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"of th igh it seems actual >worka: suspected, hunted, half | value. They looked at ed no commercial value e and gold to be won hing' of the monkish spirit ystem. The pupil is not t often happens that the useless he is, so far as gts an undue sense of his iis beneath his dignity, enough for the Dark Ages, titude' for having" pre- the days when few cared >-day we are' willing to hose who make and those of labor depends upon its these two'great branches panship. is little room for the man rope and has none ot his o market value, "A boy sbe uscléss to himself or or labor, * In short, he i for his services to} : Sh . * geographical points, demonstrate a problem in ork out unknown quantities in algebra, and do a of other scholastic feats; but when he tries to put his ments on the' market, he will find few buyers and lize and learn to impart knowledge to he will be paid as a teacher. = But 'unapplied, the public will pay facts-- igh school, and college of as a rule furnish the scholar with the business world to enable hin to 'becomes a professional man « Even in nowledge has to be put to a practical use keynote of scholastic education. ige person must earn money for the sup- di others, and the sponer his hands are "business of his better, The eye ell as the mind; t be trained at this ha ot trained to be dinary schools. eand crowd the ranks ans-a favorite place man, because their Port Perry Branch: - = 'Blackstock Branch oi estleton Station Branch Re atouivitie: Pandesisnd and' ---- ITEMS OF INTEREST OR HORSEMEN AND OTHERS EDITED BY GEORGE COATES, V. S. We expect to see Mr. J, McKee and 'Mr. J. C. Brown, with their coats off up at the local race track soon. We see that the Cobourg Horse Show will be held in August,the date is not yet fixed yet. v PREVENTING SORE SHOULDERS A correspondent of the Breeders' Gazette, as the result of ten years' experience, strongly recommendeds, for preventing sore shoulders, lining the sweat-pad, or collar that comes next the shoulder, with pure white oil-cloth. Put the smooth part of it next the shoulder, lining the pad or collar all through, and sewing it in around the-edges. = The collars can be washed off and kept clean tion AUXILIARY HORSESHOE.--P. W. Zeller, 34 Mathews St, Buffalo, N. Y, In the ordinary horseshoe; when it becomes worn, it is necessary to take the horse to the blacksmith and waste a consider able amount of time in order to replace the worn shoes with new ones. An object in this invention, therefore, is to provide a detachable auxiliary shoe which can be attached and detached in a remarkably short space of time, and which still may be securely fastened to the hoof, so that It cannot be accidentally disengaged, and so that the horse cannot kick it off. The invention now brought out provides a shoe with a resilient body portion having sharpened metallic pro- jections embedded in the body portion, adapted to prevent slipping. . Yat The tradition that 'it doesn't cost anything to keep a horse when you live on a farm,' is rudely shattered in 'Bulletin No. 15," by Prof, P. Cooper, just issued by the Extension Division of the College of Agriculture. The writer shows that, taking -into account only such items as a city business man would consider in keeping a debit and credit account with a horse, every such animal really does cost the farmer a round sum for its keep. 1. "First, there is the interest on the purchase price or selling value of the horse, Putting the rate at 6 per cent., and the valuconly $150 the interest comes to $9. : "Next, we must consider that the average working life of a horce does not exceed ten or twelve years. Therefore, at least one-twelfth of his value must be annually charged to depreciation. = There goes another $12.50 on the $150 horse. And if the animal is worth. $300, the depreciation cost is doubled, "The ayerage duration of a frame barn, according to under writer's' tables, is 40 years, and the capital per head. invested in such structers may. be said to average $60. Divide this by 40 and we have $1.50 as depreciation and $3.00 as interest making the cost of shelter or * ¢ { Ta Ea items of use and depreciation of barness, shoeing and mis- ses add Iders alum should be useful. But [prevent TREN SEA Re AC