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YOUR MEDICINE CHEST FOR YOUR LIVESTOCK. 4 A medicine chest for your Tivestock, and some knowledge of how to use it, may save you some veterinary bills, and perhaps the life of some of your animals. Here are some hints» you may be able to use: * Label all medicine and keep poisons locked up so the children will not get bold of them. 1 find it a r\x idea to destroy drugs I find unlabeled. Often dope might look like something else, and if used instead of a remedy it may cause more trouble. * Keep all medicines in the chest. Powders should be kept in airâ€"tight containers, for they lose, their strength when exposed very long to alr. I find sterilized fruit jars will do nicely. When you buy drugs alâ€" ways insist upon fresh stock., Stuff Especially if you have a large amâ€" ount of stock, you will want for comâ€" pounding drugs a large smooth table or counter with drawers. One of the drawers may be divided into compartâ€" ments for bottle corks, tin boxes of different size for cintments, and some tin or cardboard boxes for powders e"nâ€"lnblvo; for a long time may lose Its strength, and thus be un_e!eu. Ec tm It is the advertising that counts for best success in such a venture. For instance, one farmer with an eye to business in getting orders found where he could buy good solid barrels at small cost, so he built a neat, light selfâ€"fceder for growing pigs, loaded Jt on the side of his flivver and took t around to every public sale gatherâ€" ing in the country, where he got ordâ€" ers for all he could build in his spare time. â€" Along this same line, one could build portable hog houses and farrowâ€" Ing sheds, using the above suggestion, building a miniature model to show at public gatherings or in store windows of small towns. Another idea worked out by a farmâ€" er who had gravel on his farm was to make concrete tile. He bought a emall tilemaking outfit to make tile for his own farm, and when his own needs were supplied he and his two boys made tile for their neighbors at a cost below what they could be purâ€" chased for on the market. This sort of a project could not be carried out One man who kept a few cows and ground his own feed had so many requests for grinding that he bought a goodâ€"sized grinder and with the use of his outft made quite a little profit from the business. It was found that more neighbors wanted ground feed during the wa.m and spring months thin during summer pasture seaâ€" Here too may be kept labels for the boxes, a graduate for the measuring of licuids, a glass funnel or two, and some squares of paper for the wrapâ€" ping of separate dose powders. In anâ€" other drawer or compartment should be kept an assortment of clean botâ€" tles, chiefly half and one pint, but with a few of smaller and larger sizes. There should also be one or two strong longâ€"necked pint and quart bottles for drenching. On the table may be kept scales and weights, a mortar and pestle for the pulverizing and mixing of drugs, a large slab of plate glass, china, or slate, and a flexâ€" ible knife for the mixing of ocintments. Here, or in a cupboard in the atable, should also be kept a hook and noosed rope far the drenching of horses, a spray pump for the application of fiy BY J. L. JUSTICE. I have been thinking over a sugâ€" gestion I heard recently in regard to productive employment on farms durâ€" Ing the winter months where little or no live stock is kept or produced, and I recall several instances where farmers were turning their time into cash in a number of different ways. 1 am sure that the ones I mention are only a few of the innumerable ways in which many otherwise idle days might be turned to profit. 1 know one farmerâ€"hoe feeds live stock, too, on a mediamâ€"sized farmâ€" who has made it a practice for the last three or four years of building gelfâ€"feeders for hogs. The self feeder is quite popular now wherever hogs are grown or fattened, and by making only one design with a small and laurge size, the lumber is purchased to advantage at a cost of five to eight} dollars a thousand under the retail price. _ Suitable hardware is easily secure1, and a little local advertising provides a market for the finished product. ‘ L & »o‘s o epmnin in ol oi en In freezing weather without using a heated building or a place where the concrete would not freeze. To this might be added the moulding of conâ€" erete posts and blocks. soir, which just suited his convenience. It saved the farmers long trips to the «it will and when fhey heiped him to be dispensed in teaspoonful or tablespoonful doses in the !uble. 1 repellants, and a special pump or syringe or two feet of oneâ€"inch rubber hose with a large tin funnel attached, for rectal injoctions. Suggestions on How to Put the Slack Time to Profitable Use ;rh-ov'â€"v;'tn;i;\arian uses many alkaâ€" Some Productive Winter Work ' loids and poisons, as well as OUNC® °J °" \ cial drugs which cannot safely bel | given by the Iayman. . As colic drenchâ€" ‘es usually contain some narcotic, & small supply should be obtained from | & veterinarian for emergency Cases. ‘Fever mixtures, worm powders, tonic | powders, liniments, blistering salves, ‘and other combinations of drugs may also be obtained in the same Way.â€" Dr. A. S. Alexander. tem for quick and profitable service 'within a radius of six or seven miles. and turn down many requests that it is impossible for them to meet. t 3 !oum;. from my records that bee ikeeplng was paying me well, in proâ€" portion to the small amount of time The testing of seed corn was made} the principal work of a young man{ and his sister, but they found it diffiâ€" cult to interest farmers in this work until after the first of the year or along toward spring. This is particuâ€" lar and exacting work but may be | done by any intelligent person who _will study the principles involved, , especially in detecting the disease of |corn called rootrot, which can be d® |termined only on the wellâ€"germinated ;kornol. I could mention :!;nr ways itlut ingenious farmers have used | their lrn time to advantage, but the : above list will show some of the inâ€" | numerable plans devised, some of twhich m’ be an inspiration to other farmers in helping them out of a | dsfficulty. | buying, A friend who happens to be a good hand at butchoring started to doing butchering for a few neighbors. So many requests came in that he conâ€" ceived the idea of purchasing a full butchering outft, loaded it all on a light truck, and with his son and sonâ€" inâ€"law he followed the business as a regular thing from November to the middle of March. They butcher from a thousand to twelve hundred hogs every winter and have a splendid sysâ€" 1 heard of a rather unusual idea reâ€" cently which should be workable by the right sort of a man. Having a reputation for making such a fine quality of potato chips, this farm wife made batches occasionally to sell to friends. Her husband had a large crop of potatoes which were of a variety that made exceptionally good notato chips, so they converted many of the potatoes into chips and disposed of them in the bulk to grocers and cafes. This soon resulted in my making radical changes. It brought to my attention that I was feeding, housing, and milking three cows who were doâ€" ing the work for me of a single highâ€" grade animal. Having reached this conclusion, I lost no time in selling these cows and buying a fine regisâ€" tered cow and her first calf. My reâ€" turns in milk and butter sold have greatly increased, while the cost of feeding and work has been reduced twoâ€"thirds. grind the feed he charged them less than they would have had to pay elsewhere. A fruit man who had to buy a great many wooden boxes and receptacles to market his fruit in, utilized his winter days in cutting and making his own boxes. He installed the machinery to saw and utilize the lumber on his own place and found a market right in his own community for all his surplus boxes, as it happens to be a community partly devoted to fruit growing. A young farmer who was somewhat of a natural mechanic, enlarged his workshop, and repaired all kinds of farm machinery that it was possible for him to do, including trucks, tracâ€" tors and automobiles. Another who is handy at plumbing work does a great deal of the plumbing for farmers in his community at a charge far below that of a union plumber. IN MY APRON POCKET. as well as other speâ€" garded my bees seriousiy,. kept three hives. I now ha hives, with Italian queens : put in a quarter acre of bi and as much crimson clover, use. A grocer who deals and expense involved.‘ I had not fi'%"â€" Od ily â€" One _ _â€"pP: garded my bees seriously, and only A ,.sl:::t;‘,‘ E'.,h' kept three hives. I now have twelve| . & _ Ko/A hives, with Italian queens and have‘ ‘Only one hog in every eight mar put in a quarter acre of buckwheat,| ed this year has been a "select." In ind as much crimson clover, for their Other words, rather less than‘ 12 per use. A grocer who deals omly in! cent. of the total mumber have enâ€" "fancy" products buys all the honey tered the top grade to get the premâ€" I have to sell. {ium. Ontario, of ¢ourse, leads the On the other hand, my books showed provinces with 19.5 per cent.; then me the futility of maintaining the come Quebec, 17.4,‘ Manitoba 6.4 and small flock of turkeys I have been Alberta 2.1. (With the exception : of keeping. ~My attention had been fixed the Maritime provinces and British upon the excellent price the birds Columbia, where the . supplies are brought in the Christmas market. I Small, all the provinces are included had not realized the cost of eggâ€"feedâ€" in the returns just made byâ€"the Doâ€" ing, the hours of attention the young minion Government. The table at the birds demanded, and the constant exâ€" foot of this column summarizes the penditure of my time and attention; report. during the nine months it took +*o, The total "selects" in the 10 months, make turkeys marketable. I am not: about a quarter of a million, is just raising turkeys this year. Were I aif. equal to Danish exports to Great Briâ€" ferently situated, there would doubt-{ tain for any five weeks in the last six less be money in them; as it is, they| months. Plainly, if Canadian farmers are only an expense. | want to get a larger share of the bij I CESC i Ruijish â€" Immantsâ€"â€" a#: nauleâ€" nwadnate _â€" A carefully kept record of egg proâ€" duction has enabled me to weed out unproductive hent.. Now I have an army of pullets working for me of which I am justly proud. My books have taught me to eliminâ€" ate, us far as possible, the casual cusâ€" tomer, and have a regular market for all my produce. I have learned where to buy, as well as to sell. They have enabled me to collect many small accounts that I might have overlooked, and, on the other hand, are a constant reminder to pay my 0 delay “Xft;ogether, my accounts are one of the best investments of time that I could make.â€"Mrs. M. J. Jenkins. The only reaperâ€"thresher in operaâ€" tion in Canada this year is on the Doâ€" minion Experimental Farm at Swift Current, Sask. It cuts a 12â€"foot swath and will cover from 30 to 85 acres per day. PC‘ "CJ* T E It is really a combination of a binâ€" been the early maturing ones. The derâ€"minus the binding attachment,-â€"-; pullets that have developed slowly in and a small separator, without the body and feather have been just as usual feeder and blower. As it is cut,f slow in starting to lay. The results the grain is carried directly to the| of liberal feeding and general good separator, and from this the threshed care have always been reflected in the grain goes through a spout into a| pullet flock and a full egg basket wagon attached to the left side of, during the period of early winter high the machine. The straw is dropped prices. at the rear in a winrow. I wewnsecommemeniffpeaeuuss smm i eowy Un ie o o L NE Shic menth â€" The machine may be drawn by a tractor or by horses. If horses, then 12 are needed for a 12â€"foot bar,. Comâ€" bines of various widths up to 30 feet are made and in use. All of the cutâ€" ting and separating mechanism is opâ€" erated by an engine mounted on the frame of the combine. The one process method eliminates the cost of the twine, and of stooking, and when the work is finished the savâ€" ing will be found to just about repreâ€" sent the cost of threshing. The cost of the machine is round two thousand dollars. Two men operate it, so the This is the second year it has been used on the Swift Current Experlâ€" mental Farm, and the Supt., J. G. Taggart, has found it very satisfacâ€" tory within its limitations. It has not been his experience that it shatters the grain any worse than the old method of harvesting. es Yet it has its limitations and drawâ€" backs. As the grain does not stand in stook, the entire field must be dead ripe, or it will heat or mold in the bin; and in a windy country every day that the grain remains standing is a risk: All this must be considered in the operation of the resperâ€"thresher. We may search the entire list of vegetable foods and not find one that supplies the splendid balance of nuâ€" tritive elements that the bean does. Nor have we one which gives to the consumer such a high degree of energy. Nature has supplied to this product an unusually liberal percentage of protein. It has twenty per cent. more of this element than has corn, potaâ€" toes or onions. As compared to wheat, it carries fourteen per cent. more, and it even contains a seven per cent. greater supply than does beef. In the amount of energy, it is unâ€" excelled. It has double the calories that are found in many of our meats and eggs; leads by a long way the whole list of vegetables and contains even twice the calories of that parâ€" excellent food, milk. good wife has no such bugbear as "cooking for threshers." p The reaperâ€"thresher is not a new invention, but for a good many years has been in general use in the Argenâ€" tines and Australia, in Mexico, and also in the United States as far north as Kansas and Nebraska, and every year it is coming farther north. It is not our purpose to urge the full substitution of beans for these other foods. Beans have a place when used in combination or as a change; and, particularly to the person who is doing hard physical labor, the quanâ€" tity of beans included in the ration can be relatively large to the advanâ€" tage of both health and economy. Long ago the army and navy, those efficient institutions whose dietitians do everything to secure the maximum of results from the food consumed, learned the value of beans in the strenuous life of the soldier. Reaping and Threshing One Operation. These facts, taken with the favorâ€" able keeping qualities and easy handâ€" ling, make beans a product which should be favorably known in every haousehold of the land. The general consum:w@ion of beans ought, therefore, to be encouraged. How shall this be done? bills with the least possible Push the Bean. i If you were to ask a person if she| Blind, Toronto, and sold it on a comâ€" | could make a bed, the answer would| mission. It not only sold well but \be quite decidedly "Yes". But could; made a good showing in our room and \ she make it properly and in a way was something quite out of the ordiâ€" | that would be comfortable and neat nary at bazaars here. Our expenses §in appearance as well? I venture to were heavy, but we cleared $55. | say very few would be able to make a! The joint classes in Agriculture and bed properly, or to lift a patient in Home Economics held a couple of | and out of bed without almost break-! skating parties, inviting their friends, llng their back or to set them in a| and jolly evenings were spent. | comfortable position in bed. A very| The married ladies of the sewing | valuable thing to know is how to make; class entertained the girls and boys | a bed for an anagesthetic patient, also | to afternoon tea one week and the | to place a patient in a hot pack, to Home Economics class invited the ‘give a bed bath without exposing the ladies and the Agricultural class to a patient; to take temperature and resâ€" valentine tea. The lecturer in Dairyâ€" piration, what the right temperature ing made ice cream one day, the boys of a room should be before giving a, boys supplying the cream and the bath, what temperature water must girls fancy cakes. These afternoons ‘be, how to give different kinds of,; were thoroughly enjoyed by every one | baths and massaging, and how to present. handle a patient in bed while bathing.| In January we went to Erindale, For 12 months a premium which has averaged about one dollar per ewt. has been paid for the "select" hog. Put in another way Canadian farmers are actually losing by their indifferâ€" ence this premium on seven out of eight hogs they market. HOG GRADING FOR ONE YEAR. Total Per cent. Hogs Selects of selects Ontario .1,028,611 Quebec .. 277,798 Manitoba 212,425 Alberta . 284,179 sary for Production. The experience of the Ontario Agriâ€" cultural College Poultry Department has been that a hen will not lay if not in good condition. She should be healthy, free from any disease and show plenty of vigor and activity. The first pullets to lay in the fall have These are the days when the methâ€" ods of our fathers are being severely challenged. . Sntnie We ht Lo ud IC] a lot of sewing. At Christmas four quilts and one dozen boxes of candy were sent from our branch to the Solâ€" dier Settlement Board; several layâ€" ettes were sent earlier. What has really been most instrucâ€" tive to the girls was the tenâ€"day nursing course. I‘m sure any of the We are few in number, but I think a great deal of good has been done by our Cheltenham Junior girls. Last year and during the winter, we did a graduate nurse from the Departâ€" ment came and taught up the proper methods. She showed us that even if we could not cure some diseases we could give comfort and relief. Through these lessons many feel they have a slight idea at least of what to do until a doctor comes. Some of the things were, as we thought, easy to do, until it came our turn to demonstrate. Then the proof was that we would not have been able to do First Aid correctly if we had not been shown where the mistakes were. girls who have taken this course beâ€" fore would be delighted with the opâ€" portunity of taking it again. Many did not know how to care for the sick. No matter how efficient we may have thought we were in caring for our sick ones at home, we had no idea how very little we really did know until We also learned when to give differâ€" ent medicines, and how to give an anema properly. o One more item of great importance was having a medicine chest, fully equipped, ready to meet any emerâ€" gency that might arise in the home. The cost would not be more than $5, which might mean the saving of a life by having these things for immeâ€" diate use with instructions as to what each thing is used for and the bottle correctly labelled. After a tenâ€"day course most people would feel the time had been spent in attending one of the most instructive courses that could be given. At the completion of the course, we organized ourselves as a Nursing Briâ€" gade. It is understood that each memâ€" ber who has taken the course will be ready to go and assist any one in need For Home and Country NC _TH F4 & au‘yyE wativri‘s; uM 1 Girls‘ Institute News. Can You Make a 200,822 48,251 13,705 6,113 19.5 17.4 6.4 21 The. Sunday School esn En en ie o C200 0 Cc cl o oi Ts un 0 e ced about the ve?' thing that Saul sought to prevent. It was like trying to exâ€" tinguish a fire by scattering it. Every fugitive was a witness for the truth. Philip. He was one of the seven "deacons" appointed to attend to the distribution of alms among the poor Christians, ch. 6: 1â€"6. Samaria; the capital city of the district of Samaria. Preached Christ unto them. Rather, “iroclnimed the Christ unto them." P ilif Ereoented Christ to them as the Messiah. â€" Without doubt he would speak of the beauty and love of the life of Christ, but his main theme was that this Jesus who had been crucified had risen again, and was the fulfiller of God‘s divine purpose and the ansâ€" wer to men‘s expectations. Vs. 6â€"8. The people with one accord gave heed. There is a general and ready response. The people are ready for the message. We may prove that the program wf missions must be uniâ€" versal by pointing to the definite comâ€" mand of Jesus to go into all the world as well as by the spirit of the Old Testament utterances. We m:{ also prove the same fact by pointing to the world response made to the world appeal. Hearing .. the miracles which he did. The meaning of the word The married ladies of the sewing class entertained the girls and boys to afternoon tea one week and the Home Economics class invited the ladies and the Agricultural class to a valentine tea. The lecturer in Dairyâ€" ing made ice cream one day, the boys boys supplying the cream and the The Outreach of the Early Church, Acts 8: 1 to 15: 35. Golden Textâ€"Ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem,nndinall.ludau,andins.muil.undunto the uttermost part of the earth.â€"Acts 1: 8. of help, if they call Brigade.â€"Elizabeth made a good showing in our room and proved, v. 25. There was here no mere was something quite out of the ordiâ€" arbitrary exercise of power without nary at bazaars here. Our expenses| :l:lydul‘l’d t& the r{uef ghy :‘fhon- leared $55. usiasm on the part of Samaritans. we;;ehje;s:‘{.c});ze\:einc .:lgl;-lcufi)u,‘ and ‘ Not only was enthusiasm obedient, but Hama Tannamilas heold a â€" annnle nfi‘“flmdty was sympathetic. The joint classes in Agriculture and Home Economics held a couple of skating parties, inviting their friends, and jolly evenings were spent. Brigade.â€"Elizabeth Campbell PLEASANT REMEMBRANCES. Streetsville Institute organized in 1916. We have about forty members now, having twentyâ€"two before our Short Course in Home Economics started. The course began November, 1922, and continued until March, 1923, the boys taking classes in Agriculture at the same time. PLEASANT REMEMBRANCES. _ |trials. It was a good thing for the Streetsville Institute organized in fortunes of the faith that this outâ€" 1916. We have about forty members break of fury came. "Blessed are ye now, having twentyâ€"two before our when men shall . . persecute you. ics Blessed is any good cause that has not Short Course in Home Economic use t rted. Th began November, 109 ©28Y a time. A kite rises against started. _ The course ol " the wind. The blood of the martyrs 1922, and continued until March, 1923) pos peen the seed of the church. the boys taking classes in Agriculture Though God can take good out of at the same time. ‘good, he can take good out of evil as The outstanding parts of this course well, God can make the wrath of man were Nursing, Cooking and Food to gra{so him. Values. We had lectures in Laundry,! II. This outreach of the early Houschold _ Administration, â€" House church into Samaria was spontaneous . s ivies. in effort, but followed up by the careâ€" Planning and Decoran?n, ies ful supervision of the central church Arithmetic, Literature, Birds, Hortiâ€"| at Jerusalem, vs. 14â€"17. ‘That Chrisâ€" culture, and Live Stock by _specia.l lecâ€" tianity should be organized and govâ€" turers, and joint classes in Poultry, erned from some central point from Dairying, Bacteriology, Entomology iwit.hin, surely needs no proof, It was and Farm Water Supply. _ Christ himself who established the gerIUl CPORCIGIIS AML AMRAMMIIUEA )* | + 00% u. Our Home Demonstrator of Bramp'fgfflf;c ;‘{?flg;:f;p:fi: c“;‘:l“,i“h%‘? surc'c::;- ton was in charge during the €OUT5® jion‘ in early times, or uurv'll:'eod hx taking up Laundry, Household Adâ€" inundation of the barbarian invasion ministration and Houseplanning. Each of the Roman Empire in later days. girl has pleasant remembrances of In our age there is a tendency to overâ€" many happy periods. emphasize individual liberty, and to The week before Christmas we held resent suggestions from the centre. j 14 fancy|Let us remember that there can be a bazaar, at which we so y & . ay. no great ‘output of strength without articles, homemade cooking and candy. Toâ€"ordination, and no. coâ€"ordination We bought wickerware made by the without centrality of control. Canadian National Institute for the' III. The outreach of the early Blind, Toronto, and sold it on & COMâ€"| opurch was formally reported to the mission. It not only sold well but central church and systematically apâ€" In January we went to Erindale, putting on the program for the U.F.O. Club, while they, afterwards, supplied refreshments. The Assistant Superintendent of It.â€" stitutes spent a day on us lecturing on House Planning and Decoration and showing plans, which the girls took great interest in. We held two debates which were very good. We published a class paper called "The Blatherskite" which was full of interesting items. The girls are now displaying wonâ€" derful creations in Millinery. _ The last week of the course the classes took the Annual Short Course Trip to Toronto, banquetting in the evening. Closing exercise were held the last night at which President Reyâ€" nolds of the O. A. College, Guelph, gave an address. The winners of prizes were presented with their awards, a two weeks‘ course at Guelph Summer School.â€"Jean . McCaugherty. . DECEMBER 9 on the Nursing ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO 5ret"\;rned towards Jerus_llcm.” Preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans. John had once proâ€". posed to Jesus that he lbould‘com-{ mand fire to consume the inhabitants: of a Samaritan village that rejected: Jesus (Luke 9: 54), but his whole atâ€". titude is now changed. ; APPLICATION. ‘ 1. The outreach of the early church came about through being thrust out, Acts 8: 4â€"8. The spread of the church from Judaea into Samaria was not the result of cool deliberation or a missionary resolution carried unaniâ€" mously. If something out of the ordiâ€" nary had not happened, the disciples would have tarried in Jerusalem inâ€" definitely, and humanly speaking, there was some danger that Christianâ€" ity might continue to be a mere annex to Judaism. But Stephen, that mornâ€" ing star of St. Paul and of the Proâ€" testant reformation, started a new movement out of the old Jewish church. For this he was arrested, tried, condemned and martyred. This action caught fire and became a genâ€" |eral persecution of the early Chrisâ€" tians,. â€" The scattered followers of \Jesus bore witness to him in new tplgc_et, and with a vigor refreshed by \no great ‘output of strength without ‘coâ€"ordination, and no coâ€"ordination | without centrality of control. | III. The outreach of the early ‘church was formally reported to the II. This outreach of the early church into Samaria was spontaneous in effort, but followed up by the careâ€" ful supervision of the central church at Jerusalem, vs. 14â€"17. That Chrisâ€" tianity should be organized and govâ€" erned from some central point from within, surely needs no proof. It was Christ himself who established the fellowship of disciples. He said, "I fellowshi‘f of discigll-es. He said, "1 will build my church." No mere host T E'et:;-nâ€"; to Je;-;tigm, rgthe'r. They live in burrows, With winding ways, And there they shelter On rainy days. The mother rabbits Make cosy nests, With furry linings From their breasts. Nearby the sea, Wild young rabbits Were seen by me The tender young ones Are nursed and fed, And safely hidden In this warm bed. Among the sandhills, And when they are older They ‘all come out Upon the sandhills, They play and nibble The long sweet grass, But scamper away The Wild Rabbits. Whenever you pass, And frisk about. LéssON‘| mpucanon w T | _ â€" / Pss Te 5o Toh | â€"~BY MRS. HAMBENPOO@"r starte {~ Quite recently a mn‘ I starte Â¥ ed on a tour of the school districts of , | Northern Alberta, just to get & fow . > \ figures on the educational facilities | for the Carmers‘ children in the north« ern part of the province. â€" |\ _ Setting out in a little Ford coup§ | we motored north, east and west, AS far as trails would allow us to gO, often getting where no motor cars had everbeu\knmhpnnbd’ou.b-t on the whole covering about 650 miles | of ccuntry roads and farming distri.e_h L L2A Awat wA t OJ ccunkt & POmue eRL Lo9 P where this year crops are Ov@er five footlnhd(lltmdhuvywifltmh- | Opportunities abound in the bush T wbounte k * 4 northofflncltyolsdmonbu.h territory counts about 600 schools opâ€" erated under the Provincial Departâ€" ment of Education. The largest numâ€" ber of these schools are rural instituâ€" tions of the oneâ€"room type, although many of them are twoâ€"roomed schools, while the towns, even the small ones, give high school tuition for pupi)s wishing to.â€"go on with their studies and to take high school work,. As a general rule, the country school boards or boards of trustees are anxâ€" ious to keep the children near their homes, and they are wiiling to make every effort to secure the services of teachers who will teach the high school grades. EFFICIENCY OF THE RURAL SCHOOL. Most of the pupils attending the rural schools get up to Grade IV, while about 8 per cent. reach Grade VIII. On the other hand, nearly all children passing the Grade VIII go to high school. As a testimonial to the possibilities of the rural schools, we have met, in this recent trip, two chilâ€" dren, a boy and a girl, whose names are in the list of successful candidates for the Grade VIII examinations of last June, although both children are under twelve years of age. One of the remarkable sideâ€"lights on that question of education in the rural districts is the general willingâ€" ness of the parents to see their chilâ€" dren have as good a chance as they can possibly give them. We visited 377 farm homes in about 50 days. Out of that number 320 had children of school age; 282 sent their children to schoo!l some part of the year; while 7 had them working at home by corâ€" respondence courses through the mail. Sixtyâ€"seven had the Children‘s Book of Knowledge, 21 The World‘s Book, !34 The Teachers‘ and Students‘ Enâ€" cyclopedia. Two hundred and thirtyâ€" two received some English or French 'wockly newspaper or monthly magaâ€" zines. The comparatively large numâ€" her who did not receive any kind of literature through the mail is accountâ€" ed for by the families of Russian, Polâ€" ish, Swedish or other foreign origin for whom it is difficult to get newsâ€" papers in their own language and who do not understand sufficient English to‘!:‘o interested in Canadian reading. | _ This is certainly a vseless expendiâ€" | ture of motion or human energy. But | there is, too, a quarter of an hour or | more wasted each day that might be more â€"profitably expended. The halt D aut w k o y L Ninetyâ€"two of tlwf;;m-eâ€".n ';l;ie:d had motor cars, 114 shipped cream to the nearest town, while 84 wives sold eggs for pocketâ€"money. In several districts the "cream cheques" were also the wife‘s prerogative, which she used to buy clothes for the family a%t her own discretion. Onthewholethotrlpmnmeh- tion on the ingenious ways by which a Western farmer can manage in hard times to live and raise a family, often a large one, buy machinery, including sewing and washing machines, books and musical instruments of one kind or another, which all bring ease and comfort to the farm home., 4 ue en oo To the farmer and his helpers who wish to make the best possible use of what otherwise might be a period of enforced idieness during inclement weather, I would suggest the installaâ€" tion of laborâ€"saving grain chutes. 0n of iaborâ€"saving grain chutes. I have been in barns where the horses were fed in the basement, also the eattle, the granary directly overâ€" head. Day after day the farmer toils up and down the stairs carrying grain and sometimes hay for feeding his animals. F Lo s enE enmainy €M0 mHil of a rainy day is ample time in which to construct a conveyor spout from the grain bins above to the freding alley, which would have effectively taken up this lost motion.â€"G. Everitt. The passing of laws does not change economic forces,. poultry means better health. _ Two of the essentials of good A ap;le butter are long, slow cooking and co= stant tflrrln': More poultry means a bigger bustâ€" #s and the consumption of Mmcre uie .200 & A Saving the ‘Rlini Day. type, although roomed schools, _ the small ones, on for pupils i their studies 1 work. As a ountry â€" school istees are anxâ€" ren near their ‘The ancient stallâ€"holders of L. are fast disappearing. One b fower girls «a woman of any & to four score who sells fower girl) and various street vendor have held advantageous places longer"time than any one rem« dle and and no successors are 1 There is not room fot them bustle and hurry of presentâ€"da don life. But London is the loser by t ing of ~these picturesque cha Mother Kitchen and Mother B old Milkmaids of the Mall, ha Sshed, and "Fanny," a fower & #old fragrant blooms for more: generation under the shad-»w‘ Pavi‘s Cathedral, was borne Jong rest not Jong since, after 4n Dr. Samuel Johnson‘s old church in the Strand. | A tiny apple stall beside thi ed gateway of Lincoln‘s Inn, t1 of barristers in Chancery Lan latest to disappear. The Inn eelebrated the 500th anniversa foundation and the apple «1 well have beeon as venerable tution in point of time. Old M: who kept it, as her mother an mother before her did, has « she left no descendant to ¢ ward and claim a privilege gr the benchers of the Inn for s won long ago forgotten. He! 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