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THB PLBSHBRTON ADVANCE. "How Delicious" is tke opinion of adl who have once tried "S&LABA" B71S I! YOU have not tried it, send us a post card for a free i sample, stating the price you now pay and if you use Black, Gree n or Mixed .Tea. A4dressSalada,Toronto Pointers on Silo Filling. Packing Silage Is Like Handlingr Money Put It Away! Rightland It Will Stay Right. BY GEORGE H. BURBANK. If it were not a farmer who invent- r,l the sayiig that liie i3 "just one hii X another," it U not be- eaSI farm life does not fill the de- crTption. And right here let it be lid that one of the things that comes X f rst on the schedule is none other than ^ d lilg the silo. There are so many Uict! to Ue process a^d so many od<^ and ends to keep m mind when tac kliig the job, that every now and then e ^n the Vxpert is wont to admit he loes not know it aU. As an aid, then, te the farmer who owns sUo-hUing ma- chinery as weU as the silo, the follow- S suggestions are offered. A good pUoe for them is the scrap-book. ^ One of the first essentials is to plan sad then plan some more for the im- portant job of cutting, filling and pack fug away enough feed for many mouth .0 come. The farmer who is no longer dependent on the roving community fiUers has to figure o'^* l^^^^^"* °' PJ"! cidure. He must consider his help, his equipment and make measurement for i..lai--ing cutter and power. A eood foundation should be picked cut for the machine and the blow pipe or carrier should be erected m as ver- tical a position as possible, to avoid unnecessary length and Miction Grooves should be made tor the wheels of the machine. The apparatus should be fastened securely with stakes and set on tb« level. Com stalks contain approximately â- iZ per cent, of the nutritive value of the entire plant. When the corn is fairly well matured it has the great- t,t amount of this food material and then is th« time to get busy. In de- termining this stage it U well to ob- s- rve the denting of the corn, the dry- ing of the lower leaves or some of the outside husks. The corn is best ma- tured for putting in shocks m the ear- ly dent stage. If it is apparent that the corn is too mature, water should be added at the blower by means of a hose, using from one-half to one barrel per load, the dryness of the fod- i'er determining this proposition. If fattening of stock rather than milk production is the desired thing, the i-iTu must be mature, and in those sec- tions where a late crop will not mature it is lyest to plant an early variety of tield corm. . A thing of prime importance is to cut the fodder clean and fine. By fine i.^ meant one-half an iuoh or less, but :t is best to cut one-quarter inch if the corn is very mature, the finer cut- ♦ •ng lessening the amount of water re- quired and insuring better keeping laialiUes. As silage is preserved by the "pickling" or fermentation, the process setting in which the juices are liberated, it may be seen that fine cut- t-ng U a big advantage. It sets free more juioe, aside from the fact that it n.akes better packing. Exclusion of ail air is necessary to good fermenta- tion, and slipshod or improper packing nay produce small air pockets to in- terfere with the caring and cause spoiled silage. With cutter bar and V;nives well sharpened and adjusted SUV cutter will do a good job. Tho ipiaUtv of the ensilage and the capacity of the silo depend on how M-tU the packing is done. Packing is iiore than one-half of the game. The r«;e of a jointed distributor is recom- L'.ended, for with this all parts of the stalk will be packed together and one man in the sUo can be put to other \»ork. A distributor will be paid for id one season by the cut down in labor. Tramping of the edge next to the wall should receive special attention. The nail must be smooth â€" a small block tacked on the wall may relieve weight t-nd pressure and thereby spoil several bushels of ensilage. With the filling advancing toward the top, more atten- tion should be given to packing and perhaps extra help pressed into serv- ice. The preservation of all the corn in the silo is difficult. At the top a few inches, as a rule, will spoil, but this can be reduced to a certain extent by pacing some very green fodder at tiiat point. Sunflowers, hay or weeds nay also be used. Xo point jn handling the cutter is more important than the pulley size. Tractor manufacturers have not set a standard of belt travel, and as a result a pulley that might serve with one t? actor will be wrong for use in con- nection with another. Suppose a farm- er has a cutter just right for the size < t his tractor, but that the size and speed of his tractor belt pulley are such as to drive the cutter too fast. If he were to operate the machine in riiis way he would find that owing to the increased capacity resulting from the excessive speed of the cutter, his tractor would not work at full power. The speed of the trsetor would be iLt down and the whcle outfit reduced in efficiency, and the chances arc the blower would clog. There is a very simple formula for determining the required size of the cutter pulley. Multiply the numbei of revolutions of the tractor crank shaft by the number of inches in diameter (â- Â»' the drive pulley on the tractor; ai.d that number divided by the num- ber of revolutions that the cutter is t.) be driven. The result would be the diameter of the pulley required on the iilo at the point where it takes the jpower from the tractor Long belts are better than short ones wherever fossible, the heavier weight I ! the belting offsetting the danger of sipping.' .^. short belt is better, how- ever, where the power is light, as it r-quires extra power to handle a ^ ery long belt. With the cutter set on a level and as close to the silo as possible, it is itady for starting. But just before Mie start a few minutes of inspection may make a world of difference. The operator should make sure that all bearings are well oOed, that all bolts ire tight, particularly those holding the cutter bar and knives. In the knife adjustment the kni\-es sh-uld barely touch the cutter bar steel as they pass them. Having made certain of these things, the operator should run the cutter slowly and then look over the important parts again, .\fter that the feeding may start, doing this slowly until everything is ruining smoothly. Many a machine has broken do\tn li. cause of overcrowding. Uneven f-eding or overcrowding throws a strain on the entire cutter. Aside from easing the cutter, even feeding n .ikes for better and cleaner cutting. Improve the Home So That Daughters May Stay on the Farm. Why girls leave the farm home is » subject that has been investigated lately by the United St-ites Department of Agriculture. As girU aud women and farm home conditions are largely the same on either side of the boun- durv the findings on the subject will doubtless have as much interest in tan- adian as in United States homes. More than half of the women in- terviewed, says the govorument rerort, although classed by the census office with having "no occuoation, arc up !.ud at work by 5 o'clock in the morn- iiiif The working day of the average w-man is U.3 hours the year ronnd, aud in summer it is 13.12 hours. And 87 out of each 100 women have no regular vacation in Ike year. No Help for the Women. Five additional men are required for it lewt tix we«k8 in the year on 30 oer cent, of 6,083 farms reporting, but only 14 per cent, of the women includ- ed in the survey reported hired help and that only for about three and a naif months each year. Yet 94 per ;"-ut of the women made part or all of the family bread, 60 per cent, churned th«ir own butter; in 90 cases out of 100 they did the family washing, 43 per cent, having no washing machines and only 32 per cent, having running water in their homes; 92 per cent, did sll the family sewing, and otherwise looked atfer their families, the aver- r.ge numbering five persons, and their home«, meaning in the majerity of rases a 7-room hous«. In addition, 24 per -rent, of the wom- en assist in the tield work, 25 per cent, help to feed and bed the livestock, 3(5 per cent, assist in the milking, 8,000 include milk pails in their dish wash- ing and 5,703 wash the separators, i^'ightyone Jier cent attend to the poultry, meaning on an average 90 hens, and 5li per cent, speiul part ot tnelr t'me weeding, hoeing and tending the \ I'getable and flower gardens. These tasks accomplished, the farm woman has nothing else to do and may d"vote herself to such social diversions :.s are possible at an average distance of 5.9 miles to the nearest high sciuiol, 2.9 miles to the nearest church, and 4 . 8 miles to the nearest market, and to the care of her children, if she has sny. Far From Medical Help. Significant in this connection i are the figures showing that the average farm home is more than five and one- l.alf miles from the family doctor, twelve from a trained nurse, and four- teen from a hospital, "This means," commented Miss Florence E. Ward, in charge of the de- partment's extension work with wom- en, "that even though the farm nome be provided with a motor car and a lolephone (,ti2 per cent, have motor ears and 72 per cent, have telephones) the farm family may be obliged to act unaided in case of sickness, child birth «,r serioui accident." ^ What this means to farm mothers is indicated by the recently published re- ports of special field agents of the children's bureau on maternal and in- fant welfare in rural areas in widely separated states. ' ' Scarcely a mother in any of the rural areas studied had prenatal care measuring up to an accepted standard cf adequacy, and more than three- tourths had no medical supervision or advice," stated Miss Julia Lathrop of Chicago, chief of the children's bu- reau, in her annual report to congress. Menace t» Buial Life. "The waste of woman power is en.- of the greatest menaces to the ru'al lite of tie nation,'' according to de- ilu'-tions drawn by the sirecialists of the department from a study of tiie survey. 'Although compared wi'h even ten years agv. the returns sho*' i change for the bette-. the burden is etiil far greater tlian the strength oi' the average woman can long endure." What is to be done about it f The lepartment suggests some detiuite things. The real task is to convince the man of the family that the farm- house should be as well equipped as the up-to-date barn. "The farmer," comments Miss \\ ard, â-  ' usually considers modem farm equipment as so much currency with which to buy efficiency. Of the tLtal number answering the question. 4S per cent, reported power for oper- ating farm machinery. When we con sider that it is a simple matter to cou- i.ect the engine used at the farm with household equipment, it seems a sin gular fact that but 2'i per cent, of the f.nrm homes reporting have this ad \ iintage. Fow-er for such frequently recurring tasks as churning and using the washing machine would greately relieve the farm woman. ••Running water is the pivot upon which such modern conveniences de- pends. Of those reporting, only 32 per cent, of the homes have running water, 48 per cent, have water in the kitchens only. In (51 per cent, of the homes into which water must be car- ried this work is don>' by wonitMi." Bathrooms for 20 Per Cent. Cif \\'i\ women ausweruig the .|ucs- tion, only 20 per cent had bathr-joms in their homes. ' • The loss to family and comaiunity by the waste of women's energj Here uesciibed could be prevented by a rea- scnuble aomunt of plauniuj; and well directed investment in modern eijuip- lueut," concludes the department's re- port. ••There is much talk nowadays •It the economic importance of a con- tented rural population, willing to stay ov the. land and help build it up. Fer- laps the greatest factor in bruigiug this about will be the healthy, alert and expert homemaker, who will sec to it that a part of the increased income from the faim is directed toward the .mprovement of the home as a menus 01 contentment aud stimuli for taim w ork. • • i-leouomists of our country, seeing the steady migration cityward, reeog- i.iziug the dearth of farm labor as a limiting factor iu production aud con- necting this with the isolation and in- cjuveuicnce of rural living conditi'ius, are pointing out that where these ex ist it is doubtful busii'.css policy to use increased incomes to buy more land with heavy interest charges against it lather than to spend part of incouie .n raising standards ol living so that !arui women may find contentment in • omfortable. elTicient Uomes, and youug people will not necessarily go to the I ties iu search of attractive living eomiitions and amusement." BETTER LIVESTOCK. It is iulerosting to note the regular- ity with which milk and butter fat I lodiiction records are shattered. Kirst ii is one breed of cow, then another that hangs up a new record for her kind. This denotes only one thing â€" that I'aiiy t'ariiieis are imi'reviug their h.-rds. Sires bring uew high prices right along .-lid got to all parts of the country. In tl is way the scrub cows are going into the discard where they belong. The cost of producing milk is a great ileal nore now than it was a few years ago. tiueeessful dairymen are installing ac- counting systems by which they know to a fraction of a cent what it costs to produce a hundredweight of milk. Better livestock need better homes. They cannot "produce the quantity or quality of milk of which they are capa- lle unless they are housed iu winter in varm, well-ventilated barns. The feed a cold cow consumes goes to keep her warm instead of making milk. Foolish Francesca By Olive Wadcley A Little of Eyerything HOW SFTRTiTiAC IS ICASB Shellac is the prodtti;t of a tiny in- sect which infests certain trees iu the East Indies. The term lac is the same as the Hindu numeral lac â€" a hnndre-i thousand â€" anj indicates the couutle»>« myriads of insects which make thei.- appearance each spring on the youug, tender shoots of the Infeeted treua. These feed upon the sap in the bark. :>ad after passing it through their bodies exude it in the form of a crim- son-colored resin, which in course of t'me lArdens into a tiny semi-trans- parent cocoon or shell. It is these cocoons which, after be- ing melted in boiling water and poured cut on a cold surface, constitute the shellac of commerce. Shellac has many uses. Sealing wax is practically all shellac. It is the principal ingredienc in most varnishes, iiat manufacturers cannot make haij V. ithoat it, a shellac solution being es- sential for the stiffering process. Pho- tfgraphers lind it absolutely necesssary in their business, a similar solutiou en- tering into the composition ot" all ^Ims, while it is, of course, the iLaiu oesscntiaL in all kinds oi lacquer work. I:; fact, there is hardly any subsraact- that is 50 generally used in so aiiiny â- sv:dc!y-d^erent trades and maaurac- tures. Xor has any real substitute for it ever been foand. Yet but for the tact oi a tiny insect desiring to keep itself vrarm and comfortable the world would have none of it. (Continued trom last week.) The half hour ended, Mrs. Baggs's warning cry of "Now then, Mr. Dan- vers, no disobedience to doctor's or- ders,'' reached them from the bottom of the stairs. Dan vers rose. "Good night," Fran- kie," he said. She beckoned to him. He bent down, and she put up her hands and drew his head closer and kissed him once, very gently. Faintness seized Uanvers again. â- â€¢Sure â€" sure you really realize what you're doing?" he whispered, his face . bent to hers. Frankie began to laugh, a little bub- biy laugh that was real amusement. She stopped quite quickly and looked at Danvers. â- 'Sure,'' she said, "and good night, vcu dear." VOLXTNTARY PRISONER. •'Uncle Bill Kdwards, " a wealthy Texan, is voluntarily doing penance â- n prison f'>r a murder years ago. He was sentenced to serve 36 years. Twice, during the eWven years he has teen in prison, he ha< been offered a pardon, but has refused it. Iu each instance Edwards declared he wanted to remain iu prison until he had, in a measure at least, suffered for the crime he committed. CHAPTER XI. At the Theatrical Agency. Three weeks later I'rankie resolutely ~'et forth in search of w-ork. She had paid the doctor's bill, de- spite his protestations, and she also J aid Mrs. Baggs, who wept, and hoard- ed up one pound per week in a stock- ing, which riches was to be sent, later en, in ananyuious postal orders back to Frankie. But Frankie was far from any ttought of real necessity. She would seek work till she found ii. She was convinced iu her blessed youth that one verse m the Scriptures had been specially written wiHi regard to those out of employment, asd she therefore took the Tube to Trafalgar Square with every sense of exp^cetant hope. In a back street off the Strand she •ound the agency she sought. She went up the dirt.v, wooden stairs to the second landing, where Mr. .-Vnstruther, :.n agent of immense power, according •o his advertisement, had his dwelling. The dwelling was visible by a glass leor. the glass frosted aud bearing the words painted on it, ••Theatrical -Vgeu- cy. Apply door 3." Frankie saw- door 3. It was half cpeu. and two girls were visible, much painted and more powdered, with hats [.uUed down on to their necks, and with deeolletee blouses, despite the coJd. Frankie went into the room. It was \ery small, aud a youth with much curled hair and sharp, black eyes sat on a chair, and was pushing himself iiackward and forward by means of a teot balanced against the leg of a dirty table covered with papers and a type- writer. lie stared at I'rankie without remov- ing from his mouth the straw he was i hewing. The girls stared too, and viidged one another and giggled. • Uood afternoon," Frankie taid clearly, her face burning, but her cour- .ige rising. ••.\re vou Mr. Anstruth- trf" The girls laughed loudly, and the .vouth, with an "Oh, my golly," rolled '11 his chair with mirth. '•Or are you an idiot f" Frankie pur- sued sharply. The youth brought the chair to the ground with a bang. "May I ask if this delicately ribald question is meant for mef" she said, giving a loud sniff. Frankie faced him. 'â- Your behavior was so remarkable, -ou see, ' ' she said. • ' I suppose you PIC a clerk, or something. In that case pieiise tell Mr. Anstruther that Miss Trent wishes to see him. ' ' ' â-  Sure you wouldu 't care for me to r^ug up Buckingham Palace and tell George you'll wait for him heret" the vouth suggested earnestly. The girls shrieked again. Frankie turned and walked straight from the room and into the door mark- ed "Private." .She saw two men and a girl drinking together at the window. The room was frll of smoke and scent, and on a writ- ing table a pile of gold was placed. The little group at the window all •urned. "Which of you is Mr. Anstruther, please f" Frankie asked. "Well, I'm not, me dear, you can take it from me,'' the big woman an- swered with a laugh, catching up a big iiir and throwing it over her shoulders, I'ud Bert Lupe is generally pretty well known ; ' ' She turned to a thin, big man with the bald head and the eyeglass and said affeotionatelv: •Well sha'a': meet in the house yet." • â-  By by, Cissie," the man said, ''and if the Boss Company try to do you down, let me sue 'em for you." The pale youth, who had apparently come with the fair lady, went out witQ ler. Frankie and the big man were left alone. ' ' And how the deuce did you get in here, my dearT" he asked. • • Because you keep a tame idiot in that room next door, ' ' Frankie re- sponded promptly. Anstruther stared at her and said in a different voice, ' ' What have you come to me about \ Do you dance, sing, act.' What is your namef" • • Francesca Trent. ' ' â-  ' Frances â€" you don 't mean you are the girl n-ho turned Tubbv Nathan down/" ••-Mr. Nathan didn't play the game, ' ' Frankie said. â- â€¢And you kindly told him sof You i:'us: be a good hand at carpentering. 1 should say, my dear; put any more nails in your own coffin since thenf" Frankie sighed wearily. The driv- eling' form c.f chaff which this sort of man seemed always to use was wholly iucomprehensible to her. "Uo you get engagements for people to sing?" she asked evilly. ' ' -N"ot for young ladies who fly off and nearly upset an evening's show,'' ae said. "Nathan's posted you T)ret- ly well, I don 't think. " "Do you mean that Mr. Nathan has forbidden people to engage met" I rankie demanded. .\iistruther winked broadly. â- â€¢You've hit it tirst round," he said . ., - â€" ' • But he doeen 't control ail the I *"^f "d one of the greatest luxuries i-alls. " Kraukie said, striving to col- '•â-  Probably no one article is in more Icct her scattered thoughts 1 '^^^''^''sal use, unless it be water. You â-  ' Only the biggest, ' ' Anstruther I "^ "P ''^^ *^'* shaker and sprinkle said, taking out a toothpick. ^ ?""! '"""^ '"''' '*' "o' oo«e thinking â-  • Oo you mean. ' ' Frankie asked " '*' wonderful qualities, where it TESTING YOUR HEARING. Many persons suffer from deafness without actually being aware of it. A specialist in diseases of the ear de- scribes the following test-s w-hich everv cne who values the powers of hearing clearly should apply to himself. The man with normal hearing can distinguish in a quiet room the ticking cf a watch held in the hand by an- other person live feet away. Can youf -A man with normal hearing' can hear distinctly every word of a con- versation being carried on 70 feet away. Can youf -\gain, if you are sitting in a con- cert room, a theatre or a church, do .vou, when listening to the words of the speaker, lean forward in vour seat in order to hear more elearlyf If vou do, it is a sign that your 'hearing is less normal than that of th© rest of the audience; and the same appUes ot course, to others who find it diffi- cult to caU-h the words when sitting in a natural position. If you are talking to a person in tue street you may lind vourself lis- tening acutely for every Word he mav utter. Such a practice mav have be- come a habit with you; it shows at iny rate, that your hearing is ' not what it ought to be. It your hearing -s not normal, you should consult vour ccctor at once. WHY SALT IS NECESSARY FOOD TO Practically everybody thinks salt is only used to give food a pleasant tiayor, when from a physical stand- point it is most important part of the diet. Where salt is scarce it is cou- agaiu, "that you can't get me an en- gagement anywhere f â- "Can you pav the feef" •'What is itt'"' ' â-  Two guineas. ' ' Frankie nodded, -ihe had exactly four pounds and a shilling with htr. " •â- Yes, but will you get me a;i en gagemcnt for sure, Mr. .Anstruther f â-  â-  "tefs hear what you can do," h^ said, rising and going to a piano in one corner of the room. It was merely a form. If Frankie had not au idea of music he meant to pocket two guineas and promise impos- nble things. Fools are nearlv as necessarj- to the world as geniuses •â- What '11 you sing, Miss Trent t" He flicked over a pile of songs. Frankie, standing beside him, -aw "The Bosary, " and on the spu- of the moment pointed to it and said. 'That one. please."' Anstruther played over the first Verse, waited, and began again. Frankie opened her lips, a husky, yet strident sound came from them. "The hours I spent with thee. <! â- â-  mes trom or how it is prepared for your use. Salt is sometimes found in an al- most pure state, but as a general rule It is mixed with other things that must be removed before it is suitable for table use. However, there are some salt mines where the only thing i-eces;iary for its preparation is' to pul- verize it. Salt is found in large quantities iu S'a water, but this kind has never been used for the table, as the purer forms are so much more available. Rock salt is the purest form of salt^ and the greatest deposit of this kind IS in Hussian Poland, where one bed •ilone is known to be 500 miles iu length, 20 miles wide and about 120U feet thick. In many of these Euro- pean salt mines the men worltia<' there never come to the surface, as they would lose so much time. .As a result some of them have been known to spend their entire lives down in the bowels of the earth with their four walls of nothing but salt, salt, salt. In one of these mines there is a church that .... .„ur, . spent witn tnee, dear sculptured entirelv from salt heart, the words sounded as though ; Probable vou di not kn^ "em Frankrn' T '^.^^''''-K I "'ood contains about thcTme proper t. em. !• rankle stopped and gazed >"••• -' â€"'•' -- -•- â-  • - *"^"P"'^ with blind terror at .\nstruther. He burst out laughing. (Coutinued Next Week.^ ENGLAND'S CHEAP BREAD In spite of the new price- which ranges about Is. ^24 cents) a four- pound loafâ€" bread in England is cheaper than anywhere in Europe, and save for Australia, it is probablv th» cheapest iu the world, an official of the Jood Ministry told a Labor con- ference in London during the course of a speech marked bv ma*v cries of angry dissent. ELEPHANT HOLD VÂ¥. A story is being circulated of an elephant who held up a train. He was traveling with a circus aud had been put into a car adjoining the ten- der. The big brute, when the train stopped at a station, tilled his trunk v/ith water from the tank, and drove driver and tireman off the cab, aud incidentally put out the fire in the en- gine. .\ man on the platform was en- joying the joke till the elephant turned his hose on him, knocked him off the platform, and bowled him down an enibaukment. The elephant re- 1- aiiic I nionareli of all he surveyed till •he tank was empty. Then they relit the fire and made another start. .Vfter 30 years' waiting, Miss Harris Smith, debarred from the Institute of Cliarte.rctl .Vccounts because of her sex, has been admitted aud becomes the so long, Andy, if you keep Ci*t and only woman chartered ac- \ourself as you keep nte going we ' countant in the British empire. tion of salt as the water of the ocean does normally. For that reason when nver you put an excessive amount of salt in any of your food verv soon afterward you feel a craving for wa- ter. This is because your system calls for water or liquid "of some kind to counteract the oversupply of salt you have absorbed. COLLECTED 15 'YEARS' PAT A man who spoke with a pronounced Swedish accent appeared recutly st the V. S. income tax office ii St. Louis and exhibited two new leather cases â- vhich contained $9,000 in travelers' checks. He said that he had just had his only pay day in fifteen years and had heard that an income tax was due. It ippears that during the fifteen years he was employed on a ranch in Was'vngton under an agreement with his employer for wages plus board and Clothes. During the fifteen years "he went to town" only twice a year and drew no money, he said, because his emplover had bought everything for him. When last month he "decided to go to South America to become a rancher in his own name his employer accompanied him to town and bought the cheeks for him. He was told that bo tax was due from him. The first man who made a name as a dressmaker was Rhomberg, the son cf a Bavarian peasant. He establish- ed himself in Paria about 1730 and owed his rapid 9ucc«ae to his geuius for concealing and remedying defects u( Sgare.