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: i IY th th ti In digging the celery leave a generâ€" ous number of roots on each plant, toâ€" gether with the earth that naturally clings to them. Wrap each plant in a sheet of newspaper, leaving about two inches of the stalk exposed. Tie a string about the middle to keep the paper from unrolling. The Value of Straw for Feed and Fertilizer. Up to a few years ago country peoâ€" ple, as a class, thought there was little value in straw. Some of them thought the easiest way to get rid of it was to burn it. Now, however, they know that it is a waste to send their straw uy in smoke. # 1 4 Hospital St. * * Montr Distributora of Burpes‘s Seeds Dept. Wâ€"1. where., & Write for prices and particulars, givâ€" ing number of head of live stock, to Cane Mola Company of Canada, Ltd. Use Cane Mola 100% Purs Sugar Cune Molasses. Guaranteed the ideal ‘:l for Live Stock. Sold everyâ€" FALL BULBS Cane Mola GARDENLAWN REGD. raw is of much more value as a} partially g1 if in good condition. Oat ltrIW} Sstarved out be saved in a good, clean, bright food is turn ‘tion by putting it into a mow asj destroyed ~r hed or by baling it soon nfteré plowing bec hresher has gone. Baling has an | nearly to t ntage in that the straw can be October, an d in less room. _ , ‘time cannot you cannot bale it and have no‘ sets in. in which to store it, a little Mmore | â€" Begides d ition to stacking when thresl'_nng nictious inse pay. It is attending to the little ing will als is in farming that brings in the! & ____ _1 _ Instructions and Price List of | otherwise. Strawrcontains large """**¢ "¥° nts of phosphorus and potash favorable a : the land needs very badly. The Uutmost. : facts were given by a reliable By turni altural expert. Our soil is beâ€" lengthwise w deficient in humus. Humus is Néarer the eayed organic matter in the soil. claimed lan ; spread on the ground and plow. toes. We c der forms humus. Perhaps the Way the fei sray to do this is to use the straw . °NY bushe dding and spread it on the field _ Sti! there the stable manure. It serves the Corners of t urposes this way and is more Would not : handled than when spread on Stood by th eld separately. \ mowed the « TY ré rth has not been valued at its th as a feed. Oat straw is i carbohydrates than either alfalfa, and is their equal in palatability of straw may be by soaking it in a socution of 1 molasses. Straw is not only t abundant, and by this t can be made to take the a large extent of the more roughage. sont 0 stacking when thresl It is attending to the l {arming that brings in arbonydrates t ‘alfa, and is the latability of str soaking it in a olasses. Straw ibundant, â€" and an be made t wT 1d , clean, bright nto a mow as it soon after Baling has an straw can be lE rMHMG n(:n"t‘;\o“fi-e-l:l Still there was land left in the sharp [t serves the corners of the fence that this process ind is more Would not touch. Where the fences i spread on stood by the side of seeded fields, we mowed the corners, drove along by the doubt, how Side of the fence, threw the hay over in old straw and saved considerable, after we had ank, in fact. killed out the weeds and brush. is an excess‘ The best thing we did was to deâ€" is straw had Clare war on the rail fences, take them )le field you away and put in plage straight" wire e benefitted fencing. Now we can get up close with most kinds of farming too‘ls. t of what it There are still miles and miles of amount put this same old rail fence in the country. ch of it was Worse than all are the log and stump iter. Experiâ€"| fences. These rob the owner of many traw spread 2 dollar every year, All of these old revents winâ€"| fences ought to go. Turned into wood ent. It also| and kindling they have a certain value, : soil. Other and the land they cover can be made to for it great.| bring in many a dollar. ind fertility| =â€"zâ€" value as & Oat straw an, bright Montreal threshir ubt, how old straw k, in fact. an excess Cutworms which pass the winter as partially grown larvae are generally starved out by fall plowing as their food is turned under. Whiteâ€"grubs are destroyed more easily by deep, fall plowing because this insect burrows nearly to the plowâ€"depth line during October, and being turned up at this time cannot dig in again before winter aged than tised. Besides depriving many of the perâ€" nicious insects of their food, fall plowâ€" ing will also break.up the egg nests of grasshoppers, webâ€"worms and other insects attacking farm crops. Also, fallâ€"plowed soil will be in betâ€"| ter condition earlier next spring than springâ€"plowed soil. l Fall plowing of timothy or blueâ€" grass sod will generally prevent inâ€" sect attacks, such as whiteâ€"grubs, wireâ€"worms, sod webâ€"worms, cutâ€" worms, strawberry leafâ€"roller and bill bugs. Tests carried out by entomoloâ€" gists show that sod fields plowed early in the spring are more seriously damâ€" aged than where fall plowing is pracâ€" 8. Failure to provide home comforts | breaks down the wife‘s spinits and perhaps her health, and â€"makes. the "home so unattractive that the children leave long before their majority. Make home attractive. When we moved to our farm we found a good deal of land in fence corners, doing nothing. We could not get within ten feet of some of the old rail fences. _ Weeds and briers looked vpon the conditions as very favorable and improved them to the utmost. Celery cared for in this fashion will not wilt or grow tough. It will preâ€" serve its crispness to the last; if need be it can be bleached in this manner. The exposed leaves will begin to dry up after a couple of months, but the stalks will remain tender until used. Some people of _ cireumstan powerless to « cases the fault becauseâ€" 1. The waste in methods of producâ€" tion and in the things produced wipes out the margin of profit. 2. The unbusinesslike system of borrowing ahead to produce a crop is taking a gamble that may turn out badly. When plants have been prepared in 5o ce this manner place them in the trays,] would setting them fairly close together.| Y°AY. Have the roots well covered with the c earth; firm the earth about them.| team When a tray has been filled saturau‘ No the earth by pouring water in from| busy the sides. Keep the paper wrappings value dry and do not sprinkle the tops. A: twent little water must then be added every| t9 be three or four days. The trays should} COUN® be kept in a cool part of the cellar. :t’i‘: 8. Instead of using the "cover crop" plan to store up nitrogen in the soil, a mortgage covers the crop and gives the nitrogen to the other fellow as interest. 4. The merchant is given a lien for supplies in lieu of being paid cash, thus piling up the burden of time prices. 5. Farm machinery is left out in the weather to rust andâ€" depreciate in value. & 6. Careless and ignorant methods are used in marketing crops. 7. The time spent loafing about town ought to be spent at home workâ€" ing the crops or assisting the overâ€" worked wife. Of course, conditions vary in differâ€" ent localities, but here are some figâ€" ures thst show the average cost of te::‘sg up a team of horses for & In all our farming operations, the question of cost must be kept before us all the time; it is not every man who knows or can make even an apâ€" proximate guess as to what he has laid out in the production of any crop. By turning the tearr and plow engthwise of the fence we got up earer the corners, harrowed the reâ€" laimed land, and planted it to potaâ€" oes. We cultivated the potatoes the way the fence ran and grew a good mnony bushels of tubers. Still there was land left in the sharp Paying Taxes on Slacker Land. Fall Plowing Destroys Insects. The Why of Farm Failures Figuring Costs. on farms fail because es which they are ontrol. But in other is gonerally their own, ,tumu‘? Now, the farm team must be kept i from, busy to earn this. _ Reckoning the ppings | value of an hour‘s team work at ps. A) twenty cents, the horses would need every to be employed 1,850 hours in the shoulg| course of the year, or six and oneâ€" cellar. Sixth hours a day, for 300 days, in »n wil} order to pay kack the actual cost of 1 nre.! keeping. His mother could not help smiling when he came home and told his story. |\ ‘"Mrs. Henry‘s good yeast is a litâ€" ’t]e too good," she said, as she began |\ to clean Jim‘s suit. }stitutional vigor. If theehuman body | gets weakened, physicians prescribe a | diet of easily digested, easily assimilâ€" | ated food, so it is the business of the feeder to watch his individuals and keep them in a healthful condition. Jim straightened up. "Ho!" he said. "Don‘t you know dynamite when you hear it? _ They are blasting over yonder." He thrust his hands deep into his pockets. The right hand came out again as if a bee had stung it. Every finger was dripping with something bubbly and white. He was leaning over the edge of the brook, about to launch the Birchbark, as he had named the vessel, when all at once something went bang! right behind him. The noise was so sudden and so loud that the three boys almost fell over into the water. "A gun!" said Petey. "It sounded like a cannon!" cried Bennie. His eyes were as round as saucers. Jim thrust the bottle of yeust hastâ€" ily into his pocket. "I‘m going to my cousin‘s party," he said. But two minâ€" utes later he was busy rigging up a bark ship of his own. year. It may surprise those who have given the matter little attention. _ "While you are waiting," said his mother, "suppose you run down to Mrs. Henry‘s with this little pitcher and ask her to send me some of her good yeast." Jim ran off on his errand, but he forgot all about tme pitcher; so Mrs. Henry put the yeast into a bottle, which she carefully corked. When Jim was about halfway home he saw two older boys playing by the brook that ran through the meadow. "We are sailing ships!" called Petey Barnes. "Come here, Jim, and see them go down to the Atlantic Ocean." "They are bound for Europe with wheat," Bennie Logan explained. Jim strolled over to the brook. "You‘re mighty idressedâ€"up ldakâ€" ing," said Petey. The other boys began to shout with laughter. "Look at his dynamite!" they cried. "What have you got in your pocket, Jim ? Just here the question will arise to every thoughtful man: Do my horses pay their way? If not, they must do so; I can not afford to keep them otherwise. â€""It‘s yâ€"yâ€"yeast," said Jim, "but I didn‘t know it would shoot." A team weighing 1,300 pounds each will eat from five to six tons of hay a year. At the present time good hay is worth in the market around $23 a ton. Say we feed five tons; that means $115 for hay. Then, if we feed oats, which is the case with the majorâ€" ity of farmers, we will need not less than 300 bushels for two horses. Oats for some time have been worth about 85 cents a bushel, so that the team would consume $255 worth of oats a year. This, with the hay, would bring the cost of maintaining a good farim team up to $370. It will, though, if it is good yeast and is kept in a warm place like a pocket. The sound the boys heard was the cork flying out of the bottle. Jim‘s new suit was a sight. Jim was ready to go to Mary Hill‘s party long before it was time to start. Jim had to wear his old clothes to the party, and, although he had a good deal of fun, he kept listening for a bang! that he half expected to hear The dairy cow must have some reâ€" serve constitutional force, for she must ‘be able to resist or throw off disease germs which are so prevalent in many of the stables where sunlight and good ventilation are things unâ€" heard of. _ Constitution, in a large measure, depends upon the room in which the heart and lungs are placed. This part of the cow should be roomy, giving perfect freedom for these orâ€" gans to perform their functions, as the milk is made by the blood and the blood is purified by the amount of oxygen the lungs may pump from the at any moment air. _ An. abundance of nourishing digested food is also an important facâ€" tor in building up and controlling conâ€" There is an old saying that "everyâ€" thing has its own use once in seven years." A man sold me a load of lumber when I was sick. The bill came to $13.13. He refused to throw off the thrteen cents for cash, and when I inâ€" spected the lumber I found in one plank a knot hole big as a pint cup. Six years afterward this very knot hole came in the right place for tying the boom pole when I built a hayrack. BM y{uy!T? The Yeast That Was Too Good. TORONTO 999 In trapping muskrat, remember this: Always stake your trap with its full length of chain in deep water so Trapping muskrat is an easy oceuâ€" pation and a profitable one, since there is a continual demand and good prices for muskratâ€"pelts. Muskrat get betâ€" ter in quality toward early spring, but good pelts are to be had in the fall and early winter. * Trapping the Plentiful Muskrat. The best places to look for the comâ€" mon muskrat is in the marshes, slugâ€" gish ponds, tidewater areas and on the banks of streams. _ If they live in ponds they usually build houses that rise five feet above the water, but if they live in stream beds they build no houses, but live in holes in the banks. . These open under water. There are many ways of trapping mink, but there is one that has been found popular and successful: In stream banks that you know to be frequented by mink, dig holes. Start right at the water‘s edge and dig upâ€" ward into the bank for about two feet. This should be done early in the fall, before the trapping season opens, so that the animals will be familiar with the holes when you are ready to trap. While all traps should be visited at least once a day to see if a catch has been made, do not under any cirâ€" cumstances tarry too long at the traps or in mink haunts, nor is it wise to tread mink trails too often, as the animals are very wary of man, and will leave neighborhoods whers man is too much in evidence. Thus, if you study the mink you will find him following the banks of streams and ponds, poking his sharp little nose into all sorts of holes, restâ€" ing here, playing there, and maybe, during the mating season, making quite a protracted stay in one hole or another while waiting to get the famâ€" ily ordeal over with. Three or four days before you are ready to set your trap place some bait (fish, rabbit or fowl have proved sucâ€" cessful) in the hole. The trap itself should be placed at the entrance of the hole and set in the water with the full length of the chain staked securely to some object. The trap should then be covered with mud or dead leaves. Trapping the Mink. The mink is one of the gypsies of the animal kingdom. He loves to travel and see the sights, and unless his surroundings are congenial he won‘t tolerate them, but packs his grip, figuratively speaking, and takes the midnight trail to some other spot. Whatkt to doâ€" THE TRAPPER. you will re Somd a Pbst CGar â€" and by return.mail vairl' roczlve Erflb’ book stgeam banks and then place your trap, unbaited, at the foot of these slides. If you can locate muskrat holes in the bank, place a trap at the entrance. Sometimes, though, the novice canâ€" not locate such holes. Then the thing for you to do isâ€"to place your traps along the banks, almost anywhere in shallow water and ‘stick bait about cight inches above each trap. Since muskrats are great lovers of vegeâ€" Preity boxes of paper and envelopes ‘ Loa used to be frequent gifts for birthday | Toronto Office or Christmas time. Many of these;m have never been used, but are stored | â€"â€"â€"â€"~~ away in the desk or the top shelf| ~ r somewhere. â€" Get these out now and | ORM Y write letters to cvery friend you can| "Tf w think of. These are days when hearts| w s3 U are in need of a word of cheer. Let] {‘:&A- &\ N yours be the voice to speak that word.| ,‘.'g.u'fi Your stationery cannot be put to betâ€"| PM WSSE, ter service. And you will get back| {= _ ~*â€" many a letter that you will prize ul The HALLIC long as you live. AMILTON _ ts "One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words."â€"Hampden. A shield to keep dirt out of the farm wagon wheel may be made from a piece of old auto casing about a foot long. Put it over the hub of the wheel wth the fabric side toward the hub. Nail the other end to the axle with four largeâ€"headed roofing nails, and you will have a shield that will save lots of axle grease as well as wear on the spindle, Amount of paint needed: A gallon of good prepared paint will cover at least 350 square feet, two coats. First, measure the distance around the house and multiply by the average height; then divide by 350 and the result will be approximately the numâ€" ber of gallons to buy. Of this quantity oneâ€"fifth will represent the paint reâ€" quired for trimmings, cornices, etc. For blinds or shutters of average size, you will need one gallon of paint to each twelve pairs of blinds, two coats. 4 or Strangles in stallions, broed mares, colts and all others is most ‘}lnguoui. The : gorm cuu:[g disease must be o removed from the body of the animal. To prevent the Z1 trouble the same must be done. will do bothâ€"cure the sick nsd prevent those "exposed" from having the disease. Bold by your druggist or the manufacturers. SPOHN MEDICAL CO., NMfrs., Goshen, Ind., U. 5. A SPOHN‘S DISTEMPER COMPOUND Those who are situated near natural deposits of marl have a good source of lime; there is no question about the value of marl where limestone is needâ€" ed. Marl is found ysually in muck swamps. Dry marl may contain as much lime as the best grades of limeâ€" stone. Whoever makes one sta‘k of alfalfa grow where none grew before is doing :-;alv';;;;i;é”fo; farming. Let us have more alfalfa. Invest Your Money d Interest payable half yearly. The Great West Permanent The HALLIDAY COMPANY, Limited WANMILTON _ ractory oistaisurors CANADA 5%% DEBENTURES In King St. West It was xo difficult matter to buy | the farmâ€"thqusands of them for sale ia'll over the country. You could borâ€" | row more money than you ever could pay on the mortgage. â€" No trick at all to get in debt; but how it did pull to | meke the first payment! Seemed as 4 if you never would get the last dollar lfor it. When you had it and laid it down on the table for the other man to count, you thought that the end | of a mighty hard round. _1 _ _, °0C PWVIIE HPC nMigh in price, but not so much so as twisted buildâ€" ings and broken walls. »g Sirieeritegs ~ "By friendship I mean the groutest Prani boctmins, noblest -13.“‘ C uo : reaches Te kib eommun/{cation and the noblest -3:11... and the most exâ€" emplery feithfulness and the severest truth and the heartiest counsel and the greatest union of mind of which brave men and women are capable." â€"Jeremy fiw_w_ , * After you get ho HWMT"C once round the big meadow, Turning the back Jurrow . OCV‘ through the middle of the piece you have to plow takes more elbow grease and sweat than you will need all the rest of the day. Just when the furâ€" row turns back, and you are putting your very last bit of strength into the task of holding it where it belongs, the horses make a spring and you are jerked into the midd1d of next week. Getting started in any piece of work is the real test of a man. The first round is what takes the tuck out of him. All the rest is easy. Risky business to leave the eaves of the house and barn without spouts to carry off the water from the roof. The water is likely to run into the foundaâ€" :i:n. where it freezes and lifts the ilding out of swhape and tears the fl down. w are high in price, What hard Blows experience does strike a man while he is serving his first year on the farm! Cows get sick, horses have the colic, sheep and hogs drop out of the race, and the owner may not be very well himself. The first year is enough to wear the wire edge*off the ambition of any but the most determined man,. But if he sticks then things begin to go better. Then he does not mind the kicks and the knocks as he did at first. Somehow there are not so many of them; things run more sm@®thly; there is more sunâ€" shine and less anxiety lest he should make a mistake and lose the work of a whole season. Blessed is the man who does not drop out before he finishes the first rourd. The wellâ€"filled haymow awaits the man who does not fail till the last ewath is cut and in the barn. If the knives get dull he knows the way to the grindstone. If the back furrow rolls down he stops and pushes into place once more, and the crop comes after the plowing and the harrowing and the seeding. To thresh a few beans, take a box with a good solid bottom, put in a layâ€" er of the beans and pound them with a fairly heavy maul. Pick the bean pods out and go through the operation till, you come to the end, then clean up with the fanningâ€"mill Nice job for a stormy day. The first round is what puts muscl: into the arm and fire into the heart. Get around once and hope says, ‘Now you can do another!" The dead furrow awaits the man who turns the back furrow. It is worth more to begin than to stand on the edge of the field and wish one might do something worth while. The man who fiings off his coat, rolls up his sleeves and swings the cradle for the first time round the field of grain is the one who reaps the harâ€" vest. No stopping after that; he must The man with the rake may be after one, ready to take the last straw from the fingers of the cradle; the sun may be sinking behind the west when the last swath lies on the stubble; but because the reaper has been true and faithful and persistent, there will be golden wheat in the crib. Somebody is watching and knows just what you and I are doing. If we flinch, if we back out on the first round, somebody else‘s courage will fiag; some other worker will drop in the furrow. Say what we will, your hope, your determination, your earnâ€" est patience helps me to hold out to the end. Keep faith strong and courâ€" age bright, and the man who sees what you are doing will be brave and true and faithful. Choice of Blessings. Jim Smith wanted an almanac. The peddler who had those veracious chronicles for sale was very obliging in explaining their virtuos. "I have here," he said, "two different @imanacs from which you may choose. One of them contains the most holidays, but the other contains the weather." Stretch a taut wire along the shelf wall. Slip tin lids bac} you get the mowing machine back of most good pantry ‘tif. % tr vig)l price C sideral th tr TY €CYFI