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THE COLBORNE EXi RESS, COLB&RNE, ONT.. THURSDAY, FEB. 3, 1921. Address communications An Ice House You Can Build. Each year we appreciate more and more the value of ice on our farm, Sometimes I wonder that more general attention is not given to the ice crop. For ice is a crop after all, and a very valuable one, too. There is no one who can use ice to such good advantage as the farmer. All perishable products must be kept for a longer time than in the city, where there are stores to depend upon-And the cellar is not always as clean and sweet a place to keep meat, butter, and fruits as it should be. Consider the possibilities that lie before the farmer who has a small cold-storage plant to enable him to hold his milk, fruit, and vegetables until market prices improve, and we realize better just how valuable ice can become. I believe many of us can profitably use ice to a far greater extent than we do, and when we put so much labor into harvesting it a little more trouble expended in keeping it is well worth while. A suitable ice house will half the ice you are accustomed to putting in a shed that has poor insuh tion. There are two or three weak points in general ice-house construction; The first is a poor foundation, preventing good drainage. The second is kind of a roof which absorbs the heat so that the inside of the house becomes like an oven. While there is usually little choice allowed in the selection of a site, there are certain precautions which should be taken. If a site chosen be on a slight ele vation, drainage will give no trouble; otherwise provisions for the drainage of water from the melting ice must be made. In building the floor, which can be placed on stone or cement wall: or on cedar posts set in the ground two or three feet, excavate at least one foot below the sills, and fill the whole of the inside betwei cobblestones or very coarse gravel, smoothing off the surface with fine gravel or cinders. If the digging shows a clay soi drain Should be put in to carry surplus moisture. Scantlings can bedded in the fine gravel on which to lay the floor of inexpensive lumbi placing the boards one foot apart, order to permit the water to escape readily. It takes, on an average, from 40 to 45 cubic feet to hold a ton of i< building 12 by 16 feet, 12 feet high, will hold about 45 tons of well-packed ice. For a house of this size use 3x12-inch plant for sills, and for uprights use 2x6-inch scantling 12 feet long, placed two feet apart. On the top, Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. trouble. In this method, we do not nail sheathing of common lumber. Oi this tack a double thickness of building paper, then lx2-inch strips, 12 feet long. Over this lay a double thickness of building paper, and finish with matched siding. This gives a hollow space of dead air of one inch to prevent heat of the sun from penetrating to inside lining. Care must be used to see that the space is well cut off at top and bottom. On the Inside, nail sheathing, filling the hollow space with cinders, shavings, or sawdust. Over this sheathing nail a double thickness of building paper, on which again to nail one inch strips, and over this sheathing, thus making two dead air spaces of one inch each, and one six^nch space filled with a good insulating material. For the roof, use shingles or best (grade of rubber roofing, and filling in between the roof and ceiling with dust or cinders. Put a ventilator in the centre, made so that it closed insdde if desired. Paint the building white, to reflect the heat and help to keep the building cool. On the north side of another building is a good place for the ice house, or even on the north hillside, or in the shade of some trees. . An ice house of this kind will be as good an investment as you have on the farm, provided you have a pond or river close from which to fill it. How to Water Milk. If we are careful to water milk the right way, we shall never get into There were ten sows in my hend, and I succeeded in raising 76 pigs from them in a grassy lot, large enough to give plenty of room for Almost a pint of oilmeal Your Grocer Is Not a Profiteer have to do the mixing, which course, the hardest part. The right way lets the cow do the mixing and she will do it in just the right proportion, if we give her a chance. In other words, plenty, that is to say, all she wants, of good, clean, fresh water should be supplied the cow. Milk is 87 per cent, water, and besides the water she puts into milk, the bodily needs of the cow are large. For this reason she needs a good deal pi water, and if she has to drink stale or polluted water, she will not take enough to make all the milk of Which she capable. Speaking of the water supply i minds me of a woman whom I visited twice in the course of two years, and her husband were pioneers in their section, and it was taking much hard work and still more patience and grit to get their little farm into shape for profitable farming. "The wife was doing her full share. From the first she had insisted on keeping she came from a dairy country and knew the need of dairy stock not only for food for her children but also for fertilizing the land. In fact, she had bought the cows with her ings, and with the help of the children took full charge of them. At the time of my first visit, on a cold windy day in late November, I found her with two of the little boys, pumping and carrying water to the cattle. The pump was a heavy one, and the stream of water was pitifully slender portion to the strength it took to raise it. They took turns carrying and pumping, and all were exhausted. The children were plucky and willing but they were tired and cold and it was growing dark. The mother's face was white and drawn and at last she said "That will have to do. The baby ii crying and I can't pump another stroke! The cows haven't had half enough but I can't help it!' We went into the house, and I learned of this woman's pluck. Rather than give up the cows during the winter, when her husband had to work in the lumber camp, she was facing the heavy work that it meant. "I get along all right with everything but the pumping. The boys are too little to do much of it and it is so hard that it uses me up for my other work. But I just cannot give up the cows, though they are not doing nearly as well they should and I am almost sure is because they are not getting enough water. From my home training, know a good deal about feeding and I take good care of them. We'll get through till Ben comes home, spike 2x6-inchws«anil!r^„douiJell„ier wax, SttlJI.tJlft SSPMLJ*™ L'et Have a heart! Your grocer is not a profiteer! He is passing along to you reduced prices, as fast or faster than they came to him. Just because prices on and twice that* amount" of shorts" were >an>" good things are stiu high' don>t mixed with water to a thick-slop cap-1 blanie him- 11 ls ,usually the p00rest aistency, and fed early in the nwrn-1 «ua"ty of eyerythins that shows the put in'gl'eatest decline. If he i, although I age' y' self-feeding1 mos A year later business took way again, and I called to see how the problem had worked out. She remembered me, as people do, where visitors are rare. "You see, I'm not pumping this time!" "Is your husband at home this winter?" I asked. "No," she replied, "but last winter 3howed me that,I could not do again what I had then. So in the summer the children and I a-nned money every way we could. We saved what the bull calves brought for veal and I sold two of the cows to help out. Then i built a little pumfr house, bought gasoline engine and piped the water to the barn and into my kitchen, cannot tell you how different it has made life for me! By spring last year I was ready to give up and quit the farm. You see, I feel sure we cannot make this light soil pay without cattle and I have not succeeded in proving to my husband .that he could do better to stay at home in the winter and take care of more cows, instead of going to the woods. He was brought up in the city and does not understand about the land the Way I do. But now we can go on and do fine! The" cows are doing ever so much better this winter, too, so that I making good money from my but-I'm making lots better butter, since it does not half kill me to get enough water and carry it out again. I ship the butter to the city by parcel post." Clean, fresh water the trough after feeding. No noon feed was giv< the sows had access to a rack of second-crop alfalfa, and wood ashes, mixed with salt, were available] at all times to guard against abnormal I heat, throw off wastes, and act as a general tonic. The evening meal was just enough' of the slop to give them a good appetite, and a coup" were given to each I sometimes gave a half-gall< oats to each sow, the grain being tered over tho clean grass. A month before farrowing time 1 put the sows in separati with a south-side pen. A large; door, two feet wide and eight long, admitted the sunlight duj the day, but was closed Clean, fresh bedding was supplied,] changed as often as it became f< usually about once a The same feeding :ticed till farrowing time, thfl good a man as the a grocer is still doing his to give you the best value for your money. But don't push him too hard. He is only human. You don't know, but we do, that he Is recommending goods that pay him less profit than other well known brands which he might easily per-take if he g scat- red ! do ;■ know this because he pays more for Red Rose Tea and sells it at less profit than other teas, so w he recommends you to buy Red Rose Tea, you will know it is because he believes it the best and is willing take a lttle less profit for the sake of giving you the best value he ca publishing this because we more our people know of ts concerning the profits they deal with, the hey will be in their H. Estabrooks Co., part of falfa being tossed day. The coi was decreased time approached, temperature and guard plications. At farrowir in attendance every tim ped her pigs, and four well in practically ever; After delivery of tta the sow a drink of ws chill removed. Don't be feed the sow at this ti; feed consisted of the sl< tioned rather thin--if i so much the better. ' with a wisp of alfalfa the sow got for several small ear of corn was ; next feed a couple of ea the amount being gradu until the sow was eatinj eight ears of corn--dep weight, number of pigs, These methods yield crop of 79 husky little them being raised fo period--an average of Poultry News and Advice. stalks hung jn the poultry will prevent lice and t any grocer will give these away gratis. fertilizer value of poultry drop-must not be overlooked: At.-"' t fertilizer prices the total drop- \ ffSgSST^A^ But tfiere are many who refu THE SUNDAY SCHOOL FEBRUARY 6TH The Marriage Feast, St. Matthew 22: 1-14. Golden Text-Luke 14: 23. : the i rebellious, or indifferent, or self-Jeru-] interested, or proud--"they were not salera. worthy. And so in the highways, Connecting Links--The enemies of'among the multitude, both bad and Jesus, who were men of wealth and good, are found those who will regard influence in Jerusalem, "chief priests the summons as an honor and a pnvi-and scribes and principal men of the [ lege and will gladly respond. The people," were laying plans to destroy! proud and self-satisfied Jew is re-Him (Luke 19: 47).' On the previous jected, and the outcast Gentile is day He had assumed authority at the brought in. Such is the solemn wam-iemple, and had driven out the traf-jing which the parable conveys. and money-changers, whose II. The Wedding Garment, 11-14. business was patronized by ih.< -hief! 11-14. A weduin priests, and now they come to Him j garments and demand to know who gav* Him [ and would this authority. To them and to others all the gu< Who gathered about Him in the emple haste, or court Jesus spoke in three p.-.rables chase one. of warning. In the lesson of to-day j it. His ca wo have'the third of these gre x par-; ter ignor; ables--a warning against re ecting: regard of the invitation of God, so gra -iousiy given, to the blessings of He kingdom of love. Compare a simil ■liable in Luke 14: 15-24. I. The Invitation,l-10. 2-3. Which made a marriagv. The tian h...... feast, on such occasion, would extend invitation is still ii over several days. In ancient Hebrew us all. It is verv s prophecy"the beginning of the Mes- very clear_a call sianic kingdom had been represented Jesus Christ, ami tc as marked by a great feast. See Is. of good fellov.sh p, 25: 6. Jesus is thinking here of the ness, of unselfish' new kingdom, the new social order, r0yally spread bef with its simple faith and its laws of been ir,diff:-rer,.. c love, which He seeks to establish in fuj? Have we thoi the wcrld. To share i.. this kingdom negH. social life «,M the Jewish people, princes, jriests, and common folk are invited. The invitation is not new; it was 3er forth long ago by the hands >f pre highi;. garment. Such ire been in store, freely supplied to ; was not through inability to pur-man was without ie careless dis- lstructed and of our Chris-s to-day. The nple, very direct. be followers of iharc in the feast I mutual helpful-ervice, which is e us. Have we thought more of busi-, success, wealth, pew-Is le that the invitation ■£.\vn, and that others e or despise may enter chamber and take our places a- the banqueting table? Is it possible that we shall be counted unworthy, and that people. of some other race, or color, shall be counted 4-5. He sent forth other servants, worthy? God's call, so often repeated .ymg record, Graciously the king repeats his invi- in our ears, does us great honor. Let be hitherto unreached, has ration. He tells of bounteous prepar- us honor His Son, our Lord Jesus nade by a Barred Rock pullet at| ation, and that all things are ready. Christ, by a quick and glad acceptance, xperimental Farm at Kentville.i But his invitation is treated with Those who respond to the call of Scotia This bird has laid 104 scorn. Those who are bidder, prefer God in Christ, and who would sit with n 104 days. It is usual to find' tJie?r interests, thee farm, Him in Eis kirgdom, must put o " ,k of from one to three or four; into the ing records, and the Domin-[try folks believe this achieve-quite without precedent, milk and meat scrap are egg The Missouri College cf Agri-has shown by experiment that sour milk to the grain ration -erage annual produc-1 *SgJ2°2JZ% e eggs a The cause of tuberculosis in pouMST is an extremely small bacterium germ, the tubercle bacillus, closely resembles the germ respom for tuberculosis in hogs. This organism is so small tl il^^JfaS^id hen; by adding meat scrap, the increase is fifty-two doubt feggj. The increased profit from feeding milk is ninety-two cents, and from iadding meat scrap it is $1.17 a bird. | When eggs were selling here in the country a^fifty-five cents a dozen, a jse I know of was getting eighty-cents. This house had established reputation for fresh eggs of quality, raman I know started in a small way to furnish strictly fresh eggs to robe of righteousness. The" Chi life must be to them more than a mere gers and slay them. Such lad been profession, a mere enrolment in tne conduct of the Jewish people and church membership. It must be real their leaders in the past in their re- faith and real obedience--a rtghteous-lation to the prophets; such h their ness which is of faith. It is often a conduct now toward Jesus. The mean- matter of reproach that the Church ing of the parable was plain enough contains both bad and good, and that to the scribes and Pharisees, who with among the professed followers of fierce looks and angry words now Jesus there are some who do not c.o what is right. But Jesus anticipated ' The germs cannot grow outside body, but once they become inplantel in' the body, they multiply rapidly, causing the formation of small nod-uels or tubercles; hence the name, tuberculosis. * Into the basket of thy day, Put each good thing and eacl gay That thou can'st find along th-Neglect no joy however small, And it shall verily befall Thy day can scarcely hold them all. He was wroth. There is no this from the beginning. The gospel is to what a king of that time call was to be sent forth far and wide, would do. He would destroy those Its invitation was for all. He expected wicked murderers and burn their city, that some who were not worthy would Was there not in these words •, plain come in--even in His inner circle of warning to. Jewish ruler, prist, and twelve there was a Judas. But it was scribe cf what-lay before the Jewish better so--better that the summons people, and the city and temple of' should be universal, and the door of which they were so proud .' Forty j the banqueting-hal! wide open--far years later the blow fell. The tveoplej better than that men of exclusive and the city which rejected Christ Pharisaic spirit should have had the were destroyed., A remnant was scat- keeping of the door, tered abroad; and no effort from that It is enough to know that the King's day to this to re-establish the Jews in unerring gaze will seek out the un-Palestine lias met with success. I worthy and reject them from the com- 8-i« Not Worthy. That is th* fin- pany of His eleot. The day of al verdict upon those who scorned and banquet will be a clav or jSdgmeni rejected the king's invitation. It is "For many are called but few ? ,e n>t merely that they were hostile, or1 chosen." Garden Tools in Winter. During the winter months it is a good plan to go over the garden tools, Me that they are in condition to use in the spring, repair defects Where possible, and purchase any that will be needed. One of the most important tools is the hoe, and it is well to see that it does not have a dull edge. It makes a great difference whether this edge is dull or sharp. See that the rake is firmly fastened to the handle, so that it will not be necessary to go hunting for it in the soil when at work j|n the garden, and then have to take fe to the shop to be fixed. Welfare of the Home Reading to the Child ren HIDES-WOOL-FURS OUR REFERENCES 216 Regular Shippers. Imperial Bank of Canada. Dun's or Bradstreet's Trjr yourself and be convinced. WILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO cttabushep wro... The wheel-hoe should be stored .place where there is no danger of its rusting. Also, see if it works properly. If for any reason it is to be replaced by a new one, winter time to purchase, before the rash for garden implements begins. In buying a new wheel-hoe ii well to make sure that the handles at such a height as to accord with the height of the owner. The work much harder when one has to stoop in. pushing the hoe. The writer finds it an advantage to have a long handle for the scuffle-hoe. This allows one to advance the hoe beneath the soil quite a distance ahead of the operator, and makes a change and variety in the garden work. The spadirig-fork in many instances can be used to better advantage in-the garden than the spade. Particu-1 . kurly is this true when it is desired j probabl; to break tip the soil to a finer texture, ers and and it is always well to have one of; read to these implements on hand. I have been watching two groups of little children at play. One group spends most of its time trundling themselves and each other up and down the sidewalk in various sorts of vehicles, kiddie cars, tricycles, toy automobiles and wagons, in gazing at the traffic and various happenings of the street; in going to the store foi candy, and now and again chasing each other about. The other group is always energetically "placing something," lively outdoor games, and dramatic representations of Indians, Fire Departments, Red Cross First Aid, giants, farmers, explorers, builders. These and endless other imitative plays all have their turn. Why should the little boy of the first group sit drearily on the doorsteps when left to himself, apparently waiting for something or somebody to come along and entertain him ? Why-should the little girl of the second group sit under a lilac bush holding in her hand a switch tipped with a yellow dandelion head, and, like a dainty Fairy Queen touch everything nearby with her magic, gold-tipped wand, so absorbed in her imaginative that the early years are the impressionable ones, but let the golden opportunities and psychological moments drift away. Those parents to whom my little Fairy Queen belongs find the time, make the necessary sacrifices, and live up to their privileges of enriching their children's imagination and cultivating a habit that means endless joy and future opportunity for self-' education of the best possible sort. Let me urge you, parents who read these lines, to make a practice of reading to your children every day of their lives until they are able to do t for themselves. The librarian of any public library will, gladly select and furnish the books you need. Your effort and sacrifice will be repaid an hundred fold in the happy home hours which your children will never forget, in a wealth of play material for the time they must fill by themselves, mental equip] hose value cannot estimated. The following books are ith children: Aesop's Fairy Tales, Wonde for later STRAIGHT TRAFFIC play that she is entirely oblivious of! Grimm's Fairy Talcs. Wonder Book By passersby? * N. Hawthorne, Wild Animals I Have The answer is easy. One child has Known, by E. T. Seton, A Child's an undeveloped imagination, and the! Garden of Verses by R. L. Stevenson, other a mind so full of pictures that; Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling she has unfailing resources for all un- The Water-Babies, by Charles Kings-' occupied hours or moments. ! ley; Alice in Wonderland and Through Without knowing the exact cimtfl. the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll stances, I can be reasonably sure that | Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe he and the other ond group have j the childre iR.1 Mat those fal.li-1 •uld like toj somehow i i the SAFETY RAZOR BLADES RESHARPENED sence of occupation is not rest in ind quite vacant is a mind i importance of education by means of hooks, but who are unwilling to sacri-. flee inclination in order to give time to their children; who know full well Made (rood u i____ Double Edge . . .,.............35c a doz" .Single- Edge .................25c .1 do;:. Durham Duplex .............50c -A a-vj. Keralt money order with blades to SBABF EDGE BX.ABE CO.. 3 Alice Str**, - - Toronto, Ont. "Father," said Ernest, as he rodi downtown beside Dr. Benton in thi automobile, "why are you always lay ing so much emphasis upon habits': I think you're asking me to take 1 pretty long look ahead. Shouldn't 1 fellow have a few years in which he can be free? It doesn't seem to me that a young fellow should take life as seriously as you are trying to make me take it. I want to have my four years in college care free, without everlastingly thinking of a quences. If I need to, I can turn over a new leaf when I get through college." As Ernest finished his protest they were just approaching the come Chapel and Church streets. About twenty-five feet from the corner they passed a traffic signpost that read, "Straight Traffic at the Next Corner." "What does that sign mean?" asked the doctor, for he was from out of town and had not seen it before. "It means," said his son, "that you've passed that post you have to go straight ahead. You can't stop, and you can't turn." "Well, I guess" said the doctor, as his machine shot out of the traffic into; the open street ahead, "that's as good an illustration as I need. Ernest, I've been practicing medicine long enough to have seen a good many sides of life, and the more I see of it the m convinced that, it's pretty much like that traffic post--once get beyond a certain point with s things there's no stopping. You simply favorites: have to go right through The drink Fables, 1 habit or the drug habit is an example. I don't suppose anyone who started out with a friendly glass now and then thought he was going to end with delirium tremens. But before he knew it, he ran by the last point of recovery, just as I ran by that signpost, and after that it was 'straight traffic at the next corner' for him. "It reminds me of one time when I took the wrong train at Winnipeg. I wanted to get off at Norwalk, but I'd got on a through express to New Haven, and to New Haven I went. First you take the train; then the train takes you. The time to do your *hinki"g about your destination'is before you take the train. You say you don't want to be everlastingly .thinking of consequences while you're in college. Well, it's because I don't want ■ Charle you to have to think everlastingly about consequences after you get out of college that I am warning you to be careful now. The turning over a new-leaf Idea is a snare laid by the Devi!. What you've written by habit in your nervous system is written, and it's always there either as an ally or as an enemy. Don't ran past the signposts, and then expect nature to reverse the traffic regulations for your benefit. Beyond a certain point it's 'straight traffic at the next corner" for us all." Plan the Garden Now. Draw garden plan for the coring Order seed catalogs, study them, and order seed. Order manure for hotbed, hotted sash and lumber for frames, fertilisers and lime. Repair, paint and sharpen tools. Buy new tools needed. Make seed flats for later use. Bring in some soil to thaw out, if you haven't already a supply indoors. ' Test seed for germination. Dried Strawberry. Soon we shall have the strawberry i a dried fruit. A method "of preserving it in this shape has been satisfactorily worked out, the product hav- g the appearance of a small reddish with the consistency of a raisin. The dried strawberry retains the original flavor to a large'extent. She Knew Her Man. Bullet Whey was late, very late, one morning, and the teacher asked hira how come. And Bullet explained: "Maw heard thet the sheriff arrest- l a man at the creamery this morning fer cruelty to animals, fer keep-n' a dirty stable, fer waterln' his milk, nd fer burnin' his barn to git the in-urance, and maw sent me* to the jaii Are You Having- Trouble With Your Horses or Cattle? MAKE YOUR OWN ANIMAL MEDICINES Tell as what your trouble is. and on receipt of money order for $2.00 ws will send you a recipe complied by one of the most eminent Old Country Veterinary Surgeons. THE VLIT MFG. CO., Limited 635 t-V. PAUL ST. WEST MONTREAL