She a fas ees: Weare in = tiie City. Everybody Laughed erent She Decided to Farm— v5 But That W: Four Years Ago. she decided to be a farmer disposes ofevery. pound to. private ‘ omg as laughed. She was young, m customers and te one gtocery storey’ which” ae to “fancy” trade.’ She edit ae ereford, ve a Wyandotte 1 eon a Piys {4 ~ mouth Roc! “You'll ve baék in six months,” ad A te Tgae es that if a trade- “ait” in| mank bas advertising pull for a manu- = ataring, concern, it would help the business. She christened her his agg | leaves her plac She had’ cards Tupper, vis printed bearing the name of the farm, eS re the ey deniee for a jee and its telephone number, and its pro- the need of mai ne i land -“T never wanted a job s ie ken ae phasized on letter ea when I found myself in a small city| “Prompt sizanslon ta correspondence ch to d advertising a A - ee B 0p ae 9 has written to inquire the ores of a Mr. TUPI ae bare young ould. : ane: ae ee or a trio of chickens. " whoge work takes him to, various parts| “Suppose I delayed a week an ie Dominion his absence I' wrote the reply with pen and ink, or, "felt strongly. the need of filling wy eet ahd with a pencil on ruled tablet idle hours in some ueventines useful aper? . Td stand a good chance of fo i idn’t quite like the idea of | TaN “nissan order outr ight, , T spending all mv, sae, ime on cards Should certainly eave a suggestion of r tubs, And Socios inefficieney and carelessness which artner ta my husband and ‘to cotiaes aonith only. be charged to the debit tn making the family income as wel) sj le of the business. as spending i s found that a $50 _ type-| «We had a few tho ee EM i dea one ida letter’ file “have helped Soeiace th fra “one’diy it flashed | 2reatly to create the good-will which Mec | is as essential to the farmer business . perty? Wh: ot a itte “farm! then woman as to the woman who runs a ~ we'll have a ; Vil have a job, and| millinery shop or an insurance office. tan male out living’. | Mrs. Tupper has encouragedsauto- e idea rateriatiee into a modern! mobile trade. Her apiary is within bungalow on a 10-acre farm in On-| cient of the road, and a “Honey. for irs. Tupper has found congenial habit o ief. turning with a hamper laden with Boultey, bees, and a vegetable tp eggs, honey, butter, or canned stuff fi Her side-tines are a pig and a regis-| 4 tered Jersey cow. She i aks after the poultry,-works in, gatdens and " apiary, and mills, the on herself. ighbors smile at her zeal for ie empl airs Bay poultry shows. “Tt wasn't difficult to get a-start in) “Tt isn’t fan eiaeeice: it's busi- learning to farm,” Mrs. Tupper ex-! ness,” she tel’: them. plained’ “I visited farms and studied | Tt wus oold; “dnanieeible WOES toe eS ant ee ts of eee eons to| National Exhibition at Toronto last nléarn, and I didn’t acquire any. ‘| fall; but Mrs. Tupper felt repaid. She went eine to ce sires ont first pues on pen, first and sec: ervising the building ind Wetbutxalowet meer ener ill pda. “to ithe NS al il value of every chicken I have, and to ee y poultry products. They fein? Tan ibe for ee Br Ae ane a eee “Of course, I learned a grea’ al ortega aid « ee arp eGe i mn “The shows ga’ e a fin people about me, but checked up} tunity to meet possible customers and government provincial ner itural | was on the job for days. I met scores perts, which may be had for the! Oe people and distributed hundreds of poh ae ted cards. I learned a lot, too, in talks ZS o S S & & $ a “p e é = as St ed in incuba ee: Srocepni tay a ena The ‘upper bungalow is neat and jouse, fed according to attractive. In spite of her duties in Teens pbunbesllys Gute phoney calls, and gives every free from lice and disease. She gets’ Thursday to the Red Cross. winter eggs. Even in zero weather| ‘The housework is speeded up with . and fed present ae feed, her spring, such conveniences as hot and cold ve 3 pullets Hae than pay their w: ter in kitchen and bathn roon, and stea: “Bees r sponded. ‘5 meal, to bre heat. e kitchen is an efficient tit per treatment,” she “My sec: ig gestae lined by cupboards and eee | ivrentee "$205 wer of shelves. Mrs.Tupper can sit befor gomb honey from twenty working me kitchen cabinet and prepare . swarms. 4! meal without moving about for ingre- half- sage times at that. dients and utensils. A service wa- Some of Mrs. Tupper’s neighbors! gon saves steps between kitchen and : were inclined to. joke at first at her isingordoni: Pe appetite for bnMletiris, her belief in| ‘The flors of the bungalow ‘ate of experts, and her rigid insistence on! hard wood. They are waxed a few i s pure-bred stock and poultry. They! times each year, and a little work each Po s their) instance, to prepare an exhibit for the) i and y 10%lwx on a pounc! of ed Rose which easily mabal about 250 T. H. Estabrooks Co. St.John) Toroato Winniper Calgary ‘Canadian Food Control License No. 6-276 SLD air | When a cow gives bloody mill, | i I eral congestion of the udder has caus- ed rupture of minute blood vessels in the glandular tissue. uncommon just acta calying and soon! subsides. decurs in the! udder of a cow oe cna tear king | for several ee an = or an kept clean. ack of garget is the cause. | warm weather Vea two or three times wipleeding often tomes ae ‘ clowihe! a week during a ae h are*irritated lurks in dirty In cold menter weed aes ae Og Such growths | i MN if it comes from all quarters, gen- CRoutin® Few poultrymen realize the ele get a separate sample of milk from ance of fresh water to fowls. It_ .jeach quarter of the udder to deter-| not only required from the standpo e| mine if the blood comes from one or! of health, tor tise big factor ing to the farm and re-/all. sometimes can be removed by opera-) water wit! tion. that can not be done the 7 Kin ices and gentleness always complish more than the alia con of a-milking stool.or a number tWelve hoe to the back or belly of a nervous ai AS Tir ages oo cote her milk. A ad and should be stopped as Clean the windows and every part of quickly as possible. . The sucking of the house. loors clea th stimulates an. unnatural! often as neces: an of milk; when eee starts stems in all n the udder_will be almost certain to g , and we regard this as one of the ee of mammnitis aca in CeRER EY OFfoasa) Hogs suffer more from heat al any other class of farm stock. “If sizzling rays of a hot sun they will dneitmicen alive, even though they c admit now that her faith has) been orang with dust map and carpet toate $ sweeper keeps Hee | in good order. The EE. .s. Tupper had trod in te well: peabity is sents 18 Pitipniechoot ruts, she would “I couldn't ne an income. from have marketed her produce by : the ie eae if I had a farmhouse mie it an—retail lern improvements, er-consumer route; but again she did rane declared... “Reducing Rolie not. From the first she planned to ue a uclaie is only plain business plug the leakage ‘of farm profits in Laundry atte serubbing, | middlemen’s commissions. When she ara Aibhwashivig “nae a Tow economic] good-looking tailored suit, a becoming! the time’ and strength one needs for! hat, smart shoes and gloves, and went! the more profitable and interesting) : to the city to talk to ultimate con- tasks de Sate wien orid Map S sumers. and SL eae advertising a appropriately—not expensively ely—is a valuable aid to th ee farm saleswoman, Mrs. Tupper thinks. The Value of Lim ff a salesman comes to me shab-| Lime not bily dressed or flashily “dressed, I} thus making it’possible to grow pits aa Fie re him a fair Bearings, she! gen-gathering crops, but it makes it sai 8 I may let him talk on, but I! possible for farmers to derive maxi-| Md decide against him the iaatantel look|mum benefits from the use of farm ies at him, easoned that a trim,!manures and purchased fertilizers. | o pleasing appearance would be as valu-!Qne of the cost striking economic able an asset to me as to the men who! wastes in Canadian farming to-day re-| nee sell Pickles, inguealee’ Ol Gilt-cdied ‘suite fram the purchase sand use” Of} : bonds. would mee favorable! commercial plant foods before the) A first raiteehan and oj e way to. chemical and biological _conaition| fic % show samples and make a sales talk. ‘have been improved by # of i “te T ti to intervi @ prospec: | lim: | tive tistomer Handicapped by the} tine not only renders the soil more! and a straw i _ consciousness that my skirt hung-bad- hospitable for _nitrogen-gathering only would I be timid and ill at ease,’ ments in the mggest to’ would be unavailable for crop growth. ; ie city buyer the very slipshodness This is a point that Ontario farmers’ hee 2 ea fi of reliability he fears in buy- pena afford to overlook ‘in these! a "ing direct from the farm Idays of potash scarcity. Even on “T go strong on attractive samples. {much Sand many truck growet are oY » mean-looking cases or rusty cans. A the ie necessary to make the use | Beet gh utlp ee the side of a Package, ot other elements of plant food pro-| On heavy clay soils lime 4 quality, nh it would frighten Bay ne chi ‘a tendency to separate the practi- careful buyer, © Likewise, I do not! cles and make the soil ee po tehiee r hand, sample dozen of odd sizes and shapes.| loose, sandy soils. may be eet by! ; He As needless to add that Boods. de-/the uso of lime, because in this 2as0| livered to customers must Re {ime #enders. them a ‘compact! 2 same quality and appearance as the} and aaente of moisture. { tamples, ane! that one must keep one’s 1:3 2 3 $ 2 3 3 2 3 8 g 3 = z ¢ = 5 se é e 5 B 3 Es F 4 SS . g + promises to the dot. A little well- ¢ directed enterprise will land a cus? Women On the Farm eG Jtomer, but only 00g ie him.” a cal usefulness of women on the farm.” When the ‘current wholesale price| Dr. G. C. Greelman, Minister of ‘Agri-t of honey was fl a case, Mrs. Tupper’s| culture for Ontario and President of , comb honey has been In demand at|the On Agricultural College,! ae from 20 to 30 Rented ‘a pound, She| Guelph. \v uch unskilled labor eats up P| 0g. ensciousness of being dressed! and market | mo: economy in the use of feed, rapid] gains in flesh and increased profits at the’season’s end. Hogs do not perspire. Other ani- mals are pcarited with pores to carry off excretions and remove the heat from the body, but ce so with the’ 'A few large pores on ui legs provide aad only means of carrying off excretions, while the thick layers of fat check the radiation of heat from the body. As a rule hogs are fed re heat- pauanciog food than other farm animals and in the work of con- verting this feed into meat there is a great amount of heat which cannot only ¢orrects sail acidity, | eae! It is astonishing to note how many farmers compel their hogs to lay in days. If the herd has the run of an orchard or shade they will not ineed artificial shade. Sa uD if they are confined in open lots sun- Shades anoultbe bulibts etedt them. cheap and ets ent e erected in a few hours at practically outs aide teed Sabor: ew posts, some old boards or AS or hay roof-makes an.ex. cellent shade and ae preferable to one boards, as the straw or hay roof is cooler than one of lumber. Plan the yards-so that the sin- shades may..be erected at the highest point so that the hogs will get the full | benefit of every breeze. Losses from ouameatiak can be g If the days are extremely hot sprinkle the ground une the shades with wa-} rate ot acer aaed eh sprinkle the Seale Sor ELINA will help keep down the temperature | a cia! ae during the heat of, the day. Britain's Revenue. ‘The total revenue of the United ne 4,084 qs compared with the corres- ervice can hold} I am now converted to the practi- fe nding quattet of last year. Of this amount £21, 0 was from excess profits and duties. ‘The total revenue: amounted to £155,753,220. The total expenditure, chargeable against , re- enue/was £728,975,677. yatitied "chicky ENDuLd not Sty SUH the most economical gains during the .| secretion of milk should be dried off| water, it chill im ae affected quarter. This also is they drop dead soon after ne a toni Qlover is one of the most valusbie|# te containing shell forming ma-| ration. Hens fed ae will lay bet-| Cite practicing Vis method ,ter than those withou' the long hairs about the jaws and ears houses to take the trouble, it obvouly ee value of every ounce of flesh on 8! in ee roduction. Keep a liberal supply fresh water before the fowls every |¢ ini throughout the year. winter usually once a day is suf-| This is not’ ficient for fresh oe but Seen ‘warm weather. tw’ a day is imper: aeevundititen: timed sil ue tbetiee The arora Seceptebles must be} them daily cane There le s eneraly cree oF meee pire ae es rit Ee unfnishi- ra There is always a market for prime th Disease| P gain shee about three to four months ndrew F. r. Currier will answer call ened qu at Mf not, it will be answered eanels /. Blood Medicines. Blood medicines are evidently those “and good “manners Ware clear Wea of what this statement 5 means. ‘The largest Hees ae Set ae the blood cells; furthermore,. it con-, ii amp | tains, in solution, various ‘mineral | ts, be to supply foods containing the elements which are wantin; But the wastes-of the-body are also! Currter, M.D. letters preialning to Health. If your these columns; if aaunen eadeused aieeione ake josed.. Dr. Currier will hot prescribe for individual cases or make diagnosis. Address Dr. seas F. Currier, care n 2 halte r St. West, Toro! of er Wiles Publishing Co, 73 Adelaide— noid font tetas tor neta ae blood decompases. more oniclay han ane animal tissues, and when you try to preserve it with aleohol and assimilation; hence, most, if not a of the Drepare tons made from blood, will not do what they are ad- vertised to do. I do not say that such preparations ir good money for them. When pee need soba aera oo wort, dandelion, mandrake, poke root carried by the blood—chiefly as car-|tumex and many other ae do not bonic acid and urea—the first of which, is carried to the lungs for eli- let your imagination cloud your judg- im ‘These are all harmless sub- ent. mination, and the second to the | tac when of good quality ,but neys. The blood may also contain nats very little tue ‘on the When puters which are foreign Ke it, ‘or the blood. ey are of poor sugar, pile, disease-producing quality, they are aes tens ied hacer, and animal parasit in. diabetes, sugar is circulating in fee blood. Jn inflammation of the liver bile, a is one of The. pars sites are many ie of bacteria, A blood y editine is “therefore, peering paver ill have some sort of ef ‘any people wil remember the sul- es Srdsenolnen they used to be a: | comnts to eke when children, If want something which will stir up internal arrangements, try ew doses of this useful remedy rather ese ‘different: ieee ed Wo: the blood medicines with fai Jy oF indirectly, ‘and the number’ of these is very small. Gun will kill names with which the market is filled. a ‘germ of malarial fever, and is,| QUESTIONS “AND/ANSWERS _ therefore, a true blood medicine. 5 Mercury_and arsenic will destroy mie erm of syphilis—sometimes, Tro in proper organic form, will be taka! up by the red cornuscer ‘When aheie ind my position 1 requires, that I walk seven miles or so, a day. is such walking Basfrable for a bow legged person? | 21s there any way. of straighten- number is too small, or when they, ing bow legs? d | are deficient in iron—as is the case in! Answer—! nem: ia. © One very common form of pat medicine is If you can accomplish eas Vee Una om ent} sary effort, T do notte why you may served eof blood, not continue to 2—An citation ue possiblé, but: it ich ay be useful, just as anemic an er-, consists in breaking the anes and de- cular people sometimes seem to on | pene by. drinking freshly in ta slaughter house. This ‘shaping them Of course this is very much more difficult in an adult” than in a child, but it is sometimes ea ood a: Bee tg dalle any ollige Alsi More Corr successfully. As a Little Child. } | e things are taste by se HETTY BASCOM’S han this world dr ‘eams Stenson. A very small girl stood on the top that jateb.and B vaty lates dog stood ber! and barked up a‘ . She was Katherine’s door. ol lenberately atte oe does. yet -re-| efternocn, full: ut Sw dndeehuls Mitten se The erate system of feeding is much | treat was impossible, for the woman beauty, but Katherine’s back was to all. The table a8 can be chopped and mixed with ni meal | £0 ae note the pla being | and the big oe sat exactly in the at est ‘green food that eqn be grown for rk. | pou ae eae and perches, nests, fost ceiling can 1 be sprayed with a 5) Poultry Produce fo ioe r Mark wrong when the heifer has her fiat pe ae Ses aout eimeaal Maier |this has @ried spray with 1 part erude| least understood, | cardolie acid or cresol and 3 parts key Fill and the: feeding | dle of the try. Clean out the houses thoroughly! ed. @ twice a year, four times is better. dem aa Sore of the forgoing! th r ill or flood every rl | lime bai crevice aes smooth surface with the poe the whole house has! stiff mud ball about Been inorughly cleaned, swept and/ eg ywow, Wow-wow-wow!” was the theestening response to her eee ‘s began to fall from the lit- » PREPAREDNESS |. Aunt Luey stopped hesitatingly at was a perfect ti dog started up the mothers’ meeting a little while? ned as 8 desir. | steps, but with a flourish of her um- rate-fed | brella the little girl made him retreat teresting, and Ro know you're going that|to his former position. It would, to BS poe ver have occurred to her to strike| animal, and so there she stood, a to a pleasantly, but her voice ex- the Publica- \tietle, trembling figure, facing the} pressed sorely tried patience. | Some ‘of those Polish women are in- pring looked sonbiiee Shia: eeu | ‘in sorry, Aunt Luey, but 1 aust I “Please go away!” she cried, her, get this wor Division of Poultry. of the Exper- | lips quivering. “Please, please go! told you that I veal have peek {I came up this “Yes, I know" Sunt Lucy acer: |edged, “only it seems as if on such a day and all—and they sort of need Gate eyes, and the ee gee ce cia up—” cele solleds Gee Whe: Prokd oF a 5 per ‘cent. solution of} a strip of blue litmus paper (you can | Please, leases ol rmic See also makes @ good spray. these oe must not pie to Pat the halves of the mud ball to: firmly sees rush toward The little girl held him off. with examine to see ‘t umbrella. Her heart beat widly. re has been any change in the color) skin, and if they do wash it ice. fe particularly peehL at to get them in the eyes, which might) es cause loss of sight. Some Low-Priced Meats th Certain parts of the butchered car-| color, neat | bIue or puri ge color, either the where up the street called tees uld be ready for real work—1 ice. | soi] Pi e just a handful of Polish women, casses which provide us_ with jare comparatively low her, barking furfoualy. earnestly ‘and reverently, “O God | “Here, Pete! Here, Pete!” And ize of an 0g, ae dear dog, won't you had agi oO reak this into halves and put Please go y?” she sobbed. “O With a tittle sigh Aunt Lucy tiptoed i voice trailed away into silence. | There was ues response; Katherine ver the notebooks. hase down the stairs. Down on the piazza re! evening: ad | easiness and began to jump about Be ‘Katherine leaned her tired hea | against the railing and feeant day. There * was so much ,to read and study, and \these days A social worker, to bi h please send he dog.away! “Forever valtehle Had Gi ndwetnees fan Soe (derstand conditions and cause: Thonesvakts have! nok been’ BeAeedlly Hoke contack betwesnt he bepaw und jilog wtb sw We barlolOGd a Mae Uncle Hees oles banka Tate een ‘popular in this country, although they | the mud. are in great demand in Europe an | the also in the United States. Beef hearts, livers, tripe, ox tails, sheep’s heads, other parte of the eae Fale be taken to paper paraeed pie backward look at the child, started on thought. | the run in the direction of the voice. The little girl took a long, deep. ‘aware of Uae! Bey as he pottered round the flow and breath. Her prayer had been ans: | “That janpdeapoee Uncle Henry t id eclared, coming up with a blossom “O God,” she prayed, with closed in his hand, “always reminds me of ogether; or enough. eyes and bowed head, “thank you, Hetty ‘Bascom. Looks like her, some- Amen.” Then with how. Did I ever tell you about her? upon_roasts, | aitferent parts ‘of the field to "deter hastened step and a eae heart, she. Well sit, Hetty Bascom. was the pre to cook these cheaper meats and ee ff them delicious, tempting dishes. “FUNNY FOLD-UDS CUT OUT: AND FOLD ON DOTTED LINES | “THE SUN 15 ORIGHT. THE. WATER'S WARM, day.! \. THINK A SWIM WILL 20 NO HARM,’ ea------ =F0L0 FORWARD = === ———~— 50. ONE FOR THE-MONEY. Wo rene ree THREE YO GET READY ‘AND IN It is not enough to think that, your tiledrain outlets are all performing’ mi | jones font rabbit wedged sihtly in-| ur ane frm the outlet. and we had to! er in New York, with an impatient ee fhe noreliat laughed angrily “re, Germany will ree the last an eS putea a abet is being nati It Will Never Die Out. Ifyou ang Thad a farm as big as hi | paringest person we've iy lu in ‘Bouth Greenfield. her {mind, back in school ce aides goin’ to be a write?pand began to get - ready, She used to criticize a story great, I tell you. When S01 men and women complaining that this Hetty got through there wasn’t much | world: of ours is growing cold and sel- 1m | fish, we should have more land than felt sort of ashamed and as if = tna oe peal any of us aes will own. e' to say in reply to this Well, we all waited for Hetty to write — ing dirt! Wicked charge se the men and a story that was a story—one that he wa'n’t proclaiming it to the world, men of ‘our day in just four, would set the style, as it were. But Tn fact, so} words. Tt is noteat interest and love in their hearts that Ar Haya went tide’ Welp. OF thet nisighs or, sat up with the poor suffering Y +, know of men with so much of human on preparin’ to the end of her life and never got a line in print. And wou you believe it, there was little, round- faced Rebecca Cutts that juat jumped | animal night after night for days and ie oy did it? She allowed the best days. . It was cold in the barn, but aration. was to try, and try, and they did not mindjit.._ They gave the ye abate and keep on tryin’.” orse its medicine, rolled up in horse! to Hiroe ane wormed their way into Katherine shot a quick glance at ‘Unéle Henry, " Had Aunt Lucy told Mim? But Urele Henry: was innocent anviitie: a for the animal again. Only a horse, ly smiling at the snapdragon that re- but it was a living thing, with a heart minded him of Hetty Bas in ity and it belonged to a friend, No; love will never die out of the sete heart. ae may seem ve os oeeara a Where It Was Needed. s if men are too busy to be) Sweet William was being measured good at kind, ‘but let aovihing hap-|for a suit of clothes. It was his first pen to the huml yee farmer in the| made to order suit, and he was very act community and. tramped daa atone his door by ee e grass will be all’ proud of the His mother, after ; all the neces: joe shopman had made who come to do him a good turn.— sary wetrd passes with the tape, walk- E.L.V. ‘ S aEEEESaeeeee y SS Ae ‘literally. “flame- hurler”) is a device used by the Ger- mans for throwing fire at their foes. tting money is not all a man’s business; to cultivate kindness is led over to another counter to inspect jsome is will bé a nice suit, my little fellow,” smiled the -counterman to little William. “Would you like the shoulders ganaans 2 mytter about the shoul 2| valuable part of a man’s are on was the significant reply,” “but — yan sald bye, Samuel Johnson you can pad the trousers.” : :