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m^^ T^^ mmm THE FLESHEBTON ADVANCE. Surpassing all others in DeliceMsy and Fragrance II SALADA' I! Send tts a post card for a free sample, stating the price yott now pay and if you use Black, Green or Mixed Teau Address Salada, Toronto. tru HOW TO MAKE FARM WORK EASIER Even though you have been short of help, you may have found plans to make your work easier so that you could do more yourself. Here are some good plans that other farmers have used with success : HOME SWEET HOME ecLeive iUjump IN MV SVJIMMIN OUTFIT AND G£T RIGHT uNoea thC HOSE - ITS SO GOL OeON£D HOT MY HAT CA06HT1 I ADMIT THIS IS AN ORIGINAL loee- PcoBABcv LOCHS (?uca - 80T I'M OOlrt' TO GET COOUO by Earl Hurst cjh! 60V! PALM eeflCH, AIN'T GOT nothin' on THIS Harvest will soon be over, and Oatario farmers will have a Uttle more time to themaelvea. They don't bave any too much time to themMlTCB at any time, bat it does seem, in these days of labor shortage, that many farmers hare come acress some wrinkle on bow to make farm work easier. For the purpose of passing things like that along to other farmers, this de- partment has been opened, and will be published from time to time. Anyone who has found some plan to make his or her work easier on the farm is Invited to tell it in plain words on one side of the paper only, and send it in to The Farmer, 515 Manning Chambers, Toronto. It will be published in tbis department. Here are some ideas that will help. If you have any, let us have them, and thus others will benefit also: that this can be nailed to something, because if it were simply placed on top of a box, the struggle of the birds would be sure to tip it over and not only waste the kerosene, but much time would be lost. Ity plan is to place one of these cans in position and keep it filled wilh kerosene oil until the disease has disappeared from the flock. If it were necessary to get a new supply of kerosene and hunt up a can in which to put it every time a scaly leg was seen, the treatment would probably be neglected. F. BASSETT. HeLLO*. HATTlE'VEPlTHlS \S \ Me. I'M GeTTIN' COOLED OFF WHAT DO VOU THINK Of MY Lie COOLiriG SVSTEm7[ â€" NOT Ve i^Y Ml-C'H YOU Goose ! â€" VA^HAT DO YOU ' THINK OF MINE Foolish Francesca By Olive Wadaley A TEEATMENT FOE SCAiT LEGS If you raise your chicks with hens in the old-fashioned way, you may be troubled with scaly legs, on the hens. Although the disease itself is not espe- cially dangerous, the birds that are sufife'ring from scaly legs usually do not do well, and if you attempt to sell them for meat they do not bring as good a price. So scaly legs are to be avoided. The treatment for this is very sim- ple, and if vou use the plan I have outlined, the' work will be reduced. The remedy is to dip the legs of the fowls into kerosene. My plan is to fasten a tin can at a convenient height oa the side of a box. This can be tilled with kerosene and the bird's le"3 dipped into it. It is important A BETTER WAY TO PLANT POTATOES I have found a ditching spado is the best tool for planting potatoes. It makes a hole large enough, is easier to handle, and enables me to plant my potatoes much faster, an^ to control the depth at which they are planted. This is especially true if I am plant- ing potatoes in sod or in heavy clay soil. F. A. WABNEB. MT BEST STEAW CABBIEE I have found that a binder canvas is the best thing to use for carrying straw when you have to move it in small quantities for some little dis- tance. For example, when I carry bedding to the small hog houses that are located about 100 yards from the barn, this canvas comes in handy. I can cany more than I can on a pitch- fork, an^ do not scatter it along the way, as would be the case if I carried it on a pitchfork and the wind were blowing. I I use an old canvas, which I fill and then buckle, and you can see that it is j an easy matter to carry a big bundle i of straw on vour arm when handled in 1 this wav. â-  F. A. WABNEB. ONE FARM HAND TELLS WH Y HE CAME T O TOWN Better Living Conditions Are Needed For Workers, He I Declares Year 'Round JobgShould Be Provided, ^^ ^^ So Men Won't GojElsewhere. We (By Lord OgUvy.) get very limiie» exp»essij)n from our farm workers possibly be cause we are poor M^t*"*" ,°% «^, ""i' correspondent says, it is ^£e to com- municate from a distance. Let the latter, however, apeak for itself. Here it is: - 'â- â- I*'' ««£ord OgUvy: "I see some prominent writer says that you could no more persuade the country-bred boys to lea^â- e city life and go back to the f-rm than you could make the water of the St. Law- rence river reverse itself and run up stream. . "Another writer says that tne "back to the farm" movement can (,ulv be accomplished by putting tarm life on the same plane as city life. An article of yours a short time ago commented on the thousands of farms .•<ll over the country as being tenant- less, not being cultivated. And, too Et the very time that nroauciion should be at its greatest. "Now, I am an ex-farm hand, hav- ill I' left the farm a short while back. I 'am called an all- 'round farm man and irrigator, handle four to six horses and am familiar with all kinds of farm machinery, stock feeder, etc., and I be- lieve several poiuts could be cited that would be to the advantage of the farmer as far as holding his farm help is concerned. And as his own boys leave him he has to depend more and more on outside help. As a rule a farm- er never likes to be told anything, es- pecially by a farm hand, and it is alwavs" safest to tell him from a dis- tance. Very often that is his loss. Then, again, it is his gain, as there are all kinds of farm help, from the <Tood and indifferent, to the rotten and I. W. W. kind. Square D«al Keeded for Farm Laborers. "Fair treatment and a square deal applies, cr should apply, the same on the farm as iu other lines of work. lu the first place, his married help (and that is the reliable, dependable Xindl should be provided with a com- fortable house (not a beet shack \ not too close to the boss's house, nor at the same time tucked up to or against M stable; a place for a garden; water so it is not necessary to carry it one- (luarter mile, places for chickens and a hog or two. The latter two items. with milk, cut a figure iu both content- and thereby become producers instead raent and a big reduction in living ex- of conj-umers peases. No. 2â€" On the farm it is absolutely necessary to attend the chores, but it can be made a big or a small job. An hour of chores at morning and from oue hour to one and one-half hours of chores in the evening after a day in the field is a little trying. If an employe of a factory was asked to clean up aroun,i the factory an hour before the whistle blew and put in the same time after the quitting whistle sounded he would soon chuck his job. If farm workers were put on an hour basis, with chores classed as work, the farm- er would have the unimportant kind rlimiuatod and ilo only the essential. Or he and his family would do more i-horcs themselves. Another advantage about the hour basis, say iu the sprinj; or harvest time, it would be to the farm hands' interest tiuancially to put iu as many hours as possible. Year 'Bound Work Should Be Provided No. 3 â€" If you were running a factory and worked but eight month.s out of the year, you woulj have a different and mire incompetent force at the be- giunini; of the factory work. You couldn't expect to retain your old force er your experienced help when they were obliged to follow some other oeeiiinliou the other four months of the year. It is the same way with farming. It costs money to move. Xnd if a fTimer doesn't feed stock during the winter months, or do some other kind •>(. work thereby giving his help twelve months of work, lie can't ex- pect to have very competent help for a few months of the year. No wonder he claitses all farm help as '"rotten." "My reason for leaving the farm was, without capital I couldn't see any future. I didn't \ ant to De a tarm hand ;ill my life. But you can bet your bottom dollar that if t ever have a chance to get back on a farm where there i"! a future chance of being able to fa.-ui for myself some day, that's where 1 will go. I like the open life: the fresh air and sunshine; I like to see things grow, I love stock of all kinds and 1 like to raise better crops than the other fellow. Yos. the hours may be long and things look discour- aging sometimes, but a good night's sleep anj a healthy appetite puts new mettle into a fellow for the next day's work. Many an ex-farmer in the city would be glad to chuck his city job and locate ou those tenantless farms could some way be found to so do, EX-FARMHAXD. (Continued from last week.) Francesca scarcely slept, the night seemed so short iu which to think and wonder. All her thoughts were in the future. Il:uiver'3 clumsy love-making, Millie's liat, the whole evening was forgotten, only the next day mattered. She met Millie at the Shepherd's Bush tube the next morning at eleven â€" Millie resplendent in white furs, and a hat rammed down .<ver one eye with an osprey sticking straight out from it. An invisible cloud of perfume seem- ed to surround her. Francesca had only her old blue suit and a lace blouse which, at eleven o'clock iu the 1 moruiug, looked as though it were part i of an evening dress. She had sported ' white gloves for the occasion, and wore 'a bunch of violets, a tribute from Dau- 1 vers. I Millie had brought the song with I her. I Mr. Tubby Nathan lived and had ! his private being apparently in a llat [ off Shaftsbury avenue. His greatness i and power were outlined by Millie in one comprehensive sentence, "He's the bo.ss of all the halls, and does all the engagin'I Now you know who you're I nieetiu'." He proved to'be a big, youngish looking mau with beautiful clothes and ' thick, shining black hair brushed straiht back from his forehead. His tie-pin was gorgeous, also real, and his 1 hands were white and much manicured. i "Well, Miss Melton,'' he said iu a 1 rather low voice; "what's this you've brought mel" j Francesca saw to her amazement a new Millie reply to the question, a dif- fident, almost cowed Millie, with a sub- servieut manner and anxious smile. "I ventured to bring my friend, Mr. Nathan. She wants an engagement to sing; and you asked me, if you remem- ber, only last week, if 1 knew any oue who could sing well, so Iâ€" " "Yes, all right," Nathan inter- rupted. He stared at Francesca, who stared back. He reminded her vaguely of Ue Vlaii, her sister inlaw s Eurasian woulu-be admirer. She had keen intuition : she realized at once that Nathan's usual mode of treatment was belittleuuut. and from that she judged her man. She had seen Ue Vlau come to heei like a poodle, even if he were iu a \ ioleiit temper, when Phrynette had roused herself and met his outbursts 'il swearing witli a eertain i;ay nn pudeuce. "Well," Nathan said, "1 haveu't much time. You'd better get ou with what you c;>n do, Miss â€" er â€" what .' Trent .' I suppose Miss Melton '11 will play for you. Without askiug permission, he cut a cigar and lit it. Frankie made a grimace at him behind his batk and signed to Millie to begin. She sang better than slie had done the previous evening. For one thing, the room was much larger and it was not full of smoke and the smell ot supper. When she had finished she turned and said calmly to Nathan: "Well, what d'you thing of it.'" He faced her, looking rather aston- ished. â- 'I've heard better," he said laeon- ically. ".\nd I bet you've heard Vorse," l-'raiikie Hashed back iu her attraetive voiee. She suddenly noticed that his cigar had gone out. ''.\nyway.'' she went on recklessly, ''you forgot to smoke while I was singing." ' â-  Vou seem to notice things, Miss I'rent," he said, still smiling at her. She smiled backâ€" a radiant smile of youth and excitement. "You know I can sing," she sai«l. •'Won't you give me a trial?" '"Because you can sing here doesn't prove you can^sing in a huge music- hall," .Nathan "said abruptly, his busi luss instinet blotting out his amuse- ment. ""Try me." He consulted a tiny note book. ' ' .\11 right. You can come to-morrow at ten- lift een to the Royal Casino. It's prac- tice day and you can sing to the or- crestra." Frankie looked back at the door and saw him watching her. She made him a little half-impudent, half-graceful reverence. "Decently bred and a spice of dev- il." he said aloud, settling his imma- culate tie at a large mirror. feel sick and Ul and cold, seized Kraukie as she waited for her turn at the Casino. There were no lights to- day, no sense of excitement and quick life; only a bored-lookiug orchestra and a row of people nearly all as nerv- ous as herself. iu her new frock. She refused to make up her face and only allowed Millie to â-  " intense ' ' her eyes. When they were both dressed they had half aii hour to wait. Baila, the fair-haired stage-manager, came into the room. He looked an- noyed and uncomfortable. • • Here, I say, Miss Melton, ' ' he be- gan, "Mr. Nathan thinks two of you iu the program too much. He 's sent you a week's salary in lieu of notice; and says he's very sorry, but he's sure you'll understand." Without waiting, he hurried from the room. Millie stared at tlie envelope, and as she stared bio; tears b.'gan to roll down "Go on," an irritable young man ^ her face, maWng line's upon the grease said, coming up to her, 'and be quick, ! paint and powder. "â- â-  â- -'t want to be kept here all "Oh. Frankie," she sobbed, help How Newspaper Adyertising Helped Win the Great War. The story of some of the accom- plishments of daily newspaper adver- tising in war work is told interestingly in a bandaame booklet, which may bs obtained from any one of the offices of A. McKim, Limited, of Toronto, Mon- treal, Hamilton or Winnipeg. While it is not complete in its rec- ords of everything aecoupllshed by the advertising columns of the daily newspapers in securing subscriptions to war loaua and funds for relief at home and abroad, of energizing the people to war effort and acquainting them with the novel and varied regu- latioui of their lives and habits made necessary by war conditions, it deals with all_ such campaigns handled by the Mcivim agency, which was a great majority of the whole. • • The Force That Makes Ideas Live ' ' is the title of this thesis, ana tne author therein has conceived a new and dignified status for all advertis- ing. WhUe the propaganda advertis- ing H-ith which the booklet deals is comparatively new, all advertising is propaganda either of a product or of ideas, and behind every proauct is an idea. The thought of advertising as a propagator of ideas gives it a new dignity and a new dignity to the aum- blest product of which it promotes the sale. The booklet declares that the news paper press is the greatest agency Sor moulding pubUe opinion, and that in the advertising columns the storv can be presented uniformly, when and wherever desired aU over the country, and can be reiterated and repeated till the impression is scare. When one recalls the educational work and induence of just a few ' ' pro- paganda campaigns" such as ''Made in Canada", ""Belgian Belief", '"Can- adian Patriotic Fund", "Thrift and Increased Production ", " " The Military Service Act", "Baising of $1,000,000 for the ]«ravy League of Ontario", etc., one can well appreciate that a new era has dawned in the use of advertising â€" "'a great opportunity f-" commercial, public-spirited and fo We don ' day." : lossly. She walked with shaking limbs onto : Frankie 's mind leaped to the situa- the huge stage It was now or never; itiou; she had been put in over Millie. she had a marvelous chance in so little She knew her voice was a hun^lred i time that it seemed almost incredible; t'uics better thau Millie's. Two sear- and it was up to her to take it or go ' let spots llamcd up in her face, under. j Millie had helped herâ€" given her of i TL 11* a £ M A half-formed praver floated iu her I ''^!" best generouslyâ€" and now she was i I DC lllStOry 01 21 IlSUlie mind, something like, "'Please Ood,] °'-'"JS "sed as a weapon to hurt her. i male me succeed, onlv make me." A I *"^ '"^^^t down b -side Millie and blur of faces in the stalls arrested her I P"' '"â- â- â-  a""â„¢* â- "O""'' ''er tenderly. ; "It 3 all right," she said tenderlv: , ''it's all right, Millie. Don't cry; vou i look so awful, (iuivk, make up vour ; face again. I shan't go ou: I won't „. . â-  sing. You can take the place, mv - ^"* tamily name of Armstrong, of place and keep it. I'll tell Nathan ex'- 1 '^*'""'^" '^ ™°st celebrated and wide- aetly what I think of him." | spread as a result of having been The call bov was trying No. 0. It, was Frankie 's number. "Go on." Frankie implored, dusting I-owder over .Millie's face, "and don't be a foul. 1 eau look after mvself, dear. ' ' She watulied Millie go onto the !^tage and heard the clapping, and then she raced down the stairs to Nathan 'si; CHAPTER IX. into the Night Sheer blind terror, which made her eyes. Nathan was there. ""Now, then,'' the conductor's voice said sharply. She opened her mouth; no sound came forth, her throat was swelling, her eyes filling with tears, she bit her lips till the under one was hurt vio- lently. "I will,'' she said, and began again. Her voice trembled, rose, grew clear- It was a wonderful voice, really â€" a God-given voice which, despite youth ;ind no training, was yet beautiful and appealing. The conductor, at a sign from Nathau, repeated the chorus and she sang it again. She stood for one Instant, w-hen she had finished, staring in front of her: then, conscious that some one was call- ing her, walked off the stage. "It's all right; you've done it; it was fine," Millie breathed. "Fine. Tubby '11 take you ou for a cert." "Here, where "s that new girl."' the fair young man was calling. He es- pied Frankie was beckonetl to her. "Mr. Nathan wants you at once in his oflice. Here, this way. Kiankie. her heart 'hudding aga.nst her side, found herself alone witli Xa than in a round room which seemed full of photographs and big armchairs and luxury. "Well, Miss Treut," he said, smiling at her, ""Mr. Cousens, the conductor, thinks that you'll do, and so du I. I'm willing to give you a three months' contract round the London halls, to sing not less than three songs a night. "You'll be billed as fifteen â€" you (hrn 't look any more^ â€" you can wear your hair down aud a big bow and a short frock. .\s to salary, I propose" â€" he eyed her keenly â€" "thirty shillings a week to start with and an increase of one pound at the cud of the time if you prove yourself worthy of it. "It's a great risk for us," he added. "You're entirely unknown, aud, al though you can siug, you may not prove a draw with the pubiic. Just sign this, will youf ' He pushed a printed paper across to her; with hands trembling with joy she signed it. "\ou'd better come to-morrow to Mr. Cousen's flat â€" bring Miss Melton it you like â€" and he can choose your songs for you." "Oh," said Frankie, "I want to tliiiiik you; 1 can't tell you how- grate- ful I am. 1 â€" you see. I'm all alone; and 1 was so terrified I'd never, never get a ehauee, and now" .Nathan looked at her. a curious smile round his lips. " That's all right,'' he said â€" "quite all right. Good eveuiug. Miss Trent.'' j governmental bodies to render con- structive educational service. AEMSTEONQ. Variation â€" Armstrong. Racial Origin â€" Engliah. Source â€" A nickname. borne for centuries by one of the jiost iiitiueutial clans of the Scottish low- lands. But it is by no means borne only by Scots, and it is a product of the English, not the Gaelic tongue. The name appears to have sprung up iudependenth- iu many localities, being a sobriquet or nickname of the tvpe denoting a physical characteris'tic room and flung open the door. He ; '*"'-â- '* nicknames were quite common iu stared in amazement at her and re- I "i*'^^^^^^ England. Its meaning, of the first time how pretty alized for she was. "Hello I" he said, smilingly. "I have seat Millie on in my place.'' Frankie said. " ' You turned her off be- cause of me, and, as I consider it abominably unfair, I have given up mv chance to her." "D'you nie»n you've upset the pro gram ,'•'"-' " • Yes think I have. You deserved it. "Leave my office, d'you hear." "I can't very well "fail to hear," Frankie said; "you bellow so. I am going. To be entirely truthful, I do not care to stay anywhere near a man so mean as you. Good night." .""^he was out of the building before he had stopped cursing. ^ She went from the Strand fo the Embankment and leaned upon the stone coping and. with her face hidden in her bands, cried ami cried. (To be continued.) I course, is exactly what is seems, "strong arm." One variation of it which virtually has become obsolete and is very rarely met with in Canada [i." "Strongithann. " There is no doubt that in the cases 01 a number of families the name is simply the Anglicized equivalent of the -Vorman- French " " Brazde-f er " or Nathan asked, flushing dar'klv. 'â- '^'â- "^"'''^•^*-''"'' C'arm of iron") said Frankie easilv. â- â€¢"l I adopted at the period when the Anglo- j Saxon influence reasserted itself ; throughout England. There is a legend that the name of the founder of the .\rmstrong border clan was named Fairbairn, but that a Scottish king conferred the former name on him for his feat in aiding the monarch to mount his horse, bur- dened with heavy armor as he was, when his former steed bad been killed' under him in battle, a legend born out of the crest, which shows an armored arm, with the hand grasping an ar- mored leg, evidently meant to illustrate the act mentioned. / "The Foolish Lovers" Now that the civii war in Ireland las penetrated to Belfast and its iieighborhootl those who are interested i.'i getting a firsthand picture of the people may have some glimpses of them in Mr. St. .John Ervine's new book, "The Foolish Lovers." The tale continences in Ballyard.s, which is a disguise for the neat little town of \e"t(inards, which has been included in the riot and looting area. The County Down family depleted Krankie almost danced in the tub on the way home. .Success, fame, object of compassion to his brother, of wealth, all were coming to her. .Mrs. n itiiperation to his sister, and of svm Baggs was jubilant: Dauvers full of I pathy and comradeship to his nephew, hi.s share iu the great chance. He was jJ'dinnie's visits to Belfast, twelve openly iu love with Francesca now, miles off, on Saturdays, are the begin and told her so upon every available "' ' ' ' opportunity, Krancescu was too busy getting the TheiShutler Test A story from the Levant is not sup- posed to have authority, but one of the latest from that unreliable quarter seems fo leave sufficient basis for ac- ceptance. It is to be effect that the iron rolling shutters used in the shops there have led to more riots, massacres and pogroms than any political cause. The shutters make a noise like a ma- chine gun when slammed down in their slats, aud they are slammed down every . . - are time a merchant hears a rumor of dan- taithful types of the people and their ger and fears a raid. -Xs soon as one language an.l mode of thought will be | man bangs his shutters down his neigh- iroinptly recognized by all who are , bors do the same, not stopping to en- lamiliar with the country. Johnnie I quire, and the noise spreads over the Mel'ermolt lives with his mother and j town like the sound of a battle. The two uncles, William and Matthew, who public hears the noise aud mobs are keep a grocer's shop. Matthew is deli- 'organized with the usual result. Shut- cafe and regarded as being weak in , fers or the absence of them are the mind as he is in body. His veneration j decided test of civilization. One for ""the Our Queen" leads him into ; Geoghegan was the last man in Chicago grevions trouble and he becomes an ; to put shutters on his store oa Fifth avenue, about 35 years ago, and it used to be pointed out to visitors. Wherever disturbances are common, as frock and practising hard to worry much about him. She was to begin on the IJth at the Casino. Millie Mel- ton was on there the same week. The two had become friends; they went together to rehearsals, and fre- quently on Millie's "off" nights, to other halls where they swaggered in on presentation of Millie's card. On the night of the loth they wont down early to the Casino. Francesca was rather amazed at her frock, which had been made by the theatrical dressmaker. It was of scar- let chiffon, with a huge black-velvet sash, and there were scarlet silk stock- ings aud satin shoes fo go with it. She was to wear her hair done as usual iu front and tied in a flapper's "door- knocker" behind. ning of his romanlie perioil. covers Sniithfield. He goes to the Theatre Koyal. and sits in the pit, and f:ills in love with F. R. Benson's Juliet, and then gets a sweetheart of his own in the sudden fashion of seventeen. The book is full of Ulster humor, which is largely unconscious, but frequently rare and dry, and Mr. Ervine's nar- rative is a delightful oue. I'Ister is a^ rich mine for the novelist and Mr. Ervine is making classical progress. The .largest factory in the world devoted exclusively to the manufac- ture of spark plugs is at Toledo, Ohio. Thirty-five million plugs were produced last vear. in Irish towns, shutters are evidence to the traveler of what is to be ex- He dis-lpeeted. When a population advances to the level of being able to control its animosities, and to keep its hands from picking and stealing the un- guarded windows of the shops aud stores indicate this commendable stage of public morality. Fortunately there are but few shutters in Canada. .V special permit is required for the operation of motor trains consisting of tractors and trailers not exceeding 100 feet in total length, between 3 p.m. aud She loaked darkly chic and alluring [5 a.m. iu Milwaukee, Wis. FARSfSB TAKSS CHANCES One day of uuusual heat at the criti- cal time may reduce the vield of an oat field 25 per cent. A few hours of rain can half ruin a crop of wheat. Potato yield may be reduced from 25 to 50 per cent, by a short dry spell. One cold rain can ruin an apple crop. One hot muggy day may entirely spoil a crop of beans. And to these features must be added the fact that countless insects are at constant war with the farmer. tf.-