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I SUppPUOsC 80, ulc cnaua ind oo B .1s 4 48. 2 0P 4420040 0 cce ts Acprciiats "eand ds ri c cndioeins d been to the office a few times, but I) had grown to regard as her very own, "As the Twig is Bent." don‘t know her." |\ might fall in love with Miss Warner;| _A sad case came to light in school "She‘s very beautiful," Dora ven-\aml then, of course, Jimmie wouki!]”t week. For some time numerous tured. \ meet her no more at the corner to things had been missed. A boO0K, & "Well, she‘s not the only one that‘s walk home with her through the gathâ€"| »,;, Sozen o esc . s °h' beautiful," Jimmy replied, looking/ering darkness; and the sweet words pencils, a child‘s lunch, a down at Dora until her cheeks grew|she had hoped to hear from his lips| ©%P, a pair of rubbers, apples, and pink | would never be spoken. | . _ ‘numeroul other small things. _ Ten "It‘s nice of you to say that," she( And Dora, who by this time was days ago someone obtained the key to replied, but the thought in her mind| very gloomy indeed, leaned her face| the teacher‘s desk, opened it and stole was: "Yon will probably think her the down upon the little green god, who} two ‘dollars out of her purse. The loveliest person on earth when you seemed less solemn than usual, and| teacher said nothing, but watched. A sit at dinner with her toâ€"night and| wept. You see, there was one thing) twelyveâ€"yearâ€"old boy'from one of the talk to her, for rich girls are trained | Dora didn‘t knowâ€"thattga'.rmtmg a lily best homes, but who had never had to charm, and they have such grand doesn‘t improve it, nei does gdd d * dd n]m er elothes." | need gilding. Had she known thisâ€") SPending money, suddenly. began Dora was very, very quiet for the but that is another story. * treating everyone in school. A little next few moments. ‘She had fitted| On the floor above Dora‘s room hvedlmdlcious questioning brought out the Miss Warner with three pairs of a woman whose vocation in life was truth; this boy had taken not only the Fremch kids only yesterday. The pretâ€"| fine darning, and here it was that teacher‘s money but everything else ty h.-ireefs{had (;:’me 1to her So‘:larhte’l;,'s' mang drichF teses were sent to be that had been missing. bund‘!e of furs and velvet, an eld mended. Fate, or vanity, or someâ€") s up the most immaculate hand that thing, brought this gor(r woman to | ,, Tthhee ::tgen;’d%'brhm?dvfi) ug:e: Dora had ever slipped glove upon.! Dora‘s room at six o‘clock on the even-|uÂ¥, To cldent,. How could it be tha‘ Dora thought her the most beautiful\ ing that Jimmie was to come. She) °NS POY, the son of parents of abâ€" ereature she had ever seen. | had mended a dress for Lanier‘s that | solute honesty, could be a thief? He "I was wondering if I could come) afternoon, and had failed to get 1t‘ had been brought up in the Sunday over toâ€"morrow night," Jimmie said,) done for the four o‘clock delivery.! School, told the difference between caemmmmmnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmâ€"â€"â€"â€"==â€"â€"= / right and wrono had all sorts of 20â€" o e vantages, and yet had gone wrong. England Wages War on Race Suicide _ | xsx i/ is hst, been sourg Peteriins whose family hadn‘t much, and who wevverieesniommmmmmngeemrnges probably never was taught anything England is waging a rosolute war the mentally deficient . Whoever arâ€"| at home, you could understand it. But against race sulcide and infant morâ€"| rived a traveller in England prior to| this boy‘s mother was so good and tality. Unless she can educate her| August, 1914, and remembers the tatâ€"| the soul of honesty. England is waging a rosolute war against race sulcide and infant morâ€" tality. Unless she can educate her people in the expediency of increasing the British population by British births and of conserving the lives and health of children already born she knows that Germany in twenty years will be able to wage against her a war that Germany will win, then. Medical statistics confound the averâ€" age Englishman, who has not been given until the present time to thinkâ€" ing seriously of the death rate and the birth rate per se. A recent publicaâ€" tion of these medical statistics has given.him food for diquieting thought. Between 1910 and 1919 a yearly average of 100,000 babies died at birth op were stillâ€"born, The yearly birth rate averagea 700,000, é¥clusive of those bables that had died within twentyâ€"four hours of birth, But of the 700,000 given to the counâ€" try 90,000 died each year before they had attained their first twelvgngqnt_h's Uuuy.ummunyto!ufinb bDreaking the silence. 10 Lanier‘s stores, where she presided come toâ€"night but, denurnt':n I over the glove department, she saw in have to go to the Warners. got one of the windows a small green god,| something very important I want to with a sad and solemn face, marked talk to you about. It‘sâ€"it‘s someâ€" down from six shillings to fourâ€"andâ€" thing about you and me andâ€"and the sixpence. rise, you know." "What god is he?" Dora asked the "You can come," said Dora, blushâ€" bronzeâ€"complexioned young man who ing again, her little heart tw:ln‘ met her at the doorâ€"not that his idenâ€" against her old |‘rown coat lke a tity made any differehce; it was the woodpecker against the bark of a tree. fad to have a god upon your dresser, "I‘ll be at home." and the cut in price attracted her. â€"|_ Now, by all the laws of Cupid, Dora birthday. Those who survived display «n alarming health condition. One in every four children in the working classes is mentally deficient, ten in one hundred suffer from malnutrition, thirty in each hundred have defective Five minutes later Dora passed out of the shop fourâ€"andâ€"sixpence poorer in purse, but centuries richer in the possession of the hideous green god with the sad and solemn face. When she arrived home that night she set the god upon her dresser. The next morning on her way to work she found Jimmie waiting for her at the corner. Dora thought that Jimmie had the broadest shoulders, the handsomest eyes, and the manâ€" liest voice in all Christendom, and, though he had nog as yet declared himâ€" self, she considered she had good reaâ€" sons to believe that her regard for Jimmie was returned with interest. _ "Yes," said Jimmie, "three pounds more a month. And Mr. Warner has invited me out to his house to dinner toâ€"night. He said he had a number of things to talk to me about, and he could talk better there. He said he could send me to their house in Canada at a bigger salary, if I wanted to go, but I‘d rather stay in dear old Londons He told me to think it over for a few days. This promotion is just a beâ€" ginning, I‘m sure. Mr. Warner hinted as much himself, although he rather encouraged me to go. But it‘s good old London for me!" g Now, Dora had heard only a part of Jimmie‘s rather long speech, and that part was that he was going to take dinner with the immensely wealthy Warners. "You‘ll probably meet Evelyn Warâ€" ner." she said. "I suppose so," he answered. "She‘s been to the office a few times, but I don‘t know her." _ "Well, she‘s not the only one that‘s beautiful," Jimmy replied, looking down at Dora until her cheeks grew pink.. j f ¢ i odes o t ECE EDTE ET "It‘s nice of you to say that," dhe! And Dora, who by this time was replied, but the thought in her mind| very gloomy indeed, leaned her face was: "You will probably think her the down upon the little green god, who loveliest person on earth when you seemed less solemn than usual, and sit at dinner with her toâ€"night and| wept. You see, there was one thing talk to her, for rich girls are trained ; Dora didn‘t knowâ€"that painting a hlg to charm, and they have such grand doesn‘t improve it neitgcr does gol elothes." | need gilding. Had she known thisâ€" Dora was very, very quiet for the but that is another story. next few moments. She had fitted| On the floor above Dora‘s room lived eyes, twentyâ€"Ave havye adenoids and eighty out of every hundred need the dentist badly, The poor baby, of course, suffers more than the infaut whose parents are well to do. The death rate of cthildren below one month in profesâ€" sional classes averages twentyâ€"one in ens thousand, but. in the working «assos 46.3 per thousand is the rate. "His honorable name is lota," the young man replied, and he never amiles unless gr_ufl’y nlensud!" * > "It‘s nice of you to say that," she replied, but the thought in her mind was: "You will probably think her the loveliest person on earth when you sit at dinner with her toâ€"night and talk to her, for rich girls are trained _ "I‘ve something great to tell you," he said, falling into step beside her. "I got a rise last might." . _ K _"A rise!" exclaimed Dora, her voice quavering a bit as a little lark began to sing in her heart; "how fine!" _ Now, the large percentage of workâ€" ing class ghildrn who grew into sdults below par was not so appalling & circumstance before the war came te England. I «o not mean that their number was less then or that the conâ€" dition was unknown. ‘These statistics sover a period of nine years. But beâ€" mm war England st!ll had that lation of healthy, wholesome ’n the war population _ 0 young manho :ndou fleld rking class Ith did no menace Rire w# One day, as Dora wended her wa: €uch 1 contention applies even to ng manhood now lying out in nders fields, and the status of the ‘king elass was such that their Ith did not constitute a (rx: maâ€" ial menace to the future of Emâ€" THE GREEN GOD By ELIZ A KENT. ! _ But as Dora could not eavesdrop at the Warner dinner, she ate her own | dinner in melancholy silence, then took an invento% of her shabby little wardrobe. ere was nothing for her \to do but to wash and iron her old pink crepe de Chine blouse. After that was accomplished, she cleaned and | polished her amber beads until they pleamed in the glare of the gaslight like fancy topazes. No doubt Evelyn Warner was dresed like a queen and | had the jewels of an empress, and no |\ doubt Jimmie would think her plain and dowdy in her washedâ€"out, old, | faded crepe de Chine blouse, for it was quite possible that Jimmie, whom she had grown to regard as her very own, | might fall in love with Miss Warner; Iaml then, of course, Jimmie would \ meet her no more at the corner to walk home with her through the gathâ€" ‘ering darkness; and the sweet words \ she had hoped to hear from his lips | would never be spoken. _ _ _ But, alas, for human conjectures! | Could Dora have eavesdropped at the lW;mer dinner that night whe would have understood the situation better; | she would have seen that poor Jimmie | choked over his soup, and after that | was so embarrassed that he could look \ neither to the left nor the right, nor | even in front of h%for there was a blurred blue sgot ing in the chair loppodt.e, which he knew to be Miss Warner; and she would have seen that |\ Jimmie, who could talk so fred{ to |her, was utterly tongueâ€"tied, until he found himself alone in the library with ‘Mr. Warner. And, what is more, she | would have seen that Miss Warner | was so occupied with her own thoughts that she said scarcely a dozen words | throughout the dinner. o But it did not matter so signally while the working classes of England were content. Their women scrubbed and slaved as servants or underpaid factory hands; their men were quite frankly underdogs and the writer ofâ€" ten suspected that they were proud of being just that, An exegptional memâ€" ber of a lower class family rose above his station because he was not hamâ€" pered by stupidity and bad health, and the others were never done marveling at him. the mentally deficient. . Whoever arâ€" rived a traveller in England prior to August, 1914, and remembers the tatâ€" tered touts who hung about steamâ€" boat piers and especially London railâ€" way terminals and ran panting miles after a cab for the sole purpose of unloading its bags and trunks for a penny or two will find no trouble in believing that the figures relative to mental deficiency among slum peoples there are not exaggerated. Toâ€"day the great majority of these men and women have made up their minds that they are, or must be, the exceptional members of the working class family, They would not accept a penny now for a service! They would not run a block after a cab for a pound sterling! They propose to rule in England, but if they are not uplifted, mentally and physically, they will wreck the British Empire. Farseeing Englishmen know this and have accepted it Because of their knowledge, they are urging politic legislation and reform anent the unâ€" derdog of five years ago. "You can come," said Dora, blushâ€" ing again, her little heart taplnc against her old }rown coat e a woodpecker against the bark of a tree. "I‘ll be at home." _ Now, by all the laws of Cupid, Dora Now, by all the laws of Cu&id, Dora should have been happy that day. She knew that Jimmie intended to declare his l:lov;o;:%if ‘:he had Hn:lod w:l()l. cou y have un:{ln = ding bells. But, instead, day long she thought of Jimmie having to sit opposite the beautiful Warner girl at dinner that night; she fancied them chatting gaily together; and these thoogl::: gilenced the little lark that had | trying to fill her heart with music. Welfare centres, the first step in all infant saving, are multiplying in every English town and city. It is estiâ€" mated that $5 a year will save one baby‘s life at a British welfare centre. Half this sum is furnished by the govâ€" ernment and half by voluntary contriâ€" bution. At the present writing there are 286 British towns that have these welfare houses. The largest one in London had 700 entries in the year ending June 30, 1919. Fifty babiee and fortyâ€"two mothers came there every day for sare and instruction. To us, this is no great innovation, but it marks the passing of an old order in England. dxirty-dxâ€"fiora's own size; the holdâ€" ing of the dress up before her and g::hfi upon the charming picture in ttle mirror; the exclamations; the temptation to slip the dress on; the ecstasy at finding it a perfect fit; the reluctance to remove the dress and replace it in the box. The dress was there in her roomâ€"what harm would it do to wear it a little while }onser? Jimmie would not stay long, and no one else would see.it on her, and no one would ever know. If Jimmie could gc her, just once, dressed as Miss arner dressed, would he not think her as lovely? _ _ c j upon her bed, carefully removed the priceâ€"ticket and laid it upon the folded arms of the green god, that it might be safe. Then she brushed and combed her pretty hair, piling it high upon her head as she had heard society girls did, and throwing on a kimono, went into the hall and called to her landâ€" lady to ggnd Jimmietup gv"her; hs came. It did seem queer to the ones who didn‘t go below the surface. But those who had watched the boy grow up rather felt that they couldâ€"explain it. Two or three mothers got together and exchanged confidences. There was the time when the boy was two and he carried home Jackie Smith‘s autoâ€" mobile. Of course, it only came from the tenâ€"cent store, but it was dear to Jackie‘s heart. The lad‘s mother exâ€" plained that he was too young to know _ She took off the dress, laid it out upon her bed, carefully removed the Back in her room she closed the curâ€" tains that screened her bed from view, it was naughty, and it was such a little thing and her son wanted it so badly, it seemed a shame to make a fuss about it and have him return it, so she kept it. A year or so later it was a sack of pop corn he took away from Jenny Jones. Jennie cried and told his mother, but it was silly to cry over a little sack of pop corn. She did give Jennie a nickle, however, to buy anâ€" other. All sorts of incidents came up. One told of half a dozen fresh cookies disappearing off the table while the boy and his mother were calling; anâ€" other had her early roses picked by the boy, who, his mother explained, was o fond of flowers. until at last she opened the box and took a peep, just for curiosity‘s sake. Exclamations of awe fell from her lips at the superb loveliness of the dress. It was of delicate blue princess satin, with gold net across the shc_u.ll: :i-e;l.,’ and . Et;it-o _the most beautiful Japanese embroidery down the front that mortal eye ever beheld. _ _ After taking the dress into Rer hands many little thirT: happened: the discovery that the dress was size The conversation narrowed down to the mother. Was she exactly honest? She never went by a candy counter1 without picking up one o two pieces, and fruit vernrdors knew her afar off and hastily covered their choice peachâ€" es and plums when she approached. Two or three books with tellâ€"tale libâ€" rary tags were on her book shelves and had been for months. And 'h°‘i prided herself »n seeing how many times a week she could get the better of the grocer or butcher in making change. Her argument always was that they always charged her too much and she had the right to get even. The mother would not deliberately go out and put r=r hand in someone‘s pocket to rob them. But was she honest ? Had she taught the boy honesty? She kad told him it was wrong to steal, but had she taught him that? Suppese when he took the auto, away ba~* ‘nchis baby days, she had expisired :s hir: the vights of TORONTO OTDQ»nS Schaevre put her clothes and the empty box out of ~sight, slippdonfiolcn?duu\ again, and sat down to await Jimmie. And then Dora had a very strange fancyâ€"she thought finttbo-d.nd‘ solemn features of the little green god had expanded into a emile. # When Jimmie umoheunf:ths‘ breath when he saw her, and she was pleased; now he could see that, given proper clothes, she could be just as pretty as Evelyn Warner. Her shoulâ€" ders and arms were bare, gleaming white.ndwltabqvot_he_gol_d[le)_.lfld her cheeks, faintly flushed with exâ€" citement, were the color of a blushing rose. After Jimmie had been there a short time, Dora became conscious that the conversation was strained and that Jimmie was ill at ease. At nine o‘clock he suddenly rose and took his leave, with never a word of love, never a word of the thini‘he had come to speak about. Perhaps toâ€"morrow he would meet her at the corner, and she would ask him about itâ€"â€" She removed the dress, smoothed and folded it carefully, put it back in the big box, slipped into her little bed â€"and burst into tears. Oh how she wished Jimmie had never seen Evelyn Warner. . The next day Dora looked in vain for Jimmie at the corner. When she got home that night she found a letter propped up against the green god. It was from Jimmie. She read it slowly, her heart beating painfully. _ _ Dear Dora â€"When you get this I will be on my way to Canada, for I am leaving at noon. After seeing the dress you had on last night I could not say what I had come to say. I saw the priceâ€"ticket hngini on that green god and it was marked thirtyâ€"five guineas. Heaven knows where you got itâ€"but it showed you were not for me.â€"Jim. N oms Dora, whose mind seemed for the moment to be a great and overpowerâ€" ing blank, suddenly became conscious that a broad, broad grin had spread over the hideous features of the little green god. others and made him return the toy. Would he have deliberately stolen money when*he was twelve years old ? It seemed hardly probable to the mothers who discussed the case. No age is too young to begin to teach the property rights of others, they all\deâ€" cided. If you begin with the littlest things and insist on absolute honesty regardless of what the other fellow does, the big things will take care of themselves. Parents, Attention! The astounding discovery that apâ€" proximately five hundred thousand school children in Canada toâ€"day are under weight has naturally and proâ€" perly led to concerted action to the end that this appalling condition of affairs may be rectified as soon as possible. Draft statistics show that seventy per cent. of the men were reâ€" jected for defects that could have been prevented or cured by care in childâ€" Minard‘s Liniment Cures Diphtheria. (The End.) Your heat, light and power needs are best served with Imperial Royalite Coal Oil. Every drop is clean, powerful and absolutely uniform. Imperial Royalite gives you the highest fuel satisfaction and costs no more than ordinary coal oil. Imperial Royalite Coal Oil meets every test of a perfect oil, allows you full power from tractor or stationary engine. Used in oil heaters and stoves, it burns cleanâ€"no smoke or sootâ€"and it‘s best for oil lamps, too. You can get Royalite everywhere when you want it Our unlimited means of distribution assures that. No coal oil is better than Imperial Royalite, so why pay higher prices? HIGH GRADE OIL AT LEAST COST Henry Van Dyke calls the pictures on his walls the windows of his home. Through them he gets glimpses of the beauty which lies beyond the section of living space bounded by the stone walls of his home. Through one such window, he could see the ocean, and almost feel the ‘cold spray and the strength of the galt air. Another winâ€" dow gave him a view of the mountains, with all of the uplift of a daily climb, in thought, to their summits. The influence of such silent teachâ€" ers in the home can hardly be estimatâ€" ed, but in nothing else is the average home so poorly=furnished. Good taste may be displayed in the choice of carpets and easy chairs. Wall paper may be selected in quiet restful tints, but the decorations may be family porâ€" traits framed in objectionable ornate mouldings, cromos, representations of Indians in gaudy war paint, or soâ€"callâ€" ed oil paintings, purchased perhaps of some itinerant vendor and suggestive of nothing in the heavens above or the hood. Weight and rate of gain form one of the best tests of health in Mock Bisque Soup.â€"Simmer one! quart of tomatoes until they will go‘ through the strainer, adding oneâ€"| fourth teaspoon of soda just before reâ€" | moving from the fire. Strain, and add | to a white sauce made with one quart| of milk, two tablespoons of butter and | a half cup of flour. Seasun to suit | with salt and pepper, and two tableâ€"| spoons of sugar. 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Place on lettuce leaf on serving plate, fill hollow in pear with cottage cheese, and cover with sweetened whipped cream or boiled salad dressing. _ Sailor‘s Duff.â€"One egg, two table: spoons of sugar, two tablespoons of butter, oneâ€"half cup of molasses, one teaspoon of soda dissolved in oneâ€"half cup of hot water, one and oneâ€"half cups flour. Mix in order named and :team one hour in buttered pudding ish. Burnt Cream Sauce.â€"Melt oneâ€"half cup granulated sugar in‘ enameled saucepan, add one pint of thin cream and set over hot water until the sugar melts again. with a half cup of sugar, stir until well blended, add one pint of cream and strain. When cold add one tableâ€" spoon of lemon extract and freeze. _Hot Maple Sauce.â€"Boil two cups of maple syrup with a half cup of cream or butter until it threads. While still Seasonable Recipes. two tableâ€" ! In this world it‘s not what we take | up, but what we give up that makes | us rich.â€"Hen"y Ward Beecher. Cream. 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ALCOCK, Capt., D.S.C. of finely chopped omion. i _ Three Billion Globes of our earthâ€"that Indeed is a "m of wealth "beyond the dreams of a loe." Yet that is less than five cenâ€" times would have amounted to at comâ€" pound interest during the Christian Fra. Impossible ? It is M. Camile Flammarion, the mathematician and astronomer, who makes the mindâ€"staggering propostâ€" tion. Somebody in the press credited hm with saying that the :? milliards of francsâ€"one billion g& larsâ€"extorted from France by % many in 1871, was equal to the product of five centimes placed at five per cent. compound â€" interest at the birth of Christ. M. Fiammarion corrects the quotation. What he did was to recall the remark of General Foy on the votâ€" Ing of a milllard francs in 1825 for the relief of the French emigres, that not yet had a milliard of minutes elapsed | What means 243 undecillions? Or | 243,516,800 nonillions? That is 243,â€" | 516.800 followed by thirty ciphers. j No human mind can grasp it. i What would that sum of money | mean, in gold? '] As one kilogramme of gold is worth 3,400 francs, our capital would weigh !71 deciliions 622 nonillions 588 octilâ€" ; lions of kilogrammes. Now, this earth lwelghl only 5,875 sextillions of kiloâ€" grammes. If it were of solid gold it would have to be multiplied by 3,486,â€" 100,000 torequal the tremendous quanâ€" | tity in question. P En s since the birth of Christ; which was quite true, that number of minutes not being ettained until April 28, 1902. But the statement about what five centimes would have amounted to at compound interest is marked with erâ€" ror. lt is a large error, says M. Flamâ€" marion. It is bigger than the whole earth, bigger than the sun, bigger than the whole solar system. Not one inâ€" At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in 1803, the sum of the origâ€" inal five centimes is 7,610 decillions, and this sum, doubling every fourteen years, in 1873, the year of M. Fiamâ€" marion‘s first computation, amounts to more than 243 undecillions of francs. In brief, five centimes, or one cent, placed at five per cent. compound inâ€" terest at the birth of Christ, would now equal 3,486,000,000 globes of solid gold, each the size of the earth. Women themselves probably are under the delusion that their best age is something under twentyâ€"five and something over eighteen. At any rate, they are supposed to resent all birth» days after thirty, and are occasionalâ€" ly charged with working backwards and growing older in fooks and youngâ€" er in years. But no woman who knows how to put on her clothes, who reads and thinks, who develops &ll her best qualities, need worry at passing into the thirties, for at forty a woman is at her very best, physically and menâ€" tally. _ She is at the zenith of her beauty, and if she has cultivated her intelligence, she is at the zenith of her mentality also. Very few men of any note find the same pleasure in the society of a youny, undeveloped girl which they find in a mature woman of forty. At that age such a woman is an ideal companion, and her preference for the society of a man is a real compliment to his mental and moral qualities. No, there is no reason why a women, unless she be merely a cogquette, and has nothing to recommend her but a pretty face, should dread advancing There is a charm about all agos, in« deed, and many a woman is more beautiful and attractive when her bair is streaked with grey than‘ever she was before. Rope From Bark. An Australian has discovered ® method for using fibre obtained from the bark of a large variety of eucalypâ€" tus trees in the manufacture of twine, rope and bagging. To keep well, onlons must be maâ€" ture and thoroughly dry. Btore in crates if possible or ventilated barrels, as good ventilation is cas;~*:l. Three billion globes of gold the aize css esn â€"rrerave 7 9 Her Best Age. Flammarion, the 1 astronomer, who taggering ° proposiâ€" in the press saying that the :? rsâ€"one billion â€" m France by 33' J, W. 8 ensilage .« spring. . W fall and ma then nlow * rea p« Address a care of The W to, and answe in which they tion this pape: immediate re dressed enve the answer w the t vt The object of t vice of our farm re authority on all sul in regard to pasture, . Wt quantity per selected has duced a gou and a good and timothy get a good grasses and field for pa ge® the § o CcONDWCTED U gu