ST try it, ICED. You can imagine it will be delicious -- cooling -- re- ing. Cowan's Cocoa is a perfect food-- easily digested--and absolutely pure. #9 TINS--X LB.-- 3 LB.--~AND | POUND TINS. AT ALL GROCERS COWAN'S ™ PERFECTION 6271 DEALERS stand ready to serve you with a a ROSE BACON A ND HH AM : Ne© matter where you go, no oh matter where you live, youll find a clean, bright, pro- gressive shop where you can get ose Bacon and Rose Ham. If you have not tried this savory, mild-tasting Old English cured bacon yet, just make up your mind to buy a balf pound or pound and serve it for breakfast tomorrow. MATTHEWS -BLACKWELL, LIMITED. Everywhere in Canada JJchased Jinto four compartments by remov- You may have your fox farms and other institutions, but J. H. Adams, E. F. Graff, C. 8. Knechtel, M. 8S. Armstrong, Ross Young, Charlie Cop- pinger and a few more of the enthu- siastic local anglers have started something real new and original here, says the Hanover Post. The present season promises to be the greatest the fishermen have ever known, and as a result there will be a big de- mand for bait. They are about to es- tablish a worn farm. Three acres of land, the site a secret, have been pur- for the establisment, and operations will commence at once. Stall-fed worms, domesticated worms temperamental worms, wild and un- tameable rascals, in fact worms to suit every mood of the angler. It is a big venture, but the men behind the proposition are confident of a tremendous success. This is not a stock selling scheme, the Tamarack Island fishing party being alone in the combine. However, the products will be for distribution among the angling fraternity. Fable of Retired Farmer. Once there lived a farmer who worked so hard he was too tired to 80 to church on Sunday. His hired men refused to stand for the first and last call to sowbelly at 3.45 a.m., and left before the end of the week. His wife milked the cows and hoed the garden because help was so hard to keep. The farmer voted against hard roads, and when he was elect- ed to the school board hired for tea- cher a young girl just out of high hool, because she would take the job for thirty dollars a month. In short, he squeezed the dollars so hard the eagle screamed. He would steal acorns from a blind pig. When the farmer was fifty he had a half section of good black land in the corn belt and money in the bank. He moved to town to enjoy a hard- earned rest. But his stomach was so tired of corn bread and bacon that it went on strike, and the farmer ate milk toast. He could predict a storm before the first cloud appeared, by the cracking of his joints, and he had to call for help to turn over in bed. One diy his doctor said he had ude enough money to buy a new tpuring car, and the farmer died of 'heart disease. Moral; It's a losing proposition to make a human barometer of your- self, The Real Turkey Trot. "When the young turkeys are as large as quails we let them out of the Coops, After they are four months old, they will usually take care of j themselves, but we always try to know where to find the one younger Jthan this, so that when a shower comes up we trot them in under cov- er." Such is the experience of ene farmer who has made a success of rearing turkeys. His feeding meth- ods axe also interesting. The first food is dry bread. A cake is made by taking one quart of cornmeal, middlings, and bran and one pint of sifted ground oats, sea- soned with salt and pepper with some sour milk added. This is baked and will last for several days. After the turkeys are ten days old they will eat crusts moistened in sweet milk after they are squeezed dry. No- thing sour is given them Sloppy food is also tabooed. Sometimes hard-boil- ed eggs are fed. At two weeks of age whole wheat can be fed at night, while cracked corn is given at one month. A Chicken Coop. A combination two-in-one poultry coop for setting hens and afterwards for hen and chickens is in use at the Montana Experiment Station. It is 6 feet long, 3 feet deep and is divided able partitions. At the back of each compartment is a nest, at the front is a sliding door which opens into a detachable runway. The front of the little house is three feet high and has an opening in the upper half, length- wise covered with wire screen and closed by a hinged door at the top. Four hens are set in this coop at one time. As soon as the chicks come, two of the partitions are taken out and one hen given both hatch- ings, while the other hen is put to more profitable work. When the chicks are ready to do without the hen, the hens are taken out, the oth- er two partitions removed and per- ches put in for the chicks to -roost op. The runways in front are then taken away also. " Black Walnuts for Hens. A lady who lives near St. Clair, IIL, and is a successful poultry rais- er, says that she secures winter eggs by feeding her chickems black wal- nuts. Théir farm has many wal- trees, they crack ap sometimes a bushel at a time for the hens, which industriously pick out every kernel, thus securing the rich oily food need- ed at this season and getting the ex- ercise of picking among the shells. The rich nut meals serve the same purpose as animal meats for the hens. Business Farming. Farming is always a business, but the average farmer keeps no books. He pays a bill, makes no record of it, loses the receipt, or keeps it in one of a dozen cluttered boxes where it | AGRICULTURAL TOPICS | FOR WHIG READERS | also rest better, of his experience feeding buttermilk. We have raised two good heifer cal- about it said she had raised fifteen, all on buttermilk, says the writer, calf away from the cow when it was drink from a bucket. Fed it on the whole milk fresh from the cow until churn then, changed to fresh butter- milk, using about the same amount as I did of the § milk and begin to plant ground I put down seed It took, cost, used, name of is paid, down goes paid, what for, and if By making or night the to date that an over the record, stock books, etc, and see In ments how affairs star farmer himself always his work. --~C., BE. patron himself is # dairying, rather than, let us say, fruit growing, and that his cows are fairly good, then it will be of inter- est to note how the farm is made to respond to this dairy fuelination. There are frequently noticed yields as low as 250 pounds of milk per ac- re cultivated, including pasture, but some good patrons obtain 750 and 800 pounds per acre. Even this is lit- tle enough, for there are plenty of authenic records of 1,100 and 2,100 pounds of wilk per acre. It should not be extremely difficult to obtain more than this--even 2,600 or 3,000 pounds. This latter figure is a long. long way ahead of the yields already men- tioned of only 250 pounds, which may be found on many a so-called dairy farm in Canada, and is indica- tive of the possibilities in reach of the factory patron who is really anx- ious to attain first rank. It is questionable if the average yield per acre in Ontario is much more than 600 pounds of milk. If loyal, whole-hearted support is given to the local factory and to ou. na- tional industry of dairying, the farm and the dairy herd will be made far more productive. Great help will be derived by keeping individual re- cords of each cow, because the old- established, complacent "average" cow has no intention whatever of as- sisting the average patron to get 3,000 pounds of milk from the aver- age acre. The first necessary step is to know for certain that each cow is a good producer, then one may aim with more hope at $30 or $40 per acre. Clipping Farm Horses For a number of years I have clipped my farm horses, and have found that it is not only a great ad- vantage to the horse, but also a great help to the man in charge of the teams, says a writer in Farm, Stock and home. A big soft horse has a heavy fleece of hdir which is us- ually slow in shedding. It is a handi- cap to the horse such as no driver will believe until he actually sees the difference for himself. The coat of a large horse with long hair, if clipped clean will almost fill a barrel loosely thrown in. Such a coat in warm, sultry spring weather will become so lathered with sweat, if the horse is working, that he will wot even be dried out the next morning so that he can be cleaned. Of course, good care and judgment must be used with a clipped horse. I usually carry old blankets to the field for use in case the team must be left stading idle for a time. On cold nights the stable covers are put on. Where there are several teams it pays well for one to keep his own clipper and to get the best. Mine cost $12 and a hand clipper, which is necessary to clip the legs and trim around the corners cost $1.25. It has been in use several years and still is as good as new. Several neighbors could co-operate in buying one. Where there are boys on the farm they can soon pay for a machine by doing elipping for others. The clipping is done on rainy days and generally on the barn floor. Be- fore the work is begun it is neces- sary to first give the horse a thor- ough cleaning. This = will not only save the clipper but a better job can then be dome. It takes.a good man at least forty minutes thoroughly to clean a big team after a day's work in warm spring weather when the coat is as stieky and matted together as though a barrel of New Orleans mollasses had been poured on the poor animal the day before. The same man can make a much better job in ten minutes cleaning on a well-clip- ped team. A clipped team will work better, eat better, feel better, and Feeding Calves Buttermilk. A writer in Hoard's Dairyman tells ves on it, and the lady who told us who is a farmer's wife. We took the three days old; and taught it to it was. twelve days old. IT began" fo y put- ting in enough warm water to make it about as watm as fresh milk. It the calf has scours; as the first we, raised did sometimes, I fed a handful of flour in a pint or two of water. "| When the calf » From left to' right: ENGLISH INTERNATIONAL POLO TEAM. Captain Lo ckettp*Major Barrett captain of theteam, Capt. Cheap who had his nose broken in practice, and Capt.Tomkinson. a. in the spring before the field is dry and before the grass has attained a good start in its growth, there will be a degenerating effect on both the cow and the pasture, is the opinion" ex- pressed recently by Mr. D. D. Gray of the Central Experimental Farm. Mr. Gray explains that cattle ac- customed to dry hay cannot have| their ration. abruptly changed to soft green grass without a-relaxation of the digestive organs, and purging, which is attained by a rapid loss of flesh, "An effect," he said, "will be exerted on the milk production and as a result the flow will not be great." Feeding cattle on dry forage dur- ing a week subsequent to their be- ing turned to grass is offered as a method of eliminating difficulty from that source. "My experience," says Mr. Gray, "has shown that cattle are eager to get dry feed at this time of the year and, if hay is not available, straw should be fed because even it is greatly relished." A gradual change is strongly urged, because, under those circumstances the organs of the cow become accustomed to the new food without the danger that is encountered in a radical change and also the returns would be much greater. ¢ Mr. Gray explains the damage done the pasture as due to the faet] that the early grazing thwarts later growth because of the tender blades being cropped off too close to: the roots. Also cattle on pasture trample the soft grass to such an extent that large amounts of grass are destroy- ed. Mr. Gray favors the method of herding cattle in the spring in order that they may be caused to remain on the dry land which is less sus- ceptible to damage. Speaking~of the system of feeding grain to cattle during the summer months. Mr. Gray piaces himself as being opposed tothe practice. "From my experience," he says "there is a time in the year when the cattle de- sire a rest from being fed grain, and I. think that time is when they can get a good mouthful of grass. I have also found," he says, "$hidt when cat- tle have been away from a grain ra- tion for some time, upon.its being re-commenced the results are much more pronounced and more extensive returns are received." The reason given for this is that when the cow has been fed a continuous grain ra- tion an equilibrium is set up and a steady supply of grain fails to pro- duce any marked effect on the flow of milk, whereas, when the cow has been given a real test from grain she will produce more milk from its nu- triment when it is being fed. Mr, Gray would give the cattle a ---- respite from peing fed grain from the time good supplies of green grass are available until the grass begins * ---- Kingston, June 12.--Market reports the following : Meat, beef, local, carcase, 12ic.; carcase, cuts, 100. to 220; mutton, Ife. to He; live hogs, 89; dress: ed hogs, 13c.; veal, 8c. to 12¢c.; amb, by carcase, $8; western 'beel, lic. to 15¢c., by carcase. ; Dairy--Butter, creamery, 30c.; prints 270; eggs, . to x Onions, Sc. bunch; parsley, 10c. a bunch; beets, 75¢. bush. J. A, McFarlane, Brook street, re- ports grain, flour .and feed selling as follows : Oats; 500, per bushel; wheat, $1 to $1.10 = per bushel; yellow feed corn, 90¢. "per bushel; bakers' flour, $2.75 to $2.90; farmers' flour, $2.75 to $290; Hungarian patent, $3; oatmeal. and rolled oats, $3.50 bhl.; cornmeal, $2 per owt.; bran, $25.50 per ton;, shorts, $26.50 ton; baled straw, $9 per ton' potatoes, $1.40 a bag; pressed straw, $9 a ton; pressed hay, 15.50. he Dominion Fish company reports the following prices : Whitefish, 15c. ih.; 'pike, 124¢. 1b.; live lobsters, 25c. Jr; blue fish, 15c,; ciscoes, 5c. Ib; silver Chinook salmon, 3 pet pound; fall salmon, 15c. pe und; fresh haddock, 1240. lb; » cod, 124¢.; salmon trout, 15¢. per lb.; Sa- ginaw salmon, 35c. per lb. KEPT SINGLE BY WILL Obligation Ends and Man Weds When 60 Years Old Death having s:epped in to free him of an obligation not to marry {aid on him by his father's will, Ho- ratio Burton, 60 years old, came to Baltimore from Glenarm and was married to a neighbor, Miss Mamie Wagner, 40 years old, of Parkyille. The will of his father, 'who died many years ago made his remaining single and caring for an old house- keeper one ¢f the conditions of his inheritance. of propercy, consisting of several farms -nd mills. For over three decades; although he met and admired girls and wo- men, he remained true 'to th provi- sions of the will. Six years/ago he met Miss Wagner and became her close fFlend. The death of the housekeeper a few months ago re- moved all obstacles to the marriage. The couple were married at the Caroline Methodist Episcopal church and went on a short wedding jour- ney. clerk At the age of twenty a girl thinks she ought do score in a love affair. TO SAVE ARAB BREED. Cairo Has Society to Preserve Fame ous Breed of Horses. The Arab horse, a race which has been all-important in the develop- ment of the most valuable equine breeds »of the present day, is said to be deteriorating in quality and di. minishing in numbers in its origi nal home, owing to changing habits of the Bedouins and increasing expor- tation. The Philippine Agricultural Review states that as a step toward ' pre: servimg this famous breed there ix being! formed in Cairo an Interna- tional Horse Society. The first work of this society will be to start a studbook, one part of which = will. include only pure-bred horses of desert origin, while the other will be open to all so-called "eastern" horses, i.e., horses bred in the near Bast, but having an infus- ion of alien blood. Pure-bred Arabians are now found only 'among the different Bedouin tribes of the Arabian and Syrian de- serts (in Mesopotamia and the Nejd), in a few private studs in Egypt, and in a very few Furopean and Amer- ican studs. The society will hold 'annual shows and auction, sales at which will be of- fered animals of certified purity of pedigree. JR LIPTON CONFIDENT. Shamrock IV Sails for United States on July 15. London, June 11,--Either extreme confidence or some ulterior soreness was undoubtedly respousible for the announcement which Sir Thomas Lipton made to a correspondent. The Irish sportsman said: "I propese to sail Shamrock IV to New York. I do not propose to ask the New York Yacht club for any further favers; that is, I will not request the privi- lege of towing the Shamrock. [I will sail the challenger across. If she sinks, well and good; but if she wins she will win without any concessions, and the American public will grant me the honor of having won without any sympathetic violation of the deed of gift or through any favors." Sir Thomas Lipton is as optimistie as usual, and believes that he has with the hew boat the best chance he ever had of winning the cup. The Shamrock IV, according to present intentions, will sail for the United States on July 15, In, Sharge, of Captain Turner. Sir homas Lipton and Designer Nicholson will follow shortly afterward. It will be Designer Nicholson's first visit to the United States. is indispensable to the prepa- ration of the finest cake, hot-breads, rolls and muffins. i "ROYAL Has No Substitute