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Ut. 7i St. Wt. Tow>U left-oven from the production of other types that met the needs of the military demand. But there does not appear to b many of this kind to-day, and military hone buyers re- port a general .Shortage. But whatever type one aims to pro- duce, he must see to it that it will perform the work it i. called upon to do in the most efficient manner pos- communication, lo Agron Fall Plowing Help. Me I on time. Before getting the tractor, sible. Horo breeders must pay par- dii i towing nnps .TIC. first, titular attention to this, if they are When I started farming I did but , with *?'< " < h ''^V horse, 1 to successfully compete with the little fall plowing, partly because I "d was , so busy, and partly from lack of] }. WBI a IBO was so usy, an party rom ac o] .^ plowing . appreciation of its value. Now all j wa ? m f y this motor truck d tracr men P *ji v* t vo 11 . i- , ' T T __ my land that i. going into crops the| A - ** u next year i. fall-plowed, and some i. plowed early and worked during the fall. The first advantage I noticed of breaking up land in the fall was that . the spring work could be got out of ll **n> doubl y - c , OTer * * Feed Good breeding must be supplement- ed by good feeding and care of the colt from birth to maturity. No mat- ter what ideals have been followed in THE CHILDREN'S HOUR The Little Brown Door. "Sister Meg, how many people live in this wall besides you and brother Jim?" asked Sylvia, who had come from the country for her first visit to her married sister, who lived in the city. "I think I should rather live in a house, the way country people do." "What do you mean, you funny little Syrviai" asked her sister. "I don't see any wall. We live in a house breeding the draft horse, if the colt; just as everyone else does." the way at a much earlier date. And, ^ nrctsnriK uie until nurse, u ilia cuvrt wi *,jw. , MI. an( ] is not well fed and kept in a thrifty, But Sylvia has never seen houses With the low pria Ior ettulg , j healthy, growing condition from birth, 90 c i os e together that they joined one butterfat most dairym B : it wj |j not have tl)e we jght and size another without even a strip of grass it becomes doubly important, needed in the ideal draft horse. There between, and so she kept on calling . maximum production at cost. The most expensive ( id al draft horse - ,.^ ntlng ,. periodi as ig dnce our season usually doe. not open i Ps il>le cost - lhe "Yr . t u e oro j too often the case, during the growth t until well into April. this, was an! P** ofthe ration usually the pro Qf ^ ^ ^ ^ ag ^ coU {s extremely important item. Every \ i . P * '^L^ tLev 'are! weaned, it should be kept in thrifty crop but buckwheat and late potatoes i c"T oc muwt be in by Empire Day if the best i Pgnant, - ... * .i i v-ij mi i/ui ittui, nf m . *^ v ci y \ , . , * t h < v are crop but buckwheat and late potatoes! ^^.^^JT"^ Ltot the ' condition. Just here is where a large between, and so she kept on calling each long row a wall. A day or two later, when she was skipping i-ope with Evelyn Worth, who Hved in the same block, Sylvia acroB9 the street and gaid> horse breeders fall down. If the colt once receives a serious set- . , . which the planting and sowing must t l u ' res prowm. i_ r(r( na rt " U1B mn " ce receive a a-iui ^v- be done may be reduced to three or! , Da ' r ? COWS f US Ua ! ly * *,!'? o f a back, it rarely recovers the lost m . . * fUniv nrnffun in the lOml Ol . . their protein in the form meal or c< in this way me KIWI. = .": j norae> IBTIVPIV n ' t r h Legume hays, especial- 1 actual spring work is cut about in! 8liv . e , ly ,. ng , ' KP used' julf ly alfalfa and red clover, can t) .... to supply a large part of the protein At time. I have had spring-plowed - - *--' four. The. lowest ob on the Plowing, especially with a two-horse Plow. If this is don. in the fall, the ground. To get size and weight in the draft breeding must be right and tie feeding. A good big draft stallion that is a ton do they?" Evelyn wanted very much to laugh, but she was afraid of hurting Sylvia's providing he isj s, they do,'.' she replied. "It's the very smallest house in the street." ^lourrJ "^mr* -- v,.' or over in weignt, providing ne is fate at a 10W WSt - TheS * ^ d8 al !, if' n d a " d has a good set of feet and . Ijrrown on almost any farm, and n , n _j_, ,,,, :,, nlvw i lw , B t, B It ought to be a playhouse; I de- it ought," said Sylvia. "Who late which did not do well on account; , cured Rre very nutr itious. nf tVii i .1 ii i !......_ A .it*. , *T *V^ r r </ , f . f * - . . ._ ., ' UIUUC11V *.U1^V1 * V *,J of the gras. layer cutting off the ; Moreov cows ^^ to relish alfalfa capillary water from below. I hadj and ck)Ver more than timothy . As a on. crop of corn that was nearly a ^ the ices of dover and timothy failure for this reason. There was run y cloge ^ lher . quack grass in the sod; and though Bu( . t|moA ., yery low in protein - there was not enough moisture for oml vhen it ig fe(J the prot ein short- 1 s legs under him, will produce the lives there?" right type so far as breeding is con- But before Evelyn could answer, cerned; but if the colt is neglected! Sylvia's sister called to the girls and ^_ . i a **iUf r ncii IL * W) v%- j*~ corn, it was sufficient to make a fine &ge must ^ ma(Je up( genera u y , by pie >f quack. increasing the amount of oil meal or Another reason why 1 changed to O ther protein supplement. If alfalfa fall plowing is that the frost action j or dover is fed, the total grain ration, is better than fitting. Just north ofj an j especially the protein supplement, my farm a clay section begins where i can be decreased, thus materially they simply can't do anything at all cheapening the cost of the ration. ;*__ ? . * ! n i t _- _ with spring-plowed land. But when plowed in the faH the frost breaks up this stiff clay thoroughly, and the fine oil makes excellent crops. Formerly 1 had quite a little wet Let us consider two cows, each weighing 1,200 pounds, and giving 30 pounds of milk containing 3V4 per cent. fat. Say that their feed re- quirements are just the same that is, land, though now it is about all tiled. 'that each requires the same amount If this land was left until spring, it! of protein, carbohydrates, and fat for was usually plowed when parts of it the maintenance of her body and for were too wet. The result, of course, 'milk production. Both cow. get the was partial failure in those spots, j same amount of corn silage (36 When fall-plowed, this ground was pounds), the same amount of hay (12 usually in good condition In the spring,] pounds), and a grain ration of corn, ince the surface exposed by the fur- oats, and oil meal. The difference comes in feeding one and not kept growing frcm birth to! asked them to go to market and get maturity, the type of heavy drafter i some vegetables. They were glad of moat in demand to-day cannot be the chance to visit the interesting market and were soon scampering across the street with a basket be- tween them. Just in front of the little brown SMOKE T neTobacoo of Quali \y and in packages Live Stock Movements for Two Years. door that they had been looking at, Thc shipments of live stock accord- j Evelyn stoppped suddenly. "Listen!" ing to the Dominion Live Stock branch sa j d- reports, from the five shipping pro-j Sylvia stopped too. As she listened vinces last year compared with th! her eyes Krew w jd<, ( f or w h a t she year before were: Quebec, cattle, 81,- heard made her almost believe she 928 against 56,617; calves, 04,941 j n tne woods at home. From against 75,307; hogs, 79,086 against the ot h e r side of the little door sound-] 83,907; sheep, 164,750 against 159,-' ^ a swee t, clear bird song, something 617. Ontario, cattle, 342,783 against 290,838; calves, 102,100 against 114,- 315; hogs, 371.G35 against 378,854; shaep, 268,202 against 278,460. Mani- toba, cattle, 66,577 against 102,129; calves, 14,076 against 16,117; like the call of the robin, something like the notes of the red-winged black- bird. She tooked at Evelyn. "It must be| chirp of a sparrow. Presently both lit-; W ar period, when efforts at production tie girls jumped, for they were surej received added zest. These are facts they heard a child speak one or two , that while illustrating the stability of little laughing words that they did both India and Ireland in food produc- not quite catch. Then the birds be-' tion for export, also give information gan again. i of the competition that other coun- " Please let us look," Evelyn begged.! tries, including Canada, have to con- But when they looked again they I tend with. saw nothing except the old man sit- *- ting at the table. "What was it?" they asked in won- der. "What did it sound like?" asked the man. An animal husbandry specialist says that weaning, shipping, dehorn- a bird in a cage she began and then was interrupted by a low sound, rows caused the land to dry out soon- er. I back furrows, and run the plow in' cow getting timothy requires a bigger the bottom of the dead furrows a i grain ration, especially the expensive hogs, 80,652 against 102,303; sheep, one that seemed to be half laughter 31,120 against 49,957. Saskatchewan,! an d half speech. Sylvia gasped, cattle, 84,197 against 156,965; calves,; "That's a fairy!" she said. 6,812 against 9,825; hogs, 51,731 She had often looked for fairies in used to plow in not-too-wide cow alfalfa and the other timothy. The | against 44,387; sheep, 28,338 against 'the woods, but she had never found u: 18,838. Alberta, cattle. 148,457 | on e. Was' it possible that there were tecond time, furnishing drainage to 'oil meal, in order to supply the pro- ThUjtein deficient in the timothy. At pres- I ent feed prices, the cost of producing the depth of 12 or 14 inches, was a great help. I do not mean that I never had good luck with spring plowing, but simply that I frequently had condi-j the timothy ration. In some local- tions where faH plowing was fur ities farmers are getting as low as 22 superior. On the other hand, I have cents a pound for butterfat, so that never observed conditions where 'not much profit could be made on a a pound of butterfat with thc alfalfa ration is 19 cents, and 25 cents with spring plowing v/as better. I tised to think that I had to plow in the spring for potatoes. But when a field of po- tatoes wa? partly fall-plowed and partly spring-plowed, I found no dif- ference. Although I never put them timothy ration. Another valuable thing about alfalfa is its high lime content. This against 163,686; calves, 19,251 against > f a i r j e s in a big city? "Like beautiful birds," Evelyn said.' ing oastrating and sud denly chan-- "And once like a little girl, added, jng the calvcg from ?rass to dry fced Sylvia. ' often checks completely any gains The old man smiled. "That s fine, i fa ^^ to gix weeks _ If any O f he said. "I was hoping you'd* say , thesfi causeg ean be eliminated the that." I checking of growth will be less. Then, as his two visitors looked at; Therefore, fattening calves on the hm in surprise, he added, "Now I fams Qn which they ar)J ^^ shou j d know that my work 11 good. This is p,.^,,^ good results as this eljmin . my work, you see to make certain ates shipping and cnam?e of fecd The 20,561; hogs, 86,401 against 56,435, and sheep, 91,184 against 62,664. Bulldozing Fathers. > It is a strange thing that so ninny fathers think they havo an absolute ownership in their children; that they can boss them, order them about, scold, bulldoze them in any way they please; treat them as if they had no individual rights whatever. makes it especially valuable in bal-| You should be very careful how you treat your children, my friend. They ancing a ration containing corn or corn silage. Although alfalfa is gen- on sod Van.!, I think that in that case orally given first plac^ as hay for faH plowing would show an advan- dairy cows, good clover follows it tage. I use n double dlk in fitting, and if this is ret so that it cuts eight closely, it being considered about nine- will not always be in your home, and some day you may bitterly regret the harsh callings down you so unneces- sarily gave them. Many a boy has tenths as valuable as alfalfa for dairy- been . driven to wrong courses by a inches deep it loosens the soil up cow feeding. Sweet clover has about domineering, bulldozing father. the same feeding value as alfalfa, but! brutal caHinK down by her father about as well as plowing. Whereas I was formerly behind with my work whenever the season was late or wet, and often n little tne ani" ii'viuiiK vmuu ua t.uuua, out, - - -* - I * o A }\ tnllr " cows must he taught to eat it. This! sent many a girl from her home with a a ' '| la ' K - i : . , .. ... !. 1. .....i .. ! 1 I ;>OW. IjOV. (H Just then a boy came up and lifted, the brass knocker on the little brown door. "O Loy!" cried Evleyn. "Who lives there?" Loy laughed. "I don't know his name," he said. "Run along to the: market, you two. This morning you're! buying, and I'm selling." As the girls hurried down thc street Evelyn told Sylvia that the boy was her brother, and that he was selling soap to earn some money to buy a bicycle. As Evelyn and Sylvia passed the place on their way home Loy was just coming out. "Hello!" he said. "I was just going to look for you, because you are in- and hear a bird sing parts of musical toys." ij-lvia went back her sis- ter's and later to her own home she kept talking about her visit to the little house. Then at Christmas came a box from sister Meg. In it was a large talking pinned to the doll*, dress was a that read: "You heard us first last summer behind the little brown door." Ellen D. Master in Youth's Com- panion. Canada's Competitors in Food Production. can be done by mixing a small amount of sweet clover with the other feed late even when it was not bad, now, | at first, and slowly increasing the with the sain, number of horses (though better ones) and a light trac- tor, I am farming nearly three times as much land, and am always finished amount fed. But, no matter which variety is used, production costs can be greatly reduced by feeding one of these three valuable legumes. Raising the Right Type of Horse There is a great need to-day for I ation in producing to meet thc demand more efficiency in horse-breeding or i to-day. better, perhaps, for thc production of horses that will attain the highest point of efficiency in the work they are to do. The manufacturer of mo- tor trucks and tractors ha in view at all times the efficiency of his pro- duct. Hi. constant aim is to so per- fect hU product that it will perform the work required of it in th moat efficient and economical manner. The horse producer should have this same Incentive in view. Ten or fifteen years ago w were more efficient in howe production than we are to-day. Breeder, had IdeaU before them which they aimed to attain. There were ideals in heavy <lraftr, in light drafter., in wagon homos, and in lighter types, which farmers endeavored to follow in their breeding operations. There were certain district, where a larg* measure of efficiency WM thown in producing the drafter; other action* were known for the lighter type, of horse.. This c.nnot be said to-day. There oeem to be no centre* that can claim distinction in produc- ing any particular horse type. True, the number of types of horses in demand now is fewer than in form- er yean, yet even in types most in demand to-day, such ai good draft honea, there .re practically no sec- tions where the buyer can go and be Hire of having hi. want, supplied. It seem* to be too much of a hit and proposition, this horse produc- tion buainem. If on hears of a gojnd big draft gelding for Mle in one part of the tountry, one may have to travel one or two hundred mile, to find a mate to match him. There Menu to be no continuity, no co-oper- bitterness in her heart, and perhaps led to her undoing. Even for wayward and unruly chil- dren, lve is the only safe and effi- cacious corrective. 0. S. Marderi. Now, Loy, don't tease," said sister. India and Ireland are the most dis turbed centres within the British Em | pire, and yet in the one a vast increase to J " n Vak e ~ V 'a' ! in the production of wheat has occur- ,. \ red and in the other, as shown in the t Dominion Live Stock branch cable re- | ports, the high character and supply < of bacon and cattle remain castrating should be done when the calf is young, as should also the de- horning, which should be done with a caustic. They should be started on grain in the fall before they are weaned, as they will produce greater gains with less feed than if bought on the open market in the fall. It has been found that calves make gains almost as fast as two and three year old cattle, and will make a hun- dred pound gain on about two-thirds as much feed as the older cattle. They appear to grow rather than fatten for about the first one-hundred-thirty days, but from then on they accumu- late fat rapidly. The average feeder of baby beef should figure on a two- hundred-day feeding period in order finish on the A Tall Yarn. Horace "Were you up very high on and i your flying trip?" undiminished. As regards India, in-| Herbert "Yes ; while we were com- formation supplied to the Dominion i ng d OWT i the propeller waa dripping Department of Agriculture is to the What constitutes efficiency in the hea.vy draft horse? To be thorough- ly efficient a draft horae must with its mate be able to pull a heavy load, on level ground, with ease and quick- nesa. To do this a horse should be, at loast 1,700 pounds in weight, though 1,800 or over is better. Along with this weight he must be well mus- cled, have a good set of feet and legs, b well built and well proportioned, and should be sound in ivdnd and limb, To get these element ) of efficiency ;ri tha draft horse th< breeder must not trust to chance in his breeding operations. If he has the right type of mare, he must see to it that tboj stallion used will get the right type of offspring. It will pay to go to' considerable trouble to secure the right type of stallion, as the heavier [ his weight consistent with good qual- ity, the better. The same reasoning holds true in the production of other types. The type next to the heaVy drafters in' demand to-day and which command. : good prices, is the sound, well-built; wagon horse. This kind should weigh from 1,100 to 1,300 pounds.l For heavy delivery work, such as de- livering milk, a home must have weight enough to haul from 2,000 to I 2,600 pounds, and get away with it! at a reasonably swift gait. The lighter delivery type does not require so much weight, but must be well built, sound and active. There ar* other types more or less in demand, Ruch as saddle horaes, and' uiiiiiiii'i suitable for military pu. poses. These cannot be secured at hit and miss breeding, though in year, gone by there were sufficient Economy of Dairy Products as Food. There is one especial virtue in the many recipes given in the series Why and How to Use Milk and Its Products pamphlets issued by the Dominion! Department of Agriculture, and that| is that the large majority call for no fire or coal-burning. The few that do require a warm or boiling ingredient necessitate the use of nothing more serious or costly than a little oil, gas or electricity by way of heating. This is remarkable evidence of the economy of dairy products as food. Conscience warn, us as a friend be- fore punishing us as a judge. "I'm not teasing," answered Loy. "Here, I'll take your basket," he add- ed. "Come on." They followed Loy through the lit- tle brown door into a room. Beside a back window an old man was sitting, with a table in front of him that was cluttered with tools and working ma-! ?" and 18,630,000 bushel, or 5 per ' effect was cent - tor bushel, or 46 per pre US terial. He looked up with a smile. "I'll carry the vegetables along," said Loy, "so you girls needn't hurry." Evelyn and Sylvia stood still; there to be seen anywhere and cent, greater than the annual average of the preceding five years which, of course, includes a large part of the no fairy. "I haven't anything for you to see," said the man. "But there's a good deal to hear. Go to the other window and turn your backs." Wondering, the girls obeyed. Then all at once a strange concert began. They heard the same bird song that they had heard at first; then came other bird notes, and sfter that the with whipped cream!" "Whipped cream! What do you mean?" "Why, we cut through the Milky Way." A man can be a pessimist when h can't be anything else. Parents as Educators The Curl Made Peggy Cry By Minerva Hunter r A SSI NO TNI "BUCK." Mrs. Ivy was sitting at her riving 1 room window sewing buttons on a new ! gingham dress when Mrs. Baxter 'came to her dining-room window andj looked out. "I've had such a scare!" ! shivered Mrs. Baxter. "Peggy?" inquired Mrs. Ivy anxi- ously rising from her chair. "Do you i i want me to come over and help you?"| "No, no, Peggy isn't really hurt,"j said Mrs. Baxter, "but Oman nearly . i put her eye out with the scissors. When I went out of the nursery to j empty the bath water, he cut one of her curia off. I happened to look through Uie door and there he stood, with the curl in one hand and the point of the scissors within an inch 1 of Peggy's eye! 1 was never o| frightened in my life. Every mother has anxious time, with her children, but when one undertakes to rear an- other person', baby the responsibility | seems to double. Peggy's father is so pitiably grateful because we have; consented to care for the baby that 1 1 feel even more responsible for her: than I did for Oman If my child should injure Peggy's eye I'd never . get over it!" "Oman i. very fond if Peggy," said the neighbor. "I never aw greater j devotion on the part of a little four-] year-old boy. He would do anything; to kep her from crying." ' "Yes," agreed Mrs. Baxter, "that It! true, but why did he go near her with j the scUaors? He is never alto \\-ed to. play with them, in fact I punish him every time he handles any but his blunt pair." "It may be he had a really good reason for cutting Peggy's curl," sug- gested Mrs. Ivy. "I mean a good reason from a child's point of view. Did you ask him why he did it?" "No. I put him to bed a fast as I could and brought Peggy in here and put her in the kiddie coop. Now that you mention it, Oman did look quit* puzzled and once or twice he tried to tell me something, but I was so faint fright I did not listen. Oman is 'hild and does love Pegsry- I'm had a reason for what he did. I was too quick in my judg- ment, I'll go now and talk with him." It was afternoon. Once more Mrs. Ivy sat beside her living room window. Presently a childish voice addressed her. "Scissors are dangerous." an- nounced little Omar Baxter, looking at her very seriously. "Yes," agreed Mrs. Ivy, "vwy, very ,. wh b ^ b , y . . ^^ Omar ln the tone m . itinjf . leMon npar her with the geiMOr!k t h e baby cries and cries becauaa her cur) hurts when it ia bruahed the boy do e8 no . cnt t he curl off. A baby j umps .! O f ten an d n \\gU stick th* gc i M ors in its eye. You see, a baby can get over a curl that hurU, but a baby could never, never (row a eye!" , - -.- . . . - ,-.