^hev eat. When he had finished, his ittlo ^^^ ^-^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^j^^ ^j^ j^j^^g „, stomach was so full ho just could not ^^^^^ ^^ possible. The far end of each eat another crumb. With an envious gus" as a money-making proposition ' and rank and we cut the stalls with eye, ^e looked at the remaining food ^ ' . . . ., V,. .,. .. .... , ., and Rollv's well-Iilled cupboard wished he could eat more. "Oh, Mr. Rabbit, thank Ho you so is plugged with concrete or clay. The front ends are finished off -with a T section and "Sinothcr section, added to bring the inlet well above the top of the ground. Then the ground is much. Already I feel much better," j,,^,^,^,] ^^^^^^^ jj„^ planted in the ordi- said the mouse. "You are welcome, Mousie. I am always glad when I can .share with others," answered Roily. And Mousie went on his way. Late that yilght Mackie Mouse (for MORTGAGE LIFTERS He, too, was very hun- Mackie had been that white plumage, yellow legs, and white flrgt year, so mother planted her early j^^^ ,,^,0^ j^^ ground. It was sorted, ,,. , , , . » , „m f,.; „a earlobes. But of these offspring there garden -sass" in with it bo mark the ;„ inferior or spindly stalks being *^^"^ '"'''â- '' '"'* "''"'*'^ """^ ^" °'^ ^ ' ' will be no two chicks exactly alike, rows so she could hoe it and keep thrown out and then tied in bunches We find laige and small Leghorns; down the weed.«. She could have f^^ j^e market. If v.c could not take most of them never go broody but bought one-year or two-year plants j^ j^ market everv day, we put it in some do; some lay large eggs, others fpom the nursery at a very small cost ^^^ ^^^.^ ^j^j, ^ j^^p ^^^^^^ ^^g^ ^^ small eggs. And we find a great and thus gained a year or more on, ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^. ^ ^^,j ^^^^ variation in the number of eggs pro- the crop but she wanted to start from. ^^^^^ j^^^.^,^; ^^.,^^ .^ ^^^^,y ^^^^ duced by different hens the seed. .J times a day on our t^ible and giving «„"; uV „,„ ..^arlv 't-irved " Selection .s made on the ba.s,s that| All summer mother kept the plants; ^^ ^,,. ^^.^^^^^ j^ ^ J ^^ Mouse an yearly t irve. . like will produce hkcs but experience clean and well hoed and the next, profitable each year and the nice -, KL Id eafa 1 U le more h m e"f 130 Egg Hot Water I •"^^ **"?^ "» ^"^.^" ')t' *" ^ «Pr*"« '^'^ ""'"Vf^^r^ «"!«- thing about an asparagus bed is that ^^/^ffThev stnrted for "ol y\ L e . L <•>• cure uniform superiority, they must jn the permanent bed. There were ,. ^,. ... so on ine> siariia lor i\oiiy ^ iiuust. Incubators ClQ 75 carry on tho selection through gen-' over IT.""*."'^ erations of poultry. If we select a Frelabt paid to fwr ncareit ' ... ., ., ,.,,.. ., ^^^ »., ,,-., ..*, R.B, itaiiou. uada In Canada! birds that have laid better than 200 and forked up with the potato fork Billy Mouse, gry, just a.s afternoon. "I know where there is a lot of good things U) cat," said Mackie Mouse. Do show me where," said Billy nary way. If water i.-; poured into one line for a few minutfS it can he filled. It wili then soak into the ground in all direc- tions. Thereafter the water is added only when necessary to keep the sub- soil in the proper condition. In the fall tho lines need not necessarily b« removed, hut left for use the follow- ing year. er four=;::i' p^nU ..nd il mad:; ^^l ?:-ro"a7n,oV noSe^'te^ r'^V"^'' '"^Tl ''''' ^7""?'^ i.r»« h^A W<. kent it hoed clean ^°^ \ '^^quireb alnio>. no care, we bouse, but could hnd no way to get in. 'f 'E.tf •,.7,:,.'^"^^^ n^^o fork' tp- to keep the weeds out in the cut-l ..^^,,, ,ii„,i, ;„ ^^0 betlroom window. It has bicn conclusively proveti &t the Dominion Experimental Station, Cap Rouge. Quebec, that well develop- ed heifers, over six months of age, carrying a rea.^onable amount of flesh, .<ire better wintered in an open front .<iingle board shed than if closely housed. i eggs in twelve consecutive months all that summer and put all the drop- of <.Ifar B.t!, r«d cedar, Ix«uU- «>ubia tuu door, double walla with air iMca. u^n > and mate these to a male, of similar pings from the chicken coops on it. mviKt lurt. niiiweJ «« up -mdj for uM strain, we do not expect to get all in the fall we put on a cover of IM Em N»»wa«tr In-iubator Caaivlat* ltt./( I . ,' ,, . .„ , r.^^^ . , . iMcwak »rSd« -»« i»«.»ai«c w*. 2$ ) daughters that will lay 200 or more litter and rakmgs. IM Ma» ciffuitf Orain sprMitar , ti«.N | egg^i a year, but we do expect upon, xhe next spring we rnked the cover the average a better production than' up in rows between the plants and had no selection been made. i burned it. ,.,u T â€" ~rl!7I~i a,, ut ' The third summer wc cut the young The reading hab.t is « profitable ^^^ occasionally for home u«s. M$ twi.nir-rour rrar« pxi'fn..*)c« haa prrrea tltat gli I a I, iL„r« mocM-y in L">ultrT Uian anjr other Uva- â- took. IX!! m-'ilbat^r and poiUtr/ ratalociM baautl- Mlr llluitraird itlrh rolour piwa rra*. L. n. SaM, usuliitar Ba«L. RaalnaM*. Oat ISSUE No. â- 'Zi. These are the days when the fruit man should get into the orchard and rut out the blight canker*; •"roin trunk, limbs and branches. one t» cultivat«k ting .season, later they are s.-nothored- jfj, ^^^ cIoschI," whispered Billy. | out by the stalks, j ,.^ji ,.ight, but we must, bo awfully Asparagu.s has almof^l no insect i quiet," answered Mackie. â-  enemies or disca.-^es that prey on it. in a very few minutes they wcrej ' We fork it up as soon as the frost is ; both nibbling cheese and all the other out in the spring and put woll-rotted j noodic;^ Suddenly they heard a noise. Good books are worthy friends for manure on it in the fall after we cut "Run, Mackie, run," said Billy, in a] any man. They help yow fonfet your^ and burn the stalka following a killing hushed voicet j-sclf; one of the hardo«t but inoal frosa I -Yes, but where?" a£k«d Mackie. ! ba^itflcial things om !»n ^