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t-meal Tn he 96 an "corn feeding resulted in' putting out of the'100 in the strong class. oats to the corn 5 'corn, per cent. protein meat-meal tankage and block salt in separate self-foeders, with another. group receiving shelled corn, 60 per cent. protein meat-meal tankage and block salt in separate self-feeders, with another group ceiving the same feeds but with the tankage omitted. + These pigs -wei oy Fhe met Cha iched 42 pounds ut EL Mu ------ EE BS a day, n "clean up in ro or five At the beginning of the. wheat, ration. The ) of Fa Jeoportion At.makes up the main part of the ' the last two weeks before ! New corn should never be it almost invariably results in scours. Kafir or milo are good substitutes n 'pounds of either of these grains "equivalent in feeding value to nine pounds of corn. Pen Fattening Turkeys. ER 388 51 z { Pen fattening has not proved very! popular in this country, though sever- al experiment stations have found that keys. can be successfully fattened turkeys are regularly the for' decorating the curtains is quickly In Normandy the turkeys are driven 'out to range after the morning feed; ugh they do not wander far| {and tho! y to work off the effects of the heavy feeding, they secure enough ex- ercise to keep them in a healthy con- dition, and at the same time pick up ough insects and green food to bal "If turkeys are penned up for fat- tening, a supply of green food should kept constantly before them, and food in the form of meat scrap Emp "| same circumference as the cover, snap pouls! Any small Re grain gi. Brg om "is more easily taken 1 the living bird than her kitchen may be, Tow well Stocked a. periodiequal) 87 oats and corn minke 81" ire is painted, closets are de- | plan of decoration may be followed in of 'cerized cotton; two shades of blue and pen fattening seems to lie in giving the flock plenty of room and in main- centre of the two side panels about five 'for the curtain decoration, or one may . ' pn T ten-cent store will make small round less holes _ {covered in like manner an Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland, recently conferred honorary de-. grees of Doctor of Laws on the Duke and Duchess of York. They are shown in their gowns and hoods after the ceremony, PLEASANT COUNTRY: KITCHENS 1 ind ; God almighty will to save and re ANALYSIS, N of 1.'THE NEW BIRTH GIVING ENTRANCE Af {TO THE KINGDOM, 1-6. JIL FA TING POWER OF THE 1111 THE Love oF Gop TO 'MEN, 13-17. INTRODUCTION--The great theme of ching, both in the earlicr| ater stages of his inktryy lie discourses to the multi n the private instr ictiin of was the coming of the God, the revelation of and in Loth in de ar deem Israel. See Mark 1:14, 15; 1: 11; 4:26,34, ete. Occasionally an indi. vidual inquirer would come to him and Jesus would speak to him of the in- ward personal mystery of the Iing- _ | dom. Such an inquirer was Nicodemus, who comes before us in the present lesson. He is a Pharisee, a Rabbi, and a member of the Jewish Sanhedrin, or legislature. He is in earnest about the BY SYBILLE MAYER. No matter how efficient a workshop 'ironed, so it is practical and durable. This pattern comes in strips of two and a half yards. a and 4h traced on the muslin. 8 be had, so.that one has a wide choice. removed. TEA TOWELS TO MATCH. day; canning or baking or preparing corated, aprons, towels, curtains are all planned to harmonize with the h color sch and the effect is so pretty, though so simply gained, that the kitchen becomes one of the most admired rooms in the house. The color scehme is delft blue with orange or yellow, though the same each made of a yard of white toweling. end. Above there are two bits of em- broidery done in orange and blue, The second towel has a novel alter- nate orange-and-blue crochet edge be- low a basket-and-flower wreath of em- broidery done in the same colors. rose with a lighter blue, Chinese red c ,pet jg worked as follows: and gray, or any desired conmbination | of shades. The window curtains are mere pan- els' of unbleached muslin, gayly em- broidered in rather bold effect. There is a one-and-a-half-inch border of blue denim stiched about the edges of the curtains, and also across the valance. The large bird-and-flower motif used chain two, one doutle crochet. Third row repeat, same as s:cond; 'worked in threads of yellow wool laid flat, and couched down with blue mer- hénna wool are used in the ordinary nimple stitches to complete the design. The two motifs.are arranged along the one edge of lace. inches apart. _ _ Any other design may be selected prefer to use merely the bands of blue for a finish. This effect will be very pretty. : DRESSED-UP FLOWER POTS. On the window gill in this attractive room are two plants, each in its at tractively 'dressed flower pot. Cut a strip of buckram the height of the pot, allowing a bit for lapping over, glue it together, and cover with a of yellow oilcloth, turning it in at the ur a. hea: Line a plece of heavy wra 'paper. A plece of wire of The length of the front with large dark- bias bands. yourself out an apron of unbleached cotton. cotton bias-seam binding. of the apron work a small lattice-end- flower design. 5 ped into place at the top and bottom encil Qecotations are the prettiest. 'and most simple for these flower pots. ole design may be used sticking the needle through the n.a- terial at the end of each row, and sew it down on the wrong side. The three small flowers are dong in for the { butterflies or| blue, rose and pink wool, with green 'whatever one's fancy may dictate. Or|for the leaves. z ER Tr Ry a and paste a bit ; to : alow. thiratigh: the. open. worl making When and How to Pick 'decoration. Apples. For obvious reasons, as the Domin- A 3 3 ion Horticulturist says in his bulletin : a a. narrow strip of ble oilcloth| on "The Apple in Canada," it is diffi- hg . Ee A to give exact information as to gi 'the best time to pi . Sol "When ' finished, these covers are general suggestions can be given. merely slipped over the flower pot,'and Early apples which are intended for maybe removed when the plant is near markets should be picked when watered. - Imost mellow and disposed of as soon . Tin cans from the grocer's can be as possible. The best way of putting used as up early apples is in 6 or 1l-quart :Placed baskets with leno covers, or in boxes. not 0st convenient, but until there is danger of injurious 3 haetiol mote of Secomiich a8' frost. In large orchards it is necessary : | to begin picking in good season, tak- ing the different varieties in succes-| yea! one 4s cover the cans and ot' it 'will be well to sion, beginning with the early winter a /bas-' sorts and varieties that drop easily. love le before be! y Toa S6ods iE Dion and ha an "executor as they are terial over a. piece of carbon paper, With a number of others are to \ Tack the finished edge to the shelvee| with small tacks that may be readily 1 rig NEW BIRTH GIVING ENTRANCE TO One towel is offset by a neat inch- and-a-half blue-denim border at one to gome without further delay. He has 4 Make chain about one inch long. turn, make double crocnet into seventh chain, make ten double 'crochets into chains, chain two, double crochet ane, turn, chain five, ten double crochet, fourth chain five. one double crochet,' chain two, one double crochet, nll the | way across. Change cotton when made in two colors. -Picot--one double cro- chet, chain fiye, double crochet back- ward into 'rst chain between holes on must begin life over again by personal Of course one must have a becom- ing house dress to wear in this pretty, kitchen. A short-sleeved model gif most suitable. This dress might he he Kingd f Ad made of the unbleached cotton, trim-| eeautioh $a ti K3gig dor of Go) med or buttoned down the entire blue bone buttons and bound with blue a lattice work is done with the ue, and a yellow seam binding folded nseen th iri 'in half through the centre and Titer ogh pawey Of that Spirit whes ed into a very heavy needle. Follow possible for men. the lattice design, alternating the blue| Vs. 10-12. As a teacher in Israel, and yellow, interlacing them, and Nicodemus should have known that re- hi wf Stood Winter apples may be left on the'trees onde Ingdom, but he thinks of it external- ly and materialistically, not inwardly and spiritually. Like Jews of the > he thinks the Kin will come time, If additional shelving is required suddenly from the skies by an outward. "miracle of God. Jesus, on the other hand, teaches that the Kingdom comes inwardly by a miracle of the soul. This is the subject of the present talk with { Nicodemus. Jesus speaks of the new birth from above, by which men enter into spiritual life. THE KINGDOM, 1-6 Vs. 1, 2. Nicodemus cames to Jesus Tea towels to match the pretty kit- by night, under cover of darkness, be chen must be made next, and two neat and dainty designs are used. They are cause he wishes to escape the notice lof men. He is afraid to show openly his interest in Jesus or to come with- out reserves. On the other hand, he |is sufficiently in earnest to come, and ) " gina." believes that Jesus is a divinely-sent teacher, and he is willing to accord Bim recognition. V. 8. Nicodemus, though interested in the Kingdom of God, has not ques tioned his own qualifications to be: ong to it. He thinks that as a Jew an 188 a correct Pharisee, he will certainly see the salvation of God. But Jesus 'at once declares that there is no en- trance to the Kingdom along the line of such expectations. The kingdom of God does not come to men by outward happenings, but by an inward change of the soul. , Men inherit it not by Jewish birth or by descent from Abra- ham, but by a new personal birth of the Spirit. A man must lay down ide and self-will, and enter the ingdom of God like a little child. He bom impressed by Jesus He surrender to God. Just as we enter lon the physical life by physical birth, | 80 we must enter on spiritual life by a spiritual birth. "Solemnly I say to ou, unless a man is born from above, SPIRIT, 7-11, Vs. 7-0. This astonishes Nicodemus, and he covers his disappointment my asking how a man in adult life can Then some rainy afternoon cut possibly experience a new birth. Jesus admits the mystery, but calls attention Bind the 'edges in old-blue to the power of the Spirit of God, At each which in its operation on the souls of shoulder point and, the three corners, men is mysterious as the night wind {rustling among the trees, It is real and present everywhere, yet none can tell "whence it comes, and whither it goes." 'Nicodemus should not forget of what is possible or not i generation is an actual fact of experi- lence. Though he has been living by | tradition, and therefore lacks direct personal experience of the power of all around are men who can testify to having been brought out of spiritual darkness into the light of life. Among these are the disciples |and converts of Jesus, and if Nico- fgomus will openly give himself to | Christ, he, too, will experience the new birth from above. ot till" he has {taken this step, and realized that re- ygeneration, the emergence of a new rlife in the soul, is a fact of experience | (v. 12), will he understand the still heavenly mystery of the love in the redemption of men. 111. THE LOVE OF GOD IN REDEMPTION, 13-17. Vs. 18-16. On this subject, Jesus alone has a right to s He, as the a ar, that is, te heavenly come down from heaven to show to men the love of God. In r that men may see that love, he imust be "lifted" on the cross. Face to face with the cross men will see at last how unutterably great is God's rning to bring men to eternal life. Vs. 16,17. For that cross shows the of God. God loved the world so 'much that he gave up his only Son that every one who believes in him r have eternal life (the life of the n). The Jews believed that 'when he came, would justice. They did not would be a of of ] he be II. THE REGENERATING POWER OF THE | life, The child, like a Holds a thousand green leaves folded tight, Holds a thousand flowers, pink and white, Hold » tree with its branches all com- And fruit that is julcy, golden and But before all this can be, there comes a day when soil and sun and Showa have al done their part of Ropar nm, and the new tree ns to be. This is its birth, the or Hine int of a new life. Growth follows, Jody through exercise, in the mind through education, in the soul through aspiration, "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the ful- ness of Christ." But, just as the seed must have the sun, before the dormant life, as it becomes the life it was meant to be, so the soul must be quick- ened "from above" by the power oul side "ourselves that makes for right- eousness, This is the plain words and unforgettable phrase of Jesus, spoken to a good man whose life was not the highest possible, as the "new birth." Right Weight for Marketing Mr. A. A. McMillan, Chief of the Sheep and Swine Division of the Do- minion Live Stock Branch, has this to say regarding the right weight for marketing hogs: Farmers who aim to market a high percentage of hogs of the select bacon grade, after first hav- ing made sure that their breeding stock is of the right type and con- formation, should feed in accordance with recognized and approved meth- ods, and aim to market each litter at an average weight of two hundred pounds. There might, of course, be times when a falling market would warrant selling at slightly lighter weights, whereas a rising market might be an inducement to feed some- what longer. Any great deviation from the two hundred pound uverage will undoubtedly result in the sale of under-finished hogs if early marketin is practiced; whereas, if it is exceede to any great extent a percentage of heavy hogs will result. In another part of his "Handbook on Hog Grading," from which the foregoing extract is taken, Mr, Mac- Millan, dealing with heavy and extra heavy grades, remarks that when closer attention is paid to finishing at the 200-pound average, very few hogs will be marketed at over weight, and the extra heavy grade, with few ex- ceptions, will include only those held for breeding purposes which have proved sterile, ---- Comparison of Red, Alsike and Sweet Clovers as Pasture Crops. In each of two years the experiment was conducted at the College compar- ing the amount of pasture erop pro- duced by sweet clover, by alsike clover and by common red clover. The yields per acre were determined at each of six cuttings in each of the two years Three weeks were allowed between each two cuttings. The results are It is this feature of the county that creates the holiday spirit, draws the crowds, that swells the gate receipts and pays the premiums, so the fair company surely needs it, and as long as human nature remains hu man, the midway, the free attraction, and the races will undoubtedly prevail in some form. We, of the farms and the rural dis- tricts do not minimize this side of the big show. We are concerned, however, that it be kept clean and decent, a fit place for our boys and girls to con gregate and enjoy themselves. The constructive thing that we are chiefly interested in, naturally, is the agri- cultural display. We want to see the farmers department show up to better and better advantage year after year. The farm can furnish entertainment and pleasure as well as interest and education to the public if it shows itself at its best. The things you have at home that are of interest to your friends and that you like to show--take those things to the fair. The people can not all come to you but they will all meet you at the fair. Put on some original farm stunts and watch the crowds de- sert the side shows. The way to make the fair a real agricultural fair is for farmers to take a hand and make it all they can. No one but the farmers can make a farmers' fair. Don't think you have done your part when you have bought a ticket, and then go out and criticize the officials if you do not find everything to your liking. Goodness knows they have troubles enough. They do not make the fair, they only direct it, and must work with such materials and assis- tance as they can secure. Let us turn out with our exhibits, our displays and our performances and show the world that the farms of our country are still on earth. ------ ---- The Apple Maggot. The apple maggot, according to Mr. C. E. Petch, of the Dominion Entom- ological Laboratory at Hemmingford, Que., does not spread rapidly, but yet it has made its appearance at many places since its discovery at Adolphus- town, Ont, by the late Dr. James Fletcher on August 31, 1896. Its rav- ages are not impartial, seeing certain varieties of apples and some orchards suffer severely while others in proxim- ity may escape almost entirely. In Quebec, Mr. Petch stgtes, it is not altogether unusual to find the entire erops of Wealthy, Alexander and Fameuse apples completely ruined by the pest. A circular issued by the Dominion Entomological Branch, in dealing with methods of control, says the destruc- tion of fallen fruit, if done very care- fully and frequently over a period of twenty years, should eliminate the apple maggot, unless infected orchards remain nearby. The drops" should be destroyed once a week, commencing at once or about July 25. In cases of severe infestation hogs are useful in keeping the ground free of fallen ap- ples. As soon as the flies, a descrip- tion of which is given in the circular, tale that very interesting in furnishing definit information regarding these three erops in the production of green clover are noticed, the trees should be spray- ed thoroughly with 'lead arsenate, three pounds, in 40 gallons of water. d application should be made which would corr d pretty closely to the relative amounts of pasture pro- duced. The following table gives the average of the two years' experiments in tons per acre of pasture crops: Periods Variety of Clover, of Tons of pasture crop per acre Cutting Com. Red Alsike Sweet 1st 13.6 2nd 14 8rd 2.9 4th 4.6 bth 2.0 6th 1.6 While the turkeys are ranging and be | there is a plentiful supply of insects and of weed seeds, the birds will re- quire very little extra feeding. If any special feed is to be recommended, it is sour milk. ; A trough of sour milk, kept where with the same materials two weeks/ later. PE Ny Next Year's Breeding Stock. In every flock there are always a few backward birds which are too gmall and undeveloped to market with the others, and too often these are allowed to make up part of the next season's breeding flock. 1 The time to pick the breeding stock is before the fattening process begins, and if possible they should be pt ed from the heavy feeding. If this cannot be conveniently done, then the birds which make the most rapid gains and end up the period in a healthy condition are the most logical candi- dates for the breeding flock. The un- developed birds should be kept over and marketed at Christinas, A large share of the trouble in rais- ing turkeys, including even the losses al from blackhead, may be blamed direct~ ly on the use of inferior breeding fern pre