= of farmers who haye the answers to these question ve built mighty ble RT their experiences and my "own observations here into one article in the hope that what I have to say _ may save you some time, trouble, and expense. ; City" folks will buy anything you t 18 of best quality and reaches them ~ "in good condition. Butter, - cheese, eggs, honey, canned goods, fruits, andl vegetables hold the lead. Pop corn, candy, wild rice, tobacco, and similar products also find a ready sale. The deciding factor is the quality of what you fell. Prompt service and fair - prices bring repeat orders and recom- mendations of your goods to friends. Space! post prices compare. closely with wholesale prices at the big termi- nal markets. By cutting out the deal- ers and retailers you get more money, end the buyer 'gets the food a little cheaper than at the corner grocery. DON'T NEGLECT ADVERTISING. + ~There are several ways of getting n list of customers. Tho quickest is, of course, to buy a list of names; but this, plus the cost of circulars and printing necessary to make your goods known, runs into big money. More- over, when you buy & list from a deal- er you can expect a lot of waste. A better way is to exchange or buy names from another farmer handling a different. product. Small newspaper ads are about the cheapest way of getting customers. Four or five-line ads in your nearest ety papers, costing "rom 156 to 50 cents a line, produce good results, I am told by farmers who do it. ITow- ever, if you buy space fry to get into the so-called home or family paper. There is a big difference between the <-pulling power of -the paper-bought on the news stands because of "scare heads" and the one delivered to the home by carrier. Yon can tell the home paper by the large amount of department-store advertising it car- ries. Whatever plan you employ to build your Hst you can use a little printed matter to good adyantage. Usually your letterhead with a statement of what you have to sell, .the quality, and a testimonial or two will be suffi- cient to make your approach. In get- ting up your literature it might be a good idea to. illustrate it with a pic- ture of yourself, family, or farm views, These pictures lend a little personal touch and go a long way toward making you better acquainted. These things are not vital at the start. Often a friend or acquaintance in a large office or plant will help you establish a market. Some friends of. mine here in the stockyards.get ship- ments of eggs which they sell to fel- low workers. Others handlé a box of butter put up in pound and two- _ pound* prints. COLLECTIONS AND WRAPPING. Making collections depends on how you want to do business, and it is much easier than you imagine. Some farmers demand cash in advance; some 'ask part of it with the order and the rest on dellvery; some send bills in the package, and some make the shipments C.0.D. Your return address rhould be on each package. While on the subject -of mailing it might be well to call your attention" to the 'impértance of wrapping and the season of the year. These two go a long way in delivering products to the buyer in good condi- tion. Of course the distance must be Yaken into consideration. Ordinarily I believe it best to stick to the first Rejected and No Grade Hay. ~~ W. B., Oxford Ooi, Ont.--*"I have had some hay rejected. Please ex- plain provisions of the regulations re- ferring thereto, and to 'No Grade Hay' 7... = mini Inspection and Sale Act provides that "No Grade * Hay" shall include all hay that is damp or otherwise unfit for storage, and shill be entered in the inspecting "officer's books as 'such with a note 'as to ite quality and condition. Re- jected hay, under the Act; consists of Cy containing more than twenty-five per cent. of foxtail or pear grass, or 'hay hi . or containing must or otherwise dainaged, and in- s all hay not good enough for| 2 4 mam e| Provi tion and he Se T'm' going to try tol' send through the mail--that is, If} _ After talking to farmers who 'sell by mail and city folks who buy-in this manner I'm convinced that there are big opportunities there for you if you're willing to give service afid de- liver quality. : "But selling by mail won't help any- [ one' escape work. It means more especially above the eyebrows. Our Rats Are Gone. Rats became so annoying two years ago in our county that we had an organized war upon these rodents, mice and English sparrows; owls and hawks of some species. we cele- brated at feasts in the'town halls with One statistician among us red that if all the rat tails were corded up like stove wood we should have one and three-quarters cords of tails, one rat tail wide, TE That was the winter of 1922-23. We had 20 acres of shocked corn standing. in the field at the time of the hunt, and we told the boys to come with their 'dogs, clubs and guns, and dyna- mite, if necessary, and we would haul the shocked 'corp into the barn as they tore it down 'to get the rats. 1 do not recall the number of rats, but we had almost a hundred shocks neat- ly tipped over on the side, and we worked two days hauling it into the barn, This year after we finished husking 26 acres of corn we had not noted a trace of a rat, and we kept close watch. A neighbor asked me yepterday| what had become of all the rats, that he had not seen a rat for so long he was not sure that he would know what one looked like. And it is that way all over our sec- tion wherever we hear, and all attri- bute it to the vigorous warfare against them in 'our rat campaign. It was time well spent and worth while emulating i any rat-infested terri- tory. Ape 2 Bordeaux for Plum Diseases. Fruit Grower, Middiesex Co., Ont. --"I desire to protect plum trees against Brown Rot and Plum Pockets by spraying with Bordeaux mixture, How is the Bordeaux prepared?" Avswer--A standard formula for| Bordeaux to be used for spraying| plums, given by the Dominion Horti- culturist in his recently issued bul- letin (No. 45, New Series) is as fol- lows: Copper sulphate, 4 pounds, un- shiked lime, 4 pounds, water 40 gal- long. For making this into barrel !lots the utensils required are a forty gallon barrel, two tubs of twenty gal- lons each, two buckets, a paddle and a coarse sack. Arrange the tubs so that | one is on either side of the barrel; | place in one of the tubs 20 gallons of water and dissolve in it four pounds of Yluestone, doing this by suspending the bluestone in a coarse sack just be- low the surface of the water. In the other tub carefully slake four pounds of lime with hot water, being careful to use just enough water to form a thick paste. When this has cooled dilute to twenty gallons with water. After thoroughly stirring the contents of both tubs pour a bucketful from each simultaneously into the barrel, taking care that the two streams mix: When the barrel is full, thoroughly stir the blue mixture, strain into the spray tank, and the preparation is ready for use. You can 'obtain. he bulletin on' application, postage free, to the Publications' Brcanch, Depart- ment of Agriculture; Ottawa. To. nd perhaps hu y when starching time si on rn day, I'am always glad to see the pan, of starch already made and cool, wait- ing to add freshness to the clothes. I found long ago that by taking a minute longer and making the starch in the morning when the teakettle is boiling, the starch could be covered immediately with a close-tting lid and be as smooth as if just off the stove. A bit of paraffin added hot Star rh WK Grades of Straw. sions of the Dominion Inspec- Sale Aet, admin on- I pyit--th t- Who neéds a greeting, sweet and shy, _| directly through this vineya vhile hot!' oud nd giles are oh, so blue! Before me is a basket low, - With socks of many a day, And every hole in heel or toe Shows Duty leads that way. ere's astiny breeks close by, A baby daffodil, * ~ While sunbeams gild each frill. hy £ 1 ponder on the How and Why, Likewise on Ought and Must; 1 call to mind my nifssion high-- Each housewife's sacred trust. But--out beyond *beckons the spring, With lure of happy hours, ah Glad birds, the call of each wild thing, Red dawns and fragrant flowers- at play? My duty's clear--10'll take a holiday! ; # Louise Lombard Thomas, Going-Away Place Cards. The place cards at a dinner party in henor of several people who were moving from town were graphs," of the future. . These were made by cutting pie- tures from magazines and pasting a small photograph of the person over the printed face. These real photo- graphs were easily cut from shapshots and they added to the merriment when they were not the right size to fit the rest of the picture. The man with 'a family who was moving to a distant state saw himself and his family ready to board a train. The medical student was starting from the gates of a university with a doctor's satchel. The bride-to-be had a picture of the first breakfast. These give an idea of what is possible with these pictures. BY ANNE A youth started early in the morn- ing, that he might 'reach his father's house by nightfall. His way lay over a wonderful highroad, that was al- ways changing, Sometimes it was hilly, and the traveler looked at the valley below. Sometimes it was level and deep, and he gazed up 'at the majestic mountains. i He whistled merrily as he walked 'briskly along, admiring the beautiful country, glorious in the misty. purple of morning. By-and-by he came to a high stone wall, over whose top he | caught glimpses of thrifty vines. "Qh, that I had some of the deli cious fruit that must surely burden yonder vines!" thought he, looking up, longingly. While thus standing, covetously gazing at the waving leaves so far above him, all at 'once he knew that somet one was behind him--not by sound) for all was still, save the lazy drone of insects--but by an uneasy sensation, that thrilled through his spinal cord to his brain like electricity. jestic being, who glided toward him without any perceptible motion of his! own. The youth -pelitely- doffed his hat, and wished the stranger good- morning, " = 3 The spirit graciously smiled, as he returned the salutation, adding: "I understand that you long .for some of the fruit in my vineyard, and I am going to gratify that longing." And the being turned to a great iron gate in the wall, that quietly opened when he laid his hand upon it. Rejoicing in his good fortune, the youth followed the generous being into his garden. The gate closed noiselessly behind them. The youth looked back; he saw nothing but the high &tone wall. The gate had van- ished. x . "Your path," said the spi vit: "lies you walk on, you mays gather basketful of any kind of grapes that Why. should 1 work when every ones. o. THE MYSTIC VINEYARD | He turned around and saw a ma-! As _ glorious opportuni your! gthened, until they are eight to four or five-inch lengths. Short-cut litter of this kind dries up the droppings quic ing the moisture, It also buries their eating small pieces' of the shav- ings, causing impacted crops and di- gestive disorders. learn, to. serateh Wee 'of Meter 15 used, it iv'a egg-case flat is ideal. 3 In érder to avoid coccidiosis and othar troubles resulting from contam- brooder floor. frequently, especially during bad weather, when the chicks are of necessity confined to the house a good deal of the time. A brooder floor should be cleaned out every ten days to two weeks. A - A good fanning mill if the farmer's best weed getter. ora eee M. STARR. basket that hung lightly on his young arm. In this delightful manner 'the sweet morning passed, and ngon-day found the youth, with heated brow, still with his empty basket, Again the traveler paused to look around him, The arbor arched above him as gracefully as ever, but he could see the blue sky between the! green leaves, for the vines were not 56 luxuripus as thode of 'the morning, and the friit that clustered on' them, though still fine and rich, compared, in variety and beauty, but peorly with those he had passed. = "Bshaw!" said he, diadainfully, re- suming. his journey. "Think I'd look at such grapes? No, indeed! I rather guess not!" ri Noon was gone, and afternoon, from beneath her heavy eyelids, saw the youth with his' unfilled basket still walking idly on. The vines were now thin and . poor, the fruit small and frequently unripe, though here and there hung a fine cluster; nine weeks old when it ¢an be cut into] iy by absorb] ky ye hicks ar little, before chicks ar. littl, before inated brooders, it is wise to clean the| . flung himself heart and so 'and what is'of even} greater danger is the possibility of} The Sunday ANALYSIS. 3 I. WHAT SAUL--IN IGNORANCE--SOUGHT T0 Do FOR Gop, 1; 2 a" II. WHAT GOD--BY GRACE '= DID FOR SAU. 3-12, 17, 18, -. ' INTRODUCTION--We now come to the greatest event in Christian history since the Resurrection. This was the conversion, through a direct interpo- sition of the Risen Jesus, of the arch- persecutor, Saul." We have already seen this young lawyer from Tarsus | giving proof of his legal zeal by being a_party--and an unmoved and com- placent one--to the denth of Stephen Acts 7:58; 8:1. Thertafter Saul had | erusade against Christiani comes a sort of 'Grand whose busiriess-ig to sta ; tianity, and then--suddenly there is a' blinding flash of spirit! discovery,' and Saul falls at the feet of Christ, a humble and' lowly believer: = " The importance of this great cha } lies not only, in the work which Saul,' hereafter to be known as Paul, is now to. do for God and for Christ, but in' the fact that to him, more than to any' other, it had been given to test the! Jewish religion to the uttermost, and' to make the supreme proof of the futility of legal righteousness, Hence, When he, who had gone so far in Ju-' ism, 'God to Christ, he saw, as no one e'se' had ever so clearly seen before, that their out Chris- As the afternoon grew old, wild varieties replaced = the cultivated kinds; these the youth ssorned.. Hui~ rying on, he peered ea the leaves for one fine And so he walked onward, still hoping, for impossibilities, till the evening! shadows fell over him, {he boundaries of the vineyard were passed, and he stood 'upon the highway, with his use-! less basket, on his arm. "Alas!" cried he; mournfully, look- ing back. "Far away'in the beautiful past, I left ungatheréd. the glorious' fruit that morning so generously of- fered; ungracionsly refused the excel lent harvest that noon pressed upon J me, and, with scarcely a glance, pass. ed the wild fruit of afternoon, It is! now evening; yonder is my father's' house, where . I go empty-handed. Never; oh never again, can I have the ties J neglected to seize whils they clustered thick around me you fancy most, though you can fill it but once, and must gather the fruit mitted you to return for what yi have once passed." = As the spirit finished, he smilin, waved+his hand to the youth, gone, = 'The delighted boy looked around him and saw that he was in a vast and beautiful rection, as nh a7 d pink Great white an an as you come to it; for it is not per through d- violet bunches, at every} Sg "No," said the solemn, far-away voice, "never again! You pass but once the garden of life; if its rich offerings are refu ' ed, the proffered a cond have nothing left you | ary way Judaism was abrogated, and that God had opened up through Christ a new and living way of salvation. " Saul became the humanity. » I. WHAT SAUL-IN IGNCRANCE-SOUGHT, TO DO FOR GOD, 1, 2. V. 1. Saul had come to study the Jewish lo t was a greater 'passion #n his 1 than to know theology, and thut was to become right with God. letters tell us that he was: not: alto- gether happy in this' latter effort.' Sincere soul that he was, he found, and confessed that he could not. keep Pn Rety, NDugh ou eeping aw perfectly could hope. for the salvation of God. But hi | Jerugaien to the more that conscience stung him, had the more he redoubled his zeal, an: he considered' the Christians. to. be apostates from law and innovators religion, he flung himself of pereecution against them. He to stamp out their rel cursed thing, di Heeler a slaughter ag: Lord" Cd sts MAY Saul Becomes a Christian, Acts 9: 1-19; Golder Text -- If' any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.--2 Cor. 5: 17¢ al gto. fhe tmmed 5 knees. - EN [Vs 4 5, The "visi centre living Jesu: was brought by direct act of Ch S [have me to do?" getiy-among| And from being the hot apostle of a the absolute rule -cluster, only, naFrow Judaism, one; -but all, all-were wild and small." preacher of Christ te the whole of moment he. But there eo Jed hore His own which has ta 17 an anti-Christian movement every- where. - 80- he sets out, a sort of Grand Inquisitor, for Damascus. And all , as he tells us after- wands, he did blindly and in ignor- ance, thinking' to please God! II. WHAT GOD--BY GRACE DID FOR SAUL, S12, AT AB. aR ~V.- 8, Saul never accomplished= the Wd p) Jorposs of that visit to Damascus. st he got there, while Treat te "the, pent-up. itual forces his nature gtd de Yoh and Saul had a soul-uphéaving heavenly vision. There shone round about him a light from heaven, which had the| i iate effect of ng hin to}. n had for its' 8, had 2 bro death and ero with glory. Pros- trate on the earth, 1 hears a voice saying, "Saul, Saul, why dost thou rseeute "me?" "Who art Thou Fon ho Same, Kika, vs ps, conscious' who it : to him. "I am Jesus, whom thou art persecuting," comes the answer, an certain authorities add the words, "It is hard for 'thes to kick against ds," meahing that Saul has too ong struggled against conscience, and that it is time that'the battle was over, and that Saul had given in to 6-9. The conflict is indeed over. Saul gives in to Christ. His pride in Judaism and in himself drops in pieces at his feet, "Lord, what wilt thou Saul must now take of his life from the Christ whom he had resisted, At this r dio hea of Ji ards to rther telli onw, come ov ~ An tur produced by the spi h ake place in his soul, remains for three days without and unable to eat or drink, Vs. 10-12, © Mean ul, and to bapt : "For, behold, he words pi monk while he is taki imaginary journey. But, 4s one's duty to take a trip away from =~. himself 'occasionally. When he does » that he "comes_back" refreshed and ready to take on dai newed energy. » - -a§ much-as we should? fortunately germinate, i ling, then into a tree. It has ail petitors. and enemies to overcome in its fight for existence. Th of the fittest" 1 emplified than in the efforts of th tree to secure its sha and moisture; B succeeds after a losing battle, falling Slt Without any' human assistance wiedge of the world, It is the most economical way to travel ' wo that shes as-yet been devised. ~ And des, good music often helps one's ng such an at least, it vl ly duties with Value of the Forest to the Do wé really appreciate' the tre arting from little seed falling on thé ground, in a soil where it may. t struggles on to a seed- | - into a sapling, and finally its natural com- are" of sunlight ut one tree in many the remainder giving. up' of dangerous combustible de- makes forest control se diffi. employment in _ out-of- only of the country for man thing er suffi