Stamped and addressed envelope Is enclosed with your letter, a © ®Nn6wer will be mailed to you. Address Ltd., 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto. Planting the Garden. A study of good seed catalogues will enable you to decide many people needed in the course of the sedson's work, as the information they® con- tain is compiled with a view to being of s@rvice to their readers to enable | to decide just which varieties; them will best suit their' purposes. To insure the best germination there should be three things: the pro-' per degrees of heat, moisture, and dener to s people lightly covering their seeds, with a| , thin film of soil--which perhaps the| "ne mist. away--and expect! wind will blow good germination. There are some seeds which slow of germination, on account their hard protective covering, such as peas and beans, the which must be soaked, allowing mois- seeds in warm water over night and. plant while still moist. Some vegetable seeds are so fine that the only feasible way to plant them is to broadcast them. Other are planted this way by custom and thinning out done later. Aids to Seed Planting | and walk on it. omp Agronomist, care of Wilson Publishing) It is an advantage to use these devices to make the rows | | straight, as beauty adds much to the interest in the garden. row is not beautiful. . If quick germination, especially of small seeds, planted shallow, is desir- d, the top of the soil must be kept mois To accomplish this without washing out the seeds requires some care. The average watering pot has: a nozzle too coarse for the purpose. | A crooked fy . nd a garden' contact betweén the soil antl the seeds, | = if you have at comma ie It is distressing to the knowing gar-| e with a spray nozzle it can be done to perfection. 1 zle down until the water comes in a Direct the hose upward so that the mist will rise into the air, and fall on the soil containing the seeds. fine are ' sufficient. ' of | The Required Quantity Keep in mind, however, that as = jas there are signs of germination areful not to overwater, or there is anger of a fungus disease known - i the young plants and for which there is no cure. c the weather has been cloudy for sev-| eral days in succession. In order that you. may have some idea how many seeds to procure, 1 give belcw a list of the vegetables ordinarily grown in kitchen gardens. There are a number of aids to seed! The quantities are for a family of five, | lanting which will be of service to wm. A straight-edge is one of them. to plant fine seeds, drawing the stick lightly along the edge, which will make a tiny furrow. 'an inch thick, is marked off in equal | * 26 pounds, of milk a day when she épaces, say one inch, it will be a guide for quick and even planting, as you can lay it along the furrow and set the seeds at the right distance very rapidly. To cover these small seeds use the straight-edge, pushing the soil : "furrow, lay it ten j With this, and a pointed stick, you! can mark off the furrows into which sBy bearing: more on the stick you can in this way | make a furrow of any depth up to! two inches. foun If this straight-edge, which can be! made out of a piece of board, eight! Parsley, one packet. feet long, four inches wide and half ; and will plant a row of each 100 feet long: | Beans, snap, one pint; beans, pole, | half pint; beans, bush, lima, one pint. | Beets, four ounces. Cabbage, early,! half ounce; cabbage, late, half ounce. ! Carrot, one ounce. Cauliflower, one packet. "Celery, one packet. Corn,! sweet, one pint. Cucumber, half, ce. Eggplant, one packet. Kale,; half ounce. Lettuce, one ounce, j Parsnip, half; Muskmelon, one ounce. Onion' ounce. ' Peas, two to four) sets, two quarts. quarts. Salsify, one ounce. four ounces. Squash, summer, half ounce; Bquash, winter, half ounce. Tomatoes, quarter otmce. Turnip, one ounce. Melons, one ounce. Po- tatoes early, one peck; potatoes, win- ter, one half bushel or enough to ' fsnak | Spinach he --. S ey FoF 2 ee Coser. | |tb mding, in to the twe! INTERNATIONAL LESSON " FEBRUARY 10. ----_ * to Lesson VI.--Jesus Chooses The Kingdom. Twelve--Mark 3. 7-85. Golden 15. _Authorit Text, Mark 3. 14. This is Verses 7,.8. Withdrew--No doubt to some more secluded part of the lake, Matthew adds "to heal 16. north, soyth, especially from Galilee 10; Mark 3; Luke where he had done such mighty works; Ea from Judea and Jerusalem, whose With Judas. priestly leaders ay in him a danger- for Sit rock. ous innovator; from far ' southe 'or Simo! Idumea, the old Edom; and from the like in his early career. Phoenician territory of Tyre and 17. 9. A little boat should wait on him mony. temperament. --Be in constant attendance so that he might step into it any moment to avoid the crush of the crowd. Les they should throng him--Literally, 1. gy piite-"Thak is, men! We possessed by the Thou Pay Son of God--Here of Tolmai." messiahship more definitely then "The John (Chapter 1). 4 ould be Nathanael He is 12. Charged them much--It would | N to have such | __especially prominent portune. 13, Into the mountain--Not fay from' the lake. Luke tells us he went there to| him from sometimes Calleth unto him whom he himself} Judas. It is; patriotic part: recorded by all three of the evange-| fy lists, though it is 1 not presented by| 9. each one in, the same connection.!a village in Judea. Crowds were about him, but he needed! Judas almost always is acconrpanied | a select company of sympathetic fol-| with the terrible clause--"who also be- | ¢ " lowers, to be constantly with him, as' trayed-him. Siecatilone: and to whom he m ers full significance of his = hs Ssight sand 'forth tribes of Israel. had been his followers, now they were | clo to become his intimate associates and helpers. To eee first duty herald the good news His athanael the son of Tomai. / : : | called James «the pray and remained all night in prayer. | Thaddaeus--the same as Lebbaeus and The Cananaean--The would--An event of supreme import-| (Luke 6, 15), member of a fanatical distinguished for its atred to foreign domination. Iscariot--The man of Kerioth, to proclaim the good news and to heal e sick, at Sas inted twelye--The num- ey to cast out demons-- Mark's significant miracle. Simon he surnamed Peter-- There are given four lists of the A great multitude--From a wide area, apostles in the New stra ge (Matt. h list begins with Peter and ends i Peter (Hebrew, Cephas) It is the new name imon. He was anything but rock- Boanerges--Literally, "sons of Sidon. uproar," indicating their fiery, vehe- if these same fiery men, James and John, who wanted to call down fire upon the Samaritan village because of its dis- courtesy to the Master (Luke 9. 34). 18. Andrew and Philip--Both Greek These came from Bethsaida It was Bartholomew--"fSion : is considered td be the. "Nathanael" twice mentioned by full name Bartholomew, nai . ges heralds, and then, it would be inop-/ 16. 14. 5; 20. 24; and a1. ane oe the son of Alphaeus--To pb ames the son o jee, The name ait f the Less. zea lot of | | ~ BOYS AND THE CHURCH : By Beatri® Brace really worth-while after they reach the age of fourteen! shocked. and upward, and Sunday school?" an anxious mother. is the query of! the gallows. N As a lover of boys, as well as the! thes: what the anxious mother meant was!kind to follow? They would be in- ost immediately, for near-| h Poulin Gs Just because you culled your pullets at the age of five or six months is no reason why a second culling is not necessary. Also, a culling of the yearling hens, to determine which should have a right to hold over for breeders, is equally important. That. these statements are good poultry | gospel I have proved again and again. : Pullets of the smaller breeds, and even Rocks, Reds, and Wyandottes, if | well fed and properly housed and han-' dled, should be laying when -- six! months old, or soon after. 'Any | well-raized pullet that delays laying | longer than six and a half to seven' months from the shell, seldom will make a profitable egg producer. The profitable yearling hens to hold over are the ones that commenc- | ed laying comparatively young (not. too young, before being well-matur- | ed), and continued with but few and | brief interruptions for ten or eleven! months before molting. The pro-: ductive layer will then have a rag-! ged, toil-worn condition of plumage, toe nails worn to stumps, and shanks bereft of their color. But, in spite | of her disreputable app e, the hen that has laid heavily will still wear a bright, velvety comb and head furnishings, and exhibi. *plenty of hustle and life even up to time the molt begins. The hens laying stead- ily eleven and twelve months in their pullet year before molting are trea-| sures, breeders as long as they continue vig-' If the weeding out of loafing hens' has been neglected, delay no longer. Slacker hens have no business con-' suming feed at present prices. \ a SID : Z. An experience in my herd has eon | vinced me that it pays, and pays well, | to feed grain to dry cows--even at) the present high price of grain, says: a successful U. S. farmer. | In November, 1916, I bought an ordinary grade cow from one of my neighbors. She had been fresh for! about two months with her fourth calf, and w giving 18 pounds of) milk a day. "Her owner told me that she had been out on pasture and re- ceived no grain while dry, and that she had given three gallons, or about was fresh. As feed was high last winter, I fed i { L grain rather sparingly; but when she went dry in June she received a small amount of grain along with the other cows--to° keep her quiet, more than for any other reason. In August she | gave us a fine heifer calf, and began | milking 33 pounds daily. Two months' after calving--being _in the same! stage of lactation as when I bought! her--she was giving 24 pounds, and! was still going strong. j She was dry a little less than two months, and during this time she con- sumed not over 120 pounds of grain.' being fed at the rate of about two, pounds daily. At $52 a ton for the. feed, it cost a little over $30. But during the first two months after calving she gave on the average about 614 pounds of milk more per; day than she had given during her previous lactation. At a net price of $2.60 per hundred for the milk, the increase in milk was worth a little, over $10 for the two months. Be-, ginning with the first of October, ! when the net price of milk is about $3.50 per hundred, the showing will be still better. \ This increase in milk was due to, the grain fed while the cow was dry, because her former owner and i manage our herds very much alike, | even to feeding the same brand of dairy feed. = ¢ and care. When the flock has not been properly cared for during the winter, the lambs are} often too weak to stand, and unless' given immediate cure will become chilled and die. { Pens four feet square should be provided for the ewes at lambing time. These protect the young lambs from the rest of the flock and keep. them from becoming separated from! their mothers. If the attendant sees | that the young lamb gets up and! nurses by the time it is fifteen or; twenty minutes old there will be lit-' tle need of giving it further atten- tion. Twins or triplets are not uncom- mon, and the ewe sometimes refuses to own the weakest pne. In case of twins, if the stronger lamb is remov- ed for an hour or two the ewe will turn her attention to the other Jamb, and when the stronger one is put back she will own them both. a . Binder Twine Available. An ample supply of binder twine for Canadian requirements next year at reasonable prices has been ensured, as the result of an agreement reached between the United States Food Ad- ministration and the Mexican sisal growers of Yucatan ' them and their love of life, and excitement, | them man's and adventure often leads them into wrong paths. They 'could do so much for the church, and the church so- very much for them, if only we would meet them on their own plane. I think all who understand boys from fourteen to eighteen years of it seems affectation, impossible to'and send up\a few shouts of joyous, boys,' exuberant laughter, the neighbors are If they smoke a cigarette | interested in church! they are on the way to the gutter or oO t age, know their shrinking from anyjterseness, it stands show of sentimentality. All their tender thoughts and feelings are hid- den under an assumed brusqueness literature in school. and makin Dr. Currter will answer all-digned letters pertaining to Health. (f your: rest it will.be answered through thesé columns; if not it will be answered personally, if stamped, addressed envelope is en- losed. Dr. Currier will not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnoses. Address Dr. Andrew F. Currier, care of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide 8t. West, Toronto. : How to Avoid Pneumonia. |chanees of the patient's recovery na- Pneumonia -is a winter disease turally diminish with the diminution identical with lung fever, a disease! Of his resisting power. It is better to which the mature and the aged are, to ward off such a deathly disease al- very susceptible. It is especially together than to try and cure it. prevalent at the presént time in con-| Sometimes it will attack a person junction with war, pestidence and fa-| When there is a sudden drop in the mine, and because of strains of all| temperature no matter how carefully kinds 'which have made people un- he -has been living. usually susceptible to, it, its toll of |. Sometimes it follows sudden cool- victims is-unusually High. jing of the body yan " herwbga> of The young are suffering from it in) 2 W8tmM room without adequate pro- great nutibers this winter, and be-! tection. Or it ard follow -- cause of high prices and poor nutri-| #94 exhaustion, as it often bee with tion they have not the power to resist ® doctor has been out all night ath it they have in normal times. Those; ® trying obstetric case. Deep bxeath- who are enfeebled by disease or dis-| ing is important in preventiag it} be- sipation particularly alcoholics, are| Cause the aged are shallow breathers its easy victims. | they often die of pneumonia. Pneumonia is a germ disease due; The whole body, but especially the to one or perhaps 'several varieties of feet, must be kept dry and warm. Constipation and indigestion must be bacteria. When doctors speak of a ae : ; mixed infection they mean that sever-, controlled, habits in eating and drink- i must be simple, and, above all al kinds of germs are found in the| ing material 'which is coughed up by the| things, one must get plenty of sleep 'patierit. » pane not worry. Simple as these This disease usually begins with a} "ink git may seem, it will pay to hard chill, high fever, severe head-| eed them. . aché and soreness and aching of the) Questions and Answers. entir2 body. The air cells of the' M. E. 1. What is the difference lungs become filled with mucus and between chronic arthritis and rheum- other material and therefore are im-! atoid arthritis? pervious to air. When both lungs! 9. Jould a sufferer from either are filled up in this way the patient disease be injured by living in a is bound to die for want of air as! house which has sewer gas in the cel- surely as if a rope were tied around! Jar? hibapeck. When only one lung or 3. To whom should one go to find a poftion of it is obstructed there is! oyt whether sewer gas really is pre- hope for him, but he will be compel-| sent in the cellar? . led to breathe much faster than usual Answer: 1. Chronic arthritis is in order to get the requisite volume any formeof inflammation of the of oxygen into his blood. | joint. Rheumatoid arthritis is chronie He coughs and expectorates the | joint disease with wasting and de- substance in his air cells to get more formity and loss of power. breathing space but if it accumulates) 2. Anybody would be likely to suf- faster than he can get rid of it he fer from such a condition, sewer gas will lose the game. His blood is! being one of the most pervasive of carrying poisons which it cannot get) gases. rid of while its supply of the vital, 3. To your local health officer. oxygen is diminished; the candle is| He would make the proper tests to being burned' at both ends. Thej-determine its presence or absence. ~= ee | iris uttered a simultaneous cry of de- | why ca\"t the church gather | and lay aside (+) her thimbled f 2 "The others, some tiptoeing, some crawling, man can endure affectation? And the boy is only the younger man. Again, teach the Bible from the standpoint of its literary composition. For classic implicity, dramatic ele- ment, dignity of style, power and f ful ion, brevity and preeminent. Taught from this standpoint, boys who are already studying English - light. Th Lo Thimbl "It must Have dropped off into my e st e lap when Adele ieaned over to watch @ | how I turned that fussy corner of " sai ise; "an i Prue withdrew _her head from under o> a gig ne pocket. We e sofa, brushed a bit of lint from might have hunted the whole after- her eyelashes, sneezed, scrambled to nian oven Lucky er and. glanced atthe sock: ,e satus me "Whi visiting my Q dence, I was forever losing my toys, and then upsetting evefything and everyone hunting for them immedi- : ately, insistently and frantically, look- Louise Bemis. ing half a dozen times in the same "No, I'm sorry to say! But, girls,! place----you know how an impatient this won't do; we're losing too much' child does hunt,--and Aunt Prudence time. Remember, this is a special; used to sit back, exasperatingly calm, some pawing over the piles of com- pleted work, some shaking out their skirts for the dozenth time, turned ex- pectant faces. "Oh, have you found it?" cried P ef manner, and they are so afraid of} study of many of the classics, will | being "sissified." On the other hand, they have a good i right for right's sake. dea! of penetration, and -the majority | find the Bible ~fascinating. Teach | ©' Sa earre . 7 wanes fees ; Teach them | "® expected, if it is to go by the first; prove matters by losing three others, that they may reap what they sow in| of them are doing considerable pont ben hereafter, but they most certainly | ing on their own responsibility these days. They can't see any harm in life. going into an orderly, well-regulated | thinking. pooiroom and knocking a few little| moral life to them now. balls about on a table. It does not | normal nor anyone else. They meet many boys there from the best families in| town. There are seats and places to| live by. lounge--everyone is at ease sociable and jolly. Where is the|a good one to die by? harm? they reason to themselves, andi to their mother and father. live And, after and they are bad boys." ry Teach not how to die, but how to i Let us gather our boys into But the church says, "It is wicked| the church and guide them into ways if their | that will lead to their highest good, and do it by getting their point of Then I think we will have our! love of motion and nitsic and life leads them to want to dance, the! view. church doesn't approve. If a few|"big boys" in the church--and get together on Sunday afternoon| want them there. religion to Il, don't you and; think a religion to live by would be will reap just what they sow in this | the skin of our teeth at that. a re Mamet of Fight acm, safe if it's where it can't be! good for Niece Prue! Healthy, boys are not thinking of dy- harm them so far as they can see, | ing: they are thinking of living--liy- ing abundantly; if they have a_re- ligion they want it to b } we CUT OUT AND FOLD ON DOTTED. e DP ATES a me Uvirn Re ant ee a EES EET oan Now Brother Paul is fond of ball, While sister, she's a singer; My specialty jg pitching shoes, . Just watch me make this ringer. meeting called expressly because we and give me good advice. were notified that this month's con- |.- 'Child, child, if thee has lost one signment must be ready earlier than article remember thee does not im- ship. That means using every mi-j which are generally more important: nute, and we shall only make good by;thy head, thy temper and time.'" Now, | "Good for Aunt Prudence!" said Adele's gold thimble is here, in this | Louise, with a laugh. "Likewise, Let us tele- stepped on--" | phone Adele we've found her thimble." "It isn't on the floor. I've crawled} stl cena ore every inch!" interrupted Louise. | A Real Youngst#r's Day. well, then, I propose we stop hunt-|' 4 ood brsalfast to start him off---~ ing and go back to work. I'll hunt ilk 1 i , e. It again, alone, after our job is finished! mk, cornmeal mush, apple sauce, it * jmakes him fit for school and fit for and you're all gone, and simply keep} i. on till I find it. Of eétrse, you're all | eager to help Adele, but I'm sure | Milk and plenty of it makes him 2 ; : |grow--a quart each day if you ca she 4 agg x T don't let Fot--| Put it on his cereal and in his cup. -- -- | Make it into soups, puddings or cus- "Oh, of course," assented Adele | tards for him. stiffly. "I'm sorry to have made, While milk is best, of course, but trouble--very sorry. It was a pre-i skim milk is good if there is a little sent, and set with a turquoise band) butter in his meals. Cottage cheese n S good, too. never have mentioned it; but, of: No coffee or tea----not even a taste. course, it's of no consequence." | Leave them for the grown-ups. Milk, Prue's heart sank. Adele was cocoa, not too strong, and fruit juices plainly resentful. Nevertheless, she! are the drinks for children, and plenty set her committee to work once more,! of water always. , and the last comfort pillow was | Fruit they enjoy, and they need it, triumphantly completed before the too--baked apples, apple sauce, thor- meeting broke up. She invited Adele 'oughly ripe bananas, prunes, oranges, to remain; but Adele déclined, and etc. Give them vegetables, fresh or departed abruptly to keep an engage-' canned. Plenty of fruits and vege- ment. ltables tend to prevent constipation. "Prue, you were fine, and you did | Use proper food and do not depend exactly right!" declared Louise, her upon laxatives. The youngster "chum," who had lingered. '"Adele's, can't be well unless the bowels move a pig of selfishness, anyway, and it regularly. Dow let him hurry off | doesn't matter what she thinks." | in the morning without attending to "Oh, yes, it does, I'm afraid--when this duty. she was the loser and my guest!" sigh-| Other foods a child needs: Whole- ed Prue. "But the work came first; wheat bread, not too fresh, corn bread, and then, we were all flustered and,well-cooked oatmeal, cornmeal. rice. hindering one another and wasting' They help make strong boys and girls. precious minutes, and all of a sudden Some fats, butter or margarine or I remembered one of Aunt Prudence's meat fats on hig bread or in gravies. maxims,--it's the first time I ever did) An egg, perhaps, particularly if he remember a maxim at the right-time,! doesn't get his full quart of milk, or --and I acted on it. But, all the! he can have a little meat or fish, but same, I'm frightened! Suppose we'he does not need much. shouldn't find the thimble? It must! Sweets are good for them--the have been vaiuable." a | right ones at. the right time. - Dates, "I suppose so--it was fairly lumpy) raisins: stewed fruits, simple pud- with ornament: I don't see how she! dings, sugar cookies, are better than could sew with the clumsy thing,"| candy. Give them at meal times. said Louise, withdrawing her hand} Between meals let them have bread from exploring behind a shelf of and butter, a cracker or fruit. They from her fingers with her handker- | will. chi . .| books and daintily flipping the dust! won't spoil" the appetite, and candy . 1 ier. vig 1 pe i Si As she pulled the handkerchief} "Utmost wisdom is not in self- from her apron pocket, the lost thim-! denial, put in learning to find ex- ble came with it, and rolled clinking | treme pleasure in little things."--Rus- and glittering on: the floor, | ki