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gS + quickly realize the importance then of | quickly as acid : bone meal has to wait until the tem- perature of the soil becomes suffi- ciently high for bacterial growth to progress. 'A third type of phosph more recently called Basic slag or s phos phate. This material is a by-product of the steel industry. In the ma: - facture of steel it was found that the natural iron ores of Europe contained a considexable amount of phosphoric acid. When the raw ore was melted and an t to make hard steel was made, it was found that the phos: phorus became 'a seriaus detriment to the quality of the steel, Ways-and means had to be devised to remove the:.phosphorus. from thé melted ore: An BVention by #" man named Bes{ semer provided the solution of the problem, semer «devised a pot o cauldron which he lined with quick- Time. ' Tato his he put the crude ore $phoric acid... .. which when it melted gave up its P in' plantfood per-| Phosphorus; the: phosphorus clinging very important functions, one {0 the inside crust.ef the pot, forming ; rich is that it hastens ripening phosphate of lime, When the melted by pushing forth the maturity of the oF¢ had been let out the lining of the erop through the early growing sea-'P° gon. Another important thing that'int 'phosphoric acid does 'is to invigorate Found to contain .a considerable am- Took. growth. If a soil is short of, ak gf phosphoric acid, but in a form * phosphoric. acid, the roots of crops{™ was more slowly available an growing in it are usually scarce and. Ponemeal and much more slowly avail- spindly. The practical farmer will, able than acid phosphate, : . : Phosphates have an important place 2 supply of Phosphoric acid so that i Sieur, Modern scianse 8 crops through their strong roots, shows tha some extent a soil in shall be able to siretch out and lay, proper condition has power to fix some bold of every bit of available plant- of the free nitrogen out of the air. The within their reach, rain during heavy thunderstorms "Phosphoric acid is therefore one" of brings to the soil no inconsiderable the most. important plantfoods that, amount of nitrogen out of the air in the crop Shows hs So, Somuider, At a year, Legumes, moreover, by virtue e free e phosphoric' aci e in agri Bs ~ "#phos- 'means. fertilizers. some extent the word phosphate been used with the same mean- as fertilizer in many other sec- this continent. Phosphates, ever, represent a distinct: consti jguent of plantfood and only one con- fuent. This constituent in its pure is called phosphorus. Phos- is a heavy gum-like material 1 iever found free in nature ; which enters into the composition of all animal and plant 'matter. The : word phosphorus is derived from a word meaning light, because the darkness a light is given off this. substance, : : lack of fuller information stud- -plant growth gave the name ric acid to the carrier of onstituent. * This was on the ption that the plant most likely this necessary plantfood in otic acid has for of their root structure increase the culture is found in four nitrogen in the soil considerably. mmon forms. About a century ago| There i§ no supply from which we can history records the fact that the rapid | get phosphoric acid so easily as we increase in European population was] get nitrogen. It does not exist in the not. paralleled by an increase in crop, air, therefore cannot be brought out production on the continent. The Te- | of the air. Crops growing on the soil --pult was that national scientists began can return only What they take out. to e warning that if increase in| Moreover, animals feeding on the population continued without a para M crops remove considerable phosphoric 1 increase of crop production the! acid from the feed since they use it day of famine could be predicted with '%o build their bone, consequently live- comparative certainty. stock manure is relatively weak in the « Scientists also began to give atten. | crop ripener. Practical crop growers tion' to the study of the food of the been developed. It js Thoma! y " = next thing in slowness of solubility is *1 basi o t was removed and the cakes ground | d a fine powder. This powder was|. | unless he is supplying a large amount of barn manure to his cultivated or cereal crops, he is unbalancing the fertility of the soil by adding acid phosphate or basic slag alone, rather than building up the fertility of his need 3 put 18rM in a uniform and well-balanced | : oe ienoaphoric_acld, bat <ondition by the use of properly pro- | quickly bin nor does it act as POT tioned pla late, because. ? ntfood. Phosphates have their place and it is an ever-increasing place in Canadian agriculture. The more available the phosphate the greater influence it has on hastening the ripening of the crop. This in itself is a fact of immense financial value to the Canadian farmer. If we can ripen wheat.and barley ten days or two weeks earlier simply by adding phos- phatic fertilizer (which actual farm | tests show that we can do), it means that cereal crops can be grown with profit much farther north than is now the practice and it means immensely improved feeding quality in ensilage than is grown in the ¢ooler climates. Users of phosphates should keep' in mind the fact, that the phosphate rock itself, which comes from the southern States for this continent and om Afnica and India for Europe, is practically insoluble in water. The i ! | | sic slag, then comes bone meal, 'while acid phosphate is almost im- mediately soluble where the water supply, is sufficient. When we say immediately' soluble we mean that up to the point that ds guaranteed--16 or | | ance transpired on the 18th inst. in the _! a remarkable growth in a comparative- 'An event of great financial import. celebration by the Royal Bank of the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation. The history of the institution is one of the financial romances of Canada, ly 'short period from humble begin- nings to a great banking business, covering not only the Dominice, but extending to many foreign countries. The expansion of its business In recent years has been remarkable. Four other institutions with establish- ed clienteles in as many provinces was pursued, and to-day the Royal ranks well up among the big financial concerns of the Continent. Its opera- tions in Cuba and the West Indies, a field early exploited, have given it a leading place'in those countries, with the result that it has now 615 branch: es, and 42 sub-branches, giving it pre- mier place ameng Canadian banks in this respect. Capital has gr to up- wards of $16,000,000, theAeserve fund to $16,400,000, deposits to $381,307,000, and mssets to $470,870,000., An accomplishment of this kind is the _highbst tribute that can be given the vigorous and progressive character of'the management and fn that tribute the vice-president and managing di rector, Mr. BE. L. Pease, has a large share, fof he It was who thirty-two years ago blazed the trail of suecess. | The Royal Bank 'has in its president, Sir Herbert Holt, and its General Manager, . Mr, €» BE. Neill, men of energy, capacity, and wide experience in business and banking affairs. The prosperity of the bank is a reflection of the prosperity and growing com- merce of Canada, in which the inst tution has materially aided by ercour- aging domestic and promoting foreign 17 per cent, soluble--it is immediate- trade. X \ Trees, Grass, Flowers, Shrubbery: Which of these will you buy? Two farms lie black and rich before you, level and yet well drained. As like as two peas and equally distant from the market. Two brothers own them and they built house, barn and out- buildings on the same plans and in the same year. They have traded labor in the years gone by and both have followed the same scheme of crops, have had the same amount of stock and worked their land with equal care. Botly are scrupulously neat and prosperous looking. Both are for sale. - - The flip of a coin might decide but it will not. In fact, there is no com- 'parison between them. On the one farm the buildings stand bare, unpro- tected and without a setting. No trees to break the cold north wind, no shade from the heat of the blazing summer sun, no shrubbery to round off the corners and lend perspective to the lawn, no flowers to give a cheerful Making Things Grow know that when they attempt to grow plant and the supplies of the neces- sary materials which were lacking. A prominent European chemist by the name of Leibig observed that the ad- dition of ground bone improved the quality of cereals. He was not satis fied with the length of time which was necessary for results to. be forthcom-| be corrected by the addition of 50 Ibs. "ing. On closer study of the composi- tion of bone he"found it could be treated with acid and brought to such a form that it, would dissolve readily in quater. When this treated form 8 supplied to growing farm crops hey almost immediately found bene- from this material since it was le in water. ©. iis discovery was a world 'con- tion since it proved to be 'the! grain on heavily manured fields they get a large increase of straw, but frequently a -poor setting of grain. This is due to the unbalanced condi- tion of the nitrogen and phosphoric acid-added to the-soil in the shape of manure. This deficiency can readily touch of color to the scene. On the other farm, the buildings nestle against the background of a protecting grove and look peacefully out upon the highway across a shady lawn, Well-placed shrubbery gives the place a comfy, pleasing, homelike look, and a few simple flowers com- plete the charm. Which will you buy? g A thousand dollars could not make you see that barren farmstead; your wife could not see it for twice as much. The bareness of those buildings seems to affect the very fields themselves and it is hard to realize that they are lof an equal richness with that other farm. The one attracts the lingering of acid phosphate to the ton of ma- nure, at the time the manure is hauled out. Regarding the use of fertilizers, the profit of using well balanced plant- food has been demonstrated by vari- ous' leading experiment stations: When acid phosphate was applied to the soil it was found to increase the yield and improve the quality of a The Home Place Needs Them All persons in the world are those who can get their pleasure from the things around them. Many a country woman has eaten out her heart for the festivi- ties of the city when she had a better concert in her own front yard than was ever staged in any grand opera house. The joyful music of the birds heralding the return of spring is one of the most fascinating things that the world has to offer in the city or country and jt is our own fault if we miss it. It is pathetic to see sdme poor beauty-starved soul in a city hovel nailing a battered little pig house on an old tree in a dirty little backyard in an attempt to catch.a strain of that wonderful music that so many farm women with their un- equaled opportunities never hear. If you are not familiar with the birds, get acquainted, and you need never know another lonely day from spring to fall, The farmer has an equal interest here with his wife. He may not be as much/in need of the bird music and companionship--though there is no reason why he should not enjoy them and improve himself by it--but they are the best paying tenants that he could possibly have, Those little songsters that live in the trees and shrubbery, eat untold myriads of harmful insects and add very mater- ially to the value of his crops. They are the farmer's best friends and if he fails to cultivate them and provide them with suitable homes, he is neg- lecting a grefit opportunity and is not INTERNATIONAL LESSON - _ NOVEMBER 9TH. RM Peter' s Great Confession--Matt. 16: 13:24. Golden Text, Matt. 16: 16. paren Philippi" was a town uilt by the tetrarch Philip, and called after his Roman master. It was beau- tifully situated at the base of Mount 'Hermon in the north of Palestine, about thirty miles north-east of «the Ldke of Galilee and near the head waters of the river Jordan. Here | Jesus had come to be away from the multitudes which had thronged every- where 'about Him in Galilee, and it was here that the won crful vision of the Transfiguration took place (chap. 17), as if to confirm the faith which on Peter's lips had found such noble expression. "Who do men say?" They had op- portunities of hearing what was said which He had not. In reply to His question they tell Him that some think Him to be John the Baptist risen from the dead, others Elijah, who whs expected to come before the Messiah (Mal. 4: 5), and others Jeremiah, about whom there had been a story long current that he would nise from | the dead and would appear again to] Israel, > 4 pod "But who say ye that I am?" Some] might have hesitated to make the bold conféssion, but not 'so Peter." He be- lieved and he would speak. He was| ever the strong, impulsive, and cour-| ageous leader, quick to speak and quick to act. If he failed at the time of Christ's trial, it was through per-| plexity and doubt which had again | assailed him, not through fear. Peter's confession here no doubt represents' the belief of all, or of most, of the disciples. "Thou art the Christ." | In the early history of Israel the! people had been called God's son, and, the king as representing the people had also been so called. In that sense the term might have been used of the Messiah, the expected King. But Jew-| ish writers of the century preceding the birth of Christ had exalted the | Messiah to a place in heaven and had endowed Him with divine attributes. While Peter may not yet have realized all that his words involved, there ap- pears _to be in his confession a recog- nition of our Lord's divinity, as well as the belief that He is the Messiah, | and this recognition was confirmed in| the marvelous events which attended His resurrection fromr the dead. "Blessed art thou." Jesus addresses! Peter affectionately by his old home! name of Simon. He tells Simon that God has revealed this truth to him, and that it is upon such men ag he that the church of the future will be founded as upon a living rock. Play- fully He refers to Peter's name (in Aramaic Cephas), which means "stone," or "rock." What He says of Peter He would have said, no doubt, of any or all of the disciples who thus believed and confessed. For it is not simply truth that is the foundation of faith: it is truth lived, truth in the heart, truth believed and confegsed. Peter had apprehended and believed a great fact regarding his Master, in the light of God's Spirit which was leading him, and he had confessed it with his lips. Others hearing that con- fession would be led also to see and to believe, And-so the church would | grow, being "built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone" (Eph. 2: 20). See Eph. 2: 19-22, 1 as good a farmer as he thinks he is. Look at the care and money that are lavished on #he planting and dec- "The gates of hell." This expression stands for the forces, visible or in- -vigible, which are opposed to the king- well finished aad a : Tenth Annual Show. = {| UNION STOCK YARDS December 11th and 12th Write for Premium List and Entry Blank to-day. 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In means that more room might be ad. vantageous, but less would be danger. ous. It is very difficult to keep an overcrowded house in sanitary condi- tion If the poultry house holds one hundped birds and one hundred and twenty-five are in the 'flock in the late fall, it will pay beat to sell twenty-five birds and use the money to feed the remainder, rather than over. crowd them all. > When building roosts in the fall it pays to remember that the birds crowd together on cool nights and do not geem to need so much room. How- grain crops: © Pennsylvania Station overy which gave birth to the| found that the yield of corn was in- fertilizer industry. A young English- gaze of every passerby. Undoubtedly the proper planting of oration of a city home. The beauty of | dom of God. They shall not brevail, hig yard is the city man's pride, and For the strongest thing in all the yet how meagre are the possibilities; World is the soul illuminated by the man of agricultural prominence nam- od John Bennett Lawes became.inter- , and associated with him an nglish chemist, Joseph Gilbert, for & further study of the discovery, wi 'result that Lawes became found e. Lawes Manure Company in m, taking out the first patent for je making of acid phosphate in 1842. % Xa organic contain considerable er in the flesh| which' adheres 'to and the marrow which they con- nposition of the bones in as much forms for the bacteria of ¢ od. Pennsylvania Station found that the eased ls. oy by ia the home grounds is a good invest- equal increase in wheat. By ing ment from the point of view of in- compared with those of the farm! His phosphoric acid, however, only one of creasing the sale value, But how about jhe essential plantfoods fis being pro- vided as we Have already pointed out, consequently when a carrier of acid) was combined with one of nitrogen, long-time expeniments at is worth that much to someone else, hard to put a money value on a thing like. that but if some. other fellow fore is willing to pay a thousand or two for it, you have a pretty good Jindication that the place is not worth -Ohio 'any less to you who have planted it, SL cared for it, and become attached to it. i What is a farm for? To produce a' revenue and make a home. Too many men are apt to devote all of their, time to the revenue end of it and neglect the home. 'This is a grave mistake. The revenue is of little use of | if it does not increase the comfort of the home. The home is where a woman vA 3 'increase of the fertilized over the un- fertilized corn amounted almost to 10% bus. per acre instead of 7 bus. | from acid phosphate alone." ! i found an increase in wheat of over 18 ~bus. per acre, instead of 7% as i from acid ph ite. When complete plantiool was a ake {that i plan % containing gen, phosphoric | acid and potash), the increase in yield corn at Pennsylvania y 4 & the greater part of her, ; ness takes him to, Aa to the town, away from ta in that e of herself, lier growing fam-; , yes, her husband, she should be made as comfortable it if one does not care to sell? If it! is it not worth it to the owner? It is| Ny i 1.4 Jomaye interest lies; little Farmstead. For, th poor little two-by-four yard is an ab- solute limit of space; he lacks good soil; he has to buy fertilizer; he is cursed 'with the overcrowding of his ! neighbors' dogs and children. And yet "he persists and the results are often that the farmer is sometimes misled into imitating him. That is a mistake; The city lot, no matter how beauti- fully it may be planted, loses its beauty when it is transferred to the farm--for it is out of place, The farm plan must be broader. It must net be confined to the immediate vicinity of the house and a little patch of lawn. A fine barn and a well-kept' garden ! are not a disgrace to be blotted out! ek ! with a screen or left outside of the, WOR for Christ's kingdom. scheme of things as though th y were | something neglected and apart, They, sion that open the door of the king- dre an integral part of the farm home and should be included in the plan, ! Shade is as acceptable to the stock as' door of faith to others." The new law it is to the people, and frees improve e appearance of a barn as much as they do of the house. A shaded pad- dock is quite as attractive as a lawn, The farmstead is the heart of the Spirit of God beaning testinrony to the truth which it hag geen and known. So the psalmist said, "Out of the mouth {of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, because of thine | adversaries, that thou mightest still | the early church in times of persecu- tion. Men, women, and even little children confessed Christ in face of | the most cruel torture and death, end not all the might of imperial Caesar could compel them to deny Him. Their faith flourished and grew in he midst of persecution. It was viastorious even in its weakness, mighty to the ower- throwing of its persecutors, and it will prevail, we believe, until the world is i "The keys." It is faith and confes- dom of heaven, 'He who believes not | only enters himself but also opens the that binds and looses is the law of ith. the same Peter, se warmly commend- ed, should scon after have been so the enemy and the avenger." (Psalm i who hag never seen the property be-| Wonderfully attractive--so att-active' 8:2). This was abundantly proved in | "Satan." It is very remarkable that| ever, if a night becomes warm they | will spread out on the roosts and they | need the-room for health and comfort. Caloulate the roosting space in the poultry house on the basis of a hot summer night. Then at all seasons the hens will have plenty of room. About four hens per nest is a satis. factory number in the poultry house: the nests are scarce the birds will crowd together or hide their nests in the litter on the floor or on the range. Build nests so that there will be room enough on & nest for one hen, but nol room enough for two. Two hens are apt to crowd together on an over-size nest and the quarrelling may result in broken Ro Overcrowding causes: the Lirds te become heated and then they catch cold when coming from the roost on a cold morning. When young stock are housed in colony houses or brood coops they will be injured by over. crowding. Brood coops should not be used for chicks that have been weaned. They do much better when roosting in colony houses where they cannot crowd together, ree Subscribe to the Victory "Clean-up" Loan. : 3 that, it | sternly rebuked.. Jesus has been gent- i | ly revealing to His disciples the fact i of His approaching death. Peter, ex- ultant and hopeful of great things, "took Him and began to rebuke Him." beautiful as possible. wise man--or was it a wo- 8 #aid that the difference house and ¥ home is a tree. is that sone of the clearest ries of our chi foed hang SHS some favorite tree in the old home farm, the home. of the farmer, and, toa farge extent, the world of the wife and children. Do not be stingy with it. Make it comfortable and beautiful, There is nothing that is more valu- able to'have or easier to get in the country than beauty. 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