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Pe . 3 Man With Ideas 3 OT a "busy man"-- that, after all is ordinary, um- derstapdable, human. Most & rh "men who are worth while "gre busy men, "them worth while. But a living dy- mamo, canseless in activity, linitless 3 energy, gripping; indomitable, im- piring--euch is Adam B-ck. The "gir" seems out of place. Knight- foods clutter wealth, pcsition, spe- tial interests, politics, and amiable mediocrity, Adam Beck is no show performer. He is all Man, real red- ooded, much-allve man. He is the roperty of the crdinary, everyday common folk. bono publico." There is nothing ordinary about Adam Beck. Becaus? he is human he is unusual. He has wealth and itlone--yet none is closer to the gses. He is devot d to "the sport of Kings," breeds fine horscs, shows them, and even rides and races them {=--but no wild-eycd Socialst rises to punce hira ass a time-wasting 1 % otis" figure is sur- by a strong face. = About ¢ corners of the cyes are the érow's feet of laughter. His lips are tight pressed, .s ave thoss of eve:y man of action, but three Is an up- ward turn at the corners. They ale ory ready to break into a smile, but they can straighten with irrevocable and relentless decision when ther is call to fight "with hig back to the wall." Beck's bigness--the mysicrious magnetic quality about the min-- goes deeper thin mere attrac i,e in- dividuality. It rocts, in the final #nalysis, on fundamentals. His con- wictions are himcelf. Years ago, early in life. He formed his own philosophy of public scrvice. He determined for himse!f thai buman- #y was more important to the Sta'e than p:oerty. Te uelfar: of th re terests, doninet: d as well as sje'l:d with the capital "1." He Is a manu- facturer, and be furned his factories into profit-sharing with-th--employ- ees concerns. He threw himself Into municipal service . In Jaurch d pro- $ects for pure drinking water and fought the white plague by estab lishing , sanitaria. Cnee, twice thrice he was chosen Mayor of h's home city of London. Then the peo- ple sent him to the Legislature. Here came his greatest work. He was never a conventionalist. He was & born trail-blazer. During tha lat- ter part of his munic'pxl experience he had associated himsclf with an €bryo movement to seeure Niagara 'Posear Lor the people. One morning shortly after he had been made a member of the first Whitney Cabinet he strode into the Press Room at the Provincial Parliament Bui'dings and invited the newspapermen 10 come to his room und confer with him. At that "conference" he d'¢ ost of {he talking. He had dream- 32 O%am, and THR burping earp- estness he talked for nearly an uSfif. 'When he finished, the Hydre-slectric gystem, almost as it is known te- day, had been painted in prophetie picture: While the newspapermen were still sitting silent, awed by what appeared then to be the daring and the immensity of the projeet, Adam Beck rose. "That," he commented briefly, "is the project I propose to lay b-fore the Prime Minister and the Cabinct It will go through. It is a people's project; there is no party politics in #. 1 want the counsel, criticism, and co-operation of the press." It was perhaps the first occasion when a Minister of the Crown appes'ed directly to the press cven before tak- ber. The story of how that dream has been realized is recent history. There were times of up-hill tugging; there were disappointments and dis- gouragements; tnere were occasions when the man hed to "fight with his back to the wall." But the man and kis work triumphed; the dream came true; the vision became reoality, Three qualities have stood him in good stead. He Is thorough; 'e Is practical; he Is enthusiastic. If Adam Beck were appointed a commission- er to investigate microbes, he would fin) out more practical things about germs than a professor of bacterio- logy, Then he would give lcader- «.ghip to a héalth campaign that would hum. His campaiges are cyclonic. His energy is dynawic, He dasbes from meeting to meeting, im- parting his fire to each audlence, pomélimes five and six in a night. He is patient and painstaking with honest doubt, but ruthless and re- lentlés§ toward organized oppost lon, Back of his earpest advocacy he has two big a@vantages--nbe has 'made good," and the people believe him to be "Straight." Just how much of his public suc- poss 1s justly attributable f{o tbe doyall and charming lady who pre- inion on occasions when "fa- cannot Seadmbex § | DONT SUFFER His motto is "pro (hm, H's sound whom Lincola descrited as the "common people" lcomed larger In his eyes than the smug, profit-accu- 'mulating complaisance of the Big In- ing his plans into the Council cham- | over his home and the little" téy who is his almost constant ANY MORE" "Feel Like a New Person," says Mrs. Hamilton. | | 2 . New Caitle, Ind.--* From the time 1 was eleven years old until 1 was seven- teen I suffered each Je ll month so I had to be lin bed. I had head- ache, backache and ff such pains I would cramp double every | month. I did not | know what it was | to be easy a minute. My health was all run down and the doctors did not do me any good. A neighbor told my mother about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and I took it, and now I feel like a new person. I don't suffer any more and I am regular evergmonth.'"--Mrs. H. vafieues 0 Oring abdut tne cowoid flowering of the corn at times when frought Is least lable to interfere with fertilization. Everything corn gets from the sofl is fn liquid form, and the crop cannot grow unigss the soll contains moisture to spare. irrigating Upland. Where uplands near and overlookin; bwlands are irrigated provision shoul te made for subdralnage or the filter- wg of the drainage, 4s the salts in the 1i'land soils will be carrfed to the low- mands and demaze them for agricul- fore. This has shown quite clearly ia resenrch work following the drainage from Irrigated aplandg. SUCCESS WITH BARLEY. Experience of a Farmer Who Sowed § as an Alfalfa Nurse Crop. I have never raised barley as a crop but once, and then it was used as a nurse crop to alfalfa in 1915, writes 8 correspondent of Orange Judd Farmer, I sowed ten acres of barley broa on May 3, 1915, using ten bushels, think the name of the variety was Oderbrticker. It is a bearded barley, with six rows of kernels. I paid 54 cents a bushel for the seed. I graded it and treated it for smut in a wayelh ble to believe th great merit? % 1f you want special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (coufidential), Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. | PROFITABLE SOIL CULTURE SECRET OF CORN GROWING. Maintaining a Balance Between Heat, Moisture ard Fertility. The secret of successful corn culture is to maintain a proper balance of moisture, heat and fertility. These three factors, together with the nature of the seed, determine yields in all parts of the country. A change in the supply of one may make a change in aoother advisable. | Thus the moisture requirement varies with the amount of heat available. In addition to water and heat, soil fertil- ity and seed also must be regarded among the chief essentials. No one of these can be said to be more important than another. Where all are abundant except one--as water, for example-- this one becomes the limiting factor, | and mcthods of supplying it become the important means of increasing the yield. Corn possesses characteristics which appear to make it adapted to drought conditions and, on the other hand, has qualities which limit its possibilities as crop for semiarid regions and call for | Shontal slums. Tn producing a given weight of RS ey matter corn uses less water than certain other crops, as oats, clover and alfalfa. It is deep rooted and ean If necessary draw water from a depth of five or six feet. In hot, dry weather the rolling of the blades reduces the loss of water. On the other hand, the beat require- ments and peculiar flowering habits of this crop make it legs adapted to semi- arid regions than other grain or forage Crops. Corn makes its entire growth during the season of highest temperature, growing best when the thermometer registers 80 to 100 degrees I. It can- pot grow in early spring or late fall, and its growth is retarded during the summer by cold nights or cool weather. | It needs its greatest supply of mais- ture during the summer weeks when | droughts are most likely and when rains are less effective because ot losses from evaporation. In other words, the beat requirement of corn prevents growth at times when mois- ture conditions are likely to be most favorable, while lack of moisture fre- quently retards growth when beat con- | ditions are most favorable. The prob- lem, therefore, where heat is great and moisture deficlent is to store up mois- ture, and where moisture is plentiful be told; but ezgerly Sir a man tell when a wo- He Howard G. Barrie th Africa in K "and was | len bearer and the ; leaving for the front and "twice honored by the pont, was formerly a 0 5 married the time, set up in long shocks and not and it stood the wet weather remark. ably well. When it stopped raining we thrashed about Sept. 4. It ylelded 884 | bushels, machine measure, and went into the bin in fine shape. I have used it for grinding and sold some for seed at 78 cents per bushel. The alfalfa came on nicely, and the binder clipped it some; then we mowed it off about Oct. 1 and let the clippings lie on the ground. The fleld was limed April 27, using three tons of pulverized limestone per acre, spread with a limestone sower. The alfalfa seed wes inoculated. The two and one-half bushels of seed used was sown with a hand seeder, using oue half of the seed both ways of the field, followed by a sixteen foot har row, then rolled and harrowed again. The ground was in oats stubble in 1914 | and manured and plowed deep, and the ! ten bushels of seed barley produced 334 bushels of good heavy barley. Had it not been used as a nurse crop I would have sown more and it might have pro- duced more bushels. A large per cemt was shelled and wasted on the ground, 'FARMERS SHOULD RAISE MORE DRAFT HORSES The danger of overproduction of horses is remote. It costs more to prov duce them than any other class of live | stock, writes Wayne Dinsmore in the | Towa Homestead. For that reason mapy farmers sit back and proclaim that it doesn't pay to' raise horses; | that there never was a time when the | horse market was so dull as now; that the motor truck and tractor have killed the horse business and the horse is & | thing of the past. Some people believe all of this, even though the truth of the matter is the opposite. | Those who have allowed such , thonghts to direct their operations foe | ] | | | | One of the speakers at the Illi- | nois Horse Breeders' association said that one reason for the fact that our farm horses are not as good as they ought to be is the scarcity of good, useful sires. Ap- proximately hall the stallions stand- ing for public service in this coun« try are grades and scrubs and half the pure breds ought never to have | been used as sires. The stallion shown is a pure bred Percheron. | the past five to ten years will soon see the error of their ways. It takes time to make much headway in the horse business. Five years are needed to grow a horse. At best one should not expect more than two colts from three mares as an average per year. More over not more than 16 per cent of our farmers are raising colts. Not long hence the American farmer will wake up only to learn that a great opportu- nity has passed. | The next ten years is bound to see the greatest demand for horseflesh the world has ever known, [It can't be met on short notice. The man who is breeding every mare old enough to the best stalliop available and is taking proper care of the offspring i§ the man Who is sure to be rewarded. There are plenty of men who have bought and paid ae rw within the t ten years by t pure bred draft om To 'the same community the Fk They read ish thing as this their mind, less somethi Ontario. Tue Op-IRVER., ronto on Monday, May 7. nl Face the Crisis! | FE. OF ONTARIO are accustomed to ac= ood much the same as they breathe the air. d items about food shortage, but such a ecting their own diuner table never euters it is the responsibility of The Observer to bring homie bo its readers a realization of the facts, as un- is done, in another year, they will not be reading abdub the hunger in Belgium but the hunger in The following should be memorized by every reader of Under the Predency of Mr J. W. Woods, a Confer- ence of all igterested in food production was held in Tn. EE DRIAIAIRE AERA L two kinds of few nipat deficient so'to handle the sol! Kuling, €bina, and ps to prevent moisture from lessening undaly such heat as may bé available. : The Hen's Bath. old box half full of wood ikled: \ gin or any other alco! mens! haga discomfort. specific. of the worker. uncohscious control follows: ible. possible I felt better. full efficiency, forts of menstruation. truation of all patients. : anil that they be taken rather at random, according to. of Quinine answers all the purposes of alcohol, with, perhaps, the exception of rapidity of action. It is much more constant in its effects; much thore lasting, and gives a permanent toa Not long ago I was given a told that these absences from the o appreciated if 1 would try not to abéent myself. «I decided that I would try to adjust myself so that I fled pot 04 away from the office during these periods. physic several days before the menstrual period. the office and found that by keeping on my feet and being as active as surprise, that the baths made me feel been taught to Jollee ok) m the office durin ese periods. ye ry and I shall aad some of the suggestions contained in your articléd and think I shall be helped even more. "My mind i& occupted with my work, and even if 1 do not work up to 1 am at my place of business, earning my salary, and j{ rgans. 'When to this is 6 tl The d¥iig which I use for a uterine holic beverage Emotions and all outside stimuli ~ menstrual behavior, especially emotions based on sex affairs. Fright, fea? of pregnancy, and desire for pregnancy play a great part in irregularities. Fatigue, when through the emotions, is more r rhea and menorrbagia than work, long houts, or unsanitary surroundings Emotions have their value, especially vital emotions, and should not be annihilated, but trained and checked. work and plenty of it, if the work: an end--1is the paramount factor of her physica better than when staying at home in bed With the hot water botf It is now al o is . 'gull : ; as a regulator f the 1s and. discom= 1 use quinine as a part the preparation fo I advise that two grain capsules b kept the 'degree 1 regard it almost as & play an important role in th¢ ble for dy In fact, work--hatd er likes it or finds through it a means to which will finally obtain for woman the 1 forces and add to her energy for the mental and cultural side of life--of which nan has no monopoly. ) A correspondent, after reading the foregoing, wiites to the papef as "I was much interested in your series of articles regarding preparation for menstruation and give my experience. fr6m business one or two days each month, stayed in bed and felt miser- considerable increase in salary, but wad fice were inconvenient, and it would be For years I had stayed homé { started in by taking a g: I forced myself to go td "I decided to bathe oncg a day during the period, and Tourd, to my better instead of injuring me, as I most a year since I have been away 1 follow the above plan and it' has 2 ¢ § § ; ¢ § § $ § ¢ § § § € § § contains all reaches a SUPERIOR TEL. HELL 30 [ESTABLISHED 1857] V Bverybody knows t--if itis in The Observes _. [TALL HOME PRINT] THE OBSERVER OFFICE I3 NOTED FOR CORRECT AND AT MODERATE PRINTING EDITOR, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIS?OR. 13) Aa the news all the rich farming community whose residents are able to buy what he' need and pay for what they get. is its circulation, hence its value as an advers. tising" medium. time, and Permanent and solid CHARGES $ $ kb] $ [] i] $ H. PARSONS § | 5 Mr. Peter McArth Back to the Lad, dressed the Frpire unique experience Empire problems, broke" in" all the farmer-poet and litterateur, bis newspaper sketchés and his books such as his recent work, "In Pastures Green," sings the praises of ountry life, and sounds the slogan, He claimed some authority to deal with topics of Empire; for, humorously said, he .had had = A PORT-FARMEH SPEAKS. . Peter McArthur Has Unique Views oti Empire Building. ur; the Canadian who' in ,¥ #ecently ad- Club {n Toronto. as he in the study of have been "dead ~centres of or Tne DOYS at (ne iront. rie Speaner told of buying the old farm én which he had bee. raised, 4nd finding among the documents &n 61d parch- ment with the king's seal, and the description which for the first time since the creation of the world set out the metes and bounds of the lot of land which his own father had cleared. It made him feel' as though he had received the deed directly from the hand of God. He told with fine touches of pathos and humor, how Neil McAlping hdd saved the Talbot settlement {in Western Ontario by refusing to sell r cious store of wheat, the whole 3,000 4 el a Ei ices | SF aaving mper 3