he a r ¢ x f Wir & e been your average yields of general fa¥m crops, and > Es ramen He a i hed venient. a i well dralned? If tile drained Five an 4s there 'good natural ou Ir 80, what kind, how niuch, and with what Ps ; of the product? 3 t as R. 8.: 1. Our soil is a with a- clay subsoil, which is qui poor and drains well with tile with a few light raises or moles of some- what 'whitish clay, which runs to- gether with a very hard clay. 8 1 and very hard to d as it is very close, 2. Our wheat, 15 acres; went * 41 bushels to the acre this year, in- : cluding 'a souple of those white clay moles whi very little oh them, 11 acres of this wag summer fallowed ! but we seldom have such yields. Barley went 50 bushels per acre this , Year but have not had such a crop for ' meveral years, oats went "60 buchels per acre which is a great ex- ception, often' not much over half that amount, The quality is all that could be desired this year, but very , often is poor quality especially in wet ; seasons, 3, Our land is quite flat ! 'with a few raises and some quite low spots which cannot be drained, ex- cept with tile. We have tile most- ly in the rung and are from 8 to 5 rods apart. Have 2 fairly good ditch outlet from 8Y; to five feet deep. 4. I have never used lime, some of our land is sour enough in wet peasons, but a seascn like this does not seem 80 had. We only used fertilizer once on 5 acres of sugar beets, and top-dressed 5 aces more with well roited manure, well' worked in, and could not see any visible difference in thesfield as they were all.good, We would have some 200 pounds of basic slag per acide on fifteen aeres of fall wheat this fall, but the agent failed to get it. We intended to top-dress this field with good stable manure, ubout 8 loads per acre, and sow 200 Ibs. of slag and plowing it down for comm. Iu this the proper thing? If not what is the best way to apply it, as we have to get it ont of the yard before the cattle are put in the stable to provide room for the manure. We use a spreader. What is the best way to treat those moles this.fall for spring crop. as there {s no clover on of all kinds. Better quality preferved. Write for prices. ? STANFORD'S, Limited ding 'the following int concery efit, of Prof. Bele expe eid ips Hoi Sof on go fart, Desribe hp an | 2 ps for . #0il which needs to be hi : thint Brentest care in order Jandishouith in nie a returns, © On your soil which is "too| Wonder of all poor to crop much" 1 wonder if it[more certain than - would not be advisable for you to seed | from Ds presenc ¢hem to plough down. Can you ad-|clover.~ If it is extremely sandy 1 delfoun Where vise concerning the use of commercial believe sweet clover ou be batter |] TooeNe fertilizer without analyzing the soil? | than common red, but if the soil is in Answery--1 'was much. interest-| workable shape, you would lose money | God. ed ig your letter. . Your problem is|by. turning it over to sweat clover, one" of liming' and proper fertilizing. am doubtful if you haves nt lel Evidently your crops need phosphoric| drainage, even jn view of what 'phaticall { acid, © In most part of the province | say about the land being weil dra Ey thi is' one of the most profitable It.may be that the layer of elay. fuvoned: by ? ehavah : 5 types of plantfood to apply, because the land lea in pockets, ai evi) Ee tupricey Dec it-hastens the ripening and improves! dently does from your statement that Loe ithe wonderful ana > the quality of the crop. TL | clay areas crop up. in places. . [low God... : Ne ens Concerning the use of basic slag,|tile drainage is relatively costly, yet| 1B. Wook the.stone that he had put ] Ohio Experiment Station, after 20]itgmust be looked upon as a perman-! under his head---The stone itself had 1 » | years experimenting, has the follow-|ent investment rather than . an ex-|become sacred in his eyes because of ever stop. to think that wi ing to say: » pense, From figures [have on hand, | the holy vision vouchsafed to him. a. 'show Jo "That 'basic "slag caniiot take hell believe you -would 'quickly. realize] Set it i for. a pillar~The' word 1s | it is really twice as cold place"of lime for cotrecting= abidity| returns from money put into a con- Jechnitat meaning-a sacred pillar. | is, the increased velocity of the wind is shown by 'long-time tests' at the|servative amount of tile drainage, fo sred olf 9 the wp of 3 . on will take away twice a§ much of your Ohlo Agricultural Experiment Sta:| drain out the pockets which I belleve! icion: custom and stil peasticed Ly 200¥ heat, of the body heat of your P : ; tll practiced' hy horse or cow, where the wind is blow= tion. Economy and. effectiveness] exist in youy soil. Clay is relatively: some people, ' The 'mhointing was a] JoLSe OF COW, 8 E have been in favor of lime. impervipus. to drainage waters, as! form of consecration,.either recogniz-| \n8-at the raté of Tour miles an Hour | Yields of clover and timothy hay in|you know from experience, hence the| ing the presence of a 'divinity within| 3 Where it is blowing but two" miles. a G-year rotation of corn, oats, wheat,| need of an outlet for" waters which. the /stone or invoking his presence! Thif is a. modest claim: - Many of clover and timothy at the Agricul.| keep your land coll and backward in| there. The custom was" Y ; tural Experiment Station at Wooster | spring. among the peoples of the ancient that the ability of the wind "to cool have been "increased as a 12-year Furthermore, I believe you would| "jg He ealled the nama of that bla things. increases with the square of ifs average 1,237 pounds to the acre by|do well fo apply some limestone, es-! poihel House of ae Sicch "pice velocity, = Have. you ever thought of the addition of 2 tons of finely ground | pecially fvherewyou are seeding your u vow e vow figured largely i that? Probabi.y got, and if y ou did limestone to" a plot receiving com-| ground to clover. | You would not! primitive religious rites. Here hh it never occurred to. you thai Vhere plete fertilizer with phosphorus in| suspect that sandy soil is sour, yet 1 connected with a covenant based upon | N88 anything you could do. sbout it. masic slag. Corn 'has . yielded 8.4 have seen large arehs of sour sandy| the condition that Jacob would give| But' there is something to bo done, bushels more to the acre on the lim-| soil in Michigan and Wisconsin, Ap-|a tenth of all he made to God, pro-| You can plant trees to take the place od than on the unlimed part of this| ply about. 1000 to 2000 pounds of Though ox vided he was prospered in his wav, | of the forests and k the winds of plot, although oats and/wheat have ground limestone\tg the acre. This "good tim bargain, this easact fin Jounal . Minter, od same' day not been benefited by the application! can be put onthe foil at any time, : or Bel: | ber on the farm. cu tof lime In this indy Increased crop] but is perhaps most effectively used Yuely yeti ig ot, tan euld. be The kind. of trees. 10 'be used for | yields have returned far. more than| When you scatter it on the plowed Much in it has permanent religious breaking the force of the wind fs of the cost of liming, at present market ground in spring, as you work thefvalue. ~ God stili-offers us blessings prices, on this plow where lime is| soll down. .jupon certain sonditions, « God's pro- a with baisc slag." * 1'doubt your assertion that nitrate |lecting care was. Jacob's greatest Reed tl Tou ideale BE & 3 i yt rene wl wi your soi] ig sour? at we ¢ God 'can ere a Fara Ne Yo ee «me: Ten - because of the revelation of | od--The i _ "Acid phosphrate has proved the|of soda can be used to best profit ion' In this etrange adventure, and he was | his locality, consult his neighbors and most 18 Posgurue hos N BosphoRss 'your soil. If yout &oil is relatively joy ete Tine} lo sefve im all the fy description-of his soil with a in tests made at the Agricultural Ex-| open as your description indicates. I life for Cig "Ale had os oh Some} disgrafit'and full details. of 'his place periment Station. A 20-year aver-|believe a more glowly soluble form thing of thé holiness and Ciroms to his nearest nurse: n, In thi age met gain of $156.78 per! votation{ of nitrogen should be used, "Such as!of God. His experience left-an abid- | ¢/imate the thermometer frequently { wa< realized from a. complete ferti-|tankage or bonemeal.: ing impression upon the life of his|/drops to twenty. degrees below: zero | lizer. carrying phosphorus: "in = acid| From your description of the crops,| descendants, . Bethel became one of | and" the winds are Strong enongh to i phosphate in. a G-year rotation of|I believe that drainage, liming, mat corn, bats, 'wheat, clover and timothy, nuring and fertilizing are the ways to at Wooster. Only $8:87 was gained | larger yields, when 'a similar fertilizer was used | except that. bonemeal furnished the! phosphorus, Where basic slag was the phosphatic carrier, a net gain of , $9.92 resulted from the fertilizer for 'each rotation. In a similar test con- ducted for 19 years at.Stongsville a complete fertilizer including acid phosphate returned a net gain of $6.61 a rotation, while that contains ing bonemeal lost 65c. and that con-| ck rem oF taining basic slag resulted in a loss; Lesson VII. Jacob's Flight--Genesis of 8c. 28. 10-22.--Golden Text, Indiana Experiment Station , in Psa. 108. 10. eleve® years experiment: quote / the. versa 10, Jacob. went out - from]. following figures: From an .invest-| Beersheba and went toward Haran! ment of $3.75 per acre in acid phos-{ Haran. was the place . from phate they got a net return of $24.11,'which Abram started on 'his journey | while investment of $8.33 yes. acc in| to the promised land, Jacob's jours|' "The Shepherd of the stone of Israel" Ta ig y aan Ph Ay ile srael" | shade trees, if they have no. shelter which 'the God of Jacoh was known, green 14 tho 'proper thing, the a trees should be planted. far enough No use to plant. hush-Tiyit in pooy 'apart, 80 "that their lower branches ground. . It shouldsbe plowed deeply, |: i \ 3 thoroughly worked up with good sta- hi gettin ® Ch To Shelter ble-manure before hughes are sot oubily or sor amidal habit, 1t' may be well ! Gi ofr mon, evergreens. so tha INTERNATIONAL LESSON YY IN TS ane Conidib, NOVEMBER 17. peut LINES {may fill out the spaces between : the ys wi pointed tops of 'the conifers. = ~~ : The Most Useful Varieties. +f Two excellent = species "used windbreaks in this latitude are = the 'white piné and the white spruce. The ping is a_coarse, heavy-foliaged tree which makes a thicksset branching tree, but. ig rather s lived. It wind- 'breaks, and. attains an average height 'widespread | the' most thoughtful scientists claim est names by| Consequently, a dense, hardy ever, "Just three x 128 Mansfield St. - + Montreal Oliver Spanner.& Co. 26 ELM ST., TORONTO TAXIDERMISTS TO PARTICULAR PEOPLE 2 Bend for Illustrated Booklet. 3. « Artificial Eyes and Supplies, i , [bagic slag they got a net return of only §16/21. 1 'believe vou would do hetter fo apply your lime in the form of .groundslimestone and phogphoriz acl in the form of acid phosphate, oc ina fertilizer high in phosphqgic acid. Regardid® your enquiry. relative to the application of manure, I prefer to fall plow the land, leaving it-up in -} furrows during the winter, = As soon Silas it will work in spring, T would 'RAW FURS WANTED Send F or ur sad Shipping Tags protected fr advise scattering the manure on top: months, (of the plowed land, keeping the 'ma- nure stored during the winter, that is p Om. rain and snow. Work the manure into the soil by thorough 1S WATCH FREE (ot om, baron somod of oo. "10 ANY BO serving the plantfood in the manure. | Regarding the treatment = of ° knolls, you would do jell to pu "| heavy a dressing»of; .asepossible this fall, or ear 'spring. Evidently they are in need of organic ma {ney followed in reverse order pretty much, the @ "route pursued by Abram, It was fiftyrodd miles in a direct line grom Beershéba to Bethel, | and over Tour hundred miles from |! Beérsheba to Haran." He probablyf reached the neighborhood of Bethel on "| the third day's journey. i | 11. He lighted.upon a ¢ertain place Bethel, where. Abram 'had rested] when he first came into the promised land, Tarriod there all night--The| bot inhabitants of Palestine to-day .steep n aid diring the summér| ravellers wrap. their cloaks! about them and spend the night where night overtakes them. ~ He took one of the stones of place-~Stonel were all"about him, ~~ Perhaps he was 'pear the stone altar built by Abram. wa already Frond that wa Yeu ga as. sacred, tho aco it 'not: 'THe use of a stone as a pi be practiced {in the o 'soil up and fo catch and hold mois. 10 antfood. 1 would yen i |'sky that the mixture of + ND' 175 ONLY: WI of twenty-five feet after being plant-| . ed fiftesn years. One of the most at- of trees is the spruce. These; . "The Man of the Moment." A good story regarding-the Pri 0? Wales ie Th the Rall Mall zeite. A well known society lady is narsing in France is an enthu collector: of 'the photographs. of men who are if the light, IF this reason she wro shortly after the latte: 'Pope, asking for his ceasidered his | hinith 3 Marne began. Finally the Ady. | overjoyed at receiving. a reply the 'Heir-Apparent," snd moments delay hastsped open tl letter. . It dontained, not a po 22.8 Prine of Wales; but one FREE TO GI - Big Doll and Doll 5, 'Dlits Big Doll 1s 16 4 '. 'ehes tall, has join the mest famous sanctuaries of Judah, Break big limbs out of. fruit and} hi leathepeite: It © fou Ti Sue aise A i \ gd - for the Big Doll to "plant some 'tall-growing deciduous the broad tops of the. decidddus ones] riage without, a 4 show. your 1 ren of & an too. Fatal gs fr Del a our lends. Ta nd.earn. | iaaarenn OMBR-WARREN: grown on the sides that.are pro-| tected by other species atlain nearly perfect symmetry, i ~ 3 For yhelter planting merely I.should' te and Norfvay spruces and "white . pines ould be: very desirable. Put the like. They grow tall a little | Norway spruces in the interior Kyou ] ter | n | than the whites. Two rows fifteen | feet 'apart breaking joints will make |g