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Branch, Dep "of Toronto, for a handbook, tow. Aim along with the other home- "| makers for better homes, better peo- ple, a better community, & better and more scientific agriculture. Meantime you will enjoy reading this program. 'PROGRAMME : ¥ January 10 ; an Women of Note, Mrs. W. J. Evans, Reading--Mrs, F. Carr. Musgic--Sarah Graham. Roll: --"I# 1 could have one more, labor saving device It would in Siw the Home--L. B. Pollard, Roll Call--How to Remove a Stain. Exhibit of Plans of Kitchens and Arrangement of Equipment. : February 14 "Paper--Mother. What She Owes Herself, Her Home and Community-- . Paper "Conservation of Health in Rural Districts"--Mrs. W. A. Gal- OL 10 piny, and that's the ond of {to a Lan 's te 1 1s giey, happler social life, and a better and | p e Gray went on moping. seachied family were dreadfully sorry for him, | Mrs. Gray-Goose took him under her wing and told him that ehe would love >| not be comforted. "| Green, and some of them teased him him just the same even if he were purple with pink spots; but he would _ Of course the news spread quickly. round the barnyard, and for days the other fowls could hardly eat for star- ing at the goose that had turned a bright green. They named him Goosie unmercifully. For a week Goosie hid himself under rainstorm Paper--Courtesy and Good Manners| He he could' ite goose's feathers stick on himself; and one morning y went up to Meadow Farm and stood &ssing all day long through the bars | sisters," he sald, "I'll do the best I i'| to the pond. of a bright green but of a beautiful a bush, but at last he held up his head, gave himself a shake or two and came marching out. "If I can't be a beautiful silvery OLD CHUM gray like my mother and brothers and The Tobacco of Quality can, that's all," and with a cheerful "Quack, quack!" he went waddling off As he plunged in he glanced at his image in the water and gave a loud cry, for he saw that he was no longer silvery gray. "Quack!" he cried joyfully as he swam out into the still, blue water and saw the sun shining on his silvery feathers, "Quacketty, quacketty, quack! I am Goosie Gray again!"-- Linda Stevens Almond in Youth's Companion. Silage a Good Milk Cost Reducer. as an expense, but as a desirable in- vestment. It is an important step to- Fi Building a silo must not be reckoned | planting corn for silage. It may be planted in the ordinary way or plant ed thicker than when the crop is used for grain, and cut when the corn i well dented, the lower leaves dry and the stalk full of sap. Corn is sume times ensiloed with soy-beans, which is a good practice for enriching the silage. : Silage is valuafle as feed for dairy cattle because of its succulence, pala- ward a better and more permanent agriculture, and one of the best in- vestments that can be made on' the farm. The reasons for the need of the silo on the farm are numerous, the most important of which are: Insur- Ade --JL4 Regarding Women | Children--8, Kirkland, Reading--Mrs. Geo. Silcox. elpful Ideas for Mon- ws The Sunday School Lesson Muste--Miss Ena Carswell, AUGUST 20 Paper--Nerves and Common Sense --Miss Sarah Kerr. » Ezra 7: 10; 8: 21-23, 31, 32 Contest. : Reading--Mrs. Keillor, x Call . Demonstration Tests and Linen Materials, & Lunch and Social Half Hour, March 11 5 0 39 L. B. Pollard, is, A. Carr, M. Brown, Paper--Principles of-Dress. 'Demonstration by Living Models Work, Aims and . Malcolm Graham. Appetites--Mrs, A. ly Music--Mrs. Dama Lumley. Paper and Discussion-- Putting I While--Mrs. LL. H. Brown. Grab Bag, Reading--Mrs. H. Brown. Roll Call. * Exhibit of Labor Saving Devices. ® April 9 Ladies of Kensington Club will be our guests and furnish program. May M4 "0 Paper=-Utensils and Cleansing Agents Which Make Easier--Mrs. Geo. Hyde. Music--Mrs. Geo. Lumley. . Reading--Mrs, Duncan Carswell. Yearly Report. Election of Officers. Roll Call--Paying of Yearly Dues. Social Half Hour. pi Obening Ode 5 (Auld Lang Syne) A goodly thing it is to Mrs. Morris. ; id in the Home--Mrs. Dan. Where nothing stains: the Or dims the judiant iss Mabel Silcox. No unkind word our ion of Christmas GIs. No envy sour the good of all v Hour . to begin promptly at 2.30 Life: All That MaKes Life Worth| Housework it |Egea ue git 8 rit sum n friendship's civ bright Liked light. Ip ps shall pass, mind, = J stmas Suggestions. But each shall seek the common weal, | ti iad The mankind. or wo ctu ro Paper--Dishes to Tempt the Spring Downs, religion more and od a ild became oll us to Ezra. clarify the story told in the Book of mary of his 'a commission Hore Was way; and he Je: t| was needed. God would be a sufficient] causes, {Ezra and his compan Y* | vicinity of Babylon." the | these. canals. the ancesagainst drouth; saving of a por- tion of the injured crops; saving of a large part of the corn crop that would otherwise be wasted; more and cheap- er food production. In seasons of drouth when the pas- tures are "burnt up" and the crops is upon all them : 22. (Rev. Ver.) as a token of abasement be- and seryed to intensify their yers; by it the members of the expedition solemnly committed them- 8 d 0 A fast wi God elves into God's hands for safe con- uct to the journeys end, A right shortest and easiest route that was least exposed rol or enemies. m vis Sshamed, ete. Under "having live stock must dispose of a large part of his herd--usually at a sacrifice, or buy high-priced feed. Wi Here the farmer with the silo is ahead 00! ons an he ed escort| of the man who has none. He can )é necessary. Journey | keep his stock in good shape by giv- would lead through Togisus where | ing them the silage he has stored from lawless desert tribes and hostile peo-! years of plenty. Corn properly en- ples, such as the Samaritans and pos. | siloed will keep for many years. 7 'the Arameans might set upon| . Years, . But Ezra had Iready boasted | He can save portions of the crops = that no escort| damaged by hail, frost, drouth or other V. 22. 1 ordin defence for his people. Therefore! tal loss. Many crops can be success- ns threw them-| fully ensiloed. A silo will also save selves all the more. earnestly upon most of the feeding value of the corn y f Oo ogection in, Frayer. f Us. The plant, such as the husks, leaves and answer to their prayer was not mani. | Stalks, much of which is generally fest at the time; but the safe comple. | Wasted. : ; tion of their ilous 'journey was| In cattle feeding, silage takes the proof that God had dn them and| place of a large amount of roughage n with them, and grain, thus releasing high-priced IL The Journey's End, 31, 32. food for human consumption. The es- Vi 81. The River of Ahava, It is|sentials of a satisfactory likely that "the Ahava was one of the | Exclusion of air; many canals or artificial rivers in the! of crop ensiloed; perpendicular walls By means of | smooth inside; durability, wind resist. prs samt te te ot nd ot spire, fertile. ere was a great net work| | D0 not build a silo too large in of them through the country where| diameter. The diameter should be such the exiles lived. V. 15 suggests that|as to make possible the feeding of thig canal ran p a place by the about two inches a day; certainly not same name. and quite probably the|less than one inch a day." A one place ove is name to the river. was the place of rendezvous where Ezra Sere Lis over 1308 Dre. twenty-five cows for two hundred our The hs : is) days. Build the silo to keep as much % and ntly employed in| silage as you will use. ent. It is a metaphor, ~ Do not wait until the last minute ' trength, and then order'your material, but get route which Ezra's ex-| the material ahead of time and then wed from Babylon to|put up the silo when work is not ed pine Hundred Tiles rushed. Do not wait until fall and i 3 a This 15 then- 'put----it up; when you should be y slow a filling. Do it now. women, Vi travelling but 5) Build the silo close to the barn. A ote ould naturally Silo located close to the feed manger Th days. When! insures a large amount of handy feed reached the. travellers in'had weabher and it also saves labor. b Almost any green forage crop may © be ensiloed, but the best crops for | Ontaris farmers are corn and sun- There are several ways of partially or totally ruined, the farmer tability, feeding value and production of milk. The succulence of the feed keeps the cow in good health, her sys tem in good physical condition, and this makes it possible to digest her feed most economically. The palat- ability of silage induces the consump- tion of large quantities of other feed This increase in feed consumed, to- gether with the way it is relished, na- turally results in a large milk flow. that would otherwise be a to-| It 'hundred-ton silo: will hold enough to feed forty pounds of silage a day to|the silo is a "new-fangled" idea. On Most generally silage is fed in win- ter when it gives the effect of summer pasturage. The reason that cows in- crease the flow of milk when put on pasture in the spring, is that they are getting a succulent feed. The succu- lence of silage affects the flow of milk in a §imilar manner. A very good ra- tion for winter 'feeding is thirty pounds of corn silage, all the alfalfa or clover hay they will eat up clean and a pound of grain for each three pounds of milk produced daily. While most commonly used for win- ter feeding it is by no means less im- portant for use in summer. Nearly every summer the pastures dry up in the latter part of July or August and during this time the cow invariably drops off in milk flow, sometimes fifty act silo are:| per cent. This may be partially over- retention of moisture; come by feeding succulent feed in the form of silage. Some of the more en- terprising dairymen are putting up small silos for summer use. Some imagine hecause silage has many good features that it is a "cure- all"--a self-sufficient feed. "Man can- not live by bread alone," neither can cattle exist and show a profit on silage alone. Then, again, some think that the contrary, the early Romans and the Incas of Mexico used it. It is one of the oldest ideas in agricultus, Another notion is that ill-effects ave produced, such as desreasing the life period of the animal, causing the ani- mal to be susceptible to tuberculosis, and to lose teeth. At the experiment stations it has been found that dairy AOL | tine and vi make, 8 made Famiore posh | old reliable; and so far as the cows which have been fed silage all of their lives are in th: very best of health, have good tecth and ars not tul ercular. Tainting of milk occurs only where silage is fed in poor'y ventilated barns or during the timé of milking.: This cen be avoided by feeding after the mi king. Zn 8 to one. who would stir the souls of Ezra his fell - {and di n to attempt some great oult thing. © : Equal parts of linseed oil, turpen- 289od home. di Lis Hand-picking of small been able' to find Sev achiries' I