4 50 nah ccfatrataa| sie eres git oni ag ract ad the Chica oe vi {ALCOLM M. » Publisher a Pont for the es of ou ic Hapieteaa is for question pa on al sar if ini “Publis ing addre: ! Cay "tae si be ratieg to ae een ist, care of Witebn laide St. Wa Toronto. —_—_—_—__ commivaTiNG THE GARDEN. Nothing will take the place of cul-| piece of soft | tivation for growi chine oil to the effecte Sumeeane s = Value of a The second eae 08 ey 30 far as the gi There are eee cones things Dr. M. <2 Tindale, L.D. ie ; Honor graduate Toronto University. Ager tnth and “BRIDGE WORK a bectateg, < "Phone No. 88. Office: Over Bank of Nova Scotia, Medical, Dr. Pz La ye _ Office: Pusiic Dave Sroxw, MILVERTON Hours: 10.to 12 a.m.,2toép.m, ~~ tesa H. B. Morphy, e = Sollettor for Bank of Ham! ppp VERTON, Om seca Milves mney toLoan, Harding, Owens & Goodwin. |} Barristers, Solicitors, &c, Gordon Block, - STRATFORD, ONT. MIL ton, W000, Money to Loan, ®. 7. HARDING W. 0. OWENS W. 2, soonwm Veterinary. J. W Bart, V.S. Graduate of Ontarlo Veterinary College, ito. ‘Treats all diseases of domesticated animale All calls promptly attended to. Seoleties. Po AEE an eos ta Milverton Lodge No. 478 ALF. & A.M., G.R.C, Meets every Monday) it mopaever vening on or before eyen tia {in thelr hail | Bi which, if not kept in check, will crowd ard i keep on the Sane raboue and ‘tetvoen we aim to accomplish when we give the plants what is kno: fas cultivation to growing crops, and “cultivation” is meant both that given is merely the means ised to accom- Plis j 2 over winter by keeping the frost from vit. che the soil. In the same way “we pre- inst. The keeping down of weeds,| vent evaporation by cove id out and smother the growing crops, and deprive them se needed moisture ae plant is is a serious mulch to do the ason for Badan Your garden| ing for this purpose should not be cannot supporf, at one and the same| done deeper than two inches—less, if tim as of vegetables and weeds. | you are skilled with the hoe, as it does of con e, you prefer the vegetables; | not require a deep mulch to cut off the hence the ‘necessity of keeping out the| movement of the moisture from the weeds. ottom up. Keep in mind the fact that the dust mulch, once made, does not last for- ever—or for the season, for that mat- ter. Every time it rains it is spoil- ed, and the capillary action of the soil When To Begin Hoeing Hoeing should begin as soon as the crops are planted, if the | drills*have been outlined. lrows have been marked by oe growing inns, au as the radish or ancaetad totks the beginning. d ei e me ee | things for s garden, and many cther- good ones are spoiled for the ese ale by ee ie this fact. Keep it broken up all s For the larger garden hee are the hand-wheel tools, both for planting and cultivating purposes easily done as ers as a rule take too large a “slice” or bite with the blade at one time. This merely chops the soil “Ante large pecially when d where the area is sufficient to war. rant it. These combination tools can 1c be had for a number of purposes. ‘i Cultivating After Rain - When using the wheel-hoe, set the 0} teeth so that the Siieyating. will be | shallow—not over ches deep, land teach yourself ee ru close to the Vislting beethren alwace wba Geo. J, Coxon. W.M, —-W, J, Zoexer. Soa. Silver Star Lodge No. 202 . B. Fride: ral pat at 7.80 In their vee ‘Bank of Hataliton. n always welcome Wai, Loin, o,. Pin-Beey. Meets ever Visiting bi W. Henry, Notary Publlo. W. D. Weir, - Notary Publig, Auctioneer for the Souarer of Perth and Waterlo: Conv: epitee e% chan gu clerk. Office: Wetr tide, coves Bank of Nova Scotia) A. Chalmers, - Sonseyances enter ‘J.P. for the aoa of Perth. Real estate Ee and sold. A few choice farms for immediate s: ages drawn, MONKTON, - ONTARIO - Nelson Merrick, - Auctioneer Waterloo, Wellington dnd Perth Counties, Estimates given on sales of farms and ck, fice, niext to Bank of Nova Scotia, Linwood sone Hote The Queens Hotel Beat kaa tee for commercial trae rs and others. Two oss Bample Rooms. ORO. ¥, PAULI, Prop., - Are You Ins ANADIAN ‘A Careful Maid. Her grandfather gave to Elizabeth A perfectly beautiful silk umbrella. It was rosy red, with so gay; And I thought, “I will wait till the ; next rainy ‘ . And see our dear little Elizabeth Ella proudly forth with her new um- brella.”” roe But what do you think? On the very When it ained “c “eats and dogs” (as _ We hear people-say), All drenched ae apples I met my dau; ba Ss ‘tke a naiad just out of . ir. Fits yur,” I ctied, “O Eliza-|® beth Ella, Is your perfectly beautifur new um- brella?” 2 ; : She eee at me in the greatest sur- 8 Notary Public f Marriage Li enal work the soil close to the plants oa va as around | 8 eae on the outer side of the bl clean blade also adds ee to its Cea er ae lessens the labor of hoeing. e should be kept polished so aa it will come out of the a handful of soil and squeeze it tight- en the hi pened, the mass - soil tree apart or re- acts, it is all right to be worked; but -| if it stays in a tight mass, like putty, e ed, or cured by the application of a PLANNING THE FARM ORCHARD By L. H. Cobb. ‘con is is the question that ‘comes to everyone who intends to oe ways for future use must re- e due consideration, but too often is | be not an easy matter to select the eats ieties for an oes and too often it is practically left There is agent who takes te order. This is a| plenty of fruit for winter but a short- serious mistake in most cases, for the est sorts are often the cheaper trees, and the agent is directly interested in selling that sive. He wants sell the specialties his house is in- | troducing if he can, and he will extoll |them at the expense of the standard varieties that you should buy instead. y like the Early Rich- mond ebendies better than the Mor- ello, and the Montmorency comes be- tween these and is superior a either for any purpose, to my mind. The Wild Goose is the poorest ate grown when it comes to quality, and itis a good pl [et in touch with the Bevinaal ea perim: Farm and find which varieties they will recommend, for the; Japanese are the ey || . The Elberta is a splendid peach, but thore are oth |:in'the district, and oat give advice asto = ero need the selection for the Peesar ind tol out peaches, the big white Inte dines Another | *70,g0ne with the coming of fr The pear season is shorter, Sal there are some of the early fall’ pers that e used quite velrsbetare the main varieties ripen. Keiffer is planted exclusively and is a good ww you! variety in = Rea eae ve ithe ig ‘good: or better: “-Tha/Bartlott ts aie a variety that is dying out right alc Lok scenes butcthe: treeis for your neighbors, provided Sree) saa 4 variety can be had with similar qual-| The Size of the Orehard ities. The size of the orchard must gov. For the Season’s Suppl i at selection to an extent, as will! ‘The orchard should Be cueflly Tas to meet the needs of th during as jong ieenecnsda e the tent chance for jitable market. a off in the spring un- | }# vis contemplated wi ‘tha ‘a til the Iget Necther: Spy apple is con- View ie aaa general market, Bey id there should be no {th “And a ok of AH as her, vig |e: “Now bee ‘you once think, ft bape she, “that I’d'let mt aid umbrella \ of mine get Paes ‘the old Phillistines were panel i gy yg eee iwth the eee Hun, _ Natives of tome of South}, Amorica e pol ato for months] * * dnd peer dente tor years by alternate 1 i freezing and thawing them w their moistute is temoved. fresh fruit scarcely a farm will lar supply. ‘as y Cherries, plums, apples, peaches nase good varieties aang have a re; * Vasteties for ee Home Orchard = Bruit for storing and putting up in} Pray but as we live; fe fnee os rae for vt iit ‘We are Christians first snd ‘Eng- listen afterwar rds. ris | not brick sod % su ee ma-|| let it alone until it gets in proper ditio I juailed forte feeding, ese 5 Es $4.75 post s Mammoth | White SRE splendid qu uality, eas = Gi slo, ‘cropper, Se Re ee earn te Bruce’s Selected Swede Tur and FREE: Que valuable 11 Implements and oo FA ‘AMOUS ROOT § SEEDS — eo come Beet—tm two cine bite and rose, a Bg half_lon; ly hawested, gran Me angels id 5 Ibs, plendid for the table and also toned Heche cattle, shipper. Ib. 400; #4 1b. 7505 x Ib. $1.405 5 age catalogue of altry Supplies, John A. Bruce & Co., Ltd. FG eE anes boi il oe poate is a painful in | flammation of skin poe a hair follicle. 2 ere or several may develop in_ me area at about the ‘same: time, irate 3 9 I ri 55¢} Hb. vari hh id Keeper. Patt oe variety, While it is the role that one hair food intermediate | follicle be involved, it is possible for feeding ate and aie a ee top variety, grand keeper boil when it ee be gee OS is kind of AS 2 Ss Se eee a particular preiection for Is, Plants, Ss, Weite for si oday. the onuete HAMILTON, ONTARIO Established Sixty-Eight Years think they require tmediine| 2 usand Muskrat Thousand Beaver Skins (50, any. Ship us your Muskrats. wish, but shi ip _ that we are We are no Piker 21 JARVIS STREET peels immediately One Million Five Hundred aan 1,500,000), an We lays ino tine jo fence a Pa Lists, larket Prices. Put your own valuation on them if tous, A trial shipment will convince you e best buyers of Raw Furs in the World. We have Stacks af Money. We are in the Mark et for the Entire Seeds Catch. We iy all kinds of Canadian Raw Fars. The George Monteith] F ur Co. jeem to for founes) cleaning. oils use ed aegis sropuratien anal which may ae a found on the skin—-of es: S fone ie vhabit of serubbin, ing and }cleaning it with powerful anti isep- ties. ates may be perfectly harmless, the individual, a ‘hs skin, offers slight peee ao the individual Be run down, the germs vil one ie opbortaaity = develop _|and cause Fifty Dox’ ‘t ask for We will pay the very highest f you development is encouraged when the diet of the individual is a when tion of ate skin, also favor their de- velopme "Atiaoat “everybody has had them and knows how they act, look, and feel. TORONT oF there ma; ay be successive crops of |P /| them e openings in the er erms which ti metime: in ene by 4 car fal anliate Be pee oa carbol e inje ction of euitaile race’ featlonatic at ‘the. present ne tension, ain, favor: icra and facltate ne ‘re- e core |, and the: sooner the patient will get well. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. » He as What causes mitral faut ficiency 2, Is ie curable? What causes high blood pres-— Could it be due to the heart is due to a Jack of hen the heart contracts. curable, though it may 2 ene upon this condition of the SBD aie | One mo: ee recently, I was over to the next mship ness. mine, who has a large farm. ed out to the barn where ee was St finishing his “chores.” ur prised to see the Saree that h had take I. e} en place in his tie. ‘Good morning,” i Said to him, “this that I heard from you, I uunderstood |® that you were sing out of the dairy business. e you haye you tie a all aeie over; what does ce me; “Well, T'yve found out a thing or two, since T you,” he replied, gr Tras ieney well discousared! then. You remember I had b ught perhaps that they were prea, I was rea ai to sel eOne cersinen aval milking m: cows, a neighbor, who is a auecesal dairyman, came in. We ine, ans poe and he in me ae ‘eins all right,’ he said. He calle my attention to the condition | of my cows. _ They were all covered |<. bel tnd on their flanks and tails, with! 5 ee of dirt and dust would get into the You see, I got careless and did ee sean “hen “of regularly. they woul lie arn de ae droppings j tac . With that arrange- ieee they too much freedom so | that gave iets ad h- |B ut these em from getting too di ii esan to keep them cleaned off) « and I was very careful not to ‘alow any dit to fet into the rail. You) ‘always supposed that the sepa-| rator took out all 1 thi | not so. is certainly a ae The last time /™ilking and separating, I I think you can m™ H ey bedding aud = that it might do’ so with the large particles but by. letting the large pieces get in, there was more-or less THE STAND-BY wanting to climb a little in itera SUPERDRY to do bigger things, Like a the dirt that got dissolved and went. ough ‘the separator ie the See “And Louise Luscombe, and Mrs. Bracy, and Anna, and Mrs. McRae— and ee all,” finished Cecily, just thar ene idea; the; think that the smn fy m the first meeting of the rator can purify the milk. That Well since I made these changes the tie-up, and also have been care- fal to keep everything clean eauet|s hay sit the ae had to h seen ing, ‘bant Tae nice and patriotic of her to want to; no ae complaints from. the cream- ‘OPoutn® The Value of the Trapnest, who wasn’t prepared to attend rebaaely, no matter what the wont ‘was or ae social festivities had to be given| ell, of course Ge aii Dale wont be bothered b t few years in stimulating ithe wrodielisi o? bation poultry than| "| the trapnest. By the use of this de- farms have, been ns can’t face bllezarda or r to. didi over glare ice; and she’s slower than I’m sure she} Mis: teen inde possible by aera See i tion of the layers and the drones, re-| thing could be done to- -day, and they’d z|Sulting in the elimination of the lat~| have to be extra kind and tactful and all that; but I don’t believe they'll let her come again.” Mother smiled, ae 2 sehen quirk at the corner of her “They won't need enue tact, Ciss: or 600 without an: appreciable decrease in egg produc- ti now saving in feed alone by this] #70" that Seat Gecbdttied oe fare gj and never make a false ace I be- Hes Shey win out. ani er ees oe Hele “hil you don’t know Clarissa, ve . come, ons se a small boy ‘ill Y: abor, makes it an economic Hee aeitithe poctesnah ts trapnest his ck, or, if unable to devote the time nable to develop ir yeah: Every bind-ealscd toe this perior ancestry will inherit the reearat qualities which are so essential to-day \ eS ee ae Mr, Poultryman! See! 918 hens are the trapnest- share and a little over once she’s en- tered on any sort of work. It’s so all her life long. ‘Task after tan, and committee after committee, qa fies rh Thal entaeinate ots Tae eed or faltered oF drop ) FUNNY F&F FOLD UPS CUT _ OUT AND FOLD ON pom iia in ard ue Bu takes esther i Took befor The victure he erases, | through I don't dare to say how many 1 enterprises, or braced how many efforts. fine an asset OK cily's face Was Tesponsive, “ ie fees looked puzzled, “That a Bu she's done so much, why isn't” abe, |, More prominent? never heard her talked. about Bei cularly; and she’s ever bee a iit rent of sete ought to Hees Deen promot ea betore this ch even if she isn’ precisely a born leader! There aren’t born Neier pe to go round, any- ow. Are the only one who i {feels so about her, or do other peo- ple?” 3 mn re are many, of course, who merely take her for granted, as one worker among the crowd: ut the leaders and the other faithful ones and) the. old-timers—the | pi peo- ple, who carry the most responsibility See know ae value!’ person who ws it least of all seta ied Dale ibe fal and Soe ee suppose,” said ‘e's nothing — our Willie ser is fares, fe aon ua Posy ther Stable t ‘| ceived from the a private ae ‘2p to be an officer, you know. you can’t clit and it isn’t in eee to rae itr. it’s * worth while to be able t el that just being a stand-by is = thine you confirmation,—‘just being ” pearson What the Farmer Should Know. Now let us take a backward glance ~ at the mistakes of last year, in order to steer clear ee them ae present a re | | ee that Tey have only m | bare living or ran in oy uncomfortable ‘contingency carefully kept expense account oad aid materially in finding the big aks. Perhaps you are running a dairy farm and sell oy milk to the mil factories. uch profit are you making out of He enterprize? A) 1 know whether money or Bae “tt isa alta ites to that you ma: *| close competition a man can no mo: re farm profitably without keeping books i i hod, begin at once, and keep a record at srs in your farm transac- tions this year. Set the | cost ae every new tool, seed, pe tot see paid out for labor, tr porta ion, ete.,-and do not forget ty add in ae taxes and all other lee Be tell to a cent the money re- e sale of aoe ao ore er products, and at the end of the y a see if you have made anything Hae than day wages and a bare living for your family. ff you are _accomplished nothing else, when ristmas comes you. bane Peatuable pointers for But tie will say, “I have not time or education to keep them more business to engage ming, expecting to a @ profit on capital linvested, would 4 filla CR the rer, or sooner or later he will find — seme # a aad a re or ti gral in thos of adie. sony sak stealy obtain education the average fa: the too aise careless farmer 0 Puff.—Beat ill Bee? two cane of Bethe: Tatars. , a little salt, tables melted itter, into thie’ ea well table: Jespo lightly on butt till vee ‘brown. ever. Write for mun ON Fania “FenTicizens, ST TORO