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..-^J . J -"^'/y" fWff' !! imss sucar. Addrats communleatlon* to AB«"onornistr'73 Adelaide 8t Wort, Toronts SUMMER CARE OF YOUR HORSE, j moistened, and add a little salt or More men fail in the care of their > horses durir^ the hot weather than •t any other time of the year. We iiav gathered together a number of du(gestion3 which will b« found to be valuable for the benefit of your horse, and your pocket, during the hot summer season. Remember that cleanliness always travels side by side with kindness. The horse, like yourself, is subject to the troubles, diseases and pains of Hfe. Therefore, be merciful. GENE3ECAL RULES. 1. A clean stable. No should be allowed to gather. WHAT IS A BALANCED RATION? The balanced ration idea is about twenty-five years old. That is, the talk of balanced rations was a com- paratively new thing among farmers Of twenty-five years ago, and it meant at that time, that a certain percentage of protein, carbohydrates and fat, must prevail in the ration to make it balance. Too much protein would cause the animal to grow muscle and frame or give milk, at the expense of manure] flesh, ard too great a proportion of The carbohydrates and fat would produce cleaner you keep the stable the better for the horse and yourself. 2. Screens on doors and windows. Plenty of fresh air (most Important) «an thus circulate, and flies can be kept from your horse. 3. Sponge your horse oftenest where ho sweats the most. Rub him dry. Fluffy towels are good and cheap. Do not use the hose on your horse. 4. Cleanse eyes and/tiostrils, and occasionally the ears. 5. You cannot be too careful of the hoofs. Never allow yourself to leave the stable at night without thoroughly cleaning the lower portions of the legs and fetlocks. Where clay can easily be obtained, it will pay to pack the hoofs at least three times a week, making the clay into a stiff paste. fat at the cost of growth. The world keeps moving on, we live and learn, and our ideas change as they are influenced by the information we take on.' We have learned that there are many things eeaentlal to the well-being and normal development ot an animal besides protein, carbo- hydrates and fat We hear a great deal these days about minerals in the ration, and the newest thing we talk about in connection with proper food is vitamines. We all understand what minerals are and can readily see the connection between lime, phosphate, and salt, and strong bones, vigorous constitution and good digestion. I But these vitamines, what are they?' What do they look like? Where doj you get them? One needs a goodj flomt EdncatiM 't^omparaoiM An Odiou*''â€" By f ^Kth Lochrklge RskL Cllffard dUUkes bis cousin Frank-â€" , (•hiUt should bs UuRht to bs honesV in fact tha dislike almost amounts toj because itsttliiig la wroni; and not b<»* hate â€" and the only r«ason 1« that evarjssaso It mak>»c mother fu«l bad. since the two boys were old enough fco] "Betty took a bag lirst," said J'4li« This swimmer Is wearing hie newly devised swimming cap fitted wltb glase coverings for the eyes and which also covors nose and ears'. dlstiuculsh right from wrong Frank has been held up as a "shining 9Mr ample" of behavlof, "Frank wouldn't sit down in the dirt with his beat elothss on," is the way Clifford la reprimanded for his carelessneaB. "Frank doesn't take such big bites of food," is offered as an Incentive toward good table manners. The truth is that Frank is natur- ally disposed to be neat. His temper' ament is entirely uuUka Clifford's and it isn't an effort for him to be clean and pollta. Clifford has many good defending herself. "That's no excuse for you, my dsarj you can't take things that belong to soraaoue else even if your friend does." "But mother, you always tell m« Betty la bo nice and quiet and good to her baby sister, so now why 4on't you put the blame on Betty?" Can you wonder that Julia showed thla reacntmentT This oase Illustrates the fallacy of holding another ohlld up as an Ideal of behavior. Perhaps Jack does keep How To Hang Our Pictures BY DOROTHY ARNOLD. "Pictures are for art museums, not. Pictures are best hung in direct re- fer the walls of a house," a prominent lation to pieces of furniture or archl- lecturer declared recently. Such a i tectural features. A large picture fits statement draws instant protest fromi in well over a mantelpiece or over a us, for how uninteresting our rooms | sofa which stands against a large wall 6. Watch the shoulders. If, while . imagination and a little scientific | working your horse, you find .the | knowledge to comprehend them. But| shoulders getting sore, far better for , they have always been prevalent in i the horso, and youraelf, to atop work- 1 greater or lesser degree in the live Ing for a half hour, rub down tha stock foods of the farm, shoulders and apply the following hardening lotion: For all practical purposes we may consider them, along with minerals. Tanniaacid 1% oz., powdered alum as some of the "other things" that are a oz., carbolic acid 1 dr., water 1 qt. 1 essential to make a perfectly balanced (I saw a span of horses last year | ration. We understand then, that a that had been working on railroad j balanced ration means a ration that construction for seven years, and had j contains, in correct proportions, all not been laid off for longer than two the elements that go to build up a per- hours during that time on account of i feet animal body, keep It In perfect sore shoulders. The owner always had health, and functioning after the man- a jug of the above lotion right on thejner of its kind. The horse must pro- lob and kept his horses in condition | duce energy, the cow, milk, the sheep, in the manr.er as advised In this wool and mutton, the hog and the article.) steer, meat, and if the ration is thor- 7. Occasionally, during the day, ' oughly and completely balanced, they sponge the head, neck and eyes. jwlll do these things In a creditable 8. Do not fasten a sponge on top 'manner and at the same time keep of the head, unless you keep it wet | physically fit. Providing, of course, 9. The straw bonnet is of some ser- ' that such action is not made prohi- vice, if there are ventilation holes 'bitive by conditions of heredity, or through the sides. If the holes are ' disease with which the ration has no- not there, the use of the bonnet in- j thing in common. creases the temperature at the top] There are a great many combina- of the head, just where it is least i tions of minerals that are good, from wanted. a plain home mixture of wood ashes 10. Give your horse small quanti- j and salt, to those that are prepared ties of water many times during the, by others and placed on the market day. at $5.00 or more per hundred pounds. 11. When your horse comes in from A very efficient and easily provided a day's work in the hot sun, give him ' mixture may be prepared on most any a chance to "cool off" before putting farm by combining wood ashes, barrel him into the stable, and give him' salt and rock, bone or acid phosphate plenty of water in small quantities, that comes in the fertilizer sack. The Then put him into the stable and feed. ' self-feeder offers a convenient way of The above is a particularly helpful feeding them, and it only takes a little method during the hot humid weather, to go a long way. such as was experienced in this coun- 1 The leafy portions of clover, alfalfa try for some days. Jast summer. If , and other leguminous hays and grass- you fail to treat your horse, as just , e* ai* rich In the life-giving and advised, he Is liable to start out tired , health-promoting vitamines. Bright. the following morning and may col- clear hay in winter, and fresh foragp lapse before the day's work is done, in summer are as essential to the wel- 12. Give your horse a chance to roll. ' fare of our domestic animals, even the It is oftentimes better than a dose of hogs and the hens, as are the concen- medicine for him. trated grains. They and the minerals 18. If your horse is off hla feed, j are needed to round out the ration give him a few carrots, or a bunch of , and to satisfy the animal's natural ap- plover, then two quarts of crushed i petite, which is tha most accu-ato bal- «at8 mixed with a Httlo bran and ancer of the ration. would be without the relief of pic tures I But when we consider the pic- ture.s on some walls, we see his point, for a room "full of pictures" means a cluttered and varied assortment of shapes, sizes, colors and subjects un- related to each other or to anything else in the room. A good rule is not to purchase a picture until we are sure just where it is to go and how it will look in that place. Most of us, however, have pictures on hand. Inherited or given to us. Those should be hung which "fit in"; the others put away. This sometimes takes courage but after all our homes are ours! wholesome qualities, but he Is husky' ^s hands clean but ho may b. de and decidedly boyllkc, an altogether! P'^'-'^^y deceitful. Suppose Mildred different make-up. But these things ! 'l^," ^ ^ ^^? Ti^'"'"^ '•!"!*. " „ are not taken into consideration by P'^^s up her playthings without being his mother *^''^' "''*' "^"^ ^^ * ^^""^ alsaB''eeable, There Is just one reason why a '"'!"«h "ttle girl when she plays with child should be asked or expect«jd to\t^^J children. So beware of holding act in a certain way or follow a given ' Mildred up to your httle Mary as an line of conduct, and that is because 'd""'' ^f Mary knows all about Mil- such a course of action is right and ! ^red* faults. It all comes back to proper, not because some other child ! ^.h-^Vn".** *"f["?^^ . . ,T !^ doe^ thus and so. If you are going! about Bet y, that If an Idea Is set to set up an Ideal for a child to attain,! "P 'V''?^'! ^^ ^"""""^ .?M^ be sure the ideal Is Infallible. He will i """'^ /^^ ^,^'-'" '"^Tf ^«« * "^^''^^^ not reach this perfection of course, as' P-^-f^^V^f /"" '°f,^ '^Z y^f *""^^ no human being ever does, but It will I y"""- ^'^''d to be like him in ev.ry be worth striving for. Ho should baI''**P*"' Inspired with an inward consciousness i Th» only safe way, then, is to corn- space. Smaller pictures are good hung over a desk, a table or over chairs. Very small ones may be hung in a jroup, close together so tliut little wall space shows between them and so that if bounding lines were drawn about the outside of the group the lines would be horizontal and vertical. Diagonal lines are to be avoided be- cause we see them before wo see any- thing else. If a picture is hung on a slaffle wire, running diagonally to the hook, our eyes are unconsciously drawn directly to that hook. So it is better, if the picture is too heavy to hang from a nail back of it, to draw j a wire through the screw eyes, mak- of right and not directed to act like some other child. Julia's mother was very much crushed one day to find that her small daughter had stolen a bag of popcorn from the peddler's wagon, "How could you do such a thing ond make your mother feel so bad?" was the first reprimand Julia received for this misdeed â€" a remark which in itself was very bad psychology. A ment favorably on the good tralta your own child pcsscsses, and by thns stressing his best natural character- iatics. Inspire him to develop other good ones, not because soma playmat*' baa these qualities, but because tb«y appeal to him u dDslrable. And, whenever you are tempted to set up "shining examples" before your chil- dren, remember the old Baying, "Com- parisons are odious". Very often we come upon pictures ing a small loop at each end and slip which we wish to have framed. Many ' each loop over a separate hook so popular magazines print full page that the wires run parallor. Pictures pictures lovely in subject and color, and very suitable for framing. Bright, gay covers from fashion magazines make delightful pictures for bedrooms hung In "stops" are no good for the same reason Very small pictures, the subjects of which cannot be seen a few feet away, Handling Natural Swamu. To facilitate the handling of na- tural swarms, clip the wings of all laying queens early in the season, preferably during the first honey flow. Clipping the queen's wing^s do«s not stop the colony from swarming but prevents the queen leaving with the swarm, which will return as soon aa the bees realize that the queen is not with them. When the swarm laaues, the aueen will uaually be found on the ground in front of the hive. Place her in a small box or cage and while the swarm ia in the air move the old hive from its stand, replacing it with a new hive fitted with empty drawn comb or foundation. Over the new THE CHILDREN'S HOUR LAST DAY 0^ SCH06t IN WOODLAND. Only four days more before tha la«t day of school. Hurray I Hurray 1" sang Jimmie Fox "Ye* Hip I Hip I Hnr-ray?" an»w«w ed Jackie Rabbit. "School's been fine, but I'll be glad for vacation, too." "Wish we could have a picnic lik« the boys and girls over in Frog Hol- low did," wistfully spoke littla Fanny Fox, "Let's ask teacher. Maybe hall let SHEEP. During hot weather and fly time in dtimmer all animals do better with food shade In the pasture. Trees and Srush may afford that shade. But in t)ie absence of natural shade, it is well to provide some kind of cheap Artificial shade. Such may ba buUt o| poles and covered with brush, straw 4r any rough material that will keep off the hot sun. With us, from the middle to the last of summer, nose flies bother our sheep intolerably, causing the animals to flght the pest and seek shelter where | they can hide their noses. This fly ia Active and aggressive from late morn- ing- till early evening, during which time the sheep are so aeverely tor- mented that they do not attempt to grfize in the open pasture. During severe fly time in hot sum- mer sheep without adequate shade or •helter from the flies lose flesh and become unthrifty. Ewes with late larabs not yet weaned drop in their milk flow, hence their lambs are â- tunted. When nose flies and other flies are bad in late summer our sheep graze only in late evening, at night and Tery early in the morning. But if un- protected from the insect pests, they lose flesh. To make life comfortable for the â- beep during fly time we have pro- vided for them a cool, darkened shed on the north side of a larger building. { The doors and windows of this shedj are ilosed for the summer with bur-j lap, making the interior quite dark. I Fliesr will not follow the animals intoj the darktned room, hence the animals i rest in vic? during the heat of the. day. V,'e a!so have a low room in the. liilnMJc oi the general barn, always inj semldarkness, which tha sheep like to use during the heat of tho summer day when flies are too aggressive. When furnished a dark room against the flies, both ewes and lambs thrive. « Concrete Facts. The common practice is to use old lumber for building concrete forms. Many buy new, seasoned lumber and use this with a view to using it again in building tha structure above when the walls have been completed. But when the lumber is to serve no other immediate purpose after tho walla have aet, green lumber Is, In many respects, better than cured lum- bar. All wood absorbs some water when used in this way and if dry boards are nailed tight and then al- lowed to absorb water from tho con- crete they will buckle and warp. Green lumber, since it is already im- pregnated with an above-normal sup- ply of moisture, will draw less from the concrete, and board dimensions will remain practically unchanged. Before tearing off the forms in cold weather, remove one or two boards first and then apply hot water. If the water Is colored or If rapid ©roalon takes place it is a sign that tho con- crete has not set but is frozen. If the forms are then removed, thawing would ruin the wall. But if the forms are left until' th6 wall has thawed and then set, the concrete, though of an inferior quality, v/ill usually give service. When concrete work is carried on during freezing weather, either use hot water and pour the mortar quick- ly, or heat the sand and cement before mixing. If the concrete is more than 100 deg. K. when placed it will set before freezingâ€" D. R. V. H. and there are photographs which we should be hung over a desk where wish to preserve by framing. \ they will always be looked at from a A narrow moulding of wood in old- ' short distance, or they may be placed gold finish makes the best possible | upon a book case, or on a table against frame for color prints. It is good to . the wall, where they may be easily omit the mat and to have the frame ' picked up and examined. come up close to the picture. Prints { j or photographs in sepia or grey and j y p. _ . j white are good in narrow frames of 1 I ty a IvXpsaw UUtllt. I brown or grey wood. These should be Every farmer should have one. of about the color of the next to the , Often narrow strips of board are darkest spots in the picture. Black Is ^ needed; to rip them with a handsaw not so pretty as it detracts too much from a board ia slow and tiresome from the picture, something which the , work. To make a trip to town every frame must never do. For photo- ' time some are needed takes time and graphs, a mat may be used or the pic- ' the cost ia high; you can buy the saw, ture framed up close. Most photo- ' also shaft and bearings, for the price graphs are best in frames with a of a few pieces already ripped out, at stand placed upon a table, bookcase, ' dealers' present prices. or bureau rather than hung upon the | Make a substantial frame from wall. An accumulation of photographs 2x3-size lumber, spiked or bolted to- la not in happy choice. I shall never gether, with braces of boards nailed forget a house in which I once lived on; from the junk dealer yon can get where the walls were covered with ' a suitable shaft and bearings with hundreds of photographs of friends belt wheel. The saw will cost but a and relatives. Clustered about tho j matter of a dollar or so for one of mirror in one bedroom alone there ' five-inch size, which ia large enough. were thirty-six of all shapes and sizes! j Fasten the bearing to the frame with „., ^.,.„ .,^„.„, ^,^ „» „„„„ ^^^, The effect was almost that of a night- bolts or lag screws, cover the top of] the bees are all settled, the limb on''" *^ '^" "J** "'^." *^', *?f mare. . ,, , . â-  t^" ''•«""« ^'t^ boards, allowing an] which thev cluster can be cut off and l^'^"^^^^ <>" ^^^^^ engine and is th«. The manner in which pictures are opening between them for tha saw. A! the swarm carried and shaken down ^"* '=°°'='^ "' ^^^ *"â- *'"• ,r^ ^f*"* hung can mar or make the looks and atrip ot wood can be used for a gaiigo. [ in front of a hive prepared for it, or ^^P^ °^ doing this until there is a "feel" of a room. They should never ; having hok-s bored in top boards orj it can be returned to the hiv-e from '°"8r string of cars behind.'' I be hung high. As one notices pictures ^ table in whith to insert bolts of gauge, i which it issued, first destroying ail "Teacher Fox can be conductor, an^ mostly from a seated position, this ; For power a small gasoline engine; queen cells. The 'old queeji also should should be taken into consideration. , will pull it, or if you have electric be killed and the colon v requecned ten A good rule is to establish a line di- ; power a quarter-hor.se motor will pullj days later with a young laying queen hive place a queen excluder and on ' „ ^ „ . â-  , , top of this, all the supers from the ^' ' ^'^ »^ '^^^"^ ' . . n, i. , old hive. The .warm will return to' When the plea was put to Teacher the new hive and aa the beea enter ^<^ he wrinkled up his long .trag- the queen can be releaaed among them «? eyebrows, peeped over the top of at the entrance. , his glasses at the group, and con- To prevent after-swarms, the combs ^entea. ,, , â-  . . ^ in the old, or parent colony should be So that waa how on this bright sun- examined at once, all queen cells d^^y day «" the little animal boys and stroyed, and a young laying queen «?''\f ^^*^'^^*"? •'""P^'Uf^. fv. 7 introduced. If queens are available, ^l^^ l^i ^^^ »" '^.'.T^' f^^ « leave one capped and one uncapped l«n<=J? ^'^^^^ P«<=''"=<^ ^"^^ «* ~ f"""^' cell. The parent colony U left stand- K^^^ies. Everyone waa rea(^ for a ing by the side of the new hive, but] K°°d time, and that's what they had- with ita entrance facing at j^ght ''Lf^s Play train," suBgested littla angles to that of the new. Turn the -feUSi" »1'^'5^«^-„ , , „ . . parent colony a littla each day so that I "Tell "» ho^." asked all her play- in about abt days its entrance will be '"^*f^' :, , .. i m » v s^ facing In the same direction aa the I "!*'« «»f ? ''"'^ 1°'« "^ '''.^ '''^•' '"^^ new hive. On the ninth or tenth day, I "f"* ''^'^ ^^^ f * ,'" * "v ^? V2 when the be«. are flying freely, move' chooae Sandy Squirrel^ Fanny F«« the parent colony to a new location, i •«<! 1^" ''^^'"^ Woodchuek, 1 this will cause all the workers to un-l «^^^^° y^ ^ ?"^"^f ' â-  , ^ ite with the swarm. ^hen I say 'go,' each 'engine must If by accident a swarm issues with «° °P *" """".T "> *^ ""'%'°;? a flying queen, it wiU usually cluster "J"^* » "°'* ^ *" T^^' ^ on Lme nearby tree or bush. After ^ootl To-oo. The one he face, most rectly opposite the eyes when one is ; the saw through inch boards and rip!â€" C. B. Gooderham, Dominion Apiar- atandlng, and to hang aM plcturea so up a lot in a hurry. Try one; you ist. that this . imaginary lin will pass through their centres. This brings them into the line of vision from all parts of the room whether one is seat- ed or not will wonder why you did not make it before. Some people grieve two dollars' worth every time they lose a dollar. Loss of Milk. when he says 'all aboard' each train, starts for the big oak there by tha lake. The first train to arrive vrith all its passengers wms." "A fine game, won't that ba fnnT" they all shouted. What fun they all had playing train - , ^ , , ,-. and trying to see which train could b* In an experiment conducted by the ^^^ g^^^ ^„^ ^^ ^^^ station. Dairy Dept. of the Ontario AgricuV., ^^ j^ ^^^^.^ j before the* tural College to find the loss in weight, ^^^^^ themselves very hungry. Teaeb^ If any, In the process of pasteurizing ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^j,^^ ^jj together and milk, the following conclusions have ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ pj^^;^ ,^^^i, jj^ tast* been reached: , _jjeepg better than when at schoolj work probably ^f^^^ j^^^j^ ^hey played soma mor»: of the weight of g^j^gg ^jjj g^gjj Q„, g^t ijoma just itt. time for supper. Evry little boy and; over one per cent, of the weight milk heated and cooled is lost when the pasturized milk is placed la cans. ^ j^ Woodland thought they had 2. On tho average, about thirty- J\,„ ,„„,» f„„ (>,„, ^„„y^ remember. A sort hamllul for liio girls who h.)M ilicni. ';;• - ' P. i \- ; ii:s may iirove a tough handful later fur the aiivei- ot Uie Chatei-.u FroiiUnac ricg l«>m. Mountie. the famous leader of the popular team. Is tho father of this quartet and four tes'.de. Wab?lta, another member of the t(»am. the mother of them al".. Arthur Rciiuvais will give them their Qrst lessons at Queboc next winter. a '.tg bt!i;g their first load. .fj the moat fun thay could remember, '""'i "I'm awfuUy jorry this ia the li '• °^lay' 0? rchbol.^ 'sail }i£^ T^J^U^ •11 u I ' WqudfiJiuclt ^ Teacher Fox. "m^ ,':^ 1. i we'll have !o wait a whole year baforr we can have 'the last day' again." « . ;: Too Much OiL The generator on a flivver showa^ no charge until the car had been drt«. von for at lea.st live miles. Then ap«K parcntly it worked all right Tha Old sfovepipe.-< make excellent cat' armature was cleaned and tha gtner- ! guards for small trees and poles, atoi- tasted without discovering any^ Open the seam, put the pipe around *''•"& wrong, yet the trouble peidst* I the tree and then clamp the seam to- ed. The brushes appeared al! right ! gether again. For larger trees two but finally a new set was installad I pipes can be used. The pipe should a"*! ^*»e trouble disappaared. extend about five feet from the' Ovcroiling of the generator causes ground. No cat can get over this. , the oil to collect on the commutator from where it works onto tho brushes. quarts and one pint of bottled may be obtained ffom 100 lbs, pasteurised milk. S. From 100 Ibs^ of raw mi thirty-seven quarts of bottled, paS' teurized milk may be expected. 4. The volume ot cream which risea on the milk decreases with a rise in the heating temperature above 142 deg. F., when pasteurized for tha city milk trade. In burning rubbish out of doors, | This has the effect of insulating ths I keep the fires a safe distance from surface of the brushes until the frle- i buildinfjs, and never light fires on'tional heat of the running generatw windy days. Two serious fires were has had time to melt and break down recently started in our neighborhood I the oil film and the brush agnln ac- by burning brush.â€" C. P. S. qulraa Its conducting pror<>r.*?«a. t "if