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IN LUIGCATORS Robinsom IN BRI Mr. self et One of the first dangers offered by the paint card lies, as has been said, in the fact that its many color sampâ€" lew are so reduced in size as to appear perfectly harmless. No matter how lovely the clearer reds, greens, yelâ€" lows, yellowâ€"browns and dark grays may be in the tiny patches shown on ‘wa" advertisers‘ folders, they are a Mmi finite processes . seldom as cipated, * th conditicns trusts us i throwing e rainbow in telling us of May tur about the first of February, there is nothing more stimulating to the imâ€" agination than one of those foldedâ€" inâ€"andâ€"out, _ fortyâ€"twoâ€"color _ paint eards, such as we pick up in the hardware shops, or the drug stores, Next to a copy of any of illustrated, well colored s« logues, which come out in i commended as beirng particularly efâ€" fective in destroying this pest." J. J. D.:3 have 11 acres clay and loam, rather flat and with hard pan about 2%, feet below surface. I have failed to grow crops on this land, have tried peas, wheat, oats and barley. It looks dark on surface and is rather fertile looking. Peas 4did commend fective i Answer:â€"Quaek grass appears a little harder on the ground â€" than timothy, brt in the green state it contains 1.1 per cent. more nitrogen than does timothy. Otherwise I do not believe it is hard on the ground. The growing root stalks sometimes have been known to grow through sections of developing potatoes. The greatest injury the quack grass does is to use up the soil moisture and plantfood and thereby â€" starve the crops that are forced to grow where it is competing. A clear and defiâ€" nite statement of methods of comâ€" batting the grass has been published in O. A. C. BuBetin 188. It is as follows: "As soon as the crop is harâ€" vested plow lightly, then harrow with the ordinary harrow, and, if necessary, with the springâ€"tooth culâ€" tivator. This shakes the roots lreef from the soil and makes it possible‘ to gather them up with the horse roke. Burn as sson as they have dried sufficiently. Repeat this proâ€" cess two or three times. 1f the wea-# ther at this time should happen to be dry and hot, so much the better.| Late in the fall rib up the land into| drills, and allow to stand over winter. | The frost, in ail probability, will| render material assistance in thei eradicat/on. The following spring | plow about the end of May, cultivate‘ well, and put in some hoed crop, orlI summer fallow, sowing buqkwhe:tt,l the crop to be plowed in. A careâ€"| fully cultivated crop of rape is reâ€"| commended as being particularly efâ€"| J. H.:â€"Kindly advise me thro-flh! your Farm Crop Queries column how : is the best way to get rid of qmcti grass? Does quack grass injure the crop or does it just starve the soil?] Answer:â€"Quack grass appears a) Hiu4+ 1 F k.of. 1 implic every nto ot Painting the House | I instinctively while the seed with _ promises filled in the slow and even then as we had antiâ€" By ADELINE B. WHITFORD ny of the well ed _ seed cataâ€" t in quantities ruary. there is ETray first _ The most carefuily planned paintâ€" . ing toâ€"day, makes use of but three . colors at most: a roof stain of medâ€" ium tone, the wall coloring and the | "trim"â€"meaning the outlinings of | eaves and openings. "Trimmings" of , fussy woodwork and _ contrasting , colorings are no longer cons‘dered in | good taste. We are learning to cultiâ€" | vate vine and treeâ€"shadows, letting these play their part in exterior house ! decoration. | There are several reasons why a | white house with green blinds seems right in any Canadian landscape. One ' is that it is purely a colonial inheriâ€" | tance, having come to us from a time when green and white and a dull red | were about the only colors our counâ€" try‘s paint resources afforded. Anâ€" ’other reasonâ€"an artistic oneâ€"is, " that white reflects any color near it, and also shows shadows clearly; on these accounts it is only sharply white whore theâ€"sun strikes it. Out The legitimate use of contrasting color is only to accent eaveâ€"moulding, window and door openings; to use it for cutting up wall spaces by bands, and zigâ€"zags, cheapens the whole effect. e Now as to the matter of strong contrasts of color which have been used to give importance to house "trimmings," they should be avoided always. delusion and a snare to anyone who, }cunnot imagine how they would look when used in large quantities. Indeed, the unimaginative person usually has| two chances for disappointment in; the house paint selected: the first] from making the above mistake ofr rhuy'ing colors which are too strong; the second, from an attempt to use some unusual combination of colors,‘ with an idea of making the house apâ€" pear striking by this mark of so-ca!-' led originality. | The architect, or trained houseâ€"‘ painter, knows that success, and satâ€"| isfaction, are only gained from study-! ing the problem from a different, standpointâ€"I might say by letting, the house and its surroundings decide what the color scheme shall be. He : will consider the style of its archiâ€"| tecture as a whole, and pay attention: also to the smaller details such as. doorways, windows, porches. He will) think it important to take into conâ€" sideration the color of whatever; buildings there are near the house,! and what its background is; whether, the house is seen against other buildâ€" ings, woods, <hills or distant fields,i‘ whether shadowed by trees and vines, or stands out bare and alone, an obâ€"|| ject which must rely mainly on its form and color to be made interestâ€"| ing. This takes really close study. |1 1| _ Answer:â€"Your clay and loam land 1| is in nged of drainage. It is unâ€" °|doubtedly sour, both of which conâ€" ‘ / ditions bring about the results that "you indicate. The reason the crops il turn pale and die out is that after | germination they are unable to deâ€" ‘/ velop deep and substantial root ' growth because the water in the soil ‘| shuts out the circulation of air thereâ€" ‘\ in. The sour condition of the soil ; which results from bad drainage, and ‘/ from continuous pasture, makes it "impossible for the bacteria on the ‘| roots of the legumes to reproduce. ‘| Therefore, peas and clover fail to , grow en your soil. The impervious | subsoil or hard pan is im need of '1 breaking up as far as poszible so | that the roots of your crop may have more room to expand. I would ad-! }vise you to do as follows: Since, | spring is pretty well advanced, and | you have had the grourd thoroughly‘ | fall plowed, seed it to buckwheat at| | the rate of about 1% to 2 bushels per: | acre. Buckwheat is a medium shallow, | feeder and should produce you a good . | paying crop of grain this year. lt; also thrives on slightly acid soil. As: | scon as the buckwheat crop is off | lput in tile drains and apply at leastl | 1% to 2 tons of ground limestone per[ â€" acre, scattering it as evenly as posâ€"| sible and working it into the soil by| |disking or harrowing. This should put your ground into good shnpe' for a profitable crop of grain nextl year. | well for a while but about blossom time turned yellowish brown in patâ€" ches, which seemed to spread in size | and eventually were a failure. Fall wheat was very thin and did not | ripen even or yield. Oats were short and very delicate straw. Last season 1 put two tons of fertilizer on but without any apparent improvement. I have this fall plowed and wish you to suggest my best course for this season. 1 have also seeded with clovâ€" er and summer fallowed, but without any available benefit. This field had been under pasture for a long time. thin and did not! It is wise to have nothing whatever _ Oats were Sh"";to do with the blueâ€"toned grays or raw. . Last season‘ slate colors; they do not reflect other fertilizer on but! colors, and are chilly and disconsolate ent improvementâ€" in themselves. There are, however, wed and wish yOou many fine tones of warmer gray, t course for this those for instance resembling oldâ€" rmded with clovâ€"| fashioned rubber gum, putty, â€" and owed, but Wltho“'; dull sand color. it. This field .hadi One of the handsomest groups of for a long time. farm buildings which I have ever !ay and 1091!1 landl seen, had its barns, small buildings, inage. It is unâ€"/ and silo, of a middleâ€"value gray or th of which conâ€"| putty color, with white trim; the winâ€" : the results that| dow sash was dark green, nearly reason the (‘FOPS’black. The farm house was white, out is that after its roof a weatherâ€"stained gray. Verâ€" re _ unable to de-‘mdah roofs and roofs of the bay substantial root| windows, were painted a green of1 water in the soil| middle value, a little duller than apâ€" ation of air thereâ€"| pleygreen. As the building was oldâ€" lition of the soil fashtoned, the doors were carefully bad drainage, fln"‘ljsandpapered, and painted the same ] What would you think of a man who refused to join the local cowâ€" | testing association because it would \ make it impossible for him to s.« his | poor cows to his neighbors. Do not let ewes and lambs run on old pastures so full of parasites which will prove destructive to young lambs. The paper twine has a hard, smooth surface and is best from all standâ€" points. It probably costs no more than any other kind of tying materâ€" ial, probably less than binder twine since it has soared to present prices. do not have the fibres mixed with the fleece. The manager of the mill said it did not pay to pick out the fibres, and showed how a good cotton or paper string pulls out of a fleece without leaving fibres. If a few cotâ€" ton fibres should be left it should not be harmful, as the cotton takes the dye. \_ There were a few trees near the \ house, vines over the verandah, simâ€" | ple, wellâ€"kept grounds and driveways, ‘and from the top of the gray silo, , which looked from a distance like the tower of some old castle, there floated | the three finest colors in the world. | If one can imagine the whole, it is | unnecessary to add that it made a | beautiful picture, and one which was | interesting as far as it could be seen, | proving that even a group of oldâ€" {fashioned buildings, if painted in @, | carefully chosen colorâ€"sceme, may | come to have distinction and an indi-! vidual style. f It is the custom of the fleece handlers to cut the cord holding the fleece together and pull it out. If common binder twine is used some of the fibres are sure to catch in the fleece and be left there. They do not take the dye and so are very objecâ€" tionable to the woolen manufacturer. He will not pay the price for such fleeces that he will for those which McDERMID BRGS.» ; A Pointer on Tying Fleeces. Some weeks ago a party of county agents were being shown through a woolâ€"scouring mill in a large city. They wanted to learn things that they could take back to help their home folks. At one point the manager of the mill called their attention to the kind of twine to use in tying fleeces. He picked up a handful of partly scoured wool and pointed out dark fibres. These, he said, were the fibres from binder twine which were left in the fleece when it was unbound at the warchouse or mill. i Highest prices paid for best grade new goose, duck. chicken and turkey feathers. Geo. H. Hees, Son & Co., Ltd. Ready Roofing, Asphalt Slate Shing, les, Wall Board. Building Papers: Roof Paints, etc. Write for prices and sampies. Save money by buying direct. ROOFING It is not the unusual which secures these results, either in house paintâ€" ing, furniture or dressâ€"not the strikâ€" ing, startling combination but the right one, the sensible oneâ€"even the usual one, done well. | AMprectlines‘© green. For every gallon of dark gray floor paint, a full pint of this greon was added, thus harmonizing the verâ€" andazh floor with the doors, though the floors were several tomncs darker. The window sash were greenâ€"black. There were no blinds but the interior shades were olive. Feathers Wanted of sunlight, white is of nearly middle | value, where vines and trees make itl green and shadowy; it is always more cheerful than light grays and greens, which do not reflect surrounding| colors. j | market price. . In businese since 1905. . Drop us a Mme for particulars. Mutual Dairy & Creamery Co. 743â€"745 King St. West + Toronto We should always use emphasizing; paint for window sash. In colonial effects this may be white or medium green, and for other styles of houses, a dark green or blue, which is nearly | black. Wellâ€"pginted window sash are. a rich, crisp finish to the whole house, and any painting scheme which does, not include this detail has missed an important feature. | We are in the market for Cream all through the year. We pay the hizhest 276 Davenport Road, Toronto CREAM WANTED MARATHON BRAND Roofing, Asphalt Slate Jarvis St. Torouto iE 11: 1. Now Faith. Writing to the:having received the promises, but persecuted Jews who had embraced| having seen them and greeted them | the Christian faith, the author of this from afar. (R.V.) That has been .\ epistle shows them their fellowshipl the experience of faith in every age. ,' with the men of faith of every former‘ The Kingdom of God is coming, but age, with Enoch and Noah and Abraâ€"‘ its fulness and power and glory is ; ham and Moses, and many another| not yet. The city is being built, but who had believed and seuffered nnd' its walls and its many mansions are , served in their day and generation, not yet complete. There is much evil . their faith in God enabled them to in the world and men are slow to . _do the present duty, and to look beâ€" learn the ways of God. The best .‘ yond the present to the future glori-i which the world looks for and agonâ€" ous fulfilment of God‘s promises.|izes for lies on before. Faith sees | Having little, they became heirs of | the promise from afar, but holds that all things, and the sojourner dweM-i promise in possession as the dearcst | ing in tents looked for and possessed thing ~in life. _ Though "strangers | the city of God. His faith betame for| and pilgrims on the earth," the men | him the titleâ€"deed of wealth as yet’of faith desire and seek, "a better . unrealized, the evidence and assurâ€"| country, that is an heavenly." And ‘ ance of the glory which was to be.ltherefore. the apostle makes the: |Faith is the certainty of hope, the | great and significant declaration that ‘ open eye of the soul which looks "God is not ashamed to be called | upon realities unseen and eternal.| their God." f ‘For the Christian it has become a| There follows a further list of menl‘ | personal relationship to Jesus Chris;t,| and women of notable faith, the ‘in whom and through whose Spirit saints, the heroes, the martyrs, of he sees the working of those powera: successive ages, to whom now the ‘which are building a new world, in records of history do light h:mor.} | which he himself shall have, or raâ€"| The promise led them on as a star of | ther has already, his citizenship. ‘hom‘.' Prt now in Christ there is | 2. A Good Report. The great men| "uitiiment,â€"their hope finds its justiâ€" ‘ of Old Testament times, the "elders,", fication ind completion in Him. All have "had witness born them" (R.V.)icf redemption, &ll of power, all of in the narratives of the Old Testaâ€"; goodness, all of spiritual strength to ment, in respect of their faith. It overcome the world, which they had { is because of their faith that the hisâ€" sought, is to be found in Him, "CGod | tory gives so good a report of them.| having provided" in Him "some hetâ€" | The difference between Moses, of, ter thing for us, that they without | good repute, and Pharaoh, of evil reâ€" us should not be made perfect (v. 40). ipute, is the difference which faith in 12. 1â€"2. Witnesses, The figure is ‘ God makes. | drawn from the ancient races in 7. By Faith Noah, warned of God, prepared the ark which saved his family from the flood. In a world of uncleanness he had kept himself pure, and so had already in himself the assurance and the enjoyment of the "righteousness" which is by faith 4. He Being Dead Yet Speaketh. Faith is the secret spring of rightâ€" eousness. So Abel‘s faith wrought righteous deeds, and assured him by a good conscience that his offering was acceptable to God. And so it is that his voice speaks down through the ages declaring to every generaâ€" tion that the only gift or offering of worship pleasing to God is that of faith and wellâ€"domg. For (v. 6) "without faith it is impossible to please him." i 3. Through Faith We Understand. The tremendous fact of God‘s creaâ€" tion of the world is not proved by historical or scientific evidence. It is known and apprehended by faith. And yet how certain a fact it is, and how sure d6ur knowledge of it By faith we understand. Lesson IX. Faith, What It Is and What It Does, Heb. 11:1â€"40; 12;1, 2. INTERNATIONAL LESSON JUNE 1. Golden â€" Textâ€"John *"Woodâ€"Lac" Stains Senour‘s Floor Paint hardest wear. 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Witnesses, The figure is drawn from the ancient races in which swift and hardy runners conâ€" tended for the prize. Great multiâ€" tudes assembled to witness this fasâ€" cinating sport. The runners laid aside the outer garment and every impeding wei‘ght, that they might run lightly and frecly in the great contest. Such is the life of faith. The witnesses are the great multiâ€" tudes of the faithful who have gone before. Jesus who started us in this race waits at the end with the laurel wreath which is to crown the victor, that is immortality with Himself in heaven. He has set us the example of faith, courage and steadfastness in trial and suffering. He is "the author and finisher of our faith." Do you object to a fly lighting on| the end of your nose, and then transâ€" ferring its proboscis to some other | tender spot when you wave yourl' hand? If not, just think of the manyl flies which are teasing the life as | well as the good nature out of your| cattle in the moist woods. There follows a further list of men and women of notable faith, the saints, the heroes, the martyrs, of successive ages, to whom now the records of history do light homor. The promise led them on as a star of hope.‘ Ext now in Christ there is "uitiiment,â€"their hope finds its justiâ€" fication ind completion in Him. All of redemption, all of power, all of goodness, all of spiritual strength to overcome the world, which they had sought, is to be found in Him, "CGod having provided" in Him "some hetâ€" ter thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect (v. 40). its fulness and power and glory is not yet. The city is being built, but its walls and its many mansions are not yet complete. There is much evil in the world and men are slow to learn the ways of God. The best which the world looks for and agonâ€" izes for lies on before. Faith sees the promise from afar, but holds that promise in possession as the dearcst thing "in life. _ Though "strangers and pilgrims on the earth," the men of faith desire and seek, "a better country, that is an heavenly." And therefore, the apostle makes the great and significant declaration that "God is not ashamed to be called their God." i 13. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them 8â€"10. So "Abraham" obeyed what he knew to be the call of God, and led his people out from an idolatrous and corrupt community to aâ€"mew #hd strange land, where he might worship according to his conscience and found a new society devoted to the service of the true and living God. He was only a nomad shepherd, chief of a nomad clan, dwelling in tents, but "he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and makâ€" er is God." | and which is yet to fill the whole TORONTO PAINTS AND VARNISHES MARTINâ€"SENOUR C * //\xf‘,.{ag EY SeSy PA For speed, safety and thoroughly satisfactory service, be sure to ride on "Dominion" Tires. The extra mileage makes them the best and cheapest to buy. 10 The most scientific man is he who lives in the daylight and fresh air and sleeps at night. Bicycle Tires DOMINION | _VARICOSE VEINS>» Wear This Nonâ€"Elastic Laced Stooking SANITARY, as they may be _ _ implement Shed INVEST YOUR MONEY "Unquestionably the Best Tires Made" MR. FARMER Ask your LUMBER DEALER Plans and Prices. For water are to be stored for some : fae, they ought to be coveres over to shed Fence posts are too costly to leave out in the weather to rot. I‘fl- they l A good sheep dip is made as folâ€" lows: For 100 gallons of dip use four 'poundl of unslaked lime and twentyâ€" four pounds of sulphur made into a thick paste, Add thirty gallons of water and boil for three hours. Add seventy gallons of warer, The dip should be lukewarm when used. There are good commercial dins on the market. Holland has thirtyâ€"eight qualified women lawyers, nineteen of whom practice but are not allowed to hold posts in the courts of justice. The best time to castrate pigs, as a rule, is about weaning time. Losses seldom occur from castration if strict sanitary measures are observed, and disinfectants are used liberally, If inexperienced, have a veterinarian or good liveâ€"stock man do the work. Keep the pigs in a clean pen for sevâ€" eral days after the operation. Should any tumors or abscesses form, they must be opened and allowed to drain; ‘then wash thoroughly with a soluâ€" | tion of standard sheep dip, two tableâ€" llpoonfull of dip to one quart of water. Give this method a trial and you will find that the patches are just g'lecurc, and that they will last as long, as if you had spent hours of time in sewing them in place, P He .02 2E * * The temperature for â€" churning should be from 52 to 56 degrees at this time of year when cows are fresh and feed is watery. Under averâ€" age conditions churning should reâ€" quire from twenty to thirty minutes. A shorter period indicates that the temperature is too high; the result will be inferior butter. If you want to be happyâ€"really and truly happyâ€"do something worth while. You may comgâ€"out of it all covered with scars and scratches, but you will be happier than you ever were before. There is another farm where you can not find such a pile of knotty sticks. Why* Because the man who lives on that tarm did not quit until he had split the last one of the blocks. And if you ask that man how those kncts burn, he will tell you that when winter comes nnd*e wants a fire that will drive out The frost and make the chimney roar, ho goes down to the shed and hunts up one of those hard, tough, uglyâ€"lookâ€" ing, knotty sticks and lays it on the andirons and sits down to toast his shins! Goodâ€"bye wintry wind! He is happy because he has mastered the knots! Out back of my neighbor‘s house is a pile of big chunks of wood. Every one of them has been hacked and pounded by the axe till it is like the face of an old veteran of many wars.® And the more scars there are on those blocks the finer the story they tell. Some things you attempt may be so big they will get you down; but it is no disgrace for a man to be knocked down in a fair fight. What puts the brand of shame on him is to lie where he fell and let all the dusty feet of the men pressing on toward success daub him over from head to foot. Getting up is the best thing about falling. How many times does a man who never did any such work before whack at the head of a na‘ before he gets so he can hit it every time! Oh, the sore fingers we all have while we are learning to strike twice in the same place! But the only way to learn is to strike and strike again, finger nails or no finger nails, until we know where the head of the nail is and can hit it squarely. The man who ventures may make mistakes, but there is not much in store for the man who never makes a mistake. Mistakes are the result of trying to do something. They help, not hinder. They show where we missed it and how we may hit it fair and square next time. A good way to keep from being drowned is never to go near water. 8il on the bank dangling your feet in the water and you will get noâ€" where. Shove out into deep water and you will get somewhere, just as surely as day follows night; arid the harder you vor’ with your paddle, the farther you ‘will go and the betâ€" ter time you will have. The man who ventures is the only man in all the world who has a good time. More than that, he is the only man who does anything to make the world happier or better. Things You Want to Krow Repairing Grain Sacks Do Something Worth While