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~ keroseéne-burning 'engines recommend 4 J the operator the a. erties of heat within the cylin- t the dystem of lubrication! should have special ent inspection of the a tractor, . mobile' engine running at the same mobile engine running at ; The use of kerotens in the engine may. also cause 'some difficulty with ~ the lubricating system. While many engines burn kerosene economically, there are times, especially when the motor may not be hot, when liquid i kerosene gets into the cylinders and cuts or thins the lubricating oil so that it does not have the same lubri- cating properties as fresh oil. For this reason, many manufacturers of - removing old oil from the crank case and replacing with fresh,oil after periods of from twenty-five to sixty hours' work for the tractor. Go over your tractor once a day with rags and wipe off excess dirt and grease. This is-not so necessary from the standpoint of appearance, should take] Pe. aay . | i : Youll + In marking hens with leg bands we have saved time by purchasing the bands which are made Yor that pur- pose rather than making them. Home- i made bands can be constructed of wire but it takes time and'they are 'usually not as satisfactory as the commercial article. which sells at a "moderate price. We like the single + loose. coil spiral bands which are made in several colors. They slip-on. quickly and stay, The birds cannot pick them The colored spiral bands are useful to distinguish the pullets, the year- old and the two-year-old hens. The early hatched pullets and cockerels ; fo is be marked with the spiral to separate them from Wtock _ hatched 8 few aveeks later, These with ose al and thes spiral bands sre also 'long lap at a slightly $ x e. Possibly they might stay on Detter but the single coil with the "short lap has proven satisfactory. The bands are certain hens of special i, value o when thoy, are. culled. to. find is whet Hey. o 'the e| efnor are correctly set. th Jade wi ol also made] 71. When valves and ignition. are properly set. Sane Ee 8. When the clutch, brake and gov- _ 9. What kind of lubrictint to use in oil are des-| each plac 'place; E : 10. When engine gives signs of dis- tress, knocking, overheating, lost power, etc, : Things You Should Do Every Day. 1. Foliow out giling schedule as re- quired for each day. 2. Make inspection for worn, Heated] loose parts, nuts and bolts. 8. Clean tractor with rags. '4; Drain radiator in cold weather. a Every Week, : 1. When using kerosene drain crank case, wash with kerosene, replace with fresh oil. or "of motor, unless it is clearly necessary, then with the greatest care. * 3, See that transmission has enough oil : Every Month, Examine valve and valve: adjust- ments' and clean carbon from cylin- ders. > Every Year. x Thoroughly overhaul tractor. 2. Make renewals, 5 8. Order additional parts and sup- plies likely to be needed for the year. SHDn rr The following rules in the care and management of the herd will prove of 'value to many farmers who are new in the business: 1. Keep as many cows as you can properly feed and care for. 2. Use purebred sires and raise only the best heifer calves. 8, Use the scales, Babcock tester and pencil, '4. Grow as much of your feed as e. : - B. Provide a comfortable and sani- tary stable. LR "6. Feed all the good roughage they will eat up clean. ? . "71. Have faith in your cows and in the daity business, rr Two Farm Essentials. . A typewriter and a camera should types. We | Me tons i to enquire about 'your products. camera is a valuable aid in eell- mers Js + 2. "Make inspedtion of other parts. Do not make adjustment | and is sought for the growing of fruit?|,, "adviser 3: "See that the sum of the different tilled fields, house. Job, ebercoqua d the figure given farm. Be watchful for and permanent pasture" The arrangement, of the fields is sometimes obviously good or poor. But more often a farmer gets so used to going the longest way round, or to avoiding a wet swale or a pile of rocks, or to tilling half a dozen little fields that might be better t into one, that he loses sight of® the inconvenience to which he is being subjected, and the time and mone: he is wasting. \Study the farm to see not "only how it is arranged, but also how it can be rearranged. 3. Topography. The lay of the land has special significance in these days of machine fa¥ming and power equip- ment. Is it level so as to permit the use of such machinery, or. is it roll- ing; hilly, or cut by gullies or ledges? Is it easy to cultivate, or is there danger of soil erosion taking place,' together with its numerous attendant losses? And. is the air drainage good,! especially in the case of the farm that 4. Water Supply. Quite aside from+ the problem of water for crops, whe- ther from .heaven or from irrigation ditch, is there an adequate, unfailing, ! cottveniently located supply of pure drinking water? Offhand one is like-' ly to scoff at the possibility of over-! looking such ah 'important feature, yet upon how many farms are man| and beast dependent on a single shal-/ low well or a few casual springs sol poorly located that every gallon of water as to be "toted" at an al- most inconceivable cost in the aggre- gate of both time (which means money) and human effort and com- fort! 5. Buildings. Closely related to the i | that of being "la; afford sufficient, or out of proportion to true value of the farm, and so ex- tensive as to prove = burdensome There is a state of being "building poor" which is just as undesirable as 2 andpoor." 6. What of the Farm's Environment hs 9 wise, you wijt do no hing about it, for it will soon(groy/ out from the roots and if as I above jour are careful i b ¥ ay gt place than in 'others. You have prob- ably exposed it to the sun, my énd it has bleached where the su rays Have struck it. When you are i tect it with a big hat. If you are very i next summer, «it will socn, Iam sure, ! take on the proper shade all 'over your lighter in some ob the sun next suminer, pro-| about a farm, includes roads and, should not go driving at night with "in| railway facilities, the = geographical Your young man friend without an nd. | You will findthat it affects the value it imply that you consider your rela-! ;: of the farm in three different ways.! tion more than that of a friend? Con- 'and Commiunity? This, the last of the most, essential questions to ask] Until you are very much older you location and its charact: ies, such older person or a girl companion. Do as climate, and, of prime iftportance, you think you are wise to accept a ring! the people of the community. Take Or a watch from a boy who is just a any one of these factors you like and friend? Will not your acceptance of | | i The first deals with the" economic vention decrees nothing. absolute in side of farm management--the mar- that regard but it is my opinion. that keting of its products, the obtaining presents of jewellery should not be of supplies and of labor, the cost of exchanged except by engaged couples. | production, ete., not to mention the I'am very sorry this young fellow is effects (of "climate, for instance) So jealous. Ask him some day if he' upon every detail of the actual crop congiders it complimentary to you that! and animal production. The sacond he cannot trust you to speak to other | dete=mipes the social life and status boys. I think jealousy is a kind of sel- lof the farmer and his family--first fishness, don't you? It cannot grow in relation to schools, churches, stores,' cut of a pure love. | mail and: telephone facilities,! Doleful: My dear girl vgranges and other means of human the only one to come to me with your | : intercourse; and, second, in respect to pathetic little problem about an allow! fthe character and desirability of the ance and a father who doesn't under- | | people themselves as 1 I , you are not neighbors, ' stand and various pitiful little needs, 1 friends, ard co-workers. The third that you wish to satisfy. There seem "group of effects bear upon the actual to be lots of you, bless your hearts! | life of the man, woman, and child on How I wish I could help you ail by, the farm, since climate, the intellec-' giving you that longed-for bit of | tual development of the neighborhood, money that would spell happiness for - you. I cannot even suggest any sure' and the ideals 'and habits of its peo ple all contribute "directly to the way of getting it and the only con-! maintenance or destruction of health colation-I can offer you is that when | the you have girls of your own, you will and, through that channel, to very foundation stones of happy, use- understand and keep guch misery from | ful existence. | them, Have you had a good serious ! In seeking answers to this group of talk with your father? Have you told! uestions in particular, no little tact him of the legitimate needs you have! d persistence are required. It i and how much happiness that little! not enough, for instance, to find out sum each week weuld bring you? Or, that the average annual rainfdll for have you just sulked end been unpleas- | the seetion is forty inches; the im- ani whenever you have spoken of it? portant thing is, how much of that J know a girl whose father just could rainfall comes during the growing not see her side and refused the allow- months when it '3 reeded, and how ance ghe needed each week at school, much in the form of terrential, larye-' so she asked him if she might earn it. ly wasted spring or winter storms? | And sha did, working Fours after Again, as to locatioy the town two echool and insisting on doing work her | miles distant may be f#¥ loss acces-| brothers should have one. Her father sible than one six miles froffijanother soon realized what it meant to her farm, if the former has to be reached q roads or by crossing an insecure bridge over a stream frequently subject to floods, while the" latter is reached via hard-surfaced highways and easy grades. Mineral Feeds For Hogs. "If you want strong-boned hogs, hogs that will carry their flesh well, give them the feeds to make hone," an old hog feeder told me, and this should be evident to every ' breeder who expects to make a name for him- self in the sale ring or simply as a breeder of market hogs. A good bone development is a t asset to grow- ing hogs; the lack of it is seen in the big stock yards where hogs with a Tight or weak bone are crushed or mashed, Tegs broken or ribs caved in through shipping and handling. Mineral matter in the feed, or | available, will produce good bone growth if of the proper kind. Most of the mineral feed edten by hoks is utilized in the bony structure or skele- ton. The grain we commonly feed :| hogs contains such a small propor- tion of the needed mineral elements that additional mi feed must be supplied by some means in order to "properly nourish the bones. of! mes conditions are such that the, hog\ picks up the minerals him- self. Hogs access ed may supply themselves in liberal quantity of the calciums. Hogs run- ning in the woods or woodlob or on pastures of most kinds monly grown, supply their bodies with min- eral nutrients 'Recently I ointed 'with pride to his" visited the farm of a { who to lots] On where ashes and limestone are dump-| thirty sential that their bodies be supplied with mineral feeds; especially is this true of hogs kept for breeding pur- poses. Hogs that are finished for killing at two hundred pounds or so will need little mineral feed after put in the' feedlot besides what they get in milk and tankage. . Wood ashes and cinders are eaten by hogs to satisfy a craving for min- eral food. I have seen them crunch the fresh cinders as if they were corn. Corncobs are suitable in some respects if they are charred; they can be char- red by putting them in a metal drum that is closed at the top, or the pile of cobs may be covered with dirt and charred in the old-fashioned way. Charcoal can be purchased for the purpose. Charcoal. are beneficial to the digestive tract. Besides these, bone flour is valuable to furnish phos- phorous and lime, also. Growing pigs require $alt in their ration; it is an aid to digestion. ? A good mixture which can be fed to pigs confined in small lots or that may be given to pigs on range, is made up of the following ingredients: e hundred pounds of wood ashes, pounds of salt, forty pounds of slaked lime, four/pounds of cop- peras, thirty pounds of charcoal; mix well and feed three or four times a week. A good mixture to keep before hogs in a self-feeder is made up of three parts air-slaked lime, three parts of wood ashes or charcoal, and one part of salt. If tanka is no need of feeding ground bone or 'tankage 'carries % rere mamta - ere ik ¥ rem Sick Room Dont's. tr over muddy, rut.carved, uncared-for| - is being fed there 1 any other phosphorous carriers, as io n't forget bo be kind, and pa. | and softened. Somehow I feel if you INTERNATIONAL LESSON. February 8. ' Peter at Lydda and Joppa--Acts 9: 82-43. Golden Text.--James 5: 15. 82-35, As Peter 'Went Through all Parts. Since the conversion of Saul (or Paul) the Christians of Jerusalem and Judaea had comparative peace, for he had been their most zealous persecutor. See 9: 31. But persecu- tion, while it lasted, had driven many of those who lived in Jerusalem to seek homes elsewhere. They had car- ried the gospel with them and they founded Christian churches and com- munities wherever they went. The church in Jerusalem became a mother church and had a care over its daugh- ters, and so the apostles went out from time to time to visit them. We can imagine how great an event, in one of these little communities of the country towns, the visit of Peter, or, John, or James would be, and how eag-' erly looked for. It is an interesting con-! jecture that Philip, who knew the country towns so well, and who lived in Caesarea, may have told these stor- jes of-himself and of Peter to Luke, who was Paul's companion when he visited him in Caesarea, and Paul was a prisoner there (Acts 21: 8: 23: 38), and Luke, as we know, was the writer of this book of Acts. ~ Lydda, called Lod in 1 Chron, 8; 12, was a large village on the road from Jerusalem to Joppa. ZAneas is [a Greek name, and he may have been had ado; eo Greek ia Jew who a 4 m, "neas, Jesus > So sure is he of and power of Jesus with him, so sure is he that he tan Jely upon Tim at this Tnoment, that he d gick man. % grace, 3 of this | ge and customs, There were - such in Palestine, Jotor seid the presence A Trine fade, ssupetl pT phn radi Rang its ide : doubtfu RL i, Seek ] C, Wi or elie, 18 ° Dorcas. The wo- "man who bore name. ks and ," a and one and meal. Make inches squa: spoonful of the mixture in if you wish, Use asa wash ¢ Inexperienced: How can one be fortable in a sleeping-car? I "never traveled so do not know what wear, nor where to put my thin In making up the berth in a Seen, ing-car, the porter will hang a smi net hammock between the win and into this you can put some of your belongings; others can be: placed on the chelf, which is made by: folding up the back of the seat, and a coat- hanger will be hung against he st tains of your berth. All of this will help you in disposing of your day- clothing. ! When you are about to retire, draw the curtains and fasten the buttons. Some travelers prefer to keep on their underwear, wearing a kimono over-it. Others prefer to remove all clothing, changing the undervest and putting on a night-dress; over this is worn a | kimono, which you will need in going to and from the dressing-room, Shoes and stockings are removed for the night, but are worn to and from | the dressing-room. ' You might provide a boudoir cap of India or China silk to wear when the hair needs to be protected from the dust, but this not always necessary. Experienced travelers rise and 1 their toilets early, as the dressing room is sure to be crowded later. Much of one's dressing can be done in the berth; if you find that you can not manage this, you can také your belongings to the dressing-room and dress there. Make as much use of the dressing-room as you are entitled to, but in fairness to other travelers do not monopolize it. For example, while traveling on a crowded car last year, a number of passengers were uncom- fortably delayed by the thoughtless- ness of two girls who not only took an unnecessary.length of tie to make their toilets, but proceeded to spread out their belongings and repack their | suitcases on the dreesing-room floor. A suitcase should not be carried into a dressing-room at such 'a time. Aj toilet-case or a Pullman apron will! i hold all the toilet belongings. ed, as if told by an eye-witness--the upper chamber, the still form of the dead, and the widows weeping and showing the "coats and garments which Dorcas made." | No queen ever had a more honor- able burial than that which - they. would have given her. The simple tribute of tears which they guve as lavishly was the highest praise. She opened her eyes. It is impos-! sible to explain what happened here by the ordinary principles or laws of \ nature. Some higher and over-rul- ing Power was present, as in the case' of the miraculous 'works of Jesus. There is a cheap and easy criticism abroad which assumes the right to deny all such events as t the present lesson, and to regard these stories as the product of a pious im- agination, Criticism is justifiable but, it must be based upon evidence, and history has abundantly shown how, precarious it is to assume, apart from the evidence that certain things can- not Have happened. The modern sei- entific view of the world does not create or facts, but only i to understand them. And All the of human history have not yet understood or explained. very well believe that in the Dre ay hi regarded as the working of God through the name and by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, ra ---- F arm Shop Saves Money. A small farm shop, handle simple repairs, will winter days can be spent in putting { the farm implements into good condi. tion, It doesn't require much and sizes, S-wrenches a The| can be shaped from the and | tempered to suit the use they are to be put. To size and shape may be made from the wrought iron parts, Add fo the equipment a press drill, and many the village blacksmith will visits to is be forestalled. best thing abouf having a shop is that the more it used, the more proficient the oper will become. "at first m: of | be disappointing, but the new |