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In many homes once childless there are now children because because of the fact that Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable. Compound makes women normal, healthy and strong. If you want special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential) (confidential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and. answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. So prevalent has been-smut in various various grain crops this year that J. M. Var.ey> Barr-ie, Assistant District- Representative Representative of the Ontario Department Department of Agriculture, submits the following following article: The damage caused by smut to the oat crop throughout this country is enormous. In localities where the disease disease is the worst, some fields are almost almost 50 per cent. smut. There are also whole sections where the oat crop is reduced 20 per cent, on account of it. The average loss, due to the disease disease will probably reach from 10 to 15 per cent. This loss means many dollars to the farmer. The actual loss in yield per acre is not the only disadvantage disadvantage from having smutty grain; the threshing is made very disagreeable disagreeable on account of the dirt and the •threshed wheat is rendered unsaleable unsaleable for milling purposes. Where there is smut in the grain this year there will also be smut next year if grain from.- these fields is used for seed without being treated. However, it is .possible to use seed from fields having smut and by treating it with formalin or bhiestone before sowing, •to -have a crop next year which is absolutely absolutely clean. To show that by carefully treating the seed, smut can be prevented, one has only to note how successful some farmers have -been in controlling the disease. . On one farm visited the farmer farmer treated all his.oats except those sown on one acre. This acre is from 25 to 30 per cent, smut, while in the rest of his crop there is not more than a fraction of one per cent, of smut. Another man, who treated all his seed, and he claims that he had quite a lot of smut last year, 'but this year he has very little smut compared with the fields of his *eighb£rs, who did not treat their seed. In talking to another another farmer, he states that his loss this year from smut will be $100. By way of experiment, a farmer treated the seed sown on part of a field and the remainder of the field was sown with untreated seed. The crop grown from the treated seed has scarcely a head of smut, while that grown from the untreated seed is from. 40 to 50 per cent, smut.- This shows that the treating of the seed is quite effective in the control of the disease. The wheat crop, while not nearly so badly damaged as the oats, has in some sections, sections, where treating the seed has not been practised, quite a sprinkling of smut. A great many, people are of opinion that smut is caused by weather and soil conditions at time of seeding. This is a mistake. Smut is a fungus disease, and unless the spores causing causing the disease are present on the seed when it is j^ut into the ground, there can be no smut that year. A glance at the life history of the fungus fungus will fully explain this point. Smuts are fungus diseases, that is, they are caused by minute colorless plants which live as parasites on the grain plants. The black powdery material material is made up of the spores. These spores serve the same purpose to the fungus as the seed of wheat does to the wheat plant. Each spore on coming coming in contact with the particular grain, which it attacks and being placed under favorable conditions, will cause that particular kind of smut. It has been estimated that one smut ball in wheat may contain over a million spores. In the case of the "Stinking Smut" pr""Brunt," which is the common "smut in wheat in this locality, the "Smut Balls". are burst either at. threshing time or by handling, handling, and the spores stick to the grain. The fungus passes the winter in this state. When the dbed is sown and germinates the spores also germinate, germinate, and the very fine fungus threads enter the young wheat plant. This is the only time that infection can take place. These very \fine threads follow up the growing stem, and when the wheat plant is about to bloom they enter the flower and cause it to become a cluster of smut rather than a kernel of wheat. In the case of the loose smut which is so common in oats, the spores are scattered about by the wind amd at threshing time. They become lodged .on the healthy grain, and pass the winter in this condition. In the spring when the oat is sown, and weather, conditions..are favorable for it to germinate, the smut spore also germinates. It enters the young seedling seedling and follows up the stem the same way as in the case of the wheat. However, when it conies time for the oat to bloom the fungus destroys the chaff as well as the Sneed, and therefore therefore has nothing to hold it, so it is scattered abroad by the wind. We will note in looking over these life histories how important it is that there are no smut spores on the seed when sown. Hence, we trëat the seed with a solution of formalin or blue- stone to destroy all the spores present. present. Methods of Treatment for Loose Smut in "Gats and Stinking Smut in Wheat. There are two methods of treating smut with formalin. These are known as the "Dipping Method" and the "Sprinkling Method." Both are quite effective in preventing smut in either Wheat or oats, but the former, while it is more difficult to carry out, has given larger yields per acre. The materials required for dipping the grain are--a barrel, a course sack, water and formalin (a 40 per cent, solution of formaldehyde). Mix one half a pint of formalin in 21 gallons of water. Place the seed to be treated treated in a sack and immerse it in the solution for 20 minutes. After the seed is treated, spread it out on a clean floor to dry. "(.Sprinkle the floor with some of the formalin solution to destroy any smut spores that may be present). The sooner the seed is sown after the treatment the better. Do not bag it up while wet, as there is danger of the formalin injuring the vitality and germinating power of the seed. Otherwise there is no danger of damaging the seed if the foregoing directions are carefully followed and the formalin is of the proper strength. The second method is to sprinkle the seed with a formalin solution. For this method mix one half pint of formalin formalin with 20 gallons of water. Pile the seed to be treated in a heap and spray the solution on with a sprinkling sprinkling can, and shovel the seed over till every particle is thoroughly saturated. Then pile it up .and cover it with sacking sacking for two or three hours. After this, spread it out thinly to dry. Twenty gallons of this solution will treat from 25 to 40 bushels quite effectively. effectively. A third method is to sprinkle the seed with a bluestone solution. This is not recommended- except for stinking stinking smut in wheat, and for this it has not given as good results as the formalin formalin treatment. Dissolve one pound of bluestone in hot water, make this up to 10 gallons by adding water; sprinkle the grain, as directed for sprinkling with formalin. Do not pile up the grain as mentioned with formalin, formalin, but rather spread it out to dry. Have it dry as soon as possible so as not to injure the germinating power. In order to have the crop absolutely free of smut, the treated seed must not become contaminated before sowing. sowing. To prevent this the bags should be immersed in the solution and the drill box should be sprinkled. If all these precautions were taken by farmers farmers it would mean thousands of dollars dollars to the country next year. The.; cost of treating the seed is "very small. The formalih can be purchased from almost any druggist at from 30 to 50 cents per. pint. A pint or two will treat all the seed sown on the average farm. * Small Type. "Are you the editor of the paper?" asked the lady with the drab spats, calling. "I am," replied the man with the poised pencil. "Well, T called to ask you if you wouldn't _ get larger type. My name was in your paper five times last week and a neighbor of mine told me she never saw it." , The Duke of Genoa. While King Victor Emanuel of Italy is at the front, the Duke of Genoa, the King's uncle, remains at Rome and takes the active leadership of affairs. affairs. RED CROSS PUBLICITY. Canadian Nurses in Malta. The English War Office paid a tribute tribute to the efficiency of Canadian nursing by selecting, or rather commandeering, commandeering, fifteen of thie first detachment detachment of nurses sent to England by the Canadian Red Cross. These nurses are now actively at work in the military hospitals of Malta, which are full of wounded from the sanguinary struggle at the Dardanelles. Miss Cecelia Jacobs, R.N., in an interesting interesting letter to the Red Cross Headquarters, gives a great many details details of her experiences and of the hospital situation in Malta. She is stationed at Hamrun Hospital, which is styled "No. 1 Nursing. Unit for the Mediterranean." It was formally a technical school, and with some alterations alterations in plumbing and internal fittings fittings has been turned into a. splendid hospital building, accommodating about 112 patients. The floors are all tile, and the wards are large, bright, and airy. " Within a few hours after the hospital hospital opened, it was filled with wounded from a hospital ship - which had just cast anchor from the Dardanelles. It was a heart-rending spectacle,, says Nurse Jacobs, to see stretcher after stretcher caried on shore containing men mutilated and shattered in innumerable innumerable ways. However, most of, them respond quickly to good nursing, and in a short time are ready for the convalescent camp. The heat and the Mediterranean fever have been trying for many, of the Canadian nurses. They are twelve hours on duty--from eight to eight. The nurses' sleeping quarters are twenty minutes' ride from the hospital, so that they have some relief relief from the constant sight of the wounded. Their hospital uniform is b]ye, and their outdoor uniform consists consists of a grey coat and skirt with a striped blouse. The nurses, however, complain of their uniforms being too heavy for the Malta heat, and express a decided preference for the Canadian uniform. ■ ■ - 1 Malta formerly had the reputation of being the. gayest place in the Mediterranean, Mediterranean, but at present it is one vast hospital, and the inhabitants have put their gayety to service in cheering the wounded. One of the features of Malta is the enormous number of goats, who wander undisturbed undisturbed up and down the hilly streets and occupy the sidewalks. The Canadian nurses are taking their duties very seriously and are devoting devoting themselves with conscientious enthusiasm to the work of mercy which they have travelled thousands of miles to perform. It is only fair, therefore,»that they should be backed up by ardent support from the Red Cross workers in Canada. Certainly these letters from distant foreign countries- give one an increased appreciation appreciation of the immensity of the Red Cross task. pital service would be completely :dis- organized. The Australian Red Cross. Canadians perhaps will be interested interested to hear some details of Australia's Red Cross organization. Strange as it may seem, there was no branch of the Red Cross Society in the Commonwealth Commonwealth prior to the war. An Australian Australian Red Cross was at once formed under the Presidency of Lady Ferguson, Ferguson, the wife of the Governor-General. There is a-central warehouse in the ballroom of,,the Government House at Melbourne, with branch depots at Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. $500^000 was sent as a gift to the British Red Cross. An Australian Red Cross Hospital was established at Nétley, in addition to several hospital units on the continent. continent. Gifts of motor ambulances have been a favorite method of Red Cross benevolence, as in Canada. An average average of 34,000 garments a week have been distributed throughout the English English hospitals, and since the Dardanelles Dardanelles operations an immense quantity of, field comforts and hospital supplies supplies have been sent to the Australian troops in the Mediterranean. All in all, the Australian Red Cross has done ^ admirably during its one year of existence, existence, and has received official thanks from Queen Alexandra and the British Red Cross. "As you like it 99 TEA B 20 SEALED PACKETS! BLACK,'MIXED ONLY. I OR GREEN. Prisoners of War in Germany. Opinion of a Norwegian Neutral. The greatest number of combatant British soldiers in the Crimea at any one time was 70,000. BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK BY THE ENEMY Only Six Hundred Men Were Saved From Nearly Sixteen Hundred Who Were on Board London, August 17.--The British transport Royal Edward has. been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. submarine. Announcement to this effect was made officially to-day. Six,hundred Six,hundred men were saved out of thirteen hundred and fifty troops and two hundred hundred and twenty other persons on board. The-troops consisted mainly of reinforcements reinforcements for the Twenty-ninth Division and details of the Royal Army Medical Corps. - So far as has been reported^official- ly, this is the first instance in which a British transport has been attacked successfully by a submarine. It had been a matter of pride"with the British British Government that it had transported transported hundreds of thousands of troops across many seas without the loss of one., It is probable that the number of troops sent to France and Belgium since the beginning of the wàr is considerably in excess of 700,- 000. In addition, large numbers of men have been transported to the Dardanelles, Egypt, South Africa and Serbia. Troops have been brought in from Canada, New Zealand, Australia and India for the defence of the Mother Country. To guard these vast movements movements elaborate precautions .have been taken. Transports are accom- pariied by an escort "of warships, chief reliance being plateed on destroyers for warding off submarine attack.^ ' The British announcement gives no clue to the branch of the transport service in which the Royal Edward was engaged. Red Cross Supplies Should Be Correctly Correctly Labelled. An incident which recently occurred in England shows the necessity of the greatest care in packing and labelling labelling all materials . intended as field comforts or hospital supplies. A sudden sudden call was received by Col. Ho- getts, the Canadian Red Cross Commissioner Commissioner in London, for a large supply supply of bandages for immediate delivery delivery in France. Twenty cases were at once rushed out, but on being opened at the hospital bases were found to contain not bandages but NURSES' APRONS. These goods -had been shipped from some western point. It can easily be seen that if such instances instances of incorrect labelling were at all frequent the whole Red Cross hos Mr. T. E. Steen, a Norwegian, is lecturing in England, under the auspices auspices of the Red" Cross, upon the treatment of prisoners of war in Germany. Germany. The Red Cross is the recognized recognized international guardian of all prisoners of war, and is at present engaged in supplementing the meagre German rations. Mr. Steen's, statements statements show the need of public support support in this matter. He states that after many difficulties difficulties he was allowed, in the company of German officials, to visit several prison camps. The first visit was to the camp at Sausson, 22 miles from Berlin, where 15,500 prisoners were interned in huts. They then slept on mattresses, with two or three blankets each, but plank beds were being made. There was a hut used as a theatre, and in another some sculptors, one of them a pupil of Rodin, were carving monuments monuments for dead comrades. The bread was made of rye, with 25 per cent, of potato flour. When well made it was nourishing and not bad, but the quality quality was not uniform, and when not kneaded properly the bread soon became became mouldy. Each prisoner received 3 lbs. every five days. The dinner was a kind of pottage made of salt cod and barley meal, insipid and not appetizing. Solid food was given, pounded or stewed, so that it could be eaten with 'a spoon, knives and forks not being allowed. Hospital arrangements arrangements left nothing to be desired. At Blankenburg, six miles from Berlin, where some 140 officers were confined in a building well adapted for the purpose, he saw General Leman, Leman, the gallant defender of Liege, who was in bad health, and spoke of himself as being "Condemned to death." He also saw General Gordon, Gordon, of the Gordon Highlanders, who was in ill-health. His general impression impression was that there had been decided decided improvements in the last few months, and that the German authorities authorities paid great attention to hygiene. An officer who has just returned, from a German camp said that, though conditions, were much improved, improved, the favorable descriptions given and the pictures shown by the lecturer lecturer did not apply to all the camps. Hygienic precautions had not prevented prevented ravages of- contagious diseases, and there were 2,500 deaths in one camp from typhus. The food was sometimes insufficient, and presents of biscuits and such things were useful. useful. But present conditions were not those of one or two months ago. Epidemics of disease due to neglect were things of the past, and relatives of prisoners need not now have any anxiety. * : TO CLIMB BARBED WRE. Style Notes of the Moment. Silks are departing from their sedate sedate undecorated lengths, appearing appearing with new designs and color notes to distinguish their appearances. Plum shades and violet tinted silks are the most exclusive selections selections and are indicative of a new color note which shall govern the autumn modes. Grapes in plump, well-filled roundness, roundness, silk-made and larger than life, are the latest offerings for trimming the summer hat for milaidi of the most modish clan. _ Her sports hat, to be above the tilt of the ordinary, must be made, of baby width silk ribbons in vivid colors stitched flatly to silk hemp and done so cleverly the hat may be rolled rolled and stuffed into the coat pocket as easily as a man's felt may be. The right style tang is added with two dangling ribbon ends of white, placed anywhere you please on the crown. Of course this sort of hat is small and round, but its shape, style and color are so adaptable and subtle it is as becoming to the woman in her glorious forties as to the piquantfaced piquantfaced debutante qf 18. But then this last is a characteristic characteristic of all the successful modes for this season. If you are inclined to question question the statement just study shoe styles awhile. For that matter a new mode for the summer girl is the all-white boot in Cossack style, which pulls on and is without adornment of any sort save long, silky white tassels which dangle from the top at the front. As the boot top is glimpsed only when the wearer is dancing, the tassels are a tantalizing tantalizing bit~~of modishness. .These sorts of footwear are worn only with dressy sports clothes, and by this is meant the exquisite skirt of white taffetas or crepe de chine or gabardine tailored to a fashionable nicety, and worn for a beach stroll, a dansant or a country club festival, topped with a taffetas-made frivolity in the way of a coat, short, colorful and Frenchy in style. The boots, by the way, are of white kid suede or doeskin. Velvet-topped hats are peeping into the millinery scheme of things entire for summer hats, but their prestige prestige is to be severely tried by the growing vogue for hats with crowns of hatter's plush and brims of straw. Even if plush of this sort does not seem to be so heavy and winterish in appearance as velvet, it is every whit as abstruse; but then, when, if ever, did reason and fashion travel together except by common consent and surrounded surrounded by concessions made to the government by the whimsical. They Were Sweethearts. * A chair built for one held them both, and yet there was room to spare. As shq snuggled to him she asked pleadingly, "Jack, do you love me better than anyone else in the world?" "Of course I do," said the young man, promptly. "And will you promise always to do anything you can to please me?" "Certainly, little girl!" "And you will never, never be cross with me?" "Darling, as if I could be," protested the young man, wondering what on earth this was leading up to. "And whatever I ask you to .do, will you do it?" "Yes, sweetheart, but --" "Then,"--her sweet voice faltered--"will you burn that horrid red necktie you wear on Sundays ?" * CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Scarfs everywhere. Every one is wearing them. They may be six yards in length, made of brilliantly" colored tulles or chiffons and edged with regal looking embroideries of silver, gold or crystal, a la Lucille, or be two yards of .satin edged with taffetas ruffings or become fascinating allurements of lace.of the "real" or imitation var-' ieties in Brussels or Spanish inspired designs. Divided the Loaf. The Duke of Portland is an ardent sportsman, and a good story is told of how he once named a racehorse. Some time ago he and another peer bid together for a fine animal, an the contest between them was very keen. At last over £500 was bid for the horse. "If we go on at this rate," said the other peer, "we shall be paying paying far more than the creature is worth; suppose we buy it between us?" The Duke of Portland agreed, and later on they had a discussion as to what the horse should be called. "Well," said his Grace, "as we are going to share it, why not call it The j Loaf?" And The Loaf it was called on the spot. *_ It has been said that the only two words in the English language with the vowels in order are "abstemious" and "facetious"; but others could probably probably be found. Cook's Cotton Root Compound A safe, reliable regulating medicine. Sold in three degrees degrees of strength--No. 1, $1; No. 2, $8; No. 3, S5 per box. Sold by all druggists, or sent prepaid on receipt of price. Free pamphlet. , Address : THE COOK MEDICINE CO. TOU ONTO. 0HT. (Ferweriy Wioixr.) It's sure to be Pure if it's New Invention of a British Manufacturing Manufacturing Company. How to enable soldiers to overcome barbed wire obstacles is a problem of.j which a well-known British sword company has been -seeking the solution. solution. The result is the "barbed wire tra- vestorj 7 ' an invention in appearance more dike a khaki-colored water-proof bed quilt, 6 feet square, than anything anything else. Thrown over a fence, the sheet transforms the barbed wire into a sort of wall, capable of being easily surmounted without risk of a scratch. The travestor has been tested by twenty soldiers across a barbed wire entanglement in a camp near /Lon-, don. The soldiers, all being athletic men, were over the fence and away long before in the ordinary way they would have started cutting the wires^. Not one of them received the slightest 1 hurt. . They were mainly concerned as to any increase m the weight of their éqüipment if the invention was adopted adopted by the War Office. 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