Tips For - the Farmer _------ BY UNCLE JOSH. cocomannnas Post for Hogs. .1f a hog knew how to tell his wants he would demand a scratching post for himself. A successful Maryland hog- grower adopts this plan. Firmly plant a hickory or oak post four inches in diameter in the run. Coil a rope around the post as high as a hog stands and staple it on securely. Then thoroughly saturate the rope with crude petroleum and it becomes an ideal scratching post for hogs and pies. They will rub against it continually and oll is fatal to vermin, Kerosene can be used, but it evaporates too readily. Poultry Pointers. It isn't so much a question of keep- ing too many chickens on a farm as it is of keeping too many in one place. Remember that one bad cow will eat up the profits of several good ones. The man who puts the finest product on the market, no matter what they con sist of, is the one who reaps the bes rewards, . While it may not be always conven- oient to provide separate quarters fo: 'them, young stock will do better alone than with the old stock, Have the roosts«in the poultry-house removable and apply kerosenes on the under and upper sides once a week. A sandy soil makes a good poultry run, Filth is sooner washed into it and after a rain it is soonest dry. Then there is the grit. To avoid dampness in the poultry~ house she floor should be a foot higher of earth than the level of the outside lay of land. Then grade up to the out- side walls so as to turn off the water. No fowl is safe that eats with hogs. No one ¢an tell what moment a hog may decide to have chicken for & relish The more choice the fowl the greater the risks, . Ducks may be raised at little expense on the farm. They eat the food that is not desired by other fowls. Vegetable parings and food unrelished by either geese or chickens seem to be enjoyed. -------- Care of Implements. As soon as the season is over binders neseten o00casenedoOn | | without a doubt, much more than this is made by hreeders who have a special- ty, such as "Hot-house lanbs." There Lin My Cook's opiniot; more profit in, sheep-raising than in dairying, except where cows are kept and the product may be marketed under specially favar- ible conditions. 1f necessity demands it, sheep will get along for a few days without special care, but cows must have such care every day without a let-up. To secure the best results, how- ever, sheep 'must have attention and care. With poor care they will live and give a profit, but they respond readily, ind better care means increased profits, Give to them and they will give to you in a greater proportion. In order to keep sheep successfully you must have dog proof fences. vire fence is about the best. Better put your money into fences and keep less sheep than put it all into the sheep for 'he dogs to ruin. Also put the sheep n every night. After they become ac- -ustomed to going in it, takes hardly wy time to do this, as they will go in is soon as you open the gate. This is he safest way, as it insures absolute wrotection from dogs when one is round, The most favorable time for sheep o lamb is just before thew go out to Tass in nilk will then be the best. It is preferable that a sheep should ave one lamb rather than two, as one ood one is better than two poor ones, nd a sheep does not usually give en- ugh milk for the best develonment of wo lambs. Lambs should dress 25-30 sounds when ready for market. Mr Cook had one Southdown lamb that b dressed 27% pounds when 99 days old. A lamb will begin to eat hav and grain when about a week old, and should be weaned when four months old, although market lambs are usually sold right from the mother's side. The mother should be fed for milk, the same as a cow. A good grain consists of 50 pounds bran, 35 pounds cracked corn, ten pounds linseed meal and 10 pounds brown sugar, This is a good mixture for lambs and sheep. Sell the lamb as soon as he is in good condition, as it is hard to keep him there. Good Plowing. Good plowing is dependent on the fact that the best crop yields are con- tingent on a close capillary connection between the soil and the subsoil. This capillary conneetion is always broken by plowing, but its re-establishment may be made sute by either one of two ways: either by plowing long enough beforehand for the connection to be- come established or by stirring (disk- and other machipery no longer needed this year should bé carefully cleaned; the grease and dirt should be removed from the bearings, and these should 'be carefully oiled and all bright parts greased, to prevent rusting. Prepara- tions should he, made for replacing any broken or defective parts, If time does not permit of all this, make a memorandum to be governed by on some stormy day, and then see that everything is put in readiness for the next harvesting or haying season. Get the repaifs and place them on the ma chine at once. Take care of the plows. Get them under cover. Clean , and grease thé bright parts, so that when wanted next spring, they will scour and save the time so many farmers lose in sputting their implements into working order. The following preparation ap plied to the surface will prevent any rosting: Melt one ounce of rosin in a gill of linseed oil, and when hot mix with twa quarts of kerosene. This can be kept on hand and applied in a mo- ment with a brush or rag to the metal surface of any tool that is not going to "he used for a few days, preventing anv rust, and saving much vexation when it is to be nsed again.+-Grasmere. Thé Sheep Industry. Comparing the sheep industry with the dairy industry, Mr. Cook, President of the Commeeticns Sheep Breeders' As- sociation, believes that many of the dairymen are very much - dissatisfied with conditions as they are at present. Feed is high and miilk orices are low to the producer in the maiority of cases. This, he believes! will - cause many to make a change in their methods of farming, and without doubt a good many will take up sheep-raising and drop dairying. A fair profit, he esti- ing) the ground before plowing so that the soil which fall into the bottom of the furrow is fine and well mixed with any litter present, says Rural New Yorker. In many places farmers do. not seem to realize the importance of a close capillary union between soil and subsoil. They will tell you that straw or coarse manure will "fire" the crop unless the season be wet, but they do not seem to know that firing is due to the inability of the water in the sub soil to get into the furrgw slice where it could be utilized by the plant. 1 have seen timothy sod turned over in the spring, and the plowman thought he was doing a splendid job. Certain- lv it did turn over beautifullys and the furrows 'were straight; but "the capil- lary connection between soil and sub- soil was efficiently prevented. for months, ' To do a good job of plowing takes time. A plow which is deep in "the ground has a heavy draught, and to alow deeply and make a ¥eeord for rapid work at the same time is exceed- ingly difficult. It is much easier, there- fore, to do a satisfactory job in the fall than in the spring. There 18 always in the soring the hurry to get the crop in. Therefore, if the plow is cutting a deen furrow, and it is necessary oc- casionallv to rest the team, there is a tremefdous temptation to let it run just a half inch shallower. It would surprise you how much lighter it makes the draught, and the differerice in the time of planting the crop will make as much difference in the yield?as the depth of plowing will now, anyway. 'This ar- qument is perfectly valid at that time, but it does not follow that an earlier and deeper plowing would net produce better results tan either of the alterna- tives just mentioned. Furthermore, the mates, is $5 a head per year, although soil often becomes so dry at corn plant- reality only white dirt. T m, blackheads, Set | gait sheum, bl pimples and the wonder of all who use it. Jt acts as a food for the skin, and is con- Chase's Ointment cleans out the pores of the skin and increases skin as an elioyinating agent. If you would beautiful skin, Dr. Chase's Ointment will help you nothing else can. , 60 cents a box, all dealers. aple box free, if you mention this : Dr. the natural activity of the , healthy, to realize your wish as health and beauty of the skin. Skin powders are in and form a sort of paste, which seals up the pores and positively stops the natural eliminating action of the skin. "To have a beautiful skin, you should use of soap, and when roughness or irritation avs skin Ei the) 24 of Dr. ERSALS SHntment Wil soon restore the fatal smacthiiess wad beauty of Beauty of the Skin Cleanliness the Essential--Cheap Songs and Powders to be Avoided Cheap, inferior soapsand J pore-clogging powders are the greatést enemies to the hey absorb the perspiration ointment has in the cure of eczema, sll forms of itching skin eruptions is the spring, as 'the flow of} ing time that a good job of plowing is impossible. Now, this suggests the thought that ava rule we 55 not appreciate' fully the value of water. - Consequently we plow only to prepare a seed-bed, where- as we should plow with the additional purpose of conserving moisture, If we had any adequate idea of what an en- ormous amount of water it takes to produce a crop, how slowly water percolates to its place of storage in the subsoil, and how alarmingly tapid is its rate of evaporation if the store- house is unprotected, we certainly would do all we could to prevent the loss. As it is, the springtime is usually wet, at least the rains are frequent, and if the ground gets dry, why the next rain will wet it. We are no deeper than the furrow slice. We do not see that when the soil gets dry between rains it does so only after tons and tons of water have heen pumped up from the bsubsoil by capillarity and evaporated: and when the destructive drought of August or July is upon us it never occurs to us that its destructiveness is due to the loss of water from the subsoil in March and April. And yet such is the case. We are like a man who uses ice from his ice-house -in winter instead of from his pond. When we learn to put a higher value on the water in that storehouse--the soil--when we learn to plow to con- serve moisture as well as to prepare a seed-bed, then will we plow more deeply. and carefully, apd most of us who now plow late in the soring will olow much earlier, or even in the au- tumn hefore. Home Buttermaking. Market reports invariably quote creamery butter higher than dairy but- ter which is the designation given «to that which is 'made on the farm. It is unfortunate that circumstances at times make it impracticable for dairy farmers to patronize a creamery. When this can be done, not only are the profits, as a rule, increased, but much hard work is taken away from the over- burdened members of the family. There is no good reason why butter made in the home dairy should not be as fine as that made mm a creamery where cream produced under all man- ner of conditions has to be made up. All that is necessary is the carrying out of a well established system in feeding the cows, caring for the milk and cream and the churiiing and putting up of the butter. In order to teach the proper method of carrying, out these various operations, there has been prepared, under the direction of the Dairy and Cold Storage. Commissioner at Ottawa, a bulletin entitled "Butter- making on the Farm," written by Mr. (Geo. H. Barr, Chief of the Dairy Di vision. This work, which may be secured free from the Publications Branch of the Department of Agriculture, explains the common defects of dairy butter as well as the conditions that are necessary to produce fine flavored cream, = It then deals with churning, washing, salting, working and packing butter, and con- siders the modern necessary utensils and their care. These are shown in clear illustrations. § This bulletin, which is No. 17 of the Dairy and Cold Storage series, con- cludes with the following recommenda- tions :--"Keep good cows, feed them fiherallv, keep them comfortable and glean when in the stable, skim a rich cream and keep it cool, churn at a tem perature that will give a flaky granule in the butter: usé clean, pure water for washing butter. not. more than three de- grees colder or warmer than the but termilk. Put the butter up in neat, clean, attractive packages, and keep everything in and about the dairy clean and attractive" Working a Stallion. Generally speaking, there is no good reason why a stallion should not be put to work after the breeding Season is over. Such treatment insures regular feeding, grooming, exercise, and will give him the privilege of association with other horses, writes a stallion own- er in The Nor'-West Farmer, It will do away with the solitary confinemenet and irregular attention of which he is otherwise the recipient. Ii under ordinary conditions, at the close of the breeding season, a stallion is «pressed into regular service and ac- customed to work gradually, he will he the better for it in the end. Associa- tion with other horses will then come to be a regular occurrence, and the ob- noxious actions so common to stallions in harness will become less frequent. If conditions are such that a stallion cannot be worked, a large paddock of- fers the next best opportunity for ex- ercise. The difficulty encountered in such a method is that horses, particular. ly drafters, will not take enough ex- ercise of their own free will Oats shoulw constitute the basis of the grain ration for stallions. The efficien- cy of the grain may, in many cases, be increased by the addition of one-fifth or one-sixth bran. Roots of various sorts are palatable and succulent, and often improve the stallion's allowance. Bar- ley has been verv successfully used as a part of the grain ration. foe com- plaint has been made against the use of linseed meal and the writer would not advise its use, except in limited quantities. Good sound oats with a small portion of bran make® the best grain ration for stallions, - Whatever hay is fed must be clean and well cured. Timothy and clover, a major portion of the former, have proven. to be a very satisfactory hay ration . Alfalfa in large quantities as a stallion feed has heen criticized, the objection being that it lessens the ability of a stallion to "settle" his mares. Corn fodder has been found -to be inefficient, It contains 'too much crude fibre. A safe basis upon which to proceed is to feed one pound of grain and one pound of hay per 1 pounds of live weight: The amount should be sufficient to keep the horse in a vigorous and healthy con- _ldition,- vet not fat and lazv.. To sum. up the cardinal principles in! the success of caring for a stallion, tenty of good, clean food and water, fenough exercise and grooming alone (with 3 comfortable place to sleep, will, innder ordinary conditions, give very satisfactory results. y i Produce and Prices. Kingston, Nov. 22. ---Market clerk _eports the following : : Meat, beef, loval, carcase, $0 to $10; te, 10c. to Be acd 90. | cul Fea 10c.; lamb, 15c. to. 22a. Ib; oge, $9; dressed hogs, le o 14¢.; lamb, 2e. 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J oALTS 15 FINE FOR KIDNEYS, QUIT MEAT FLUSH THE KIDNEYS AT ONCE WHEN BACK HURTS OR BLALDER BOTHERS No man or weman who eats meat regularly can make a mistake by flushing the kidneys occasionally, says a well-known authority. Meat forms urie acid which clogs the kidney pores so they sluggishly fil- ter or strain only part of the waste and poisons from the blood, then you get sick. Nearly all rheumatism headaches, liver trouble, nervous- ness, constipation, dizziness, sleep- lessness, bladder disorders come from sluggish kidneys. The moment you feel a dull ache in the kidneys or your back hurts, or if the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of pas- sage or attended by a sensation of scalding, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from e¢ny reiiable phar- macy and take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate then to activity, also to neutralize the acids in urine so it no longer causes frritation, thus ending bladder dis- orders. Jad Salts is inexpensive and can- not injure; makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which all regular meat eaters should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and the blood pure. thereby avoiding seriqus kidney complica- tions. Agent, Geo. W. Mahood. ed wheat, 90c. per bushel; vellow fed com, 90c.; bakers' flour, $2.75 to $3; farmers' flour, $2.75 to $3; Hun- arian patent, $3; oatmeal and rolled only, 53.50 bbl; cornmeal, $2 cwt.; n, $23 ton; shorts, $24.50 ton; baled straw, $10; loose straw, $10; loose hav, 815; pressed hay, $15. Cabbage, 8c. to 10e, head; celery. Be. bunch; odfons, 50c. a peck; chick- ensi 15¢. to 1%. a Ih: pota- toes, $1.10 ; beets, Be, bunch; car: rots, h ch; y Be. bunch; cauliflower, 10c. 'to Me. each: egg plant, 15¢c. each; vegetable mar "Fhe Dominion Fish ny reports inion the following prices + Whitelah, 15¢ Ib.; pike, l0e. Chinook salmon 300. 1h.; kippered herring, 60c.; Yar mouth bloaters, iD, codfish 124c. 1b; halibut, 20c. Ib.; fresh had , 12}. 1b; steak cod, 124e. Th. salmon trout, 15e. 1b.; fillets, 15c. 1b: finan haddie, 12§c. 1b.; salt mackerel 15¢. Ib.; oysters, B80c. to 60c.; cis coe, 15c. Th. "Two" Said the Owl, "Ta-Whu" John McManus, C.P.R. baggageman, had an odd experience with an owl for a time. On his return trip down he was given a live owl which he brough i LAM at all, and soon his owlship sulgject for the taxidermist. Mr. McManus took the dead owl into the house and placed it down cellar out of the reach of the cat--ocoming upstairs again he was startled. to hear an energetic "tu-whtt"" from the sup- posedly empty cage, and was aston- ished to see the owl large as life and lively as ever in the cage. This made la problem hard to unravel and he hastily invaded the cellar again to seo if he had really put a - dead owl there, or was only dreaming. The dead bird was there all right, and the mystery resolved itself mto a question of two owls, "As the captive owl had been 'calling all night in the owl vernacular it may be sup- posed that its mate heard the mes- sage per owl wireless and hurried to the prison gate to try a rescue--and the sum and substance of the inci- dent was that Mr. MdManus had the owl all the time .and a new owl in the morning. He is going to have one stufied and let the other stuff it- self. --North Bay Despatch. was - r -- Distinguished Dunces. The finer individual qualities are oftan late in revealing themselves. Some mature slowly and are called stupid. Gaorge Eliot learned' to read with difficulty, Thorwaldsen, the sculptor, spent three years in one class in the village school; Burger, the poet of German ballads, required several years to learn the Latin forms; and Altieri, the Italian poet, was dis- missed by his teachers, 80 backward was he. The list of distinguished dunces might be indefinitely extended by adding Newton. Byron, Ibsen, Wal ter Pater, Pierre Curie and others. Tolstol, Goethe, and Dean Swilt were refused their degrees because they failed in their university ex- aminations, and for the same reason Ferllinand Brunetiere was ' denied admiscion to the Ecole Normale Supierure. At Cambridge, also, Sir William Thomson, who became Lord Kelvin was not a Semior Wrangler, though one of the examiners admitted that 'the successful competitor was not fit to ent pencils for Thomson.' -- Exchange. » en t---------- Elm Dale Budget. Elm Dale, Nov. 20.--Frank Cox shot a fine mink recently. Quite a number of people from here were present at the chicken supper: at W.'Johnson's, Long Lake, on Saturday rainy. The shooting match at F. Cgx's, on oy was well ional J. A. ('oulter ia able to be at work again, after having been under the care of Dr. Barker for the past three weeks Mr. and Mrs, A. Hayes have relurned home, aiter visiting friends in Tam- worth. Amold Miller and his sister, Miss Gladys, were at R. Coulter's over Sunday. Roy Barr and Mise Nettie Stinchcombe spent Sunday at f. Stinechcombe's; Nelson and Leslie Allum, Wolie Island, at J. A. Coul- der's; Miss Marjorie Parker, Mountain Grove, at A. Hayws'; Miss Gussie Stincheombe, at home; James Dawson, at E. Uen's;. Mise G a French apent Sunday at W. R. O'L. Coulter'sy Mr. and Mrs Otto Gorr and family, at William Miller's; Garoet and Max- well Coulter spent Thurrday at their ancle's, J. A. Coulter, Don't have too many 'things in mind that you intend to do to-morrow, Ot = Doctors Now Agree : On Eczema Remedy : Confirm the Staiements About D. D. D Prescription + fa Geo. T. Richardson, M.D.: In my the first gkin specialists in the. state opinion D. D, Db. s 1d be applied ih | of ansas. -- Write to-him, Dr. Ira T all cases of skin disensc--an immedi- | Gablgert, Caldwell, ans, ate relief to the itch, a dalm to ex If vou are affacted with any skin cited nerves, soft, soothing, vet a pow- | blemish, even the slightest, or a tem- erful agent, a strength to the géneral| porary rash, try D. D.. D, to-day. T system." Use it according to directions. 4. Dr. Unna Holmes: "D. DD as Notice how the skin 18 cooled, A near a specific for eczema and thelsoothed, smoothed, rgfreshed the in o dreaded psoriasis as is quinine for ma-| stant the liguid is used, ; laria. I constantly prescribe D. D. D Then continue with the simple wash, also for salt rhoum, tetter, barber's | and wiateh your cure . Th iteh, pimples, all forms of itching or- All druggists handle D. DD. D, Coma" upptions, scales, sores" to us and we will tell you of the mar- Dr. Ira T. Gabbert 'I freely ad velous efficlency of this remedy as well that D. D. D. reaches cases, and | ag the D. D, D- Bkin Soap. We offepes manently cures them, more eficacic the first full =i ottle on the guaran- ly than mine." * that 1 88 It does what is claim- 8s words are , it costs yeu nothing. i He Is known Geo, W. 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