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ji it ng the hurrow teeth are slanting things that we see so commonly about us were once dreams. The ideal is first necessary before any really worth-while thing can be realized. There will be times when this ideal, this dream, this vision of what we want to do, or to be, or to have, will come to us clearly and we will be sure we are on the right track. We must stick to these ideals. It will take some courage to stick, for thers will also come times when the object of our dreams seems hopeless, and we apparently lose our way. It is at these off-times that there is fficulty in. holding to the great visions before our cyes and in work- 'ng steadily toward it; and many of us who have drcamed great things for the farm are going through such a But faith is always Forevery wash-day method Rcd va we" wash-day tragic a great and historic Bn ich a city is| diate vicinity of the spring. . | Jerv strea 3 asily. nf he nation. | ing disasier Sho Tne at in of are Sold Pats h Phe barrow works very close to the e about? Did Je fall sim- 1 r y 0 nvader with young stalks without injury, and it me you use. You do not makes the surface soil fine and]. ve to change gay: of ur usual for conserving molsture, steps--just Sa nso where you The only time not to harrow young used to use nary soap. corn is when the spring season is wet s| and the corn: Se he wet and If you like to boil your white cote tons, Rinso will give you just the safe cleansing suds you need in the boiler. If you use a J ahing ne, follow the advice of th Last season we harrowed and cross field of young awarded the first prize of $26. 1 d "How do you care for your eream?" 'they were asked. ion "Oh, our' spring does the work," John answered. "The water is very cold. We take the cream down to the spring; right from the separator, and 'put the.caniin' the box. The cold water drives out the animal heat quickly rogress, and{ and keeps. it cold. The deep shade 35, food, and | helps, too. You ecouldn't hire us to te, the rul-| cut down the trees about the spring anci-| or up the ravine. Sao bors had a good spring, but he cut of panic: and fear.| ,¢ '41] the trees and the spring has an Egyptian army had ap- dried' up." peared on the scene. The Babylonians P to! gave up their: task of 'subduing the ained city until the Egyptian One of our neigh- But the spring is more than a 'should be at-| cream cooler to the Sasses. It flows looked like a bare fleld. Almost all of the young stalks were covered--with fine dirt. In two days that field of young corn was the brightest and best 'onthe big:farm. Often a farmer is rushed with late spring plénting and is not .able to work 'his eorn ground as well as he would wish before planting. In such cases it is well to go ahead and do Then follow at leisure with a harrowing, just as the young corn is ning to come up, or a little later." This later harrowing will smooth 'and compact the soil nicely, will make & dust mulch for dry times, ing use Rinso. soap loosens' all clean and spo! easy by using Rinso. A i Rimso is sold by all grocers and department stores e bi : * a period to-day. Just soaking with: this new kind of the dirt until a single rinsing leaves the clothes r you do your wash, make LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED TORONTO R-4-37 a. rewarded in some way, anil we will not fail if we work to the pattern we have laid out for ourselves and let that pattern inspire us to do our best. FARMERS KNOW THEM. That city man whom we in our travels occasionally meet with his ele- vated five-center, and thumbs pulling at his vest arm holes, gave birth to another of his effervescent produe- tions the other day, expounding the wonderful way "we city people do things." Since we were obliged to stay in the same hotel that night, it oC] For Home and Countr was necessary to give attention: to this man's statement. After due deliberation the general conclusion was reached that this city ; e 1" y le of tended to. At once the rulers, in ala y from the cream-can box in two 2 re A106: Ton 22: delirium of joy, revoked thels. slavery brooklets. One brooklet runs through|and will serve as w right good first i of Joly i a emancipation. act. - It'was a Base act|the hog pasture, past the hog barn.| cultivation. . "of of 'by One rather dry year we gave one solemn goveunnt, The other ripples down through the such men?" le had glo: the centre lcarried out. I monareh nity of sacred men from the B: At last, when the fierce ery. a "How could there t ruin for a state ruled by 0- bo Ch 0 b eve, B Was) {jes. "And all just because we saved 1 ace and 0 aved, gone, Jemple,. priesthood, Salace and the trees," says John. were laid low. "The city was put to firerand sword. Neither = nor dig- e leading a aot the | neat farm fortune, always made a soldiers from the Euphrates had | Practice of harrowing young corn as alt of the population possess- in the eyes of a slave- were deported. Jeru- be any-| chicken 'yard by the poultry house, Both hog stable and chicken coop havé] Tt is well to note the completeness been purposely located beside of the destruction ot Jarssalem. The | brooks. The Sasses have their feed cooker as close to the. spring, making it handy for water. In fact, they have made their spring an almost priceless util- a time and labor-saver. be- HARROWING YOUNG CORN. One of our neighbors, who made a |-the first cultivation. He says: "When you harrow young corn Fertilizers for Field Crops. The following fertilizer applications the! per acre are prescribed for various crops, by the Dominion Chemist and ein | Soil Fertility Specialist at Ottawa, in Bulletin No. 8, N.8., of the Dominion 'the| Department of Agriculture, For grain--Nitrate of soda 100 Ibs, ¢rphosphate 160 Ibs. muriate of on mporis supérph Jor: cha, 87, potash 50 Ibs., basic slag (300 Ibs. per See dois o brave acre) may profitably replace the his superphosphate, = especially ~~ where been seeded." Fall wheat, or other grain not seeded down with 'For potatoes--Nitrate of soda 260 1bs., Sipheylioophiate 300 'Ibs, muriate] Mtivations, and after those used a one- ts| to permit the Sunshine to enter and Fhelp disinfect the house, gl young stock and make them: more cornfield two harrowings for first cul- horse fourteen-toothed harrow culti- vator whien the corn was older and taller. That fleld that year was culti- vated wholly with harrows, and the yield was large. Old corn after tasseling and shoot- ing, when it ean no longer be culti- vated "with the standard two-horse cultivator, may be cultivated to ad- vantage with a one-horse harrow or harrow cultivator. Of a dry year such late light surface cultivation keeps down late weeds and conserves soil moisture at a eritical time of ear de- velopment, when abundance of soil moisture is the making of a banner crop. POULTRY. fall can be prevented by teaching the they do not crowd and become over- hented at night and eatch cold in the morning on the cool ground. The slight running at the nostrils which may trouble a growing chick all sum- mer may be the cause of the swollen head which suddenly develops during the cool fall weather. Keep the brooder houses as free as possible from dust and it may help to prevent 'colds. ' 'This is done by occa- sionally changing the litter and brushing the stove and brooder can- opy which is soon thickly covered with dust. Keep down'the accumulation of eébwebs znd keep the windows clean Mites often sap 'the blood from 'susceptible to colds. The roosts in the uprights furnishing crevices where millions of mites can hide dur- 'Ing the day. Soak those crevices with the engife oll* drained" & This is a quesion frequently asked by the Directors themselves. The Board of Directors for thé Branch consists of the President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary-treasurer and three Directors with an additional Director for each twenty-five members above fifty. The members may elect additional Directors if they so desire, at the time of the annual meeting. The whole forms the Management Committee, a sort of trustee board, for the Institute for the year. It is elected annually in May by the paid-up members for the current year and those who have paid their fee for the coming year. The Directors are expected to assist the Executive officers in carrying on - Allot of colds tht cause losses next| the work of the Institute. It is advisable to have one or more chicks to roost at an early age. Then of the Directors on each special com- mittee. The Directors should help to distri- bute the printed programs among all the homes of the neighborhood and to secure new members. They should suggest ways and means by which the work may be made more effective. Particularly in collecting and offering practical and workable ideas for the next year's program can they be of use, Each Director should make himself familiar with the contents of the Hand Book. All expenditures of Institute funds, except for postage or stationery, should be approved by the President on authority «of the Executive or Board of Directors. . When large sums are to be expended or new limes of work requiring expenditure of funds ace tobe undertaken, it is well to have the approval of a regular or &pe- cial meeting. The Directors should not undertake anything of an unusual character in contieghion with the Institute work, until it has been approved by the ma- must be ratified by the general mem- from a | eran 'case' nf You wil) help protect! jority of the members. All their work i | Chairman of each Committee should report 'to the Board of Direc- tors or at regular monthly meetings, when ¢alled upon to do so by the President or a majority of the Direc- 'or one-quarter r. of the member- utive Committee, consist- -treasurer, should of an unusual charae- 'meetin regarding £8, 'entertainments or the expenditure 'of | funds; should be referred to the Direc- 5 Or A or special meeting. OE ioint the. ak oF Dioee tors in hi sass 'was ) President, Viee-Presidents| that carry Of What Use Are the Branch Directors? "No," objected the President. "The President and Secretary have their hands quite full with the regular du- ties of their office. The Vice-President is absent. I would suggest that the Directors take this upon themselves." Accordingly - the meeting put through a motion that the Directors be a committee of investigation to examine and report upon all desirable ways of raising funds, recommending to the consideration of the Branch those which, in the Committee's" opin« fon, were best suited to the talents and resources of the neighborhood. Thus the work will not only be dis- tributed among a larger number of members and the evil of over-working the few avoided, but a more thorough and efficient study of the question will in all probability be attained. THOSE BALES STILL A GODSEND. The Secretary of a Northern Insti- tute that distributed donations of clothing writes: "People are just the same as of old. When you help them materially there is a prospect of help- ing them materially. The President and I have got along pretty well hand- ing out goods. We were so fortunate as to be able to help a family where the man had a broken leg; there was a wife and eight children, the eldest fourteen: "In another home thére were' a brother and sister, both elderly. The brother told my husband that he had no underclothes and that his sister had her feet wrapped in burlap bags. They needed everything in the way of 'clothing. The Institute sent one parcel and have bought yarn and dre sending socks and stockings. We have not everything, but we are getting quite a lot out of what we had left from the bales from the Institutesiof Southern Ontario. We are putting some of our own with it, and sending a little food too." Another says: "The boxes .from Southern Ontario Institutes proved a man had no special reason to overflow with self-praise and strut about with chest pointed upward. He and his kind " were not responsible for the energy and business acumen that drives the great projects of our mod- ern cities. That physical energy and mental activity are the products of the farm. The farm manned the cities. The dignified presidents, the keen manag- ers, the hustling superintendents, the busy foremen, and, withal, the thou- sands of skilled workers of every sort were very largely recruited from the - good old farms. And from these same farms have come the stuff that main- tains these city workers in condition fit to continue the services which have resulted in the upbuilding of our great centres of population. Whatever may be the claims of a few enthusiastic "city failures," the fact remains that great cities are pos- sible--only -as- farming -becomes. more. and more efficient. rrp Renewing the Raspberry Plantation. In the case of red raspberries the best plants, says the Dominion Horti- culturist, for a new plantation are the suckers that spring up around or near the old plants in the spring. These are allowed to grow throughout the season, and then dug up and planted out early in September after the ground becomes moist, or planted early in the spring. Plants should be cut back to within six or eight inches of the ground at the time of trans- planting. The black-cap and most of the purplescane raspberries do not make suckers as do the red, but they multl- ply by tips. Long slender growths are thrown out shortly after the fruiting season fis over. In nature, where they are more or less protected, these take root, but in the open field where they are exposed to wind, it is tecessary to hold the tips down with & little soil, when they will soon root veritable Godsend to us. A family of Phe plants are left until late fall or six were burned out at noon on Sun. day and by night our officers and a few members had them fixed up com- fortable in a shack of thelr own." Sipe mi This is the time to kill weeds. Every weed that gets an inch high ; y. hi man Eo at pring early gpring, when they are dug up. 1f ordered from a distance, tips hav- ing a year's growth are the best for planting. Care should be taken nok to plant blackcaps too deep. If the roots are covered with more than twe | in' a| inches of sofl they are liable to rob "The suckering varieties of raspberries should ba planted in rows from six to culti-| eight feet apart and three feet apart in the row, four or five inches deep. | Blackcaps should be planted about te same 'distance apart, but shallow