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«^4rt»» communication* t» A8r»ii«mf»l, ii AdaUld* »t W«it. Toron<« KKEP THK SOURCE CLKAN. I dust. Many large windows provide ,.. .„ ,, 1 I ample sunlight. In this kind of barn Iho nnlk con.sunuMK public is dc-,^^^^^ ^^_.^ reduced to a minimum. No- .n»ndl„K b«>tter m.lk every year \t^^ ,,„^^^ ,^m happen to the milk the dairymen desire to M-o thiirl.usi-,jj^^^^ ^^ ^,^^,^ .^ contaminated with lien., grow, they mu.-t provide thai j f„u| ,i^ble odors. ^ good ventilation b*tter m.lk. Only too many of them ^.^^.^_^^ ^^ home-built, is Mill be .eve thai no matter how dirty I ,^^,^^ ^ neceHsity. and will eventually he milk they .hip to the creamery, |j,^. required by city inspectors. tht.hec.-<e factory, the condensery, or, ^^^^^. ^^ ^^^^. ^^^^ disRUstinB mik distiibuting plants, ihat thrsej^j^^^ ^^ j,_j^ ^ ^^^j^,^^, ^^j gee the varjouB organirations are able by , ,.„^, ,„,,„,d ^â- ,^^ „,„ure which i» •om« kind of Mient.fic magic to' ^j^^^ i^t^ t^g hair. Manure is re- clean.e and renovate the product.-. bo| ^,^^.^j ^^ ,g^^. ^^.â- ^^. j^yy out of be cut back at transplanting time. It is by no means necessary to go to the Stringfellow extreme, but consider- able pruning is advisable. The best amount will depend on many variable conditions winch cannot be discussed here; but the discussion may be spared the easier, since the trees are bound to grow in any case. Using flesh sweet friable soil for tilling in upon the roots is really es may most likely be able to socare' Registered or Extra No. 1 se«d of the' varieties which will give them satis- 1 factory renults. | The commercial value of pure, vital seed of productive varieties is fully recojrnized by a great many of our best farmer"). Unfortunately, how- ever, it is not appreciated very fully as yet by the average crop raiser. Special Trial Samples â€" In order to L=- :- ::r^ THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON I VI sm APRIL 13 _v as to make it satisfactory. While it is true that clarification and pa.sttur- ization can do wonders in that direc- tion, they cannot do it all. This wa. brought home to me most forcibly every well regulated stable. The at- tendant also waU'hert carefully to see that none of the droppings remain where the cows can lie down upon them, but pushes thorn into the gut- IllL'r I?.?n. ".!:*'_''?..i?,?r^'"/ ".'".'i-' t*"' Pl<'"ty of bedding follows as a matter of course. But in addition to the prompt removal of the manure, Everything about the dairy or bot- clipping the flanks and udders of the ling house was above criticism, ihc'^ows makes it much harder for filth where milk was bottled for city de livery equipment was ample, and the meth- ' ods good. In the barn conditions Here by no means as satibfactory. Kvery fxpfrienced milkman knows thai un- less be gets clean mill; to start with, that later precautions are only ');ir- tially satisfactory. Inasmuch hs the nverage dairy farmer is not concerned to attach itself. Then if the cows are groomed or brushed no as to remove all loo.se hair, clean milking is much easier. It is even a good plan to take a steel wire brush and wash the cow's tails thoroughly about once a month sential, in spite of all facts mentioned j facililate and encourage the distribu- at the beginning of this article. A tr3e tion ond trial of registered seed bedded in straw, manure, sod, stones ; through Canada, the Canadian Seed or clods hard as brick shards stands j Growers' Association is prepared to a poor chance. This clean soil should receive orders for 100 pound sacks or bo firmed down by hard tramping. This, too, is important. A common practice is to Water trees more of Banner, Victory of Gold Rain oats, O.A.C. 21 barley, or Huron, Marquis or Ruby wheat, at $3 per 100 Elijah and the Struggle With Baal, 1 Kings 16: 29 to 19: 21 ; ch. 21 ; 2 Kings 1 : 1 to 2 : 12. Golden Textâ€" No man can serve two masters. Ye cannot serve God and manunon. â€" Matt. 6: 24. heavily when they are planted out. If; pounds, f.o.b. shipping point, for the the ground is quite dry this treatment , wheat and barley, and $3.75 per 100 is advisable. On the other hand, if, pounds for oats. A money order at- the soil is moist and in thoroughly! tached to a letter ordering 100 pounds good tilth this watering is unneces-jor more of one of the above varieties .sary. In some cases it may even prove po.-itively harmful. For ex- ample, if planting Ja done in clay, the watering and tramping of the soil may puddle it and lead to its baking, after which the tree will have a hard time indeed. Another common practice is to ap- ply manure or fertilizer about newly planted trees. The fertiliMr may act as a mulch and do considerable ser- vice; but the plant food thus gener- ously offered the little tree is seldom used. The transplanted tree has to spend the greater part of the new year building a new root system, and until this system has reached some de- velopment fertiliiers cannot be gath addreB.sed to the Canadian Seed Grow ers' Association, 114 Vittoria St., Ot- tawa, will receive prompt attention. The above amount of seed would give a farmer a very good start in good seed and at the same time would give him an opportunity to compare the returns from his own seed with those realized from the seed pur- chased. Continuation of the storyâ€" Wet must now follow for a little more' than two hundred years, the parallel history of the two kingdoms, Israel and Judah. Israel was the kingdom of the ten tribes, had much the larger 1 territory, including all north of Ju- ! dab and east of Jordan, and was rich- ; er, more populous, and more powerful •than Judah. But Judah hacl the ad- I vantage of being more isolated from the outside world and less subject to its temptations, and Judah's kings in-! herited the ideals, the ambitions, and' jthe prestige of the great reigns of' i David and Solomon. The kingdom of ' Judah remained, therefore, compar- ; atively stable, and its royal line, with I one tragic exception, unbroken for ^ with bottling his own milk, he is able ing, "they ihould be chained up in the to concentrate his attention upon stanchion so they cannot lie down nriaintaining satisfactory barn condi- until milked. This is easily accom- tions. When the milk comes from the plishcd with a strap around the cow's barn it must be "right," or the best neck, with a snap to fasten the strap quality of milk cannot be set before to a little chain at the top of the the consuming public. stanchion. There no longer is any dispute The habits of the milker are import- about the right type of barn. In thejHiit. 1 am not an advocate of a'bsolutc modern dairy barn the floors are of [dry-hand milking, but like to wipe off concrete, and ample gutters are pro- the udder of the cow with a damp vided. Most new barns which are be- cloth just before milking, and to wash ing built have sanitary steel slan- ! my hands after every cow. To keep rhions. In other words, the cows are | enough milk in your hands so that it given a chance to stay clean. Chute.sjcan drop into the pail is a filthy habit, are provided, so that hay, bedding, .Semi-covered pails, tests show, will and feed can be taken into the stable, keep most o? the dust and hair from without rai.-ing a great amount of falling into the milk. in soap and hot v.'atcr. If the cows ^ _^ _^ ^^^..^^.^ ^„. ^.^. are groomed a short time before milk- 1 ered. There is, in fact, seldom any} for c'hu'rnTngrarcondiUonTXrrVTnd Churning. On many thermometers at 62 deg. the word "churning" is printed. If the manufacturers placed it there as a guide, many have mistaken it for a rule. There is no standard temperature How to Plant a Tree If You Give it Just About Half a Chance it Will Do its Best to Live. BV FRANK A. WAUGH. Plant it with the ro()t,s in the ground and the buds in the air. Thi.< is the only rule in transplanting young trees â€" at lca.:l the only rule to which there are no iniporlaiil ex- ceptions. Beginners in gardening do not feel like that. They have a superstition thut planting a tree i.s a ceremony; that it has some astrology in it; that one has li> i-on.-ull the moon, the cal- endar and the Cyclopedia Univer.-;alis. Yet the truth is that a young healthy tree is very hard to kill. With the tree it is a matter of life or death; and the tree wants to live a great dt-al worr-c than we want to have it. when asked about cooking .salt mack- erel. Mrs. Thome .«:aid, "In the first place 1 get a good mackerel." This in indeed highly important. If a nur.sery tree is dead when we begin to plant it no amount of ceremonious care will bring it back to life. It is probable, indeed, that 90 per cent, of the fail- ures in transplanting small trees are duo to exposures and injuries which occur between the time the tree is dug and the moment when it gets back into the soil. Some of these injuries are due to careless digging and packing, to bad storage, to heating or drying in ship- ment or to exposure to the air and .â- Ml the ancient ar.d solemn cxhorta- j wind after unpacking. This last item I call for extra plant food before the .second year. There are then a few points which may he reasonably observed in trans- planting young trees. First, get a good tree, one that is thoroughly alive. Second, keep it in good condition by appropriate but simple means till the moment of planting. Third, have the soil in the pink of condition. Fourth, plant the tree quickly, firm the soil and go on to the next one. After this all that is necessary is to give the tree a chance. God made that tree with every twig, fibre and cell full of life and with no other pur- pose or expectation but to live. Living is its business; and as our purposes happen to coincide with those of the tree we ought to got on together with great sjccess. {. The Best Sources of Seed Grain. Persons looking for reliable infor- mation as to where desirable seed of approved varieties may be purchased will find the Canadian Seed Growers' Association, 114 Vittoria St., Ottawa, one of the moat satisfactory sources upon which to draw. This organiza- tion is composed of several hundred growers of high grade seed grain. They operate according to definite rules in order that their seed, if satis- factory, may bo in lino to receive the highest official seed grade, namely, "Registered Seed." This grade of seed is required to bo pure as to variety, free from weed seeds and other impurities, contain not more than one seed of other cultivated crops per five pounds of seed, and germinate at least 90 per cent. Seed which does not (luite comply with this high stan lions to extreme care are probably bunk. Take one, oft<'n repeated, about preserving all the small, fibrous roolfl. Now ordinary transplanting docs not preserve .'> per cent, of the aforesaid (ibrou.- roots; and if h or 10 per cent, hhould be preserved by the conscien- tious gardener they would die and rot in the ground and a new .•-et of feed- ers would be put out before the little tree really took up life anew. Or take the other iharniing thought that all the main roots imi.st be saved and carefully combed out by some- body's fingers, tenderly placed in their natural positions and softly bedded down with moist earth. Henry M. Stringfellow some years ago shocked many things mould be taken into con sideration; for exETiple, low churning temperatures moy be used when we have such conditions as rich cream, not too much in the churn, succulent feed, and cows fresh in milk. Choose the temtierature that will bring the butter in nice, firm graules in from 20 to 30 minutes. A range of temperatures that will cover most farm conditions would be 54 to 68 deg. F. in summer, and 56 to 64 deg. in winter, so says Miss B. Millar, Dairy Dept, 0. A. College. In farm dairies the barrel churn is used, and having it about one-third | full will make the work casiar AJ great many of the long churninfe'^ arej caused by having too much ceam in! the churn. Another cause of bngj churning is having the cream too cold. | If, after churning about thirty min- utes, there is no sign of butter com- ing, raise the temperature of the cream a few deg^rees. Take the cream from the churn, place the can in a vessel of warm water and stir the rrcam until the required temperature j is reached. With very thin cream it is difficult' to gather tho V.utter and it may ba| necessary to draw off part of the buttermilk and ccntinue tha work, re- \ alvirig the chi.irn 'â- iowly. If tho butt?r breaks and will not gather, but re.nains about the size of' clover seed, tdka ihe t6"mpTature ofj the contents of the churn, add a quart I or two of water a few degreos warm- er, revolve the churn a few times, let' it stand a minute or two, Ihon drawl off part of the diluted buttermilk, and I continue the churning. If a rich cream thickens during the' process of churning and concussion | ceases, add enough water at the same grain is concerned. butUvin jrop again. of exposure is one of the mo.st deadly -I ''"^' '" ^°^'"'."'' ''.'â- ^*'**°"'^'"°'"«''''^'''" temperature to dilute it so that it and inasmuch as it is wholly within ' '-"'''"^"'^^ ^'â- '"" '^ concerned. butl,.,iii a â€" „„„:„ the control of the tree planter him- .self he is inexcusable if he permits its occurrence. THK SIMPLE JOB OF IIEKI.INO IN. The next point at which the anxious tree transplanter may propeily give himself some concern is in the pre- paration of the soil. Above has been cited the practice of the silviculturists in planting in raw sod; but this is not to be recommended for fruit trees, bush fruits, ornamental trees and' shrubs or any other garden species. Indeed, all experience shows emphati- cally that any failure to have the land well cultivated, sweet and clean. the horticultural world out of that „_„,,, i,, ,„,,i,:„i: .u . : .. ,, u J I. » u II , I greatly multiplies the percen age of notion. He preached what he t'a'led ]„j,.j^,j, ^ "-ig.'^ ui "tiie new horticulture"; and his doc- i". ' ,„ ,,,,,„v,„, _, . . , • ,1 . , 1 .L , 11 " 8"y number of trees are to be trine succinctly stated, was thut a!l|„|.„,.,i :, • ,-,,.. . ', "° ,, , v. 1 1 1 4 «• ,1 . planted It IS often necessary to keen the root.s should be cut off the trans- 1 ,j,„,„ ,.- .^ ,.,„ i . ,. ^,, . '^ , , J . , , II ,1 , tnein for a few daj-s after the r ar- p anted tree and marly all the top. -;.,„| »,„„ ,v,„ „,.„,. tu V ,, ,„, , 1 , i » .1. rival from the nursery, fhey should When he was ready to plant there was i,. u„.i„,i :., ti,- . .> <miouiu ,, . 1 ,. I , . . . . / be heeled in. Ihe trees are taken out nothing left but a stub of a root four inches long, a stub of a top four inrhe.i long and a label. And the most rldl- culou.' part of his system was that his trees grew just as well as, those cod- dled infants that were planted by Ihe traincil nurse. i are taken out of the bale or packing box in which they are received. The roots are rolled in a puddle of thin mud. This process, known as puddling, is almost always followed by large planters and also by the knowing small ones. It covers the roots with n coating of soil WK CANT MAKK l-KAD oNKH (iK.iw. { which greatly retards their drying Another in.«tructive example show- 1 out. mg how much a young tree will standi They are then placed in a trench, may be diawii from the universal I usually about eighteen inches deep, practice of the foifsli-rs. Thoy feel' the roots are det-ply covered with obliged, for reasons iif econuniy, to ' nu)i.--l earth and >.olidIy trodden down, rut out all (he frills und plant lree«; Here they will keep foi' weeks pro- just lis lupidly and just um cheaply as J vided the weathi'r i.« not so warm as it is possibli' to do it. So they take, lo stmt them ijilo gii.wlh mir so dry a liui-ketful of nuiiery trees in one ' ns to ileiiccate tht'in. Of course the iiMiid ar.d a spwial spado or adr in! effects of a very dry .<.p«ll can Se al- Ihe oth"-r, sturl in h bee line up thei leviate'l by heavy watering hill and plant ni fast w they walk.. Whti. tlii> hour ronios for lh>- final A hole is forctd in tin- raw weedy sod.' planting the tieen can !)«• taljen out the seedling is forced into the hole, of the trench ;,nd placeil in a Lirgo the earth is llrnifd back with one jhI.' puil ur u barrel. In Ibis recrptacle of u bobiiailed liont and the tiee is • will 1>« t.'ime water and perhaps goriiC planted. In spite of the uiiprepiir«>d | Miii, to keep the i(iot,« from drying. »oll and in spite of Ihe cninpelilion of; If niany trees are lo Iio plmited the wi^dx and ifniss, nearly all these lri»»><i' iKires Khould be dug in advance or by grow. ' H -f j)Miale gang working ahead. If To we may with confldoncr ap-|<>t;iy a dozen or so are to lie handled proHch our little task of IrHnHplMntiiig, the holtfi caii be dug one »l a time our few garden trees. We will not nak ».- we »r« ready for them The holw th«m, either, to .tubn.il to any un- liiitol be dug big enough und deep »it<"»s««ry roukh housing. On Ihe con- onough for the tree*, remembering on Irnry, we will do what we easily cttn' ih* one hai.d that lOoU." khr.jld not be lo mckt tl.em happy in Ihfir ii»w rolled op anil forced into liio hol«, nnd •tomes. j en the other that it is wLs* to .-ut off Uul let UH rMmmibvr what Mr*, full luoft nnd itpiawliitg root*. Thome aald to her married daiighi*rt Indetd, Imih r<M)Ui mini lups ihoi^ld* which does not contain more seeds of other cultivated grains than a total of 10 to the pound, may receive the official seed grade called Extra No. 1. It is one of these grades which the farmer should endeavor to secure for .needing. The Association constitutes the chief medium through which the pedi- greed seed produced at the Experi- mental Farm is propagated and brought into commerce. It also co- operates with our best seed merchants, the latter purchasing a considerable proportion of their supplies from or direct through the former. The As- sociation is, therefore, in a position to direct prospective purchasers wher- ever they may be as to where they Difficult churnings are caused in a number of ways but can be avoided if a little thought is given to the question. When the granules of butter are about one-half tho size of wheat grains, add a couple of quarts of water several degrees colder than the temperature of tho cream and con- tinue churning until tho granules are the size of wheat grains, when the churning as a rule is completed. If butter comes with the first drawn buttermilk, it is a sign that tho churn- ing is not quite completed. Give a few more turns to the churn. three hundred and fifty years. But Israel's kingdom was torn by f reouent â-  revolutions, its dynasties were snort- 1 lived and evil, and it came to a dis-. astrons end when invaded by the As-| Syrians after two centuries only of troubled existence. i The historians have little good to flay of the kings of Israel. Jeroboam | set an evil example for those who came after him, and was remembered as the man who "made Israel to sin." His first act was to fortify Shechem and make it his capital. Then he established national sanctuaries at Bethel in the south, and at Dan on , the slopes of Mount Hermon in the north, so that the people might not l>e tempted to go to Jerusalem toj worship, thus recogrnizing how strong a bond of unity lay in tho common' religion. By his endowment and pa- tronage of the northern shrines, he' hoped to break that bond. At these | shrines he set up images of Jehovah' in the form of golden calves, thus de-' grrading the worship of Israel's God| to a level with that of Baal, he made new priests who v/ere not of the old priestly families of Levi, and chang^ed the date of some of the ancient j festivals. Ch. 18: 20. Ahab appears in some' respects to have been one of the best: of the kings of Israel. His father' was Omri, tho founder and builder ofj Samaria. He himself fought cour-j ageously and successfully against the Syrians who invaded his country and besieged Samaria, and at one time, as Assyrian records show, his armies fought side by side with the Assyr- ians against Assyrian invaders from the east. His treatment of the van-' quished king of Damascus was gener- ous and kindly, and he proved a brave and faithful ally of the good Jehosh-' aphat, king of Judah, whose son mar ' ried Ahab's daughter. The evil influ-l ence in Ahab's life was the clever and unscrupulous princess, Jezebel, daugh- j ter of the king of Sidon, whom he married, and for whose god Baal he built a temple of Samaria, 16:29-33. Mount Carmel was a high promon- tory, or spur, of the central mountain ' range, soma distance north of Sa-' maria, which extended westward and! overlooked the sea. Its sides were clothed with vineyards which gave to; it its name. Here it was that the king called a great assemblage of the people of Israel. V. 21. Elijah; a man of Gilead, had appeared as tlie leader of the pro- phets of Jehovah in their protest against the bringing in by Jezebel of | her god Baal and goddess Ashtoreth, and their priests and prophets. Tb« immediate result appears to have been a bitter persecuti'.)n of the champions of Jehovah, the slaughter cf many of them, and the flight of Elijah. Some had escaped, but were in hiding under the care of the king's steward, and probably with the loiowledge of the king himself, who cannot have favor- ed the persecution, but wa« morally too weak to prevent it. Elijah, before his disappearance, predicted the drought which afflicted the land for three years. In the third year he suddenly appeared and challenged the king and the Baal worshippers to this meeting at Carmel. There must have been widespread discontent among the people or Jezebel would have sought to prevent the meeting. Per- haps she thought, however, that her numerous propheta would gain an easy victory over Elijah. V. 22. / only. At Carmei Elijah stood alone. Had he failed, his life would have certainly been taken by the fierce partisans of Baal. There were other prophets, but they dared not show themselves, and many people who iiad not bowed the knee to Baal (19:18), but they dared not yet to take his part. He stood alone, su.i- tained only by his faith in God, and he stood nrmly, not halting (that i», "going lame") between two opinions, as he said the people of Israel and their king were doing. Vs. 36-89. Let it he known God doe« not always reveal himself In this way, nor does he always decide in such a way as this, the issues between faith and unbelief. But Elijah's case was a desperate one, and the iightnlnc stroke from heaven that kindled his sacrifice, was to him and to the as- sembled people, the answer of God. APPUCATION. God has usually advanced his own cause tiirough the instrumentality of great personalities â€" Moses, Elijah, Amos, Paul. But even such great men would be powerless if it were not that the people were already feeling after the same truth. Your great men like Paul, or Luther, or Calvin, or Wesley, light the fuse, and the explosion takes place. Elijah lived in a rough age, a rude and primitive time when the light of true religious faith was very dim. Therefore his treatment of his fallen priestly foes furnishes no^guidance to us who follow the method of Jesus. In the past men have justified re- ligious intolerance and persecution by an appeal to Elijah's order that the priests of Baal should all be slaugh- tered. That was an unenlightened view of our Christian faith. Let us quote Farrar again: "Far wL'^er is the humble minister in Ohl Moytality, when he withstood Balfour of Bur- ledgh, in the decision to put to the sword all the inhabitants of Tillie- tudlein Castle." "By what law," asks Henry Morton, "would you justify the atrocity that thou would commit?" "If thou art ignorant of it." said Bal- four, "thy companion is well aware of the law which gave the men of Jer- icho to the Sword of Joshua, the son of Nun." "Y'es," answered tlie divine, "but we live under a better disposi- tion, which instructeth us to return good for evil, and to pray for those who despitefi;lly use us and perse- cute us." THE SWEET PEA The successful man keeps his mouth shut and his mind open. Home Edacatioo 'Tha Chlld't Pint aeheol la Um Family"â€" FroabaL* Teaching Qiildren to be Truthful by Example BY HELEN GREGG GREEN. Dropping in at my neighbor's next door, I found a worried mother and a tearful little girl. •Why, Balx«tte, what's wrong?" I asked the child. "Mother just punished me for fib- bin'," soblied Bnbliottc. "For lying, Babctle," frowned the mother. "Oh, mother, I only â€" " began the child. "Don't argue with me, Babette!" ordered the mother. "Run out and play! Rut remember, never lie to Mother again!" A few days later Babette told me hor mother was not well, so I called t<i Ree if I misht help in any way. While we were chatting, and Ba- ijetln was playing with her dolls on the floor, we heard a knock at the door. "TcreiiaV called Babette's mother to the maid. "If those are callera, tell them I'm not at home." Teresa obeyed. Babette stopped dressing her dolls. Slid scurried to her moiher. 'Why. Mother!" she said, "why is it you tell me not to lie when you do it youmelf?" The moiher looked amaied. "Whyâ€" whyâ€" " and she blushed scarlet, looking at me as if for help. But 1 was tongue-tied, and greatly embarrassed for the mother. Sudden- ly tho tears started down her cheeks. "Why, Babette, dear. Mother is Bshameil! I never thought of this be- fore. Why, how could I expect my little girl to be truthful when Moth- er's so untruthful herself? To think I've set such nn example for my child." "Why didn't I understand?" she said thoughtfully. Yes, why didn't she think? Do not pnretit^ know that children are very imprcKsionftble and .are eas- ily influenced by the right kind of example; and by inculcating proper ideas and ideals? Yes, there's no doubt about it, par- ents must learn to think. A young bride recently told ine that as a child sho thought her moth- er absolutely incapable of telling an untruth. And to hor knowledge she never did. A beautiful example, and a beaiUi- fnl record. Parents usually appear infal'lhli in their children's eyes. And that is as it should be. There are good and better ways of growing sweet peas. Poorness of soil and too thick planting are amongst the chief causes of unsatisfactory re- sults. Sweet peas cannot succeed in tho shade of trees or on the north side of buildings. They seldom do well if trained against walls, but must have light and air on both sides, although a wire boundary fence may well be used as a support. Soils. â€" Sweet peas like a good, deep, rich soil. If it is poor, dig in plenty of good, well-rotted manure. The best time to do this is in the fall. If done then it will be in prime condition for cultivation in the spring, the frost during the winter mellowing the soil and making it in a good form for working. If not done in the fall, it should 'oe done at the first opportun- ity In the spring, as soon as Uie toil is dry enough, so that it will not stick in working. Cultivation. â€" Before sowing, culti- vate tho soil well with the hoe and garden rake until it is in good form! for seeding. Get a garden line of a' length to cover the row one wishes' to sow, and, stretching it tightly do^el to the ground, draw out a trench with; the hoe to about two or three inches! deep, beside the line. Seeding. â€" Sow the seeds about twO| inches apart, and, if there is any. doubt about the seed not being irood,' sow a little more thickly in ca.ie 8omc| of tho seeds do not germinate. After, sowing the seeds, cover them with the soil which formed the ridge on each side of the trench. Do (his with the back of the rake and press the soil! down firmly. j Thinning Outâ€" When the seeds have germinated and sprouted' through the soil about two or three ^ inche.v, thin them to about five inches apart, picking out the weakest plants. and leaving, nr. nearly as potKible.i tho.ie that are strongest. For exhi- bition bloom for the summer .<how9 of horticultural societies or the later fall fairs the pea plants require even more apace. Soma regular exhibitors' thin to a foot apart and find that it pays to do so. A strong plant given this amount of space will throw out ^ lateral branches sufticiently strong to make a fairly heavy row, and each * branch will bear a crop of Wloom. On^ • may go even further and cut away » some of the laterals as tomato plants ^ aro pruned. Cutwonv.s are very de- , structive and the usual poisoned bran , should be used to keep them in check. Supports.â€" â-  It is generally consider- ' ed that brush out from the bush, > about five feet long with plenty of twigs left, is the best s.ipport. Stick them in the ground on each side of the peas, prt.isir.g the top* of the brush well into rach other. As this form of support is not always avail- able, woven chii'ken wire, twine or** string may be used. How to get fine flower? with long st«m3.- -Cultivate weli during tho growing season. This is lione by •tir- rii:g with the hoe eighteen inchee on each side of the pea.s. A'.ways keep tho soil loose on the surface as this ' helps to keep it from drying out, which is Importstit, especially in dry ^ sea.son.''. Peas alsvays make the best growth whfti the soil is moderately moist nnd tlw- weatlier warm. Ex- treme:y hot or ertrcnicly wot -.veather often si>oi!s the b'oom. if water is b.sndy during a hot spell, it is a goo<l pian to water :b^m :ifc.-ut twice a week cither in tlio evcTiinir or in the early morning. This should be done thoroughly ms a mere s{rinkling doea more ha>m than j:ood. .\:sother plan .some growers of sweet peas have fol- lowed to advar'age tluring hot. wenth- ir is to spread litter of straw ma- nure, or hay. two or three itiche"? thick on rs^-h side of the pes.;. TV.is is to help ke«>p the woistu'-e ir. the ground. It also save.« « lot of work. Cutting. Always cut the peax when they are fully deve'opeti, i.e., when all the i>ud.s on the stem nre open. Never allow the .«ee.l po«l? to form, and by cutting freiiu»r,tly a better crop of flower? is pro-nntd. In the cool pf the evening .m ea-ly morn- ing is the best time to cut the fl<iwe'» as it is much more pleasnnt work at that tine and the flower stetus sre firmer.- - Ontarir HorticultU'-nl .\tio> ciation. .') f: ~i