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Skill Required. (Wayside Tales.) Two Irishmen were standing in the stern of a Channel steamer. Said Hike: “Oi can’t see how the captain minds his way across the Channel at all. Now, if he was goin’ the other way' he’d only have to follow the whoite streak of foam there. But if ye g0 11 .to the other end of the boat, ye’ll 01nd there’s never a mark to go by.” - ' - . ‘ Let in 'all the â€"sunshine you can. ' ” Sunli and fresh air kill germs; (we!!! help to keep out siekâ€"j Is the Criticism of Big Salaries Justiflahle‘! (Christian Guardian.) To the average man whose salary does not go beyond $1,500 or $2,000 a year, the knowledge that a banker, or a railway head, or the superin- tendent of a great business, gets $50,- 000 or even $100,000 a'year seems to emphasize the unfairness of things, and he is apt to say that .he himself Other Papers’ Opinions is getting all too little, while. the man with the big salary is greatly over- paid. And as he looks at his wealth- ier brother, and notes his short h0Ul‘S,‘hlS freedom from hard man-'- ual toil, and his freedom, also, from the worry of making both ends meet, he is apt to grow a little bitter, and to look upon the big-salaried man as a robber, whose big income is de- rived from a kind of legal economic blackmail levied upon his poorer brethren. Unquestionably, this View is widely held, but. is it really jus- titiable',’ AIL‘AA filllGUlb For instance, suppose we acted upon it and reduced the salary of the railway manager to $2,000 a year, would we be the richer or poorer for it? The man who knows any- thing about railroading knows that the railway manager‘s mistakes are apt to be costly, and inside of a year poor management may easily cost. a milway not 3100.000. but millions of dollars. and if high salaries mean ef- ficiency then the railway and the country will be better off by millions of dollars if they pay 3100.000 for management rather than $2.000 for mis-management. Even high sal- aries do not wholly guarantee us a- gainst mismanagement. but. we think they are a better guarantee than low salaries would be. “.“. -vw ”In the past, farmers‘ 110-0 operative institutions ha1e not been particu- larly successf,111 and 111111 reason seems t1) be that the 1111111111 et man- ag. ement insisted upon k1 eping down the salaries. But in Caiit’ornia 3 111111 li1'ht has 111111ned.1111d better salaries 21113 11111111113111 in 110-1111erat- i111 undertakings in some cases as high 11330001111 111111. It is easy to argue that 1111 m 111 is 11011111 831). 000 a 111311 esp11r=i1il1 if those 11h11 are 113110;: the salar1 are themselves not earning 11111141111111 111‘ it: but on the other hand 111111111 one mistake of the mal1a1'111 11111 rest a company many times 11.111000 it is clear that if 11111111111 avoid the 1111stak11sh1'11n1- ploying 113130.011!) man, we are get- ting 011' cheaply. And even our Labor executives 111-1“ learning the lesson and are paying- we understand, salaries of hetweei 310.000 and 320.000 to trusted and responsible. leaders. One argument which is advanced for this '1s “18'. it. lessens the possibility of :1 trusted leader betraving his pa1t1. We are not so sure ot this. tor it seems to 11s that if a man can he bought at all. then it is simply a case of the highest bidder and a salarv ot 317,- 0015 or even 3100. 000 will figure but. little on a pivotal occasion where millions of dollars may be involved. Andl yet at the same time it does seem like tempting Providence to pay a man a starvation salary when we know that he will inevitably be exposed to great temptations to ac- qnire wealth suddenly by illegitiâ€" matem1m1ans. We cannot guard a- gainst dishonestx simplv I);1 pa1ing his: salaries. but at least we should nut tempt men to dishonestv by payâ€" .ing too small ones. W11 1111011 that this is an unponular side in take. 1011 public opinion. so far as it. is unintormcd 011 p111judiced is decidedlv Opposed to big salaries. and vet 11e think that we must face the mattvr sq1iai111i1 :1111! 1111 should be 1111111111111 111 111aliz11 1111.1 so long as the present 1111111111mi11 s1si11m is con- tinned. s1) 11111g1 11x1r1111ii11nal abilit) will i11111'itabiy 1.111mn111111i exceptional; rewards. That this has somnthing 111 111) “1th ministvriat <11a1'i115 is ctézu' 9111111¢rh and the ChuIch is shmlx {m aking t1: the fact that it is 110*. 1:111111111'iv{D1,1 11i- 111131‘ to the Chuich s 111113.111'ss 111' tc the Spiritual \\ 111111111111: 111 11111 min- 15191 to pay him 8111 11 1'1 salary that it is difficult 1111' him 1:11 pm his 1.111111: and at the same time the 1111111111 We should 111'. 5011 v 111 SN? 11111 min- istrv sought 1111cz1us11 111" its 9:11:11 1'1â€" mncial rewards but “11 311011111 111» sorry also to see it distinguished 11} the fact that it did not paw :1 lixin' salary 111 its trusted 111111 1111111111111 1113111118. \V 0 cannot pay the p10phet for hi, mil but at least “9 can see that he is assured 01 a c0mf01table and suf- ficient snstenance. (Woodstock Sentinelâ€"Review.) Roscoe Arbuekle, having been ac- quitted by a jury. is new, it seems. to be tried by public Opinion. One of his films is to be released and the question of whether or not he is to remain in the movies will be deterâ€" mined by the way the public greets the picture. It is scarcely a fair test. The public goes to the IDOV'lC theatre to be amused. not to sit in judgment on the moral characters Of those who furnish the amusement. Job and Lloyd George. (Ottawa Citizen? Job made for himself a lasting rm); utation for patience. And he hadn‘t the jealous French. the recalcitrant Germans. or the greedy Russians to deal with. David L. George could have endured Job’s disappointments without the slightest abatement of his enjoyment 1n the game of dipio. macy. - A PAGE SIX. Not a Fair.- Test. f mus-mas m tin-sums ' 'tfie Public Schools did not carry. It HELD BIG CONVENTION iwas thought that the curriculum Was The annual convention of Trustees overcrOwded and that it wasn’t feas- of Ontario, held in Toronto in Con-l ible on account of requiring teach- vocation Hall, April 17-20, drew alers with special qualifications. large number 01' trustees from all The subject of school grants ' over Ontario. The discussion on: brought a good many to their feet in Consolidated Schools is of great in-ga discussion. The distribution of 1 terest to rural trustees and was one‘grants between Public and Separate . nf the factors in inducing a large at- Schools was criticized and a motion tendance last year and this. Therelwas carried to have the Education . were a good many matters of inter- Department furnish the necessary i est placed before the convention and information to clear up this matter. ‘ freely discussed. A fair distribution also is requested. The President, in his address, touched on some items of consider- able interest. He favored Consoli- dated Schools for rural communities. He thought that Ontario was lagging behind the neighboring provinces and'states in providing modern 9- quipment in her rural schools. He also thought that the present system of rural education was costly. He blamed the parents for a good deal of the delinquency in attendance and thought that they should take greater interest in their schools. He pointed out that new teachers’ salaries and agreements are being governed largely by trade union re- strictions. He blamed this on thei Federation. This statement brought1 forth protests from 'the Teachers’ Federation. The Federation of Teachers were very outspoken in their repudiation of these charges, claiming that the real object of the l’mleration was to raise the standard of the profession. both from the point of \‘lt‘\\' of the teacher and the service rendered to the community. The Federation of Women Teachers’ Association also protested that they were no labor union and claimed that the organization was not. formed for the expiess purpose of boosting sal- aries. Its chief olgiject is to raise the 111‘111i'11ssi011al status of the teacher, and it' the trustees have the same lofty aim they will strive to get the best teachers a\111l11ble at “hate\ or cost. t‘:1.’1the1' than eng age the cheap- est. they can mid. A good many of the features of Consolidated Schools were discussed with interest. There were a large number of rural trustees who were quite' opposed to Consolidated: Schools. Insoector Lees of Peter- hnrough spoke strongly in favor of this system before the teachers” section and also pointed out the ar- guments used against the Consoliâ€" dated School system. Tho (4..)m'ontion of teachers were strongly in favor of the fcgn'mation of a "Board of Rofmmncc." composed of Miss Alma Benzell of Cornell Uni- versity gave an address on “Preven- tion and Cure in Child Training.” This address was a good one and was very well received. Some new ideas were handed out, by her in a way understood by everyone. a tcztchor, a trustee and an appointee of tho Dopartmont of Education. The trust’iw iii. the convention refused to sanction this Board of Reference. 'i‘t'w matter may become a live issue at ncxt yuan-’5 conwntion. A large number of trustees are Opposed to '5ch the Ir’ijuicration any recognition. 5i‘tu‘érc is a fooling of resentment aâ€" gainst. tho Fork-nation for advocating a striko fund and this and other mat- tcrs may unite the trustees to some uniform line of action. A number of addresses were well received. Amongst these was one by Professor Reynolds; President of the Ontario .kzricultural College at Guelph, on “Rural Science as a Subject for the School Curriculum.” He advocated team spirit and CO- operation. He thought that the pub- lic schools were to blame for a good deal of the animosity towards rural occupation and also for a prejudice in favor of urban advantages. A motion to give three hours a week to the teaching of French in “II Royal Bank .of Canada Total Assets Over Open Savings Ac- counts for each one of your children. Insist upon rogular deposits from pocket money. Thrift will gradually become a. strong trait in each child’s character. ma Your Blildm the Valul of Iona; '_l‘l_lere is a branchvf @his Savings Department at every Branch. While the rural trustees greatly outnumbered the urban trustees and city trustees, a motion to put rural schools and urban schools on the same footing so far as Provincial education grants are concerned was carried. Only a small number of rural trustees voted against this mo- tion and no serious division was no- ticeable. It was felt. by some that by allow-' ing, say, one-half day for the con- vention to form itself into separate groups, the work could be done more etl‘ectively. The rural. trustees, ur- ban trustees and school attendance oli‘icers will have separate sessions. This change will come into effect at the next annual convention. These groups will form a part of the Gen-- eral Convention as heretofore. This will enable the groups to deal with all questions in which they are. in- terested apart from the other groups without taking up the time of the whole convention. A motion to have arithmetic, phy- sics and bookkeeping taught in first year in High School did not carry, as Dr. Merchant, supervisor, pointed out that this matter is left for the school authorities. It therefore reâ€" mains for the school boards to say whether they will have these sub- jects taught or not in this grade. A resolution requesting the Deâ€" partment of Education to increase the grant for permanent, imprm'e- ments tn High Schools from $5300 to $1,000 was adepled. Mr. J. (1%. Elliott, Kingston, Ontario, was eloctmi Preshlent. 01‘ the Ontario I‘lducational Association for next year. PHONE 602 'r 11 Deering McCormick Implements and Wagons Tudhope-Anderson Farm Implements and Wagons International Speed and Freight Trucks, Trac- ' 15, Engixiés' £1115 "Thieshé'rs. Gibson Silo Engines, Cream Separators, Fillers. Louden Hay and Litter Carriers Stable and Barn Tools Bayne and Tudhope Buggies . _ International Cream Separators Call or phone and save expense 0f Canvassers ’ ‘ Full Line of Repairs Carried ‘ BLACKSMITHING PRICES DOWN. J 'J.M. NOBLE soc" Vunhtousi m 'mons lor FEEDING AS THEY APfEGT THE. . - - FINISHED PRO-DUCT ‘ (Experimental'Farms Note.) Food supply as Well as heredity :exercises 'a controlling influence on ‘the character and development of 3 the growing animal. In order to at.- |tain maximum development, the nor- lmal individual requires certainspe- citic fOOd constituents in well define-- ed quantities. A failure to supply them or an abnormal supply of one. (11‘ more of the required elements will result in more or less altered {character and development. 9 The animal body' is constructed from fourteen chemical elements and because these are not all available in any one food, it is necessary to resort to a variety of feeds in order that the body tissues may be per- mitted to function normally. The fact that some feeds contain certain of the elements in greater proporâ€" tions than other feeds has been utilâ€" ized as the basis from which the proper computing of rations for the needs of the particular individual has been derived. It has been con- vincingly demonstrated that differ- ent animals and also the same animal: at dill'erent stages of development require the various elements in ldifl‘erent proportions. Throughout .the earlier stages of an animal’s life While the body tissues are growing and developing, there is a prepor- tionally greater mineral and protein rermirement, these being utilized in the formation of bone and muscle, and a relatively smaller amount of energy-prmlncing food requirement, such as is obtained from the fatty portion of the. feed. I VARNEY,- ONT. HI “EVERYTHING IN FARM MACHINERY? m' in‘g ration High in protein and mm.l eral matter content. Young breeding stock Which has been reared on- a highly fattening ration such as corn, frequently sufl'er from impaired fe- cundity. It will therefore be ob- served that while 'a hog destined for‘ the block at the earliest possible‘ date may be forced with such a feed! as corn, or its. by-products, swineI that are destined for bacon produc.l Ftion must be fed a higher protein} ration which is conducive_ to the; production of a longer pig and also‘ one that is less heavily fleshed. l Renfrew Cream Separator Turns easy. Guaranteed to do the work. We carry a full line of repairs for Frost Woow and Cockshutt Farm Machinery. Look yours over, and if you require any, now is the time to put your machinery in shape. a.scHU'rz, , Durham ,' ' (a: Self-fed hogs in (the main make greater gain-s than trough or hand fed hogs, but these gains frequently cost more to produce. Thetrough feeding method, on the other hand, is more Suited to produce bacon hogs. because the feeder can regulate the feed to the needs of the hogs and keep them growing without their becoming gorged, as is. frequently the case on the feeder. While more or less spread must be and is allow- ed in the feeding of swine the fol- lOwing deduction can be accepted as satisfactory under ordinary con- ditions for raising young pigs. About three weeks before wean- ing a creep should be supplied‘ where the young pigs learn to conâ€" sume meal and milk. Tn order to realize the best results milk by- products are almost a necessity both at this stage and for some consider- able time after weaning. Middlings, and finely ground or rolled oats ei- ther fed separately or together in varying proportions make a~ very satisfactory meal to feed the young pigs. After weaning, which is done to best advantage about eight weeks of age, feed a daily ration of about one pound of the following mixtures: oats, shorts and linseed meal or flax seed meal mixed in the ratio of equal parts of oats and shorts with the linseed commising about 5 per cent. ol‘ithc total mixture. with also an addition to this ratimn of live pounds {of milk by-prodmfls. Soaking the QMWWWDMQ"WW Cum-'0‘.- «ovum-.010 OOWW'MMC "6’“0 ‘0 03W. Our advice to Farmers is to be prepared for the work that is to come. .A little forethought now may save them money later. See our stock of We can quote you a price on any Farm Machinery that Will interest you. 'W e also carry a stock of ADAMS WAGONS BRANTFORD BUGGIES Mother doesn’t say, “Wait until dinner,” but hands out any time a bowl of creamy milk and The sweet, firm loaf that makes rosy cheeks and sunny little people. Strong little people, too. It’s a real health investment, that loaf you are going to take home to-day. HENDERSON’S BAKERY Cockshutt Plows .’ flarrows, Cultivators, Etc. {I 1‘ a... Spring Is Here! We handle the only self-oiling Separator on the market. HENDERSON’S BREAD OH JOY! Pen fed hogs make the most rapid and economical gains and generally this method is preferred for the pro- ‘duction of market hogs. Alfalfa or ,clover fed in racks is the most suit- lable for hogs fed in pens. Whole ’dry grain such as corn or oats scatâ€" itered through the litter tends to ‘make the pigs take exercise. The imeal ration should he gradually in- lcreased until at six months of age lthree or more pounds of meal are being fed. Corn or barley meal :should gradually be added to the ra- :tion until these feeds compose six :parts, with the remainder of the 'I‘ation composed of three parts of l . . shorts and five per cent. of linseed |oi1 meal or else flax. meal ’in the milk for twenty-four hours previous to feeding improves the palatability. The paddock or pasture lot is most desirable for rearing young breeding stock as soon after weaning as con- ditions permit. Alfalfa and clover occupy first place as pasture crops with oats, barley and rape ranking second. Similar rations should be given these pigs as those given mar- ket hogs, except. that the ground corn should be wholly or partly sub: stituted vs ith ground oats or barley. Indoubtedly the most satisfactory method of rearing young breeding islock is on paddock, because the igrowth of bone and muscle and the ;constitutional vigor thereby encourâ€" aged cannot be realized under other iec')ndii,i(ms.-â€"-l\\'. G. Dunsmore, As- ;sislanl Animal Husbandman. A Little Girl’s Conclusion. (Part Rowan News.) . A little girl was spending a night away from home. When it was time 10 go to bod she knelt at the knee of her hmtos: U) sav her prayers, ex- 1H cling 110.1 usual prampting. “13101150 excuse me. I can‘t remem- bm‘ my ;._»1':1ym.'s, and I‘m staying with a lady that don't know any.” This was not coming, and she was heard In remark: