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d that the sows may be con: ently brought to him for sex A large pen is not needed-- pasture should each be adja: nt. The yard will be needed for and for his exercise in the ng season, and the pasture, Bich may be an: acre, or less, puld afford him water, shade, ass, alfalfa or other succulent ¥ | cently in those brav |< %eountry" was the corn: 1. 'wages were. 81.50 : 5 a week; so you see how or miseries of an borer's lot. farmer; to some slight extent the parson. - Prices were high, owners Luv up the rents, and farmers got their own back by cutting down i feet square will do--but o yard| the wages, Ob, no, the agricultural laborer never liked his job, depend on it; he would have been something mere or less than human if he had; but he saw no way out of it. Now the newspapers, the' railways, and the emigration agencies have shown Eim the way--and he is taking it. He did not like his job in the pip- i prices; and he ; 08 of corn has to do} | creased : : "times 'of high THE POOR. PROFITABLE PIG. |i rte of Meh rites, and he No matter what the price offered |¢ome: to think of it, should he? It n't let the good brood sow. go.|is 8 poor sort of job in which skill t one blow cits oft the head off brings no adequate payment. ur-{ he goose that lays the egg of gold.| MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING. ine & few more hogs could well be'kept| " It we want to keep our agricul 'most every farm. It isn't just tural laborer to his job we must vito turn the ho bere there is no place for shelter, ng matter what the weather. Give em a place to creep in out of the rm, if it be nothing more than a shed with a good tight roof. Sun: shine is good for hogs, but when it he Don't let emi be baked alive, We all like baked: pork, but 'there is a right] "| time for everything. More grass and green feed now and corn by- v-d-hy will give you healthier, bets hogs. rg NF lecting gilts from any young litter for raising as breeders, the he! umber of teats should always be ©lascertained. A sow can rear no jjmore little ones than she has teats, for each keeps jealously to its own. And, "singularly enough, if one of the litter dies it is very rarely, if youngsters "takes to the spare teat. The number of teats that sows have 'ever, that one : of the ed vary from ten to sixteen, but four | teen are quite a goodly array. The numbers vary with the breeds al ; id most of our big, free-breed- are pretty well furnished ats, This is as it should 'many a little piggy would the scene with no font to out into field 'make a better job of it for him, and Wo mush improve the conditions un dor which it'is done, We must as- sure him a: reasonable wage and hours that are not all of them hours of labor; a house, or, not to be im: moderate, let us say, 'a cottage that keeps the water out and lets the air in, and gives some sort of chance to instinets of common de- ency 3 We must secre him against scoial tyranny--at least, against so Ruch of it as. that from which the town worker isssecured. We must give him a chance to cultivate his .cwn cabbages and to become, in some sort, his own master: And 'this we can do only by en: abling 'him to rent land from a public and not from & private own- e+. Land sented from a pablic au- thority 'means reasonable land af & reasonable rent, and with reason- able tenure. Land rented from a souire means none of these things, if, indeed; it can be rented at all, which, by an agricultural laborer, in ninety-nine times out of a hun- dred, it can't. f. you were to analyze, to sort out, the passengers of anv one of the emigrant ships that are leav- irg England 'just now you would find, roughly speaking, that they {oli into two classes. One of those clases would consist of those who are beckoned away from us by hope ; the other of those who are driven forth by despair; 1" The first sort---the adventurous, j gome time have been ORS a pretty close rade, 'so ts are concerned. Farm- add a. few to their of increase their bur- the enterprising sort, the sort who itch always for elbow room--we could not if we were wise, keep 'if we could. ' These are the empire, ed By the. Tepor 'the work of the Exchanges during May. were filled, making a total duting the four months that the Exchanges Lave béen in operation of 81,697. Every month the number has in- February 'it was 19,638; in March 20,395; in April 23,858; in" May 24,746. A hundred and three Exchanges are now open, and three more are to be opened shortly." At the end of April there were on the register 81,623 names, and at the end of May the "number had been reduced to 75.402 (men 58,986, boys 4,488, wo- wen 0,999 girls 1,988). The number of women slightly increased, and the decrease, as in previous months was almost entirely among men, an evidence that trade is slowly but surely improving. The applications received during May numbered 100,32 (men 72,860, 'boys 7,868, women 16.171, and girls 3.493). compared with 116,623 (men 83,429,. boys 11,613, women 17,402, and girls 4,088) during April: These figures do not include renewals but do include re-applications by per- sens whose regirtration had lapsed or been cancelled. | Thus, while applications decreas- ed; the number of vacancies filled increased from 23,8568 in April to 24.025" in May (men 15,887, boys 8,- £05, w men 4,108, girls 1,275). The preportion of vacancies filled to va- cancies notified rose from 75 per cent. in April to 78 per cent. 'in May. v Mines MAIDS OF HONOR, Qualifications Required' to Serve Her Majesty. A girl who aspires to become a maid of honor intimates, usually through her parents, to the mistress of the robes that she would like to serve her Majesty in this capacity, and if she is a suitable candidate het namé'is put. down and submit- ted to the Queen when a vacancy among the maids of honor occurs, or in the event of her Majesty wishing to increase the number, ' which is at present limited to three, says the Gentlewoman. A 'maid of honor must of course occupy a well established social po- sition; though it is not now neces- gary, as. it was once, that they should be : f titled rank. A maid must be able to speak French flu- ently and should be able to con- verse in German; she must be a gcod pianist and be able to read accompaniments at sight, and she! must, it is scarcely necessary to say, be thoroughly well educated anu have travelled on the Contin-| crt. A good, well trained voice is a qualification. No fewer than = 24,746 situations = SR IL adie HG Se MEN