ofa Is o r will be mailed to you. Ltd., 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto. Co.,, W. J. F-:--Is there anything that can be done to save the trees that the: rabbits have girdled? We have a nice young orchard which has been plant-| ed three years, and the rabbits have) ~-- ruined the trees, about fifty in num- ber, and if nothing can be done it is. & total loss ea trees the rabbits have entirely girdled will scarcely eurvive the injury. If some of ae trees, however, have been simply i jured at one side you will do well to paint over the injury or cover it with' grafting wax. This protects and{|* will tend to prevent the entrance of fungus discease germs and also "bleed-| ". You will do well to work in! some stock manure around the trees that will likely survive. Subscriber:--Will you please tell me the value of barley as a horse, cat- tle and hog food? Will it take the place of corn with digester tankage in a self-feeder for hogs, and if so should it be fed whole or ground? What is the relative value of barley at $1-70 per bushel, and oats say at 90c., in a ration for horses? If it is a good horse food how ought it to be fed, whole or ground and in what propor- tion with oats? Will barley and oats make a good ration for cattle, both growing cattle and milch cows, and if _ 80 in what proportion? Answer:--Barley as compared with ey corn contains the following food ele- ments; Digestible sae in 100 Ibs arbo- Protein. ita Fat. bs. lbs. Ibs. Corn 7.9 66.7 4.8 Barley 8.7 65.6 1.6 Barley is usually called the "corn" of colder areas. That is where corn cannot be grewn, barley takes it place. Analyses of the grain shows it closely approximates the food value! of corn. In feeding it must be sup-| plemented by a concentrate, or 4 car er protein. It should give satis- | factory results with tankage. In all | cases it should be fed ground and not | whole. Concerning barley as a feed for cows, Dean Henry says: "Barley "alone is not fed extensively to cows, wheat bran being preferred on the Score of cheapness ahd influence on the milk secretion. Barley will prove a benefit to cows fed heavily -with| acre, roots since it counteracts their laxa- tive influence. From 8 to 5 pounds of ground barley will suffice in the ration of the cow, bran proving an excellent complementary feed. As a feed for horses it is not look- ed upon with great favor, since the the advice or at umn. if complete blishing BEST FOR. ground barléy forms a sticky paste in| Hardy NrEine CANADA the horse's mouth which is distaste- aK. | ful to the animal. ie These Should be LOOK FOR THE STARS , t Wisconsin . i in the Rennie 19 2 act ti Hemicune ahace "barley has. an Included In logue en cowed fa, 8 n star borders r 9 ike this fet hey ie important place. Fed alone at Wis- ntrthe bargains. consin it did not give quite as good Your Order : * | gains as corn. However, fed with Pkt. oz. Wwlb. Ib. Slbs, 'skimmed milk to hogs it surpassed BEANS-- Dwarf White Wax Coyet) 10 25 .70 3.25 gains obtained from cornmeal and BEET--Crosby's E yeas wccee 005 026 = §=.85---- 2.50 milk. Barley and oats ground, will CAB a ae meus ummer 6 66: 276 ake a good basis for a ration for CARROT Rennie: Market Garden 10 140 1.20 3.50 'cattle, but even this mixture will re " CORN--Rennie's Golden paste -10 25 65 anire supplementing with a concent- terrucs a ER--Davis' Perfect . 10: 26° 78 2326 BERG PUG Rurpec's Earliest: *R. H.:--What wil be the best crop ahead... 6. vewcnwiares 10 .35 7.00 3.06 | to sow on five acres of sandy land for | ONION--Early Yellow Danvers .. .10 .40 1.35 4.40 'the pasture of three or four cows? Rennie's Extra Ea anne weeee 05 135 1.00 3.75 e P | Rennie's Longkeeper BrownGlobe 10 .36 1.00 3.75 Have been thinking of sowing rape, PARSNIP- Rennic'sXXXGuerfsey 10 30 1.00 3.50 | and could I seed it and stand a chance PEAS--Thomas Laxton, ExtraEarly .10 15 .45 2.00 of getting a catch if sowed with the | Ae ita a Bs cond Early .,.. .10 15 .46 2.00 rape? It was sown last year to mil-| RAD H--Crimson Globe -- Non A ig let and buckwheat and seeded, but, Plus Oe i'. rghs Ses} canines 06 = oo ass failed to get a good stand of clover. atpeess Bone Layee inter). re oy ate -26 Answer:--For a pasture mixture on Blue Stem Honey Bere ort "10 160 «(1.75 sandy soil, you will do well to sow the; Prepaid Not Bisset following per acre; 1 bushel of rye, Ib. 5 Ibs. Fibs. half bushel wheat, half bushel oats, ONION SETS--Yellow Sets--Selected .35 1.70 26 1.20 and five pounds of common red clover. | \ White Multiplier Sets... .60 2.26 .40 1.85 This mixture will make a summer) pasture. In order to get a success- New Glant deca spun sh ; oe ful permanent covering, I belleve you, Sep s XXX Heras Balsam--Mixed.. Saeveekesecibcaese 0 will have to keep stock off this area | New Red Sunflower... ........0005 ery Tree r a Tere err ere Tne. for a season and then seed your) Gold Medal Hybrids Delphininss.¢ 3. «:ss.eees.cccees ee coos 028 ground to about 144 bushels of bar-; Rennie's XXX Prize Ruffled Giant Petunia-- Mixture. ceases uae A Rennie's XXX Giant Spencer Sweet Peas-- Mixture. . oo 016 and grass seed mixture, consist-| Giant Zinnia_--Mi 16 ing of 10 lbs. common red clover, 2: Ixe POO eee eee secre ecseacesssecces ee 8 Ibs. alsace, 6 lbs. of timothy, and 5/ When buying from dealers, insist on Rennie's. If your Ibs. sweet clover, to the acre, Inj dealer hasn't them, we will ship direct. order to make sure of the catch you; would do well to fertilize the soil with | THE R E NNI COMPANY about 200 Ibs. to 300 lbs. of fertilizer | WILLIAM LIMITED. Py keg page tee ammonia and AING & MARKET STs TORONTO 6 to 8.per cent phosphoric acid. This) ALSO AT MONTREAL WINNIPEG * VANCOUVER should be thoroughly worked into the} soil at the time the seed bed is being -- ---- prepared. | Fwd vega wmecet| SEED SOWING AND GROWING vice in regard to sowing winter vetch! and spring rye this spring to plow under late in summer for fertilizer | purposes. Would it be a success or is something else more successful? Answer--1: Half a bushel of winter vetch seed, with a bushel and a half of rye to the acre should be sown, The ground should be thoroughly pre- pared and the seed drilled or harrow- ed in carefully. In preparing e ground you will do well to ora about ' I want.to refer to the seed business | --the ppssibilities of growing grasses, | vegetables and fiowers for seed pur-; poses. Mr. Sweet, the Colorado pota- to king, believes that in our" vast areas of new soils in the Great West, eg Som ¢ oon lies the see the world, but it 3 7 "a will make the soil sweet, which condi- are now selling at a tremendous prict tion is most: suitable for the rapid' The supply itself has in many cases growth of vetch. In order to make/ been cut off by war, and so -- of sure of a satisfactory catch, you | Belgium and France, two great seed- will do well to use fertilizer at the producing countries, has Sele laid time of seeding as recommended in| waste that the supply at its sources the last question. ihas been diminished. But while there ' has been much written and talked of SDD ay Hs: The butter made on the farms of! Ontario may be materially improved) in quality in most cases, if standard methods are employed and greater care is exercised in carrying out the| necessary details. Here is an outline! of the essential steps to be taken in making good farm butter: . Produce clean milk and cream. Cool the cream immediately after it} comes from the separator. Clean and sterilize all' utensils. 2. Ripen or sour the cream at from sixty-five to seventy-five degrees F. until mildly sour, Always use a ther- mometer in order to know that the right temperature is reached. 8. Cool the cream to churning tem- perature or below, and hold at that temperature for at least two hours be- fore churning. 4. Use a churning temperature-- usuually between fifty-two and sixty- six degrees F., that will require thirty or forty minutes to obtain butter. 5. Clean and scald the churn, then half fill it with cold water and revolve until the churn is thoroughly cooled, after which empty the water. 6. Pour the cream into the churn threygh a strainer Add butter color--from twenty to thirty-five drops to a gallon of cream --except late in the spring and early in the summer. 8. Put the cover on tight, revolve the churn several times, stop with bot- cuieditidenmenenaeenememntel Se MUSKRATS WANTED I will pay highest market prices for eS Ginseng Root and all other maid 20 "years of reliable trading Reference--Union BE. of Canada ° ER 220 St. Paul St. W., Montreal, P.Q. j having the small Ito jabout seed-growing it is not an ama- tom up, | remove shoppe to per-| teur game to play; and there are also mit escape of gas; repeat until no (certain limitations to its possibilities pneee ~ forms. in Canada. There is a temporary de- i tinue churning until butter | mand which will not exist after the | gr ule are formed the size of grains! sia In certain seeds we shall never |of wheat. e able to compete with France, Hol- | 10. Draw off the buttermilk throughh| lend and Belgium in normal times. the hole at the bottom of the churn,| One great factor in the seed and nur- using a strainer to catch particles of sery business is labor, and in that the /butter. When the buttermilk has' European labor is cheaper and more | drained out, replace the cork jplentiful. There are seeds which can | 3 11. Prepare twice as much wash wa-. be grown in greater abundance and ter as there {is buttermilk, and at more cheaply in parts of the United about the same temperature. Use, States than in Canada. There are the thermometer; do not guess at tem-, other seeds, too, in which the intensive peratures. Put one-half the water cultivation of certain fields completely into the churn with the butter. cover the demand. Bulbs come within 12. Replace the cover and revolve the field of limited possibilities and in the churn rapidly a few times, then; flower seeds generally there is a draw off the water. Repeat the wash-| greater surplus now than ever before ing with the remainder of the water. | the war. The Southern*States is a 13. The butter should still be in| better flower field than the north and granular form when the washing is) the industry there is contracting in- completed. tead of expanding. 14. Weigh the butter. A campaign is going on in the West 15. Place the butter on the worker, and in other parts of Canada, as well, and add salt at the rate of three-quar- Some seeds do remarkably well most R. E, Gosnell. for seed-growing, and the advice of | members of the United States De- gl rl of Agriculture and of Can- a is to first get the benefit of ex- beet views of the trained horticulturist before embarking in any particular line, which can be had by ge a - id pay comm €.|seeds which are in demand at very high prices are alfalfa, red clover, sweet clover, small white clover, al- sike clover, sweet . The veget- able seed whose production should be pushed are potato, of course, beet turnip, spinach, cabbage, mangolds, carrots and seeds of grain, corn and} the legumes, such as peas and beans. Last year in the United States there | were a great many gardens plante for seed purposes which looked well at first, but which from limitations as} to soil or neglect in cultivation or lack of the varieties suitable, in which results were far from satisfac- tory. Amateurs by careful study of their subjects often succeed as well as experts, but the majority fail for lack of skill and experience. As seed time is now all over Canada, those who are! urged and wish to undertake seed Pro- | duction are advised to get wise and | find out all they can as quickly as pos- sible. By the way, those desirous of get-| ting more definite information on seeds and seed-growing, can get free a bulletin entitled "Every man his own seed-grower," by writing to the Do- minion Experimental Farm, Ottawa. --_----_---@-----_--- - Seeds are scarce this year and will be scarcer next. Grow.your own. ters of an ounce to a pound of butter. 16. Work the butter until the salt is dissolved and evenly distributed. Do not overwork. 17. Pack in any convenient form for home use, or make into one-pound prints for market, wrapping the but- ter in white parchment paper, and in- closing in a paraffined carton. 18. Clean the churn and all butter- making utensils. ~-----~--- ld Time to Start Drive to Save Apple Crop. - prevented by Wormy apples are i fruit covered vith) arsenical poison when the newly| hatched codling worms start their| first meal. This spray must be ap-' plied liberally just after he apple blossoms fall. Commercial concentrated lime suf- phur diluted with 40 parts of water (5 quarts to 50 gallons), along with FUNNY FOLD-UPS. CUT OUT AND FOLD ON DOTTED .LINES three pounds of arsenate of lead paste (or half as much powder) to each 50 gallons of spray, is the formula re- Absolutely cured, in any horse, any case, ter how no mat ter iow bad. #2 yours 9 of success, is AP PITAL HEAVE REMEDY our money-back gua ANUS. It must your money ts refunded. FULL WEEK' Ss. TRIAL { ~ recelpt of 6c. tage and w rapping, we veil seed yous ull week's trial w rit tats a i parficulars and of satisfaction. W 'rite t owe VETERINARY SUPPLY HOUSE 750 Cooper Street, Ottawa, Ont. foliage, particularly when it is mix- A jan average allowance. commended. The use of soluble sul- phur compound is not advised. for spraying apples or other fruits in ;ed with arsenate of lead. Plant lice present may be killed by adding one! , pert of nicotine sulphate to 700 parts lof spray. cisterns Renan oeniniin 7 Non't overstock your yard. Twenty to thirty square feet for each hen is ret Will, "I'd like to d carry laughs dhe rl A get a hoop and fix be a clown, ane to town; you'll jump cnet wont t you, pup? ee ate GOOD HEALTH By Anaee F. Cérter F. Dr. Currier will answer all signed Question is of general interest it will sala it will be answered personal! St. West, Toro Ulcer of the Stomach. G. S.--¥Please describe ulcer of the' stomach. How long does it take to. get well? Are there different kinds, | and what medicines and diet would be} useful? This condition comes te those who are anaemic, who work hard and are those whose gastric juice is acid and corrosive, or who have some kind of corrosive juice in the stomach, from whatever source. y if stam address . Dr. Currier will not ccaamibe for individual cases or make osis. Address De Andrew F. Currier, care of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide nto. poorly nourished, and occasionally to }~ QUESTION BOX Ctrrer, M.D. letters pertaining to Health. If your be answered through these columns; ed envelope is en- overlook them in the performance of an operation, if the corrosion made only slight or moderate pro- gress. Many cases are cured by medical measures, and it by no means follows that every case which is discovered must be treated surgically QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. L. A. R.--I noted in the report by the physicians who examined me for It may be a long time coming on, and may last for years. different. kinds, in the sense that there | are ulcers of different size, of differ- | ent degrees of discharge and absorp- | tion, and of different degrees of pois- | oning and harmfulness in other ways. eat through or perforate the entire | wall of the stomach; for that would almost certainly mean the occurrence | in such cases of peritonitis, which | usually would quickly have a fatal issue An accident which is not unusual | with this disease and often is serious | or fatal, is haemorrhage; and as it is, wont to come on suddenly, without; warning, it must always be anticipat- | known or suspected. The treatment is principally die- tetic, the diet bei of ily digested; meat and other foods which are digested in the stomach, with the exception of milk, being ex- cluded. Medical treatment is also useful in some instances, especially such medi- cines as may have an astringent and healing tendency, for example bis- th. If the diagnosis i is clearly made out, an operation by a skilful surgeon will result in a cure of the ulcer, but this does not mean that other ulcers may not develop. «There is usually but one ulcer, but others may be in the course of for- mation and it is quite possible to There are. In most cases, the ulcer does not | ed and prepared for, when ulcer is} the draft, the statement: "covered with ichthyosis scales." Is this dis- ease inherited? I' have a_ brother and an uncle who are troubled in the same way. And is there any 'ure for it? It causes intense itching, es- | pecially after taking a bath. During the warm. weather, my skin is clear and smooth. Are there many people who are tréubled with this disease?" Answer--This disease is a rather rare one. It is sometimes inherited --possibly always. I do not think that you could have it in a very severe |form if your skin is clear during the , Warm weather. I should think it more probable that your trouble is of the nature of a scaly eczema--which jis quite troublesome during the win- | ter. If you would sponge your body every night with a solution of bicar- onate of soda and use castor oil free- ly in keeping your bowels open, you would obtain a xery decided relief, | Mrs. L. A.--1. What causes vio- lent beating of the heart about three hours after eating? 2. I am troubled with insomnia, and sometimes have chills after going +o bed, even though I feel perfectly warm, Answer--1. If I were you, I would omit the evening meal for a few times and see if it does not relieve the trou- ble you refer to. Very frequently this trouble indicates indigestion. 2. The chills you refer to may be nervous chills. If you would use a hot water bag at your feet, in going to bed, I think it would obviate the trouble. Jesus Rebukes Selfish- Lesson IV. ness--Mark 9. 30-50. Golden Text, Mark 9. 35. Verse 33. They came te"Caperna --Here he had begun his Galilean 'ministry and here he was to bring it toaclose. We have no knowledge of | his being in the town again. He was, 'now to go southward. In the house he asked them--He had _ probably} heard them disputing as they came 'along and now, having overheard some of the conversation, wishes to} learn of their difficulties. 84. Held their peace--It was no- | thing to be proud of. The fact that he had selected the three to go with! him up the pg i may have led them to wonder were thus s | paseterred and thence the subject under iscussion. o was the Cp test-- Their conception of the kingdom about | | which he had said so much dealt with | | grades and ranks of service and now | naturally they were concerned to, | know who was the leader among them. ! 85. Sat down--The sere attitude of a Jewish teacher. Called the twelve | --It was needful that ue entire band) of disciples should know in what true greatness consisted, as it was funda- mental to peer own success in the future If any man would be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all--The humility of greatness and the greatness of humility. Preemin- | ence in the kingdom is marked by ser-' vice and not by rank; a service which is for all without discrimination. This is the general principle stated. 86. Took a little child--They were. cal'-@to him He calls 'the child to| his side, lifts him up in his arms and, then gives the immortal lesson. It is| Mark alone who tells of his taking the | child in his arms. For fuller details thew's account Mat aap s account (Matt. 18. 8). There is o picture more beautiful and signifi- cant than this--the Supreme Teacher with the child in his arms presenting to his disciples the never-to-be-for-; gotten object lesson. osoever shall receive one ole such little children in my name--The child represented the true disciple-- docile, trustful, unassuming. In ! name--That is, " of regard for me." The "name" represents all that a man is known to be and do. The name of Christ is all that he is reveal-! ed to us to be in spirit and dee e-| ceiveth him that sent me--To receiva, a humble disciple in whom we re- cognize the spirit of Christ is to re- ceive Christ himself, and as Christ is the sent of God it is essentially to re-, ceive God himself. It We have now a transition to an in-! cident reported by John of one who! was rebuked for casting out demons and who was not one of Jesus' dis- | ciples 38. Folia said--The first time in whi ch} John appears #s spokesman in the Synoptists, byt his name occurs in) connection with James when the re- ' the quest was made for the chief places in the kingdom, and it is these two who at another time propose to call down fire upon a Samaritan village because the people had been discourt- eous to the Master. We saw one casting. out demons in thy name--We are not told tawtinh this incident took lace. It occurred to John to tell i use, no doubt, reeas had refer foriele hi him--B Jesus and not company of Riscinles Soha thought this outsider was taking a liberty with e name of Jesus; he tried to stop im. 89. Forbid him not--Jesus' influence must have wrought mightily outside of the circle 6f his immediate follow- ers, inciting them to genuine works of power in his name. To rebuke lsuch an one was an excess of zeal, We have here a principle of wide ap- | plication. There is surely Christian |grace and power in gigs acy Age do not bear our name. Well and good if they honor the name of Christ. 40. He that is not against us is for jus--In another connection he said "He that is not with me is against me" (Matt. 12. 30). ice ooees are in principle the same can be against Chrit if he iy "taith, theugh yee in his name ne cannot a friend of the Master if he has so "Hittle faith in him as to think that is works are the works of Satan. In one case it is our attitude toward ' others, in the other it is our inner at- titude iets Christ 41. A cup of water to to drink, be- cause ye ee P christ' s--John"s question had broken in upon Jesus' talk con- cerning the childlike spirit. He now resumes that topic. He speaks of the worth of the smallest service render- ' to 3 disciple in the spirit of the ae By asin the mens ae | | | "Whosoever shall cause one of ens little on to stumble-- ok is ever dhe champion of the von . A spiritual injury dane to one f the humblest of his disciples brings severe consequences to the guilty ----+ QRoutiry® There is nothing to equal bread crumbs as a first feed for young chicks. Of course in these war-time days bread crumbs, especially of wheat bread, are not over plentiful in the a cee poveenet if they are to e had ata "Howevan r your broods are not too large sufficient crumbs may be to at least give'the youngsters énough my first feedings to see them on the road and out of danger during the most critical period of their lives There is no doubt but what there is too much grain fed to chicks at all stages of growth. Grain, alone, is harmful; in fact it plays havoe with ,oung chicks' digestive organs if freely given the first week, and even if th? chicks do pull through and live . they will not amount to much more than a runt at the time of maturity. Chick feeds, such as a variety of finely cracked grains, are a necessary and valuable part of the chicks' daily 2 i bill of fare, but it should be remem- bered that growing mash and not hard grain feeds makes rapid and Proper growth. |