a SBR 12 PAGES YEAR 835. NO. 276 MOTHER WAS KILLED AS CHILDREN HAD 70 |wINTER DAIRYING PAYS pe wT es se ptt prs. Vf 4 2 wa TR ae This little Belgian hamlet is being bombarded by the Germans. The lives of its inhabitants are in danger if they stay. The picture shows old men, tottering with age and infirmi- ties; women and' children hurrying away, accompanied by soldiers who will see them to safety. What they have managed to rescue from their homes they carry with them, wrap- ped in handkerchiefs and paper par- cels, it is little enough, perhaps just enough food to tide them over a day or #20 Not one, it will be noted, is clothed for a long joinrney in the _apen, they fled in whatever attire they were wegfing when shells first began to crash through the roofs and blow in the walls. Never will these people return to their homes, for it is on official record that after the bombardment not one solitary house was leff standing; everywhere was a heap of broken brick and layers of, dust and splintered woodwork To tha left of the picture are two little girls. They are pausing in their flight to: look hack. Their home fs in flames, but the cause of their hesitancy is more than that-- an hour ago their mother lived. She was working about the house when the shelling began, there was a crash overhead, and the next instant their home fell across the street, blown to pieces. "Mother" was found a few minutes later by & soldier, killed and buried by the falling masonry. There was no time to waste, shells wore falling faster and thicker in the village, and the two little children rm, ~~ WAR PUZZLES U. 8. THOOPE WERE PUT IN CONTROL Of barred zones In New York City, enclosed within barbed wire, one year ago today, November 27, 1217. Find a spy. " TESTERDAY'S ANSWER Right aide down nose in hat. " ~ na ywere hurried along the road away from the village with the other peo- ple. "When will father come back," they had one day asked their mother. "Not yet," she had replied. She could not bring herself to teil them that their "daddy" would never come back, that he had died for Bel-| gium in the first days of the war. Motherless and. fatherless, these two. children now face the world aloné.. They glance backwards, one can almost hear them asking: 'Is mother coming?" Poor little Bel- gian orphans. After many days spent in walking fong, long roads and nights spent in sleep in the open air with nothing to cover them, and little food to sus-| tain their little bodies, these two! children were finally placed under the care of the Belgian Relief Com- mission, and are now being tenderly | and carefully looked after. But the, lot of these children is but one case' fn thousands. All through Belgium to-day there are children who have lost both father and mother and i homme. _They have no one to care for | them; they cannot get food and their clothes are mere rags. What | must be the fate of these thousands { of little children this winter? Star ; vation surely unless help is sent to | them. And help can be sent to them through either your local committee lor through the. Central Committee, Belgian Relief Fund, 59 St. Peter street, Montreal. Canadians are asked to do some-! thing to help the little children of Belgium, to provide food, clothing and education for them. They need it, and they deserve it. The Belgian people cannot help them; their plight ia just as bad, so that yours is thel only help they can look to; don't disappoint them. ANOTHER RAW RECRUIT Captain ee Didn't you hear me give the command to fix bayonets? Rookie -- Yes, Captain; but my bayonet Is all right, there's nothing wrong about it to be fixed. THE HABIT REACHES BUGVILLE Bug Landlord--You must pay more rent or move, A Few Very Simp'e Ru'es for Econom'cal Feeding. A Profitable and Efficient Ration for Work Horses When Fall Work Closes--How to Feed Ronghage to Live Stock to Best Advantage. (Contributed by Oftario Department of Agriculture, Toronte.) NE great lesson which is be- ing impressed on the people of Canada at the present time, and which cannot be emphasized too much is the need for thrift or economy. In this connection those in authority ought to set a worthy example to what Lincoln call- ed "the Common People," of whom he is reported to have said, "The Lord must have loved them, because he made so many." Farmers farm, "not for fun" as a man said to me one time, "but fo make money." This may not be a high ideal for farmers or anyone else, but nevertheless it is a very necessary part in the lives of most farmers. The chief value of winter dairying from an economical viewpoint is, that prices for milk, butter apd cheese are always greater in winter | than in summer, and if the producer | of milk can keep winter production costs dewn to the level of summer costs, the gain in price for the milk, cream and butter sold in winter, is clear profit. Some claim that this cannot be done and that the extra | cost of feed in winter, more than counter-balances the extra prices re- ceived for winter dairy goods. . This is probably true where the cow-feeder is obliged to purchase all his concentrates in the form of high priced dairy feeds, such as oilcake, cottonseed and gluten meals, but where a farmer is able to grow all his roughage, and at least one-half the meal ration, on his own famnp, there is probably not so much differ- ence between winter and summer milk costs, as some would suppose, especially on high-priced land. Where cheap, rough land is available for summer pasture, then summer milk can be produced comparatively cheap. Another phase of milk production in winter worth considering is the labor problemi. In winter there is more time to attend to the cows than in summer during the rush, of work. Having the cows in a comfortable stable makes pleasant winter work looking after them. If at least half the herd be fresh during November and December, these cows will be go- ing dry at harvest time the following summer, and thus labor is more even- iy and more economically distributed throughout the year. Winter dairying may he warmly commended to the people' of the Province of Ontario who keep cows for profit.--Prof. H. H. Dean, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. FINE REST HOME. Mrs. H. T. Murray Presents It in Memory of Her Son. Brockville, Nov. 27.--Within a short time Brockville will have a fine rest home for returned soldiers through the generosity of Mrs. H. T. Murray. 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