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11m CIHARIQOTTETOWN___QI_I_ARQQI_AN

FOR FARMERS, STOCK ‘BREEDERS

AND GANS

l Jack Miner And The Birds

By Jack Miner rumelf-A Hi-storyof This Notable elm Lover‘: Life

CHAPTER. XII. WOODPECKERS

limb in its top, and about one-hai dozen downy woodpeckr rs making their home there.

show just what they are

holes made by the birds;

for orrr uvvntjwflve years.

draw him out. either head or tai

of the tree ls thus saved.

diameter. showed where the little woOdPeiik-

a. hundred and ﬁfty. years ago, as the marks were preserved there, in the heart of the tree, as plain as they are in the photograph. And through their help. a hundred years before I was born. I am able to have nice quarter-cut oak in my home today.

Ycs, the photograph makes ma think more seriously of myself than it does of you. Is it possible that Jack Miner was eve;- so ignorant and cruel as to shoot one of these clear little forest-protectors just for the fun of see‘ng him fall!

But there is an old proverb, fa- miliar to all, "Misery likes com- pally." A friend of mine was telling me just yesterday how he and his mun vent to the back comifleld and

,shot the red-headed Woodpecker because they were pulling his corn.

Am. they mu kills-d all the old

birds in sifzllt ihc man suggested

that they cut. tile old stub down and destroy the ﬂeclglings. When this stub fell, tho rotten nests broke up in dozens of pieces. killing the young. As the crop of each of these little birds resembled a wart on a. needle, they decided to cut them open and see the amount of corn each contained; but to their sur- prise they were packed full o1 in- jurious worms and bugs, and not one kernel of corn could be found. Now these two incidents are only fair examples of the ignorance of us human beings during the past, regarding bird life. I could go on enumeratlng such convincing points for a. week about our beautiful bobolink, meadow-lurk. and thef song-sparrow family. and dozens and dozens of other insectivorous birds. This is all outside their song service, and the cheerful, clear note of such as the bobollnk as he flutters across llle meadow, singing "Johnny why don't you mend your hritchcs?" or of the cat-bird. who is perfectly willing to come and sing in your back-yard if you will plant just a little shrubbcry.

This calls to mind u parilcular friends or mine, Mr. Angus Wood- brldge, whose summer home is about three miles from where I live. located on the norm shore o: Lake Eries. He has less than two acres, but: the ﬁfth your the Ihrubbery was planted there were over seventy birds‘ nests around this lovely home, twenty different varieties, a pair of mourning doves

"being so bold as to build on the window-sill and raise their young ‘ there. The brown thruher. who has such a. beautiful imitating voice, could not resist the tempta- tion and built his home in the wild grape arbor that covers the patll the little ravine that wends its . way down to the sandy beach. My chief reason for mentioning this fact ll to mI-ka it plain that those “beautiful creature: will coma clear .Mr0c: the continent to you, if you will go a step towards than. CHAPTER. XIII.

‘_ rm: SWALLOW JAMILY

nu. is. to my notion, the mom valuable family of birds we have in America, as they live entirely on "winged insects. And whlls 1 5m ; "writing on their value, I want you ' to-‘keep your eye on their intelli- fence. ""Over twenty-ﬁve years ago we _..l'dilt an extra large drying lhed at our m factory, It is two hundred fell long, and two cleric: high:

Near where this tent is Pitch"! 15 a soft maple tree with a decayed

ale This morning there ls about. four inches n; Show“ and [he air is still, so that I could hear tilesc little God-Elven helpers at work. So I took the ax and went and cut S0lll€'Sll!Il}Ji€S to doing, gutting mese liitle trees off three inrllcs above uud below the gimlei- then I lplit me blocks and photographed ﬂ-lem. Of course I knew before I wan; what. llley were doing, as I have noticed lllcir valuable work, The il- illSlrililiili Sll0\\’$ gimlet holes madc in the proper place by Mr. and Mrs. ivoodpeckcr; then with their long. sharp. bearded tongues which they insert into the grub they gradually

first, I don't know which. The life

Some years ago when I was cut- ting timber to secure lumber to build my present home, We sowed down an oak tree over four feet in The heart of this tree

ers had taken tile grubs out, over

f lows.

but no swallows came near.

same law I have Mil’ kmwledgc °

tel‘, verses

whether they be YWBS W195. °

l-ot take the dam with the young

l weak to see the point.

ed-for swallows near the south end of this ahed

mg this pair of birds

end. They were building 1118i? I4 f" from us workmen as they possibly could and still be under the some roof, How this pclr of birds did keep those two verses of Scripture fresh in my mind. _ Well, they had no sooner oom- pletod their house and started set- ting on ﬁve eggs, than along came their deadly enemy. the Ensl-iBh sparrow, and destroyed the nest. Then ‘I went up in the air pretty high and came down with a. .22 riﬂg m my hand, and pointed a. whole lot of my attention at this

four. got quite tame and by times they apparently came closer to us than necessary.

The next spring two pair: came back, one pair occupying the old nest, but the others built about fifty feet closer to us, I watched the sparrows closer than ever, and it seemed that the swallows called to us as much as to say "Help! Help!" whenever their enemies put. in their appearance. and I always tried to be on hand like a sorc thumb. That summer cach pair raised two broods, making n. total of eighteen young, Now we had just what we had been looking for. and these birds apparently thought the same, for every man in the factory had learned to love them and lmow their call when c spar- row arrived. This, loo, may'sound a. little fishy, but I will go you one better: I know you could blindfold ma and I could tell you if them was a swallows enemy approaching them. If they looked w us to help them why surely they knew we were their friends.

The third spring they came back in goodly numbers and built five nests, and the ﬁfth year there were no less than twenty nests in the shed. But the beauty of it all is. they simply discarded the southi and. and ﬁfteen of the nests are within twenty m; of the busiest‘ spot on the premise: where thai men are all working and the steam, i: sometimes blowing. This proves without a doubt that these little,‘ innocent. valuable birds came to us for protection.

I have seen three alight on the cart-horse's back, at once. I have aLso seen the clay digger put hi: hand upon. the nest, and the old‘ mother bird would simply look over the side as much as to say, "Dc you like me?" But let l. stranger g0 in the clay shed. und you will hear their awcet, alarmed voices ring out by the dolcm.

Another very interesting sight i: when the pal-em of, any neat num- ber one. dart: in at t-hc window, ﬁfty feet away from tho nest, the hungry mouths in thot nest will go up. proving that ouch nest. of fledg- ling; know their porenf: as coon as they see them :5 that. dlctcnce.

Another m» mtiafwtion to mo is that there are now lwaliowa‘

hundred fest of machine shed. W" have over three hundred feet 01 the very choicest D1508 1°? ‘he "m? fashioned, fork-tailed barn awclﬂ

Here i; stood. with those Win- dows continually Olien- m" years?‘

During that. time I read the fir“

ever being published. I found in in Dgutqrgnomy, twenty-second ch89‘ six and seven, which reads as follows". “If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the my in any me. or on the lzrcund.

eggc. and the dam sltilus "Dim the

i th c. thou aha“ ‘Wung’ or “rm e e" H; self-sulrter all three l_\'lll'_' down in

the shade of the shod, and com- fortable as could be because here were a. dozen S\VB.l10\\'\ dipping up and down after every fly that ap-

but thou shalt in all)’ W153 let the dam go, and take the Young to thee: that it may be well with "lee- and that thou mlycat prolong thy Jﬂays" 1 read, and tried to analyW the nleanlng’but. my 8W8 We" t°°

Finally. to my delight, when I went over to the factory one morn- lng hene was the p111‘ °Y ions-look- darting around

New the nfachlncfy. where nuwty per cent. of the work Ls done, is Bf- the extreme north end of the shed; the south part is used for dfylnﬂ purposes only. And the next morn- had some mud stuck up at. the points of the - chit-d pair ografters from the south

particular typo of sparrow. And! had tho pleasure of casing those swallows rebuild ‘and lucccacfully raise their second brood. which is Before they migrated, they

.. ‘\ l \.

f

BIRD seen

at their best for consuming flies

I‘ twenw-four hours. I

our cow and- cart-horse and ou

peered.

typhoid flies will curry

that ls on its way to your house

has prolonged your stays. “Phat ll: may be well with lllor, and that thou maycst prolong thy days." There are six dlffrrrllt varieties of swallows (hilt ‘visit this part ‘of Canada. Tllc purple lllzirtin is by far the lurgest, and his lvarbliflg voice should be heard around every country home in the greater por- tlon of America, because he is _so easily attracted. Thirty-five years ago there were a. few in this coun- try; they usually built their nests in old, deserted woodpeckers‘ holes. I knew a chestnut stub that af- forded several pairs a home for the summer. But the first martin house I ever saw was on Mr. Jas- person's building in the town of Kingsville. Then a MI. Elliott, who kept, a. summer hotel near the lake, built houses and had. good success. This gave me the martin fever very bad. so I hooked up the self- sturter and drove to the lake and saw Mr. Elliott. The gentleman's voice trembled as he said, "Jack. I had twenty-ﬁve or thirty pairs around my houses-Quilt the boys thought it, flln to shoot

shore for nothing else. only to llunt. my pets; and now I only have three birds left. I am going to pull the houses do\vn because I would ra- ther not have them come than sec them shot." .

The question was. how could I get, them coming to lily placeiLI am three miles from ille lake and seldom ever see a. purple martin out here. Finally I saw an advertise- mrnt in the little journal known us Our Dllm Animals. published in lvinssachusetts: “.1. Warren Jacobs. Waynesbul-g, Pennsylvania, manu- iacturer of martin houses. shipped three carlcads last week." Just then I caught myself thinking that these birds would knc\v his houses wher- ever they saw tllem. I at Once sent an order for a tweuty-roomcd dwelling. but. when the house ar- rived the wild geese were contin- ually sitting where I wanted to erect it. so to avoid frightening them I ivallcd till they left for the breeding grounds. slill further north. On the evening of May the 2nd, ‘D13. I had all the boys in the neighborhood come llnd we raLqed the house on a pole sixtteu feet high. The questions I was asked‘ that cveninlz would surely have‘ puzzled a Philadelphia lawyer, as‘ to "How soon would the murtinsl come?" and so on.

The next morning. before l hnd, my working hamess sufficient hut-i toned to avoid an r-mbarresynl: ac- cident, I took a peep out the win- dow to see what the bird house

looked like in daylight. and rmiiyll

my breath was almost taken froln

hovering around the shook their little dinner pails and

are two blackb'rd.s around your, martin house."

n. one time.

ma three your: to induce the birds to com: to them. Today they have

nest: in about, every horse-barn of this neighborhood. The great question la: What good are they’! We have made a careful ltudy of thl: point. I have tim: and again put : shoot of paper under the nut,

tin with the addition of one H:

the lpring and cooler in thg llum- mer possibly

almost discarded the frame house,

that the "castles" are warmer in

and when than: fly: fledgling: are

there is about one-half cupful of droppings tllrouill ovrrbullrd every have seen

Now scientists tell us that these germs. Such being the fact, when this bird catches and devours the fly

with that dreaded disease. then it

dear old

them. They would go up ihc lake‘

v

Policy

' GULATIONS ron 19a

Poultry S rvices,‘ Live

Branch, Dominion Department Agricultule. as have just been issued, With exception that an

and rigulztons the same as this year.

ing recczds shall and she‘! be open at all times

l’ cords shall be kept on forms

proved by the Hatchery Approv Associations and the Dominic

IllspECt0l‘."—-tThe last sentence nevi") '

“The hatcltel yman

Agriculture informed as to th

"Rims 11nd K441195595 0f B-"Y ﬂgcuts ada is seasonal 0r periodic, with or parties selkng chicks for him"

No. 16:-"All chicks sold by an Approved Hatchery shall bcstld un- der their proper grades or classes, De-

as decided by the Dominion partment of Agriculture."

man shall advertise or sell chick: from the same nloxe than one name.

No. 23.-“Wllen blood testing is advertised, the Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture shal be fur- nished with a report, giving the namc and addrs: of the person or firm making the test, the number of birds tested. the number o! re- actors and their disposal. This rc- ._port must be on file with the D0- ‘minlon Department of Agriculture bcloze any advertising is approved for that hatchery."

There ls no fee

cics in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ma- nitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova. Scotia and Prince Edward Island. All that is necessary is that the information in regard to the flocks be listed on tile entry form when sent to the office of the Live Stock Commiss- ioner, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, and that fooks be certi-

administration Fiock Policy. This year half of the flock ap- proval fees fcr thcse not entered undr Provincial Poicies must be fozlvcrded with th~ application for entry under the Hatchery Approval Poiiry to the Poultry Division, Live Stock Brrnch, Ottawa.

of the Provincial

i Canadian Branded Beef

Increased Saks Help the Funnel-a 0F CANADA

The National Beef Conference which met in Winnipeg some four yeirs ago incuded representatives of wholesale. orgalrzntons and of the provin- cul and federal governments. It was the op llion of those in atten- dance that a system for identify- ing good beef would be in the in- bcrests of both the consumer and the producer. as it would guaran- tee the consumer receiving the qualty for which ha paid and be- nefit the producer by increasing the demand for well-fed, properly finished cattle. The Federal De- partment was subsequently re-

Hatchery Approval-

THE REVISED RULES AND RE-

The rules and regulations of the Hatchery Approval Policy of the Stock

revised for 1934 the addition has been made to rule 9, and that rules l3, l6, 18 and 23 are new, the rules are substantially

Rue 9 now IBBAISE-"TIIB follow- be kept posted

mg. ,9, adv msmg Hatchery "_.mln‘mum of expenditure, and pos-f ap-

Dcpzrtlllclit of AgrlJulture, A re- port. cu the fo.m provided for the purpose, shall be mwiled promptly after each hatch to the Hatchery is

The new rules arcz-(No. l3) shall, before and dwmg the hatching “Mom Two Letters A Year dry sand is probably the best. mut- kcep the Dominon Department of

No. 18:--"No approved Iutchery

hatchery under

charged under the Hatchery Approval Poicy for flecks inspected and approved un- del- provincial flock approval poli-

Accessibility of Maili I

Marl 0r shell marl, though of: variable quality, is essentially car- ,-. bonate o! lime. It may always b0l'

NEWSY News

umncou

Scullmcinyollrwoafobcqun Into Yarn and won Into Blanch.

identified by its zlvlnlr of! o! wr- ious cffervescence on the addition o! a little strong vinegar or other acid. After digging up, the only preparation nec y is air-drying. and crushing to permit, of ready, application and uniform dlstribu-. 'tion on the 1a.tld. No special mach-_ inery ill necessary for the crushing.’ operation. a. field roller or an im-l provised pounder or tamper would; answer very well. '

Canadian farmers, says the Do- minion Chemist. have not as yet ifully realized the agricultural valuei of marl. Not infrequently farmers‘ '

ODDS AND ENDS

of

outside under our winter irlfluencu

to

the Hatchery Illspfcmi‘; (a) egg m" "mi 1" °“ ‘m’ °“'“ Pwpmydand kills out the buds or eyes. c0 purchases; (b) chick purchases; °r easily accessible in the" °w“‘ihat no stems arise the following 1c) chick sales: (d) custom hatch- ncighbwrhwd’ prwurable at a

slbly merely at the cost. of digging and hauling. Under such circum- stances there is n0 l ecessity t0 buy lime m" Bwund llmeemne- Th"? is of the mould; and that if H18 tub- within easy reach, and cheaply ob- .6“ are packed {n bog“ o, bane“. tainable. a. material which may Wm, the crow“ ‘m; momma ‘la-ml’ impmve the" 5°95 ""3 melstelns downward, for drainage, they creasa their yields. No reasonable Wm go through the winger Wm, m, ﬂruvimi 01' mall w" iﬂiiirc the ﬂcll- ‘mortality. This is worth trying.

In Britain cocoa-nut fibre 1c the usual packing for the tubers; but

a1 n

ithc" moisture collecting in the hol-

’crial for our clmate.

e The production of swine in’ Can-

The Old Order Changcth

the result that the supply cf mar- l ketable hogs is irregular or period- tic. The British market, says the , Dominion Animal Husbandman. ‘forms the pattern t0 which we

must, mould our hogs both in type

Twenty years ago the foll: amongst whom I adjourned. were great travellers in the fall, and par- ticularly so in the winter. There was. I imagine, more snow‘in those ,cla.ys, and ct night, when all the 01' 11°85 Prvdllwi 8W1 "El-llarity of chores were done and everything ﬁilPPly. Th8 bu!!! 0f 11081121 Cim- !made comfortable, the young folk ads. come 0n the market betweengmnd some 0g their glders mo) September and January. while l. would crowd inbo the "pung" or tile there is a. relative falling off ixrwocd-sleign and, away to visit numbers marketed in spring and'n"ends on some other road. Get- summer, This condition is reflect- ting "lost? on the cross-roads l or ed in the trend of market prices sticking in a snowbank and having which are invariably higher in the to shovel the sleigh out, had a spice spring of the year. It is here that of adventure in it: and the pitch- there are wide possibilities for the es and slows were the cause of much hog raiser who is in a position "to merrfulent. At the Journey's end the raise fall litters in addition to the amusements were: singing (not of regular spring litters. The major- the canned variety but real home- ity of spring-farrowed litters ap- made); and for the more festive pear from March to June. Under groups dancing, which was of the the two-litter-a-year plan, the rust c. country dance style, with spring litter must needs be furrow» the ﬁddler keeping time with his ed not later than the middle of feet because his playing was any- April. The Dominion Department ill ng but bene marcaw! The older of Agriculture issues a bulletin on folk would play an innocuous game the subject. of dominoes, or the bolder one! would betake themselves to conic. which. let me whisper, were still re- garded by the lave as the devil's playthings. I do not remember what the game was—there was of course no bridge then. scmetmes, while this was going on, a. storm would

SOWING PASTURES

BRITISH EXPERIMENTS SHOW HOW ONE GIVES AFFECTS ANOTHER.

__$tcrlug Dahlia ‘Ihbera: ,'I'hc Dah- gla is a. subtropical plant, native to Mexico and Central America, and |although our summer heat icquite agreeable t0 it, it is not to be left

as is done in some of the milder lparts of Brief-in. The tuber: must be stored in a frost proof, but not too warm, place. The chief enemy to succscsful storage is a kind of mould, which attacks the crown, just at the junction of the tubers,

spring. very few dahlia-gwwers es- cape this misfortune at one time ‘or other. It is now claimed that

low stems is the provocative cause

which is more in need of manure!

Th0 llﬂvlg

pair larger and lnenlbranouc:

few insects to display instinct?’ the. female earwig re- malncouguardnearillcreggwtill they hatch-c. matter of three or four weeks. There In other cur- iosities in the life-history which must be ounltted for want of space. Ac far a: the writer knows, the ear-wig is confined to the province of British Oolumbb It present. In Northern Britain it was only mod- emately abundant, but even so it. did a. gloat dell of dlmlgc in gar- dens. It hldﬂ dilating the day, and attacks flower: and ripe fruit at night: the dahlia, nuturtium, and ‘carnation gm ggpgclglly ﬂnglgd out. The insect feed: on the bum causing them to produce deformed flowers. Taking ‘" utcgc of their retiring habit: the inccoia were trapped by moans of small flower- PON. filled with crulnpled -puper. and inverted on the top of tho plant- ctalkea. The ecrwigc invariably crawled up the stake: and hiddn the folds of the paper. Next morn- inc the gal-denti- shook them out and "taught them never to come ihérc no man!" as the poet says.

This insect was nlmod "euc- wicga," lnunfng car-beetle. by our Anglo-Saxon IOIBDEOIII, who erron- eously luppocvcd it in have the habit of creeping into flu human brain through the earl

ROMAN BRITAIN 1'0 lu). m

The more we consider the brief accounts of these event: given by the old hictorlcn, the more we are convinced that then via: lomc-

iluent that th: plant ingrown for groeammunonthldlv-lﬂcdcofl of the south c! trance, n: not quite whit tho writer intended’: this should be “the dry, poor coil,"

Earwlga looking for winter cum- erc have been invading house: in the Vfofnds district, Edie-Dept. of Agrlculum, Ottawa. The urwig i: a reddish-brown insect,‘ lcmewhat resembling a alcndcr beetle from 1-2 to 3-4 inches long. A gran dic- tinction is that the lact abdominal segment tzrmlncto: in a pair of pincer-like claspal-l-or forcqx. ‘I11: earwfg has fourylngc, the ﬁrst pair ishort and horny, cud the second the forcop: are used to fold up the 1mm‘ wings and to tuck them under thc-‘cllnallcr. Thi: i: one of the very “maternal

The ‘ on: single yon: I cull: doubled M ccnh par pound. Blanket: $2.00, and if unluuuluul

Blanket. Wool must bc wall wubcl all :ll'dl:1 and burn nicked cl! The also of single yarn l: medium and doubled yu-n ﬂnc, medium mono and hooking yarn. Put lhlp- par‘: nunoonlllpuoehmdwwl- er’: name. addru: and instruction

lzulda. Bend by mall or fulﬁll

Freight will be hold on 100 lb. loﬂ

WM. LANDBIGAN, 66 Queen Street, Churloffofowl

cal intrigue which had been mm- ed in Italy. ‘Ikwodoslu: had not long been in London when h: hi4 private information that Vslcntluun had entered into a formidable con- spiracy with the other exiles. ma had even comaptcd many of til: military. With the vigor that midi-- ed all his actions Theodosiuc sci:-

ed the crch-conllpirawr and hil

principal acconmlioec iu:i at the

critical montent, and turned thl:

over to Duke Dulcitiu: for encu-

tlon. Then, with the casualty whic)

we have before remarked. he win-

ly put a. stop to :.l.l further action

and the discouraged rebels cuff-led

down to peaceful lives again. ’

‘Theodoslus now loft London I the head of a. well-appointed army and by his rapid and continued cuc- cecc justified the lush military mp- utatlon for which ho had prevllom- ly been known. He routed all ﬂu opposing tribes, cleared the math- ern districts and carrying opera- tions into Scotland, lcwmod the country between the wall: of 8:4- ricn and Antonius, which he folmn in undisturbed possession of ﬂu Ijlcts and Scots, and‘ which h: named Vclontia. in honor cl! tli unpcrow. anon; the troop: not in- to Eritaixl for- this cam, ‘_, I: meetforthcm-cttimeabodyd German: (numeru: Alcmannonlm) under a. king or chleffrex) called Fraomariua, who was eventually made tribune. Britain‘ m: no: tranquil, and when Thcodollul, h 36D, qufttcd the island, crowd: cl grateful provincial: ccocmpmbd him to the port where he alibi-lied.

Valcntinlanll: died In AD. I'll leaving the cmplro to his W0 :00: Gratian, and Vclentinian, the lath! a more child. Theodoclu: had ll- ready fallen a. victim to tho joul- oucle: of the court. The empire n: divided between the two blothor: and thi: was the signal for mbcll- lion in all parts, tho relation of which is outside the 5009B of than notec. mthc year 383,, lwwcvcr, ﬂu troop: in Britain. who or: chanc-

Spinnillg IIIIIWGHVIII;

fled to by those in charge of the,

fetal and producer ~

Recent experlmenis in England at Rclzhcnlstcd, the old-st agricul- tural research station in thc Brit- llh Empre, in laying down land to pasture demonstrate that most of the elaborate seed mixturrs prov- ided by c mmerclal frlrs fail no jutify titemrelvec. because. after a lame of two or three years, the botan'cal composition of different- ly aeedld areas in the same locality become almost identical. On one experimental field, s'x widely dif- ferent mfxtures were tested, but after fcur years the herbage on all the plots is now hardy distin- guishable. Rye-grass and Wild White Clover form about 80 per cent of the whole. the reef. being mainly Cocks oat.

Of the ‘other pants which were sovln. hardly any survive except fmothy and n. Ilt..lc Red Clover. The molt maked difference be- tween one seed mixture and an- other is that Italan Rye-grass has paraisfed as the dominant: grass. when sown without Perennial Rye- grus. Uniformity of herbage from diffelent scwiltgs is occasioned partly owing to the early death of the species unsuited to locnl con- ditions and partly because many, whfc oongenielly situated, are soon

blow up, and perforce all must my till it blew dovm again! On one memorable occasion this was 8 s.m. the next day!

We are much more sedate and

self-contained now. The young folk slay at homo more in the winter. If they travel it is on foot, and to the next farm. Card games seem to be the indoor sports, and the por- ltculnr variety is "Aucton forty- fives." whatever that ‘is. When the weather is favorable there is a lot of hockey played. But the main thing to be noticed is that we don't go from home in winter as we used to. The car is probably responsible for the change. visit ng around is so easily and comfortably done in sum- mcr now. that we prefer to take our adventures in some variety of fliv- er. Perhaps we are ‘fweakcr and wiser."

Recurrent Weather Looking over the ‘weather records last December. I found that. from some occult cause. there were dici- astrous periods about four days after new moon in the months of Oct,

mianu: Marccllinuc in aummhg up

entinianua, blame: him for habitual- ly neglecting tho his distant province.

lated by the came historian explains some of the dvialonc and intrigues which at this time troubled the pro- vince of Britain. If. scan-la to have been the practice to banish politi- cal offender: or those accused of some heavy crime to this province. Under some such circumstance: one Vclentlnuu. a native of Pcnnonic, was exiled from Home, and brought to the island that talent for politi-

n;

thing more than the invasion by tho northern barbarian, and that these had been joined-f not. call- ed in—~by tribe: of the Roman plo- vluoe. They lcemod alwuy: ready to N591. Ind pcrhtnl thoy looked upon the chcngc which turned their gov- ernor into a subordinate of Gaul, n: l. aeriou: blow to their independ- cnco. Ponibly under the new ro- gimo their tame: had been made more burdensqlnc. At any rate Am-

hrizcd by the almost contemporary historian, Zosimus. a: the moot l:- rogant and turbulent of all tho Im- perial forces, proclalmod I young officer named Magnu: Maximo: their emperor.

Maximus immediately gcthcrec together all the trops in Britain placed himself at their head, ml panning over to the continent. land- _ ed at the, mouth of the Rhino. Straightway all the troop: in Gor- many revolted to his standard, and the new emperor marched trium-

Iphantly to ‘Proves, which he made his capital. At this point the :0- counts of the different hlctorll-n: N

Another curious circumstance rc-iwhom the writer is inddbtcd are vary contradictory. but it would seem that; Gratian was reaidng :1 Paris, and, bong deserted by hi: troops, fled to Lugdilnmn (Lyons) where the governor tlcacnerolmly amused him wltlrstories of rain-

forcementc on the way, until Mu-

imunrs cavalry arrived. Tb them

Oratian we: turned over. and was

immediately slain by the hand a

m ucanin.

the character of tho emperor Val-

plllnfl from

Nov. and Decenlibar; about the and of each month. Now, locking ovcr the record for January, I938. the recurrent period of storm fun: from Jan. 28th to 29th. We had tho

crowded out incompetitlon with

boof in and are in tho "castles!" the fact m ma,

mm m, he" w“ a pg“- o; mamnuquestcd to inaugurate a system for hon”, and grading and branding beef, which when the schoolboy, we“, by they system was put into effect in the shouted, “Uncle Jack," and as they m] °r 1929- The extent to which this service laughed heartily they said. "lherc h“ Justified We" l‘ manned by ~ the fact that during the first five montl"; of I088 sales have In m‘ mm ' month m!" Wm an increase of fifty pel- cent over “ma” ma“ occupied’ n“ M the corresponding period of i932, Con", hunt m o! m children which. in turn, showed an increase ' ‘jot approximately ld d . h t, l .

i’... $1.. ZTKZLJ. 2.323..‘ .1135. ; §;';;,;V=;B,f};~ tjiegsggfliftg: 1g;- h a . -

three hovering around to hous .m_n,on durum the manm of M“ averaged 688.668 lbs. the higholt

...’I°Y-’...‘..’.‘.“.."°..‘.’.l'.’.‘.‘..-‘F”‘i...2’ $213.; My meti- ~=~ m» ,w".s established. 'I‘ct:l ulu for

ithis month about 5.900 cattle cold u brmdcd one month in the 40ml:-

ket. In an 'wcr

quesion as t; us for this. But u“ m, “cum! the brick house i: altogether we Branch o; m,

upcncivo. ment of “mun”, “":-_

shown

thirty-fwd pt!

were equivalont to

in the Oft-‘lllld when graded bad

the U" mock Dominion Dcplrt-

other:-

Thus, it i: found that among the gru: :. and allowing for ‘slight seasonal varieties, the growth of Porcnniol Eye-grass is reduced by Itclicn Rye-grass.- thai: of Cocka- fbot by Perennial Rye-grass; that

rough weather from Oct. 30th to

first real storm of wlnflr on the 28th: that stopped the can out in the country. Fobl-uary '71, March 25-30 and 'A.pr'l 23-80 carried on the talc of loco. '

This fall we llm astonishingly

0f Timothy by Cccksfoot, and that of Rough stalked Meadow grass by ﬂlilothy. The heaviest yield of hrrhcgc pcr unit arca appears to mull. mm ceedng with Rye-grass and dreuing witn a complete man- uro.

BuHi. i: found, in favor of mixed nowlnu. that a Plant. ‘if Rye-grass cuffcr: lea: frcm the ctlmpstltion of : phat of Cxksfoot. or Clover than it doc: from the competition 0f IIIOQIQI’ Dllnl 0f Ryc-g-rggg, Tho ommilion of phorphaie from the dlliﬂllhl lessens the gggrgg- mum: of the clover, u, the M. until! <7‘ the grasses, the culls- effect.

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Illnrd’: Llnlmnnl Pnnnvn: can;

Oct. 20th. The rain gauge showed 1.7 inches rainfall booking back we find that Septem- ber was a very stormy month, with wide-spread destruction. The period from 18th to 20th gave typhoon tn China, hurricanes in Trinidad And at Tampa). Mdxico. (the latter laid to have 5,000 killed) and A.- great earthquake at. Albrulll, Itllyl (l6 killed, 200 injured.) OM i: l1- moat inclined to lock for l mu:- rence, mole or lac: athuultod. round Nov. 20th, and onwmh.

ca" it was stated that the "mm! Book" in the PllJlld Library would be mould have nod "to boglnnm." In the dlilolo on the Lupin tho Mk-

on the 29th.

Cw. ctlonl: In int week‘: "NOV

llfcul "to englncorl." Th"

Anlzlmoll, FOX BANOIIERS!

Prepare

No Fox food can mrpacs growth of :upcrior thick-ck texture,

color.

If not now feeding, delay: are dangcrou: and

IMP

your foxes for Felting Season by liberal feeding of IMPERIAL FOX BISCUITS.

fully furl-ed with diamond-like sheen, and retaining their beautiful and desirable prime

delay no longer for

moat unproﬁtable. For llighclt-priced pelts, feed

“JMPERIA LS "

Charlottetown, P,‘ E. L

them in promoting lnned pelts of ﬂuent

lslulll. alscun co, m.

b

I135; it lake: ﬂve lbl. of wool g3 A

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