1916
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M Csutivsed from me alas.)
bones fromthe butcher. The bone
m““ be Kround fine. .and the cost of
wit-h tht results it will bring to your
l11¢°me.- mul W. cage.
 lllolt a time would seem
:gui lnile good results. Further-
more, marked benefits from the use
of nit.\'ste~ot soda in vegetable pro-
duction have been reported from Cer.
tain exberllnpnt stations or the East.
in' view of these considerations, it
'wasthought best to make some tests
with thi! mltierlal ln the production
oil/egetablss on the brown out lem
of the corn belt. Accordingly s. gg.
ri_ -ol tests. was planned. including
e kinds of vegetables, viz., radish,
_ , beet. onion. spinach, lettuce,
cabbage and cauliflower. 'The tests
were MBU!! ill 1907 and continued for
six years. _ '
V _  ‘Conclusions "
In “the light of the data secured ip
connection with the nitrate of soda
Blllhriment reported on the following'
conclusions are warranted:
1. Under the soil and climatic con-
ditions attending these tests, nitrate
of soda usually does not induce an
'excessive development of foliage on
the common early root crops, md.
ishes, turnips and heels; without a
corresponding development: of the
roo .
2. Top-dressings of nitrate of soda
may reasonably be expected to have
a beneficial effect upon the following
crops of early vegetables, on well-
manured brown silt loam in the corn
belt; radlshee. tumips, beets. spine.ch,l
cabbage, cauliflower. The beneficial
effect may consist in a higher per-
centage of plants reaching market-
able.sile.on condition within a given
time; greater size of the individual
specimens, or greater toast yield. (lf
the stand were uniform, the last two
points would be correlated.)
2. Under the conditions of these
tests. the benefits to be derived from
topdressings of nitrate of soda to
onions and head lettuce do not ap-
pear to be " sufficiently marked or
consistent to warrant the use of this
fertilizing material on these crops.
4. Nitrate of soda applied at; into -
vals of two weeks seems to be fully
as effective as when applied at more
frequent intervals, even though the
aggrezate amount of material is cor-
respondingly less;- in many cases it is
more' effective.
5. Under the conditions of these
tests, the beneficial results of using
nitrate of soda, in the production of
early vegetables do not appear to be
so pronounced as results which have
been reported from certain other sec-
tions of the country.-University Bul-
letin 184.
WHEN EGGS COST MOST.
Have you ever tried to figure why
egg production is so greatly reduced in
the Winter time? )This happens just at
the season when we find the market
the most' profitable. It isn’t because the
hen is a hothouse' fiend and dislikes
the cold, bracing atmosphere. Though
hens are more adapted to Summer than
Winter, they are very few days in the
Winter that the hens refuse to he hap-
py,,`lf properly cared for.
_‘Mother hen doesn’t suspend business
ing,-_the_Winter because of her health,
for she'is.war1nly clad and the feed
bills; show she eats more than she does
wli’ensin~the open. Then where does
rrfliis trouble lie? lt lies in the fact that
while the Winter has no terror for
mother hen, the' same cannot be said of
bugs, beetles, worms and small ani-l
mats, and plant life generally’ `
These choice dietary morsels are
most important factors in her business
of egg production. She is unable to
find them during the cold months. Of
course, a hen can "get along" on corn
wheat, etc. But the difference between
five and six dozen eggs a year and 200
is quite another thing. You should
look upon the hen as an "investment,"
and you want to "force her," just as:
-the florist forces his flowers to bloom
earlier than the other man’s flowers.
if you want more eggs you must fur-
nish your hens withl the necessary
material with which to make eggs.
Hens must have green food. If you
were a thoughtful man you sowed a
plat to beets, or you raisd an addition-
ul amount of acreage of oats, and these
are being fed as green food. It ie a
very easy mutter to sprout oats. Ordin-
ary green hone, obtained at the blfucb-
er's at a little or nopexpense than
anything else. Few men feed green
ground bone. But the small maiority
who do earn their reward in a full egg
basket, other -things being equal as to
balanced poultry ration. Buy a bone
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For  
'T me busy man the value
of 8X0 CUBES'
.t
 few
vide a lilht.
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P|.ANTlNG 8TRAwBERR|E8.
"EV°\"b°l\‘ll18" strawberries al;e`
t
a
varieties that bear and ripen fru
|0118 after the ordinary kinds have
finished for the season They have
UMW advantages over the od stan
dard varieties, and should b grown
more zenersily in field culture Do
not discard the standard strawber
P195. but Plant generously of the
ever-bearing varieties this spring.
f°l` 1110)' are profitable
The culture of standard and ever
bearing sorts is practically the dame
While the former do not produce a
°\'0l> the first year of planting the
ever bearing varieties do, s. consider
ation in itself of great importance
The plants are set in spring in a
very fertile soil Soon after planting
many blossoms will be produced, but
the first stems should be picked oif
as they develop until early July.
This gives the plants an opportunity
to become woll developed. After
July permit all fruit to set for lato
summer and fall bearing. The inl-
tinl crop will pay the cost of the en-
tire plants and planting and give a
Profit besides. -
‘ in picking the spot for the straw-
berry patch the portion of the farm
that is well covered with snow dur-
ing the entire winter _will be found
favorable if other conditions are fav-
orable. Soil that has had previous
Bood cultivation should be chosen
nd plowing should be deep and
thorough. Manure or strawberry
beds may be applied early in spring,
before planting, but should be well
rotted; barnyard manure may be
drawn for the purpose during the
winter and placed in good tight piles
near the proposed beds.
CHOPPED STUFF
It is a good time now to get, out and
fix up that telephone line.
Plan to attend conventions this win-
ter. Agriculture must not lag.
Gather the eggs several times o
day, to prevent freezing in the nestsw
Feed your sows liberally when dry.
it will repay you during the milkinf.:
period. ~
Labor is going to be scarce this
coming season; plan where you 'can
save lt.
Rheumatic and stunted pigs are
the result of damp pens. Give them
plenty of dry litter.
ln about a month’s time pruning
may be commenced. Get the saws
and clippers in shape.
More milk will require either more
feed or more judicious use of the
feed fed. Study rations. _
Inspect the engines, motors, pumps
and other machinery about the farm,
and make frequent; use of the oil can.
With cheese from nineteen to nine-
teen ami e. quarter factories have poor
excuses for closing down for the win-
er.
' Clean up the seed again with the
fanning mill, then hand pick it. Thel
latter job.may be a hard one, but it
pays.
The heavy winter milker is usually
the best and most persistent cow;
give her an opportunity to make
rcatest profits.
' THE ICE HOUSE
For any country residence, that is,
one too far removed from the route
of the iceman. this is the last chance
of building the icehonse with comfort
An earlier start would have been bet-
ter but' the frost is not yet so far
into the ground as to make it im-'
possible to dig for the foundations.
The first thing io bc considered in
chosing the site for the icehouse is
convenience combined with good
drainage; the drainage is of import-
ance to both the keeping of the ice
and the health of the people who
are to use it. With a wcll-drained
spot, near the dwelling house, picked
out, building should be started at
once with the idea of good insliltation
always in mind. Painting the
structure may have to be left till
Sprlng.but every essential to the pre-
serving of the ice must be attended to
now; skids must be made, hooks plac-
ed for hanging pulleys, sawdust
drawn and stored in a dry place, and
ice tools bought or made fit for use so
that there‘ll be no time lost when the
ice harvest is ready. The tools need-
ed, for working ice, are not many nor
expensive. A steel scraper to rc- -'
move snow that covers the ice. An
ice-plow, a slice bar, a saw, a few
pike poles, ice tongs, and some chain
will be found sufficient, and some of
these are already in' use on most
farms.
ice should be stored as compactly
as possible to prevent circulation cl'
air through the mass and to expose
as little surface as possible, for these
pile of ice that is as near
to a cube is advisnble,and ;
o . ,
t
the
RB lt)
uid be constructed so
e such a body.
KEEP T0 ONE LINE ‘
Diversification has become the most
used of any strikingpword in connec-
tion with the practice of agriculture
during the past year, it is emphasied
by nearly every person who makes a
report of his farming operations, and
act ha the ser has decided not
the f t' t ll
to “put all his eggs in one basket"
o be considered by him s. dis-
at least the close followinl!
seems i.
covery,
of
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the machine is small in conxparisonf
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Owes its Popularity to the
Very Best of Wool
Oi the kinds of wool needed for the favonte
lmes of StanF|eld’s Underwear, we are the lar est
purchasers in Canada This gives us comman of
the market, so that we are able to secure lust what
we want in weight and length of fibre-in fact, we
get the pick of the kind ol wool best suited to the
many different weights and classes of Stanfield’s
Underwear
Our practice is to buy our wool supply months
ulrements This Ives lent of time to
ahead of req ° - ` 8° P Y _
grade it accurately and clean it thoroughly. During the
cleaning, and before it goes to the machines to be spu
V knitted, a secret Staniield’s process takes the “shrink” out l
n and
Made up into garments, this wool has a softness that is
-- n h at will stand the most strenuous
delightful to the skin sire gt  `
wear--durability that makes it, in the long run, the most
- uch freedom from
economical underwear you can buy and s
shrinking that even alter several seasons’ wear a Stanfleld’s
garment is as ample and comfortable as the day it was bought.
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honest as old fashioned homcspun
The best underwear made for mcn
who work hard outdools Wonder
fully warm and absorbent Red,
Blue and Black Labels-regular,
medium and heavy weights.
All made In Camllnallaru and Two-place Suu:-in fall knglb, knee and elbow lenglh smlsleeunleu.
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showing over a dozen
weights and textures,
from the lightest Sllko
wool to the heaviest
ribbed goods for Out-
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should -beltrled 0ut,on a man’s own
farm in-afsmallway. - l
To “let"go`od enough alone" may
not be the best means of progressing
in the fanning business, but 'tis better
than shopping and changing with
every wind that blows, and the wis-
dom of sticking to one line is no-
where bettcr realized than in the
breeding of live stock. One great
cause ot’ complaint by the packers is
the a earance of too man es ol'
worse the mixture of many breeds of
the different classes of stock, and it
would be unsafe to say which is the
best, but there arc certainly better
aud worse breeds, and the better ones
must be kept intact and the worse
ones dropped entirely by the man who
expects ever .to do well with animals.
Only thc fittcst can be allowed to
plants, and failure follows the wasting
of time and space on any but the best
types obtainable.
nn y typ _
cattle nt the stock yards, and what tsl
survive in farm animals and farm,
D|s‘1'Al-ics Fnom 'rowN.
A Fair Distance From Main Centres
Best for the General Farmer.
Their distance from city or town
to a. large extent governs the price
of farms that are for s-ale, and the
condition of the country roads is a
factor that should be considered in
making a purchase of n piece oi' land
for farming.
The use of an automobile will
greatly lessen the time _lost in get~-
ting to town for market or for plea-
sure if the roads travelled are lit for
the upholding of the machine. This
matter is sometimes overlooked by
the intending purchaser of a farm
who considers first the proximity oi'
neighbors, and is willing to pay high
for the pleasure of seeing his friends
ns often as possible.
If a hundred-acre farm. situated
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ten or fifteen m-iles from the nearest large crops without great expense,
l‘Hi|\‘01il1 10l»Vl\» Cllll DC' DOUEIII 1'0l` because, although possibly rough,
t\vo-tlnrtls oi' the price of one that is and ln wan; of L-lea,-lug, the land ls
0111>’ IWO 0|' three miles Olli. U10 SRV- less worked out as the distance Trom-
lns in purchase price should nay for markets enforces me keeping or uve
a good, useful car and its upkccp, Stock
and the added distance from town or ln me Case of ll l»ul,_d0wn place,
city shoulfl unreal \0 '-he Ines Wlwelive stock will pond it up and there
wishes to make farflung his life ls ll much l,@llel» Chance of clean
W0l'l< Ol' 10 Ulf* 0l\0 Wil0 i1'lk9S 10 farming where the manure used is
f&l‘lIliIli-I HS 21 Ciwllgfi i`r0lll vii-Y W0!'li- produced on the place rather than
Tile regular, out-nnd~out farmer can pu;-¢lm,;p(l from the ell,-_ The _small
Stay 011 |115 Dllwe Oi' bUHi!\0BS llffflrll’ place is no doubt necessary in these
all the year round. to his own ndvun- days ot big cities, and will appeal to
H1150, and occasional n+:cossn1'y ll'll>S the man whose chief interest is in
on business need not bc neglected the growing of crops, but the lover or
on account ol' u fifteen-mile drive on anlmals and he Wlm lnngs for ll",
snow roads. when all automobile freedom or the country needs more
cannot travel; while the man \vl\o mom than mn be found on the ln.
farms as n. side line to some city tonplvo tell ag;-es or leps_
business does not, as a rule, intcndl \1l/ith good malls llml allow gl the
to spend much time in thc country lmullng of mg loads of Staple D,-0.
dllrllll; the Winter m0l1ihS. lducts and the travcl of automobiles
Besides costing a smaller cash when speed is necessary, the hun.
lll'i00 U10 OUUYIDK farm Drvvides. IIS dred or two hundred-acre farm, de-
a rule, better chances of growing'votcd io live stock and grain or to
in some
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SHAVE YOU DONE YOUR PART YET?
About it. ict Him Know that Y.ou're likely to have _a place for htm
when he comes back again. Let him know how] much more you’ll
think- of ihfinr-if he goes with the King, than if he stays with you
MR. BUSINESS MA
MR. EMPLDYER-...
dairy farming,f’or the~supplying of
cheese or butter 1'actories.~__wilif_ de-
velop the country more quickly and
more thoroughly than will the small
places, that are dependent on' rail-
road tmnsportation for its crops, or
the proximity of town or city"lnar-
kets. 1 - ~:
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Minsrd's Linlmcnt Co., Limited.
Gentlemen- Last winter I receiv-
ed great benefit from the use of
MINARD‘S LINIMENT in a severe
attack of LaGrippe, and I have fre-
quently proved it to be very effective
in cases of Inflammation. ‘
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YOUTH.
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working at a Job which a Woman wit a Little Assistance From You Could Do
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Have You Talked to the Likely Young Man Who Works
For You about the Work that the King Has For Him to Do? i
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THINK  If the British Cpnscription Bill were to B;¢c.~me Law in Canada next week who would it take out of your
» -l-W, ' oy? Why wait for Compulsion? Why nn cear the Business Decks for Action now. Why not run your _I
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