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3 Address All Letters to Farm West, Toronto. All Answers Will Appear in this Column, If Personal Reply is Desired, Enclose Stamped and Addressed Envelope. Editor, 73 Adelaide St. - entertained at the Mr#: Robinson, the parents of the ~ great credit on the work of the Sliver me of Rev. and Patrol Leader of the Lonies and the evening's proceedings reflect Foxes, and everyone present voted the church at an impressive service I cathedral chancel. Dean Tucker is. 80 years of age, and still active, "Training For All" Emergencies The wide variety of heady acts for which Scouts are awarded medals was function to be highly Lone S out Headquarters was repre- sented by Commissioner John Furmin- ger and Scoutmaster Don. Hutchisc 1 of the 2nd Troop. - . ne Headquarters Notes The Commissioner and the Scout- master of the 2nd Troop are looking forward to a visit to the Lonies at Al- liston in the latter part of this month. More will be heard of this later. The Wolf Cub display at the Mutual Street Arena, Toronto, on-Saturday, November 5th, was a great success. The display -was entitled "Aladdin in Cubland," and Lone Scout Commission took the part "of the "Genei" of the Magic Lamp. . 'the other had gone to the aid of two men attacked by a moose in -thejy boys. One had saved the life of a gun- shot victim by applying a tourniquet, Moose Jaw Wild Animal Park. ia 20,000 Danes Greet Scout Courler Denmark was the carrying by Scout messengers from the northernmost point of Jutland 600 kilometres to Copenhagen, of a kudu camp horn, the ish Scout Association. of the horn was witnessed by 20,000 illustrated when the Governor-General about to enter, vs. 7-9, Will p ted medals to two Moose Jaw | urgotten also? Moses, knowing them A novel cross-country event which |been dependent. upon forces which attracted much public attentiion in |operated beyond their control. In the gift of Lord Baden-PoweH to the Dan-| them in life's fulness. The arrival} yy gop proving, Deut. 8: 15-18. spectators One courier crossed an| pong of the wilderness--the fiery (that ding of my| , stew- "This section of Deuteronomy reports part of Moses' farewel. address to the childrer. of Israel. They are now rearing the Land of poverty and hardships of the desert will soon be forgotten in the fertile and wealthy land which the; are so well, fears that like many people who "get on in the world" they will become self-satisfied and indifferent to their religious needs. + He reminds that without God's guidance they could never have reached Canaan, v. 7, In a thousand ways they had nd they were about to enter, did they create its springs? Could they make tho grain to grow without God's Lelp? Had they put the minerals in the ground? God it was who had led God "ad saved them from the ter- arm of the sea by sail boat, and an-|is stinging) serp nts, the scorpions, A Ton of Moss For Poppy Da oilier piloted an airplane.. A ton of moss for Led Haig's pop- blished ph py factory was collected by the Pov | Progress of the horn across the coun-| times death, and drought, Scouts and Giil Guidet of Perthshire. The moss is ...d for wreaths. Lone Scouts are reminded of their opportunity to do a good turn to their community by seeing that the local war memorial is in good shape and Scotland Yard Moves To Curb Use of Guns| London--Scotland Yard is making a special investigation of the method whereby criminals are able to obtain , The authorities are con- vinced that there is a considerable *' illicit traffic in these weapons and are determined to get at its source. While some of the weapons used by uy. Lone Scout, write for particulars to The Lone Scout Department, The Boy Toronto 2. Guild Membership Shanghai.--Every business concern or factory in China hereafter must become a ber of a guild, accord- Danish | belonging to the spider family whose raphs of the |sting caused extreme pain and som:- 1f you are interested in becoming a their experiences had been designed to Scouts Association, 330 Bay "Street, | trek to another geographical point; it Compulsory in China| culties and troubles can be made to ing to-a revision in the Guild Law ap-| achievements made it elear that God proved by the National Government. must have helped them. They were The law is intended to strengthen | not "self-made" men, v.17. When the government: supervision of al. indus-! ushers brought the offering plates up v. 15. He + 1so provided their "daily bread." All keep them Gumble, to "prove" (that ) them. The wilderness jour- was not merely a cross-country was a noral and spiritual pilgrimage a well. They were being prepared for the new life for which God hai destined them, v. 16. All our diffi- work out for our good. The meagerness of their own re- s urces, the greatness of their diffi- culties, the impressiveness of their to the communion tulle the congrega- * volvers, ¢ iminals, who copy the methods of American gangsters are known to be dummies flourished for the purpose of frightening victims into a state of helplessness, others are the real thing. It is even stated that revolvers can be hired for a small sum and then returned to their owners, thus avoid- ye The original Guild Law stated that firms engaged in the same line of hat " ' 1 bers of the guild thereof. The revised law changes the word "may" to "must." The revision was made after the Shanghai Chamber of C ce had urged the Government to make mem- bership in guilds compulsory. Op- ing the dange ppreciated by most professional criminals, of being found in possession of firearms. It has been suggested that the fre- q.ency with which revolvers are used in robberies would justify an order tional membership, the petition de- clared, weakened the position of the guilds, Under the new law, all indus- trial concerns in China can be con trolled by the guilds. : for every one possessing such weap to hand them over to the authorities, but Scotland Yard is reluctaut to take such a step unless the menace be comes too great to be dealt with by other means. Another suggestion which has been considered is a ban on the manufacture of "toy" revol- vers, which can easily be converted into effective weapons. Criminals are well aware of the heavy punishment they risk by carry- ing out robberies witt the aid of re- nd the relatively few cases in which shots are actually fired Few Ever Too Old for Work, Says Psychologist A psychologist, Dr. Walter R. Miles, unces the results of a series of tests which he says proves that the age limit of industry is mera "calen- dar worship," says "The Scientifice American." In these tests, in which 836 persons, aged from five to ninety-five, figured, he showed that motor ability, such as hand and foot skill, falls off with age but not as much as sometimes believ- * You can't judge a dinner by the ed; that in reaction time, 25 per cent. of those over eighty were as quick as the average for the group; that, in intelligence, a quarter of the oldest subjects scored above the general av- erage; that imagination showed no appreciable age change; and that in acuity: of eyesight, perception and memory the older subjects made good scores,' 3 eee Never hope for peace when therg's need of reform. 'shows that they are ied for the purposes of intimidation only. At the same time, the authorities do not - intend to remain inactive in the face of the increasing ber of robberi 'whose a a. almost entirely on the used of arms. : ha tone of the dinner-gong.. i) ---------- An old bachelor says the average wait of women is until they are asked 2 'marry. Hl semen me 5 - ------peemr ~ | How sweet and gracious even in com- The Bible, or some part of it, has mon speech, " Is that fine sense which men call courtesy. -- J. T. Fields, now been translated into more than tion stood up and snag "All things come of thee, O 'Lord, and of thine own have we given thee." Little Har- old said to himself, "I wonder if they Igally believe that. I heard Mr. J-- there tell my dad the other night that no one ever handed him anything on a silver platter; he made every cent of his money himself." Mr. J-- forgot the thousands of people who helped him to make his money, to say no- thing of God's co-operation in nature and in other myriad ways. Why should God expend his ener- gies to give a Hebrew the ability to acquire property? "That may establish his covenant," v. 18. Our talents, so often used for self-consid- ering ends, are to be used for the good of the brotherhood--God, society and ourselves. In a Christian social order i. will be impossible for ore worker to acquire the bulk of the proceeds and look upon them as his own. III. MAN RESPONDING, 2 Cor. 9: 6-15. Paul, trying to develop the sense of ~esponsibility and brotherhcod among the churches which he had organized, arranges for a collection to be taken for the Jerusalem poor. This would bind the two sections of the church, the home church at Jerusalem and the "Foreign Mission" churches, more closely together. Said he, "Giving is like sowing, the more generous the sowing the more abundant the har: vest," v. 6. But where is the money to come from in these hard times? "When the.de- pression is over, I shall start to give." "Too poor now; I shall begin when I get on my feet." Such intentions are as uninformed as they are faithless. Nature does not work in that way. The man who starts out in life put- ting himself at the centre will not thereby lop "'other-minded " Instead, he will dastroy such capacities for unselfishness as hc may have had to start with. God's sincere children have always found that he is able to 11 grace abound toward them Isn't this a swagger bath or loung- ing robe? Daughter will just love it. And as for the making, it could al- most be run up before breakfast on tht sewing machine, there are so few parts to the pattern. Of course, it's darling in numerous materials, such as wool crepe, rayon novelties, crepe de chine, flowered challis and flannél, It is_sketched in three shades of blue novelty striped flannel, so cozy for fall. It costs so little to fashion it. Style No. 2078 is designed for sizes 4,6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires 3% yards 39-inch. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name ard address plain- patterns as you want. Enclose 15¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 78 West Adelaide St., Toront.. that the: had something to give. The man vko loves his fellows can always be lavish in his gifts. The early Christians would fast for two or three days in order to be able to help the poor. How often have heroic sacrifices inspired great giving in others! v. 10, Not only does Christian liberality feed the hungry, alleviate pain, heal the sick; it turns decpair into cour- age, loneliness into joy, creates a new spiritual atmosphere, gives the donor the "royal reward" of gratitude. Kindness does not always bring grati- tude--but Paul is talking about "the saints," + Ant Japanese Field Laborer Cool water flowing quietly Along each narrow channel; Cool, silver water reflecting The colors of the sunset; The first stars and the long shadows Of hills. The little brown man, bent low At his toil jn the fields, Sees the star shadows and the hill shadows or And smiles as he works in the wet, black" soil ; For on every side the long, still sweep Of his fertile fields Quickens with the promise of new life While the night beauty Of cool water moving slowly, --Elizabeth-Ellen Long. is filled with the IMPRESSIONS A Emphatic tones give a true pression. of character.--R.H.L, mee Ar se KNOWLEDGE He who knows not how to become a son of God will always remain in the stable with the cattle, meee peter im- Even a woman who says she admires a masterful man is sure to kick when her husband tries to boss her. make l v. 8. That is, they have always foun to growing crops. ly, giving number and size of such' J. K--I have a field of muck land on which I want to grow hay. This land is not well drained. What kind of grass mixture should I sow it to? . Answer.--You are fortunat iy choos- ing one of the best crops to grow on this type of soil, but it is a little un. fortunate that the soll is not drained, since no crop can do its best if water is standing in the soil. Water which can be drained off always is injurious Roots will not penetrate through layers of water, nor can bacterial action go on in soil whish is water logged. By all means, it you hope to improve this piece of land, arrange for either open or tile drains to be established so as to car ty off the ;urplus. water, Probably ,Red Top or Rhode Island Bent grass will do best unde. the con- , ditions that you describe. About 12 bs. of high grade seed c: Red Top and 6 1bs. of Kentucky Blue grass with 2 lbs. White Clover would make a mixture that should "rive, unless the ground is too wef. M. B.--1. Soil is made up principal- ly of sandy loam, 25 acres, plenty of humus in it, 50 acres sandy loam with clay cropping up in places, two or three acres in extent. The above soil has a clay subsoil, 26 acres sandy too poor to crop much. 2. Average yield, oats, 35 bus.; bar- ley, 22 bus.; buckwheat, 256 bus. per acre, The grain is somewhat light, straw short and weak. 3. Land is not naturally well drain- ed, but good outlet -- could be well drained if I had the "price." 4. Never used any lime, don't sus- pect the soil is sour. Have used fer- tilizers in a limited way and am per- suaded phosphate of lime and nitrate of soda could be used profitably. Answer,--You evidently have a soil which needs to be handled with great care in order to obtain best returns. On your soil which is "too poor to crop much," I wonder if it would not be advisable for you to seed clover. If it is extremely sandy I "believe sweet clover would be better than com- mon red. 1 am doubtful if you have sufficient drainage even in view of what you say about thé land being well drained. It may be that the layer of clay under the land lies in pockets, as it evident- ly does from your statement that clay areas crop up in places. I know tile drainage is relatively costly, yet it must be looked upon as a permanent investment rather than an expense. From figures I have on hand, I believe you would quickly realize returns from money put into a conservative amount of . tile" drainage, to drain out the pockets which I believe exist in your soil. Clay is relatively impervious to drainage waters, as you know from ex- perience, hence the need of an outlet for waters which keep your land cold and backward in spring. Furthermore, I believe you would do well to apply some limestone, especial- ly where you are seeding your ground to clover. You would not suspect that sandy soil is acid in reaction, but this is often the case, since lime lcaches out of sandy soil most readily and if best results are to be obtained it must be returred. Apply about 1000 to 2000 Ibs. of ground limes'one to the acre. This can be put on the soil at any time, but is perhaps most effectively used when you scatter it on the plow- ed ground in spring, as yor work the soil do n. I doubt your assertion that nitrate of soda can be used to best profit on your soil. If your soil is relatively open as your description indicates, I believe a more slowly soluble form of nitrogen should be used, such as tank- age or bonemeal. From y:ur description of the crops, I believe that drainage, liming, manur- ing and fertilizing are the ways to larger yields. R. G.--Will you kindly explain in what way muck soil differs from uv2- land and the best way to fertilize muck land? Answer.--Muck soil differs from up- land soil in many ways. The upland soil is the »roduct of weathering, both the weathering of rocks and of vege- tation that has fallen on them, while muck soil is composed chiefly of de- caying plant matter, whose decay has Jeff Uttered Re . scholars have disputed such a .possi- By Water standing nth: sob. ox bility, and called it a delusion or error a medium amount of nitrogen, and it of memory., Iti ed clay predominates, contain a medium Whe is Jan! 2 te Wis ear, : say amount of phosphoric acid and potash. Professor Baege o A Bi vers hy of Muck sofls, on the other hand, contain | Jena, writing in the Illustrihte a large amount of nitrogen, a small: tung (Leipzig), that our attitude de- supply of phosphoric acid and a very | pends entirely upon our conception of small supply of po' ih. Muck soils | the nature and accomplishment of therefore best adapted for garden| Sleep and dreams, He proceeds: anes » s "He who sees in a dream a special truck, which is harvested when the plant has made greatest vegetative manifestation of psychic forces, or growth, or for hay crops. Speaking perhaps the effect of special psychic generally, muck soil is slow in spring faculties, will be inclined to accept and crops growing on it tend to pro-| the alleged processes. long their growth and do not ripen in| "He who, on the other hand, sees sufficient time to escape frost. If pot in sleep absolute rest of mind, physi- ash-loving crops such as potatoes,' glogically. speaking a condition of sugar beets, etc. are grown, after the paralysis of the entire brain, must first crop or two, there will bo a ten- contest the possibility of any kind of dency for the vegetables to be poorly production during sleep. filled out, and the plants to be sus- "Modern investigation of sleep has ceptible to disease. In fertilizing, for proven that neither of these two op- general crops on muck soil, use a fer. posite points of view corresponds with tilizer with a small amount of nitro-| facts, Special psychic forces do gen in order to start the crops off ,o4 (harate in a dream, nor does the vigorously, a large amount of phos-! 4 tive activity of the brain rest dur- phoric acid--10% to 12%--and 8 jg gleep but it is always--perhaps medium to abundant supply of potash, ' ity the 'exception of sound sleep, under normal conditions as high os 10 which lasts but one hour or one hour to 12%. This, of course, should be and a half--only part of the brain worked into the soil thoroughly at the that rests. Some parts of the brain time the crop is being planted. The Meadow Mouse after overstimulation or overexertion Girdled orchard trees and girdled --continue to work, fruit bushes spell ruin to the work of | "Invention, device, and discovery ul- many farmers each winter. The timately are attributable to a connec- meadow mouse in its search for food tion made between certain premises during the cold snowy weather will and a certain conclusion. The basis of chew the fresh green bark o. any tree our assumption is: first, the existence or shrub that it may be passing.! of a great number of connecting lines Trees to the value of many thousands in the brain which are created by ob- of dollars are ruined on the farms of | servation, experience, and profound those who are just a little neglectful absorption in a problem; next, an ac- the other hand, distinguished do not go to sleep, but--particularly * in doing the necessary work to pro- tect the trees against mice. Some farmers, once having experienced the loss of valued trees, profited by the expensive lesson in that they now take steps to prevent further loss. This is accomplished by removing conditions favorable to mice in that such provide shelter; by destroying the mice with poison bait or by trap; by applying wire or veneer protectors to .he trees to prevent bark eating. The extensive use of poisoned grain, so ,'aced: that' birds and other animals cannot pick 't up, Is effective in orchards where mice are numerous. This | best done in November, before snow fall. Small land tile and wide-necked bottles make | very desirable poison bait holders. The poison grain can be placed in these, and then these containers can I tive imagination (or, to express it physiologically, ability to let the nerve currents stream into new chan- nels); and, finally, a constant stimu- lation of the conneétion-processes from the direction of the conclusion, "When an artist, scholar, or inven- tor works at a problem for days and weeks, he directs (to continue in the physiological metaphor) stimulating currents into various nerve-tracks, sometimes from the functioning cen- ters of the premises, sometimes from the conclusion. From the moment of their union, the invention or discov- ery has been made, and the new the- ory has been found." Under extraordinary circumstances, Professor Baege tells us, this connec- tion-process also may take place during sleep, or to express it more be placed at likely points in the or-| correctly, in a state resembling sleep, chard, where they can be examined as appears from answers to an en- and re-baited with poisoned grain from quiry addressed by Professor Hoche time to time. In addition to poisoning, | of Frieburg to a hundred university it is well to protect all young trees professors. We read: likely to be attacked with suitable] "One professor states that in his wire mesh protectors, These, it home-| thesis for a do.tor's degree he had made, are not expensive, and give a_ encountered mathematical difficulties, very cheap insurance against injury by | One evening he retired to bed, greatly mice during the November to May depressed because he had failed to peri d each year. One good tree lost! solve his problem. He slept badly, by girdling represents a los. ¢' money | for his brain continued to labor at its that would buy a lot of poison bait and | task. When he awoke the next wire, wherewith to protect the trees. morning, he found the soluticn. If you neglect to control the mice it; "Another scholar reports that dur- will be too bad for the orchard and al- ing the day he had been busy deciph- so the bank account. ering a Coptic text, or which one Fe t---- word was particularly difficult. When Pennsylvania Roads Widened i last he Jp} down to sleep, he began . . 0 examine the text in his dream; in At all Points of Intersection doing so, he encountered the difficulty Harrisburg, Pa.--More highway | again, and then it suddenly occurred space than formerly is provided at| to him that he might find the difficult road intersections in Pennsylvania as! form of this word in a certain place a means of promoting safety. The| in the dictionary. H ki "flaring of intersections was applied | uae to rural highways as well as to roads constructed in centres of greater traffic. found the solution. "However, what is said to have | at once, looked it up, and immediately "The flare," which frequently more | than doubles the normal width at the point of intersection, enables traffic | to flow more readily over a broad curve into the intersecting roads, at the same time affording unobstructed view of the intersected highway in' both directions, the Highway Depart- ment explained. cenit Health Man's health is as divine a gift as his 'faith. It is a sacred trust, which it is sinful to abuse or neglect.--R. N. Young. ec mnt been greatly hindered, in many cases, ! Don't be foolish and run yourself down; your neighbours are only too glad to do it for you. [on-BY THE WAY- PRES. HOWER WIRED on LONG-DISTANCE AT TEN orcLocis (T'S TEN Aw. He ME TO CALL WANTS MY ADVICE on Some | 'happened in a dream' is not a real dream occurren.e--for then the ae- tivity of the centre is suspended, and with it also the faculty of logical thinking--but a continuation of labor by certain parts of the prain, while other parts are at rest, Briefly, in a real dream, owing to the sucpension of the activities of the centre, we are not at all in the position to form logical judgments. "What appears in our dream 'ex- periences to be judgment is not the result of the attitude of the ego to- ward the thought-substance, but the effect of the substance, still arranged according to judgment from the wak- ing state, "Thus, in the conception of artistic notions as well as in the solution of scientific problems, the so-called achievements of the dieam is restrict ed by the fact that the final connee- tion between the premises and the conclusion, which was near but still sought in vain in the waking condi- tion, is* made in the partial state of sleep. This also has been shown by a story of the chemist, Kekule, While he was sitting half-asléep near the fireplace; the theory of the benzol ring was formed. Here, too, it was a 1 atter of thought-processes, long and frequently carried on and nearly brought to a solution, which sudden} found their logical clusion, : The removal of various obstacles present in tha waking condition, which place In such a state of dozing, in i. Cale Rai it Si