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last year, with wheat and-corn / A . 'By SARAH "For several years before we were marrielt I ¥aught schoo. and had not given the roultry business much "thought or study. The first few years of our married life we kept a flock of mongrel hens. My husband would frequently say: " "These hens don't pay for the grain they eat." As with most. farmers' wives, the chickens were my only source of pin money, so I did not like to have them ! criticized. Upon further investigating the matter I was convinced that his statement was only too true, so I de- cided to makes the chicken business - 3 Sa CBr ay a paying proposition or quit it alto- gether. I clipped all the poultry notes I could find in the farm magazines and MY 150 HENS MAKE THE. _ 2 LIVING FOR OUR FAMILY, NORTON i INCREASE THE TANKAGE When feeding corn I increase the 'amount of tankage. About three times a week I moisten some of the dry mash with a little water or milk .and feed it in the evening about an | hour before their rezular feeding time. I always do the feeding my-| | self and always feed régularly. My greatest problem is supplying 'the hens with green feed in the win-' ter time, I steam the eaves of alfalfa hay for them. This provides them | with succulence and is a source of | (considerable protein. 1 feed potato, parings and some of the smaller po- tatoes chopped fine. These must be | fed soon after cutting, as-they grow 'stale and lose feeding value quickly. In the summer the chickens have free i i supplied myself with pamphlets per- range and do not lack for green feed. SMART FOR THE SCHOOLGIRL taining to poultry from the agricul- Plenty of fresh water-and oyster, | A very practical style of dress for tural college, also some good poultry shell is kept before my chickens at schoo! wear is the model shown here. books. With a colicky baby and a all times. Occasionally, I buy a litt'e Ample freedom for play is provided mischievous two-year-old to care for river sand which contains a great by the deep inverted plait in the front I did not have much time for read- ing, so would read while rocking the baby. "deal of gravel, and give them free access to it. 3 One of the most common causes of | of the skirt. A vestee of plain, con- [trasting-color material is set onto the dress with thres rows of machine The first question I had to decide failure in the poultry business is stitching. The same stitching outlines was what breed of hens to keep. For disease. Prevention is better than the edge of the boyish collar, The back these reasons I decided to keep the ' cure, as a sick chicken very seldom is plain and the long sleeves are mark- Leghorns: 1. Five Leghorns can be efficiently Cleanliness is the best 1 keep the gets well. prevention of disease. ed for a shorter length. Duro ging- ham, linen, cotton, broadcloth, or fig- housed in the same amount of space poultry-house and yards clean by the ured rayon would be suitable washable as three hens of the dual-purpose type. 2. The Leghorns require less feed per head than the larger breeds. 3. The Leghorns make a profitable return for three or four laying years, against two laying years for the heavier breeds. ~ laying "when about five months old, instead of seven months for the pul- lets of the dual-purpose type. SELECTED LEGHORNS I chose the Single Comb White Leghorns because they are larger and showier than the Brown or Buff Leg- horns. I sold part of the flock I had at that time to supply myself with money to get started with the pure- bred fows. We were living on a rented farm that had no suitable place for run- ning an incubator, and as my means were limited I could: not .afford invest in an incubator and incubator house, so" 1 decided to buy baby chicks. T scanned the poultry ad- vertisements in the farm papers and sent for several catalogues. Finally I ordered 150 purebred Single Comb White Leghorn baby chicks from. a heavy egg-laying flock. They arrived in good condition. I had neither brooder nor brooder house, so had to contrive a home- made fireless brooder. I lost about removal of manure and refuse. | I rid the henhouse of mites by, spraying occasionally with a strong dip applied with a bucket spray, pump. By the use of old galvanized washtubs, wash boilers, bushel and half-bushel measures for nests, and many styles showing how to dress boys his intention to kill him, and (2) that, | Py ed ni er very few and girls. Simplicity is the rule for like his father, and unlike Esau, he! 4. The Leghorn pullets commence cracks and crevices for roosts, the !Wel-dressed children. Clothes of char- may get a wife of his own kinsfolk. mites have fewer harboring places. | | For lice control I use the blue oint-| ment treatment twice a year. T keep | the feed troughs and drinking ves-| sels clean by frequent scrubbings. I] watch my flock closely, a droopy bird I isolate it at once. | If it shows symptoms of a contagious ! disease I kill it and give it, a post- mortem examination. I either burn or bury the dead fowls. SEPARATE THE PULLETS Since buying baby chicks each spring I do not keep male birds, thus saving. feed. and: housing. room... I 861 most of the cockerdls at market price when they weigh about two | pounds. The remainder I pen by | themselves and keep for fries. By [this method I reduce the feed bil i considerably and the hens and pullets {do much better when not molested by the male "birds. Also" the "infertile 1eggs keep better during the hot weather. | Occasionally I find a broody hen {on the nest, I pen her in an airy crate and feed her non-heat-produc- materials for this frock, No. 1303, which is in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 years requires 2% yards 32-inch material; short sleeves % yd. less material. Price 20 cents. Our new Fashion Book contains acter and individuality for the junior folks are hard* to buy, but easy to make with our patterns. A small am- ount of money spent on good ma- terials, cut on simple lines, will give, and if T notice -chiddren. the privilege. of. wearing adorable things. Price of the book 10 cents the copy. HUW 70 ORDER PATTERNS, Write your'name and address plain. ly, giving numb>r and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; ="rap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Pattern Dept, 7ilson Publishing Co., 78 West Ade fuide St., Toronto." Patterns sent by return mail , Cabbage Maggots. Among the rcot maggots that at- tack vegetable crops im Canada the «cabbage. maggot is. one of the most Vi'age on the site of the ancient injurious. It attacks cabbage, cauli- flower, radishes, turnips and rape, and sometimes even celery, beets and beans. A pamphlet on root maggots and their control, distributed by the 28. Golden E and wil! keep thee in al whither thou goest--Gen. 28 18, ANALYSIS 1. Isaac's Blessing and Jacob's De- present two widely different types.' absorbed, and if the liquid is Esau is the more sensual, a creature fecty clean, the tiny pores retain of appetite, seeking always the im- Minute particles that. mediate good, pres So and improyi. | its: color. x dent as' regards the future. LINEN MUST B is the more spiritual, shrewd, : : ALON dent, far-seeing, and ambitious. I. ISAAC'S BLE3SING AND JACOB'S DECEIT, 27:1-40. It seems to have been a recognized, Prevent its being dazzling > E WASHED BE & ing peculiar value and importance, and, perhaps, as designating the place, in with the rest of the soiled white land rank which each should hold, C-othes in the family wash, the por- after his death, It may have been|ouUs strands will soak up all "the that Isaac had not heard of, or had, dirty water they can absorb, and | disregarded, the selling of Esau's, What was formerly a spread of daz- | birthright to Jacob, for he quite evi-| Zing whiteness will emerge from {dently intended to give Esau the|the process disappointingly grimy 5 | greater blessing. The blessing, when | 88d unattractive. | given, was regarded as irrevocable, | and as prophetic of the future. 'II. JACOB'S DEPARTURE FOR i HARAN, 27:41 to 28:9. y I | > § EL else. If the cloth is very much { Cli Neti are Even = Ta soiled, several dippings beforehand, the wrath of Esau, who has declared each time in plenty of clear, fresh water in which borax has been dis- solved, will be a great help, but the cloth should not be alowed to soak even a short time until the water in 28:1-4 is probably from a different | rich 3 'was Le he uke source from that told in chap. 27, and a half ROLF 2.10 i NS supplements it. So also the brief] ot en -- 50 fy, sulil- account of Jacob's journey in 28:5; Si Waters cover. it gen. is supplemented by. the longer and. more detailed narrative in our print- ed lesson. III. JACOB'S VISION AT BETHEL, 28:10-22, Toward Haran would be in a gen- eral northern direction. The distance to be traveled would be between four and five hundred miles. Whether Jacob had traveling compapions or not, we' are not told. i that it is next to impossible to get One of the stones, It is not an un-; them out before the next washing. common thing for an Arab traveler So a linen cloth should be watched, or tent-dweller to use a stone for brought in when just right to iron, a pillow. and pressed immediately. A ladder. When linen must be hung on a¥ine to dry, the best way. is. to. bring two corners of the cloth together and steps; or terraces, of stone to its top.|lay them over a washcloth, or some should' be washed by itself, in clean suds, and rinsed in several clear waters that have been used for noth- The story of the blessing of Jacob in spoonful of borax has been dissolved. Wash quickly in fresh, clean suds. WHEN HUNG OUT TO DRY. A linen tablecloth is best dried on the grass in the sunshine. However, it should never be allowed to become drier than is necessary in order to iron it nicel,. If allowed to become thoroughly dry, there form in. this Near Beitin, a small | Béthel, there is a hill which rises in eelt, 27; 140. ous material 'E IL. Jacob's Departure for Haran, 27: (lcth is 'somawhat like 41 to 28:9. 5 | that'it wil absorb wat ; III. Jacob's Vision at Bethel, 28:10- but its Oe ark A nao 22. than those of the that it is| the Introduction--Esau and Jacob re- Not easy to express all the water vo per- the of the ve the water ¢ id ; when it is first spread upon our cloth will Cm, Tr, te Be C2 6 8, En, a $d Pie ais sons and successors. The biess- in just one washing, all the good iittie hot. wiser ing must have been regarded as hav-! gained from the expensive process onder to | of bleaching may go for nothing. Put That is thé reason why linen, erously, and in which about a table! material creases: that became so $6t' wet linen at the corners. BLEACHING LINEN = ° Freezing is one of the best methods | of bleaching linen in the winter, a frozen tablecloth must be it. | ction of the "acid in buttermik ha | recognized as another excellen ! bleach for linen. x 1 0 time i | ! sunshine as many times as is con-| venient. The last time this is done, she wrings the cloth out after im- mersing it in warm water--to get rid {of all wrinkles--then lets it dry] enough to be in a good condition for | ironing, and presses it immediately. | The expert really "presses," she does not iron her linen. This is the method by which those country- | women overseas bring out all the I rich beauty of their linens and pre-| | serve the material so that lovely) { looms from one generation to an- other. As everybody knows, it is' while the cloth is being washed and ironed that it endures the most wear, not while it lies. in a drawer or is even spread over the table. So those, women who treasure their linens press them with long, even strokes with a cold iron--something. the hustling woman finds it hard to-do; because it takes one well over an' hour to do a small cioth by this method. But the reward is an ap- pearance in the linen that can be obtained in nao other way; as if it were fresh from the loom, with thej pattern standing out'in bold reief| against the satin sheen of the rest of the material. = I ! Jacob's dream into a" ladder, or stair- way, rising up to heaven. Ryle (Cam- It may be that this shaped itself in one 'third of "those chicks" with White |, feed and plenty of fresh water. diarrhea. I attributed the. loss to! Biddy soon decides to begin laying chilling. However, when fall came |, oqin, I had about fifty of the finest pul-|' "Pha hers are inclined to be bossy lets in the neighborhood, and for the and the pullets timid, and I think . first time got eggs during the winter| the pullets wiil lay better if housed months. . : by themselves. I can accomplish this The next spring we moved to a|}y converting a vacant hog shed into farm which had a good brooder house |," henhouse and by using the two and I purchased a heater and hover, buildings can increase my flock to which is still giving satisfactory re-| pout 200 birds this fall. Publications "Branch, Department of "bridge Bible) - suggests that it may Agriculture, Ottawa, gives the meth-| have "resembled the ascent to Baby- ods of protection against this pest.|lonian and Assyrian temples, in The adults are sma: flies, smailer and; Which the shrine or Sanctuary on the more slender than-the common house | summit was reached by steps leading fly, but resembling it considerably. In! through seven terraces." early spring they fly close to the| The angels of God (compare 82:1), ground and deposit small, white, | re sometimes described in the Old elongate eggs, which hatch in a few | Iestament as an armed host watch- days into small white maggots, which | ig over God's servants, See 2 Kings at once burrow down into the soil,| 6:17, Psalm 34:7, 68:17. Here they enter the roots or bulbs and destroy | re shown as holding communication old pear-tree, peeped out of her nest and heard Mabel say: : "You're a hateful girl, Lina May- bee, and I shan't: ever speak to you BY HELEN Mabel and Lina had quarreled. Nejther of them could quite tell how it happened, but the blte=jay, who was sitting in a crotch of the suits. I take great care in feeding and managing the growing stock, for a stunted chick very seldon. makes a profitable hen. As our henhouse is small, and I found from experience that crowd- ing does not pay, I usually keep about 150 hens. I aim to raise enough pullets each summer so that I can gell most of the three-year-oid hens each fall. The culls are included in this bunch, as even'the best of stock possesses some culls. I sent to the agricultural college , and the Department of Agriculture «for pamphlets on culling hens, and also obtalmed what information I could elsewhere. I studied it and practiced it until I would not take & back seat for any but the best pro- « fessional poultry cullers. I not only give my hens a thorough culling each! fall but also watch them closely and do some culling the year around. This means quite a saving, as the slacker hens cut down the profits. In feeding I also practice economy. I do not mean by this that I slight 'the hens in the least, but try to feed | a well-balanced ration. I feed the grains we can buy the cheapest, mak- | ing substitutes as the prices change, | and use my- own common sense in applying suggestions offered in vari- ous articles on poultry feeding. The prices "have : for they ¢an be bought for less per, pound. Care must be taken in feed- g oats. Light oats nearly all hull! ld not be fed. I either soak the twenty-four hours before feed- il them first. They relish boiled oats best 'and the boiling | 'tens the hulls, so that the chickens f | 'siderable loss 't toes. portant factor in the prevention of i ture; field. All weak, sickly plants sho We purchased an 80-acre farm re- cently, and, as soon as our finances permit, intend to build a modern hen- house large enough to accommodate at least 300 hens. We have no available market for graded eggs, so I sell them at the regular market price. This saves me time and labor, which is a matter of importance, as I have a multitude of household daties to perform each day, besides caring for my chickens. Instead of getting eggs only in the spring and early summer, as ¥ did when I kept mongrel! hens, I now have eggs to gather the year around and the income from my hens keeps our family of five in food, clothing and incidentals, What I. have done' any farmer's wife could do. Why not make the chicken business a profitable busi- ness? -- sf npn sa Protecting Tomatoes from Disease. The tomato plant is an exception- ally rank feeder and unless weil sup- pied with plant food will grow feebly and become subject to disease. Sandy loam, well drained and with a it plentiful application of well rotted | water as fast as it heats. A plumber i barnyard manure ploughed in, is the will not charge much for making Te, this alteration; but any man who is 'handy 'about such things will not find it difficult to do himself. -- eT best soil for tomato growing, are several diseases which cause co 8. An im- these diseases is proper sanitation, | according to a bulletin on tomato diseases distributed by the Publica-|- tion Branch, Department of Agricul- Ottawa. Only strong, vigorous, heathy stock should be set out in the water from the stove to the outside boiler. Make this cut near the stove, and insert a tee, into which screw a faucet, and over it the lining, seams and armholes and pin Siorely to the cloak. Smooth all extra fi ness in the back to the center, lay it in a pleat to the them. In most sections of Canada few eggs are laid before the middle of May in a normal season, athough on the Pacific Coast they are gen- erally laid considerably earlier. According to the pamphlet the most efficient method of controlling the maggots is the corrosive sublimate is- used to ten gallons of water. It should be applied liberally to the stem and roots of each plant at week- ly intervals from the . fourth day after egg laying has begun. At least two treatments in the spring or early summer are necessary, but three are generally advisable, Quick Hot Water Supply. Ordinarily one "can get no hot water from a hot water boiler con- nected with a kitchen stove until the entire tank has become heated. Here is a way to get it as fast as it heats) in the coil inside the stove, which | means almost as soon asthe kitchen {ng to God. fire is lighted. Cut the pipe that carries the hot It ig necessary then only to urn this faucet to obtain the boiling To Fit a Coat Lining. Put on the coat wrong side out, "right side again!" "I don't want you to speak to me," said Lina. "And I shan't tell you where there's a big patch of wild strawberries that I found yesterday. I'm a-going to pick 'em all myself." Mabe! pulled her sun-bonnet over her face and started across the tall clover to the house, and Lina pulled her sun-bonnet over her face, and went off through the orchard toward her own home, ] ' "Why, Ling," said her mother, who was churning down at the spring- house, "what's the matter? Wasn't Mabel at home?" between earth and heaven. The 1.ord stood above it and repeat- ed the covenant promise made to Abraham and to Isaac. To this young man in his first loneliness, con- scious yet unrepentant of a great !wrong done to his brother, there | comes this gracious vision. God does not abandon the wrongdoer. His promise is, Behold, I am with thee. God will yet lead him to repentance and acknowledgement of the wrong. | His purpose through him for Israel and for the world must be fulfilled. The Lord is in this place. Jacob is learning that the God whom he serves, and who is watching over him, though he knew it not, is not confined to one place, but is in all places the same. He, re, calls this place Bethel, which means in He- brew "House of God." He sets up the stone upon which his head had rested, and makes of it a sacred pil- lar, pouring oil upon it as an offer agreeable thing, and says she'll speak to me again." Mrs, Maybee laughed. "I thought you girls would have a quarrel before long," she said, mak- ing her churn-dash fly again. Mabel went slowly along through ed and her eyes were brighter "than seemed quite natural. When dinner was ready she coul not eat anything, although her fav- orite chicken potpie was on the table. Her mother began to grow alarmed, "The child must be sick," she said, Jacob moved a vow. The vow makes reference to God's promise made to him in his dream, If God "will "really be with him, and keep him, and give him food and raiment, and bring him back again in peace, then he will recognize him as his God, he will make this piace a sanc-| "or she would certainly eat her din- tuary, and he will give to God a tenth ner." - : of all that he receives. There is a| So Mabel was put to bed, and be- flavor --of - ind hy nw high- fever: characteristic of Jacob, byt, novee-| 6 estar same, und after soleug theless, there is recognition of 'the at her tongue and feeling of her leading and care of God and of his. pulse, he left some medicine and own consequent duty and obliga Toe deed, but it helped Mabel, and by Feed your cows sat. The dairy- an in Switzerland feeds a little salt "She was at home," said Lina, sulk-, She awoke, and the shadows thrown ily; "but she's a cross, hateful, dis-|bY the tall trees had grown very long, nt medicine was very bitter, iu- I M. WHITNEY eyed. 7% | She raised herseif on the bed, and, locked Joi of wa fresh, green wodds and] hills. As she did so, she caught a glimpse of Lina, with a basket in hex | hand, walking slowly down the path! across the glade. A now," thought Mabel, sadly; and then she wondered if Lina would not give her one--just one--of the bright scar-| let berries, if she asked her. "I'l watch till she comes back," thought Mabel, "and get mother to go out and ask her for one." So Mabel lay, with her face toward the window, watching the path by which Lina would come on her way "home. wo | 'She watched for a long time, but last she fell asleep. It was late in the afternoon when | and were still stretching out toward the setting 'sun. : A cat-bird had perched on a hop- vine, near the house, and was sing- ling his evening song. Mabel had { buett dreaming about the strawber- 'ries, Her dream was so vived she 4 fancied she could smell the luscious fruit. i : "Mabel, are you awake?" asked her mother. z > : | | And opening her eyes, Mabel saw, ! not only her mother, but Lina! Lina, ! with sunburnt cheeks, and rberry-| Slalsed ngers, and in her hand i ig ampty Dus To or Bune 1 | oreatures after all," said Mrs. Jay| {to [ on tol Ee Se 5g +! a such out of the open window to=l, "She's going after the strawberries by Blackbird, thrush, and linnet were part of the season. The following lst roughly classi- fies some of the most desirable hardy perennials into three blooming per- iods: Early spring; Arabis (double flower variety best) , Colum- bines in variety, mostly dwarf, Alys-7 sum saxatile, low-growing; Peren- nial Candytuft, low-growing; Ferget- me-not, low-growing; Daffodils, Ice- 1 "Poppy, low; Moss Pink, low; - Globe Flower, low; Tulips in var- iety, medium height. Early sum- mer to midsummer: Chinese Bell- ableclotha are handed. down. as- heir: Lp ® Cor ts ACS liam, low growing; Harebell, low growing; Perennial Phlox, medium height; Scariet Lychnis, medium height; Delphinium, tall; Holiyhocks, tall; Foxglove, tall; Lupine, madium. Late summer and early fall: Lidium- Superbum, tall; Cone flower, medium; Bellflower, medium; Monkshood, tall; Day Lily, medium; Perennial Phlox. There are many more pants which might be included, but from the fore- 1goirg the beginner will find ample i material to make a creditab'e begin- ning at a most fascinating phase of horticulture. a x : Poller & Carrying. ve & Most varieties of fruits set better crops if they receive pollen from other varieties, and with many sorts cessary for a good crop, and fre- quently for any crop whatever. Insects are the only means of any importance for the transferring of {this pollen from one blossom to an- other. : Among insects the honeybees is all- essential, carrying pollen from one variety to another in its quest for Therefore, one gets the best resuits in pollination where the trees are side side, and as the bee travels in" its search for honey from a tres of one variety into a solid block of an- other variety there is less and loss chance of its bringing the foreign pollen with it to the blossoms of each lirig row. : : ~ We would, therefore, find the best set of fruit around the margin of this solid block and reasing as f tres. defice 150 to © 200 feet is the greatest it is safe to expect pollen to be car- ried, though weather conditions at blossoming time and the number of bees available have a decided in- fluence on results. 3 : Green Boughs. Birds were singing everywhere In the sunny spaces, Up and down and id" Soaring, gliding, swinging, Darting in and scudding ott, th Came their frantic singing. provided it distance that .