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a the surface of the earth. very is ot m potash. uch oils best adapted for gar dem truck, hich is harvested en the plant has greatest vegeta- tive growth, cr for hay crops. Speak- ing gererally muck eol is slow in spring and crops growing on it tend to fwolong. their growth and do not in sufficient time 'to escape frost, If potash-loving crops such as EE . sugar beets, cts., are grown, the fin:t crop or two, there will be a fendancy for the vegetables fo be poorly filled out, and the plants to be susceptible to disease. In fertiliz- ing for general crops on muck soil, use a fertilizer with a small amount of mitrogen in order to stant the crops . off vigorously, a large amount - phosphoric acid --10% to 12%,-- and a mediom to abundant supply of potash, under mormal conditions as high @s 8 to 6%. This of course, should be worked into the soil thor- oughly at the time the crop is being ' M, F.:--What is the cash value of well rotted manure, by the manure 'spreader load, allowing seventy bushels for a load? This being well rotted stable manure. "Answer :--It is very hard to state the cash value of well-rotted manure, wi; the amie a Bot spreader fond. If. the been exposed, the a are am. 7 0x Do ormenation of the ehege which peor | 2, {give 11.64° of i ! the land. Constant cultivation will acid phosphate to the ton of manure, or 820 Ibs. of acid ts per acre, more corn to the Fre snd almost 6 bushels more heat per acre as an average of 16 yea trials at the Ohio Experiment Stiadion. « 8S. R.:--Will you please advise me how to destroy quack grass? Answer: --Quack grass is very dif- ficult to destroy." About the only sure remedy is to work the ground early in the spring, following the plowing x disking and rolling and keeping the ground fallow until after midsummer. Every time the quack gmss gobs a good start go over the ground with a horse rake, raking out all the root stalks after they have started, and taking these where you cam dry and burn them. Féllow this work by planting a cultivated crop on kill out the weed. W. F.:--Can you tell me how to pre- vent silage from spoiling? My sil- age seem¢ to mold and get hot. Do you think it is a good idea to put Val water on it? Answer: --Silage should not spoil if the ilo is air-tight and permits of the silage settling evenly. presence of mold shows that either the silage is too dry and bulky, allow- ing for big air circulation between the spaces of cut corn 'or the contents of the «lo have tot been. tharouglly ed. The heating of the silo The, Fubstantial ana Bil Lu 58 wet Lixaton INTERNATIONAL LESSON FEBRUARY 2, Lesson V. The Giving of The Manna, Exodus 16: 1-36. Golden Text, Matt. 6: 11. 1-10. Hunger in the Wilderness. The exact location of the 'wilderness been a barren plain or valleys near Monn Sh At the best it 'was a hungry land through which the fugi- Ives were passing, very different from the e Long years of subjection and slavery he sapped of Israel, and the people had no Bpirit to brave the pmi-, and hardships of 11-18. Bread from Heaven. "At even ye shall eat flesh," The flesh came fo them in the form of flocks of quails. These binds are com- mon in that country. They fly in the, bah, food after their lo pi 2 ge also "In the Tat " i ey :_ | found "a small round thing, small as ground. It and the hoar frost on the "like coriander seed, white; ash, It is not fair to value this at duces the conditions which account' the taste of it was like wafers made the price you would have to pay for it in fertilizers, because in fertilizers these plantfoods are in a readily available and concentrated form, whereas in manure the probability is that the material which remains con- tains a considerable amount of plant- fidod in the unavailable form. Well-| spores quality of manure {3 directly depend- ent upon its storage, and the handling of the farm amimals from which it was obtained. Director i Woods of Maine; says as follows -- "Plantfood in manure is not so quick- ly nor so completely available as in "the better forms of chemicals, but!as follows: I for its preservation. However, the fermentation should not go on to the extent of destroying the ensilage. I would not conzider jit good to pour wa-; ter on the silage. It would tend to! make it sloppy and spread the destruc: | tion of the slage by washing the, of mold from one part of the i silo to the cther. If the silage is very moldy you will have to throw, away the moldy part on top. L.B.:--Will you please give me a balanced ration for a dairy cow? Also with honey" (v. 81), Coriander seed is a small fruit, straw-colored, about the size of a pepper corn: ! Num. 11: 17 the manna is also said iporater is the onl machine & ca pits SE le 30 will ave fully io pry PG unparalleled Maple ssrup a MANUFACTURING COMPANY i balance, $58.94, or a cost of one doen land forms small, round, white grairs, of Sin" {s unknowri, but it must have | such a' ble of Cp : t bus: y . Chance of Wine ea REAL without light wera March and April and for the Rocks Januaty and Febr- uy. The total figures from the two pens with the light were; Number of eggs, 2470; 'vedue, $136.82; cost of fed, $55. 48; cost of tight, $3.20; balance, $77. 64' or a cost of 28.5 cont per dozen. Thoze without light laid 2242 caps; value, $118.90; cost of feed, $60.01; egas, 32.1 cents. aed ps to have been like bdelium, that is a "transparent, wax-like gum or resin, valued for its fragrance." The peo- ple "gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and stot ed it in pots end made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the tas te] w of firesh ol," or oil-cakes (Num. 11: 8). They had no name for it, so they ead, "What is it?" which in Hebrew is "man hu" or "man nn," and so they cortinued to call it. What is now ealled manna is "the swees juice of the Tarfe, . species of Tamarisk, It exudes in summer by night from the trunk and branches, which parlly adhore to Lhe twigs of tha krees, and pamtly drop to the ground." The Arabs gather it, boil | it down, ard use it en their bread like honey. Greek monks of Sinai sell it to travellers, t could riot, however, have served as food for a titude of people, for™it comsishs) almost emb'rely of sugar. The manna which fed the Hebrews must have been of a truly miraculous character, unless we may suppose that the memory of this Tarfa juice was this heAY0G Tontha. for the Leghoms|] Fo but full name and 'address must de of paper only, Answers will be envelope 8 spondence for Mis department to mn Helan Law' tdnizes until one of the players has no "persons 'ave looking | more beans in hs hand and finds orward to fhe coming of a new cra | | pot empty. in the hisfory of mankind, The past! . When that occurs, endl faye: year was thronged with soul-stirring {al the beans he holds ints his tally events, but 1919 may witness tremend- ' counts them. The person who hos the ols changes. As you cay, | Iergest tally wins the 'game. © If things can never: return to, Wish to make the play tongger, menant the oid plane, People are de-; the nnber of beans to seventy-five or manding more of their communities a hundred. Corn, rice, marbles, oF mow than ever before. They want any ciher small objects will of coumse better schools and tore convenient ' serve in the face of beans, themes. = They ave asking for soclali (Patriot: --1. The first contingent. centre hails and places of amusement. that left Canada totalled 83,000 men. They. are upon better roads 2. Before the war Great Bn'tain had a and "marketing facilities, ~ Above all | peace army of 162,251 regulars end they ame that their com-'251,195 teritorials, or partly trained | munity give them some of the ad-' troops. 8. The armisfice was vantages * of the city, in onder that ci 'gned wt Senlis, southwest of Com- farm lifo may have a Oltle less plegne, France. 4.' When noon in drudgery, and a little more 'wholesome Ontario it is-5 pan. in London, 5.09 enjoyment in #t. = What {is your com- pan. in Paris and 12:46 am, (next munity doing to moet the growing de- day) in Peking. 5. You are vight-- mands? Have you a social centre the first Canadian regiment to land whare your people may go for enter- in France was the Princess Patricia | tainment? Have you a public play- | Canad: lan Light Infantry. . "The guoand, suitably equipped for your: Children's Story of the Warr would chi Tighen in school ? Do you ever, suit your purpose admirably, It is have a municipal holiday and general published in England and bound very get-together? If you five in one of | attractively with excellent illustra- these communities that is doing things | tions and maps. Up to the present, for its people, please write and tell eight volumes have been imsued which us all about it. You may thereby, tning the narrative of the war down start others along the rcad to pro- to the end of 1917. Probably two ad- gress. | ditional volumes willl complete the Maid Marion:--Try the pot--o'- | work. The price at present is $1.26 beans game some evening. It is | per volume. Nothing more bemuti- hayed thus:-- ful or more valuable, both for the From two to four is the best num- | present and the future, could be found ber 'cf players for the pot--o'-beans than a cet of these splendid books. game. Flace fifty beans on the Children are delighted with them, table and eall it the pot. Arrange, Evangeline writes: "I have to write the players around it and letter them ' a paper for our club on this subject: A, B, C, D, from left to night. Each|'My Second Chance--My Children player takes five beans from the pot Can you help me?" and puts his hands under the table. Our suggestion would be that you preserved and that it grew in tradi- tion to something very much more and greater, ing in great numbers across the! of Akal and are often. so, JEht 2a , beautifully God's care for His people. phe The story has a very high value for us as for ancient Isnact, in that. it ifustrates most significantly Deut. 8: 16, and the poetical | ido of "this" story in Psalm 78: 18-! "An omer a head." 'Compare v. 86, The tenth part of an cphah would be about 614 pints, 81-36. The Pot of Manna. This pot of manna, a precious memorial of | hei sojourn in the wilderness, was | in thd most holy place of the | In ye in front of the sacred ark. Qompare Heb. 9: 4. | re -- -- for fattening cattle if a different ra- | tion is needed. .. Answer:--Haecker of Minnesota' given as a ration for 1000 pound cow Crude protein, 0.7 1bs. after much baldncing of pros amd, carbohydrates, 7.0 lbs.; fat, 0.1 lbs "cons, it has become generally accept-| He supplemented this with consider ed that the commercial valye of the plantfood contained is ili: Cmly de- fin'te thing about a farm manure by wihich we can measure its. agricultural and commerciel value His opinfon is supplemented by that of Director Thorne, for 25 years giNfmg more than 3% milk, tening steers. at different periods of | fattening, Henry & Mornison, in their new book on "Feeds and Feeding" | give the following:-- Requirements for Given Steers at Different Periods of Fattening. Av. Wt. during period ibs. 1.020 1,140 1,260 Dry 'matter hs. First 50 days Second 50 days Third 50 days _ The ocean occupies three-fourths, of | 22.4-25.6 2.04-2.35 18.4-20. 23.9-27.4 2.17-2.62 19.4-22. 22.7-27.7 2.27-2.66 20.2-23, Digestible Total Dig, Nutritive crude nuiients ratio protein Ibs. Ibs, : | | i "THE BEEF THAT EUROPE WANTS dass as a senior yearling amd was chammion steer in Grades ard Crosses of any Breed in the Guelph Show. "(lear the Way 2nd" was gired by Sylvan Power and bred by R. 0. Hun- ter of Exeter, Ont. Ho was fin'ched 10 the top Llsom when chown. "There are, of course, two sides to the Canadian lve stock industry," gad hs owner, Mr, A. T. Ruszll-- "live stock and dead shock; that is, breeding stock and stock for méat. There never was a time wi io much: was being paid by Canadian live stock men to quallly, Freight kills the profit on mediocre ar'mals. High grade stock fs the profitatle kind In view of the 41 |gltves A the difference. p | few diops of the fox bait es should be set on either side al: A begins the game by closing his! show how you can teach your children left hand and bringing it up to the | to avoid making the same mistakes table in front of B, who guesses how | you have made in your own life; how | many beans it holds, If B's guess is you can instill in them your own high : correct, he gets all the beams in the ideals. Perhaps there are things that hand; but if his guess fis above or be- | you yourself have longed to do? You low the number in the hand, then he| can help your children to attain these "For ample, if A holds three beans and B) them. guesses two, B must give Lim one; if} good he guesses five, he must give him two. | im gz balanced rations, your children If A holds none and B guesses any! in grow up to be strong and number up to five he must make good | hea thy. You can teach your children | bls guess, If A holds any beans and how to take care of their hesith, Have B guesses none, ho must give the You not problems in your community same number that A holds in his that you can help with, such as bet- hand. If A holds none and B guesses | ter schools, clean amusemenits, and 'sa none, A must Tay five to B for his forth? Wouldn't] this mean that correct guess, If a player does not | you were helping your children to have emough beans in his hand to|keep their hearts and minds clean? make good hls guess, he draws five | Sugge:t how you can make your home frem the pot. After he pays the L lay | attractive to the boys and girls, Show goes on as befcre--from A to B, B|how a wise mother often lets go some to C, and so on. \ of her household duties that she may Every time a player has more than | be a better chum to her children, five beans in Ri: hands, he lays the| With these few suggestions you extra ones on the table in front of can develop a most interesting paper Maybe your own health is not You can show how, by feed- [in a cool place, not expoced to san fire, or rain, The bone in the fox" | tall should be removed to avoid taint ing. I will pay highest market prices for RAW FURS and GINSENG ROOT 32 ye ears of reliak ble trading. Br of Canada and Tags THE TRAPPER, Metheds of Trapping Fox, Tae Sigtiont ee #5. RAW FURS to ue, no matter what quantity. We pay the highest price, also express charges. Try once and you are assured of § satisfaction. ABBEY FUR COMPANY 310 8t. Paul W. Montreal, P.Q. Referénce: Bank of Hochelaga, St. § In business for $0 years. An absolute necessity in trapping fox is a good trail sconr which the trapper must rub ca the soles of his shoes ond on his gloves wae working arourd the traps. The fox is per- haps the handest of all wild animals to trap and is very suspicicus of the human odor. The trail scent helps te Lill th's odor. Traps should be srrinkled with blocd to which the trail scent has been added. cr should be boiled inJhemlock water, Traps should be set along the fox runways or where they are most like- ly to travel. The traps should be set about two feet from a fairly large tree; they should be well covered and the eurroundings made tio look as na- tural @s possible. About five feet up the tree trunk a dozen drops of the best fox bait shoul be sprinkled, Arectly above the traps. In jumping far dha Wait the fox will be caught in the teaps, | Ora Pe ke about oly feet long may be driven into the Gili so that fit stands five feet high. A rabbit shatd be placed on top of the siake snd a placed: 'oni, il f Sa gf un ettake ard Wvared wilt , Might earth; ete. © bie phn foxes id great Te srs a oe eat Hiv. ex-| things and thus bo - satisfied through: - :