Gh BAR PEASE SL ; RN Si Fim wer THE DRY! DEN OBSERVER aq ror the first twenty customers on Saturday morning with a $5 cash Grocery order: y vo Value of Cool Eyes By Dr. 1.1. MIDDLETON Dr. Middleton will be glad to answer this column. Address him at Spadina House, Spadina Crescent, Toronto, Ont. through ® moos OR -/ Eve Tosi ue is an important subject A large percentage of of this province.are un- the dangers to their eye- : £ fatigue. = We £ eyes----that is 31 i with nor For CASH ON LY he only ones we ever "will" have. It « most important therefore thal we jtry to preserve our sight as much a: 'possible and not whl ect to any un- necessary strain. For a long time it was thought that. strain on the eyes enly applied to students. Searcely anvhody suffered from eye headaches except the bookworms. Now we find {hat many other classes of people are affected with eye strain. / Take the farmer ploughing his furrow, who looks steadily at the ground hour after hour trying to keep ina straight line and trying not to "bite off" too much or loo little earth at each voll of the cod. To do this he keeps his eye mus- cles in the same state of contraction all day long. When evening comes he often has some little bit of ground to finish and keeps on in the fading light, thereby increasing the strain to which he has ben subjected all day. His muse les get tired, his nerves get tired, his brain gets tired and then when he goes Eins he often subjects his eyes to further strain by doing chores about the house or barn or reading the . paper in imperfect light: There is nothing that sooner reflects pon the general health of the individual i than eye strain for it has a very strong influence on the géneral nervous mechanism of the body and continuous eye strain may lead in time to general nervous breakdown. The eye is a most intricate piece of 'apparatus and very delicate in con- 'struction. No machine made by man is so perfect in construction or so ela- 'borate in design. To serve the eye no less than-twelve muscles are provided. not to managing things. But no mat- ter how. busy 1 A Successiul Dairy Maid : rr Te neglect the cows. crop of sunflowers had to be sacrificed. § I had no time to dig a silo, even if 2 had known how, so I turned the ran cattle into the field and they te then up clean. So they were not entirely One of the special delegates to the Western . Canada Dairy convention was Mary Anderson, of Vawn, Sas- katchewan. Because she is a girl stiil in her early "teen and has full chargn y 1 was I felt I could not, pind, or four Unfortunately the i. eve. 1 Of the twelve important nerves that come off directly from the brain, one are for the service of Shortly after the start of life we 2 endowed with good eyes and if care s taken we preserve them. But there jare many pitfalls by the way, and | from one cause or another the eye- { jai ; wasted. is ht becomes not so good as it should of a 'dairy her i is i : i sight bec S : : wa a bhi . paying Its) «During the winters of 1921 an de There is the question of strabis- Y % gS Ru : ; | 4 i § 8 Profil, She Was e5-11922 1 spent a great deal of time y¢ or squint to be thought of. This pecially asked to tell the producers the taking care of my eight cows, for a' " in early life due to This Sf hier. mole in hats th fut 1) Dg: C078 Th TF, ght cows, for a'yfien developes in early life due to. . bo 5 7 |mew heifer had come in. The grain wealmes of certain of the eye muscles In the winter of 1912 she was living crops for the two years were Very which from one cause or another fail with her mother in a small Swedish city, and that winter her father came back from Saskatchewan to take his wife and daughter to his homestead located about 40 miles north of North Battleford, at what is now Vawn. Al- though she had never been on a farm except for an occasional visit, Mary was always fond of animals, and when the first cows were bought ' for the one composed of cats, barley, flax and farm there was nothing she like better Sign ensilage. than helping to feed anditake care of ; "Qur first crop of sunflowers was them, and when she was about ten turned over to the yanch cattle as years old she started to help with the butniad. Last spring I sowed about five milking. ; [acres to "My father did net make as much good crop, money out of grain growing as he an ensilage cutter and put into had expected," said Miss Anderson, trench silo, I started 'ceding this en- "and began to give more thought to silage about the middie of December, the dairy line of farming. bt my cows liked their grain rations "In the fall of 1920 a dairy meeting | 50 well they were a little slow in tak- was held at Vawn, and father went to ing to the sunflower ensilage. How- this meeting and took mie with him, ever, they are eat'ng it better now and and we found gut that there were all can sce the dfference in the milk great many things we did not know | flow. about dair J The speaker invited! "Watering mich cows in the: winter ovsbyens to ask questions, and my jmonths is very Important. In fine father asked him if he would advise { weather I let my cows out for a drink, i to buy a few grade Holsteins, and 'bus if it is oy or stormy I never turn was strongly advised to do so, and them out at all, but water them inside father bought four grade Holstein three times a day. Mileh cows being cows. This gave us a herd of seven in the bara so much can't cows, and my part of the farm work , Sometimes there isn't enough water to look after them. I had found oufjout well and I poor, but my eight cows brought me, roughly figured, about $£0 a month, Value of Dairy Meetings " in November, 1922, there some move dairy SR in our dis- trict, and I learned something abou balanced rations and what a By of grain to feed. A ration that can be grown on practically Spry farm is was sunflowers and had Pp real which I had cut up with a a, at the dairy meeting that the curry |lake wigs is hen a mile away. comb and brush did the cows just as Three t y get all they much good as it did the horses, al-fcan drink. Ey an some of my though it seemed strange at first to friends lav gh when they see me trying think of using a curry comb on a cow; Ito coax [em to drink a little more, 1 but ever since that time during the {know the difference it makes with months when my cows are . stabled jthe crcam cheque. they get their daily cleaning. "We had-heard a lot at the dairy No Boarders "I learned about testing for butter meeting about the growing of sun-|fat af a demonstration given at a flowers which could be made into en-{dairy meeting in our distriet in No- "silage and stored in a pit silo, so the ive vr, 1622, and joined the cow tesi- following spring my father sowed ling centre formed at Vawn. I was some sunflowers with the intention of certainly well pleased when I was told putting them into a silo, but in the {that two of my cows were in the hon- fall of 1921, just as our grain crop of lcur roll the first month I was testing 130 acres was ready to cut, my father them. Needless to say, I keep up the died very suddenly, and I had to take tfesting for this is the only way to hold and see that the farm work went find out which cows arc paying = on as usual, and that all the grain which cows are boarders. I can als was safely harvested. I sure had a lot 'see clearly what a difference in pro- £3 think about. I duction is caused by good feetd, plenty to do and plenty to was used to helping with the work but of water and general good care. Hach stand cold. 1b "haul water from the: to develop as they should as thus the 'more powerful and more developed "muscles rotate the eye out of its pro- per place and the condition commonly known as squint results. There is a t pemarkable lack of knowledge about the seriousness of squint. Many peo- ple have the opinion that squint in children will right itself if left alone. Hhere are thousands of one-eyed 1 people in the province today just be- cause their parents thought they would alow the squint to right itself. Intelli- gent and proper medical treatment of the eyes in squint is the only way by which one can hope for good results. Never leave a case of squint to right "itself. Go to an oculist at once, and especially in the cace of young child- ven this) condition of squint should be rectified if possible before the child is five years old. If allowed to go longer the gight of the "turned" eye will most H kely be damaged for life, An is 'ounce of prevention. in this case worth a pound of care. ROBT. SWEENEY General Blacksmith & Woodworker xyuoen Acetylene welding inn comnection vear_ I learn something new about feeding . One cannot make too close a study of a dairy herd and every cow in the herd. "In 1923, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 my herd of eight cows brought me $701.35 in cash. - They av reread over 300 Ibs of butter fat apiece. '1 was well satis- ¢ with the year's returns. This er they are starting very well ex- tha ~ ne Wit 1 cept that I had the bad luck to lose FOR SALE--YOUNG COW, en in June. 21! questions en public health matters 29|2|24e HOUSE TO RENT-=West t end of | King Street--apply | MRS SPEARS i i FOR SALE--l-ton FORD TRUCK with express body. Nearly new. All neW tires and chains. In good condi tion. Cash or terme.--apply : The ay Ma rhet to' fresh- --apply J. ERNEWEIN Dryden, Ont. | A. 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