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AddreM communications to~Agronol?t"l. 7J Ade'ald* 8t V/t, Toronto, Why Lights Make Your Hens Ly More Eggi. part of the limited ration goes to- ward the maintenance of her body, , and what is left, if any (and there .eerns so strange and ^^ ,. uge d i? 1 "*!!?> make egg material. v rt ' ftCla1 ,, h ? ht U ' Cd 8t mg Some pullet, .tart the fall with a th* henhouw will increase egg pro-! fair , rf when the ration bcg ins duction. Yet it is fact that they |to ru ,/ ghorti Uraw malcritt l for mak- will do that-sometimes as much as jng from tjje reMfve in their '0 per cent. And if you are not u.-, ^^ when thu gupply bec omes Ing light* on your flock, no mutter | exhaustrf they have to quit . how small tie flock, you .re losing NQW ]pt us ^ jugt how a i ante rn m "*. y - ,. can best be used. Take an actual ex- U.mg l.ghts cost, nothing extra j, I , e . s that , t norma ii y ge u c. her -m time, money, op equipment. I dark ^ fivc ^^ R ^ m dark dny8 Almost every commercial pou tryrnan ha)f an houp earUer Jt ^^ get ha. adopted the practice in the last ht ajn u , &bout - of - go in f ew years and not a few farmers have the been pracHdng it successfully for the, hours last year or two, even on small farm flocks. The thing is very simple. Use any morn , are fourteen hen goes without food. If we use the lantern an hour and a half at night, and the same in the morning, we have a feeding period kind of a light. An ordinary farm- f thirtee -<> instead of t en , and barn kerosene lantern works fine, the lantern the fasting period is reduced from , fourteen hours to eleven, a period in rmlkmg and doing- the chores ' whjch the heng have become good and t K , "'* anbef re """- .hunKry, but not starved and empty ' hen, * I* , That's aTlvo.^? 1 ar A (1 , drink ' inats all you need to do. And yu r egg production .hould .t once double is go simple, how do ' Well, first of all, remem-i ber that the lights have no ' on the matter. They a to an end. It is a feeding problem, pure and simple. A hen is an egg-manufacturing ma- chine. The feed she eats is the raw material for the eggs her system manufactures. The more feed she eats, the more eggs she makes. She cannot, however, see to eat in the dark. So, as the days shorten in the fall and winter, she cats less, and consequently produces fewer ejrgs. The night lights simply give her a chance to eat more feed, and she at once begins to lay more eggs. Eating and laying i* her business in life; and at it is no fun to eat in the dark (if| you don't believe it, try it yourself! some time), biddy goes to bed with! the gun, and your egg factory, just like any other factory under the same circumstances, is not running at full capacity because the management has failed to supply a lighting system for the laborers to work by. farther north you arc, the THE CHILDREN'S HOUR have been the case had the lights not been used. Another practice fast becoming popular among poultrymen is what is known as the "night lunch." The birds are allowed to go to roost at sunset. About three hours later the light is hour. It is then only about ten hours before sunrise, and that night lunch easily lasts until the early feed in the morning. Electric lights, of course, are hand- iest; an ordinary kerosene lantern does well. One lantern, if the globe is clean, will light a floor space of 100 square feet. In a 20x20-foot house, two lanterns, one at each end of the house, are enough. They should be! hung about three feet above the floor.! One 40-watt electric light in a pen I 20x20-feet will do, although two may < be better. These also should be hung about three feet from the floor. It is very important that the hens have feed and water while the lights j are on. The feed can be a mash in| self-feeders or boxes, or some scratch j feed, such as corn, wheat and oats, at; the rate of about five pounds per 100 j birds, or preferably both mash and' scratch feed. that are . She isj helpless, and has only one thing to} do, which is to sleep, and that is ex-| actly what she does. Without lights the hen's last feed' at night has to last a very long time! until morning, go that when she comes j off the roost she is literally starved. You may say gome hens lay under these conditions. Truu enough, but that hen is not the average hen, but a very efficient manufacturer of eggs. And even that hen will either increase her production under liphtj, or pro- duce the same number of eggs a whole lot easier. So far as "going against Nature" is concerned, ehe never meant that a hen should lay at any time but in spring, the natural breed- Ing scaon. We have to work out our own systems for getting out-of-season eggn, especially winter eggs. If the hen's ration is short, or feed- Ing practice faulty, the first thing the hen does is quit laying. Self-preser- vation demands this, so that the first ten or eleven hours. In the event thot| the "night lunch" system is used, turn] the lights on five or ten minutes) earlier every night, until there is onlyl a short time between sunset or dark' and the time of the night lunch. In any event stop the lights gradually. This is all the instruction necessary for this practice, and, no matter what' practice you follow otherwise, the ad- 1 dition of night lights will be found: extremely beneficial. Confront a difficulty with confdence and it will soon cease to be a difficulty. A scrub bull on a good farm is like an ink-spot on an otherwise cleanly, written page. Tlio use of system enables one to do things with the least wear and toar. Be a "system" man even to the extent of water and light systems. To people who live in the country ET//./- o' thin coupon now. Ltt * 11.1 srnrf you Investment Items rath month and atlviae you from Hme to time u'hat It would be sqje and piofitablc lo buy. Royal Securities Corporation, Limited SS King Street Wtl, Toronto )) . i ni I i.%.l niiir lt*in" .-) uljt* , ... .1 ,. N,ni At.l.... ll.i. . ll,.. ...,.,...,, llr. I JTOU t n(l lo ut Aral. Ii ..-,.'., Uh to cut il. *!' U " T iim.it" i> * ddr oft ... - i r4 or l.iif. IVflANY of you have * * money and wish to invest it as promptly, as profitably, as privately and as conveniently as city people. COR these reasons we ' have extended our facilities for the sale of safe, reliable Bonds hy mail. I JNDER our plan, we v send you a list of high- grade Bonds to select from and make you definite recommendations. Then, when you have made your choice, you order the Bonds from us just the siune as you would order good-j by mail from a big depart ment store. We deliver them to your bank with draft attached, so that you may inspect thorn before purchase. You take no risk DY invcstinj in this way, *-^ you get prompt ser- vice. You have the same choice of investments as city clients and you can buy by mail on exactly the same terms aa big institu- tions and large private investors. The Magic Whistle. Robert Seofield had always longed for a dog, but in the apartment house where he lived dogs were not al'lowed. When the family moved out to the country his first question wa*, "Now may I have a doer?" "I'll try to gwt one in time for your birthday," WM his father's rtifHy. "Don't forget that to-morrow's my birthday," Robert said as his father started to town oo morning. "That mearrs the dog, doesn't it?" said his fafaor. "Well, I'll do my beet." When the automobile came in Bight that afternoon Robert went running to the gate. There wa no dog to be seen. "Perhaps he'a asleep in the foot of the car," he thought. "Where's my dog?" he cried aa he swung the gate open. His father smiled. "I couldn't man- age to get him to-day," he answered. Them, as Robert's face fell, he added, "But don't give up hope." He felt in his pockets. "Here's something your Uncle Dick sent you," he remarked. Robert took the package and un- wrapped it slowly. "Why, it's a whistle," he said. "A special kind of whistle," was the reply. "Your Uncle Dick said, 'Tell Robert that the way to make it do th-e best work is to blow it with three short notes and a long one." "Best work? What does he mean?" asked Robert doubtfully. "Well, he's coming to see us to- mVxrrow," father answered. "Then you'll find out." "I'm much obliged to him for the whistle," s*id Robert. "Father do you think I'll have that dog before long?" "I think you will," his father re- plied. When Uncle Dick came the next day, he left his car down at the vil- lage garage and walked up to the house. Robert was practicing on his whistle. "Hello, Uncle Dick," he cried. "This is a dandy whistle; thank you." "You're welcome," said Uncle Dick. "Do you blow it the way I told you to?" For answer Robert put the whintle to his lips and blew three short notes and one long. "Right-o," said Uncle Dick. "I think that whistle will servo you a good turn sooner or later. Bob." Robert looked puzzled. "What (Jo you mean?" he said. Then he added, "I thought I was going to have a dopr to show you when you came, but I haven't." Uncle Dick loved d)g* as well as Robert did, but he only nodded. "Let's take a walk down to ihe village," he suggested. When they had gone some distance Uncle Dick said, "How loud can you blow that whistle, anyway, Bob?" "I'll show you," said Robert. He put the whistle to his mouth and blew and blew a.s lend as he could. Uncle Dick laughc i. "Just suppose that was a magic whistle," he .viid, "and you could summon with it any-, thing you wanted!" "I'd blow for a dog," answered. Kobert. "(ro ahead ami blow," said Uncle Dick. Robert chuckled. "If I thought I. could blow ft dog to me," he said, "I'd blow till your oars couldn't hear." With that he blew such a blast that! thu hills rang three short notes and' a long one. SuiUtenly he saw a dark object) dashing up tin- ivad in u cloud of dust; it dashed .straight toward Uncle-' Dick and him. To Robert's :i- 1 < ni-li m-ii! the. cbject j turned out to be a small black spaniel. ] The little tUtf was almost vagirinK himself in two. Hubert's eyes hunc. "Hero, pup, here!" lie cried. Then, as the d.g leap! on him. thet boy asked, "Where di.1 he come from and wh..so is h,-?' 1 "Ho came fivm tile gar.igu where he's been taking a nap in my car,", said Uncle Dick, "and liu's y%nrs if you want him." "Well, I surely do wan' him!" Rob- ert, pried. Then l T n,-!o Dick explained tli:it whe.i Rc'bort's father failed to tlnd a dog he himself had cffered to reo wlwit ci.uld he done. . "The man who sxild me thflt little! follow, 1 ' IIP lul.leil, "trld me thnt he* was used to coaling to certain caH.j That'K why I M-n 1 : you tlv whist lo' aint the menage." Robert, wlwi was having a grand tus* le with the dojr, Inoke.l up nn:\\ laughed. "It's u magic whistle all right," he said. "Three cheers for it 1 three shorts and a loud" Youth's 1 Companion. SMOKE QGDENS CUT PLUG 80 Old Country Trecdr TOfN'S LIVERPOOL" For tho5e who roll their own. ASK FOR OGDEN'S FINE CUT (In the qrfen packer) I IT IS Ttti BEST THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON It blesseth him that gives and him that takes," and one might go on with the comparison, " 'tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes the throned mcnarch better than his crown." There are some who affect to despise gracious acknowledgements. Weil, i everybody despises obsequious syco- I phancy, but "I thank you" is often a ____________ true sacrament, -"an outward and _, _, ii ! visible sign cf an inward and spiritual Ihe Grace or Gratitude, Luke 17: 11-19. Golden Text 'grace." We do well to remind our- FEBRUARY 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. Ps. 100: 4. l.< -tui Setting Thoa.- who thin!: that a ministry of healing woald make (he preaching of ths gospel a tri- umphal march, have something to learn from the incident of our lesson. gratitude of the Samaritan, who "fell 'down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks." "Praise God from whom all bless- their faith in him for they were not . to be healed ar.d then go to the 1 " gs , fl 1 w ; The Samaritan not only priests, but to be healed as they went thankwl J<>5 V*' he wcnt on to *"* to the priests. Tfceir very starting 'or 1 ?' !? '?. Go(L , Ap plyln ? thl l le ^ son . starting . , ...... - ........ - -------- the priest shows a measure of faith I to , the llve \. f folk to-day, the first Hero we have Christ healing men 'Jesus says "priests" because one of I? I" OSt < ' bvlous observation would afflicted with a dread disease. Yet i them was a Samaritan. He was to go i " i- Bt W mi? t g y u ninety per cent, of the. men thus! to his own Samaritan priest Th* ! !} ei ,"i?,- . W , ,f sa ^ T?* he WM C-d ...... 11. - "-:- >:' ' ' " Jews had no dealings with the Sa- maritans, but in this case misery had drawn them into a common compan- healc.I went back to their life of health and wholeness untouched by a sense of love or gratitude. They re- ceives! the gift and straightway for-j ionship, just as in a calamity of r na- got the giver. Only one rnan returned i ture, such as a fire or flood, animals to give thanks to the one 'who had (that are natural enemies will be wrought the cure for the blessing re- j found together, ceived. and he was an outsider. V s. 15, 16. One of them . . that he , , " * Every one knows how natural it Is to pray for healing when one is really ill, should not the impulse that drives us to God in petition persist and consum- mate itself in giving God thanks? We should learn St. Francis' Songr of Praise for God's great gifts be- stowed on all "Praised be thou, my I. Ton Lepers Asking for Mercy. 11-13; was healed. As the lepers wentTthe LoYd for B other Sun so beauU Vs. 11, 12. A he went to Jerusalem. : healing came. They saw an,! felt the I f u i ,' ,&.." T for the Moon whom Jesus has been repulse.! hy the Sa- strange change. One of them wa* as Stater we ' irert for Cth^ aritans of the village that com- ' immediately filled with a great grati-' wind and for \irlml Cloud for jnds the entrance into Samaria from tude. He thinks immediately of him g;^ f r WaJ, ? humble holv rerderin* e north. Then he travels eastward who was responsible for this blessing, ~ J .^ f or Rrothe'r F re 7o cheer ." " *" l & 5 2SsK l 3S?!SsSS&4a .-.:*.. _ . ,. . . lrlemls ' of all the protector, nourisher. and . .epulsed by tne sa-; f l ""K-- cmm^e. une 01 ,nem was| ns s;,u. r wp .,. f.,- Rmtho- maritans of the village that com- ' immediately filled with a great grati-' wind and for \irlml Cloud for ,,,;. ,i... ........,...:..,. i: ...,..,;, -.., i tude. Il thinW. in, <,<!., til,. f >.!. '! a .Jl" Ior . Alr . nn '? V loua > . ?' the between Samaria and Galilee. There J ps met him ten men that were lepers; J.o Jew?. It was called the Finger of jest impulse. He a Samaritan. Gcd, being thought of as H sign of The one from whom least might ho anger. "Leprosy nothing expecte,!. wan the on, who s l,.,e<l , , Thank ei'vin Da% mav have other hoi i.lmrt of a living death, a corruption the deepest realization of the gieat- of all the humors, a poisoning of the rc -" s "f the blowing begtowtd upo.i .springs of life, a dissolution, lit- tam. The nine Jewish lepers went to was caused by unsanha/y conditions , ei | t- society. The Samaritan went of living and pcor food. \Vhich stood ' w ' ln - cleansed body and a changed afar off. They dared not enter the heart, and was restored, not only to village, nor COtrfd they draw mar, jiur.ian fellowship, hut to grateful' fe!- remembrance, but a constant spirit of gratitude for life's common either as a special gift ,h a great devout re- . like all the result of practice. A Prop for Doors. We rind the following de-scribed , , 'ii-;, ftt) 1 the leper, w-hi-n he SH-.V uny j 'owship with fj<id. <"' PPr<'h him, must give warning V. 17. Were (here not ten cleansed p,op for 'outside floors a great saver rrvln . . ouf - "*" Unclean!" .. uhere . ( re the nine? The heart ef' tl f tinu .. " M1(1 it 1S Not even his nearest and dearest mayjJesus wa^ touched by the gratitude of pi '"' come near him. He is an outcast from the one, mid pained by the ingratitude , c strap 1 God and man. jof the nine. This incident gathers up tewM oleat of the door six or cl * ht V. IS. They lifted up their ro!c thfl whole experience of Jesus in hi* inchcs from th<< eml and nilie >wl* . . have mercy on us. If they cannot ministry <.n e.arth. How many were from the ground. A strip o' -rood romo to Jesus, they ran cry aloud to hlesjc.l. How many were ungrateful, bluntly sharpened and about b hteen him, and thus arrest the attention f ^ llt '- n tl;L response of the Samaritan inches king is fastened to the other forth his faith in simple and i-leur ' '' K' vt> B'ory to (Jod. Selfishness word*, but true faith may express, measures and appreciate! the. gtft. 'astened to a screweye near the lower itself in R look, a sigh, n cry. When /Iratltude gives lire;! to thr givey of <"! cf tl10 trace, run through another Royal Securities Corporation, Limited '..l. I iM 58 Klnft Street West TORONTO W. P. NF.U.IS I'.r an. h Mmmitrr S/. .v.- Loiubtn Rations for Ducks. A good ration for laying duck* con- sists of equal part* bran and corn meal I" which if a<!,ied twenty per! cent, low grade flour. Then add about one-quarter green food r.nd ton per' cent, beef scrap with a sprinkling of: oyster shells and grit. During the laying season the ducks might l>e given three feeds a day, whilo nt other season* two foods would lip suf- ficient. The manner of feeding will ilcpiTi I somewhat on the size of the range and its condition. If duck > h-ivo water and mavh land on wlfrh tv graze they will pntiicr a i;rfj>' .:e -i; nf their feed at certain ,..>.-,. snv them; looked on them with ai tne ? irt nnt ^ ^ motive of thn gift. cre\veye eighteen inches above the iflan.-o thnt took in the whole story Gratitude, se^es not only the worth!- hinge and then to the second cleat of of their life its misery, its loneliness, its hopelessness. His heart of divine pity goes out to them. II. One Leper Gives Thank-, 11-19. V. U. (}<> viuirschi's unto the prie: ,, s . The thought of pity was f o |i, )V ,. c .,l immediately by the word of power. The loper wh. was healed of PCS not only the worthi hinge and then to the second cleat of MU oi he gift, but the unworthlnesi tb P door. The string should be long <lvivTAii fii-t <1 ti,r> co> ~t n .:-. 'he ground. A nail is then driven in driven first to the feet of God Arise go thy way; thy faith hath made theo the door fnr < inoll K h from th to P whole. The joy of the nine lepers s ' r(>w " the string when hooked onto power, in- - wno WHS MUM 01 c h anl j ( > in the nine, U a change of his leprosy, must show himself t> the fle , h f : tn . ...,_ ' h . " ,T going home is not to be compare.! to tni> na '' Wl ^' no 'd ' ne brace up against the joy of the other going home. The the door. Charles R. Ward. priej-t who alone could pern: It him lo become a restored member of society. Lev., rh. 14 describes all the regula- tions involved in thin restoration to .lesiis' that they the other, change of Application. To-day's lesson has a felicitous , "The Grace of Gratitude." It is a grace, R fair, beautiful thing. . . Khou|i j pr ^ pnt thm!olves to the tesy is a delightful element in human ' t , r -.,, vl ., ,.,,,-ii-d with it the implication j intercourse. The pleasant word M. t (-,;it U,/i n-y f.r mercy was to he Prewing n'C(i"iition and apprecintio . an\vi re;l. At the *ame time he tosts I is lll<e mrrcy. "U Is twico blosaeJ: cro(>J. Nobody cries when a gcrub bull die*. Stored spuds, too, must breathe or they'll rot. Provide for ventilation in the potato bin. This is a good time to cultivate the frienta! garden, for there are wed Hivoiir; thoughts as well as among