WHY WORRY | Choose your variety and ask your er for A "Clar s, Come Early? FOR FIRST CHOICE OF COM. | ING SEASON'S NEWEST SUIT- INGS, | NOW ON HAND MEST VALUE IN CITY. Ashby the [ailor 76 Brock St. "Phone 1518 AGRICULTURAL TOPICS © FOR WHIG READERS How Cows Differ Records show that in one month a seven-year-old cow gave 1,430 pounds of milk, but another seven- year-old cow in the same herd gave only. 400 pounds. Again it is found that twenty-two cows averaged 1,197 pounds of milk in a month, while another lot of twenty-two avéraged only 545 pounds of milk. Cows that are kept as dairy cows, fed and bred for production of milk and fat, are proved by their records. Even from amongst those so kept, selection is necessary, otherwise the herd will fall off in its average. But the in- dividual record, so easily kept, will point definitely to those which are worth keeping. The value of a pure bred dairy sire is also revealed when comparing herds. One herd of fourteen cows gave 306 pounds of fat in a month. In an adjoining herd of fourteen, where cow testing bas been carried on for four years and where the sire is pure bred, the yield was 5566 pounds of fat, in other words the in- come was seventy-five dollars more for that one month. Keeping Milking Utensils Clean The milk utensils should be rinsed out each time after using with cold water before going through the regu- lar washing process. Then wash in the usual manner with a brush in- stead of a rag. The brush will be found more effective for removing dirt and grime than a rag, as the brush gets into all corners. Then after one is used to using the brush it will be found that it requires less work to keep the milk utensils clean and sweet. Another important rea- son for using the brush is that it will" not collect bacteria an a rag will. After the milking utensils have been washed and scalded place in the sunshine. : ig -- How to Send Eggs to Market Provide clean, dry hay or straw or a suitable material for the nests, re- new the material frequently and al- ways when it becomes wet or soiled. Collect eggs every day shortly be- fore noon, or preferably at noon and at dusk. It is especially advisable when hens are broody to collect twice daily. On no account should eggs which have been found by chance in nests {in the open during harvest time or any other time be mixed with those intended for market. Any such eggs which are not fit for consumption should be used at home. Any dirt on the egg when it is collected should he removed by means of a dry cloth, or if that method 'fails .a slightly dampeped, but not a wet cloth, should be used. Do not wash hen eggs nor put them in water, nor use any chemical to re- move the dirt, Butter Troubles One of the troubles most common- ly met with in butter-making during | the winter months is what is known 'as "sleepy" cream, and one frequent- [ly hears of cream being churned for ---------- | hours before yielding up its butter. Why Pay High Prices? Will Give xon FIRST CLASS GOODS The Style and Fitting will be Sa Faultless The Finsh and Workmanship will be perfect. The price will be from $2.00 to $7.00 LOWER than you bave been paying RALPH SPENCER The Tailor, 620 Princess Street Opposite 8t. Andrew's Church A A SALTS IS FINE FOR KIDNEYS, QUIT MEAT Flusy, the Kidneys at once Back Hurts or Bladder No man or woman who eats meat regularly can make a mistake by flushing the Kidneys occasionally, says a well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid which clogs the kid- ney pores so they sluggishly filter 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, diziness, 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 wring in cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of pass age or abl by a sewsation of scalding, stop eating meat and get about ounces of Jad Salts from any phanhacy: take a _ table- spoonful {iy a glass of watefbefors broakfast. and in a few days your kidneys will act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lith- ia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate the kidneys: alto to neutralize the acids in urine 80 it no longer causes irritation, thus ending bladder weakness. ; inexpensive and can- not iniure: makes a delightlul effer- vescent drink which all Tegular meat eaters should now and then to p the. clean and agtive, voiding when | pure at {The following are some of the prin- {cipal causes for this abnormal con- dition of cream: | (1).Churning at too low a tem- perature. The cream in this case {simply thickens and clings. to the sides of the churn and so fails to get the concussion necessary to cause the butter globules in the cream to | adhere together and forin butter. {The churner will notice that the cream fails to drop with each rovolu- tion of the churn. This shows that the cream is "asleep" and that the process of churning the cream into ) butter is not progressing at all. The remedy is to stop churning and add water of a suitable temperature, then resume churning and see that the gream drops with each turn of the churn; matters should then progress satisfactorily. (2) Cream which is improperly ripened, or which is over-thick or too thin. During the winter months j cream is often kept at a low temper- ature. Acidification is therefore very slow, and the normal ripening pro- cess is not accomplished. Cream should always be regulated to a pro- per consistency when put in the churn (3) 'Failure to ventilate in the early stages of churning causes a col- lection of carbonic acid gas and the cream swelis and does not get pro- per concussion. Addition of water of suitable temperature and ventilation on resuming churning will generally remedy matters, but it must be noted that the cream "drops" each time the churn is turn- ed. | (4) Feeding has .also a certain effect, especially if much straw is used, and cream from milk of cows which have been a long time in milk | is usuully hard to churn, the fat globules in the cream being small. if the trouble is caused by feeding it is a good plan to scald the cream to 160 degrees F., cool down and ripen by the use of starter. It is well to have a couple of negly-calved cows together with those wi have been in milk a long time, this will remedy the difficulty in churning. Rauge for Fattening Turkeys Turkeys should have free range while being tattened for market. We used to fatten the turkeys in small enclosures, but discontinued this several years ago because they did not seem to thrive well. After the first few days they would i begin to lose their appetites no mat- ter how great a variety of food Was given. The whole trouble was lack of ex- ercise. If turkeys cannot get plenty of exercise they cannot have a goed appetite, and of course will not gain in weight. : Beans Are a Profitable Crop The old-fashioned saying that land v. Jt fom joer tn, Stow 3 good crop. of white beans has been the cause of of many farmers growing. It is a mistake to imagine any soil will grow a good crop of beans or anything else unless it is in a good state of productiveness. From our own experience we are convinced that beans are one of the best cash or market erops that a farmer can grow for they are a cash crop that will always bring a fair price and find ready for .sale in all sections of the country. They are an easy crop on. the soil and beans, wheat and clover and make one of the best and most profit- able rotations than can be planned out on any farm, especially where a limited amount of manure iz avail- able 2 Notes of Interest Producing clean milk not only pays from a health standpoint, but also from a financial standpoint, as clean milk will always bring from two or three cents more per quart than unclean milk will. It is more easy to produce clean milk if clean habits are formed and common seuse uses, and a little pains taken. Scottish convicts at the peniten- tiary at Pertlf are harnessed to a plough instead of horses. The pris- having open-air work, and so four- teen or fifteen convicts are attached to each plough; there is no charge of overwork. They are seen at work by the public at the Glasgow centre, and rather like seeing the people than otherwise. To finish cattle well is one of the objects of the feeder, and oatmeal Has a great reputation in this way It is said to tmpart that hardness of | touch to the flesh which the butcher likes. The Lest way to feed it is | merely to dampen it and roll it into of it at leisure. Don't go to hankering for more Too big a bite of even the best meat makes hard chewing and even harder swallowing. The experience of most poultry raisers is that hens will every time take to a dark nest rather than one exposed to the light. A hen will geek the bottom of a manger, digging her way down through the hay, rather than use a ready-made nest in plain sight. Produce. and Prices Kingston, April 24.--Market reports the following : Meat, beef, local, carcase, 10 to 12c.; carcase, euts, lUc. to 22c.; mutton, 11§c. to ldo; lamb 16e. to 220. Ib; live hogs, $9.00; dressed hogs, 13icg veal, Oc. to l4e.; lamb by carcase, 17¢. a Ib.; western beef, ldc. to lic. by carcase. Dairy--Buttar, creamery, 33c.; prints ey; eggs, We. Cabbage, Bo. to 100. head; celery, Se. to le. bunch; onions, 7¢. to) Bo. Ib.; carrots, 73c. bush,; pursley, 10c. bunch, J. A, McFarlane, Brock street, re ports grain, flour and foed selling as follows : Oats, 500. per bushd; wheal, 8! to $1.10 per bushel; yellow feed corn, 83c. per bushel; bakers' flour, 2.75 to $2.90; farmers' flour, $2.75 to $2.90; Hungarian patent, $3; oatmeal and rolled oats, $3.50 bbl; ornmeal, $2 per cwt.; bran, $25.50 per ton;. shorts, $26.50 ton; baled straw, 89 per ton; potatoes, $1.10 a bag; beets, 75¢c. bush.: looseistraw, $10; loose hay, $15; pressed hay, #15. The Dominion Fish company reports the following prices: Whitefish, 15c. Ib.; pike, 10c. to 124c. lb; live lobsters, 35¢. Ib.; scallops, 35¢c. a lb; blue fish, 150.; shrimps, 600. a quart. to 60¢c.; ciscoes, 13c. fh smelts, 10c., 20c.. 25. lb; silver Chinook salman, 30c.; fall salmon, 13c. Ib; 'rash haddock, 124c. Ib.; steak cod, 124c. li; salmon prout. 18c, 1b.; fil- lets, 15¢c. 1b.; finan haddie, 124c. 1b; salt mackerel, 160. 1b.; oysters, 50c. salmon, 2Be. 1b.: Kkippered herring, &0c.: Yarmouth bloaters, 40c. o2.; sodfish. 124c. Th.: halibut, 12}c. to 18c. imoked salmon and halibut, 10-. clerk Mercenary Insects From 'The Winged Armageddon," by Harold Kellock, In May Century The enemies against which the strug- gle is being waged are the gypsy and the brown-tailed moths, those terrible destroyers that threatened totally to defoliate New England, and bade fair to spread their devastations far heyond its seclers. The mercenary army is composed of insects the very exist- ence of which is dependent upon their cunning effectiveness as mothslayers. The lives of these minute warriors are consecrated to slaughter, and so well are they thriving at their sanguine task that, as far as the moths are con- derned, New Fngland to-day is a shambles. Last summer, in some re- gions, their numbers were reduced one- half by the wercenary invaders. This year's warfare is expected to result in more extensive destruction. The gov ergment scientists who have engineer- ed this most tremendous of all insect wars are confident that in a few years the moths will be under control. There may thereafter be occasional sporadic outbreaks of them, but they will no longer be a -ifienace snd a terror. No other nation "has ever gathered an army of alien insects to protect its fields and forests. It is far better to marry tor riches than for a chance to get even, Might may not make right, but it frequently succeeds in making good. _The pen is a mighty auto that some. times runs away with the chauffeur. giving up bean | ouners are fond of the opportunity of" i balls, allowing the animal to partake | land than you can take care of well. | CASTORIA The Kind You Hare Always Bought THINGS THEATRICAL : ---- foes About Plays, Players and Plaghouses. | Corl Maude, although aprpoach- ing the end of his season at Wal: lack's, New York, in "Grumpy." is still playing te a capacity business. i Margaret Anglin has scored one of the season's sticcesses in "Lady Win- , dermere's Fan' at the Hudson thea- tre. Since the opening perform- -ance, the house has been practically sold out at every performance. As , Miss Anglin was only contracted for four weeks at the Hudson, and on ac- count of previous booking arrange- | ments, the popular Canadian star and her splendid company were transferred to the Liberty theatre, | New York, on Easter Monday. "The . Truth," by Clyde Fitch, which Mr. Ames presented at the Little theatre, New York, April 14, has probably been translated into more languages than any other Am- erican play. "The Truth" has been given in practically every country of Europe, and there are versions of it in German, French, Italian, Norwe- gian, Danish and Swedish. At last "Uncle Remus" <has been dramatized, and by an Englishman: and the resulting play is nearly | ready for production in London. Mr. Man and Miss Meadows 'and de gals," dressed in the crinolines of the sixties, provide the human ele-" ment the piece and Cecil Sharp has adapted negro folk-songs for it. Julia Dean, an actress who has not yet bad a role in which to display fully her ability, will be seen next season in a play specially written for her by George Broadhurst. There is no emotional actress of the day who possesses greater promise than Miss Dean, who was seen here first in "The Lily" and this season in "Her Own Money." GUARD THE FIRES Cautions for Campers in the Forest Is Given Forest fires are caused, in only too | many instances, by campers and tour- | ists who leave their fires unguarded or are in other ways careless about their fires. Many of these 'holiday makers in the woods would be the last people in the world to wilfully destroy timber in this way, but yet a luck of care on the part of some co often had a most lementable re suit, Occaslonally what seem cases of ap- parently wanton carelessness are met with. A flagrant instance of such neglect was shown some time ago by a party ol seventeen campers i from Hamilton, Ohio, in the Tima- { gemi (Ootario) forest. reserve, which broke camp ome morning leaving yite 4 large fire burning. The camp { ere, in their special car, however, wore stopped at North Bav, and not alléwed to' proceed on thir journev until they had paid the expenses of extinguishing that fire as well as those of their own detention. Such cases are, fortunately, rare. Attention to a few points may save much loss from this cause. No match, cigar-end or other burning object should ever be'thrown.down in the forest uhtll' "Wofally extinguished Camp fires should not'be larger than is necessary and should not be loft, even for +a short time, unthl one Js perfectly sure' that they are "dead out." Pires should not be built in dangerous places, such ns among leaves, near rotten wood or any place where thev are likely to spread. Avcld building a fire aginst a large or hollow 1 for in such a place it fs hard to' know when fire has heen thoroughly extinguished fn windy weather a hole should hw dug down to the mineral soil and the fire confined jn thie. Old Fashioned Folks Old-fashioned folks! God bless 'em pall! The fathers an' the mothers, The aunts an' uncles, fat an' tall, The sisters an' the brothers. too, The passing time {i ves 'em, They still drop in to chat with you Whene'er the spirit moves 'em. The simple, unaffected folks With gentle ways an' sunuy, The brave and true That live life through Aud stay unspoiled by money Old-fashioned folks of solid worth, On them a benediction! The joy an' comfort of the earth, Its strength, without restriction The charm of every neighborhood, The tollers uncomplaining, The men an' women, pure an' good, Of fine an' honest graining: The plain and open-hearted folks That make no fad a passion, The kind an' fair That do an' dare An' are not slaves to fashion Old-fashioned folks, that live and love And give their service gladly, An' deem their neighbors worthy of Their help when things go badly. The. simple sharers of our joys, Sweet ministers in sorrow, They help the world to keep its poise An' strength for each to-morrow. The simple unaffected folks, That live for all about 'em, God bless "em all, This earthly ball Would dreary be without em. ~+EDGAR A. GUEST. Scared the. Judge John L. Toole"s propensity for prac- tical jokes once seriously alarmed Mr. Justice Hawkins, who was after- wards Lord Brampton, though they were close friends. They were at supper together one evening discuss- ing the events of the day. The judge incidentally mentioned that he in- tended on the morrow giving the man he had been trying fifteen years because he deserved it. As Toole was leaving he blandly inquired: "Ob, would you mind my calling at the newspaper offices and telling them about that fifteen years? It will be a tip for them--exclusive in- formation. you know and will do me no end of good with the press." "Good gracior s! No, sir!" exelaim- ed the judge; 'Who took the precau tion of accom ppru¥io hotel apd Fafely to bed. the The good old-fashioned neighbors, "Toolé to his siest Way to Clean Cutlery-- Just use a little Pan- shine sprinkled on a damp cloth, and let your cutlery be as dirty, greasy, grimy as it may, Panshine will make it glist. ening, sweet and clean in a For an casy shine, use Have You Tr.ed GYPSUM WALL PLASTER It Saves Time. P. WALSH 58-87 Barrack Street Jiffy. It's just as good for painted work and woodwork for pots, pans, linoleums and bathroom fixtures., Panshine is a pure, white and clean powder without any disagreeable smell and does not harm the hands. . 10c. At all Grocers Large Sifter Top Tin, B stands Pe SJ Bearer *Bawial SLY) Best Blend Ba#kung Bread [SY20177 4 STI700 1% [4 OT Gins --r Woman - has a perfect right to be particular abont shoes, for a woman's foot is meant to be prettily clad. What could be more dres- sy than the _ patent button here shown? Note the styles to the graceful lines, the smart appearance. No wonder the Invictus Shoes give - pleasure and comfort to the wearer. The Sawyer Shoe Store Agent. / This First Lesson in Economy is not alone for children. Older heads take it to heart, and profit by it. - Thousands of housewives have roved the economy of using "Beaver" lour for all baking. 13 DEALERS--Write us for prices on Feed, Coarse Grain and Cereals. THE 7. BH. TAYLOR CO. 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