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"*%- w* y f'^ AtfdrwM communication* to Aaronomi»t. 7i Adtlalde St. Wa*t. > .»ionta bcdruoai furniture. Mix « green to matrh a Krei'ning apple. Add the slightebt bit of pink or grtty and it will be saRt) or leaf green. BEAUTUtll. ANI> SAVE BIAIK8. ^ ^ V I have inad» a perfuctiy beautiful Interesting YouT Children in Books â€" By Helen Gre|j|||^ peacock blue by mixing together - â- "' Home Eifaicafioii *Th« CMWa rifM SsliMl to tiM FaaMly"â€" ^mMaI.- PUTTING THK â- >J['IJM,ETS IN WINTL^t gUARTKRS. If you have nut \ all cad'' done so, get the poultry hoii'*(' m shnjo' for the j'lillets. Fix doors and windown, be ruic Lhat roof does wol leak, cover ti'fck.s Ko that ther<- will b» no drafts. Th<' amount of opun froi.l th«t you • have dependH upon location and cli- mate. Two tiidcH and the back of the bouii» must be ab8i>iutely tight so as to prevent draft.,. Thoroughly clean 'he hou.sc. Nest boxeit should be taken outside and â- prayed with disinfectant; also poul- try house itself, roo.^t.? and dropping' board, top and under. Clean litter, hay, straw, chaflf, corn] husks, leaves or sawdust, must be pro- j vided in which the grain can be scat-i tered. Litter absorbs much of the droppings. You will now beRin to see the re- liults of crowding at night by the young stock. If you allow all sizes of chicks to run together, the smaller ones huddle under the larger birds at night to keep warm and in the morn- ing they become chilled, and then you have an epidemic of colds which may develop into roup. You can check colds by svery night immer.sing the bird's head in hydrogen peroxide. Do this for about ttn days. Should any of the birds reach the roupy stage kill and burn or bury them. The greatest prevention for this condition is to keep the growing birds from crowding and the different Bizes .separate. See that too many birds are not allowed in each house even if of the same age and size as the results are the same: colds and roup. By October first and sooner, if the birds are large enough, they should be put in their laying quarters so that they will not have to be moved once they start laying. Moving pullets when they .start to lay or just after, may check them and sometimes they will not start again for several weeks. Pullets and older hens should not be kept together. The aame amount of feed to pi-oduce good egg produc- tion in puUetrf may cause hens to be- come overfat. _, When the pullets first start laying, some of them may lay on the floor in the corners of the poultry house. If they persist, catch them when about to lay and put them on a nest. As a rule this will break them of the habit. It is bad to have eggs on the floor as if thoy become broken, the habit of egg eating gets started. Egg eating seldom is found in a flock where the birds are not confined. When changing the pullets from the rang^e to their winter quarters do not keep the house much too warm. The birds catch cold and this prevents good results in egg production. Tha fowls on rang« have been in fresh air night and day so that any changes in the temperature of their quarters should be* gradual. Dry fresh air even if cold is nwch better than' warm damp air. Provide the birds with a plentiful supply of grit and oyster shells and see that they have all the green food they will eat up once a day. The same ration they had on range should be continued for a time. The change from range to new conditions upsets the pullets for a week or two and if the ration is changed also, it gener- ally takes them longer to get back to' their normal condition. j If pullets do not start laying j promptly, a wet mash should be fed at noon. If you can secure fresh bones and have a green bone cutter this feed will be found to be a splen- did stimulant in starting egg produc- tion. Too much green bone may start a slight bowel trouble but this is sel- dom serious. Just give less of the green bone. Beef scrap can be given the birds in a hopper. At first the birds may eat more than seems good for them but, their first greed satis- fled, will eat only what they should. •d f-urfuce is in bad condition or shows a clumsy accumulation of many pre- vious co»t« of paint, a paint and var- nish remover uhould be applied thor- oughly with a brush, allowed to pene- trate and then scraped off with a knife that has not too sharp an edge. _. _^ ^ .__ ,^^ After all the old stain or palnl has i porch-chair green' enamel "and azure- "^^^ other day Aunt Emma Ix>u and up my njind he should love hit rpad- ~ » bwn removed, the piece should be|wue automobile enamel. This peacock ' made a call at Ilildegarde's. We ing. His father and I often readithe ^ wjibhed with soap and water and blue was dull and rich and a wonder- 'ound ber sitting cross-legged on the. book he reads, so we can discuss it \ dried. When al;o!utply dry it should! ful color for furniture. Midnight blue "<>"'â-  *"*•> *»•'â-  nine-year-old son, Jim. with him afterward. Sometimes i*W be Hheliacked. | ig another favorite. This can be ob- Beside them lay an ope;) book, a dramatize the scenes in a book tog«th- After the shellac is entirely dry, it tained by adding black to dark blue, pile of dried moss, stones, some small «•â- â€¢ 1' we have other books that will • should be lightly sandpapered. For tnd if this mixture is too purplish, a branches, crayons, a few Indian arrow-] *>•'? Wm to understand more thor- • all the sandpapering that i.s done be- ' bit of green will make It right. Pea- heads, and some sheets of heavy nva-, o^Jf^Iy the one he is reading, we leftv« ♦ tween coats the finest sort of sand- cock and midnight blues are the safest nilla paper. I them lying on the library table, where ^ paper should be used. After dusting, blues to use for furniture, unless onel "What in the worldâ€"?" we ex-j 'â- ***y ,^'" *** ""^ *** ''***^*' **'* *y*'" the furniture is then ready for the has had much experience. [claimed in one breath. ' "Well, my dear, you are wise," Aont first coat of paint. If two coats of Chinese red is too decorative to dis-] ..^^ are making scenes from paint are to be used before applying regard. Needle-ss to say this should ^y^ite's 'Boy's Life of Daniel Boone' " the final one or two coats, these flrst be used in very small quantities. An jj^jj^ explained, after Jim had t^l coats should have tlu- chief founda- extremely sma.l piece of furniture ,^fj. ^!, ', tion of white lead with turpciitine and might be done this color, or an inter- Emmy Lou approved, "and you sIsa seem to have made a study of peeping Jimmy interested in the right kind of I left (ciitine and mignc oe aone mis co;or, or an mier- „,,,,, . , , dryer, and without oil. Thly may be ior of a chest or desk, the outside of, „.W« '<»/«« 4m»«ed. I suppose for alwut the color that has been decided which was painUd putty color or Hildegarde continued. As a child I on for the final coat, but this is not black. Chinese red sliould be very ! '<;f';"«^ *« <'«'«9t '>»»«« ""» «»<*'"« ">* necessary; if there is .some other paint much of a hennu, and if I were mixingi «" '"n<>s-. ^ "ame from a home vrhere I of somewhat the same tone value, that it myself I should take a normal brightl *« readmg of a book was a solemn , can be used up. One advantage in red and add brown and yellow until 'â- '^' performed with a solemn coun- , painting the piece the color you think dull and rich enough. tenance. Mother and Father never I you would like it to be in the end is Black is one of the most decorative seemed to have time to discuss any of . that you can see how it is going to furniture hues that we have. It should "»« â- '«>»" ^^ «*»«•' ^W simply hand- look before it is finished. have a bright surface such as is given | ^ them to us from dusty library The first coat of paint should be by regular enamel that is not rubbed ; shelves with a 'Here's a book that put on Just as carefully and well as down very much. { ^" t«*<^" you "»ny things you should the last coat. Little paint should be Putty color is another color that is! '"'o^- «<> ""un along and absorb its taken on the brush at a Ume; the very desirable. This may be light, } content"'- I *^0"1<1 ">" along, all paint should be brushed in with even and the actual color of putty, or it] "^^ht, but often I hid the bo<Jk under a rock. "When Jim was a little chap I made strokes, working it in so hard that' may run deeper until it is more the the brush makes a slapping sound, color of coffee ice cream, or even of The brush strokes should be in one powdered cocoa, direction. | Many of these colors come ready to Allow the first coat to dry thor- use in cans of egfgsheil enamel, but if oughly. Sandpaper lightly and dust, putty color must be mixed, I should Then apply your second coat of paint, take deep ivory and add brown in The third coat may be of paint or of small -luantities until the right depth eggshell enamel, and must be identic- was obtained. If too pinkish, add a ally like the coat that is to go on last little green. When wishing to change You will have to use your judgment just barely the tone of a color by add- as to whether you will need to put on 'ng a little of the opposite or comple- all four of these coats. Sometimes mentary color, be sure to add only a two coats of paint and one of enamel brushful at a time, as it is easier to are enough ; sometimes one coat of , add more than to take It out after paint and two of enamel are preferred, it poes in. If the last coats are of paint instead' Gray is another color that is used of enamel they should be protected for painting furniture, but it should with a waterproof varnish, applied "Indeed we have," Jimmy's mother smiled back. "His teacher tells us he > is the best posted boy in the schoirf." :, Aunt Emmy Lou and I went aw»y thinking what a wise little mother •• Hildegarde was and wondering why ^ we didn't all try so good a plan. Why don't we, I wonder? Aren't ' books, after all, the real foundation of ^ education? Don't we all know won- derfully brilliant people who are n«£ * collegre or even high school graduates? - Ask any of them to what they attri- bute their success, and they will ans- wer, "My education came from books." ' Books! There are thousands of them • available to all of us. Teach your children to love thenu Taking In the Fair .vs. Being Taken In by the Fair. As the Fair and Exhibition season is here, it would be well for all who contemplate attending same seriously to ask themselves this question: "Do I get as much out of my visit as I should?" Fairs and Exhibitions provide a means of social intercourse and enter- tainment for the people of the sur- rounding community but fundamen- tally they are educational, particular- ly to the rural community. "Their main the very last thing of all If you have used an eggshell ena- mel for your last coats, after the be sandy, partaking somewhat of the, object is the improvement of agricul color of putty. Furniture painted this tural conditions by comparisons of in- co'.or is hard to mix into the usual ferior and superior live stock, crops^ ro<mi scheme, and gray should be kepti etc., and the donating of premiums to enamel is thoroughly dry it should be'i^ore for the painting of bedroom 'the latter class, rubbed with powdered pumice and furniture. i The pleasure of the social and lure water if its color is light. If its color Orange may be used in very small; of the entertainment features should IF THB-^^MtfbREN'S HOUR is dark, it should be rubbed with For the Farmhouse Painted Furniture BY ETHEL CARPENTER piece.-: of furnitnre, lut probably evenjnot be allowed to supersede the inter- cno who is fond of this color would; est that should be taken in the educa not dare have in .-re than two tinyjtional features. Every agriculturist riercs in ono house. i is, or should be, interested in making Avoid cheap colorsâ€" pinks, Alice , the most of his business, and he can JACKIE RABBIT GETS CAUGHX IN THE FENCE. When Johnnie Muskrat knocked at< the man's door in Stoneyville to in-$, quire the way back to Woodland an(^ the man himself came to the door, how he, Jackie Rabbit, and Willi^ Woodchuck ran! Dodging behind bushes and bunches of grass, they„ were soon out of sight. They never even looked back, to'' see if the man was coming. When they* had left the village, with its stone houses, far behind, they paused in the' shadow of a big hazel bush for* breath. <) "Oh me, oh my, I thought he hai me that time," puffed Willie Wood- chuck. • "And so did I," said Johnnie Musk* There is no doubt at all that paint lends a special beauty and effect to a piece of furniture. And especially is this true of inexpensive furniture that might be quite unassuming in its original state. Added to this, there it no place where simple painted fur- niture is so at home as in the farm- house. So, when this beauty is absolutely within the reach of anyone at all ati the insignificant cost of a can of paint, it does seem as though morel people should avail themselves of this easy method of thus transforming their otherwise humdrum furniture. The two kinds of furniture pre- eminently suited to farmhou.se use are such painted pieces and the simpler types of farmhouse antiques. Any farmhouse can be entirely and very; charmingly furnished with either type, but a mixture of the two with a predominance of cither, results in the ideal farmhouse scheme, and this should be kept in mind as an influ- ence even when buying furniture of other types. And even if no suitable pieces are at hand, in starting over with this new scheme of furnishing in ' mind, it will be found to bo quite thsi easiest and cheapest method that will assure success. 1 After a beginning is made, this scheme may he pursued to completion over any number of years, real plea- sure being attained with each new piece that is painted and each old piece that is acquired. The home that thus grows from year to year is the ' most thrilling and satisfactory kind, to have, and the most lovely in the' end. j THE MAGIC OK PAINT. When very few antiques, if any,; are available, the farmhouse may be' furnished entirely with modern paint- i ed furniture, chosen for its quaint old, shapes, and painted at homo, with perhaps an antique piece restored to its original finish, lending variety and charm. j Though simple and quaint modern furniture may be bought in nearly apy nev." 'â- hop, there are very few farmhouses that haven't a number ot quaint pieces in their possession which arc not. antiques, but rather simple things of humble origin, needing only to he painted to show their undeniable beauty â€" drop-leaf tables originally de- signed for kitchen u.se, but lovely enough in shape to be welcomed in living and dining rooms; porch Wind- sors; candle stands; plain bookshelves without doors, or even those that are the product of the home carpenter; plain straight chests of drawers; corner cupboards with small-paned doors; wooden spool-turned beds and. <|uaint cottage dressers. All these piece.s, plu.s .some even more nondescript in character, may b« glorified by »he magic of paint, and farm interiors may thus be turned into hiwnes of beauty that may be com- ; pared f> i-orably with the most charm- ing homes of t«-day. ! Even in the farmhouse furniHhed with old th'>)gs, where a number of, simple antique pieces of Colonial fur- niture are already possessed â€" cherry, maple, or mahogany chests and slat back chairs, corner cupboards, setters, old kitchen chairs, drop-leaf tables of mahogany or pine, shel%d dressers, crickets, four-post beds, all of which are usually too fine and valuable to paint, but which have been kept in or restored to their original state â€" even in this sort of home, the rooms | will surely need the addition of a few, simple painted things to add variety and richness of color. Such simple j antiques are the natural heritage of' the farmhouse and comparatively few I farm homemakers were influenced byj that unfortunate semisophistication of i a few years ago to the extent that they have got rid of all of them In] favor of what was once mistakenly! fancied to be grander and more suit- able city furniture. How the pendulum swings! For city folk are combing the hedgerow lanes for farmhou.ses that are willing still to part with quaint treasuree! But to no home is there such honor In pos- sessing just these simple pieces as to the farmhouse itself. Though it is a pity as a rule to paint a deserving antique, among the simpler pieces there are some that will lend themselves to this purpose â€" the commoner of the kitchen chairs, the cruder tables made of wood, a lit- tle cricket or a clum.sy chest, may be made very handsome if painted black or a dull and decorative color. Failing any old pieces that may be painted without desecrating them, however, there are very inexpensive quaint new typos made in the old spir- it which may be mixed in with such antique picct.s as still show their orig- inal finish. These may be bought most economically and sometimes even in \ the unfinished state, and are extreme-' ly desirable when painted effectively for giving life and variety to rooms. Plain chests of drawers; drop-leaf table." â€" Colonial gateleg or the simp- ler .straight -'.egfied type; We'sh dress- ers; spindlid bed.s; Windsor and slat- back chairs; bpmh tubles â€" many in- deed arc the *;uit»l)l" pioccs that may hi- boiight with a virw to painting. Just how .i^hMuId furniture be painted? | First, let us con.sider it from the standpoint of practical work, then from that of lht» decorative effect. When painting any piece of furniture, it should lip dcterminfd first whether the interi."t lii. in obtaining a pro- fessional-looking result, or whether the painting must be accomplished hurriedly for a quick effect of color. A nally profi-isional result in painting furniture may be gained in this way: If the piece is new and un- stained, first du,=t it and then apply a coat of >hel!ar; this seals the knots and act;; as a filW upon which the' fir.'t mat of pai^t will go more easily, j TIIR STARTING POINT. j This .should be done only when the] furniture i.s to bs painted or enameled,: not when it is to be stained. If the furniture is old and tha alrmadv naint- you suppose Speaking more particularly from' ^'® '^'-'^ ^^^'^ 8^®* home?" asked Jackie , the live stock man's point of view,! Rahbit "W^^|^iurry back to the' ! he should make a point of seeing as ! woods and perhS^|^eone can telk Anyway, I'm not going to knock at a stranger's door again to learn the way.' powdered pumice and oil. The foregoing directions for fine painting, if followed carefully, result in a product so perfect that no decora- tion is needed for its further beautify- blues, porch-chair greens, steel grays' find numerous aids in a day well spent! '"**• "^s he coming yet?" ing. ami fire-bucket reds. Paint a piece : at the Fair. i "I don't see him. Do j The amateur who is able to produce' or so at a time ArA note the effect. a perfect painted piece is not always' _, _' * â€" ~ â€" T ... able to do a perfect bit of decoration.! The European Red Mite. ^ ^ __ A line of contrasting color, either put Apple growers in many parts of the much of the live stock a spossible asj "* the way there." on with a striping brush or else drawn , country have long been familiar with it is being judged, so that he can see j "Yes, I guess the only safe place for in first with pencil and ruler and care-! the common red mite which attacks the good and the bad types and cor-i"s is the woods," said Johnnie Musk* fully painted in with a camel's-hair; the foliage and causes it to turn rect his own breeding operations ae- rat, "and that doesn't seem very safe.* brush; a line of contra.sting color run brown. The European red mite has cordingly. on a bevel or turning here and there;' now appeared. j Undoubtedly the spectator will not the spindles in a chair hack, the edge^ This new pest was first reported always agree with the judge as the of a table, the under side of a flap lid,, in Canada in 1915, and has since been' best of them make mistakes (as do' "Hush! What was that?" whispered the in.side of a desk, the interiors of, observed in the Eastern .States and the best of farmers), but to the dyed- Willie Woodchuck. dre.sser drawers and shelves all done California. It is probable that it is' in-the-wool stock mnn there is no ^'th ears alert they all listened- in some vivid hue that is in contrast quite widely distributed, but has beenj greater pleasure than to stand at the! There was a swish, swish in the leaves to the decorative dull color of the confused with older forms. j ringside and pit his opinion as to the *>ehind them. With a frightened loi>k piece itself â€" this is as far as the sen-' Red mites live ov«r the winter in meritorious animals in a class' ''t each other they hurried off as fit sible amateur will go in decorating the egg sUge on the twigs of apple, against ~that of the Judge. It is well| ^^ they could go. It wasn't very fa^t furniture. | trees. They are sometimes so abun- to remember, however, that the judge though, for they were tired and very Paint your furniture, but keep it dant that masses of the eggs may be, has the advantage in that he Is able '"^'ch out of breath after their long plain. i easily seen by the unaided eye. The to handle the animals and view them '""• "^hey never turned to see what There are certain colors that are writer has had no difficulty in killing i from all angles and may see or feel the swish was, or they would not hart particularly suitable for the painting the niites in the egg stage by spraying' something that is not evident to the heen frightened. They felt sure it was of furniture. Dull olive green is very, with lime-su'.phur diluted at the rate' man at the ringside. 1 *h^ "**" '^ut it was only Mrs. Blue decorative in certain rooms, and if in of one to five. Experiments with The management of Fairs and Ex- ®*'''^ hunthig in the leaves for a bi« doubt about this color, look al an [weaker solutions have not proved very hibitions should endeavor to plan the hlack bugs for her little Blue Birds. olive an< get a painter to mix this effective, but many of the miscible oil '" ^ â€" 'â-  -â- â- â- 'â€" .... I AernKo tha fi<.i^<, fi,«„ ._ â€" *. _ â€" .•_» color for you. Apple green h.-r,'' ' bo sprays are reported to gfive a good used in smaller quantities, (ir â-  '.;•. 'oi noreefiti..<e of kill. live stock judging program so that^,too ' Across the fields they went running miany classes would not be going on ' ^^^^ they came to a barbed wiw at the same time. This, of course, is ^^"^e. Johnnie and Willie Woodchuck difficult at a one or two-day Fair, but •^•''"hed through successfully withouf comparatively easy in the case of a <^atchmg their very much tattered four-day or full week Exhibition, clothing. But when Jackie Rabbit Having the judging rings located fair- '^"^ ^ ^*- through it wasn't so easy! ly close together would help consider-' ^^ ^*^ larger than th«i rest an* ably for then two classes of stock ''^"Sfht his trousers on a big barfc could be followed at the same time '"'^ht where he always sat down. There fairly intelligently. I he dangled back and forth. â- " The programme of the judging of' "Help! help! help!" he called. Ha- live stock should be published in the thought sure the swish in the leave* press previous to the dates of Judg-jh**! been the man and that he wa^ j I Ing and on notice boards around the ''^ht behind him. i grounds while the fair is going on so "^"^^ "^ Johnnie Muskrat was al' ' that the visitor may go to the ring """^t back to help him, his trouseM^ , of stock in which he is most inter- 1^^^'^ ^^y- "^'P' ^'P'" and downt ^ t csted. For instance, at the Central i ^^"* Jackie on all fours. In a jiffy hav I Canada Exhibition at Ottawa this '^^ "P ""'^ the three little Woodlandvl ; year, notices were posted around the ^^^ trottod as fast as they coulib| grounds giving the time of judging of, toward the woods, various classes and sections of live' stock. j A day intelligently spent in taking! I in the above mentioned educational i j features of the Fairs or Exhibitions | j which you attend will be something to , look back on without regrets, as there is everything to gain and nothing to ; lose. On the other hapd, the side ' ' shows and other questionable enter- i â-  tainment features invariably take in, ' I financially and otherwise, more than ! I they leave with the community, and j their attendance at Fairs and Exhi-; j bition.'? should be discouraged by the I deadly method of withholding patron- Playing Safe. j -_ Askins- "You're drlnkin' quite t I _â-  , bit for a gentleman's gentleman I'_ The^ woman who was thoughtful j should thlak you'd be afraid of th»J5 enough to count the number of times I poisonous stuff." i that duties required her to be at the! Opkins-'Tm quite cautious. I never' , I .stove, cupboard, sink, basement, din- touch it until after my gentleman ha».4«j i ing-room table, etc., had valuable data at hand when her husband and a car- penter sat down to plan the new kitchen. MEETINQ THE CANADIAN BUFFALO Thi- is a snap taken at the Empire Exhibition at Wembley the other day. .\ Canadian Pacific Telegraph messenger is introducing his little friend to the big bufTalu that stands outside the company's paTllton at Wemblay. opened a bottle and taken a 4rtnk of ft , himself.' -»- The farmer who would keep hij,^ poultry flock free from white diarr- A seJf-fceder which will .supply the '"^* T''^^ blood-test the bullets and* growing pullets xvith both grain and ^^i*.^"" ^T Tll^''' 'i!»?""?v"''^''w*f " mash is quite aa necessary to the^^')!'.'^ ^t ^ economical development of next sea-j'"" * '" **"* ' *"" son's layers as any other piece of] If you arc Incky in marriage you poultry equipment outside of a good! can afford to be unlucky in everything •*'***• (else. â€" \ord LeverhuioMk