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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORjNE, ONT, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1921. The Welfare of the Home Don't Say, "Stop That!" Without Saying "You May Do This." By DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER. The grandmother who had brought up seven children to vigorous, happy and well-poised maturity dropped m to see her young daughter-in-law. She was greeted by the sound of sobs and howls from behind the closed dr-- The young mother explained, her i set hard, "Elsie has been naughty. She is being punished." The grandmother sank into a chair, praying for wisdom. "I never punished one of minig in any such way in all my Life," she advanced mildly, "and they never disobeyed me., either." "Why, Mother Burton!" cried the young mother incredulously. "That's just impossible. What did you do when they didn't mind, when they acted as Elsie did juist now? She was bo naughty. You see that lovely set of Stevenson? I told her three separate times not to touch it, but she persisted in handling the backs of the books with her sticky little fingers. What else could anybody do but pun- "Well," said the grandmother. "Let's consider this case.. I always tried to put myself in the children's all red leather and gold lettering" Why I believe it's the bright coloring that fascinated Elsie There's nothing wicked in Liking pretty, bright things. She'd be a little dunce if she didn't. Why, if that had happened to me, I believe I'd have tried giving her something bright and shiny that she could play with." "No, you don't understand Elsie,' said the young mother, "that wouldn't work with her. It's stubbornness. You ought to have seen how angry she looked." "Well, perhaps you got her 'mad' " suggested the grandmother, gent- ly- The young mother gave i impatient gesture, "You < and see for yourself." sceptical, m try it The grandmother went quickly into th? kitchen while the mother was "~ Some old poultry houses pounds of unbleached wood ashes to every thirty square feet. Rake this in to a depth of two inches when the seedbed is being prepared. The distances apart of renovated and modernized and-made rtw depend on the kind of crop, suitable for housing a profitable farm they gT0W bushy, they need more flock, even though they are now in wom. Radish, leaf lettuce, spinach poor condition. If you have such a and onlion &eSlds should be-drilled in, house with a step-ladder roostmg on.e-fourth to one-half inch deep; on-system it can be improved by remov- ioT1 sets should be three inches anrrt , ,„ ™S the old r0O3ts- Th*11 construct. and one and one-half inches deep, locking the closet door, and by the, dropping-boards and place roosts over p!ant 5eet carrot parsnip, salsifv, -.obbing, excited child had j the boards_ xhis wiH increase tte turnjip, chard and kale seeds in drills ■half inch deefc. Drill peas Address communications to Agic How to Raise Turkeys. The out, she was back with an egg-j beater and a bowl of soapy water. Elsie locked blackly at her mother j tching area on the floor and make , it easy to take cut the droppings at a^'ld , least a few times each week, depend- . cept n order .. Early young poults must growing right from the shell to keep them in good conditk , in life they must be taught ne-half inches deep m double home at night; cnce the habit is fixed arched straight toward the for- j ing "on the time "given to the'her^" Cn^a^t ttU" each ^i/of' 1* ^ ^ TT *\ YT *W St Vndmother! Td" fuTof iSS^,* IT^oZ ^oneS " T ^l^t brightly, "just see here what I've got.|Take out part of the windows and inchesdP It^^rt £Z P Mother says we may playw^h it, you cover the opening with quarter-in* in hills from two to two and one-half, and drive them home but thev wild and I. See, when you whirl the water mesh wire. A muslin curtain or a feet apart in rows> three seeds in a I s^n 1 Jrn to return alone beater- around, how it makes the water! curtain made of old sacks can be used m, two inches deep. Cover the seeds - "^The pout^ arffutly feather-■t»«g, during severe storms. There need bOiWith fine, modst soil, firming it witjilj ^ h.ave passed through the the hoe. | "shooting the red" period, which 7" """'j Plants started indoors should be usually occurs at about, three months if. tU^.7j™ih'ard,ene:d cff before planting in the 0f age( the young are hardy and maybe allowed unlimited range at to harden the plants, times. As long as they can ■ansplantinr '- froth up. It's as good s eggs. Come over and try v The egg-beater's shiny blades shone: house i clearly as they whisked about through the glistening, foaming suds. Elsie was too little to contain more than one idea at a time especially when one of the ideas was such a beautiful one? She ran to the bowl and began to try to turn the beater. At first Granny had to hold the bowl steady, but in a moment the deft little finger.-, rv.ught the trick, and whisk! how the suds foamed up! She beamed as she beat, absorbed, radiant, the little eyes .blurred_ with tears brightening, the little, sullen, • angry face softening to a smile. "It's loverly," she pronounced solemnly. Granny and Mother began to talk dons in a poultry hor clean and the i' pe keeping more profitable. about the weather and for ccokies. The crisis When Granny stood up to go, hailrf | an hour later, she remarked casually | to Elsie, "Oh, say, dear, Mother just «• gar< loves those pretty red and gold books you mus down there. And we are afraid that i is not i if you touch them, you'll get them compost dirty. You'll try to remember about | rotted that, won't you? You wouldn't like the spring. Mother to spoil your things." | f°re Elsie's small mind had gone a long: the The open front fresh air and this keeps tbe house dry j £££ r and the hens healthy. " m^d v. Old dirty floors become unclean and when the soil should be rr.nrcvcd and re- i d-r(. placed with clean i/and. Never let the' i,„, level of the earth floor become lower:rw^vjK', ' than the outside (.-round or the floor ' t-will be damp ami poss'ldy the melt- j Qc ' t"iflJ,' Use only porta-)lc t-tr.tip:r.i».T. in the ; *f^r' (, . poultry house. Nests and hoppers! «' "t,.;' that are spiked to the wall, arc diffi-l cult to clean. Have the nests so they; ^' ^ can be taken out in small. sections: ^ and sunned and sprayed. It will keep. a mites and 1" If V. Transplanted n- t; Starting the Garden garden needs rich soil. Of fertilizer. C should be It should be l ing, and ts of the papers i inverted "V." ttor or Wbeel-boe i in a large gardei me in turning smai also be used for stii for the img you surpki' plenty of insects while on range, they will thrive on two meals a day. The young must be sheltered during rain-storms, or they are likely to contract colds which quickly develop into roup or kindred ailments. They must not be allowed outdoors in the rooming until the dew is cff he grass, as they suffer from the slightest cold or dampness. For the same reason, the coop should have a board floor. After the poults aie six weeks old., the danger of less is practically over. Young turkeys should be taught to mist, 73 Adelaide St. West, Turcnta. little rice, boiled in sweet milk, a little suet, and in wet or cold weather a little cayenne pepper. The young must not be raised on ground that was formerly occupied by chickens infested with ga >e-worms. Young turkeys seem to be ready subjects to vermin, especially head lice. If the hens are quiet, catch and dust them thoroughly while ■ MSng. If the youngsters seem weak and listless at two weeks old, the reason is usually "lice." Anoint head, threat and vent with carbolated vaseline, and rub it in well. One-Third Acre of Strawberries. ■ dbia > fro the plat the that episode of the1 Garden soil is often likely t books. To her it seemed as though a j K a mossy growth appears i long time had passed. And she cer-1 ground in the garden, test the tainly cared nothing about them, now.] see if it is sour. The test is She nodded peacefully, heT eyes on] by taking a half glass of so the shining water. "Oh, I don't care [adding water to make a mudd; ything about the books," she said, [ tion. Into the mud put i i tJh«4 oil to. Baked 'when I've got this." Care of Seed Potatoes and Preparation for Planting. Selection--In arranging for the seed suipply of tubers for one's crop, the first steps should be taken during the growing season to get the seed from healthy, vigorous, large-yiel-ding hills. When harvesting time comes these hills should be gathered separately from the rest of the crop. The tubers should be sun dried and all showing cuts, bruises or disease of any kind, thrown out. Such supply can then be kept for a seed area for the following season. Where the main crop is destined for this seed trade, equally good care should be taken in the harvesting and sorting before going into winter storage. If the weather is bad at digging time, and the tubers have to be taken wet from the field, they should be spread out to dry on a barn floor or other airy place and be re-sorted before going into storage. Storage--The best storage for maintaining vitality of seed tubers has not, so far as the writer is aware, been absolutely determined. Seed from a dry cellar with temperature rur . ng from 40 to 50 degrees has bee •. equally vigorous with that from a moist cellar at a temperature of 34 to 38 degrees, though, of course, there would be great loss of bulk and weight in the former case. Potatoes kept in pits with excess of moisture and minimum of ventilation have also given vigorous plants. When potatoes are first stored there ohould be free ventilation to carry off all Latent heat and moisture and to reduce temperature to below 40 deg. If the floor of storage is very damp the bin had better be raised by a wooden floor. If it is dry there is nothing gained by the floor. If bin; are very deep (over six feet) they had better be broken up by hollow partitions placed not more than tan feet apart; though the writer has seen potatoes keeping well in very large, deep bins. The storage should be so constructed as to keep cool in the Spring, ahould be possible to keep it below 40 degrees, to prevent sprouting until such time as the tubers are wanted. Forced Sprouting--For an early crop, it is a common practice to take the seed tubers to a light room of about 60 degrees temperature by the 20th March, to give them fou. to six weeks to warm up and sprout. A thick green sprout not more than a half inch long is wanted. The exact gain been determined. In one trial at the Experimental Station, Frederic ton, the difference in growth as between seed so treated and seed-taken immediately from the cellar, was very j the right of every slight. Plants from the sprouted seed of his toil subject : were only from two to three days <'f the community of the others. blue litmus paper which you ( cure at the drug store. If the turns red, the soil is sour. To i this condition apply evenly pork chops are a delightful rom frying. Wipe and trim d rub a bit of fat over the if the pan. When smoking in chops and sear on both lace in a hot oven and cook ill browned--about fifteen Salt and pepper and serve .. APRIL J7TH Bible Teachings About W^Mfc/tfark 6 1-3; St. John 5 17; 2 Thess. 3: 6-13. Go Hen Text--Rom. 12: 11. r (1) the rigl i to work, (2) to the product s to the rights whole, (3) the right and duty of every man to lay up Disinfection-To kill any spores of in store> \01' J*f« and. *f common scab and to some extent some Part of that Product< and )?> Phi,^f™£ \ i! I l ' the right of every workman to the Rhizoctoma, the potatoes should be * 8K:, Un.»: wUch is his due. treated with a disinfectant. The The Bible a'so recognizes that a man safest to use is formalin, at tbe rate may freely yield up any or all of these pint to 30 gallons of water. The rights that he may the better serve tubers are best bagged and then mersed for two hours. Investigators are now trying out methods of disinfection whereby the use of heat and greater strength of solution will materially hasten the process of disinfecti Cutting the Sets--Experiments have proven quite clearly that the most economical way to use seed is to cut to sets weighing not less than one ounce and not more than two ounces, with from two to th»-ee eyes to the set. Cutting by a machine or a cutting board may be economical in large ccrnmercial operations, but as when using these the size of sets and number of eyes cannot be well regulated nor elimination of internal disease carried out, the advantage of speed may not be good economy. To make sure that no sets infected with Black Leg, Fusarium Wilt, Late Blight and other possible troubles are planted, the best procedure is, first, to throw out all cut and bruised tubers, cut a thin slice off the stem end and then discard any tubers showing discoloration. Two knives should wlll be used, one kept standing in a can Himself and those dependent upon' recruits; tentmakers, fishermen, sol-of formalin solution; immediately a | Him, and that at the call of God Hejdiers, lawyers, physicians, carpenters, discolored' potato is cut, the knife used I turned aside from that kind of work 1 statesmen, household servants, sellers God and his felh us in Christ the great denial. The Gospel of Mark is generally held to be the earliest of the gospels, that of John to be the latest. The epistles to the Thessalonians ar3 among the earliest writings of the New Testament,- and were sent from Corinth by Paul about the year 52 A.D. Is Not This the Carpenter? St. Mark 6: 1-3. It is quite evident that Jesus had learned his trade, in the shop of Joseph the carpenter of Nazareth. Indeed every well brought -;p Jewish youth, in those days, was apprenticed to some craft or occupation, as Paul to that of tent-making. It is quite possible tha: Jesus became the ^support of His mother and Hf i folk'of Thessah brothers and susters after Joseph0 people whom they served ... pel, but because they wanted to sel a good example. They had said, ir their teaching. "If a man will nol work, he shall not eat," and they believed they ought to practice what they taught. The people were not yet prepared to understand the fact that preaching the goapel, and teaching the converts, made a sufficiently great and important wyrrk to occupy their --hole time. Busybodies. Paul had learned that among the Christian ica who were loafing, ter josepns!m>t worki "busvbadies instead of death, and that He continued to be b „ These were their support, until His younger bro- as idk ^ usa]ally do_ Paul &olenm. The danger from foxes animals and rodents is ever present,! especially in newly settled sections' when poults are permitted to roo^t! on a rail fence or upon the ground, j In the course of several evenings thej young turkeys can be induced to walk j up a long pole to the higher branches; of a tree, until they will de this j regularly of their own accord. Fori half-grown turkeys a high roost in an open shed which faces the south is preferred to the closed house. | For the first twenty-four hours thej newly-hatched poults should not bei fed. Little and often is-the rule fori feeding. Cooked food is preferred to uncooked. Young turkeys-sometimes have greedy appetites and can not di-: gest all the food they eat. In part this may be overcome by feeding little' and often, and in part by allowing, them to exercise and thus stimulate better digestion. , Feed on clean surfaces; young stock especially can not stand filth.: Some poultry raisers mix a little sand in the soft food given to the young. This aids digestion. Water should bo given in small shallow dishes. After ■ turkeys are old enough to turn* out on range it is a very foolish practice to stuff them with all sorts cf mashes, as overfeeding causes liver trouble. The best food is chiefly grain, given dry. Avoid sloppy food. They must have something green every day, and also some finely cut cooked lean meat when they are confined. During the first week feed with sifted rolled or ground oats, cooked and crumbled, and mixed with a beaten egg. With this give milk and -- .curd. Feed five or six times a day. loaf m your midst, we did not During the second week put wheat W*£^m?S f!,°"y onei ™>. toil-land ground bone in boxes where the nifhiTnd noT to^l! *W« ■* , *?» *«* burden to any of you." | dail>' feeds of mixed oatmeal, wheat Paul declares'that they did this r.oti middlings and ground oats, all cooked because they bad not the right to', together and mixed with chopped their support at the hands of the1 green food. Thereafter supply cooked rice, or turnips, or potatoes. Onion tops and lettuce, if chopped fine, are relished by the young. After they are a month old they can be fed cracked corn at night.1 After two months of age, two meals a day will be sufficient. Boiled eggs, fed exclusively, pro-J duce constipation. The following diet is used by some turkey raisers: Hard boiled eggs, with dandelion, lettuce onions chopped up with a small a mount of bread crumbs; to this add my to plant shelter-is, arbor-vitae, Nor-lalsam fir, a portion sprinkling of other a pleasant contrast. Every Brother That Walketh Disorderly. 2 Thess. 3: 6-13. Moffatt gives the meaning more clearly as follows: "Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us." Paul was no loafer. In Thes?abnica he and his companions worked at their trade and eani.-d their living while they preached the gospel. "We did1 curd HIDES-WOOL-FURS WiLUAM STONE SONS LIMITED WOODSTOCK. ONTARIO ESTABLISHED \B70 GENUINEFENCE thers were able to relieve Him, was not until then, when He was about thirty years of age, that He left the carpenter's bench to take up His great ministry of preaching, teaching, and healing. It is equally true that Jesus worked with His hands to earn bread for ly charges and exhorts them to keej quiet, to get to work, and bread honestly. Application. A well-known English preacher points out from how many different "ings earliest Christianity got its should be put in the disinfectant and the other knife taken. As the sets dry out quickly when cut and will heat if left in piles or barrels, they should be coated with dust. Gyrp3um, or land plaster, of the best materials to use, and if from two to four quarts is spread through the barrel of seed the sets will keep cool and firm without deterioration for days and even weeks. Air-slaked lime is frequently used and sometimes road dust and sulphi Lime, if not thoroughly slaked, may injure the eyes and makes the unpleasant to handle. There is no dearth of kindness ir this world of ours: only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.-- Gerald Massey: The Chinese, of all peoples, attach importance to etiquette, theii if Rites dating back to the lsl .nother. He sets an example of toil both of hand and brain. He is first craftsman, then teacher and preacher. Even then distinctions of labor were so marked that the people of Nazareth, marvelled how it could be that the carpenter whom they knew should have become so wise and gifted a teacher. But that experience was not at the work bench had brought Jesus: est toil, very near to the heart of the great' the people, "I Work. In Hi of purple, agriculturists, and a great many others. These early Christians carried on in their respective vocations, and thus adorned the doctrine of their new faith. Whatever their peculiar prejudices had been Paul made it very clear to them that Go! iself was a worker, and that there nothing to be ashamed of in hon-Work was something Which id be done to the glory cf God, it does to! and Recentl; | an experi< ministry'interesting. St. John 5: 17. Jesus is still the workman. The Jews a Russian to help hi by a narrow interpretation of the Sab-. After being with ' bath law had ferbi.-'den many kinds months the Russian Sabbath, a thing which mighi Ontario farmer told us e of his which we found Not long ago he engaged the farm. for asked for of -labor on the Sabbath, even the a private conversation, which was exercise of the' healing art, except granted. "Are you poor?" he asked when it was necessity for the saving the farmer. On being assured that of a life. Jesus, asserts His right to the latter was not in financial straits, do good on the Sabbath day, and the Russian continued, "Then why do especially to heal sickness and suffer- you work? In my country only poor ing. This is God's work, and in it people work; nobody works who can there is no distinction of days. "The do without it." This simple state-Sabbath," He said, "was made for ment reveals one of the causes of man, not man for the Sabbath." It Russia's troubles to-day. In that un-| " that we should presrve it happy land work is something to be I f{ I economical "American" Fence, the original and genuine, has stood the test of changing weather for twenty years. "Hinge Joints" and "Tension Curves" provide for expansion and contraction in hot or cold weather. Perfect Galvanizing. Rig Heavy Wires. Full Weight, Full Size Wire, Full Length Rolls, Galvanized Steel Posts. Manufactured by THE CANADIAN STEEL & WIRE COMPANY, Limited HAMILTON - CANADA Put Heart into the Soil Fertilizers give heart to the farm. They give more "punch" to the soil--greater power to "deliver the goods." A strong heart means biggest crops of best quality and early maturity. 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