v g ois 74 ; Potato i Potatoes are an writes Prof. A. A. kind, of the Vermont experiment sta tion perimer; station dairy cows, in 1896, 10 deter- mine the relative value of eorn silage and potatoes, 104 dry matter and silage amounts pounds, both of digestible dry mat ter, in similar latter were eaten even more than was the silage, yet neither more nor better milk 15 cents costly food for stogkthin was silage The buttep-ade from the ration contaitffig large amounts of pota- toes was a poor quality, tended to be salvy and did not keep well, proved superior to of potatoes Al Potatoes are best adapted to hog | feeding. In order to secure the best results, the potatoes should be cook- ed so as to be mealy, and be mixed with cornmeal or other ground grains to form a rather heavy mush In this form, they are relished by the swine Bkim milk makes a valuable adjunet to feed with the mixture of cooked potatoes and meal Pota toes alone cannot be used to advan tage as food nor can they be eaten by the hogs in any great quantity. Experiments at Wisconsin and else- where show that 450 pounds of eook- ed potatoes are worth approximately 100 pounds of cornmeal for swine feeding. Petatoes have not been used for stock feed in this country to a great enough extent so that the experi ment stations have made a study of ~ KINGSTON Kingston, MaHy 22, Meats, Beel, loéal carcases, 1b. Beef, hinds, 1b, Beef, cuts, 1b, Beef, western, 1b. . Hogs, live, 1b. . Hogs, dressed, 1b. . hogs, live, 1b. quarter, 1b, .... Lamb, frozen, by carcase, 1b. .... Lamb, spring, by carcase Mutton, 1b. Veal, by carcase,lb. ot on 22 0 We Pe Bloaters, doz. .... Cod, steak, lb. Eels, 1b. Haddies, finnan, 1b. Haddock, fresh, Ib. Haddock, frozen, Jb Halibut; fresh, ib. Herring fresh wa- ter, doz, Live lobsters, Oysters, quart ... Phere, oo "ine , dO%, ... ra 3b a... Plkb, Ib. 2...... Roek-fish, 1b. .... Salmon, Quaila, 1b, Balmon, cohes, 1b. Brockville Cheese Board. Brockville, May 21.--At the cheese board meeting yesterday 3,154 boxes were registered, of which 1,399 were colored. Prices took a decided drop, as compared with last week, when 18 3.4c was paid. The open- ing bid brought 17c, Webster get- inferior feed for | Bor- | In trials at the Vermont ex- | The | freely | produced | a bushel they weré 'fore | their use, L.. Stone of the i Cornell experiment station, in the {same paper We I Very, little | data. regarding the feeding of pota- live stock in Germany, whese the situation | different, the question studied much more The . general conclusion arrived at is that they may he successfully used in feeding dairy cows, horses, sheep and pig In the case of horses and pigs e German practice has been to steam the potatoes In America it is prob- able that surplus potatoes can best be used for dairy cows. The to: tal. digestive nutrient® TH a tou of potatoe wi! be slightly more than one-fifth as much as would be con- tained in a ton of cornmeal. The potatoes are even more highly car | bonaceous than the cornmeal and | naturally would be best fed in con- i junction with those feeds that supply ,an abundance of protein There is another factory, however, involved, that is of considerable im- portance, Raw potatoes are a suc- 'culent food, and used in connection {with a ration that is deficient in suc- | culence (usually one that does not | include corn silage) they would have {a value about that indicated by the {total digestive nutrients. Some succulent food ise-desirable in all ra- tions, and a moderate amount of stich food, when added as above, pro pduces an effect above that which would be indicated by the nutrients present. The writer's perspnal ex- perience is that as small an amougt as half a peck a day fed all dairy cows (lacking other succulence) pro- duces quite a marked effect in the milk flow, and two or three times this amount may be fed to advantage, if fhe potatoes are available. But they writes J. | toes to is considerably | has been | Farming is a most de Wn master The thoughtiul He ing wind: mR and s« opportunity position in which he may take a of body and character Journal, sirable em Farming is 'work that re anything is thought good enot s not cooped Apamengadrick walls with ~The farmer of to-day ca me luxuries unattainable by the city man. for a man with bare hands and empty packets to begin a miles of land in our country still to allure the seeker for a home, When your school days are past think of what the farm offers. more to the man who has no special employment than agriculture. To gef in touch with the old earth and { know the value of the soil beneath your feet is to farmer is | The ut the rhost scier ndence. h indepe } fa and informs himself ab nce, The day is past when a youth unfitt a farm. A farmer's work is in the sunshine, the pure OW "apertures from wh n have all the con There 1s laborer and attain a competence In farming there is a wide scope for ambition. and Wide Get back to the soil and gain in strength i just pride. Intelligent labor is needed as in any other business. No business offers | gain in self-respect and fcel nearer ta God. --Milwaukee ! | Arm should be introduced into the ra- tion gradually. To avoid danger from choking it is well to run the potatoes through a root cutter. It Is impossible to give a cash valua- tion to a foodstuff of this kind, ex- cept as a result of careful experi- ment. It is probable that under or- , potatoes mirght dinary"ecricumstances and the pres- ent condition of the grain market, be figured at from 15 to 20 cents g bushel for feeding purposes, and if sueculence were sadl- ly needed they might reach an ef- fect equivalent to a valuation of 25 cents 'a bushel. MARKET REPORTS Shad, smoked, { Suckers, Ib. {Trout, salmon, vie | White fish, 1b. 12% Poultry. Chickens, Ducks, 1b. Heng, dressed Hens, live, 1b. Turkeys, 1b. vn, Dairy Products. Butter. creamery 3, unis . Butter, prints, Butter, rolls 1b .. Cheese, old, 1b. .. Cheese, new, 1b. .. Eggs, fresh, doz. Fruit. Apples, peck ....$ Bananas, doz. .... Cocoanuts, each .. Cucumbers, each Dates, Ib. Figs; 1b. Grape-fruit, each . Lemons, Messina, LR Nuts mixed, 1b. .. Oranges, doz. .... Pineapples, each . S_rawberries, per ting the call, 17 1-2¢, and at this figure Smart, Webster and Bissell ealled. The salesmen were reluctant to part with their goods, and an adjournment was made without a sale being recorded. The street dickering brought an im- provement in the situation, the com- | The Newest Notes of Science Slots cut part way through the blade facilitate the work of a new hoe for mixing mortar and cement. A new dishpan is rectangular to fit firmly in a kitchen sink and has rubber feet to hold it steady. Horses in Iceland are shod with sheep horn and those in the Soudan are fitted with camel skin socks. A list of 36 household tasks which can be actomplished with the aid ot electricity has been compiled. Waterproof shoulder pads and body shields for the use of men who satry fce or méat have been patent- A German baker utilizes a wind mill to grind his grain into flour ana then to mix and kucad his dough. In a new electric filter for house- hold use current is consumed only as water is being drawn through it. A solder has been invented which holds rimless lenses against the me- tal parts of eyeglasses without screws Sweden has smelted iron for more than twenty centuries and some of the ancient furnaces still are in ex- istence. . A new telephone receiver is so small that it can be Inserted into the ear instead of being held against it. Half a part per million of iron fn 'water is detectable by taste and four or five parts make water unpalatable. To save weight a new automobile has mud guards like a bicycle and single steps instead of ing board a vented to set up pins in bowling al- leys as accurately ahd more rapidly than manual labor. A saddle has been patented by a New Jersey inventor which includes leather flaps to cover the buckles which frequently wear out ridders' clothing. Concrete arches resting upon bed- rock have been built in a New Hamp- shire cemetéry, to support. grave- stones in land too soft to -'support them itself. Both the transmitter and receiver The old idea of eczema being a disease of the blood has been pretty 'well explofled by the record-of cures made by 'Dr. Chase's Ointment. Some doctors still advise internal treatment, but the results are sl w 'and an, and too often a la- "Onions, green, Ss Sanderson raised to 20 Tomatoes, 1b. 20 se 1" 15 50 Beets, bush, Cabbage, new, Ib.. Celery, bunch Lettuee, bunch,doz, bunches, doz. Potatoes, bush. Parsnips, bush. ... Rhubarb, bunch". . Turnips, bag 50 50 Ts 10 15 9 Barley, bush. Bran ton Buckwheat, bush. . Corn, yellow feed, bush. Corn, cracked cwt. Corn, meal, cwt, .. Flour, ewt. ...... Hay, baled, ton .. Hay, loose Oats, local bush, . Oats, Man., bush,. Straw, baled, ton. . Straw, loose, ton . Wheat, bus!. Hides. Hides, green, 1b, . Heavy bulls, 1b. . Veals, green, 1b. Deacons, 1b Ge to Tallow rendered in cakes .... Kips or grassers, 1b. ........ mmm petition resulting in as high as 18 1-4¢ being paid, although some dealers claimed to have secured their lots at 18¢. The Lovell & Christ. mas representative bought heavily, but the regulars went into the usual channels, The day's transactions re- present about 6,000 boxes, of a new French telephone can be hiddén in a case of fowers, a table ornament or any other inconspicious object. The United States navy will es- tablish a wireless station on Cape Cod especially equipped to guide vess sels along the Atlantic coast in time of fog. Extra leaves of a Pennsylvania in- ventor's extension table are carried beneath the top and raised into place for use by turning a pair of thumb- Screws. . Under a new Government decree, Danish millegs must extract 64 per cent. of the contents of the grain when handling rye -and 68 per cent. when handling wheat. Recovery of silver from the worn out fixing bath used in making mo- Eczema Was Cured Twelve Years Dr. Chase's Ointment Proved to be a | og ease. 1 had eczema on my leg and suffering terribly from the itching Lastentiop , 1 DRC yy 616,300 tons. Increase and improve-! ment were noticeable in almost every province, Relative to the argument sometimes advanced that Canada is sitnated too for north for the pro- | duction of corn, Dr. A. Malte, | Dominion Agrostologist, says that] while there are districts in Canada where Indian corn could and should| be grown to the greatest advantage, there are also thousands of square; miles where profitable growing would | be very d'ficult. After stating that| the quality of the ensilage produced | by a certain variety of corn would be the factor which should guide the, THE CULTIVATION OF CORN The Agricultural Gazette in a re- cent number containéd much import- ant matter relating to the cultiva-- tion of corn. "By the aid of scien- ce," the Gazette says "great pre- gress has been "made in extending and improving the corn crop in Can. ada." In thirty years the yield has increased from a little over nine mil- lion bushels to nearly seventeen mil- lion. In 1893 the yield of fodder corn was 1,049,524 tons. Twenty years later, or in 1913, it was 2,- RAISING POULTRY rn In the "Rural New Yorker," a cor- | respondent who has a few acres of | ground and proposes to raise Poultiy | very extensively, inquires what grain | he should use. George A. Cosgrove, | who is one of the best known authori- ties on poultry matters, relates a bit of personal experience cov 'ne the question, and at the sa ¥ fording an objeet des This is the time of year to some forage crop for the hogs and | young stock. Too often we find the| hogs confined throughout the season | {in a small dirty pen on the hot side of { s Time ar-rume tam buildings. Hogs need al worthy the | cool clean place , "h plenty of jvat-| ' I poultrymen of 'either | er and green foragé J "S- Hogs | large or'small pretentions. He says: | can be grown on factory ' £70 and The question reminds me of gome | purchased feeds but this methba * personal experience. that may be of | expensive. Also, they ean be grown benefit to D. J. H. and others. 1|to better advantage and with greater sow | te says that the experience gx | reage of early varieties rather than! } n at Free hours "then "take to the brooders:{* | ing EEE Weights For Yegetzbles farmer in his choice of seed, Dr. Mal- the Experimental Farms tes the wisdom of increasing t does not appear to be generally X the Dou oa, Govern- t year, under the -title of to Amend the Inspection " passed az bill iixing standard weigh for vy ables, which came force January 1st, 1915, d weights pe shel ATHY ke = Beans 60 lbs, Beets Fu iv au ..- B60 lbs, Blue fae BETES SE 50 los. 40 lbs. 60 lbs. «+» 44 lbs, 36 lbs. 50 Ibs, ibs. ibs. lbs. ibs, of depending on large yielding late sorts for the desired tonnage. Care Of Duckiings. *s When: ducklings are I hed they] should remain in. the incubator fer after which they are fed and watered 561bs for i The first few should be guarded very ly, and do not allow them to be- come wet or chilled, and after feed- see that all get bask into "the broader. In the course of a few days they become accustomed to their surropndings, and give no more trouble in this respect Their food during the 'first week consists of equal parts of corn meal and bran. mixed to a crumbly mass with either water, whole milk or skimmed milk They should be fed this mixture ev- ery two hours what they will eat up clean, no more, no less. During the folowing five weeks they should be fed four times daily on equal parts of wheat bran, cornmeal and ground oat feed, § per cent. beef mezl, 5 per cent. grit and some green stuff, such as cut rye, chopped cabbage, etc. The seventh and eighth weeks they should be fed three times daily with equal parts of cornmeal and wheat, 10 per cent. beef scraps, § per cent. grit and plenty of green stuff From this time forward until the tenth week they should be fed three timgs daily with two-thirds cornmeal and one-third wheat bran, 10 per cent. beef scraps; 5 per cent. grit and very little grean stuff, Castor beans Clover seed. . Hemp seed Malt. Onions Parsnips . Potatoes .... Timothy seed Xurhiifs 0... Li Weights per bag are:-- Artichokes .... .. . Beets Carrots Onions .. Parsni .s Potatoes . . ibs, (Taips ... .. .. .. ia Ibs. A barrel of potatoes, unless a bar- rel of specified size, kind or content by measure, is specially agreed on, must contain 165 Dominion Standard pounds of potatoes. " Any person selling, or offering for sale by the bag any of the vegetables specified , above, in case such bag does not contain the number of standard pounds mentioned, is Hable to a penalty not exceeding $25 fora first offenice; and for each subsequent offence a penalty not exceeding $50. bs. Tbs. lbs. lbs. Ibs. pn, EORAGE CROPS FOR THE HOGS latter part of June. If the area is, dry rtalks of corn. This grain crop large erough and not overpastured! will finish the hogs. preparatory to 3 there will be a supply of fine succul- | marketing dr killing. The good ent green feed throughout the sez-| feature about this plan is that it re- son. This will be suitable for both | quire: little cash outlay. The farm hogs and calves. {labor and land is utilized, as it If it is desired movable fence |should be, to grow crops that will be may be erected through the pateh| turned into cash by the most direct and the hogs may be confined to one | route. It is entirely possible to half of the area for definite pericds,! make more clean money from this but if the area is large enough they { practice from the hogs raised than wi. rot need to be changed from ote | it would be from the crops if grown, lot to another. There should al-| harvested and sold. direct, and the a had a lot next my henyard 300 feet | long by 170 feet wide. I had it| ploughed, and planted flint corm-en | all but a strip on the north side 200 by 30 feet, on which I later sowed | oats very thickly and harrowed thém | in. On the oat-sowed strip I placed a row of small poultry houses and put 400 chickens in them, when the corn was three to four inches high. The chicks were then about six weeks old, and the oats just beginning to prick through the ground. I would draw a hoe across that 300-foot strip naking a lMttle furrow that exposed the white rootlets of the oats, and tho chicks would dig all day long af- ter those rootlets, they seemed to like thc white rootlets better than the green sprout, but they ate it all, and the oat too. When they had clean- ed the ground I sowed more and hor- rowed "it in. Every time the corn was Itivated there was a long string Of chicks following the eulti- vator, feasting on worme, bugs, ete, and as the corn got larger there was shade from the sun, and shelter from hawks all summer long, while the aroppings from 400 chicks every day were not doing any harm to the land or the corn crop. When the corn matured in the fall the chicks, then weighing four to five pounds each, still continued to run in the corn, and they learned to pull the husk off and pick the corn off the lower side of the ears, but I did not mind that any, as it was all for them anyway. 1 tiog-picture films has been found profitable by at least one extensive film manufacturer. By a Delewarean's invention a golfer can practice in the privacy of his home, a ball mounted at the end of a wire revolving about a base when it is struck. With capacity for 30 loaded rail- way cars and 1,000 passengers, what is said to be the largest boat of the kind on the Great Lakes recently was iaunched at Toronto. | Colored clock faces, lighted from beh'nd, have been found availabie for telling the time in motion-picture places without their light interfering with the pictures. Primarily for the use of invalids is a chair invented by a Tennessean, so equipped with mirrors that an oc- cupant can see what is going on around him without rising. Experts from the United States and England have agreed upon inter- national standards for electrical mas chinery which are expected to be adopted throughout the world. A new motion-picture film has three rows of pictures, side by side, the projecting machine automatical- ly switching the light from one to anothier at the right instant. in profit whehg the method of supply-| ing forage thon: is employed. With the latter plan little or no purchas- ed grains are necessary. The following plan is being follow- ed successfully by a number of farmers in the country; An area of land adjacent to the barns is fitted | and properly fenced to confine hogs. | On this area a mixture of forage| crops composed of oats and peas. vet-| ches, clover and dwarf Essex rape are seeded together. This should be done early so that the crops will be large enough to pasture in the SEAGER ways be mote feed than necessary.' The reverse conga. ion would result! detrimentally to tie °ToPs and .the| hogs. The rape and vw 'ch and clo-{ ver should continue to gro¥ through-, out the season. In some BStances| early and late seedings co.'d be made on two different areas. : i Carrying this plan a little fart. © | Some plant, in addition to the fol: labor is materially reduced. In carrying out this piece of work one should not forget to sow some oats and peas or oats and veteh for green feed for the dairy. And suc. culent crops suitable to feed +the cows during the scant pasture season in July and August will do. The idea that should be kept in mind In this connection is, to prevent the age area, an acre or so of flint corn, "ows shrinking in their flow of milk adjacent to the pasture lot. in and permitted to harvgst the crop. | Little will be. wasted er than the cut corn out of the ration 1 fed them, as they.got plenty of that in the field. This 'worked so well that I put a six-foot poultry wire fence around that field, sinking it in the ground to the bottom of an eight-inch furrow, to keep skunks, woodchucks, etc, from burrowing under, and planted that field in corn for seven success- ive years, and always had a good crop. There was a small fraction over an acre of the corn ground, and the best year I had 113 bushels of shelled corn from that ground; 165 bushels of ears that shelled twenty- two quarts to the bushel. The young chicks cleaned that ground of weeds so thoroughly that for two years i did not touch a hoe to it, and only cultivated it twice in the season. But 1 went through the rows and pulled out what weeds I could find, before which folds into a watch case has been invented to relieve a person of the unpleasant necessity of using un- sanitary public instruments. If the heat and muscular effort ex- pended by an average man in a day could be converted into elecirical en- ergy it would be sufficient to run a sewing machine motor for 10¢ hours. On the back of each seat of a new London theatre there will be coin-in. the-slot telephones to enable persons with defective hearing to listen to what is being said on the stage. In a mew type of interurban ear the enginé runs at 4 konstant rate, the speed of the car being governed by friction drive, which is applied to each of the eight wheels independ- ently. A Saint Louis inventor has pat- ented an incandescent lamp stand iz was time for them to mature seed. I never saw a piece of ground so free from weeds. A piece of worn oul sod was turned over in another lot, rhout 200 pounds of ground bone put on it and buckwheat sowed. This buckwheat would average very near five feet high, and matured a fine crop, but about the time to har- vest it a heavy rain and wind came and nearly half of it lodged down on the ground. This I hed to cut with a4 scythe and dumped it in a great heap in the henyard. The hens work ed in the heap every day, and that heap utterly disappeared, was broken up, and washed away by rains, but not a kgrnel of buckwheat was lost. ; Professqr Clinton, of Storrs College told men that it was not the ground bone that made that tall buckwheat, but that the soil was full of nitrates. When | Nog! this corn is ripe the hogs are turned | never dry season. If you have ork 50 before do it now. Sow some Vee rive 3 the hogs and cows. Pn Another fine crop for D. J. H. to raise is mangel beets, for winter green food. They are the easiest to keep of anything, can be piled up in the lar like cordwood, but must be well ed off before storing away, or they will rot. That is, it won't do to pile them up in heaps if they arc at al) damp. Part of mine this year have rotted, because I was careless and piled them in a bin while damp. The corn stalks chopped into pieces two or three inches long make a very good litter for the hen houses, as the grain easily sifts down through them. Buf! the best litter was oat strow with the unthrashed oats still in the heads. Let the oats get ripe, cut them and tie into bundles, and store them away for winter. The hens won't let any oats go to waste, that can be attached to the edge of ij a desk or table, hung on a wall or piece of furniture or rested upon any flat surface. A German invention enables a per son to take a steam or hot-air bath at home, a hood fitting over one end of a bath tub and the regular hot water supply furnishing the steam 1 or hot air, King George and Earl Kitch Secretary of State for War, have g to the north of England to inspect plants in which munitions latest hair-goods fashions and wi Randolph, on for bald men, at Hl 'will display and démonstrate a sample stock of the for ladies, and toupees 1 Wednesday, May 26th. FOR LADIES: Dorenwend's Transformation by. overcoming every defeet of your own hair will assist § you to at your best, always. Switches, i Wavelets, dte., of the finest! quality hair and unsurpassed workmanship. are invited to inspeet these goods. You