DOES NOT ROB large enough, especially if ) THE FARM. cut a second time. But it is best to ice ¢ the only one you fill the house at one operation if pos that, does not rob your farm sible. The number of square feet of of fertility, and, considering the ad-i surface required per ton of ice tages of a good home supply of in blocks twenty-two inches square, 'foe, no improvement is more satisfac-|and of various 'thicknesses, is shown Y tory than a good ice supply. . in the following table: : oe rg } "Cool" is advice to the a ug . ns : on pc Rell exceptional- Number of A young boar of eight months owned by the Ontario: Agricultura . ; Se fair counsel on hot summer days,| Thickness cakes required ege and of which the Department of Animal Husbapdry there states: -- Jou, of the. : . 'when the glass registers around ninety| of ice. . | "This young hog is the type from which to produce bacon hogs. He is out |19: 11), the long journey * * in the shade, and the folks in the home Inches. per ton. hk of an even litter of sixteen pigs. Note length, smoothness, balance, and gen- | that cat and fo SY ! wish to preserve fruit and vegetables, 4 81.8 4 eral conformation," ba : "ivy And yi Sersible: ~. and the children want their ice cream 6 20.9 Go EERE nl =| a" and the ar country of and cool -drinks, Then, there is the 15,6 6 | turquoise. "How lovely!" said =the per hanger had to admit that it was a! or Kadesh-barnes, ; milk and cream to be cooled and kept 1 | lady, ! wonderful cake. by moto a nun cold until marketed. , . The merchant's valentine was made] So the baker, sided by his little eleven days of camel On the basis of 220-pound cakes, it : : 3 of ivory-colored lace as thin as a eob-| Irene, 'won the prize. He offered to Horeb. There they oe de nd is possible to cut the ice crop at less . 8 web, and gilt threads were woven. share it with the other men, but they mained for many days (ch. 1: 46 than twenty cents per ton, and haul ) through it. 1t was decorated with shaok their heads and declared as they and it was there th : and pack it in the icchouse for about 20 6.3 211 | clusters of little velvet violets, white finished the chocolate and cocoanut seribe 3 $2.00. per ton. Where cooperative| After the field has been marked off, and lavender, purple and gold. Lady crumbs that he had won-it fairly, methods are used, the cost is less. a strip of ice, one block in width and Louella was charmed with it. Then they all went home, and the. PEOPle ie On he nn To harvest ice efficiently a few ice| extending from the loadingway to the| The banker's offering was very baker and little Irene spent many border of Palestine, pis oy ; tools are required. A steel scraper is| main channel, is cut through and handsome. "The foundation' was a| happy hours turning those have oh EY Loom to useful; some types of small road| forced under the surface of the ice.! piece of heavy gold cloth as large as|5acks of flour infe-loaves and i ty tex. -------- as! : scrapers can be used for this, or a This strip is sawed somewhat wedge-| a plate; in the centre was a perfumed! and puddings and pies.--Y outh' s Com- to the north of them lay the wild idly very good home-made scraper may be | shaped, wider at the bottom than ati rose with golden petals, and at the| Potion: "| ture. Tanda 'of the - fashioned of wood and faced with athe top, which permits it to be forced! heart of the rose lay.a milk-white . £ Tethe lands Mr sagion OE strip of steel, such as the back of an| down under the ice field. The channel {pearl Lady Louella clasped her Honey 7s . Foc 18: oe FP Ch, Nom old cross-cut saw. An fee plow is al-{is then widened by cutting another hands in 'wonder and d elight. 5 B ds eountoi: the degen ach) : Mr. R. F. Holterness, thé well-; hich exten, most essential if any great amount is | strip to enable the long strips or r 3 to be oe up. This Yacilitates the re-| to be floated from the main channel a Baker's valeutine yeas in 3 White kngwn apiarist of Brantford, Ontario, tern Palestine to the Lebanons, broken ly Louella ha en had the following to say of honey as only by the transverse valley of Jez- ele out, 1 begin playing J d 50 the Purpose of God wan For) Peron Seerslly Te thwarted by Israel's cow- | lay from twelve to eighteen eggs dnd This is to the bank and loading place. TE aes ttn. wo hocks : i off the cover she sat and stared. Then|, food in an address he delivered be-| reel. The spies sent.out from Kadesh| "Wha lifies cutting into blocks.| The stripes are then pushed with an Te y ny pike oy bearing ver-| ice hook along the channel to. the load- He? ees Degen twinkle: the fore the Kiwanis Club of His Jbme, found 'a people tall and strong, the tical and horizontal hooks, are neces-| ing place, where they are sawed or picked up the contents of GL iThen i] city: Amorites, whose cities on the northern sary in floating the ice to the loading chopped into cakes. The cakes should t a big bite, For the baker's val Honey as a food could not be com-| gide of the Negeb were "great and platform. An ice saw may be useful not be cut completely through, but| ook & was very swoet Indead, it va .j pared he said, to such food as lean! fenced up: to heaven." or any ordinary cross-cut saw may be should be grooved two or three inches; heart-shaped i IU Was| meats; the latter is protein, honey 8) Num. 14: 1. All the congregation. vsed by, removing one handle, | deep with the plow, and after being| oy) 0 a CUE HE Ee on | C3TDONYdrate, with phosphorus, iron' Thig is the name frequently used by The ice harvest may be best carried, floated up the channel chopped 4 is yiiire orcs 2 eg ot igeen and vitamines, which were so highly | the writer to describe the popular as- o- by three squads of men, each with through with a special tool before g 0 "0 Wo 0 vp " prized by dietitians. But honey was sembly. We may imagine the people © team. The first removes the snow being put on the loadingway. " . better than almost all other sweets in| gathered in some public place to hear o- spongy ice from the surface of the Not only will you save much space La Oh how delicious!" said Lady | that it was inverted sugar--in other, the report of the spies. See ch. 18: £+1d und plows, saws and cuts the fce but ice as well by properly packing| /@Pdee. Dear me, how rude I am to words it was largely pre-digested and 26. The whole story in chs, 18 and 14 rte blocks of a size most convenient the ice in the house. You can get only] begin eating it right away! But I|ready for assimilation, | should be read. Twelve men, repre- to handle. If the ice is more than! thirty-five to forty pounds in a cubic| cou d not help myself. Then she ad-| The production of honey took noth-| senting the confederated tribes, had twelve inches thick blocks twenty-two foot of space if the ice is thrown in at) led, "You will have to admit, gentle-| ing from the fertility of the farm, and, been sent out to "see the. land, w to twenty-four inches square are eas-| random, while about fifty pounds can| Then, that this is the sweetest valen-! it displaced no- other crop. It was it is, and the people that dwell there- fest to handle; if thinner, blocks three be packed in the same space with a tine of the lot. therefore a wealth-producer. More-| in." They were to report as to the feet square are best. little care. This means also, that the| The baker. beamed, but the other over, honey was a by-product, nd the numbers and strength of the people! The second squad cuts loose the air cannot circulate through the ice Gian men looked terribly disappoint-| primary object to the existence of the! of the land, and what sort of land it blocks and floats them to the side of and melt it. bee was to pollenize blossoms so they! was, whether " Rd Bo water, where they are ready| About a foot of sawdust should be| "We didn't know you meant that] would set seed and fruit. This was' said in one EE ee Tray an to be loaded on sleighs. Here a tram-' placed on the floor of the ice house, kind of sweet," said the merchant, the' practically true of plum, cherry, the land as far as "the in way with a pair of ice hooks attached with less in the center to permit the| banker and the paper hanger all to-| peach, apple and pear blossoms, as of Hamath," a mountain pass in the to & rape will make loading a relative-| cakes to lean inward, and thus drain| gether. well as clover, alfalfa and buckwheat.| extreme north of Palestine, It is ly easy job. Let the rope extend Inward. The sides of the ice should "I didn't know it either," said a rm een hardly likely that they traveled so far, «across the sleigh from the tramway; be smooth. Any projecting pieces| voice at the door, and little Irene The coal-oil light's a-burning bright;| but by inquiry of people in the nearer hitch one horse to it and drag the should be trimmed off before insula-| came running in. She had net been| (It will, sometimes, when it feels parts, they could have learned much blocks from the water into the sleigh.| tion is put on. If sawdust or mill) able to stay at home any longer. right): about the parts more remote. Re- The third gang should be at the ice-| shavings are used a space of at least| «well, I didn't mean that kind of| Pa sits there reading, slick as sin, |turning they brought grapes, pome- house to place each load in position twelve inches should be left between | gweet," said Lady Louella. "But some-| The latest poultry bulletin; granates and figs-to show the fruits and pack sawdust or shavings round the outer walls and the ice stack. how this valentine seems the sweetest, Then, half to ma, and half to me, [Of the country. But they said, "The it as rapidly as possible. Eight men| It is easy to calculate how much ice| in every way." Pa up and speaks: "I see," says people that dwell in the land are with three teams can work most rap-' the house will hold. = Allowing forty-| frene's face shone. "I just kmew| "As how correct illumination y bn, strong, and the cities are fenced (or | _{dly in harvesting a crop of ice by this five cubic feet per ton, an uninsulated| that nothing could be better than one| Will make hens lay like all creation:| Walled) and very t." Caleb and : i house 18x12 by ten feet high, with one as father's good eakes,". she said. | Guess. 11 'have Oe henhaase ation; Joshua alone ET more courag- The average dairy requires only a foot around for insulation, will hold| = g, the long and the short of it was| Ma stops and peers and sews away, | eous spirit.' "We are 'well able to 'moderate amount of ies, or one thou-| about thirty-eight tons, while thesame|.that Lady Louella sent for, a knife| Does ma, and then I hear her say: | overcome it," they said, and that was sand. pounds per cow, so that even a' sized house, if insulated, will hold| and then cut out the bitten plece and; "I wish I was a blamed old hen: no doubt true had all the men of Is- surface usually is' about forty-three tons. sliced the cake and passed it round.| Maybe they'd wire the homestead,| Te! been like them. It was Caleb g---- The banker, the merchant and the pa who, an old man, forty years later, "I will give away a pound of flOUT | s---------------- . asked permission of Joshua who to every customer and so increase my § then the leader of Israels armies, to trade," said the merchant. A V. To 20 up against one of those same walled The baker was the most excited of 4 cities of the south and take it for him. self and his family, (See Josh. 14: all, for he had almost run out of flour. "But now," he said as he caught his BY EMILY ROSE BURT. there are groups, place the members| 6-15.) {Tittle daughter, Irene, and whirled her| If you want an excuse to dress up,|of each group in line, with a big] V. 2. Murmured against Moses, round and round, "I can get more| Plan a regular old-fashioned Valen-|spoon in the hand of the first in line.| They were a difficult and stubbo flour." tine. party--oh, perhaps a little. bit| The game is to fill the spoon with people to govern, and the PR hag all sort of pernicious stuff, of the character of a people by the morale| and methods of its hijackers, or of the progress of the race by the fiendish- quick ness of war, 5 g it 4 Hh 1 5 gs 8 E i i el : ! 2 4 i : il 1 i giants of our heritage. The church is ; able, if she is willing, d inat possess the land. Tha Loed ous God, corms hin hath set this land before us. rp--------s N------ | OHo.ose Softness is bne of the chief causes| G of loss In Canadien bacon. All soft eighty-one bacon sells at a discount. Pigs fed; Creamérie heavily in early life, particularly on 1923 BY CLARA PETERSON. At five o'clock Lady Louslla sat|modern in places, but, even so, allfwater from a receptacle provided, run their leaders must often have been| Pro! Rnaelancy lived in a village a eer-| waiting in her parlor. She wondered| bound up with hearts and darts. with it to the milk bottle, empty the sorely tried. Every unaccustomed young girl, the Lady Lou-| which of the four men would come in| For invitations paste a frill of white Spoon and return, handing the spoon| privation, or suffering, or obstacle in lace paper around the edges of a pale to the next in line. The group filling, their way, called forth not high re- 8, who was very fond of | respcnse to her letter. 'and pastry. Twice a year she! There was a knock at the door, nad| pink or lavender correspondence card its bottle first by means of this) solve and steadfast purpose, but mur- ad her huge pantry stored with sup-|a few minutes later the servant show-| and write on the card: } "spooning" process is proclaimed vic-| muring. And always they plies for making them; but several|ed in five visitors--the paper hanger, On Valentine's night to Valentine torious. their leaders. Or they times the flour had run short. | the merchant, the banker, the baker Land \ For the next stunt the golden num-| with the Lord himself for having When the St. Valentine season came, and little Irene, the baker's daughter,| You're being invited; pray, under- bers in the window literally figure.| brought them into trouble. Better round Lady Louella made up her mind | who had begged to come, too. stand ar there are six windows, an even| slavery and the flesh-pots of Egypt, that that should not happen again. So| Lady Louella was astonished; she| That appropriate. costume you must: Number of slips, bearing some digit| than liberty and the trials of the wil- without saying anything to her cook, had no idea that so many people wear-- from one to siz, is passed around. The | derness. v. 8 and Deut. 1: 27. and without knowing anything her-| wanted flour. Comic or sober, freakish or fair. od match ng uanibers with He Vs. 5-9. They are bread for us. So and measures, she Could you really use thirty sacks| 1nto the atmosphere of an evening NiGN Jumera 8 i ¥ thelr stands sid Caleb and Joshua, They meant rder to the mills. of flour? she said Himidly to them. | ,¢ fun their "dress-up" garb will lead J eo iu Ee ; 'e shall eat them up. Their defence ed very much when a 1 could, indeed," said the paper|iham. Everybody is going to feel very, pov i A bo deligh io _Sroups > or rather, "their shadow," is departed. with sacks of flour drew hanger, the banker, the merchant and cheerful if yousputipink and blue Jap- ostume; for instance possibly Pecks Jim thom. Shut Is the ov of thei » P wer of their ve the door. the baker almost with one voice. se lante th 1 CPR he pe 0S eo RT rt SEE Bt or. Gh ie bh Ty wl nel y ' 4 » lua, | " 11 shall I do with it all?" |ella. lengths of rosy cheesecloth by draping j, hoopskirts, and a clown--may find | "the Lord is with us" 'Compare Deut. | "But 'Had ordered the flour, and! Here was a pretty state of affairs! i; ¢ ter to the sid ; da nothing to do except take The lady looked in a troubled way at| 150} the canter to Hu Eds Valin Bemeive together, 20: 1-4. Ses also the great assu Ih r uests, and her Sums Jooked at gold heart--mysteriously numbered by Bas Lot thes window groups is eri as and Isa. 41: 8-14. large sacks were carried i er and at gpe avather one MEW! the way. Valentine in & pink Ee pues i stricken mob to a Bars Oe Ltr. 1* said Lady Lovells. "I! ; ; long walk and try to and raised her hand. "Please, Lady 30 1o Shale he first sig {8 the grand form, . X thing of. that sort is tao often, do with all that flour." | Louella," she said. udges. The next stunt is indeed al : very tiny in our own day, the "What is it, little girl?" said Lady! heartening one. Each person the exhortations of Lou i 5 ; from a hat at random-acsealed enve. | Md. 28° receives an arrowful| i ) "windows! _ "Day after to-morrow will be St. 5 'of theme-the arrow 'a feather-tipped pors of all pat. J laning's Days+asid, the Bistle i in it; velope second. ng belon| uppose you say. that you ve ano 'there was a oe of need) the flour to the person who sends you the shoulder ot : they form a circle, facing out, and The third be-| the best valentine?" -- ng ch oat mi zive. | loader within the circle touches some. Tis what to do. oy : OF Then little: Trene.istepped forward When 'the meeting comes to order,| ; © 15, FL or on the plat-'to "stones them with stones" Some. 0! - ) 5 &