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’ The only law Michigan can fin; to cover a case of a wife’s; right to invest her sailor husband 8 V wages is the old English common law of the 16th century, and 1t ' ~still holds good. The retiring president of the American Medical Association said army rules applied to city sanita- tion would make the average life 65 years instead of ~12. Reversing the names on a summons freed a Detroit liquor dealer from violating the la w, and held up the anti-saloon League leader as defendant. For full particulars consult G T R. ticket Agents or write . C. E. HORNING. Dist. Pass. Agent, Toronto “I. Calder. Town Agent, Phone 32:. J. Towner, Station Agent Phone 18 Good going June 30th and July lst. Return limit ”July 2nd, 1913. Return tickets will be sold between all stations in Canada east of Port Arthur. Se- cure your tickets early at Grand Trunk ticket offices. -vv-â€" 3.10 6 15 -« Walker-Eat} Ar. i2. 55 10. 35 R. MACFARLANE. - Town Agent Particulars from C.P.R. Txcket Agents. or write 31. G. Murphy, 1). P. A.. T01 onto. R. Macfzulane. Town Ao gent E. A. Hay, Station Agent. Trains will arrive and depart as fol ows, until further notice:â€" Canadian Pacific Railway Time Table Good going \Vednesday and Thurs- day. June .£0th and July lst. retmn limit, inday. July 20d,1915. Trains art-ave at Durham at 11.20a.m. 2.30 p.m., and 8.45 pm. Trains leave Durham at 7. 05 a. m . and 3. 45 p. m. EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY G. T. Bell. C. E. Homing, G.P. Agent. D.P. Agent, Montreal. Toronto. J .J‘OW‘N ER. Depot Agent ‘V. CALDER, Town Agent, Good going Thursday. July lst. re- turn limit. Thuxsda}, Julv 15:. 115. DURHAM ZENUS CLARK- DOMINION DAY PLANING MILLS Good going and returning July 151’. only. DOMINION DAY EXCURSION FARES Single Fare Shingles and Lath Always on Hand At Right Prices. The undersigned begs to announce to residents of Durham and surrounding country. that he has his Planning Mill and Factory completed and is prepared to take orders for 'July 1, 1915. Pacific Coast Tours Fare and OneaThird At Low Fares. Including “CALIFORNIA EXPOSITIONS" Grand Trunk Railway ' TIME-TABLE Fare and One-Third Custom Sawing Promptly At- tended To _â€" and all kinds 'of â€" House Fittings SASH,DOORS (Minimum charge 2.50 Single Fare Durham “ 12.08 9.50 Allan'Park 12.22 10.04 Hanover 12.33 10.14 Maple Hill " 12.40 10.22 \Valkerton Ar.l2.55 10.35 ONTARlO ‘6 5‘ 11.30 11.42 11.52 11.56 “Shipments will be continued ati “”5“” w I‘ '91“? 0113893 at i frequent intervals as far as our re- lParis green to forty gallons 01 { sources will allow. We are also see-. ’water, or two to three pounds of I ing what can be done for the recrea-’ arsenate of lead to the - same tion of the men in conjunction with t't f . , ., the Y. \I. C. A., when they are not quan. 1 Y 0 water, b91113 sprayed. in the trenches or on active work. “'1“ destroy infecting insects. pers and magazines are also being ; Use Bordeaux mixture to con sent to them and any requisitions we trol earlv and late blight. '1' hren [ receive from the front will, you may to four 5 ra , ngs W 11 b i be sure, receive special attention. " j d 1) 3i 1 e re- ;quire . ' Nature has been aiding one of our subscribers this spring in complying with the requests of the patriotism and production campaign. ML Joel Grimshaw’s flock of sheep have evi- dently caught the spirit as two of his ewes gave birth to three lambs each and all are living and smart. It is hard to beat that for increased production. â€" Mount Forest Repre- sentative. Ontario has an Indian population of 23,044. - _ The Minister of Militia has receiv- ed offers from several wealthy Cana- dians of the use of their summer homes as convalescing hospitals for wounded Canadians invalided home from the front. They include Sir William Mackenzie’s home on the Victoria County Lakes, Sir Rodolphe Forget’s at Ste. Irene, Que., and D. Lorne McGibbon’s at St. Agathe, Que. The Militia Department has appoint- ed a committee to act in conjunction with the Red Cross in looking after the invalids. It is made up of Lieut.- Col. Mannsell, LieuL-Col. Hallack and Dent-Col. Jacques of the head- quarters stafi. ' . "We are in communication," he; says, “with all the different units and ' are sending the consignments of comforts to them each week, as re-' quisitioned, and often when they are not requisitioned, as we have a very good idea of the men’ s wants. Socks' and other woolen comforts have been forwarded, and towels and handker- . chiefs, tobacco, pipes and cigarettes, ' matches, soap and candies have been arranged fox and are on the way. In a letter received from J. G. Col- mer, secretary of the Canadian War Contingent Association, in England, he tells of the work which is being done for Canadians at the front. Leaving the reader to do the sub- traction, it costs an officer, all fringes clipped off, just about $600 to wear his stars or crowns with good grace. War costs more in peace times than in war timesâ€"at least so far as most officers are concerned, for as yet no mention has been made in this article of mess and dress uniforms. Although those uniforms must be cut on regulations, well-nigh any price can be paid for them. Such are a few of the “privileges,” although the word is rather poorly used, or abused if you like. They are the "evident" privileges. Beyond these "evident” ones, there are hazy, misty, clouded privileges innumer- able, that might tai:e one all day to put down on paper. Those are left to the reader's imagination. Thus the privilege item runs well up into $200 a year. Total to the present $425. Now comes the privileges! First of all there is the regimental fund. The rock bottom price to lieutenants {or that is $50. For captains, majors, and the higher-up officers, it costs more in accordance. Then there is the officer’s mess, for which the fee might well be anything, and which is a constant drain on his financial re- sources. Then he must contribute handsomely to the Sergeants’ Mess. There are dinners to oflficers so lucky as to have been gazetted with over- seas forces, dinners to the men going away, all manner of dinners, con- certs, and band concerts among the men, whom the officers must patro- nize to remain in their good graces. Of course, the oflicer's grannie, mother, fond aunt, and all his female acquaintances furiously knit socks, mufflers, and other woollen garments, all of which, if they were sold in a store, would net the officer enough to pay for his outfit. The officer must also have gloves, a cane, a waterproof cover for his hat, khaki handkerchiefs, etc., all of which are not included in that list. Then he must buy books of all col- ors, shapes and sizes, and when his military library is complete that has cost him about $15. Incidentals will thus raise the cost of what he car- ries on his back to about $225. To-day were a citizen to place his application for a commission as lieu- tenant in one of the Toronto regi- ments he would be asked to purchase only a service uniform and service equipment, and this would be about what it would cost him: Jacket, $21; breeches, $18; great coat, $30; hat, $3. 50: Sam Browne belt, $7; leg- gings, $6; boots, $6.50; wrist watch, $12; shirts, $8: sword, $25; revolver, $25; binoculars, $40. Total, $202. But in peace times he must buy a. service uniform, a dress and a mess uniform with the thousand and four requisites. The big item is not what he wears on his back; it is what the privilege costs him. A citizen when he takes out a commission for the first time merely goes to his tailor and orders his equipment. If he enlists in war times the cost of that is compara- tively small, for he needs only a ser- vice uniform and equipment. Usual- ly, however, he purchases two uni- forms, for khaki does not wear for aye. what the costâ€"or rather the privi- legeâ€"of being an oflicer in the mili- tia means. He is not presented with his uniform, sword, binoculars, re- volver, and what not. He must go to his bank and write out a big check for it all, or. failing that, borrow from some one and lose that “some one” as a friend. Lowest Price Is $200 and It May Cost Comforts Reaching the Men. THE OFFICER'S EXPENSES Canadians Offer Homes. Increased Production. Ontario's Indians. §Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that 3 Contain Mercury gas mercury will surely destroy the isense of smell and completely der- !ange the whole system when enter- 'ing it through the mucous surfaces. [Such articles should never be used ‘except on prescriptions from rep- utable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F.J. Cheney Co... Toledo, 0., contains no mercury and is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the1 system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure, be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F.J. Cheney 8: Co. Testimonials free. Sold by druggists. 75¢ per bottle Take Hall’s amily Pills for con- stipation. ' . Dig your potatoes in dry Weath- er and store in a cool, dry, well- ventilated cellar kept at a tem- perature of from 33 to 35 .degrees Fahrenheit. Bordeaux mixture is made the proportion of six pounds bluestone and four pounds lime 40 gallons of water. As a rule the crop will increase in proportion to the number of times the potatoes are cultivated during the growing season. Protect the tops from injury. Eight to twelve ounces of Paris green to forty gallons 01 water, or two to three pounds of arsenate of lead to the same. quantity of Water, beinvO' sprayed. D will destioy infecting insects. Delay planting as nearly as. possible to within (:1 WEEK of the Lmst frost. Plant the sets four to fice inch- es deep for rthe mazin crop .and 12 to 14 inches apart in rows two an'f one half feet apart. The more thoroughly the soil is prepared the better the results will be. a ' The most suitable soil is a ri h. deep, friable, warm, sandy loan. with good natural drainage. Marketable tubers so as to ha ~'€‘ at least three eyes to a piece are the best kind to set. \ h‘ disease is discernable soak for three hours in one pound of formalin to 30 imperial gallons f water. The best results are obtained bv planting the sets immediately af- ter cuttinwr. Sprouting before planting should be avoided by keeping in a cool cellar. It would perhaps be as well to give in brief a. few of the slug- gestio-ns made in the pamphlet for the best cultivation of the potato; A pamphlet of the publication: branch of the department of agri- culture, Ottawa, which can be litad free for the mere trouble of tasking, deals in a complete and 'comp-r-eheznisive manner with the Fsubject. The Dominion Horticur 'turalist, Mr. W. T. Maeoun. states that at the Central Experimental Farm one variety yielded 700 and another variety on the same. soil only 154 bushels per acre. acre. This fact shows how import- .ant it is to know the variety best suited to the soil. It is also shown that it pays to import seed from cooler to Warmer climates. Some of the most reliable early varieties Mr Maco‘un says, are Irish Cobb 191‘, Rochester Rose and Earlv Ohio, and of medium or later, var- ieties, he gives the preference [0 Carman No. 1, Gold Coin, Empire State, Green M'o-u'ntain, and “'96 MacGregor. British varieties, he adds, which have done well in Canada, are Table Talk and Dav- ies’ Warrior. Solanum Tuberosum, otherwise the potato, is the most used and most 130qu member of thr~ vegetable kingdom. Next to wheat its intrinsic as Well as its aggre .3 gate value is the highest of all 1 the foodstuffs. In 1914 the nota-l [toes produced in Canada amount-l led in quantity to 85,672,000 bush “els and in value to 341.598,000. This statement of fact is sufficient to indicate the important plac: i that the potato holds. In Ireland. when the potato crop failed the people starved, and the rest of the English-speaking world felt constrained to send relief. Canada with its vast extent of territory: I its diverse soil, and its diverse climate, is hardly likely to have! to go through a similar experi- ence; but it is lno-t alone the wei- fare of our own domain that we have to consider in «these matters. but the demand that is likely to ariseÂ¥lsewhere, a demand that has to be satisfied and a demand that means gold to the country that possesses the wherewithal. SOLANUM‘ TUBEROSUM Contagious Ophthalmia. The disease is due to a specific germ. says Kimball's Dairy Farmer. Isolate the afl’ected animals in a darkened sta- gble and feed them light. laxative ra- ‘tiODS- Twice daily bathe the eyes with a 10 per cent solution of boric acid ap‘ Dlied each time with a fresh swab of absorbent cotton. Every other day dust the eyeballs with a mixture of finely Powdered calomel and boric acid. Sub- stitute iodoform for calomel in the worst cases. After inflammation sub- sides wet the eyeball once daily with a solution of two grains of nitrate of silver in an ounce of distilled water. to be kept in a blue glass bottle to pre- vent chemical changes. The latter treatment is for opacity.“ the eyeball. Keep the cattle at slow, wet pastures. Clean up. disinfect and whitewash the stables. fences and feeding racks and troughs, .. ‘ ‘ ' ' v~ as to be about five im hes from the nests and two inches above the level of the sliding bottom. The use of the lath is that a hen may walk on it until she comes to a vacant nest. A board about five inches wide is nailed on in front to keep the nest ma- terial in the nests. In front a 1 by 2 inch lath is fastened on. perch-like. so a hen that attempts to roost on top slide off. the bottom board. When the bottom board is drawn out the nests are bot- tomless, making them free from louse harboring dust. The upright end boards and partitions are sawed off an- gling. so the covering board when nail- ed on will have sufficient slope to let Would it not be a good plan to ob- serve along the line of barrenness next summer when the corn is earing rather than to take it for granted that bar- renness is an hereditary characteristic that can be overcome or controlled only by years of painstaking breeding? in: percentage of the stalks of the field are barren. do not hear any cars. The percentage of barren stalks on a given soil varies with the thickness of plant- ing and the season. Barrenness does not seem to he a variety characteristic. It seems to be largely the result of environment. If it were a hereditary characteristic the fact that the stalks are barren would tend to eliminate them.” As to barronness Professor Hunt in his“Cereals In America" says: “A vary- If the barrenness has any hereditary tendency at all in corn it may be largely overcome by good soil prepa- ration. careful planting and good cul- tivation. I would rather risk going to the corncrib to select my seed in the spring provided the corn was well dried before storing and was stored before hard freezing weather set in, than to trust to seed from a distance and thus get seed from a variety of corn not known and tested in my locality. Various Reasons Other Than Heredity Given For Loss of Yield. Many of our corn breeders treat bar- renness in corn as hereditary. How- ever, I have noticed that if corn is planted properly, not too thick, on well prepared fertile soil and given good cultivation there are as a rule very few barren stalks, says a correspondent of the American Agriculturist. On the other hand if the corn is planted too thick and the grass and weeds allowed to grow with the corn there are more barren stalks in the same variety than in such corn it Well cared for. ,OOOOOCOOOOOOO0.00.0.00... Why not grow some ' strong asparagus roots this summer for your own use and ‘a surplus to sell to your neighbors? ‘The early. smooth beas may be planted just as soon as the frost is out of the ground. See that some rotten manure is worked into the furrows. Witloof or French endive is easily forced in the cellar near the furnace. Sow seed in the open ground to produce roots for forcing next winter. It is possible to grow strong rhubarb roots for forcing pur- poses in one year. The two es- sentials are early planting under glass and very rich soil when they are planted out of doors. Plant at least a few onion sets in the open ground just as soon as the soil can be prepared. Ear- !y planting is favorable to early maturity and high yields. BARRENNESS IN CORN. 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FEED FEED Special Reduction Sale ~â€"â€" Guaranteed â€"â€"-' Sure Death to the Bug Intending purchases may rest assured of getting even better bargains than we offered last spring. A trial order will convince you. Come in and ask 8. SCOTT In order to reduce our general stock of Dry Goods. Groceries, Ready Mades, Blankets, Sheeting etc.. we have decided to make a. Special Reduction on Every thing in stock. starting on American Conn, per 100 lbs. $1.60 Chieftainfiorn Feed.per ton$3o oo Oats Shorts, per ton ...... $30.00 Bran, per ton ..... . ...... $28.00 Special prices in over five ton lots Manufactured and for Sale only at SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1915 PHONES We Are In the Market for Any Quantity of Oats' A Genunine Insecticide "V' 4and26 Durham, Ontario in