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SEPTEMBER 26,- 1914. ` - _ -~

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN PAGE THIRTEEN

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invited to contribute to The Farm

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The Dairy. The Turf, and Good

Roads departments of the Guardian C"

,whey by question, correspondence ori: otherwise. Answers will be given by|

experts to all questions of general pf,

interest and space will he given tozbo guy Brticios that 'Will in any way 2* help to advance Prince Rdward Is-img’

land interestp; il n

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Contributors are asked to have

eheir srtlcles at this office early each geek, as only H, short elnergency

f lam can be handled as lata as one nliight bo. This habit led to an oc- i"

p- U1- Wmnesday' All "°°°iv°d am’ casionnl dialogue of u spicy nature, re

that hour cannot appear until the In following week. 2

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Contributors for this department 2,

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Guardfun's School und lionie. R P. 0. Box 188 Cliariottetowli. in

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LESSON 7 Ci).\"I‘I.\` UED.

(ily Mrs. Duulirsck. \v

GREEN PEA g0L'p_ :illld usually gains access to the cull' I’

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| nan marrow (at peas, 2 table- if spoons sugar, 1 pint cold water, 1 1.3

pint milk, 1 slice onion, 2 tablespoons I hotter, 2 tablespoons rlour, 1 table- U spoon salt, A tablespoon pepper. ip

Drain peas fl‘om their liquor, add ,|

sugar and cold water and sinimcr v twenty iluiliutes. Rub through a S nieve,, rehent, and thicken with but- u ter and cooked flour. Scald milk ill with onion, remove onion and aliillri 'peas to mixture, season with salt it

and pepper.. Peas too old to servelas tu

n vegetable' may be utilized as nip soup. ('routons. ,L

'|`()MA'l`O SOUP k

1 can tomato, 1 pt. soup stock or,n

1 pint water, 12 pepper corns, bit of U bay Icaf, 4 cloves, 1 tablespoon sug 0 ur, 1 alice onion, 1 tablespoon salt. if' i tablespoon soda, 2 tublesl>00uH but 0( ter, 2 tablespoons flour. m Cook first seven in rcdients twenty

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nlinllibs. Btrllin. will Salt “nd 5‘»‘d"" of thc following mixture three or four *ll .i

Mix thc flour with an equal amount | of water until smooth. add lr.ore'1, writer until thin enough to pour. o Htir soup while milling gradually the o fioilr mixture, culled thickening, boil il five minutes, strain, add butter, if serve with croutons. 'K

vi-:sle'i'_\lu.|~: sour. 5’

1-3 cup carrot, 1-3 clip turnip, i

cup celery, li cups,pututo, .l cup union, 2 quarts water, 5 tui»lespomi.i butter or ii piece of suct. i|tef*5l’U°ll parsley, 1 teaspoon salt, L teaspoon

pepper, soup bone.

Cut vcgctnbles into cubes. (look the vegetables, except the l10U1f0¢S “lid pi\rsl8y tell ulinutes, ill the butter or suet. Add wat-er and potutvcs und cook one hour with soup bone. Add n parsley and seasonings. D

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BAKED BEAN SOUP. 21

3 cups cold bakcdbcnns, 8 pintsit

writer, 2 slices onion, 2 stalks cclerll ll ig cups of stowed und strained torn- IT

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u.l.oL‘S. 2 tablespoons butter. Z table cut" was suit from luck uf mm'

1| the pilts came hairless. and the Q wncr ut our udvice put lime into hc watering tunke and trough! Md 1

spoons flour, 1 tcusooon sliili saucei W salt, pepper. 11

Put thc first four ingredlfflliill ill 0

sauce pail; simmer thirty minutes; t rub through a sieve; add touiuto and i- ehifi sauce, season to taste With Suit nnd pepper, and bind »with the hui-i`-0|' and flour cooked together- - |

CL.-\M l¥OUIl.l.ON.

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Wash and scrub with n brush one 1

hull peck claius, changing the Wulf’-I‘ I uevernl times. Put in kettle with | three cups cold water, cover tilTi\UY|n alld steuiu until shells orc Well 0l'0“' 0 ed Strain ll uor throllfrh “|‘“‘f"‘ i

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cloth. h-cheat and serve. (salted “Cl than is H person whmm dpmy‘,d H

tl l in lint linen properly il|\*‘d hy a

it' auiiellitilst. The only dlffereilce is flint 3

whipped crean. niny he served with

BROWN _soup s'rooK. ff (hc work hm, ,,,,, |,,,,,,, properly ,_

G lbs. chin bcel, 6 cloves, 1 snr!!! marloruni, 1 tcblespooli Bhlii. 3 d quarts cold WMU. i 555' \°“i~ 2 sprigs parsley, i t2“FI"’0\‘ l’°W°" b corns, 3 sprigs thyme- i “"9 °‘“’h'

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“Hot” mmm' onion' celery' cut in tixiifegraiiiitflmiievltisgifession,like the in- e

tnnce just cited. have teinpted so

dice. i

Wgpg and cnt lean ment in cub6B.- B

nr°"'“ °"° ‘mm ment in not "ying ‘Tie science that tree surgery M9 fail'

n somewhat into disrepute. d

Dan with msrrow.- Put remaininz W0 t thirds with bone and fat n soup 9

kettle, add water and let seandkfoi; a thirty minutes. Place on bac ot c “nga one browned meat Mid W* 5

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fn-n¢|n'n1|y to boiling point. As scum ions have arisen when Dr0D2rlY °W"

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rises it should be removed- ('0"°f and' cook "owl, gl; hours. “Wink c below honing paint during' COOHIIZ. '_ Add vegetables and °°“°°“i“§“' °°°k ° .one snd`or`i`e lislf hours, ltrhill lid

cookms quickly ss P0l°|bl°~

ALMOND SOUP-

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z-s env almonds. 6 "M" ,,,,°l'"°n t' 4 t°b'°'°°°",¢'o¢°"' ii will oifioivuii gtsfas | §|h|e::'ions butter. a tsulnvoenii Mvf. ' °“P; ’°“':;." uk 1 env sfelm- '°‘* '“‘ "W ' malineu ellen “<1 l'°‘““‘ °"“°""'- li. morcér. /lad}sf»4“""Y "‘°" ‘"1 me then slid BWV- '“°°" °'“°= ‘nd "ug, Let simmer one ho'-il' All

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rub through sieve. Melt butter sndirn flour and pour on gradually, ,the but growth of tho fungi causing the dis- llquor, then add milk nnd cream ,md ease and what treatment is best. salt, and pepper to |;,,,,¢e_ germ, Wm, Many individuals who have had Mock Almonds. fi-1

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CELERY sour. “

filing to understanddhemaniler of

gh following the advice of unreli ble tree surgeons who claimed to

'be able to diagnose a case, but whose

3 stalks celery' 1* cups milk' M inxslli interest was to collect a oo

f boards down upon the rungs parallel

nners. Standing u oil t elle

or the man it is usual to nail two-

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driver will bear his weight

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o the r skiifu

the successful operation of the drag.

The dr hould b an be 1'

sg is drawn by a chain, which

s e about esht feet lon This

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fade out and look washy. The light ‘ and dark bars to be the some width c as near is possible, and they lnust D have as yellow beaks and legs _as in possible. . ' “ 'rue mais must be light in color ol W

the same shade from beak to tall

From all tlieckgs plneod in the fn-

id by the well-fed hells hatched

at were fed sparingly. From the fertile eggs lncubatcd,78.'l

wh

ubators during the two years' ex- 0 erfments. 63.9 per cent. of the eggs t

geinst 58.9 per cent. laid by the hens an

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per cent. of the eggs hatched which ;

‘ ». _ _ rw ferr* ern but few are kept. .'l`he keeping f cattle and sheep on the same heh- urcs at the some time is not recom- ¢nd2d; Yet all over the eastern heep-raising districts the com past- es were usually the run ol _s few heap of extra quality, those being ' en a little extra care for show or

g.

listened by eye bolts to each

with rich yellow beak and legs, and W ~be barred to the skin with narrow

ere laid by the sparingly fed hens.

u -. . . - _ ping of the package revealed u few g

HE cards neatly marked, “l~‘or Use." and S

two or three dozen marked “For tr H

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ery delicate and en.-lily deranged.

p _ _ s .

lid bowels of' their uudigcsted and lr- I”

rolnptly. On its uppcuraiiue, the first "

nd most important tliiilg to do is to

rc

ept in n warm place and iiotlillolved ‘T

W lo ._ . _ _ _ y 0

illk should be rcdllccd to about one- f

lird and iii severe cases should be 0 _ mitted and warili water given ill its U10 film' U`i"l"""l5 Clit lf! “H1116-

i give a laxative, such as one or two S unces of castor oil in li little \varin "

_ . mire, and subiiitrate of bismuth 1-2 ulice. if the calf' becoliles very weak ‘ lui the scours continue for more than ‘ iroe or follr days, two or three raw U ggs should be fed with :i little milk.

ery graduully.--"Aberdeeil .`iourliul_"

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when pigs are horn hairless they i

untc1_v fed, or pampered and given u oo little exercise, In some instances 0

no feed and dri..lun,_; water. and free

ng of lllne-waiter in the rl1i1i0!\B Of

ps water, 1 slice onion, 3 table- B poons butter, 3 tablespoons flour, y alt and pepper, 1 cup cresin. tl Break celery in one inch pieces and g

iler with onion and milk twenty a

lt and pepper, ndd cream, strain U' to tureen and serve nf; once,” with ‘*

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A suviPl_e sx|=eo|EN'r.

lf was thc custom nf Mr. Cameron to H ll into nn easy attitude wherever lm P

nd the dlnloguou led to a small suluirc _

iacknge which Mr. (famoron present-, I"

d to ills wife one night. lr

“What in the world arc these?" iii- is fred Mis Calneron as lilo unwr.ip

how." ? "'i`linso, my dear, said Mr. (‘ameron, "' are for you to attach, by file small ‘I in oil the under side, to the various if' fa cushions, chair bucks und unoc- I" pled small spaces ill this house. I’ licn noiiher my head nor flint. of any " lalice visitor will rest ill or oil any h bject desiglied for ornament; und ure more, even with (‘hlstmas coming .D very year, and your friends as loving in ntl generous an ever, we shall have 1"' happy liolue."--Selected.

CALVES' AILMENTS. m

There are two kind of scoura. The U hite si-ours is a cmitagious tiisense, in

lrnugll the naval witliiu a few hours re ter birth. This nearly always proves Gs tal ill two or three days. The other ‘V lill ol' scours is thc 1'(-.siilt ol` indigcs- ii

lull. IL has many cnllses. lt is us- th

ally duo to can-loss methods oil the SP art of the farmer or rnl'etakol'. The m

igestive organs of young calves nrt- m

cours is usually the result ol’ a nat- W ral attem t to relieve the stomacll gi*

tilting contents. ir Scours should be treated at mice. as weakens the call' rapidly and will " ko more time to cure if not treated

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move the cause. The calf should bc S

bccollie chilled The i|unntff f i

ace for two or three fcods. lt is best I

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lik. After this, give a small tcaspooiiful ‘E

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nies ii day in a little warnl inllk: U

fcarbonute of soda 1 ounce salol 1-2 il

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iler the cult' coliliuelices to recover it f

iould he brought buck to a full ration ill)

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LIME Fon THE sow. N

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e undeveloped, and one muy sus- un ct that the sow has been inade- m

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e cnuse has been lack of lime in

cgnant sows has ended the troillr t

In one district where the drinkin!! rc

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inutes. Thicken 'with butter and ih ur, cooked together. ' Season wit-h ill

perial sticks in rings. ly

cons use pruning hooks und climbing purs and cut fresh gnslies in the 'B ce. 'l`o brcnk oil' small dead brunch- t s u workulun may use li long pruu- D

olug so the hook usually causes ili-

articulurly avoided oil frees ln vic- Itlcs where there is u contagious fu- (1

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ercial surgeons should have ladders ,g lat would reach forty or more feet

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:iny firms who value l'¢-niuiierzitloll orc than reputation use the spurs.

ritleu contract with the tree sur-

a

lull shall have soft rubber bottoms.

which in the soft formative tissue c rom which the in-_w wood and liark d rigiliute) within five minutes after t_

rcosotc, followed by thick coal tar.

atersonked or insect eaten wood

ie cavity inspected by the owners or is agent before it is filled.

sement limi cleiin. sharp sand is no veuker mixture than 1 to 3 shall be

ree of expense any defect that may

if the onwer prefers to have a cav- t

ty filled with asphalt or other mater-

all be altered accordingly. lf is is Z d . , .

preparations for shellac, this can be

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may be made. although alterations in B os. 1, 2, 5 and 7 should be made with

nsect eaten wood is removed. the f ree luay be dangerously weakened;

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utter can be removed to solid wood nd the cavity fuullgated.--U. S. Dept. 1

he oak borer and cllestnut borer. The

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m of money for their work. , e Besides the careless' filling of decu- tl cd cavities fn trees, there are prac- tl ces of certain so-culled “tree sur- a eolis"’ that do the tree more harm r

und into .n mortar. Cook in double than good. Many oi' these "surgeons," ii

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.ll us the people who employ l

ctlon through cuts and slrntclics

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ces are rendered sllbjcct to infec- on by having their living blirktorn.

otwiliislunding this, many tree sur-

g hook as though it was li. club. lil

ry to the young bnrk ilear by. e

vi-ry new wound may l’uriiisll a new 1’ oiut ol’ viltrnure for decay, even filo- I’ Eli the old dead brauclies muy have H een re-lilovcd. b

Tile use of climbing spurs should be

c-tion. They simply render the tres- i ll tree all the more liable to catch t

e disease which is “iii the alr."' d

All properly equi pod firms of com

to a free. Ladders, ropes and rub- I'

er soied shoes will allow u man to c uch practically every part. Reliable

timates indicate that it takes seine- d

lint longer, perhaps 25 percent oil t li average, to do work oil it free when

est-ure used iustcud of cliiibiilg urs, nlid ihil-l is one rcusoli wh

Owners are urged tohavedefluite D

ons _they employ, and the following D

suggested as a model for such coli- ‘ii ci.

ti) No climbing spurs shall be us- I on any part of a treo. , 5 (2) 'l`ho slices worli by the work- B

(3) Ordinary coiiiinorcini orange o cllac shall bc applied to cover the p t cdgcs of sapwood and caillbiurn

(4) All cut or sllellacked surfaces N

all bc painted with coliimerclal

(5) All diseased, rotten, discolorcd

all be removed in cavity work and

(6) Only u good grade of Portland

ed to fill- cavities. (7) The contractor shall repair il

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pear ill the work within one year.

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instead of cement, the contract

slruble to substitute sonic other W

lie. Similarly under certain condi-

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utioil. if may so happen that lf' all 1

der such conditio s the deieased

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Oaks nre suffering from attacks of' \

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iiiedy is to gather the l'nlleli twigs which the larvae pupute destroy

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itll in tree surgery have lost it tllro- in such tl. way as to aid materially lu

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em, do lint realize the danger urls- p g from fresh injuries to a tree. Tile ‘a ce owner should realize that prompt tl tfendunce to fresh injuries will large- c do away with the need of trac sur- s

cry fifteen or twclily years lielice. ho treo surgeons must realize that $ they make fresh injuries iii the p vlug lizirk when tri-uiiiil: llecayod s oriions they are laying thc true open g

more dullgnr of iiifoctlou that will u suit ln further dei-ay. c Just as the person is subject to in- s

When bn

ows, b of busi

when ei-_ght or ten Wiieks Old- Th"

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he nge ol' eggs. An o'ld-time method

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d ns age increased, it was held that ggs wgfch had been laid several day

would go below the surface. All thu promptly sank to the bottom wer upposed to he good for food. Thi

y ns a good many people who lla nitll in it discovered after they lin made a few experiments, it was no always reliable. Just why its result

d out correctly but sometilnes` egg

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t _ the water. When these eggs ‘wer .roken the one who was to coo t .

surprise.

nd of t e front runner, or one end of

n cali pass through a hole at barge end of the front runner other end be looped over the

ung at the cutting elid of the run- er. lt is important that the hltchfng

ni

le chal ie disc nd the

ilik should be so designed that its

can be changed readily. lt is frable to provide n metal cut-

ug sdg

nn be

teel.

’i‘he co 2.00 to-

osltloli lst des

e of thu front runner. This ado from u strip of fron or

st of' such a drug varies from perhaps $10.00 or $12.00. This

ractfcalfy iilslgnificuiit outlay will ecurc an implement that will be of rent service to the coiiiiiiuuity for t leust three or four years. 'l‘lie fact amiot be overlooked, however, that kill ill the use of the drug is indis- eiisalile.

A SPRAY FOR l’I..l`M APHIS.

Thirty pounds of soap, preferably oft soap, ooe gallon- of coal oil, hree pounds of nuphthalene and nine arts of water for the stock solution

iled until the soap is dissolv- ill readily mix. Eighteen of the stock solution should ri _ to 100 gallons of water. g should be done in the Spring he buds swell. _

is only one way in which to 3 dairy cow, apart from feed, and that ls* to milk her, and‘ no way in which a good w will be ruined more quickly

han by letting her raise her calf. ‘here are a few stud breeders of clai- y cattle here who do not milk their

d it w ouuds e ltdde prayin efore t

There evelop ng hcr, here is airy co

airy qualities of their cows when hey ict them rear their calves

SEPARATE THE FLOCK I

The best result-B ure secured if the nil.,-tg und cockerels are separated*

uliets mutt be kept growing rind; eveloping for- early laying to bring

he most profit. Early hatched plill- _D cis should begin l_nyluf: when live or| ig months old. luless the cockcrels ,

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re of exceptionally fine stock they,

mov be forced and sold as broilc-rs b r masters and will often bring more 0 er head in early summer then they ¢ would if kept until Autumn. The hicks should be kept f!'l‘0Wil1g and h evelopiug from birth to sale or ma- , b urlty to give satisfactory returns- h

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'i‘l1JSTlNG THE AGE OF EGGS.

There nm various ways of testing

hich wus olten adopted when u stolen" nest was found, was to pu

n the rlncipal that weight decrees

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ould noat, while any of recent dnt

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as an easy lmtliod, but unfortunate

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ere not uniform has never been sat factorily explained. It often _work-

iut were very far from good sank l

lem had not an altogether P19835"

A prominent poultry journal ha

ut they might ns well go out

a

R005. male or female. ° _ _ _ _ P

hat musclllig with feeding. 'lhe best

and shoulders above them all as an i ,al .

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years to quite li' lot of talk about tho `l had policy of high-*vedilig poultry on 'T

t account of the injurious influence on h

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he eggs in u vessel of cold water. I

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m . experiments conducted along thisllne

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not been satisfied that generous feed-

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5 vigor of chicks any more than gcncr- , , _ , ` ‘n ` ous feeding of dairy cows ulid lienvy THE CGW AND THE 5H|"}‘~7'-

milk production should interfere with

he reproduction of stock from tho There is always nm,-C or 155,., dia. lalry cattle thus handled. New we cusgiun as to whim is the more 1,,-on

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straight across the feather bars, the 1,, dark bars to be somewhat narrower 9|-

tban light bars

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I never use a light, washed-out til

looking mule in my lilntlags, and st have been fairly successful in pro- Yi'

ducing topnotch pallets, that qlmost Ui

always make u. clean-up wherever I ni

show. W

Now as to the laying qualities of the Barred Rocks I have never yet m

sdmitteil that they can he beaten, ns

nilround layers und I have _vet to be by sliowli if there is a better lineed on bu

earth. , fr

l believe that with ordinary care ni

Burrell Rocks will lay as many eggs do

us any breed living. -

i have several of the so-called egg I0 machines running with my liarred Of

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Hoc B at times' and have Been them suuth ot' the influellce of feeding on 0

fl

ziblcs to fake thrill through wlliter. lil d ' _

huddled in bunches along the fence U

or nt the side of buildings in damp br days ln winter, looking like they had de ilot ,J friend on earth, when the “S Rocks would he either laying or 32, scratching in the field for some 0,,

choice bugs or worms to h?lp mann- [0 fllllfllre “I-TBS for next duy's product- nl ion, and acting as they didu't caro w u \vhuop whcthler the weatlier was ill nice or not,'they intended paying for ill their board ally way. ' in

I have produced some cracking good “ll

layers and while I have never trap ii” nested ally of my Rocks (owing to “M

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poor health generally, and too much other work to do the rest of the C time), but some of my strain pure have pulled off very creditable stunts

in hands of ;i-»y customers: |

ionths fron. two pullets I sold him g nother reported 818 eggs in ten l" months from five pullets from n set. a

ing of my best eggs aftevr three of : them having hatched and brooded n hutch of chicks each, and (by the D way) I understand Pen 21 at Victoria tl (which is, my strain pure) made n

world’s record in May, having laid cl 'll eggs ill eight days, or an egg n- “ iece each day- without 8 skip, " The above are n few very good ren- fi] ons why I believe uoniistake can be 'S iade in sticking to this gl-and_ old reed. and as to their beauty, and n ne who knows anything about what 1' onstitutcs n beautiful bird and who 0 ui ten the truth oulut it can not 3 elp but admit that there is no more k eautiful fowl that ever graced a b en Dim than nn un-to-date Barred If

May thcv continue to stand head t,

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lround real genuine, always there t

an the goods, breed or chickens- fl, "successful Poultryman.” is

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FEEDING CHICKENS s

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Poultry keepers have listened f'or_

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lic hatchability of the eggs and the 0 essencd vitality of chicks hatched

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roln eggs ot’ well-ted and heavy-laying ‘ln lens. h

Now that the llatchllig season is ov- W r it is a good time to consider this attrr a little furtller and flnd what “I

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each us. Many linrd-headed poultrynien have

lig, accompanied with generous egg roduction should interfere with the liccessful hatching of eggs and the 'v'

list dispose of her surplus food in this I ay of eggs, ulld il' the food and ralro

lt is rather difficult to describe or

Une customer reported 214 and 186 tg

ness as to try to develop the eggs respectively in less than ten ‘U

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lid strong.: with a bright red comb, U nd bri,.;lit, active c_\-c. Iii;-gli lliyt-rs if uve li nervous eye. Tile legs should 1" e straight and not field too close igether. llong head, neck und legs 5

ur onstitution. .-\ good mule bird will ' low culisiderable independence. He u eed not necessarily bn u pugnzicious ° iaracter, but ut the snrlie time lic

esh, particularly oil the breast, is a ereditary cllaracteristic. It depends n the amount of inusciing carried ( nd on the shape of the breast, or cel bone. The niuscling oil thc brenst one is a trait that is trnnslnittcd.

oo deep. By long we menu n. bone but extends well behind. In mature

Quality in chickens is denoted by

hose that lay from 30 to 40,. Soni-s f ave said that if n hen lays n lot;

many in the spring as n hen thnti

ave found that the hen that lays iii

wing as th- lieu that did not.

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ation authorities consider this two urs' experiment gives about all even lowing for both ways of for-cling so r us hatchubillly of the eggs laid as concerned. » According to the belief held by ally poultrylnen there should liavo eil n showing in vigor favorable lo o chicks hatched from the eggs laid

the stock flint were fed sparingly. t the chicks allowed equal vigor onl both sources, ami were all ro- f urkalily strong and growtliy und

From it scientific viewpoint this 1 ligth of experiment and the liunibor chickens concerned docs not give I lliclent grounds to dcteruiilio the

ceding slocki liowevor, the cvi- I lice is sufficient tn induce many of i to take no anxious thought about *1 e feeding of our breeding p0ullry,|i r to strive tri keep tlicnl from luyliigli rly and continuously, for the bred- B

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von hor is what it should be hor ‘ lieritnilce of rom-itituliolial vigor will f kc euro ul’ the fertility of hi-r eggs '

tched tlicrefrom.-Filrlu and Fire- 6?.

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AND CON5:l’l‘I'l`l"l‘ION.

sny that thi-rc is any exact con-

rniutiou that accoliipallics strolig 1 listitution. The head is thc most i iportnnt point. it should be hrond

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rds have long breast bones gud not d

rds 9, long keel bone prevents what B termed breaking down behind.

iooth, oily, leg scales. The old untry breeds excel in this respect, liens can be divided according to B ying power, into thrrc classes i

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lv irecding purposes. The keeping of a ew sheep is the best way tg solve he question of profit, also of the attcr of whether you would like to ngage in slieepraising as a business.

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VACANT LOT GARDENS.

For one dollar, any citizen of Saska-

oou, Snsk., may bo provided with the e of n vnruiit lol during the season r gardening purposes, The lnnd will duly ploughcd und disccd for him. d otherwise ronderod ready for zinllng. (Ivor two hundred lots have cauly been secured. l.nsl your many f’ thc working people grow oil such ts sufllcioill potatoes and other vege-

ditlon, the fund is largely devoted flowers, so that where there were

liortly he that nulnlicr of bright gar- eus with their little dnulics of bril- uuf color and i'i-flwsliilig green. The I‘l‘l»!0iill-I is uleroly one lille of effort volvcd in the presciil f-ily llcnnufnl mpuiiru \\'lii<~h has been so enthus-

ule.--Froiii n recent bulletin.

IGS MUST BE FED .

AND KEPT CLEAN.

Mr. Jnlneel Mackie, n Scottish “gr-1. ltural organizer, gives the follow- g nd:/ice* oil the iunnagcmelit of gs. 'lo simply give li pig or any

ni twain y cn-mre the best re-

lilri, und other points must be kept view, - Til” vii! has got n. comparatively inll stoniocli, therefore feed, often d in ir..ulci-ate nuiounts. Never give ore than thc uliimuls can clclil. up “FY tilne. 1f too much be given, ther thu pigs. overheat themselves ii l-Z0 'iff T»ll§li` |01-is or they get into c trough with their fl,-ot, and make hat is left of the food iuipalutublc d less effective. l~`e|-.d regularly. This is ull too fre.

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t it is one ofwthe si_crets.u(,,.,u¢¢eg,.,

1 fattening any animal. Provide n

enn crib and ii dry wurnl bed. Pigs do not thrive best when wal-

owilu; in illth and they ure nuclenn,

ot‘frolli cllolcc, but from necessity, hcumatic nilcctions ure more often uc to bad housing than anything se. in the case of young pigs, lt' is es-

‘entinl to supply foods, more espec- lx

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lly in coldweather, in a warm nditioii. This prevents sudden ianges of temper.-.ture in the anim. , nnd saves upsetting its system.

csides, the pig hns li limited ,digest-

c capacity, and it is well that all

iods,shoufd :be supplied in as easily

gestiblc u form as possible. if early iiturit_\' iic\tlie object.

In recent years the consumer has

own it greater preference for leaner

cat and smaller joints than he did

for

merly, 'l`lu: bucoiH:ul‘cr regulates is price wliinli he pays to farmers

r their pigs ill accordance with the

ickncss of the fnt upon the back.

‘hc butcher declines to pay as much

mcy for over fat cattle and sheep for stork that huvo\been normally

cd, his decision being the result of he preference shown by his custom- rs for joints which are less wasteful

--as the housewife would say-more

profitable on the table.

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ave some new light oil the mutter lil mama the cow 0,. the ,,hc,,,,_ This_ GIUUOH t0 l>0\l|U`.V “H 9- |"`“\f" 0' “X” like ull other live stock mid agricul- erlmeuts carried oil for two yenrs tum, com Wimns dc ends mm.

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iy the poultry department of the West ir mia Ex erlmem Stauolh the hundlerthuli on thc stock. A

H p shecpmnn will succeed best with the

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lREl".D FROM L.\R(`iFl l.ll"I‘l5RS.

Select the yelts for breeding pur-

poses fron- the large litters. "Live produces like" inside the wild limits,

f all unreliable tree surgeon wlin has 5 ,em (.a||e,] in to save the tree only a

nga in the cuvfty, and fills it up ,

ecny. "

ble and unreliable men Mid fifllll oriipetlng for contracts in tree sur-

:immercial treeeurgcons to attend to heir troes that they are npw numer- us firms. both honest and dishonest,

saggy? is practiced in connection with some nearly related line. bil! Of- ten ft is taken up in a business of itself. When a blight such as the

(dlfwyxdiistrict, the community, or indi- viduals in it. will often spend consider- able money to control ravssel Whi¢l\ may rob the whole district of its

iizeldtsidlseese is cont&8l0\l!- Il' requir- es scientific illlowledsé 0' 3"’ d|9°°lf¢ gg Know., whether en affected tree ghonlq he destroyed st once or is it