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x _up from the gravel walk he had been after him. : from hungry _ had brought two packages of mari- ngs which the Smiths had felt they faining forty cents bought aster fi farkspurs in blue and white with f drummondi RED ROSE ORANGE PEKOE. TS 4 -- Bargains in Beauty BY FRANK "There, now, that's done! When 1 go to town I'll get a few packages of seeds and we'll see if we can't dress, up this yard a bit. Wife'll like hats] too," 'The man in overalls straightened smoothing with his hoe, He leaned; on the handle and frowned a little as he continued: "Have to do some scheming, 1 guess, to get much of a. flower garden this year. But--we'll| | see." 'The low cottage among the cutovers shone in the spring sunshine with new white paint. The fall before the stumps had been cleared away for a few acres on all sides leaving only; a scattering of trees to furnish shade for the dooryard. Otherwise the place was as bare of decoration as a newly laid egg--and quite as clean. On this pioneer farm for several years to come, there would be but lit-| tle money to spend for luxuries but both he and Mrs. Smith agreed that some flowers they must have. "We'll see what this dollar bill will buy," were David's parting words to his wife as he waved the greenback 'at her and started for town the next day. "Try to get yellow and white as much as you can," Mrs. Smith called | When David Smith returned, he had the seeds, For bordering the gravel walk there were two packages of sweet alyssum. These seeds were planted quite thickly for a short dis- , tance along the walk. When the plants were large enough to take up, some of them were transplanted so that they would extend along both sides of the entire walk. For two reasons this was found to be a better plan than to sow the seeds the whole length at first. Tiny seeds offer some protec- tion for each other when planted close together; and they could, in this case, be more easil Sovered and sheltered Sweet iil Ee iishodin wealth of white blossoms for the color scheme. And since gold and yellow were the other shades preferred, Mr. Smith golds, one of French and one of Afrl- can. These were planted as a border clgse to the house and were inter- spersed with a number of white aster plants and a few purple ones which, when they bloomed, relieved the in- tense orange of the marigolds. Low- growing naturtiums edged the mari- golds in front and continued the color combination. Something to give greater height than the flowers could furnish was needed at the corners of the house. To © Bie this accent, David made rude llises of three poles each, placing 'fhe poles together as though to make toy wigwams, and over these were, .ffhined the-scarlet runner bean. The effect was strikingly like shrub plant- gould not afford the first year Many an expensive garden has not ven as much pleasure to a family this touch of yellow-and-white uty gave to the Smiths, And the dollar greenback had covered the cost. The two packages of Eweet alyssum "Bad been purchased for twenty cents; "one package of French marigold seed and one of African had cost ten cents #ach; one packet-of nasturtiums was sufficient at ten cents; and the re- plants. . Against the house foundation, they ted cosmos, In front of these to border them. One each of these was enough for | twenty-foot row, so the cost for |ers in early summer. A. AUST, ennials; and one annuals. At the corners of the house, irs end of the scarlet runner bean on ls wig- wam trellis, were placed spirea to bring graceful sprays of whits flow- These were bought from the nursery and ai were the ®vo clematis vines for the cor- ners of the porch, With the clematis were planted native bittersweet vines from the woods. The Dbittersweets were a most attractive addition and had cost nothing except a little time and labor. This year instead of a color scheme of yellow and white, the plan was to 'have a border of mixed colors. Eight "dollar for more! | perennials were selected to be grown between the vines and the spireas, Of perennial phlox which bigoms in a varlety of colors, two kinds were used on either side of the porch. The earliest of these was white, Festiva Maxima, and the other kind was | delicate rose-white, called Sea-shell. | By buying these as his first perennials {David Smith felt that he was getting ! value received for his money, for they flowered profusely both the first and the second years from June until late September, Four . bellamosa . larkspurs cost twenty cents apiece, were also pur- chased at the nursery. These are also reliable perennials and their deep blue shades are effective with the more delicate phlox. The annuals, lower-growing than the perennials, were set in front of the others to complete the bed. There were annual phlox drummondi® in various colors; verbenas in pink and white; and petunias. Sweet alyssum was used this second year also, to edge the border bed and the gravel walk. Nothing else was found to pro- duce such .admirable results for so little money. In making this border flower gar- den, seeds should always be planted far enough away from the house so that when water. drips from the roof they will not be washed out. The soil should be carefully spaded and pre- pared as it would be for a vegetable garden. The flower seeds may then|. be sown and raked in lightly, the rak- ing being done lengthwise of a narrow' border bed. 'Brush will protect the seeds from the chickens and the too warm sun until the plants appear. Then when the plants are grown large enough, they can be transplanted to, the spaces where the seeds did not come up thickly. Seed packets of an- nuals usually contain enough for a twenty-foof row, and enough for double that amount of space if the seeds are planted thickly and later transplanted. All plants, annuals and perennials, should be weeded and cultivated until they are large enough to shade the ground. One seldom needs to bother watering them, Seeds of perennials can often be used with great success when one does not feel like spending the money for the plants. Seeds are naturally much} cheaper than plants, and perennials which would cost from fifteen to twenty-five dollars at the nursery cdn be grown from seed in the dooryard for from fifteen to twenty-five cents. Larkspurs, for instance, when seed- ed in the spring will often blossom the same fall, and if the frost comes on too early for that, they will hold over well and flower the next spring. The mourning bride (scablosa), gail- lardia and Iceland poppy, are other beautiful fowssing perennials which may be raised in this if one is willing to wait for the blossoms a little longer than her) the Plants themselves are purchased. "Where there is a will," there will be a garden and beauty! Nature "the | works with us, seeds are cheap, work] - is ours to give and neighbors are al- ways generous with roots and cut- about seventy per cent., and yet each 'ducing eggs during the we get out all the vy that were left over from the p year, as well as all seéds that had, look for a way out and been saved from the garden, put ten 'to twenty or more seeds-on a rag doll tester and let them germinate in our corn-testing outfit for six to ten days, and then read the results of the test. Some ' surprising things .are often shown. Samples of two different lots of the same kind of seed will show Haried differences in Visality, o one wil t! 1 the roots of one may be ray longer and healthier than another. Some may show up completely dead. It is a'good idea when buying package seeds to put the date of purchase on the package. I have found seeds two and three years old that gave fine ger- mniation; others were almost dead.' After the test place the date and per cent. of germination on the package at once 80 that there will bé no mis- take. tie moisture and matur- ity all influence the vigor of seeds. Seeds should not be dried' out too quickly by high temperatures, nor is it well to keep them in a room where there is an excess of either heat or moisture. To show how these condi-, tions influence seeds, we had occasion! one year to purchase some new seed | oats and IT went to three neighbors! who said they had some excellent seed, but before buying from any of them I took half-pint samples from each of their bins and tested each one separately. I found two lots that it| would not pay to sow, one of which tested sixty per cent. and the other of these farmers sowed the grain from those bins, putting it on a little heavier than usual in order to insure a good stand. However, those tests also showed that the germination of many seeds was slower than others, somewhat dark in color on the roots,! o and generally showing evidence of im- maturity. : We bought the seed that gave a high germiration test, and threshing machine measures showed a difference of about five bushels per acre' in 'favor of 'the good seed which was sown at a lower rate per acre.! The' price of the different seeds was the same, making the cost of heavier, seeding of the poor seed larger. In testing various kinds of seed we use our rag doll testers that we test 'seed corn for root rot, finding them| convenient for testing any kind of seed. This is made by laying out on a table a length of pearl water finish paper, such as is used in butcher shops. for tying up meat. This is twelve inches wide, On this is laid a length of muslin the same width and about fifty inches long, The different: samples of seeds are counted out and spread in groups on the muslin, being carefylly labeled. The muslin is damp- ened, rolled up and kept in the germ- inator and examined from time to time for about six or ten days. The temperature ought to be kept above sixty degrées and the muslin moisten- ed Sres)) if 'one has' no' germinating ou who follow it--J. L. Justince. ---- BETTER EQUIPMENT FOR OUR CHICK CROP. The growing problem in the man- agement of our farm poultry is the renewal of the farm laying flock. It is common knowledge that a pullet will lay more eggs than a yearling or two-year-old hen. We also Rom: that as a money-maker the pull rices while the "ebb in production; due to moult. The returns from the farm flock come very largely from egg sales and the more we can put on the market dur- ing' thé months of: Noveubor, Decen+ ber, Jannat greater our. aH going to be. "until they are eight or ten weeks of i magazines--even his daily---come in 3 is splendid work for bad! days and pays dividends for those| the papers and He sibdid pos and all Some - Knowing these Frctors. to exist we must endeavor to have ti really por of allen solutions present themselves: = (a) The use of an joeubate (b)' The purchase of baby chicks. Ac) The purchase of ten-wee ha-olg pu The farmer:who is breeding and iB 'developing hig own flock will have to' # have some means of incubation which| leaves him with a choice of 'operating r his own machine or getting space in a community hatehery. The smaller in- cubators have pow reached a state of perfection where they can be relied on and operated very successfully by an amateur, It pays to buy 4 good re- liable, well-tried machine even if ve, Saul's ttle: wen yy help! wd initial cost is a little greater. ] In the purchase of baby chicks one (Siount t Cilbos a on ins battlefield, he' by Delp own 1 wor The Reign of David, 1 Sam. CONTINUATION OF relies entirely on the other fellows ability as a breeder. Where chicks o goed quality Sn be proctired. it elim- netes the ultiés of hatching, duces the labor of raising the ¢ 8d by anual 8 ab ho had since they can be handled in broods of from 800 to 400 instead of fifteen Silat' it a odes to twenty with old hens. The growing exile by false an interest in the baby chick business is who had preserved, ou in nn far-reaching and one now finds many earlier grace and ess of § iit farmers buying chicks by parcel post Succeeded ito the throne, first o! in preference to attempting to breed 92h , only, and after seven seven years, of and incubate their own. One must all } Rin eign Appears peaty b not, however, buy indiscriminately, 5 about B.C. 1010 to 970, gb Sn be-, knowing nothing of the source or ginning he faced great diffieuliies. Al origin of the stock. There are on the gun) section of the_people of Is market thousands of cheap chicks adhered to the house of Saul, which are hatched from inferior stock made his 'son king in Mahanaim east IE and sold at a greatly reduced price. of Jordan. Much of the land was still had This price fs made possible by the overrun by the Philistines. There was fact that the flocks from which these Pitter and rowing a eggs are taken ure pot developed and tween Judah and the othes tribes, ort culled to a point where a better price § vid a To| Davi ic ha snof father's no_ strong, well-o " a small ment. But can be demanded. 'Thousands of this fore of tried and faithful | Sriends whe, grade go otit ta our farms every year had shinted his banishmen and result in no impr t in the fecundity of ofir flocks, Alves his de 5 of Romer The third method of renewing ol and the farm flock is the purchase of pullets, Several of the larger farms are now; making a specialty of growing chicks m. ibeon (2 8 ch. 2), final 'overthrow of the Sots he sLovertiitow of ha hous erosity and fair dealing, the a om asian to 8 en his arm - age, 'marketing the broilers and sell-!ed and experienced Adios who had ing the pullets out for laying stock. fought under Saul. This offers the, line of least resistance.| = Thenceforward the Hersh , The pullets_ arrive after they are vids power was rapid.' He sind ed through 'the 'brooding process and old fhe Philistines in two grea enough to, pitt but on range with little an Jrove, the Jchusites out > great of hides stron; n Je care. The cash outlay is, of necessity, § Salem, xen his cia larger with this method but offers the for ty. eations, am an r the first busy farmer's wife a very convenient method of renewing her laying flock. 3st hlished the cle siciuy o Ch Teel t Gilg ick yy = ni t vely af al = af ange Your Address When | GX 26 UBT 08 She You Move. which had been on I serve a rural mail route from a' by, the insane violence of Saul small fourth-class post office. Each fxtenided his power by a friendl day after mail trains I help sort and seataring, aad, by conquest of An distribute the mail, and thereby see If, aiaring dom "a d 8 ¥ far as all that comes in." Mosh An a3 Bdom Hear rontes. "The When a farmer moves away it is Jittle kingdom of + Bau, under his very seldom that he leaves his new strong hand, address, or has the address 'of his Dire, bu but Xo mi Ain h 7. aserd agaziies changed, His, letters; his S06] fy. Rica (Be. 38. $150) 21d hel he! God's prophets in honor an Hime alter Sr an i months, 'to our er an ed By no means are all hors. 80 wl on Ch. Til 18. Before the Lord. The fault. This I wish to emphasize, for there are fine, virile, wide-awake Peo- which was the sac ple'on farms in this country of ours, bi hich devout Yeraehite ote of the P people 'who own 'or who are going to of God. The question, * whe am I? own their places, who are not so care- is an expression of genuine humility. was ow set up In 1 Jerusalem, and less--never. But so many, many pat-' He cannot forget that he ag. rons fail to point out their new loca by the from bgt 4. tion when they move. power: place, *%.. the high Seat, of For more than six years I have 4 given consideration to this fault and, Jeb ae 4 amall fl thing, | It \ a8 Sd i sought for the reason. Now a farmer, iy. svah regarded g his, 3 Yu evation when he moves, finds himself Sopey. Bow romised a renter LE turvy, both within his cranium and servant David's te 8 without. He says, "Let Ma do it." somos "for a great while to And Ma says, "Sis, you sit down and This promise not tell our correspondents where we're basis oft the 2 ity of of goln"" Sls does not have the address-| people In es of the publishers, because all the Dard In WE papers and magazines were used in In Terael Ah Tai packing the dishes and fruit jars, [of 8 revival of Stim The patron should make a list of his! sar - io al bi na RAE kin, "went into the tent sanctuary whieh" Che 2 Ch 28 Ge to 3) cue 8 en Text--I delight to do thy will, 0 THE STORY-- Jaws. + Carn tragic yh hl sean Da BE ian 'wilful bh d ton of ence of is served casion of | \ unworthiness Jue pT ee a io Rave rom i tends, Hs his deep Mis loguity ta Ee Simla exhibits the rare + 2 IE SE Tavest. us thus far of the man, outlaw, poet, warrior, and king, there are such ele- Tenis of pan oh bly , where he and and ote one of spirit of heart en Sires up do of signal ho: faults, but he mea- der the searchlight text of the Old Testa- T-- ti a Comeichon of pul He not the [manner "i man thy servant's Re for to come." ita Spoken a f a great. loo gt a Few lives have been more eventful, of Buj in. all all Bs varied difficulties and never if sthood [LIAIOS tie sees clearly t to bs 5 rsa the shan A 'please with a uence, to give us favor in the sight to establish our house, or Gods Ie Bruce tha that, we emergencies, D: ut resourée, He has able to secure his coun He, ind, di 0 "execu 1 a ment and fstice snl 41 Sia people It has been a far from th al- to The Fortean 2h dhe ord | ree th dace and. rect ei od Jdiadion of tral or Lal Da iA stn: "Rnd nih 0 nor. David ags not injure the uphol- ; of our near-neighbor boys runs a large truck for a big dafryman some two miles from his farm home. He goes to and returns from his work every morning ard evening in 'his toad, Turin car, saving time and Two of our. own boys work out sevd. eral weeks of the year, sometimes near to and sometimes far from our farm home. When their work is more merey,| than a mile away they go in thelr | secondhand car. Thus they are rests t! ed when they arrive for work, and are Tor the not fatigted on returning home at a veer isi go Bend ruler and of destiny. {ruly jh Jha it David g Ld 3 orld, Hi eels [3 i § j g g 2 af FF g fel 3 is ial oF 1h ih irl ¢| night: Last but not Teast, an old retired farmer and his wife were at a loss to kill time. = At last they solved the problem by investing in a light about. Now they are like real Young folks again, cheerful and happy. in their play, which they have well earned by a lifetime of hard work. "They believe it is better to waste a little money on a little car than' to leave a. lot of money to-their heirs to be quickly wasted on a big car, or perhaps; an airplane. wi 8 ; HH fei 3