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fifteen 'inches long for stirring. Heat- . Ing commences in pockets, perhaps not «larger than & man's hat, This is apt to spread. 'It may start with 'a par- © ticularly damp measure full of grain. If the grain is badly spoiled it is dangerous to feed. If it is heated * slightly and cooled before it cakes or - swells, there is little danger in using . it for feed. - We are using some now which had started heating but was ob- served in time. : 3 Buckwheat may show no signs of heating in the fall, but when the warm spring weather comes, much that is dry will be in danger. Buckwheat that is apparently dry and in good condi- tion may quickly heat and become a caked mass. Two nearby farmers felt "entirely satisfied the past spring that their seed buckwheat was perfectly dry. They felt it in the spring, and . at the time it was perfectly cool. Two "or three weeks later the grain was spoiled, and they were compelled to pay ) per hundred. for seed, I came near having this experience. I found a pocket perhaps about the size of a keg. 'This was heating. I réemov- ed the grain in that portion of the bin, and stirred the remainder daily. If buckwheat has become warm, and 3 haps may smell at' little, it will still hake ican, dairy or hog feed. "It 4 ill grow. I have tested and planted that which had heated a little but not swelled. However, I would advise the farmer to figure on sixty to seventy- five per cent. germination. Buck- wheat which had badly spoiled caused a considerable loss in a neighbor's poultry flock, when fed. : One should save the buckwheat in the bin. With flour at present prices, and commercial feeds at figures now quoted, buckwheat dis worth not less than $3.75 for dairy feed and not less than $3.25 for hog feed, and perhaps more. . As poultry feed it is worth as much as for dairy feed, and it ranks next to wheat in our experience for chickens. It can be fed profitably ranging from twenty to fifty per cent. of the grain| vation. It is usually adwisable to feed about twenty-five per cent but we have fed it as high as fifty per cent. of the grain ration to dairy cows, and it proved one of the best milk pro- ducers. We have-vead- critielsms of or ng must "wrapper" intact. It is evident, with the potatoes dug early, that the prob- lem of preventing deep injury to the tubers with tender skins is difficult. Ontario potatoes are stored'in Waite had c- 1 skimmed this morning 1 skimmed this morning f A Be et it fal But I was well . : x ' Stem end and blossom end ~ And every fleck of russet 1 feel the The rumb sound For I have had too much 3 ple-picking For all ! 'That struck the earth, . No matter if not bruised As of no worth. One can see what Were he not gone, Or just some human sleep. L and break, ry grass. Upon my way to sleep before it fell, ind I could tell 'What form my dreaming was about to take. apples appear and disappear, showing clear. 'My instep arch not only keeps the ache, Tt keeps the pressure of a ladder-round. ° . e ladder sway as the boughs bend. And I keep hearing from the cellar bin Of load on load of apples: coming : I am overtired great harvest I myself desired. ; There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch, Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall, or spiked with stubble, 'Went surely to the cider-apple heap will trouble 'This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is. The woodchuck could say whether it's like his Long sleep, as I describe its coming on, -~ --Robert Frost. houses or cellars or are p casionally requests come to know with what a storage cellar should be fumi- gated or disinfected, The warehouse should be cleaned of all cid, rotting tubers and thoroughly aired and dried. No specidl disinfection is necessary. It would be better to spend the money and time for false floors to provide good circulation than to try to dis- infect the bins. The rotting organ- isms are all-about the potato. - They are native to the soil. Conservation of the tuber depends upon the sound skin and cool, dry air conditions. Large piles of potatoes should have ventilation channels provided, either by lattice work or by rows of crates. Potatoes tend to sweat upon being put into storage. Ventilation is necessary to dry this moisture. Only a general rule can be given, but potatoes should be kept as dry as possible, yet avoid- ing shriveling, and should be kept as near the freezing point as possible, yet avcid freezing. Pit storage iis commonly employed. It has the advantage with the ordinary season of keeping the tubers better than the ordinary wardhouse storage, and the disadvantage that the tubers are not readily obtainable for ship- ments in cold 'weather. A pit should have a base of clean, dry straw and if at all large should have a straw chimney connecting with the base to provide ventilation. It is the custom to cover lightly with dirt until a snow-fall, and then complete the covering with another layer of straw and earth, Where provisions for ventilation are not provided, a blackening of the hearts of the tubers has taken place commonly in mild seasons. It is doubtless needless to say that only sound, uninjured tubers should be put into storage. Ontario's problems, then, is econo- mically to gather, store and market Whether the age, the farmer must exercise care in handling, protect from frost, and pre- vent deterioration. A common fault in the past has been to injure serious- ly by bruises or wounds. In add tion, serious loss from rotting arnises from warm, moist storage conditions. The cardinal principle is to provide ventilation and to'keep the tubers cool The black heart condition which de- veloped §0 markedly last season may be avoided if the tubers are well aer- ated and do not get too warm. The potato even at the lowest offering of this uncertain fall market, is worthy of careful handling. For the Right, Every Time. One boy I know used to stop at a farmer's house where a very inqulsi- tive woman Mved, She used to "pump" that little fellow dry every time she could, One day she asked him some- thing. about the home affairs. "My Mamma doesn't want me to tell," came back the answer very quickly, but modestly and firmly, and that was the end of that woman's quizzing the boy. She found out that he knew where. the line was between what should and what should not be told away from home and-was bound to stand by it. There is no finer quality for boy or girl than that of uphold- ing the night always and everywhere. The home is the boy's castle, as well waterglass. your own receptacle and save Earthenware jars are necessary to preserve the eges in the best condition. | chief causes of social injustice and The solution is made by using one gigcontent. We must distinguish also part waterglass to nine parts of water which has been boiled and cooked. A gallon of waterglass will make enough solution to preserve fifty dozen eggs. in the store. 2 Poulin! Never try using last year's water- glass solution for another lot of eggs. Be sure and take your own cans or bottles to the druggist when buying It is better to furnish set. money. | tive duty NOVEMBER 7TH Principles of Christian Living--8t. Matt. 6: 1-7: 12," Golden Text, Matthew 6: 33. = 6: 1-18, Take Heed. Jesus would have His followers sincere and modest. He gives no approval or encourage- ment to loud profession of piety, or to ostentation or boasting in religion. It is the sincere and simple pu and desire of the heart that God hon- ors, and this conception of religious duty is always present in His teach- ing. The kindly gift to one who needs, the prayer, the fast, are all best done in secret, done when doer himself hardly recognizes that there is any merit in his act. Jesus 88id, Let not thy left hand know what thy night hand doeth. - against the spirit and manner of the lay-actors, the pre- tenders, in religlon and morality, of whom there were not ex rd among the Pharisees of His ~ The model prayer which Jesus gave His disciples %: 8-18) is short, simple and reverent. It begins with peti- tions that due honor may be given to the name of God, and that His king- dom may come and His will be done among men, and continues then with the presentation of personal needs of daily food and forgiveness of sins and to be kept from temptation to evil. How very simple and necéssary are the desires and longings of the true Christian as expressed in this prayer! Just that God's name may be honored and' His will be done, and that we ourselves may be forgiven and kept from evil and have our dally bread. And how very different the elaborate, complex, wordy and long-drawn-out prayers which we so often hear in the churches to-day! 6: 19-84. Treasures. There is a difference, surely, between laying up that which is necessary for the main- tenance of good life, for food and As a little speculation better than oil stock we recommend putting down about fifty dozen eggs now while they are worth around fifty cents per dozen. Sell them about Christmas time! dressed to the poor as well as to the when quality eggs are high and scarce. | rich--a Sell them for exactly what they are not to --waterglass eggs. And let the qual-| ity prove to the customer that they are better than cold storage eggs sold| If the eggs are sold for seventy-five. cents, that means $12.60 profit, less the cost of the solution and the time of puthing down and fishing them out of the crocks. much money, but there isn't much easy money in the business of pro- ducing food, and every dollar counts. That's not A hen has a bodily temperature of 106% degrees and she is protected by' | between the accumulation of wealth, | tions" wh | If Thine Eye Be Single. Some _stor- TANFIELDS | them. as the man's. -- eee of your corn get caught by the' frost? Too bad! The best market for it is through the hogs. so that .the ------ } Clntrimkable , UNDERWEAR The best, perhaps the only way he can defend it is to be true to father and mother.--E, A pretty and servicable walk on a lawn can be made of irregular flat stones laid two or three inches apart, grass can grow between | sections, depends may be conserved a thick coat of warm feathers. When the bird is well fed and living in a still air, her body generates enough heat to keep her feeling fine and the] feathers keep the heat from leaving | too rapidly. A hen exposed to the wind soon suffers from the - shock caused by the feathers blowing out and exposing the warm skin to cold air. This means that windbreaks are useful on poultry ranges and draughts must not be permitted in poultry houses. Fresh clean cold air is health- ful to fowls. Damp unclean air is unhealthful whether warm or cold. It is not the cold air that causes sick- ness in poultry flocks. The open-front h is 7 b fresh air means healthful poultry and they can stand cold if well fed and protected from draughts. FL NN : What is Fertility? Fertile land is the basis for all per- '| manent agricultural: prosperity, and | the question of soil fertility has a di- 1 rect bearing on practically every agri- | cultural subject. It is useless to spend time and money for the purpose of improving plants and animals unless the soil is fertile enough to furnish a | sufficient. amount of food for the former and feed for the latter. ; Soil fertility may be defined as ca- paoity to produce growths of the 5 (EPS yh the soil and climate of y region d are adapted. It does not dp soils, e : 8 pol, eagle' , but un! oF m »' 1 things % in human life will co who = ilage| peksh ence form of _| able when men seek Barts | shelter and clothing for one's self and i children, and the hoarding up of | treasure upon which one's heart is The former seems an impera- and even necessity, too much neg! in these extravagant days. | The latter is and has been one of the whether by individuals or by corpora- 4s at once invested in Jioductve enterprises such as make or the common good, and that ac- cumulation which either lies idle or is used merely for the gratification of idle desires" and the pursuit of use- less pleasures, The warning is ad- serious and solemn warning set the heart upon such trea- sures, but rather upon treasures in | heaven, treasures of the unseen world, | treasures of faith, and kindness, an | gelfforgetfulness, and hope, and love. The Re- vised Version renders correctly, "The lamp of the body is the eye." The eye here represents the spiritual outlook, the way we look upon and regard the world in which we live. If the outlook be clean and sound, if if be free from unhealthy desire, and greed, and mere self-seeking, the whole life will indeed be bright. But if the eye be filled with covetousness and avarice and lust and selfish passion, the whole life will become dark indeed. Two Masters. The origin and exact meaning of the word mammon is une | known. Augustine, an early Chris- tian scholar, said that it was a Phoeni- clan word meaning "gain," It may have been used as a title of the god of wealth. Service, Jesus declared, must be single and whole-hearted. We can- not render to God divided allegiance. One or the other, God or gain, must be first and supreme. This saying of Jesus is a simple, di- rect and satisfying answer to the question often asked in recent discus- sions of social questions, "What must be the basis of our social order? or, | What the ruling motive in business?" | Is it to be sélf or service? Is it to be the making of profit or it to be the common good ? e ques- | tion becomes, simply, in the words of | Jesus, "Is it to be mammon or God?" | For the Christian in the home, society, | comnterce, * manufacturing, trading, everywhere, there can be but the one! answer. The motive of gain or profit may be present, but it must always be| scondary and subordinate, never the ruling motive. . . | Take No Thought. The Revised Version rend "Be not anxious." | The word "tholight" in the English of three or four hundred years ago often meant anxiety. Christ does not teach' that there is no necessity for toil, for owing and rea ing and dngathering, but with all this there should be simple trust in the goodness of the heavenly Fethet, who feads the birds and clo the lilies. 3 | Here the in, or is| | oni 18 to put, God first, to make Hi ; hit together.| S08 L010 ul things © do Hie i. firs! of d t the ki Ww e to uts the kingdom of God necessarily wealth, or , Or long y Poul, Is thal we nes, Ter- ; uf the Fol 8 10] ns, {t is not a new social order, al- h that may come, that will make but obed a 4 i THREE of God, when they make the law of, uf [law of "hum THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON If all jack-rabbits could outrun all - coyotes the coyotes would starve out and jack-rabbits would then become a serious pest, as, indeed 'they have in localities in which the coyote has been eterminated. H all coyotes could out- run all jack-rabbits, then the jack- rabbits would oon be exterminated, and the coyotes would starve. But nature has provided that some coy- otes can gutrun some jack- ts, 80 that there is always left some' food for the coyotes, : A thousand and one other delicate balances between living things are te be found in nature. The most inter- ant, f found in the work of thé tiny organisms--bacteria, molds, etc. -- that cause decay. If the remains of dead plants and animals did not de- cay, it would not be many centuries until all the carbonic acid gas in the atmosphere would be tied up in the remains of dead plants, and plant life would disappear for lack of its pring cipal source of nourishment. Mord than half the weight £ the water-free materials in plants is arbon, all of which is obtained from the carboni¢ acid gas in the air. Without plant life animal life would be impossible. Bac~ teria, molds and other organisms of deay are thus the basis of all life on this good old globe of ours. PRS ct EI, Fall Plow the Garden. . The exposed soil will crumble up through the winter due to alternating freezing and thawing. The roughen- ed garden surface will catch and hold more of the winter rains and snows than would a smooth, beaten-down surface. The slices themselves will dry out, and when the season at which seeds can be planted does come, 'the furrows can be covered with the crumbled, dry soil which is in excel- lent condition for seed sowing 'and which will protect from evaporation the water caught through the winter; a sort of Insurance against dry sum- mer. Fall plowing will also help to control insects. Thoge that pass the winter on the ground in crop rem- nants will be buried so deeply that they can not work to the surface, and those that burrow into the ground to escape outside temperatures will be turned up to freeze and perish. BI 1 TI The sky at sunset is a huge palette upon which angel children are paint- ing with their water colors, making pretty things for the folks "down home" to see. . We hear a great deal in these days about efficient farmers. What makes farmers efficient? Turning good fur- rows, sowing good seed and making money hand over fist? These things are all good, but they do not fill the hill. Efficiency at its best means thinking right thoughts and doing right things; in being good and kind and true and helpful to those that need help. ) A utfon &f material condi-] CATTLE HOGS SHEEP Bring Big Prices When Sold by Auction at the Toronto Fat Stock Show Classes for every feeder, whether big or small. Show will be held at UNION STOCK YARDS December 9th & 10th. 1920 Write Secretary, Box 636, West Toronto, for all particulars. ROOFING| SAVE 50c| to 1.00 per roll Prompt Shipment i i -- ws -- Re i y, yoursel judge after 1 © Roo Ar ings : (of eB be] do the will, . mples Roofing and Delivery Offer. 1 lsslE and perhaps the most import