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Farm Queries Henry G. Bell, B.S.A.. Dept. of Chemiatry. O.AC. Addresa All Letters to Farm Editor, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. All Answers Will Appear in this Column. If Personal Reply is Desired, Enclose Stamped and Addressed Envelope. H. P. â€" I Have 10 acres of cl »/ loam soil where I intend to sow oat; next sprinir Have growr. alfalfa o>i this same piec« of ^our.d fwo prev- ious years m order to inocuIi.te tha ground, and I wish to sow :>'.fal!a with the oats this spring. Would yo i «dvis« ma if iime sown with the cat? wjil injure them* Will lime help to stiffen the straw so that the/ would aot lodge? What kind and hew much linve would yoa sow? How many pounds alfalfa is necessary? 'Wot'ld you us« fjrtilizer? Answer.â€" Lime is not usually need- ed for oats. Cereals such as oats, barley, wheat, etc., thrive on a neu- tral soil. However, the addition of lime hae been nowi; to increase the yield of oats sligh;«y. The tendency of lime is to help strengthen the straw and is distinctly to help fit the soil for the growth of alfalfa. Al- falfa requires a definitely sweet soil. Likely it would be possible fcr you to hava your soil tested before spring. You could get a small reacto soil set from your Agricultural R'presecta- tiv» or from the Department of Chemistry, 0>.^.C., with which you could test the soil, or you could send in a sample of about one pound either to your Agricultural Representative's office or the laboratory at Guelph and have it tested for lime. This will tell yott definitely whether Ume U necessary to sweeten your soil. The use of phosphate-potash fer- tilizer, or, if your soil is nof ptrticu- larly rich, an analysis of fertilizer of about 2-12-6 at the rate of 200 lbs. per acre would help insure your oatch of alfalfa and would tend to strengthen the straw of the oats. The Field Husbandry Oepart- incnt, O.A.C., recommends â- i-.e scv.ing of about tWiSty lbs. seed per acre in order to get a good stand of alfalfa. M. F. â€" Would it be wise to top- dress fields of grain with manure; The grain is wheat and oats? We were unable to get the manure out in tae fall. Answer. â€" The stand of wheat can be materially helped by a light top- dressing of manure. This can be done any time through the winter, but be sure not to apply too heavy a dressing of manure on the wheat. .\bout 4 to 5 loads per acre ha.s btji found to give e.tcelWnt results. For the oat jield. the manure can be applied during the winter if the soil has been plowed. If not, we would suggest that the manure be applied to the corn or some other ground and that the oat crop be 'eft to benefit from the hold-over effect after the corn crop. It is doubtful if oats at prevailing prices will pay for much application of manure. H. B. â€" I wish next spring to plant potatoes on an acre of land which has been in sod the past year. Soil is light, well drained and had stable mAnvtre on it last fall. Is commer- cial lertiliy^r necessary on this sround? Answer. â€" We cannot say that fer- tiiiaer is necessary for the growth of potatoes on this soil, but cur demon- stration experiments show that where potatoes planted (ollowlag sod are fertiliied at a rate of 750 lbs. per acre with such fertilizer as 2-12-iJ or 2-8-10, an average increase of over 90 bushels per acre has been obtained. At present prices this would show a paying interest on the money invest- ed in fertilizer. INFECTIOUS DIARRHOEA. On one to three days after birth, the lambs suffering: from this disease, will stop nursing, have a dull look and spend the time lying down. The excreta is yellow or grey-white in color and soft or fluid. Infected Iambs usually die in three days after the disease starts. This disease is due to a germ that gains entrance into the stomach and intestine of the lamb. Dirty yards and pens are dangerous, as the ewes lie down on such, get- ting their teats soiled, and thereby transfer tae germs from the dirty floor to the mouth of the lamb. Clean up and keep the sheep premises clean and drj . Fresh bedding should be provided for all lambing pens and changed for every case. If the dis- ea:;e has been troublesome in past year?, anti white scour scrum, can be used on both the lambs and ewes %L, a preventative. Prevention by maintaii-ing a high deg^rec of sanita- tion around the premises is easier and leas expensive way of control, than <i treatment. NECROB.iCILLOSlS OF LAMBS. This disease is serious and gener- ally i ills the lamb before it is two weeks old. The germs gain entrance to the circulation through the raw naval cord, at the time oi birth. Clean lambiug pens, fresh bedJiQg (or the pen, disinfection of the stump of the raval cord with a teL per cent. carbolic solution or other disinfectant for a few days until the cord heals is strongly advised. If this disease which causes grey spots to develop ijIS. the liver, has been prevalent on the premises during the past year, move the sheep to new quarters and keep them away from the old pens and yards until the lambs are two weeks old. Clean up, as medicines are of little i-se when this disease irters the circulation of the lamb. Britain Wekcraes Visitors Londonâ€" Many persons who will visit Britain, whether for business or pleasure, next year may like to see during their stay how industry ot oae kind or another Is carried ou. They should bear in mind that the authorities in th* big (industrial towns and ports are only too glad to show interested visitors around the areas under their control, provided they receive advance notice. Industrialists, those interested in trade and commerce, department store heads and so on are as a rule willing to facilitate the inspectioa of tlioir factories, warehouses, ex- changes and shops to bona 3de visi- tors. Not ail institutions, of course, are open to the public, but except where precautions must be taken to guara some trade secret the visitor from abroad can expect a beany welcome. Muffs For Men? Thrifty French Write Chiiitnias Greetings A former Canadian student in Paris writes: "The expensive habit of Christmas cards, you mar be sure has not yet taken Arm hold amoag the thrifty French. They send per- sonal greetings, that's certainly en- ough, but rather by the direct, in- timate and fatiguing path of writing Christmas notes. The week preced- ing the holiday, hence, becomes a period of care and tribulation to any- one blessed with many friends. To each must go a short note of sen- timent, each note similar to the other, each with its odd sera? of news and its best wishes for the coming year. Ten, 30, perhaps 30 or 40 let- ters, carefully penned In longhand go forth In the mail, while the sender waits eagerly day by day to see whether he or she too is going to be remembered in like fashion." .» Lancashire Turns Optimist, Encouraging AU Britain Manchester, Ea«.â€" Those wiio are watcblag keenly for any definite signs of improvement in indu.<5triai affairs will note with satisfaction that Lancashire is beginning to admit that things are not quite so bad as they were, where cotton !e concern- ed. Any Improvement la this direc- tion can hardly fall to b« reflected not only by the many other industries of Lancashire, but by the business ot Great Britain as a whole, and. even- tually. It may be added, by the busi- ness of the world PUSH ALONG .^ wheelbarrow will stand oa its two legs and never move a foot ua- less you lift It up and pusb it along. So would business. You've got to pick it up and push It along -Van Amhurgh. Rhodesiana Still Pawn Children Pawning of children atid giving of young girls in marriage still persists in Rhodesia among the native tribes. Sunday School Lesson ^••••••••••i * Notbmg like fur for Moissaye Bogusia-yskl whose tiny muff baa Chicago ladles all a twitter. Mois- saye is a pianist and says the ••malT' keeps his flagers limber. To Robert Browning No so So There is delight la singing, thougJi none hear Beside the singer; and Xitera !s de- light In p.-alsing. though the pralaer sit alone And see tbe prais'd far off him, far above. Shakespeare is aot our poet, bat the world's. Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee. Browning! Since Chaucer wad alive and hale man hath walked along our roads with step active, so inquiring e.ve, or tongue varied ia discourse. Bat warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing, the breeze O; -AJpine heights thoa playest with. bcrne on Beyond Sorrento and .\mal3, where The siren walU thee, singing song for song. â€"Walter Savage Laador, "Poems." C Holiday Question la Decided in Chile Santiago, Ch-iie. â€" The "battle" of Chile's weekly half-holiday, waged between the "Englidi Saturday" and the "Chilean Monday"' has eaideii. like many a Chilean rerolutioc. in a partial victory fc^ both sides. For years the large British ccm- mercial estaWashmects, which hamiie the major portion of Chilean trade, have closed on Saturday aftercooc, known hea-e as the "Eugiif* Satur- day." Monday is known as "Saint Mon- day" as mAiey operatives who have been celebrating over th« week-end treat it as a holiday and fail to turn up. The -.etaileais have been ciamorius for the "Chaean Monday," daiming that Saturday afternoon* brln4t ia the bulk of the busiiMSS while Mondays are doll. The Ministry of Labor has setled the problem by awardsnj ''English Saturdays" to the staffs of wb^esale fima awl "Chilean Moodaya" to th* retailers and e\-erybody is happy. January 22. LcMon iV â€" J«»u« for- giving Sin â€" Mark 2: 1-12. Golden Text â€" The Son of man hath power on eartn to forgive una. â€" Mark 2: 10. ANALYSIS. I. ST^NOLSG soi)M ONLY, Mark 2: 1, 2. II. A a£.sot."KCEFtL FArrH, Mark 2: 3-5. III. A atWAKOEE F.AITH. Mark 2: 6-12. Intbodcction â€" Mark 3: 6 records an astonishing fact: ".And the Phari- sees went out and straigT-tway with the Herodiacs took counsel against him, how they might dearrcy him." It would be difficult to imagine a more i nprobable combination of parties. The Pharisees as a party had risen in troubled times to deiend the faith of their fathers. They were firm believ- ers in the La%v, intensely patriotic, always chafing under foreign oondage, lived up to a high level of moral pur- ity, longed for tan coaiizg of Messiah. Yet, when he came, they torik counsel with tht Herodians how they might destroy him. The Herodiazs. as T. H. Robinson points out, were ail that tiie Pharisees '.ere not. They stood oppceed to every J Pharisaic ideal. They were pledgcci to the upholding of the Roman power. With the politics, ethics, theology of the Pharisee the .Hcrodiac had not the Slightest sympathy. Yet it was to them the Pharisees t'lrned :c order to InWalidnc (Fiom The London Obeervar.) Dr.rk stocks of cura oc fields «f silver stubble, I v.-ouid be one in this and one ia thew: A stone of stocies in earth, A ieaf of leaves oc tz«es. Aad thus we'd merge our i.i?L>rate- cess together Arid form a plume witi each a single feather. I'd be or birds that cat tlw ocld blue air, A breath in wind A star of ^ars up there. And so I'd lose my soHtar;.- .ToabJe. â€" Joan Adeney Easdale. A man's diary is a record in youtb of his sentiments, in middl* age of Ms actions, in old age of his reflections. â€" J. Q. Adams. destroy Jesus. Such an aHiacce can be e.tplained only by the bitterest hat- red. Today's passage is the first of a series ci incidents ( Mark 2 : 1 to 3 : i5 » which show how that antagonism or- iginated and grew. There are mile- fcsts %\oag the Costly War that Jesuj chose in the wilderness. I. 3TA.VDXNG BOOM OXLV. Mark 2: 1, 2. .\ppareatly our Lord was at this time conduct: a!T a series ot preachirg tours in the Lake district with Caper- naum as his centre. During one of his visits to the city the healing of the paralytic took place. When it became icnown that the preacher and miracie- 'vorker had returned, crowds ricckad to the house -i-here he was staying. Even the aproaches irom die street were blocked with people. Wh. did they cme? Was it thJ appeal of great truths uttered from the heart that drew tiieni? Sometimes it is said, by way oi advice to areaoh- ers, "Preach the truth and the churches will be tilled." Jesus discov- ered that loyalty to truth in son« situatioas ia c.ne of th'.- best ways for emptying church<cs. In his healing work Jesas W3.s provid!i*g something that people wanted. Wher; the time came when the things they wanted were not forthcoming, t.hey desert»i him. WhOe Jesus' compassion for all people in troc'ole was an essential part of his God-reveaIi=g persooality; nevertheless, it was a constant occa- sion OI embarrassment. People were continually isterpretine him in terms of their own desires. When, in his de- termination to provide for their spir- itual needs he failed to gratify their n^terial desir.'s, Jesus went to Cal- vary. IL A BESOUKCEFVL F.viTH, Mark 2: 3-5. Into -he midst of the crowd at the doorway thei« pushed four men. carrying on his bed ^rxxher man who was paralysed. The word traaslated "bed" means a "pcior man's bed,' simp- Iv a folded sheet or something of the 'si.nd. Finding their passage blocked with the throng of people, they made their way to the rear of the oce-^torey house. cHmbed up the outsde stair to the roof, Arongh which ftey lowerod their man into the room where Jssva was. This they did by removing th-? top oo\e.'",r'g of earth, then the reeds, branches, thistles over which the earth was p?cked. then tije cross-sticks which covered the main beams sup- porting the roof. PossiWv they just enlarged the opening of the roof which was used in summer to let down the grain acd other provisiora which wei dried on the roof. Lake 5: 9, with itB "tiling" and "couch." is Ro- man rather than Jewish. JesBs was ac«;ustomed to insistent people, btrt tke determinatson and re- sourcefulness oi these four men. covr peering down through the roof, mast have won his admiration. "Faith," in V. 5, refers to their confidence in his willingness and ability to help ftem. III. A aKW.\RDfiD F.UTH, Mark 2: S-12. Jesus read the mind of th« sufferer. or gath«ed from scmethiag fee said that he was troubled in cocscience. Mark deed not necessarily tell us all that happened. Thi» surrounding spec- tators were astonished to hear Josus say, "Son ^ehi^d, a word of atfection), thy sins are fcr^.ven thee." Noticing at* once the incignatior showing in their faces, he asked the scribes, "Which is easier to say to a ttaus, 'Thy sins are forgiven." or 'Rise, take up thy bed and walk'?" They knew, of course, tiiat it waa easier, although blasphemous, to dectara a man's dn* forgiven. The fesulti ot the att^rrpt woiiid aot be so easily recognized The bodily healing, when it did Lake plAce (vs. ie-12) wad treated as an eiterral prcof that Jeaus had power to forgave the man's si as. TV's paaoage ia Mars w<>cld serve as a vi.idicatiou to tiie eariy church of it claim to declare :he f>rgivtfneas of sins i.i the came of -'l*.S. "The true sign of :i.rgiv«B«a« i* not »<nie mysterious signal waved irora. the sky; not some obscjre emotion hunted out in your heart; not vtme strby text cuileri out of your Bible; eertainlj not some word of m.yrta: pr.esT telling yoc that «our satisfac- tion is complete. The soul full o' re sponsive love to Christ and readv, lo.nging, hungry to serve him, i.". its owr. sign of forgiveness. It is not sorrow for sin for thi? :-ake r>i ior.'-ow- fulnesa that Jesus ever wacta. Hj wants i;jrrow for a.t only that :: r-.ay bnng escape from sin." â€" Phillips Brw.ks. Tok resourceful faith of this man and hi. friends was tlias rewarde<i. Hid he or they become discouraged a: the gate a.nd said. "No use tryin;j tw get in there, let us go t»ine," he would have remained sin-burdece^i In soul, and a paralytic in body. L'sing the braios God gave them, reftising to admit defeat in the face of apparer.:- ly insurmountable difficulties, their pmyer, tiiat is, their domi.'.ant desirs was answered. Jesus had once more asserted .tis a..;thonty. He had also said things that -.Tere cnortfaodoi. The fact that he bad h-ealed a man, body and aoul. was 33 nothing compai"ed with the fact that he had gone "off" on a point of doctrine. The antagonisms and S'lspicions which dogged ovi Lord's earthly life from that time en ha-i begun. Hungarian Officers Work on Tramways Budapest. â€" .\. si-arggerl-ng T-^~S represectacive of present-day Hur^ar- ian militarism has Just bee.n instru- mental in r^eveali^^ the p«?s:-war tragedy oc a -iistinguished Hungarian officer who fou-^t in the war. In an oveixTPowced srtreet car oa th* line which mcs from the Scoc's Exchange to the loo, the conducwr accid-MttaDy bumped into a young subaltern, who turned on him and dressed him down mercilessly. T'ae conductor Tjade r>.i reply ar«i con- tinued to collect fares and pumch tickets tir.til the young officer, anger- ed at his calmness, seized him by the collar, shook him anid demand^sd to see his idemcity card. The cond'iXtor silently p^odJ•^ec it ard after a glance a; the cai*i :he young officer timted red, 3tamn:?Te<i oat a full apolc^y and left the car at the .next stopping place. The ccnr ductor's papers showed him to be a distinguished ex-officer, a cavairy captain perma^iently disabled 50 per cwit. by war wocnds, aad holrfer of a number of high deccratioES. The iacidemt came to tfce ears oi the Hungarian author aad pariianten- tary EVpurty, Joseph Pakcts. who asked a question on the subject in Parliament, The Minister of War ascertaiced fnat twenty-five dwtor^. twenty-three lawyers, fiity-c^e engin- eers and many ex-officers are thank- ful to earn some kind of a livlrg as ccnd'uctors on the Budapest tram- wa}«. On the motor bases a simila! state of affairs prevails. The eum ingB of a conductor vary between 100 and 150 T»rgoes a mouth. ^ fanpoiis and Exports oi Gold by Britain Br.cish It ports of gold bullion aad coin daring the first eleven moaths of 1932 totalled £1W,31T343 aad the eiports £118,062,191. The principal countries from Waici gold was imported were: Britisi SoBtll Africa £59,31S,3M, Britisi In d:a £51,990,li«. United States £3. 957.S31, Australia £5.0:i,M<, Rhodesia £3,333,071, Straits Settlements £ 353,331, Xew Zealand £1.833. WO. "rhe leading countries to which gold was exported were: France £80,4o3,- :M, Netherlaada £l$.04«,45s, United Slates £*.U1,955, Swltier'.aad £S. 8T9.33C, Belgium £S.»;0,444 What Some Famous People Like to Laf Ckei of London Hotel Say.* FeeHing Celebrities is Tricity Job Feeding the famous is a tricky job! M Frantxtia Latry. whose jo* :t i», sa.vs so. He is chef of t!ie Savoy Ho- tel, London, a.nd knows the gaatrxjo- m!c foibles of monarch.* and ceiehri- t'ee from ai! over tie gUjie. â- â€¢I aevftf know what they ar» -•â- > ing to ask for," he sJLiii. "i aav* been asked (or f.''ogs, roast peairoc'c and birds' nest soup: " Wheti Osbert Sitwell. the p^ie'.. â- l-«- maaded chrysantb-^miim salad â€" maule from chopped chrysanthemam petals garnished with a special sauce â€" M. Latry produced it. When WIn.-ir«}B Chnrchili askeii for a rare Italian ttor d'o«u-<Tes. made tvim smoked ham and figs, be serv-d ij up in the twinkling of an eye. Closely Guaraed Secret. Some of his recipi^a ire bundrtc'^ of years eld. aad have ueea handed down for generations. He has one, a cics* ly-guarded secret, ostd hundreds a< yaar^ ago in making Cataerine de Me- dici's favo.'ite Chriatmaj puuding. Costly li<iueur3 and ra.-^ snices go to its makins, aad the succulent paddluj is encased ia a sort <:i manipac. Camera eats great quaatltied oi hors d'oea-rree. Chaiiapln. tie fan* ous singer, li'4«3 sreat juicy staaki fried ia oil. Lloyd George prefen good plai^ food. "Jfarcoai. tie in-entor, stayed heri !oT years, aad vis very particu'ia: about what he ate," M. I.atrj- said. "He preferred a littie m^>at, bat piea ty of fresh fruit and vermlcell:." >''>ei Coward is another partlctiiaf ycuag man. For his beaeit if. Lacr7 invented a spei:fal dish kaowa as Had' dock Cavalcade. It is a flUei c' iia^ dock served witi sjvaghetti ^ad cheese sauce. Reinliardt is passioaately fond «i grills, followed by a special cocktaJL France Has Trouble Witii Insurance Law« Pans. â€" Xi.iT being e.fective .ta«jr4 than two years, Frarxe's sociai insa« aaoe law^ are proving iaereasiEgl^ difficult to administer. Tbey are hedged about 'oy special degrees as regulations that rnArir expert officii sti'i have rot completely masts them. There are many l<3optoli wiiich dishonest workers freqaentf^ maruage to 'oenefit by illegally. Two such persons who "rave appear ed before the Fourtce-ith Correctiocd Cb*nK>er, proved to the court tiia: fi "S'as ^asy to draw t>K!ents illegally altc-jugh it is ireil known that rcaa} employes with perfectly just claioi have to go to great tpjubie to obtsti paymert. The principal defendant was iie«i* Drujon. a Communist and secretarj of the liairle ot I-.-ry, a Bed suburta His first lieutenant -s-as Roman Mar' tc-au, a moving mA.i who, in Hu course of his professional activitiea h'ad stolen letter-paper from writing desiss being trarsferreo zTya cxw tK>use to ano'her. In this '„-ay sheeta oi paper bearing the ninje and ad- di>?s8 of Dr. Emmanuel Benoit a*l come iiito his ?ossessi<?n. Drjjon focnid these papers v««7 â- useful. Having the official Town HaT, ru'sber sta.'aps at his uisposal, he w-aa able to fake certino-ates oi ill-healsJi with the greatest ea,sf. The fraud v,-»s not discovered until it had bee« working perfectly for seroe time. K was then learned that Dr. Bei>cjit -H^i seven years ag.. LIVING There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he can- not live long eaougli; measure by his good deeds, aad he baa not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he Ijas lived toe long.-- ^imm»rmaan. « CHARITY To give to the sick. U»« infants aad the laflrm is real, genuiae chari- ty, bat to go about picking up the shiftless aad the crooked and band- ing these loafers a cup of eolee Is not charity. WRONQ PEA .\n old waiter of a club said to a new waiter: "Do you see that oM buffer who has just sat down? He'a got a brother a:d they're as ali'se •• two peas. Press alike, and eiery- thing, only this ore is as deaf as a post. Watch for so.Te fun," Th - old waiter thee approached riia maa and said ia an ordinary voice, much to the amusement of the ce» waiter: "Weil, pietace, what i." yo« want iii your nosebag today f "111 have a mutton chop," said tin diner: "and, by the w ly, it's my br* ther who is verv dfaf."' 1* i Telephone Sills Cancelled j Ktireka, III. -The Eureka Teiephoae Company said "Hapoy New Ifearj to patrons when they sought to ptf their I>ecember bills. Coaij>asy <â-  Scials said there would be co chsrgf for service last moatb- MUTT AND JEFF- By BUD FISHER It An Seems So Foolish to the Dog