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> Address all questions. to of The Wilson Publish which they are received. As isable where immediate reply 'W.K.:--What is the best thing to grow for silage?" Please give cul- tural direct nwt; The best thing to grow for silage by all means is good field corn. If you live in a section where Dent corn can be successfully grown, in all probability it will out-yield Flint ety. However, toward the centre and north of Ontario, the Flint variety matures better than the Dent. Re- member that the best quality silage is made from corn bearing ears which are pretty well mature, =H corn is being grown Tor silage, it can' be planted a little thicker than for ordin- ary field corn. It also will benéfit from an additional application of ma- nure and fertilizers, Farmer:--I have a dairy of thirty cows and would like to raise some kind of feed that would be rich in pro- tein instead of buying so much ex- pensive feed. Would it be advisable to sow oats with peas? I have about eight acres of good black loam for the purpose. Answer:--Peas and oats, cut for hay, make a fodder comparatively rich in protein, Henry, in his book on "Feeds and Feeding", says: "A com- bination of peas and oats, if cut early, forms a forage of high nutritive quality, much appreciated by farm stock, especially shéep and dairy cows. In the grain which this plant furnishes and the hay which it is possible to secure from it, the stockman located e of our ns ders the advice oa acknowledged uthority on all subjects pertaining to' solls and ns [estas ] £ Honey a. Bal, in and answers will appear in this co umn' re E eder oh space Is limited It is that a and addressed envelt be 1 lon, when the answer Slope be maled iret. éd 'with the ' : : Henry G. Bell far north, has fair compensation for the absence of a corn crop." Analyses show oats and peas hay carries 10.8 percent. crude protein against field, cured- fodder corn analyzing 4.56 per- cent. crude protein. J.N.;:--When ig the proper time to' cut scions for grafting? I have a dis-; ease in my plum trees that is rotting the fruit, starting before they get ripe, and keeps up until all are gone. On the plum trees there is an insect, a half an inch long, shaped-like a fish, slimy as a fish, eating the leaves. What can I do for them? Answer:--You will do well to write -t.hey 'can, not thinking it they let the cows get what wate sidering. ol : I remember one day last 'winter, I happened to call to se¢ a farmer friend who lived in the néxf town. He was just turning. his cows out to water. The trough was about a hundred feet {away from the stable. It was a windy day and very 'cold. As he let: the' cows out one by one, he would drive them over to the water with the help of a little stick which he used for a whip. When they got there, some would try to drink, but the wind blow- ing on them kept them busy holding their heads so as to protect them- selves, and the water.having ice in it, the Horticultural Department of On-! made it impossible for them to drink worth. con®! tario Agricultural College, Guelph qs puch age they needed, so after for specific information as to how 0: guiniing a few swallows, they would treat your orchard. | § NY 1] have four acres: of muck yu back to the barn, cold and shiver that I am going to put half into onions up : ¥ you think that your cows drink and half into cabbage. What shall I] jit 0 Toto ho need 27 1 asked. him. vee for fentiliser} ios onl "Well, I suppose they might drink & nswer:--In growing onions on jie more, if it was not so cold and muck soil the fertilizer. that is applied: windy," he answered, "but J guess should carry from 1 to 2 per eent.: ' a ! ammonia, 8 to 12 per cent. available pe get enough 16 Seboy) ---- hosphoric acid and 1 to 8 per cent.|: "$1. wi wg : Lins it it * obtainable. Successful in th : winter uf they 40. in the Butt; onan growers vse wpvards of 1000, at ow tht i rikin" 110i good yields are obtained where 500 to i -- a a em a 800 pounds of such fertilizer is used.} 14» However, the largest quantity pro-| «gp she is the fussiest cow duces greatest yields. Similar ferti-| 0 » he exclaimed. "Now, she lizer, applied in equal quantity gives Ye not drank anything for two days best Xequlta sled ob gabbige, When this oo I expect that she must be dry, so crop is produced on muck Soils. sherhas got to drinkto-day. Yesterday I Clleeslies™ Shelter, proper feed, and good man- agement are the requisites in bringing sheep successfully through the winter season. * While some shelter is nec- essary, close housing is not advisable, especially with the ewes in lamb. Large, dry yards in which the sheep have plenty of room for exercise are the first requirement. Seven or eight square feet of floor space ina shed is necessary for an average-sized sheep. The fleece affords sufficient warmth in dry weather, and for this reason the main need for a shed or a sheep barn is protection from storms. On most dry nights the sheep prefer to stay out of doors, and will winter. better if allowed to be there. While some of the roughage should always be fed out of doors, it is more convenient to have the feed racks in- gide the barn. With breeding ewes, toward lambing time, there is danger of injury in their crowding through narrow gates, In dry weather it is a good plan to have a pasture on which they can run during the day. If the wether lambs and the cull ewes are sold early in the fall, it will be possible to use the winter feed and quarters for a larger number of breeding ewes. Sheep will usually thrive better with not more than 40 _or 50 in a lot. = = === | and the day before she did not. drink To bring the breeding ewes to lamb-| hecause it was windy and cold; but I ing time in good vigorous condition,' knew she'd get over being fussy if I and only in medium flesh,'is the prob- | let her take her time!" lem of wintering breeding ewes. This, «But does she give much milk?" can be done by giving plenty of ex-| «Well, she does pretty good 'til win- ercige' and the right kind of feed tor comes and then she drops off." regularly, + When the fall grass, I wonder what sort of a surprise he is soft it 'is a good plan might get," if he should weigh his to start with a little dry feed before' cows' milk; he might find that they the ewes are removed from the pas- ture. Hay may be used at this time, although a feed of half a pound of grain a head daily can be fed more conveniently. : Rape or rye, sown with small grajn or drilled in the corn, is excellent for fall feed, and is also useful in the spring. This is an economical feed, and is helpful in keeping the sheep in good condition. With plenty of rough- age, such as red clover or alfalfa hay, sheep can be carried ' until nearly sping with little grain. ~~ Corn silage can be used to furnish 'succulence, though some losses 'and a great deal of trouble have resulted from impro- per feeding of silage, Sheep are peculiarly subject to injury from mold- 1y feed. Poorly kept silage is there- fore to be avoided. ~ An excellent ration for: ewes with' lambs at their side is odts and bran. The flock should have access to water and salt all the time. In feeding rams during the winter season the ob- ject js to feed them as cheaply as pos- sible, but at the same time to keep them in 8 thrifty condition. INTERNATIONAL LESSON ° FEBRUARY 17. | Lesson VIL--Jesus Teaching by Para- bles: Four Kinds of Ground-- Mark 4. 1-20, Golden Text, _ Luke 8, 18, - Verse 1. Again by the sea-side-- The picture is clear=--the vast multi tude on the beach, crowding down to the water's edge, the Master in the fishing boat, which is 'pushed out a little from the shore. 8. The sower--On the hills about the lake in plain view were the fields, the various soils, and all the conditions which would suggest the parable-- the sower, the path through the fields, the birds, the stony fields, the good ground. . 4. The way side--The beaten foot GPoulir/?s "To secure winter eggs it is neces- sary to breed from winter layers," says 'dn' "These breeding hens should be selected now. Just which ones to choose is, of course, the thing that stumps the man who has never given much attention to poultry. if a poul ior farmer can find five or six hens in his flocks that have laid an average of thirty eggs each during 4 November, December and January-- that is, ten eggs a month--these can be bred and a small flock of good pro- ducers raised for next year, if the are hatched early. ~~~ 4 karly March is the best time hatch pullets for winter laying. course, much has been said about ear- Glues, Pastes, and Patches. When we fit a patch for the inner ing, for our boot or shoe, be it Jeather, fabric, or rubber, we get it to. stick better for service if we make a To bid us run; and path, falling on which and having" no lodgment in the crevices of the earth, the seed fell-an easy prey to the birds. 6. Rocky ground--Not ground mixed with stones, for in those same fields to-day one sees much loose stone, yet the grain flourishes. « This is, rather, thin soil on the surface, with a bed of rock beneath. The grain could have no deep root and no ade- quate moisture, : 7. Among thorns--Which' absorb the nourishment of the soil and thus prevent: the growth of the grain. 8. Thirty, sixty, and a hundred fold ~The soil on the plain of Gennesaret, to-day, is of elous fertility, and ly-laying pullets moulting in October and November, but if the birds are fed properly, this moult will Hot be a com- plete one, and will be confined to the head and neck. It has been my expe- rience that the early hatched chicks-- up to April 16--are the ones that grow most rapidly, mature soonest and lay best during the winter. \ ; "A palatable mash which should produce winter eggs in a well-bred flock of fowls kept in light, roomy and sanitary quarters, can be made as fol- Jows: One hundred pounds of bran, 100 pounds of gluten meal, 100 pounds of meat scrap, 150 pounds of crushed oats and 150 pounds of corn meal. 70 ounces of this mash, with one and half otinces of cracked corn, an 'one-half ounce of whole oats should fed to each hen daily. 14. The -sower--Primarily - Christ Tg his Bpostles, Who 5 .in hig name. roadly s y nd ail teachers of sprit truth, The AN A Child. ~ ne A little child--a sniile, a song from | God, Re Wakening echoes from far gees past That still endure through' all the Peopled with shades who once this sad earth trod; Sey io J 4 child Sd love, to lift us from the, To curb our faults, our virtues to i expand, eet of ji hh To open wide the clutching. miser : hand, we Wut To show us where fair flowers of| sing--forget to. *| for your cows?" must have been the same at that time. | - to fore cooking. > 3 RL 5 _Y1 certainly do," He an "You Krlow I began last Sol 0 welih my sepjes). cows' milk., I found that after I got pa 3 1 used to it, that it was not the hother dry place. | that I éxpected it would be. Lhave if had some surprises." « .. § Dd you find that the Sous needed different water-arrangements ) a . OV v winter, when the weather got cold and) boil for an hour, th blowy, the cows began to give less tight]; ay in yo milk. I was sed, because I cupboard. -sure the have a nice warm barn and try to well sterilized by boilir have them comfortable. But I no- pumpkin is put into them. ticed that they would not drink some find that the pumpkin is | bad days as they ought to, and on for pies as when freshly cool | good days they drank more. On for the pickled cucumbers those days they would give more milk: frozen in the vinegar, I fear they are So I tried an experiment. * When the now worthless. . But 'you might try bad days came again, I carried water heating up some of them with fresh in pails to them. They drank all vinegar and spices. Let us know right then. I could see by the milk the result, please. 3 scales that there was a different in| Laura: --You are entirely mistaken, my favor when I watered them in out Laura, if you think that the reports of the dold weather. So I decided to you see in the papers and the things build this inside trough. ~And'it has you hear about food conditions in more than paid for the expense and | Europe are at all exaggerated. bother." : | ditions are just as they are painted "But what is that arrangement you|and the sodher the people of Canada have there, also? "I asked.™ | | realize this the better. Quite recent- "That -is apother improvement. Ally the British Food Controller made dairy expert told me once, that all the the statement that the time was at | record-breaking cows have water hand when compulsory rationing with the chill taken off, in the winter "would be enforced in Britain. _ Al- time, So-I tried that, too. It was ready the sugar ration is in force. In hard work carrying it from the house; the latest cablegram received at the {hot water to warm the water in the offices of the Canadian Food Control- trough. But I found that that also' ler regarding conditions in France it helped. increase their milk flow, as! was pointed out that the supply of they drank'more. So I have installed breadstuffs was causing grave anxiety. the heater which you see, to warm the | Their bread card machinery had been "water here so Ido not have to! carry it completed but the lack of cereals had ! any-more."" not permitted its application. There i much hard work and much discomfort foodstuffs, The consumption of meat r I asked. i had been restricted by high prices to "1 certainly have,' but--the 'scales' within the limits of the available and have shown me that it has paid--for! greatly depleted stocks. Butter-was itself. I would not have believed it very scarce.and milk even more diffi- if T had not proved it that way. But, | cult to obtain. Oils and fats were after all, 'experience is the best teach-| practically unobtainable. . Isn't this er" serious enough, Laura? Mrs. L.A. C.:--Yes, you would be well advised to save cream as much as possible and make butter. Did you know that the Duke and Duchess 20. The 'good ground--It goes al- most without saying that when the seed has favoring conditions it gives the best results. Each kind of soil roducks according to its capability. t is not intended tb teach that all per- sons must inevitably fall under one of these four classes. = The point of the parable is that the seed, in order to the best results, must have the right of way. in the life of a man, The good ground is pot only a well-pre- pared soil, but a Soil steadily cultivat- ed and cleared of all noxious elements. When these are the conditions the life is fruitful. SE A 'use of cream at Rideau Hall for the period of the war? Fx +A Soldier's Wife:~¥You may rest assured that the men in khaki are be-. ing well fed. - Although the civilian we etamguel nn Cure Beef At Home, "Farmers can not only reduce their|. living expenses, but they ean per- form a patriotic service by curing | their own meats. . ! | Any of the brine or dry .mixtures which good results in curing pork , can be used satisfactorily for beef, but i'since beef is leaner than pork, it should not be allowed to remain in the brine or mixture quité so long or it will become hard and salty. | © Dried beef should have the same | cure as corned beef, but it 'should not | be! allowed to become too salty. . It : should then he washed to remove the excess of the cure, and smoked if the | smoked flavor is desired. A_very good country practice is to dry-eure 'the beef with salt and: brown sugar, {using about a fifth as much sugar as salt, rubbing the meat very thorough- ly with the cure every two or three days for about two weeks. It should then be washed, wiped, and hung up to dry in a warm place or transferred to the smoke house and given a light ke. 2 og Corned beef is at its very best when it has been in the cure about ten days. If kept in the cure more than a month, it needs considerable freshening be- { g. If the red color of the Madeleine had gone for the winter with her father and mother, after they had put her older sister, Lillian, into a boarding school, to a lovely sunny place in the far South, Their home was rightion the sea, where there were - among. the rocks, near the very top, where it was too slippery for her to climb, Madeleine's sharp eyes had dis- covéred-a fairy. : & There were no other liftle girls liv-. ing near, 50 d e Wi go 0 orf "with bucket /and shovel, to dig in the sand» She woul always first look up and smile at the little new-found friend, as she _con- sidered hér--although never would the tiny thing accept the to come down to play. "But then," Madeleine would-say_to herself, "you could hardly except tHat Of a fairy." 'Madeleine wrote a letter every week | a very she told her mother what ta say. And always the somé word about: the sea fairy. 'never g there was = e but then, the ers eyes so quch th Con- | "By building this you have saved! was a great shortage of farinaceous | of Devonshire have discdntinued the "I ter's hand. ) | "that last great wave has carried her of many rocks and much sand. High! 'or 80 to Lillian; or rather, being such | self. girl, 1- And when she'd knit the hi . hg lis main bi which were not to prevent . of perishable food but also to' save- tin-plate, of which there is a shortage. The Food Controller's Office is prepar- ed to"do all-in its power to encourage city cultivation this year. It is hop- ed that market eners will sow part of their land in bread grains. Miss 'henette:--Here are some - war time tips for you, Miss Kitchen- ette:-- 2A 3 potato parings make good fire Suet pudding is an excellent dessert for cold weather. - Ox' tails make good «soups stews at small cost. * Next to dirt the greatest sin in the" kitchen is disorder. : Sour cream'is a valuable food which can be used in many ways. J Never buy large quantities of spices at a time--they spoil. = ° ; Muffins made from left-over boiled rice ure delicious. Brown bread and baked beans make sandwich, : Delicious muffins as well as griddle cakes can be made with bread crumbs, dried and run through a meat chopper. and good care of every serap of fat, / It is becoming more precious every day for there is a great shortage in Europe. that there may be no waste of Grease fromthe kitchen sink if care- fully treasured and soap, the basis of which is edible fat, has become a luxury of the wealthy. Candies, an- other fat product, have disappeared. France and England also lack fats, al- though in-a lesser degree. were now coming in with unusual force, beating and lashing against the rocks. Suddenly Madeleine gr d her sis. "0 Lillian," she' cried, away!" | Nor could Lillian find any more sign of a white shell with its bunch of seaweed. Looking 'down, she saw that there were "tears in Madeleine's eyes. "They Have been playmates so long," 'she said to. herself; and then, aloud, "I'm so sorry, Madeleine dear!" At that' moment n's eyes caught sight of a pearly looking ob- ject on the crest of an incoming wave. As he wave a Hil left its icy on the beach, an lian ran y orward, pulling Mad along by foraasd, $ HMadelgine * "Look, Madeleine, look!" she cri ] "If your fairy has gone out to sea, seems fo have sent you a present | rem her by." i And Lillian rand down to'the wa- ters edge and, before another wave - - could come in, picked up a beautiful shell. = With a smile, she handed it to her little sister--who at once forgdt. all her grief in the joy of being thus - 'remembered by the dear sea fairy her. . rab Cog = 5 The Persevering Knitter. Red Cross As sare as I'm alive, She went and sheared her le kept just four or five : Ds Sa fathers = R. BE. A.;--Whatever you do, take In Germany no food Ts fried but eve - thing is<boiled _and, stewed in ori J