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< THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1927. THE ONTARIO GARDEN , the Eve?, on the fa village garden one can put in the vegetables and flowers without a plan, tut such a proceeding is not recommended. A* rough sketch on paper will save time, space and result in a job you will not be ashamed to have your friends look over when the stuff starts coming through the rows. Many a carrot has been eaten before its time because the gardener responsible was afraid someone would see the crooked rows. A little planning and a stake and string would have prevented this tragedy. Even where one is crowded it is surprising the amount of stuff which can be grown in a small space. The av-• erage yard in the village and " plot 50 by 100 feet on the farm, with a fence around it to keep out the chickens, will keep the table going in the matter of vegetables from early summer until fall with a few bushels for winter storage. Where horse cultivation is to be used all rows SO inches apart, excer* in the'case of spreading vegetables such as tomatoes, cucumbers and similar plants, which should have three to four feet. Early maturing stuff, such as spinach, lettuce and radishes, can be placed in between the regular rows, as they will be ready and gone long before the main crop requires all the space. Where space and sunlight are limit-rth and south, haded as much ay. Stake and tomatoes and pole j the 1; ■ge | To hasten growth giv< ' application of nitrate of soda, about an ounce, during a rain fall, or it may be dissolved at the rate of one ounce per gallon in water and applied with the ordinary watering can. If at all possible,,get a heavy rollev over the lawn as soon as frost goes out. This firms up the top and packs the earth around the roots, which the heaving following the alternate freezing and _thawing has loosened. making a hot-bed. * The, man with a hot-bed has the edge on his neighbor. He can get his garden started from two weeks to a month earlier than usual, and his crops come on that much sooner also. Lettuce and radish may be grown here and be ready for the table by the first of April and tomatoes and cabbage given an early start, so that they will be giving table returns in July instead of August. Those excellent annuals, Cosmos, Zinnias, Petunias and a host of others that will not only stand transplanting but are actually benefited by it will be ready to g» into the open garden almost half grown by the end of May. The of a hot-bed is a simple Locate facing the south, g, hedge or ed if i fenc i the i trouble, bu will result. To reli monotony of the ve plant a few flowers and at the head of, the rows, have regular flower garden for cut purposes located here and grow 3 sweet peas along one of the reg care of the lawn. After this more or less open < also, if this heat for th be piled in tiori. Vhen rth side and the_ sible. F/esh hors< 1 pos QUEBEC CARNIVAL QUEEN Miss Clarida Moreau, of Quebec City, who was chosen Queen of the carnival week which began February 21, the opening event being theYirst race in the three-day Eastern International Dog Derby. Miss Moreau presided over all the events of the week of festivity in which the entire city joined as a Grand Finale to the Winter Sports season. of the r green! One «, garden1 huild up the manure pile above corners | ground with a frame around it. Make, rive the: KUre that there is good drainage, then! rutting'P'le UP your manure t° a uePth ofj w your' at leaPt 18 inches, when well tramped regular | down, and about a foot more each ' way than the size of the window! j frame used to cover it. The procedure is to build the size of the windo CLIMBERS THAT I LIKE . thrust into the ground sidewi: covered with about an inch of soil, • which should be light and rich, j To get strong plants ready for open grounds during the first w jjune days I plant them in i parlor any time in March, j placing a pane of window gl -~~~*---"~" the seed box. Germination is paring my garden !]y 100 per cent jf the seed isually While I r its long winter vacation--the.ed propcr]; Drk was started late in September j xhcy demand plenty of moisture ,and ended with the planting of sev- and aftel. they are transplanted to wooden franlfe' j thousand tulips just before Oc- individual pots light stakes h,s tober frosts sent waves of unimagin- Then ■ the fra acta a . ajjiy lovely color over stick a I forests--while this task Maryland eobtea ter the lawn will require a little tra care first thing in the spring.!"" 7 «' »« « After the frost comes out it is ad vis-1 t|vo-inch layer o able to freshen up the bare spots: thermometei in with good seed, raking this in lightly: Wlth *"JV V" or sowing it on a late fall of snow' £anPS fit sJmg}y\ ™e ft v which, when melting, will carry the | be so constructed that the sash slopes; to have started its career so late in seed down into the soil. It is best: a httle to the south' "Bow the season 1 could not tell, but there earlv morning, or evening,|jt *° catch more sunlight and also it was all by itself and, though bu solitary r happened 3 the south, which will allow | tne lit to catch" more sunlight and alsojitv, when there is no wind. If practic-, sheA, rain/ The tfiempe"atllr? wil] few inches able, cover the freshly seeded spots, <Ju,ckl>' for the flrst few days' then little pit with a bit of chicken wire or trellis- 0001 down> when ths S€*ds be work to scare away the sparrows. I planted. ALFALFA HAY AND ALFALFA MEAL US-.MPP . STEVENSON"! O.A.C." healthy a would want to see. So I decided upon an experiment. I dug it up with a good-sized ball of earth, taking care not to cut the tiniest rootlet, put it in an eight-inch pot and took it indoors. It was placed in the sun parlor, ■->«., <™-jtern -••'th^T, y to Iceep them from sprawling all over the place. Their final quarters are the sunniest spots of the garden. There are a numbe.- of other annual climbers for which I have a marked preference because of their decorative and airy effect in background positions such as the moon-flower, the cardinal climber, the canary-bird vine with its odd flowers, like miniature yellow orchids, the scarlet runner and the climbing nasturtium. Egg Laying Trials. The highest records at the va exposure, in a position where it W*m-e,anao>ian e£g-laying trials ar, Iget all the sun possible and aftes follows: The practice of grinding hay, corn-j use of finely divided feeds for these ,ir., it was given exactly the same at- CanRdlan National, 332 eggs, stover and other coarse feeds for live'three classes. But this advantage in ! tention as mv oihi't- n,;„,(. plants. I by White Leghorn, stock is carried on to a limited extent,I making the feed more acceptable is j It got along beautifully from the \ Vancouver Island, 327 eggs, °'»-ays offset by any showing of; verv first „„<], while nothing like st of grinding. If j rapid nor so robust in its growth i the enquiry comes is the pra worth the cost. Some feeders say it' profit < Chief Causes of Pigs Not Grading Selects. , some say it In a recent experiment the digestibility and net energy values of alfalfa hay chopped to one inch lengths and of alfalfa meal were compared ir. a series of digestion and metabolism feeding tests with cattle. The hay and meal were given alternately during six periods and comparisons were made. Each feeding period lasted 21 days and the results of the experiment were tabulated in detail. They 6I„ show that the alfalfa hay was slight- J of the following ly better digested than the alfalfa! 1. Overweight meal, probably due to a suppression . market. Fed too of rumination from the alfalfa meal j ing for a rising n swallowed, at least in part beyond out because the ] the paunch. The difference was 2.2j cwt. less and do per cent, of the dry matter. j omical gains as i From the foregoing experiment we, pounds, learn that there is little likelihood ofj 2. Heavy Fee increasing the digestibility of a good ; Weaning--Pigs p "grade of alfalfa hay or other fodder ; tening feeds sue of equal coarseness, when fed -"to! wheat and corn t ruminants or cud-chewing animals, ing. Pigs must I by any grinding process. Grinding grown feeds and finishe the stockman's labor ployed, and he can get power cheaply, I gp^in" it may be worth while to grind the | direction: coarse feed, but no one need look tol fully ts delicate tendrils in all nd showed signs of wanting to take possession of the wall against which it was planted. Knowing that this vine likes even heat I am waiting rather eagerly to see what it will do in tht way of bloom, for the room that contains it is afflict-,ed with terrific temperature ups and When pigs of the right type do not downs, grade "select.;' the cause may be one| the beautiful cobaea. The cobsea (cobsea scandens) to me is the most desirable of all annual climbers. Outdoors in my garden it makes a growth of IB or 20 feet a season and during the latter part of the summer it is covered with its strange and beautiful blossoms. These resemble, somewhat,, in shape the 'cup and saucer" campanula, their ' being tha' they by Barred FOR HOME AND COUNTRY Up to the Women's Institutes. -An attempt t i fodders may have advantages in that coarse materials are reduced to a condition that permits a thorough mixing therewith finely divided grains, or sweeteners. A ruminant animal can eat more ground feed in a limited time, it may be forced to eat feeds that are off flavor when fed alone, or caused to eat feeds that are hard to masticate, but in so far as good quality feedi nothing gi for well grown cattle, chickens or calves it ma and some advantage is c d b. Feedin stunted in early life or coarse, and rough befor to market weight--gen 4. Under Finish--Pig to the desired 1V4 inche the back, generally thi feed or a mistaken ide; finished bacon hog real! Ont. I 320, n by White Leghon. Dominion, 291 eggs, Plymouth Rock. Prince Edward Island, 288 eggs, won by Barred Plymouth Rock. Saskatchewan, 287 eggs, won by Barred Plymouth Reek. Ontario, 284 eggs, cie, White Leghorn and Barred Plymouth Rock, each laying 284. New Brunswick, 281 eggs, won by Barred Plymouth Rock. Nova Scotia, 2(H) eggs, won by-White Leghorn. In eleven egg-laying trials held in Canada during 1925 there were 3,930 hens, and their average was 139 eggs each. There were among the 3,930 j birds, 17 that laid over 300 eggs each. I Egg-laying competitions give the! breeder an accurate line on what his stock will do in egg production. The real producers are singled cut and , . used in the breeding pen for the ulev Wk-lodd characteristic being tha they ■ tion of a se]ect race „f : after w^an-hf1*' °°* lIL^fJT" t".!,^!A Pr^ncerB- There is no one b£\ J j breed or variety for egg production, later 1 wiiimj v--v-y 1 Laying ability lies "If the steady exodus to the city is to be stopped, it will be up to the Institutes to do it," said Mrs. Wood, of Brockville, emphasizing some of the fine work in education, immigration, health, and home economics at the Ottawa Women's Institutes Convention held last November. reserve the historj to be made undei the program of the Historical Re search-Committee through interviews with aged people and the preservation of relics and antiques and the encouragement of County Museums. A delightful visit to the Dominion Archives stimulated this resolve among the delegatx Boosting the farm income and the means farm women were taking it, was dealt with by Mrs. II. Aitken of Beeton. Poultry raising, fruit growing, turkey pools, tea right kind of tourist accommodation were some of the ways in which this was being clone. One delicate young girl turned to turkey raising means of creating an income out-of-door work. So successful her efforts that her birds were year rated highest in those sent to American markets. Another young Business Colleg small school in her living room where she taught the farm young people typewriting, shorthand and business method, thus helping both herself and the b'oys and girls. The Girls' Institutes told of how rest rooms, hospitals, and school boards as well as needy mothers and children had received active and practical .aid during the year. Not only had they a dentist's talk for themselves on the j;are of the teeth at Delta Junior Branch but arranged with the school board for a dental inspection of the school children. These girls entertained the grandmothers, encouraging their ancestors by giving a prize to the youngest and another to the one with the most grandchildren. Although a most successful Girls' Conference just concluded at Kempt-ville lessened the girl delegates' numbers, the Seniors felt the time devoted to their interests amply justified by the fresh youthful point of view they brought to the Convention. This was again touched on by Miss Emily Guest in a talk or. "Backward, Around, Forward in Nation-building" when down through the generations was traced the part played loyally by-women in building up this country. "We were happier then," said the old people, "when we were all the same in the woods and all .helped each other, in self-contained homes where we grew and the women manufactured the clothing as well as did the housekeeping." Then came the era of brick and stone structures and the growth of towns, and the homemakers realized that the whole community-had become the home and had to be made safe for the family. To the girls of to-day, the women will hand on the trust for the future, girls whose young heads, hearts and hands were being trained for this responsibilitv through the Institutes.: -f pr " stitute. "Twenty years ago when ona mentioned the work of thn Institute^ it was answered, "Oh, yes, that it where the women meet to exchang* recipes." "That still held good," Mr. Putnam said, "though the Institutes of to-day have broadened into the most valuable channel through which Government Departments pour <a stream bf service to all the people. They co-operate with the Mothers' Allowance Board, hospitals, the care of neglected children, the Dominion and Provincial Immigration Departments, the Child Welfare and Health Departments, as well as local and community needs. This interest extended even to the international child when at a delightful luncheon at the Chateau Laurier, the delegates listened to Miss Charlotte Whitton tell how, as one of the greatest heritages of the war, the various countries of the world now placed chief -Importance on child welfare. "The questi«n of social and child welfare has been lifted out of any spasmodic sphere up te a key department of the state's life," she said, "and the nations perceive it as one of the greatest economic considerations apart from the moral side." Italy and Poland, she learned this year at Geneva, realizing the evils of alcohol on child life, are seeking legislation to decrease the traffic. A further study of Canada's place in the League of Nations came when Mr. Norman MacKenzie, Professor of International Law in Toronto University, gave an informative talk. Women, who were still bearing the burdens of a war which destroyed thousands of sons and mothers, had pleaded: "I did not raise my son to be a soldier, to kill some other moth-er's darling boy," and laid a burden of debt upon the people that consumed half the revenue. "In thinking internationally," he told his audience, "three questions forced themselves upon us. These were population, raw resources, rates. Italy and Japan claim they have not room for their people and ask if Canada has the right to spread over half a continent. Canada's raw resources are practically untapped. Europe wants to pool the resources of the world. The race question of the mixing Off the white, yellow and black races is one we must face sooner or later. Such problems can only be solved by thinking internationally." A very high note of idealism in service was also struck by President Mrs. Field Robertson and the Convention went on record as condemning the narcotic evil and asking the Department of Education to distribute literature and give regular instruction as to its evils ' in cdl'Vll'liluiilR ul ■ ehools and colleges. Equal franchise with farmers' sons In municipal elections was nlso asked for farmers' daughters, a stricter ob-ance of the Lord's Day, system- : tn •al r c for c try schools, and legislation for the further care of the feeble-minded of the other things asked for by the Convention. The consideration of improved agri-ulture reached its climax in the hum-jrous and pithy address of Mr. El-ford of the Ottawa Experimental iverweight at the lg, possibly wait-ket. Feeder loses 3 sell for $1 per t make as econ-made under 200 g Just After to the individual and the fact that the! Farm who explained the whol^work-Institute is first and foremost an] ing of these farms and the expert educational institution was never t service that might be had just for the lost sight of and was specially stress-j asking, while he paid a warm tribute, ed by the Superintendent when urg- as did the whole Convention, to th« ing that the girls and young women j work of the Superintendent, Mr. Put-of the community be givei 1 the work of the In-!'part Save the Lambs. y reasonable effort should rved or mtil old, . change to deep blue. I white variety (alba). I The cobaea is rather ! requirements; particularly must they P I be met in the method of planting seed. They object to being put top j bed, as it were, on the flats of their t ! backs, a fact it took me several years ; ito learn. What they crave is to be 1 While i the bi-eed. If the lambs 1 sry little sped tnd will consume much more water. Lack of it will retard the milk flow. If the lambs come before the ewes lave been sheared, any loose tags iround the udd attei req-.ur this vool. It for ! hails 1 the modern poultry-keeper.' to get more eggs froir these eggs have thinnei iding culture Bullet For pigs, j gene: be different | Agri ived by tfie your butio If, however, they are lambed the sheepfold prior to turning out, the ewes should be watched closely until each lamb has nursed, after which very little individual attention should be required. It is very essential that an attendant be on watch for lambs which -are born during the night. •h which 8 be fatal. At from two to four weeks of ag« the lambs-should be docked, .tnd the male lambs not selected for breeding should be castrated. The dockin? can perhaps be best performed by the use of a hot docking pincher. Lambs docked and castrated do 1 be all ! ;able lUtll apih-a --H'. L nd 6 What We Use on the Farm. Eggs and More Eggs. which i such quant Measure a Farm by its Pasturage. The best farming systems give a prominent place to pasture crops. Without an abundant supply of pasturage, the economical production of livestock on any large scale is seldom possible. Pasture and hay grasses are important also be-! j!oogt efit "^hj cause they protect and hold j drinking mate! and enrich the soiL A Cana-!d«nt; that the attendant dian farmer travelling about !" his own country feels almost f,. from instinct when he enters a j th section of abundant and pro-j|° pastures that he hasl good farming section; ? usually right about it. j1,1 -- sp' constitute many a son's | W£ son the e .mptly. hted. The feedin clean 1 her lamb To obtain information re-klm* to the value of pi oducts whic h are fur- vith hooks nished by the f arm to the farm fam- gether and ily a careful ir vestigatiorr. was. The eeded. on 38 farms nty. come, spe- items included 'dairy an d po ultry fruit?, 'fuel a s, flour, td house veget ables, The ^sideraWe farm value of these prod ucts aver- ?Sdis value- of the si if purchased 0 per farm, me produe' the city 1 The ited there- the home, was $1,203.97. Thes 1 fig- ures provide a idelight on how nueh work and is interested that the birds ,'ing ancestors, and that hed at the proper s< reared, and are fi cluctiv found may have a cess to 011 a farm. The invest revealed the fact that grain mixture nd hay whi ch call- were purchasing at city t be reached b they should be producing rts of cracked corn, crush ed oats garden. A thrifty f; te a good making full use of its < r this purpose. ng how on the land, can keep the uch faster the lambs will develop with 1 luxuries that peop len this plan is adopted. town on moderate incc A - good suppl y of fresh water see. We often neglect t e at all time s. This farm for what it doe especially im poi-tant aft er the people on the land fail nbs begin to co me, as the e ves are measure of the opportune a more or les 5 fevered « ndition land on which the live <