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Addreu communication* to Agi onwmlct, 73 Adelaide St West. Toronl* Supremacy of Marquis Whsat. The farther it goes the better it goes can fairly be said of Marquis proper time. From experience, I know this to be n fact, A small separator will do just as good work as a large one, but, of not go rapi<Jly though you ' win , _ i course, not so rapidly, inougn you win wheat. Born in Canada at the Ottawa be surprised at 1ho capacity . O ne that Experimental Fai-m, it has come to be ! _ hn .;,., ._.. fM i : v v ., pi<r }, t ,. The Welfare of the Home The Imaginative Time By Anna Mae Brady Our Export Trade in Cattle. | lion three hundred and sixty thousand S^'Ta.ta^^eeffo'und 1 doKars. standard according to the , published by the Wash- by the Apart from the British embargo question at present under investiga-: ... . _,. i... . Allowing Hogs to Feed Themselves, won, Canada s export trade in cattle , , . .. , , - , M at .-t f i , . , ,,. . Mi>ch of the labor of r eemng st'>cK of the United States. Thns has come can be easily operated by an eight or ten horse-power thresh from 400 grain or more a day, and the work can be done far more cheaply than with the himl tnres (, er . Better still, Mothers, did you ever stop to realise engine will j the importance of that period in your child's development when his little mind is free to wander over the hills fancy and he is finding so much ts brought prominently into the lime- can be specialists of that Department to be I we have the S(ltisfacLion o f knowing! difficulty in linking up the real and; the leading variety of common wheat; that we can do the work any tjme we |the unreal? It is the opportunity t'roe grown in the Northern Great Plains | get readyi not havip .g. to wait f rom jof life a,nd every one of us to whom ! ten days to three wee'tcs for the neigh- *s entrusted the care and development come around, of. a little child needs to study and; ,.*,..,. i ten \Laya LU LIIICC \vcer saved by the adoption of about in the last seven or eight years, j (, or hood thresher to uumu aroi liffht by the Fordney tariff recently ; modern methods. This is particularly: Marquis wheat having been introduced ! w },i c h often means b lot of lost adopted by the United States Con- ' true in the feeding of hogs, which it to the States in 1913. It is hardly l dan) . i in Jf R rai ,j gh( . gress. This places an increased duty^has been found make economical gains necessary to refer to the many victor- 1 hunnpn tn rnmp white waiting fnV should happen to come while waiting for the outfit. on all manner of articles of agricul-: when allowed to take food as they ies that have been pained by this var- tural production, among which come desire it rather than to hand-feed the, iety at the annual soil products expo- cattle, not intended for breeding, with animals at stated periods. The self-! sitions held in the States. They have . . . .._ , . , . J uiviuu-ai acLfai'auLFi 13 timi, .11 L''< we tei. a duty of 30 per cent, ad valorem, or feeder for hogs is not an untried ap-, been thoroughly chronicled as they, through our own crop (if we have the thirty dollars on every hundred dol- pliance. By its use the animals are occurred and have redounded to understand it m order thai we make the most of it. All of us are dreamers of dreams,! and it is well that it is so, for every! to and fec , di , to do ters the cattle may be worth. To what allowed constant access to a supply credit of Canada, particularly of 'Sas- ' so) we can st outside and thresh a extent thh> will affect Canada's ex- of meal, which- is given in dry form.| katchewan. Frequent efforts by gen- \'' Qr two f or ou , friends or neigh- port trade in Kve stock with the The feed is kept in a hopper which jcrous advertising have been r.ade to b 11 f w K; c h "v/ill be nracticallv United States has of course yet to may be replenished from time to introduce new varieties, but Marquis j c)eal ! cash money bo determined, but it is worth observ- time. From the hooper the f"ed falls Has VM its own and is to-day more LQ ing that if 30 per cent, had been paid into the feeding trough as consumed j extensively grown in Saskatchewan p ure and Wholesome Food upon the 294,000 head of cattle sent by the animals. j alwl in s e districts of Manitoba and across the border last year and whi^h A self-feeder to be successful must Alberta than all the other varieties brought $21,232,551, duty amounting be cheap, strong, capacious, portable, : put together. Hundreds of varieties to $(5,369,765 would have enriched the easy to construct, weather-tight, easy: of foreign and domestic wheat have of tne Department of Agriculture at United States customs. In this con- of regulation for different textured; been tested by the Washington ex- Ottawa is the improvement that has nection some facts presented by the meals, and most important of all so; perts, but for growth in the northern taken place in the cleanliness and Live Stork Commissioner at Ottawa arranged that the contents will feed States none have proved the superior! P urit y of the People's food. Especially nre worthy of note. Previous to 1911. ir.to the troughs without any stoppage of Marquis. The better varieties of, is tnis true of th * work performed by Creat Britain took CO per cent, of our caused by the blocking of the meal. Durum wheat have proved more than' tne Live Stock and Health cf Animals reports of live stock and the United in the hopper. Further, the troughs, the equal of Marquis in one or two I branches. Better equipment at the s 10 per cent. Between 1890 and, mu&t he constructed to ensure the j particulars, but every one has been stock yards has been brought about as 1 '; the business with Groat Britain minimum amount of waste such as , proven by experiments to have a smal-| wo " as improved facilities for trans- i reased from 67,000 head to 164,000 might be caused by the animals nosing ler loaf volume. Data obtained >. portation on the one hand and, on the at Washington on rust infection! othci, rigid inspection at the abattoirs Another advantage of the small in- worthwhile act that has been given! dividual separator is that after we get, to the world was first a dream in ihej mind of some person. Every book I that was ever written, every picture : painted, every field cultivated, was first just a flight of imaginative fancy. All of us go this far, but it is not! enough to dream; we must do aa well.' The successful person is the one who[ thinks over his dream and organizes j his thinking until finally it is no longer a dream but a reality. We grown-ups would give the Products. A very apparent effect of the work I I. Then it began to decline and in' the meal over the sides or soiling it 11*11, the exports amounted to 113.793, by standing in the troughs. but in the following year they fell to; A self-feeder can be readily made showed that Marquis had a less per- 1 an(! slaughter-houses insures healthy centage than any other commercial ' and wholesome meats for consumption 18,000 had. TJxre has been no re- by any handy man. For an average variety of common spring wheat ex- Ifc is impossible to overestimate the covery to speak of since. In 1914 the farmer a structure 4'x4' and 4' high cepting only Durum. Each wheat value f. * h e work that is thus bemg shipments to the United StaUv-, took should be satisfactory. The feeder , sample was analyzed for nitrogen and an abnormal bound, the total being should rest on three pieces of 2"x4"jthe crude protein content determined. 206,44(5 hood. For the next five years scantling. The walls and floor should the trade was steady around these have frames of the same material and figures and then in 1919-20 there was, should be boarded with tongued and another big leap, th number of cat-; grooved material so as to be water- tte going across the border to the! proof. The roof, which should extend south, out of a total exportation of we'll over the trough, may constantly 578,352 head, being 502, CSS, leaving' form the door or lid of the structure, only 15,764 head to go oisnwhere. I:i When used as such it is well to pro- 1920-21. the number going to the vide a prop to keep it open when nec- Statw fell to 294,000 head, but at thatj eissary. Illustrated construction de- the duty that would have to be paid ati tails for n self-feeder are presented in 30 per cent, on value would reach, as' Exhibition Circular No. 93, of the Do- here stated, to upwards of six mil- 1 minion Experimental Farms. Cream of tartar given in the drink-. Fattening hogs gained as follows in ing water every now and then wards! Missouri tests: off disease and keeps the blood of tho fowls in proper condition. The inferior laying hen of the meat type has thick, beefy pelvic bones, with hard lumps at the ends. Suehj a i ollc . 23 per cent, faster on a ration of corn and middling* than on corn. 32 per cent, faster on a ration of corn and Hnse^a oilmeal thar> on corn hrxs are not heavy layers. Sell them. They usually weigh heavy. Good laying is not indicated by the amount of cackling a hen does. In Uiis respect, sometimes, hens are liars. The hen that makes a lot of fuss over an egg is, usually, but an ordinary layer. There is nothing l>etter for either old hens or chicks than dandelions. Grub out a basket of tho roots and tops. Chop very fine and feed. Many times my flock of hens has gone to laying at once after a long period of rest when given a few feedings of dmndeHonj. Chicks thrive wonderfully on curd cheese and chopped dando- LiotM, and especially when a few table or meat scraps eculonally. Bicarbonate of are mixed in <- soda is of great value when placed in the mash or d i-inking water. It will cleanse th Digestive tract of any sour or decayed f ibstarvces, and keep it in a healthy v. atened condition. !vggs remain fresh even for weeks i. the warmest weather, and do not <ij>; reciably lose in weight nor condi- tion even if sent across the continent, when no males are kept in the flocks. However, it is always best if oggs lire marketed within a week; the sooner the bolter. Water-glass is the great egg pre- servative. It is a syrupy fluid which can be purchased from druggists. Add one part of the substance to nine parts of water that has been boiled and allowed to cool before mixing. Thoroughly stir the solution while it Is being mixed and pour it over the ftggs, which have already been packed In an earthen or wooden vessel. Keep in a location where the temperature never rises above 60 degrees F. The efgs should not be more than a week old. Infertile ones are letter. Hints on Plow Adjustment. A few simple rules which are es- nm.tial in the adjustment of plows for tractor plowing are given by Donald McDonald, a well-known plow man. 1. Adjust tha springs till the weight of the plow beams and bottoms is practically balanced. 2. Hitch plow at a point on tractor drawbar midway between horizontal cwitre .>f tractor and horizontal centre of phiw. 8. Adjust vertical position of hitch as to be substantially level on work- ing position. 4. Set levers for first position and open first furrow. B. Clmrcga levers to working posi- tion. 6. When plowing in finished, set the lovers in transport position and take plow and Iractor to nearest shelter. Co-operation, not conypetitkm, is the Ufa of business. Dont pray oram on Sundays and Uv* olcim-miMc the rest of the week. Marquis wheat had an average protein content of 15.3 per cent. Other com- mon spring wheats rather less. It must be understood that these samples were not all taken from stations or districts favorable to the growth of Marquis. Thresh Your Own Grain. If you own a gasoline engine for pumping water, sawireg wood, cutting feed, grinding grain, etc., there is no more profitable investment than the purchase of a small grain separator. Much grain is lost annually, or the quality of the grain is reduced, due to inability to secure a thresher at the accomplished. At the canneries also cleanliness and wholesomeness are as- sured by the regulations that are en- forced by inspectors and supervisors under the immediate control of the Health of Animals Branch. Eggs and of Midas, were it possible, if we might | have developed in ira the power of vision, tlio power to see life imagina- tively. Yet. our little tots from three to six have this power to the nth de- gree., and organizing o f f o8 t e ring and we do our beat to stifle it as a trart not to be desired. seed of genius lies in many of ou* children, and parents and teachers who do not understand, do their ut- most to crush out the very thing which la.ter they wi.h them to have. "But," you gay, "If I encourage this, wiW it not make my child untruthful ? Already he juggles the truth in most alarming ways." As mothers and lead- ers of children, we must be abte to distir.iguisih between a fligM of fancy and a deliberate intent to deceive. Fortunately for us the latter cases are very rare. If in doubt ask the child; if it is a flight of fancy he will tell you so. Wha/t we need to do is to help the child see "his vision clearly and then furnish him with some plastic material with which he can make his dreams come true. Fairy tales are excellent for the imaginative child. H is liv- irjg in their world and they help ex- plain for him that almost inexplicable thing called life. Free hand cutting, clay modeling and the sand table fur- nish material which will enable him not cnly to see the picture more clear- ly, but will also lead him to be a doer as well as a dreamer, both of which are necessary. The imaginative period, the oppor- tunity time, comes but once, so let us make the most of it. Extension of Canada's Seed Trade. During the year 1920 Canada's ex- port seed trade made a considerable advance, owing in no small degree to] the efforts of the Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture and the Depart- ment of Trade and Commerce. The Canadian Trade Commissioners sup- plied lists of prospective customers! abroad for Canadian seed. These were THE CHILDREN'S HOUR poultry, under the Poultry division of communicated with and their require- the Live Stock Banch have been ad- vanced in public estimation. In by- gone times householders always had certain suspicions of the eggs supplied at the breakfast table and used in cooking. They usually expected one, two or three, and sometimes more, in a dozen, to prove unpalatable, and were rarely disappointed. To-day they buy and cook with confidence. The ments placed before Canadian export- ers. In this way an increased export of seeds was brought about to the United States, Great Britain, France and Newfoundland. To Ireland alone approximately 100,000 bushels of fibre flax seed, worth about $1,000,000, was exported. In British Columbia, _field root and garden vegetable seeds, amounting to 150,000 pounds, were same is true of all other articles of | marketed through the United Seed food watched over by this and other departments. Marketing Home Products By Grace Vale Grey 32 G per cert, faster on a ration of corn and tar.kc.ge than on corn alone. 08 5 per cent, faster on a ration of corn and soybeans than on com alone. 17.0 per ci-nt. faster on a rntio.i of corn and g-irni oilmeal than on corn alone. 7 4 per <> nt waster when sell '"od than when hand fed the same ration. S.'lf-fed hogs require no mot 4 '. 1 feed to produce a given amount of gain than when hand fed. When each feed is placed in a separate "self-feeder' 1 tha hogs will choose the different fe*ds, so that the gain will be both rapid and economical. The saving of grain resulting from the use of pas- ture crops i from twenty to fifty ;>er cent. The kind of forage crops best adapt- ed for hog pastures is illustrated, as follows: Blue grass produced 324.6 pounds of pork per acre. Clover produced 567.7 pounds of pork per acre. Rape and oat forage produced 354.1 pounds of pork per acre. Rape, oats and clover forage pro- duced 414.6 pounds of pork per acre. Soybean forage produced 117.6 pounds of pork per acre. Rye grain forage produced 211.7 pounds of pork per acre. If you are interested in finding a market for your wares you will find four metho<is of se-lling: Direct sales- manship, throu-gh manufacturer's agents to whom you pay a commission, through advertising, and through per- sonal letters to desirable people and business concerns. Without a doubt the first method, that of selling direct, is the quickest and the cheapest. It is quite possible to sell to a few persons or to one large concern; and if you prefer the latter course, it will be well to call upon the leading gro- cers of nearby towns and cities. You will doubtless find that dealers are willing to enter into arrangements by which they can depend upon a regular supply of reliable products. Should this he your first venture in the business work! you may say, "I'm timid, I can not talk to strangers, and pride keeps me from telling my own local dealers that I want to sell my home-made goods." This is a wrong, as well as a false, attitude. You have a perfectly good business proposition to make and good business men wiH take advantage of it. Have confidence in yourself; that is all that is needed to start in the business. You will find How We Handle Straw. We always our empty barn mows, shod* and stable lofts with straw to fullest capacity when we thresh our small grains. In one we store oat-straw for feeding with hay and corn-stover to the horses, cattle and calves. Another one holds our wheat-straw for bedding, strawberry and raspberry mulches, nests for the swine and calves, and scratching material for the hens. Another mow holds the rye-straw, coarse and long, which is the best material we can find for the winter poultry houses in which the hens can dig and scratch and never wear the fibre into dust and short cuts. Last your own initiative or ask a friend to recommend you to them. If you really can produce something better than ordinary, you will have no diffi- culty in seeing these people and sell- ing to them. Delicatessen shops, tea-rooms and clubs pay big prices for home-prepar- ed food. Your express agent will give you the names of such private custom- ers, for express companies are willing to co-operate in every way possible to help the farm woman place her pro- ducts and to assist city folks to get country food. Go to the express com- pany in your town and talk to the agent. Without a doubt he will be able to put you in touch with desirable customers. Having secured their names, write these people what you have to offer and payment can be made through the express agent. This is the safest way to transact business between people unknown to each other. The second method of selling your Cowers, Limited. Penticton, B.C. Some 75,000 pounds of mangel, swede turnip, and field carrot seed, grown by the Experimental Farms, were sold at current wholesale prices to farmers' organizations and individual farmers. It was deemed advisable to confine the marketing of this seed to Canada, so that farmers might have the exclusive advantage of using this high quality seed. Circulars detailing the available seed potato supplies in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Quebec, proved an important fac- tor in relieving the shortage in On- tario. Demonstrations conducted on 117 farms in Ontario and Quebec with mangel and swede turnip seed resulted in showing the superiority of home grown seed over foreign. Seed labor- atories are now maintained by the Dominion Department of Agriculture at Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Calgary, and at those points some 28,000 tests were carried out. Samples of wheat, oats, barley, timothy, and clover were tested for vitality and, at Calgary, investigation was made into the effect of frost on germination. Our Insectivorous Birds. It may appear startling, but it is a fact that if all the insect pests ravaging our crops could be sup- pressed, and all the plant and tree goods is easy but expensive. There ! diseases eradicated, and the increased been courteously received by business men, whether they were butchers, grocers, commission men, express company employees, or heads of de- partments in large, wholesale stores. Provide attractive labels for your are many salesmen who would be gl-ad to push your goods, particularly if you have a good novelty. Salesmen sell on commission, twenty per cent, being about the average. There are also big jobbers who sell to retail stores. The jobbers will be able to bring you big orders if your products merit it; but here again the expensive commission must be considered- and only a large j output justifies this form of selling. Many people prefer advertising in- goods, whether they be eggs or pre-, gtcad of the d , irect serves. It is wise to use the name of manufacturer's agents. 'Some of our ... "P * -" h^Vtll\, VI "' i i your farm, so that customers will soon biggest country trade has come about get used to it and order 'Pine Crest , through advertising. To 'build up a Preserves" or "Shady Lawn Broilers. , tpade in thig way ^^ circulars r - If you put your goods out in an at- 1 tractive form, guarantee their super- ior quality, secure one good grocer in each town in which you sell, and fill your orders promptly, you will be surprised to see how much you can sell. In selling directly to the consumers, the moneyed people are most likely to want your products, and these are autumn, when we shredded into our the people whom you should seek. Many housewives are out of town dur- barn a quantity of corn-stover, we busied ourselves at no other task than to keep pitching bunches of wheat and oat-straw into the open vent of the blower, mixing it automatically with the fodder. It made splendid feed, and helped to keep the fodder from pack- ing and molding in the mows as so often happens. This season wo shall store a quan- tity of straw in roach of the blower and mix this with corn-stover half and half. Makes it go farther in feeding, and is a most splendid feed for winter- ing the animals that do little work. For molea and pocket gophers, dis- solve strychnine in bodling water; aok sweet corn in it twelve hours; put a few grains in the gopher hills and in all of the mo! runs. One treatment puts them all to sleep. ing the summer months and would gladly order their winter supply of fruit and vegetables from a reliable person. Call upon such people if it is at all possible to do ao, taking with you samples of your products put up in an attractive form. Your goods are worth more than ordinary canned goods and you do not have to compete with them. You never see "fancy" goods on a bargain counter; so do not put a cheap price upon your pro- ducts. You can also go to your nearest city and interview the managers of the best hotels and restaurants, the stew- ards of social clubs and the managers of railroad dining-cars. Cater to a good trade, for a large number of people are on the lookout for tho beat products. Go to sec these people on scribing your products, printed, and mail them to possible customers living within reasonable distance. The man- ager of your telephone exchange will get you a list of such people. Your pamphlet can be in the form of a let- ter, with a description of tha varieties and a price-list. Give it a "catchy" title, so people will want to read it. A folder of smaM size containing about four pages is a good form. In this folder or leaflet, tell the reader who you are that is, give enough in- formation about yourself and your experience in canning and preserving, or as a grower of fine poultry to give strangers confidence in you. Do not be afraid to spend ten or fifteen dol- lars in mailing leaflets; they will not cost much to print and one-cent pos- tage will do for a leaflet of tlhis kind. Roadside advertising also pays. A blackboard with items and prices dis- tinctly written upon it will attract the eyes of all who pass by, while con- siderable business can be obtained fey letter-writing. The letters must be businesslike in appearance and ex- pression, and should be typewritten. These are but suggestions; other ways may present themselves, but it is no trouble to find a market if you just start out determined to find one. revenue derived by the country there- by could be turned into the Dominion Treasury, there would need to be no question of taxation. This idea is largely substantiated by the fact set forth by the Entomologist of the Do- minion Department of Agriculture that a conservative estimate of the annual loss in Canada to field, orchard and garden crops due to destructive insects is upwards of $200,000,000. As! our authority says: 'To this huge de-l vastation must be added the enormous j annual destruction caused by forest insects, stored product insects, etc." Upon this statement the Entomolo- gist founds well-sustained argument in favor of the protection of insecti- vorous birds, such as the prairie horned-lark, the r->bin, the somewhat despised crow, the red-breasted Nut- hatch, the Western Tanager, the Myrtle Warbler, the Chickadee grouse, gulls, and many other kinds. In the .State of Iowa it has been estimated that tree sparrows annually devour something like 895 tons of weed seeds! Speaking of the robin, an investiga- tor in Toronto found that a single bird kept in confinelent at 165 cutworms in one day. Another authority states that a brood of prairie horned-larks consumed 400 cutworms in one day. This same authority, namely, Mr. Nor- man Criddle, Dominion Entomologist in Manitoba, declares that six crows are capable of consuming three bush- els of grasshoppers in ons season. It is recorded that in certain places in Manitoba areas of growing grain have been saved from destruction >by the pestilent grasshopper owing to the presence of large flocks of gulls. In light of these facts it is gratifying to be informed by the Dominion Ento- mologist, Mr. Arthur Gibson, to wit, that the importance of protecting our useful birds is becoming more and more recognized, especially by fanners | and fruit growers. Once upon a time there was an ambitious mole who wished to amount to something in the world. He felt r.ure that there was more to the earth than the dark underground tunr.ela that his family inhabited, although his father told him repeatedly that there was nothing above ground worth look- ing at. The moles are nard-vvorking littla people, and this particular family were employed in a mine and dug early and late for their living. One day as the little mole was at work in a lonely corner of the mine ho met the old gnome who employed them and got into a conversation. The old gnome was in a particularly good humor, having had mushroom pie for his dinner, and as there was no one about, he condescended to be pleasant to the little mole boy. When Tommy that waa the mole's name asked him about the earth, he de- scribed, at great length, the forests and meadows, the trees and blue skies, the sun and the stars, and he even told him about people which was funny, for gnomes do not usually be- lieve in people. Tommy could scarcely wait till evening that he might tell his family the wonderful story. But his father fell asleep in the middle of the recital and Mrs. Mole was so busy ov*/hcr house accounts that she only ^.Ided once in a while without even h#fi?ing. Tommy was discouraged, and all tha next day he was turning over in his mind ways and means of seeing some of these things for himself. One day instead of going to *orl: with his father he pretended to ;iava an errand to do for the old gni-me. He dug up and up and up till at !-.st he could poke his head right out. i e looked all around; then he was so dis- appointed that he flopped down on th* ground and cried. Imagine! "Everything's just the same!" he wailed dismally. "What's the same?" A little fairy on her way to visit a sick bird family stopped beside him. "The gnome said the trees were green amd the sky was blue at\i everything is brown!" wailed the mole again. "Are you a person?" "Not quite," laughed the little c ea- turo softly, "I'm a fairy!" "Well, you're brown, too!" the mole sat up ana viewed the little fairy dole- fully. "Why, I'm pink!" cried the fairy in- dignantly. Then all at once she began hopping around in an excited circle. "I know what's the matter! I know what's the matter!" she laughed. "You wait herel" Off like a flash she scurried, and just as the mole was about to do down into his hole again she returned with what do you 'spose? A dear little pair of spectacles. For, of course, dear heart, a mole is almcat blind and everything does look brown to him that's why he thinks the whole world is like his dark, damp home underground. Now these were magic specs and no sooner did Tommy look through them than he saw all the beautiful things of which the gnome had told ham the blue sky, the green trees and, best of all, the dainty little fairy. All day he ran hither and thither, admiring everything he saw, and when night came and the stars came out over the treetops he could not go to sleep at all! "I will never live underground again!" he said delightedly. And he never did. In fact, he got a position as chief clerk an the fairy bank and lived happily for the rest of his days. Isn't it a pity that all moles oarmot have fairy specs? - If ill fortune pursues you and you lose everything else, keep your temper. Canada needs more people and caipi- tal to develop her fertile lands and natural resources, and presents oppc '- tumitles unsurpassed by any country in the world.