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source of heat/and in a week or ten ceding value| days carefully roll back the pad from a8 "clover hay? Or, if a ton of 00d read the percent of strong, weak or clover hay is worth $20, what is a ton! \ 'of good bean straw worth? : [to their original ears through refer- Angwer:--Henry ' & "Morrison in!ence to the fumbers. By this means n "Feeds and Feeding" | you can throw ous weak ears. lowing sompatative © W. W.:--I have a field of light clay Ld an' soil, that-was in pasture last season- | What is the best way to prepare it for potatoes and corn? : .\ Answer:--Plow your: pasture land s éarly aw possible in spring and fol- yw the plowing with a thorough disk- ¢. ing and harrowing. At the time you "8 lave planting potatoes apply about 400 considerable to 500 lbs. to the acre of a fertilizer ; n th tibility, for in-. analyzing 8 to 4% nitrogen, 6 to « stance, the protein in clover hay is 8 p.c. phosphoric acid and 3 to b p.c. '50% digestible, while that in bean! potash. If you have a potato planter straw is 50% digestible, with fertilizer dropping attachment It is impossible to answer the last |this can easily be accomplished. If r..part of your question since relative not, when you strike out the rows for valuation figures for 'proteins and the potatoes, scatter the = fertilizer ydrates are changing constant-| along the row and pull in a' light My: opinion would be that the | covering of soil over before the piece \straw would be worth less than' of potato is dropped. Cover the pota- hal of clover hay, on account of 'its | toes and proceed as usual, = 'coarseness and the amount of crude! For corn, apply about 200 to 300 Ibs. fibre it contains. © | per acre of a fertilizer analyzing 2 to C. L--Will you explain the best| 3 p.c. nitrogen, 8 p.c. phosphoric acid way to test different grain, as wheat,! and about 2 p.c. potash. With this gd- corn, oats, etc, for seed. When is the! ditional plant food the crops should best time to make the test? {proceed very satisfactorily. The sod ' Answer:--The best time to make a| which you have turned under will test for vitality of seed grain, which| make a valuable addition of humus is wheat, oats, corn, ete, is late injand will greatly aid in holding soil February 'or 'early in March, For the| moisture which is so necessary' for both potatoes and corn, I would not advise plowing the soil deeper' than five or six inghes, but be sure that the "seédbed '1s well prepared by careful digking and harrowing, and see that ~ distance of about one inch apart. Into}the work is begun as soon as the soil these holes'drop kernels of an average | is sufficiently dry in spring. Dé not oH le of the seed. - wilth: ,| get on it too soon, however, for fear of puddling the clay. HA about 8-4 of an inch deep at a || sidered beneficial by some; but if the | women folks happen to pour the wash- water into the slop barrel, look out! iSoap-powder, which is much used now- adays, contains enough caustic to irri- tate the lining of the stomach and in- testines so terribly that death fre- quently results. Common salt, is killed by from seven to eight unces of salt. As much ag that vave-| s taken and a hog will ny hl i camouflaged with powdered wood-charcoal or soot, and very slightly impregnated with sul- | phate of itor (copperas), is no better 'than ordinary. salt. } ; + Mixtures-of salt-and copperas, or sul- " phate of copper (bluestone), much used to prevent or destroy worms in "hogs, often prove poisonous. They may t kill quickly, but they keep. hogs s; and the ote dope used She pared with | bottom to 'top and you will be ablé to dead kernels showing and trace them| of ice to harvest wi ent two saws, two ice ooks, and one pointe; tos aro supplied be used to guide the hand-saw. Where a horse plow is used, the attached gauge will serye to kéep the extra lines straight. Cut either square or oblong cakes whichever will best fit into the house to be filled. 1 After cakes have been broken apart, two men with ice-tongs can with lit- tle difficulty pull a cake of ice from, the water and load it on a wagon or sled. Some use a slide platforms drawing several cakes on the load at once, using tongs, a horse and a rope. It is easy to figure the amount of 'ice needed for farm purposes. Sup- pose it is for cooling milk and" cream. An average cow producing 8,600 lbs. of 3.7 per ment milk, or 431 pounds of thirty per cent cream, will require 431 i times 1.16 pounds of ice; which means ; that about 500 pounds of ice' are | needed to cool the cream produced by one cow. It is best to store at the rate of 1,000 pounds a cow. This amount 'covers shrinkage and other uses of the ice. A twenty-cow dairy would gall for ten tons of ice for cream cool- ing, or about thirty-five tons if milk is cooled. A space 10 x 10 x 5 feet is required for each ten tons; twelve inchés should be allowed for packing at bottom and sides, and fhree feet for packing at . Therefore, & ten-ton ice-housé should be 12 x 12 x 9 feet. 3 To figure the amount of ice in a given area, remember that fifty-seven pounds of soliq ice represents one cuiiv foot. = Conkidering this weight as the standard, and allowing for packing, one ton of ice will occupy about forty cubic feet. > The following table snows the csli= mated number -of cakes of various thickness for a ton, and the cutting EE ---------------- | JANUARY 11. | | Peter and John Heal a Lame Man-- Acts 3: 1-16. Golden Text-- Matthew 10: 8. Golden Text--Matthew 10: 8. 1:10. The Act of Healing. "Peter and John." e close comradeship 'betdveen these'two men is remarkable. Peter was the older, John the younger; they wete unlike in disposition and in temper yet they appeared to have been warm fri e: to- r among the disciples of John thé Baptist, together amon, disciples of Jesus, and jo er at the fishing. in the lake of Galilee when Jesus called them to become fishers of ment It was they, with James, who kept the lonely watch upon the moun- tain when they saw the vision of their ' Master's transfigured glory, and who | were chasen to watch with Him in the last sad night in Gethsemane. And they two were the first to hear- Magdalene's story and to come to th "| had condemned Jesus, and in fastenin, ] reulation of air thr top of the ice-house; otherwise the enclosed stagnant air, becoming wa: 'in contact with the hot roof in sum- mer, will conduct a great amount of heat to the ice below and cause a big waste. This is a common neglect in the storage of ice. The best remedy is to put a latticed opening in each gable and a ventilator on the roof. If is also advisable to leave the eaves) open: beneath, and the wall open for about §ix inches below the plate. By means of all these openings the air can freely pass through the top of the building, and yet no rain or storm can get in. to wet the covering of the ice. 4. Good insulation: It is very neces- sary, in 'order to keep. ice well, to sur- | round the ice with plenty of some non- j conducting material which can be readily obtained at reasonable = cost. The insulation of an ice-house consists of the wall itself and the packing about the ice, The chief function of the wall is to ward off the direct rays of the sun and the weather, and to check the flow of heat toward the ice. The function of thé non-conducting material is to preserve the ice from direct contact with the warm air. Dry, clegn sawdust is very satisfac- tory for packing around the ice; planer] shavings are.still better, but they are! not always easily ohtained and they cost far more than the sawdust, If sawdust is used, there should be at least one foot of it well packed in| between the mass of, ice and the side walls, two feet under the ice and plenty of it over the top.. As the saw- dust next to the walls settles, some of that on the top should be packed {in from time to time. | Wild hay is fairly satisfactory for covering the ice on top. It is much used where sawdust is not very plenti- ful, but a greater depth of it is neces- I sary. Yi If plenty of packing material is used it is not very necessary to in- sulate the wall particularly; two thicknesses of boarding with insulat- ing paper between constitute a very| good, wall. 6. Banking: The bottom of the house | should be well banked with earth or! cinders to prevent the warm air get- ting in beneath to melt the ice. i apostles with the same lavish outpour- ing of His gifts. "In the name of Jesus Christ." Peter does not presume to exercise any mere healing virtue of his own. He is not conscious of the possession of any magnetic touch through which he might communicate strength to the lame man. His dependence is upon Jesus Christ. Had Christ failed him there would have been no healing. But Christ did not fail him. The lame man leaped up, "he stood, and began to walk." And so it was demonstrated, iin such a fashion that none who saw could doubt, that Jesus the crucified still lived, and still had power, and still wrought mighty works. Th ple who stood about, or who saw this man entering thé temple "were filled with wonder and amazement." 11-26. Peter's Second Discourse. ! : "He answered unto the people." The crowd which gathered in the portico, ! ior colonnade, which ran along the: | | ' | i } § | | { ~ | the power a materials as they are dige combining them in whites, the membranes and |! aid and the parts for which has matenial lie dormant and eggs are | | grains, may be fed either dry or moist. hich has different; ted and 1k, the shells, of sorting o the is plain that if the hen does not It A sufficient materials of different 1 kinds to make these different parts of {the egg, the complete egg cannot be state, running wild in the field and forest and laying only when nature provided the proper materials, she was able during the productive season to find from nature's varied stores a great many different kinds of food, in- cluding seeds, grains, grass, roots, bugs and worms and what is very im- portant, pure water. The hen,that has free. range 'on the farm in summer finds these same things and that is one reason why neglected farm flocks lay well in summer and very poorly at other times. When the hen is confined to the poultry house and its immediate sur- roundings, perhaps a small yard, the only way that she can make eggs is to receive from the caretaker the various different kinds of food that she would obtain on free range in summer, or their equivalents.; On most farms there is a reasonably good variety of grains, including corn, wheat, oats and barley, and these form sufficient var- iety so far as they are concerned. In addition there should be ground grains, Mncluding wheat, bran and cornmeal, to use in dry or damp mashes. To take the place of the bugs and worms of the summer season beef estroy 'muck. They will nibble good shape where the short that other apimals At the same time, the groun ing enriched by an even spread tilizer. In winter sheep. require little grain and will eat kind of hay. : 'Sheep deliver the goods twice a wool in spring, when the farmer's pocket-book is flattest, and lambs in fall. : - Nothing looks prettier or mo perous on a farm than a flock sheep contentedly earning their liv-: ing. i ante wi Trapping as a Side-Line. A man may never become rich-by trapping fur-bearing animals, but 1 have found it to be a profitable side- line to my business of farming--and a mighty pleasant one, at that. I love the great out-of-dors, even in winter, and my daily visits to' my traps ave enjoyed with the utmost pleasure. For the past five years I have aver- aged more than $100 a year with my traps, and the work comes at a time : when it doesn't interfere with my , other duties. The traps are inexpen- : sive, compared with the returns from the investment. | All my traps have cost me, less than $10. There is a large brook running through the north end of my farm, : with a small patch of marshy lowlands near one end. At this place I set my muskrat traps, under two or three inches of water. A small piece of apple attached to a stick serves as bait. This bait is placed in such a scraps, such as are furnished by deal-| position that it is about eighteen ers in poultry supplies, or cut fresh|inches above the pan, and is fastened bone should be given. Milk will do! securely into the ground. | considerable to furnish meat food, but My skunk traps are set in the woods it should not be depended upon entire-| near the entrance to the holes. In ly even if it is féd in its various| Visiting these traps, I always carry a forms, sweet, sour, whole or skim. In| rifle with which to kill the polecats place of the grass, etc., which sup-| before removing them from the traps plies green food in summer they I make my daily rounds immediate : should be fed cabbage, beets apd other | ly after the morning chores, which vegetables or clover, alfalfa, or a variety of these several things. Mash, which is a mixture of ground If fed dry it is usually placed in hop- pers and the fowls allowed to eat it whenever they desire. Such a mash is made of cornmeal one part, bran two parts. and high grade beef scraps about one-half part. There is not much danger of vigorous, healthy hens eating too much of this mash if it is within reach all of the time. If the mash is fed damp it sometimes con- tains, in addition to the foregoing, cured vegetables or steamed green cured clover or alfalfa, making from twenty to twenty-five per cent. by|and width in feet. bulk. It is then mixed crumbly with hot water or with milk and fed once a day, as much ag the fowls will eat up promp gives me time to skin the animals be- fore dinner. I never hold off shipment of skins too long, for the prices of. furs sometimes drop down later in the season. cota ann EF Acres in Rectangular Fields Finding the number of acres in a field of rectangular shape is easy. Here is the method: Find the length and width of the field in rods: Mul- ° tiply these dimensions together and divide by 160. The result is the num ber of acyes in the field. : To determine what part of an acre a garden or city lot is, find the length Multiply these to- gether and divide by 43,660, the nam- ber of square feet in an acre. In the cage of small fields of this kind it is tly each time--and no more. | better to find the dimensions in feet 3 e peo-| If milk is used for mixiug, the per-| rather than rods because such meas- centage of beef scraps can be reduced | urements are more accurate. about one-half. The damp mash must | fow!s for it soon becomes spoiled. not be allowed to remain before the © Neighborhood clubs for buying gar- It ie necessary tg provide the hens gen seeds and field seeds are a source with some reason for exercising in lL.eastern side of the temple, wondering winter because they have no incentive and questioning, gave Peter an oppor-| to exercise naturally, as they do in = tunity, which of once more speaking about Jesus. "We did not heal this man," he said. | "It was not done by our power or goodness. It was Jesus, Jesus whom Tot ini who healed him." "And by ! fail this man strong, whom ye behold and know." . P i immediately seized, summer worms, pose try house can be covered with a litter, four or five inches deep of straw, hay, inshis name hath his name made| leaves or something of that kind and and pur- poul- bugs this the hunting for ete. For the floor of nto this the whole grain is scattered compelling the fowls to scratch for it.' showed Fuperh courage and No more grain should be fed at any ter boldness in thus chal of i e great council of the Jews which i enging the action! time than the fowls are willing to ~work for, for if any remains in the | | of much saving. RE RE The Great West Permanent Company. Toronto Office -20 King St. West 4% allowed on Savings. Interest computed quarterly. Withdrawable by Cheque. 84% on Debentures. Interest payable halt yearly: Paid up Capital 82412578. i ; : fitter it soon becomes dirty and unfit = tile 8 She Jewish people "Holy t O2 to eat. "It iis not necesary to feed any pit Righteous One," the "Prince 'of life," | particular mixture or combination of it 'the "ata thie promised Saviour, and | grains, If a variety is furnished, in- 7 we ] Him. ut now | eluding corn, wheat and oats, with an do of of id killed Him. fathers had Him in lorious-! occasional feed" of barley, the fowls Mm will obtain enough from these kinds to i supply their needs and furnish the Hl Mal to. Toke of vA 'to hag a cabbage head ough so that the fowls . amp for it. It is surpris- age fowls will eat: ee aa {208 ove sn