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Addr it communication* to~Aflreiioml*{. 73 Adelaide St. West. Toront* SUMMER FEED FOR COWS. | Tiding the cows over the dry period of summer is a difficult and important matter for us dairymen. \ Cows which freshen Ute in winter and in the spring produce well for a hort time and then fall off heavily In the milk flow, due very largely toj the decline of pasture and the lack of ome early maturing succulent feed. Oats and peas make an excellent combination for summer feeding. I ! have grown them heretofore for for- age with excellent results. The crop may be cut green and fed as a soiling crop or matured and stored. I would tow one and one-half bushels of oats and one bushel of peae to the acre as early in the spring as the soil can be made ready. Where a large acreage of clover hay I* grown, some of it can be cut early and used for feeding. I have done this as early as the fifteenth of June. Alfalfa can be used in the same man- ner. A neighbor has been feeding al- falfa as a coiling crop and likes it, very much for the purpose. For summer and early fall feeding, I have been growing a small acreage of sweet corn for my cows. It is ready at a time when pasture begins \ to decline in quality and aids mate- I rially in keeping up the milk flow. ' fiweet corn is highly palatable and produces a large tonnage of fodder. I sow the corn as early as possible after the early spring crops are in, upon good clover sod which has received a covering of manure during the winter. About twelve quarts of seed per acre nre required. Lo C. Reynolds. HOW I RAISE BETTER OATS. Prom experience covering over twenty years, I find that most inferior oat crops are due to inferior seed. I do not mean that farmers intentional- ly sow inferior seed, but rather that many farmers sow inferior seed with- out being aware of the fact. I find that the cost of improved seed Is very low, considering the good re- ults that are sure to follow its use. Nor docs pood seed necessarily mean high-priced seed. Good seed will make a rapid early growth, which is very essential to a good crop of oats; a good crop is rarely wen from a field that makes a slow growth in the spring. Just as much labor is re- quired to sow poor seed and harvest a small crop as to sow first class seed and harvest a good crop; hence, the balance is all in favor of the better seed. A good way to secure good seed oata is to take a good variety of native oat* and run it through the fanning mill three or four times, until only the largest and plumpest kernels remain. We fan out about 40 per cent, of our oats, leaving only the strongest and beet-filled kernels. This seed will ger- minate quickly, sending forth strong, hardy shoots. By following this plan year after year, the same strain of oats will in- crease in weight as well as in yield. Since we adopted this plan, we raise from 25 to 150 pur cent, more oats than we were able to raise before. There is no waste in this method, as the light oata are used for feed; whereas, if the oats are sowed without cleaning, a large percentage of the light kernels will not germinate, and will therefore be wasted. Smut in oats will reduce the yield to a large extent. However, this is easily prevented by the formalin treatment. I find that the amount of seed to sow per acre varies greatly according to the condition of the ground. In sow- ing grass or clover seed with oats, it is not safe to sow the oats too thick. We have raised our best crops by sow- ing from 2% to 3 bushels of oats to the acre. This leaves room for a good seeding for the next year's hay crop. When grass or clover are not sown in connection with the oats, 8 to 3^4 bushels to the acre is a safe amount to sow on well-prepared ground con- taining plenty of fertility. When farmers are annoyed by oats lodging, most generally it is supposed that the land is too rich. This is not always the case, however; it is often because the soil lacks some essential element The soil may lack potash, which gives strength to the stalk. If fertilizer, containing a goodly amount of potash, is applied, this trouble may often be overcome. L. M. D. APPLE APHIDS EASILY CON- TROLLED. Aphids on apple trees are quite easily controlled by the use of a spray containing lime-sulphur and nicotine applied just as the insects are hatching out in the spring. There are two kinds of aphids com- monly found on buds of apple trees in the spring, one known as the rosy aphis and the other as the green apple aphis. The feeding of these insects results in dwarfed, mis-shapen fruit unfit for market and is frequently n serious loss to growers. Experiments have demonstrated that thorough spraying with a mix- ture containing two and one-half gal- lons of lime-sulphur, three-quarters of a pint of nicotine sulphate, and water to make 100 gallons at the time that the tips of the leaves of the fruit buds protrude from one-fourth to one-half inch will control the pests most effectively. Careful spraying from the ground and under the tree rather than from the top of the spray tank is regarded as an important factor in the control of these pests. The Granary Converted Into ' market for the produce of the flock An Elevator. and render such other assistance as will enable the breeder to keep his The average farm granary with flock up to a high Btate of qua j ity and bins eight feet or more in height, with pro fit The details of the scheme are a store-away attic, is usually not published In Pamphlet No. 25 of the economic. A granary elevated on , Department of Agriculture, which is piers four feet or more and the bins available from the Publications extended to the eaves doubles the Branch of the Department at Ottawa, carrying contents at small cost An j This pamphlet also explains the prin- elevator shaft with cups is a com-! c i p i es and requirements of the Record paratively cheap equipment. A four o f Performance "A" for poultry by to six-horse power gasoline engine is which certificates of production are used for driving the belt to elevate Krant ed for trapnestert hens that lay : the grain. Gram arriving at the ele- the required number of eggs in a year. vator can be scooped into the grain Fresh air and BOVRIL or, as the Report of the Ministry of Health of Great Britain said* "a sanitary environment and sound nutrition" are the great safeguards of Health. The Live Stock Market. Top prices for steers were a shade dump at a rapid rate. Reloading grain from bins by grav- ity into the alleyway in bags or other- - . wise, leaves only a few hundred buah-| lower in the week ending April 12 at els to be scooped out of the bottom. Montreal and Toronto, when compared | Reloading can also be accomplished with the same date last year, but at through the elevator's operation and Winnipeg there was no change and atj i spouted into the grain tank. The ex- Calgary and Edmonton they were 65 j annual ion of any grain elevator in cents and 50 cents respectively, better,' your market town will give the basic according to Dominion Live Stock ideas for remodeling a granary into a Branch reports. Calves showed no] farm elevator for storage. A grain change at Toronto, were a trifle lower i tank and the elevator reduce the bags at Montreal and at Winnipeg, al-j necessary on the farm to the mini- though nhead of the previous week, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON MAY 20 i, the Brave Reformer. 1 Kings 17: 1 to 19: 21 ; 21 : 1 to 29; 2 Kings 1: 1 to 2: 12. Golden Text Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Josh. 24: 15. LESSON FOREWORD Ahab, king of ven. See Gen. 19:24. The author mum. These fixtures are permanent, but manifested an improvement at Israel, had married Jezebel, a prin- clearly regards it as a miracle, while bags are in a constant condition both Calgary and Edmonton. Hogs cess of Tyre and a worshipper of the; V. 39. Fell on their faces; terror- of deterioration | were steady at the previous week's Tyrian Baal. In such a marriage it stricken at such an unusual demon- A roof over the end of the granary' prices at Toronto and Montreal, but was "*"* *> allow . the f <j rei 1 * n ^P 8trntion of Jehovah's reality and elevator used for the dump for un- were weaker at the three Western **% fc?SJTiSSJ. N* SStik." S? pSvKfy re?ognH loading, makes a good place for the points. Lambs were up $1.00 in all content wkh thig ^5tw, Jezebel, him as God. The Lord, He is the God. grain tank to stand when not in use. the markets, compared with last year who waa a remar kably forceful per- Jehovah, not Baal, is the true God. A four-foot alleyway running through and unchanged as regards the pre- sonality, attempted to displace the Once again, as often happened In the the building at right angles to the , vious week. Sales numerically all worship of Jehovah with that of the history of Israel, the religion of Je- dump gives access to all the four bins.; along the line were greater than last Tyrian Baal. Not only was the wor- hovah was saved from a serious at- Tnis economy of space necessitates an year, excepting calves, which showed ship of the Tyrian Baal In direct con-, tack upon its very existence, outside stairway. All the windows of : a slight falling off. Up to date this travention to the religion of Israel, j APPLICATION. the granary are removed except in [ year, the cattle billed through havo b . ut ll sanctioned some grossly been- j Elijah, a zealous, uncomprom- the alleyway 'been 84,103 against 20,517 for the t ' ous P ract ' co3 - *he P^v 6 ' ' ftf i*ing religious reformer. Wo cannot Grain which may be wet and inclin- 1 same period of 1922, hogs 56.150 S?^LS*^!5^?!22! S-nZl 6 ".;!!! h P e to understand Elijah unless - ed to heat can be changed to other! against 18,760, and bins through the elevator with com- ' against 18,559. parative ease and given quite a good aeration. J. McBride. sheen heCP HORSE Building Up the Poultry Flock Horse stalls so arranged that a J n this bulletin on "Poultry Keeping heavy inch rope, itrctching across i n Town and Country," Mr. F. C. El- each stnll behind the horses, saves the] f ori l, Dominion Poultry Husbandman, necessity of halters. The attachment* gives some invaluable advice on how to for each rope are mode In a black- 1 Kf t pure breeds. He points out that mith shop find must be reasonably the old theory that mongrel stock gave heavy ind bolted firmly to the stall. | the best results has not proved true One end of the rope is fastened to a in experiments. Thc foundation stock, ring and bolted to the stall. The he says, should be pure, hut there other end has n heavy hook to drop, should be a continuous selection year K * V 1 "? H I',*,? 6 ' 1 : Arr , an < c after year. Only birds of the bnt that the stalls are high at the front, type and strongest constitution should Tu . 8 i. h rBe * <; anilot reach each, be bred. It is advisable for a poultry others heads. This method of fasten- ' kcc p C r who does no trap-ne.Uing to Jng prevent* the horses backing up purchase a cockerel ench year from a kicking at each other. Horses R0 od laying strain and use him rather tUmpt to kick at another while than one of his own breeding. In buy- iinB behind soon learn that the ing cockerels it is wise to get them, if rope Is there and it effective. Horses possible, from the same breeder as are easily cared for and apparently thc original stock came from, enpoy the greater freedom of their nil , . , bodies when not tied by tho head. The . ?"? Way l btal " P ure - br "d "lock halter headstalls are hung up in case '' * VV? cff(?8 : bre .^'"K stock, or day- of need, but are rarely used. Weecfless Farms. To keep farms free from weeds, few methods give such good results as a ystematic short ration of crops, with regular seeding down to grass or ilover at short Intervals, remarks the old chicks. Another way is to buy pure-bred males and grade up the flock already on the plant. The latter way is recommended to increase the fffT yield, but is not advised for the purpose of changing a mongrel flock into a pure bred. Eggs for hatching should be obtain- ed from hardy stock known to be good i^ ' " u jruiu uuiuy BLOCK. Known 10 De good Dominion Seed Commissioner In his winter layers and conforming to the bullrtln on "Weeds and Weed Seeds." general breed type. The nearer home Weeds are most In evidence In dis. | the eggs can be purchased, other trtcta where tho production of cereal t things being equal, the better. U rraini predommaUs and where the should be remembered in exchanging yaUmatlc alternation of crops is not 'eggs with neighbors that breeding generally practicd. Thorough culti- ! eggs are worth more, than market %-atlon with a systematic rotation of eggs. Never, advises Mr. Elford, be- rop, combined with the maintenance | cause thoy are cheap, buy eggs for of as many aheap a* can be kept to breeding purposes late in the season. Advantage la a certain and profitable j In a climate like that of Canada, toean. of keeping weed- under control. I chicks hatched before tho middle of But superior to all suppression meth- May give the best results, though with i ST^r! * h l T 1 "* of K od care thc y ma y bc hnt<>hed scv <-'i lean gced that Is seed that has been weekt. lator; but if pullets are not well 4 i perfectly purified as possible and developed before winter comes they Whkh cornea off clean land. In many should never be used for breeding, -6 proper sieves In the fanning Late hatched chicks are seldom worth will rm v moat of the weed the trouble It costs to raise them. I Breeding stock can bast he bought' In the fall, but if the buying has been ! left to spring then wait until the 1 breeding season is over. It Is wise to' -- Use of Yellow in Flower Beds. two rival religions when Elijah came tran3port ourselves by imagination to out as the champion of the God of his age of courS6 , he approved Israel. He proposed that a trial by po i it j M t h at are repulsive to us with fire on Mount Carmel should demon- our Christian enlightenment, but that struts which was the true God Je- u , U3t the T)oint . Elijah Hved cen . hovah or Baal. The prophets of Baal ^^ befor( ; Christ, and the light WCreto rareEViCtm0n the The following points should be borna jTi. ineiouowingpoinw snoum be Dome con secrated to Jehovah; fire coming in mind in using yellow , the garden: down from heaven and consuming the that fel1 on his P th was corre - dim Nevertheless he ex- Approved Poultry Flocks. With a view to improving the farm poultry In the Province of Manitoba,, L Use the pale straw and maize sacrifice would prove which was the helD8 , ,, reat cause ror ward anv the Department of Agriculture at Ot- tints anywhere, just as you would true God. ; gtaRe of the world's history. ' He wall I. CAREFUL PREPARATIONS, 30-35. fearless, zealous, filled with one idea, _. , and bent on realizing it at any cost V. 30. Come near, etc. The people ! to himse if. been standing about the altar of i 2 Eli j ah ^^ the fi rst to f ormu!aU tawa has set about the establishing of v . hiu-. approved flocks of Barred Plymouth 2. Clear yellow with most blues, Rocks. These flocks lire intended to n*ing cream white freely in the group; provide the source of improved breed- cr eamy yellow of any depth with any ing stuck and hatching eggs for the blue, white not being necessary. use of farmer,. .This work ,, , In | . Bright yellow with deep b]ue and -> ^ --^^ * i^\^^ j^fitoZ d, Z charge of the Manitoba Poultry Pro- decp violet <not the red-purples), their god to send fire upon his altar. ; no Hghts a't aH; that? f* example moter of the Live Stock Branch, who Clear yellow very sparingly with pale Elijah summoned the people over to ' g aal should not rule in Phoenicia. enters into agreement with farmers blue-violet, and not at all with pink, the altar of Jehovah to see what ha H j s contention was that Jehovah wishing to take it up. Under the 4. Remember that yellow "carries" would do. He repaired the altar of alone na j tne right of worship on the if T .... J r Pli rABr-l*i*t nf 4lv*. Wnnl * . . agreement the breeder places his flock farther than other colors, so it is best the l' rd - The worship of the Baal In the hands of the promoter who sees' to have the other color in a combina- | st hav , e been ' " to it that only approved hens and, tion in greater quantity than the yel- cocks are kept for breeding purposes. ' l O w_"picked out," as the dressmakers ftir and that only eggs from approved, wou l d say-with touches of the fairy T. TWw .ton... Elijah chose ! 8tones ln accordance with fl o f T 8rae i. 8 ' Th * stor V f Elijak aerve * ut to ~ ? thi f wav ^ 1 *""". '* importance of **<*<*, say's Uia^he waT whtch argued parentage nnd up to a required stand- ! gold. ard are incubated Laying records -_ ' view that the children of Israel con- j ^ch ab o ut the proper amoun t o f are to be kept, and during the season!- In this backward spring, doing the sistcd of twelve tribej. Similarly water necessary to baptism "One tho flock is to be culli'd by an official 1 right thing at the right time is what Joshua took twelve stones out of the wonders jealously," he goes on to say, of the Department. These and other' counts. river Jordan to commemorate the safe . "what might have happened if all that requirements are to be observed for a| Promises of easy money are so al- P. aS8a (f? J t " e , t ve wi, T V t r 'consecrated thoughtfulness had been period of three years. The Poultry luring that we usually pay our hard- nver> jJl a. * -l n srael " rst , expended on something that really j . ... . . . ,, . entered Canaan the tribes wore very tnattpreH ** Promoter during this period and earned money for them. And all we g^E connected, but later when Solo^ ma afterwards, will assist in securing a get Is promises. Home Education "The Child's First School is the Family" Froebel. mon divided the country into twelve departments for purposes of adminis- tration, the tribal nation became very prominent Jacob. The patriarch's name, which was originally Jacob, ,was changed to Israel, Gen. 82:28. To Distinguish Pullets and Hens. "I have difficulty at times in dis- tinguishing pullets from young hens; V. 32. He built an a/far. In earliest, what is tho best plan to pursue?" A rU F !_ J r\ !. D D r* A O'im. times the altar was simply a large writes a Northumberland county poul- An Old Fashioned Quality Respect By Came A. Rltter natural rock, Judges 6:20. 21 and Ijtry raiser. A good way is that ad Sam. 6:14; later it was artificially] vised by the Dominion p ou i try H us- "Mother had a hen-party yester-jThe young folks used to come overbuilt of stones but the law directed . bandman, namely, to leg-bind the pul- day," K leefully exclaims a young girl' too. Grandma let us have all kinds that the stones should be unhewn, 1 letg each ' faHi U g in? ^ "about the of Bweet sixteen. "Mother had seven of fun. and Invited them to meals. " eu , f-^ 7 ^'ine ^"stones ' would" de ' ri ht le and' the left leg. When the old hens here and you ought to h a v Ci She seemed to enjoy it as much as g ' the sanc tit y ' O f the altar. The P ulle ts being selected for keeping, heard them cackle and seen them eat! I did. n , tar> thus built( f ormed a 8ort of put a band on the right leg of each ice cream.' It was the same girl who said of her ra j s ,.d platform which separated the pullet In the next year put the band Many people might call this a cute grandmother, "Grandma does not hear sacrifice laid on It from common 1 on the left leg. You will then know up-to-dute speech, but the mother of i vpr V we " over the phone, in fact she things. In the name of the Lord.' that the right-legged banded birds are . . ._ _. ..__ . .1 *!A ^ A !_._.__ 1*. _1 i _i t _ t . A V< . .- t l> ,1 -i 1 1 -i i- nn/f K....H VmilfrtT 1 !;*!.. ._ ^^_ may and would be the a band. about my age." Casually observing these cases we wonder how much of this is traininor ' or rather lack of it. t mon built in the temple there was I"" 6 'e?-l>inds are made of aluminum this sc-ind better than, a i so a gutter which was intended forj or other substance that can be fasten- as a post, what's the good the reception of the sacrificial blood. I ed around the birds leg without trying to understand anything? The blood would tun down the altar trouble. itiitu.i in the na^ents 0t no < t \n No uso y ur telephoning unless'mother into the trench. The gutter dug by it n tne parents not in- . h j E jah, however, was built to hod frequently in speaking of, or to, elder- ... nuiiif, or i um. anjc.ii, i -iv ..v/ iium vvnrk thnf 10 n/>f A n ki,t. A J t_ . Wo wonder ves we wonder vprv the water poured over the altar and: . , . flnlsn ea Is not much iT the atUtiiiuT of Z% not to rMelve the blood of the victim, i *^"* al 'j u lt ' s r mcT ^ a bot ^, an he attitude of sons and A t M contain, etc. Our abortion.-The Watchman. daughters-in-law to aging widowed EnKlish translation obscures the cor- 1 mothers has anything to do with the rrct meaning of this passage. The ^ ma." ly relatives. Children are often al- lowed to be saucy to their grand- purentd or to their ciders. So it comes to us that the atmos- phere in which a child is reared Is responsible for his respect or dis- respect for those older or in authority. it often . p er haps they nre "not but measure familiar to the Hebrews, and Sometimes it is not thc words so much i sometimes it may be their own fault indicating the length of the trench to as the tone In which the parent speaks ] because years before they allowed Slf "SIT' v f 22!! which St enc1osed - of an elderly person that conveys dis- - Ttl " M '=*'"<' fc f " respect There has always seemed to me to young people speak of "Grand- Hebrew text says, "about as much as would be sown with two seahs." The "Old folks aren't wanted." You hear writer is clearly employing a land u to speak careky of other j* elderly persons, forgetful of the law 8 n U are yards, or not quite a quarter Baby Chicks and Ducklings From STERLING <*. April rhlda ratic. mn Urm. wtnt i wn TORONTO HEIGHTS POULTRY SUPPLY CO, Ltd. 2048 Dufferin 8t . Toronto of suggestion. Let us be thankful for ) H n acre. This rives an Idea of be a natural bond between children I the mothers who taught us that filial the measurement of the trench, nnd very elderly persons. The !;Ula respect and consideration were their V. 83. Put thf wnd, etc.; for the ones love stories which the older ones can tell delightfully. I know of a case In which a grandmother and her only granddaughter are chums. They rump. ii together for a month when the rest of thc family did not care to go. "Grandma had the time of her life," explained the girl, "only we did eat such a lot, both of us, it kept her busy. due, that members of the generation burning of the sacrifice. Cut the but- elder than themselves were to be ' Of * * n P icceg - ** wa to ^ e * whole- treated with deference, loving care l l urnt . offerln &, tn ? 1 ' the wh. le of ( uid gentle thoughtfulness for their *fc vlct ! "",.*? u" cons T C ? " the M^t ~A !, .! v, , altar. The whole-burnt offering was; comfort, and that selfishness and dis- made on important occasions.' respect for our seniors are neither pill four tarreb, etc. Elijah took more uplifting nor ennobling to our elaborate precautions to ensure; own characters than they, are pleasant against any possible charge of fraud. " Metallic " Ceilings Never crack or fall off Stndfpr ovr trt* Book/** "C" The Metallic Roofing Co. to tha elderly people. When Calves Can be Slaughtered for Food. N. E. Ontario county What is the _. , 'tick to the some vnrie.ty nnd buy, If t which calves may be (laugh- possible, from tho same, source each ..IT yer. In selecting a r.iale bird choose' Reguliiti ,n adopted under the Meat " '''"' " ul '* strong in the points In nd Canned Foods Act provide that no' which the hens are weak. If the mimal under three weeks of age may ! Practice of buying n new male bird fc.... ..1..,. n l. i_ b _ A /,. .. *.. _ J onnH**4kni*ia t n\} ssvttm-1 4l\ . . 1 i '. 1 be slaughtered for food. -e each year ia followed, thc male bird should lie taken from the flock ns soon " Hivv nt. vwnvii i i TMII intr ir hi' n J1S SOOn Thi more Interest we give to our the breeding season is over, and tfrk, tho leaa Interest It Is likely that | ""' cockerels disposed of, or separated we wllf have to pay for borrowed I 'rom the flock, before they become Money. I tri.u I -It ..oiiio. | TIIK WEST FOR ANOTHER CROP. Thc western farmer is always optimiutic in the spring, and in spite of the tulk of limited markets mid other adverse conditions, Canadian farm- ers arc preparing for a big crop a..ain this year. . He wished to show the people that fire I I kindling spontaneously on an altnr, so j thoroughly drenched with water could only happen by a divine miracle. III. THE UNMISTAKABLE PROOF, 36-89. V. 36. The contents of Elijah's prayer are worth noting. He began jhis prayer by calling to God's ram- jembrance his covenanted relations to ithe fathers of Israel. Jehovah was jthe God of Abraham, Ts;mc and Jacob, iand therefore surely of their children. ,Then follow the petitions of the pray- |er. First, thnt Jehovah would reveal i Himself to the people as God. This would be demonstrated by fire o-i his altar. Second, that God would vindi- cate Elijah as a true nronhst There- after the people would follow after and trust Elijah. V. 87. Finally, Elijah prayed that the heart of the people might be turn- ed back to Jehovah. It would have been futile for God to IIT<- r>w>led Himself nnd vindicated Elijah unless thu people had It in their h:irts to willingly accept such attestations. V. 38. The fire of the Lord; prob- ably coining as lightning from hca- ISSUE No. 19 '23.