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i I . GETTING BIG SQUASH Successful Method for Raising Vegetable for Family Use. 'Excellent and Old-Fashioned Way of Raising Cucumbers and Melons In Kitchen Garden Moisture Sup plied In Dry Season. For a number of years I success fully followed this method In raising squash for family use: Make a com post cheap in a corner of tho garden with a mixture of rich loam, well rotted munuro from stable nnd hog pen, and a generous percentage of hen manure. Thcro should bo sev eral largo wagon loads of tho compost, and It should bo raked over nnd over until all pnrts nro thoroughly pulver ized and blended. Level tho heap to a circular mound, say two feet deep and ten or twelve fet In diameter, tho top flat. Cover with two Inches of loam, and plant the seed rather more quickly than In the ordinary hill or drill. Thero Bhould bo plonty of space around tho bed for tho vines to spread freely. I never failed to secure a healthy growth of plants, which, when well started were thinned so as to lcuve Boston Marrow Squash. inly tho most vigorous, and these al ways produced a good crop, writes Clinton Vaunuli In tho Orange Judd Farmer. An excellent old-fashioned way to ralBo cucumbers and melons In tho kitchen garden Is to dig a circular hole In the ground from six to ten Inches deep and threo feet across. In tho center of tho excavation place on end a nail cask with, both ends knocked out. Then fill tho space around the outsldo of the cask with a compost of good loam and rotted stable manure, or droppings from tho hennery well pulverized and thorough ly mixed with tho earth. Cover tho compost with two or threo Inches of loam, and plant the Bced near tho cask. , Fill tho cask with muck, or light manure from tho horse stable, that will hold moisture like a sponge. In case of drouth, water may bo poured Into the cask freely, It will not evap orate readily, and gives a gradual supply to the plunts as they require. Small holes should bo bored through tho staves of tho cask to allow out ward seepage of water. If the ground Is naturally inclined to dampness no excavation below the level should bo made. Flaco tho cask on the surface and build a mound of compost around it. To glvo the vines fredom of growth the caBks should to set eight or nine feet apart eacn way. HILLY PASTURES FOR SHEEP Low Wet Ground la Conductive to ''i . - ,7"- ,.i; a Foot Rot Feet Should Be Ex- amlned and Hoof Trimmed. The sheep Is a highland animal by feature. Low wet ground 1b Injurious to its feet The aheeps' toes are very flexible. Between the toes of each foot is an oil duct, which pours oil between the toes so as to reduce fric tion. In low, soft ground the mud squeezes between tho toes and clogs this duct. Tho toes will spread quite far apart and so easily that tho plate of mud accumulates and hardens and Irritation is set up which results in pus formation that finally sloughs off the hoofs if not cured. Of courso this does not happen every time a sheep gets muddy feet. Dut if compelled to live in mud, thero cornea a tlmo when the mud lodges with injurious results. We aro not sura that foot rot is a bacterial disease. It may bo so. Sure ly a bacterial infection could readily enter after tho inflammation becomes chronic. Sheep have little resisting power over their enemies so a little ailment does great damage. When your sheep get to limping or walking stiff, examine the feet. It may be they only need their hoofs trimmed. It dry mud is between the toea, clean it out and rub a little grease between the toes. Then see that they have a clean dry' place where no mud exists. Give your sheep the hilly pastures and not the low land. May Pullets Best Pullets, batched in May will, if given the proper care, feed, and attention, lay the following November, when eggs are demanding good prices, and when the old hens have not as yet full recovered from the molt. The experienced breeders of Leghorns or other Mediterranean varieties as a rule select the May hatched chicks tor their own breeding and laying pens. Hastens Germination. Fine vegetable or flower seed, as letture or popples, which must bo sown on tho surface, germinate much moro rapidly If a damp gunny sack la faid over them. ,' WHY IS POULTRY VALUABLE7 Professor Gilbert of Canada Gives Eight Good Reasons In Answer to Pertinent Question. Why Is wiuKry vnluablo to ths farmer? Is n (mention nskod by hun dreds of tillers of tho coll who usu ally keep but n few chickens, nnd these n mixture of all breeds, l'rofes Bor Gllbort of Ottawa, Canada, glvos the following reasons in answer to this pertinent question: 1. Uecauso he ought, by their means to convert a great deal of tho waste of his farm Into money In the shape of eggs nnd chickens for market. 2. Because, with intelligent manage ment, they ought to bo all-year rovo nuo producers, with tho exception ol possibly two months during tho moult ing season. 3. Uecauso the poultry will yield him a quicker return for tho capital In vested than any of tho other depart ments of agriculture. 4. liecAueo tho manuro from the poultry houso will mako a valuable composite for uso In cither vogetahlo garden or orchard. Tho birds them selves, If allowed, will destroy all In jurious insect life. 5. Uecauso, whllo cercnls nnd fruits enn only bo successfully grown in cor tnln sections, poultry can bo raised for table use or layers of eggn In nny nnd every part of tho country, and at nil seasons. C. Uecauso poultry rnlslng Is nn em ployment In which tho farmer's wlfo can engngn nnd leave him free to at tend to other departments of farm work. 7. Bccnueo It will bring tho best ro suits In the shnpo of new-laid eggfl during1 the winter season, wlen tho farmer has tho most tlmo on hla hands. 8. Because to start poultry on th farm requires very littlo capital. MILK COOLER OF CONCRETE As Water Is Constantly Changing Milk Can Be Cooled In the Shortest Possible Time. Tho illustration shows a milk coolor that is very enslly constructed by anyone and will ropay its cost mnny times over In a seaBon'H use. A box form is constructed of the slzo you wish the outside of the cooler to bo; tho inshlo Is made in the samp man ner only about eight inches smaller so as to allow for n four-Inch wall to tho tank or cooler on all sides. Tho con crete is mixed, one part cement to flvo parts of sand and gravel, nnd tho bot tom of cooler laid first; this may go threo and one-half or four Inches thick, as you deslro; tho box form for the inside Is then set upon this floor or bottom at nn equal dlstanco from the outsldo form on all four sides, and the concrete for the walls placed and tamped down. At ono end the wall 1b slightly lower in center to provide for JrAS 1X7 -. i ..' ' '-. ; t; ;.-. . . Xv'.. : . wi -1 iii-... .. " ; --W1 .. Concrete Milk Cooler. an overflow, as shown. The tank should bo high enough so that when tilled with water it will be within two or three inches of tho top of milk can, and as the water is con stantly changing, the milk can bo cooled in tho shortest possible time; it may also be built slightly larger to allow for ice to be packed around the milk cans, when it Is desired to hasten tho cooling process. Growing pigs always pay their board bill. ' A littlo tankago and oil menl makes excellent feed for young pigs. A few cholco lambs mako suitable farm companions for tho children. In tho manger is tho placo to feed everything, and not out on the ground. Even the law that Uko produces like turns "flip-flops" when cross breeding Is practiced. One of tho causes for weak Iambs is the result of compelling tho ewes to live on coarso foods. It will bo a long time before there will bo an oversupply of beof, pork and mutton in 'this country. Packers aro still talking lower prices for hogs, but in spite of this talk the market continues healthy. Proper rearing and judicious man agement will result in few bulls be coming vicious after they have grown old. If ono is obliged to feed timothy hay a good ration of bran and oats will help to maintain tho ewes in good condition. Much lameness in horses Is due to improper shoeing. Horses should bo shod by competent blacksmiths. Is yours ono? Fix a lamb creep to exclude tho ewes, sprinkle a littlo bran In tho troughs and you will very soon havo tho lambs eating. A flock of sheep will get more sub stance on poor land and at tho same tlmo do it moro good than any other stock on the fann. 'There aro too few good colts raised on the farms. This should not be. Don't leave this important Industry to the horse breeders alone. LlYC STOCK Latest Fashions Seen on the Aristocratic Boise de Bologne jF w ?rf' 1bHSbVbbbbsssssssssss WS W BKrlillBBSSsVBBSSSSSSSBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSV A v' Ja$fiSBr KPVVjtBBRwwQBHfflQsSSSi AiJLHV aSSBWlRV 9rBBBMBBs1erX!&2j99WsBSBL .slfw i BBBSSSldBSSSSB eflssBBBSBBBBs ta'V5r'x3s .Jff.?s5X--j3r5eiKr:-.'BBBBiS.;-vL-tKi Oh Two Samplea of the most recent productions of the Parisian Dressmak ing geniuses. CLOTHES FOR RAINY DAYS Fashions and Customs Have Under gone Remarkable Change In the Past Ten Years. Fashions nnd customs have changed overwhelmingly in tho pnBt ten years, but in no other respect more than in 'the rainy day garb. Evcryono remem bers with many a hearty laugh tho way people used to look out of the window and say, In a resigned way: "Well, it's raining." That meant'very positively that good looking clothes wero not in decent tasto in such weather, and ono must wear a mack intosh was thcro ever a more hide ous garment mado? hcelless rubbors, dark clothes, shabby Bhoee and one's oldest hat. And who ever did enjoy anything in her oldest hat I Nowadays tho girl who looks on tho cheerful side of things and rather onjoys the rainy day for a change has a bright red or purplo hat that, of course, has no feathers, but Is plain and serviceable, but which she knows ie most becom ing. Sho wears her tailored suit, but It has a short skirt and is protected by a. good looking raincoat. Her shoes AAASNIVWS NEW PARIS MODEL sVsbbbbbbbV "- lv . - ' CKjSMl SSSSSSSSSsKsBSsW' 1 Kii f ' '"' bBbKJJ sbssssssssssssbB S?'-W(:" ,' " sssssssHil bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbB y & I ff y asaaaaaaaaaaaV M BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsH 'f' V V SBBBBBBbBH VflHssf I H $ '? ' BBy .aw cBBb ''-"' 'bK y 1 A gown of bluo and silver brocade trimmed with lace and pink inallne, tho latter forming tho short corsage. f nro high and thick, but they are Just as good looking as those sho keeps for sunny days, and often, to ndd another bit of color, eho carries a red or pur plo silk umbrella. It keeps tho rnln off Just as well as a black ono and it Just makes you feel better. It is won derful what -a becoming hat nnd gay umbrella can do toward chasing away the blues on a stormy day. SOAP TABLETS FOR TOURISTS New Preparation That Is Likely to, Appeal to Traveler of Fastidious Tastes. Somehow soap powder has never taken tho fancy of fastldous folk. It is not especially pleasant to use and It never smells Uko anything but tho washroom of a railway station or department storo. It, moreover, has a way of sprinkling itself around every where except on tho hands in a messy and disagreeable way, and dainty wo men who travel will have none of it, preferring to carry the wet cake of personally preferred toilet soap in a rubber lined receptaclo in the traveling bag. A new soap tablet, however, will bo likely to appeal to the fastidious traveler, because of Us convenience and tho attractive way It is put up. Fifty of theso tablets aro packed like bonbons in a pretty littlo box Icsb than threo inches square. A pair of nickel tweezera aro tucked in tho box for extracting tho tablets again like bonbons and tho tablets themselves, though firm in composi tion, dissolve easily in tho water. And tho entiro package costs no more than tho ordinary cake of good toilet soap. HAIR A LA POMPADOUR AGAIN French Expert Says Style of Hair- dressing for This Season Will Be Simple. An indication of tho fashions in hnlrdresslng for tho forthcoming sea son was given at a meeting of mora than 400 hairdressers from Loudon, Brussels and Berlin in London re cently. "Tho tendency is," said a famous Paris hairdresser, "for tho hair to be dressed upwards, and, In fact, to show a return to the pompadour stylo. The keynoto of the now fashion is sim plicity. There will bo prictlcally no chignon, and tho hair will not, as for merly, be brushed flat over the ears. Tho new stylo should bo especially suitable for the Englishwoman." Blue and White China. Bluo and wbto German china, dec oratod with Delft designs, Is good china for tho bluo breakfast table. It Is mado on good lines, Is thin enough to bo dainty and thick enough to bo durable. A coffee cup and sau cer In this china Is priced CO cents. An interesting pleco of blue and wblto fluted Copenhagen tablewaro Ib a squaro egg dish with scalloped top with a dainty egg cup held by tho stem in each of tho eight scallops. New Tailored Waist. A now washable shirtwaist is madti up on tho lines of a man's shirt, with plaited bosom front, dickey collar and, black cravat. It may also bo had la white crepe de chino. teBNATIONAL SDNMTSfflOOL Lesson rty K. O. Bi:i.l,i:tt8. Director of Kvonlnr Uoimrttnoiit, Tho Mooily lllblo Institute. ChlcitKo.) LESSON FOR JUNE 29 THE VICTORIES OF FAITH. ItrjADINO I.KHSON Acts 7:9-10; Hcli. 11:20-22. (lOMJUN TP.XT "This In tho victory Hint linth nwrcomo tho worlil, ivon our fnlth." t John 6:4. Tho rending lessons for today nro a Now Testnmunt commentary upon tho past quarter's work. Tho first lesson 1b taken from that marvelous defenno ot Stephen tho first mnrtyr. Ab ho trnceB tho history of tho pcoplo of Israel, ho shows God's continued ac tlvltlcH and purposes from the hour ho called Abraham until tho holy ono of i Israel ciunu to (111 to their fulnenB all of theso Hiuuo activities ami purpose, Stephen nlso shows us that nlougsldu (Jod's nctivltlcH wn tho equally per sistent disobedience of tho pcoplo which culminated In tho betrayal nnd mm tier of that holy one. In tho por tion selected ho Hots before us how Joseph is sold into Hgypt, yet God was with hltn and delivered hint; how tho famine enmo nnd Jacob In thereby brought Into Kgypt only later to bo carried back Into tho land of promlso. Tench Faith. Tho second lesson Is taken from that great catalogue of heroes nu re corded in tho EplHtlu to tho Hebrews. Hero wo havo set beforo us tho fact that God's eternal purpose with man Is ever that of faith. Isaac, .ftcob and Joseph nro hero mentioned nnd tho faith of each net beforo us. Leaving out tho Kustur lesson wo havo covered n period of about CO years, eight lessons dealing with Jo seph, and four with Jacob. Attention has beon called to Jo Boph as ono of tho most remarkable types of Christ to be found In tho Old Testament (seo comments on lesson of April 27). Ab wo huvo nlso sug gested Jacob Is not so grand a chap actcr as Abraham yet Is much more Uko tho avcrngo man. It Is interesting to go over theso lessons nnd follow God's purposes and i observe how llko Christ Joseph was. Im LESSON I. wo behold Jacob ntthe Instigation of Ills mother deceiving hla lor old father and being compelled to fly that ho might savo his life. Ro bekah thought sho could cxicuto God's purposes; but it Is never right to do evil that good may result. In LESSON II. Jehovah appeared be foro this conscience smitten refugoa nnd again promised tha '.ho blesBlng, yeB, his own dlvino'purposo, would bo worked dut in Jacob's life. This la a IcsBon on tho grace of God. LESSON III. sets Jacob before us after twenty-ono years' servlco and Boparation from his brother Esau. This Is a great lesson on God's desire and transforming power. Ho trans forms Jacob to Israel a "prlnco" and softened the heart of Esau. Faith ovorcamo and 1b strengthened and confirmed. In LESSON IV. wo first behold Jo seph particularly loved and favored and as bitterly hated; he was thrown Into a pit to dlo but Is taken up1 (typical of tho resurrection) 'and sold Into slavery. Tho development of en vy and tho persistont, delivering pur poBo of God aro here presented in strong contrast LESSON V. shows Joseph's enter Ing that dark mazo beyond which God was to highly exalt him. By faith he overcame that flerco temptation and his treatment of his fellow prisoner was God's useful agency though it seemed accidental and Insignificant God's Continued Purpose. LESSON VI. is the completion ol Lesson V. and in It we seo Joseph seated in tho placo of power, able t savo tho country and nlso his broth ron. LESSON VII. shows ub God's con tinued purpose, and tho beginning ol tho fulfillment of his word that the descendants of Abraham were to dwell in captivity (Gen. 15:13). LESSON VIII. is a continuation ol Joseph's dealings with his brothors in which their guilty consciences are still further prlckod and God roveala to us his immutable purpoBo. LESSON IX. is a tender ono of the meeting of Joseph and Benjamin whllo at the same tlmo it suggests to ub tho certainty of tho fact that we may "be sure your sin will find you out." Un less covered by his forgiving blood our Bin is mercilessly upon our track. In LESSON X. wo behold Joseph mado known to his brethren and those In fear aro urged to draw near. Jo seph's faith in God saved him from ar rogance and retaliation and inclined his heart to tenderness and lovo in his dealings with his brothers. Even as Joseph revealed himself to his broth ers so will Christ rovcal himself, Joseph's provision for his fathers and his brethren, LESSON XI., la a rich suggestion of our father's bounty nnd enro for all who aro "In Christ Jesus." By faith Joseph who had bo como great In a strange land, ldontl fled with all of Us power and splendor makes provision that when God's pur poso shall bo executed' and tho sons of Tsraol shall bo delivered from Egypt, his bones shall bo carried into tho land of tho peoplo to whom ho belonged and from whom ho has so long boon separated. FalthlB the se cret of victory. Joseph as a type Uachea us (ho lesson, o faith. AILING WOMEN OF MIDDLE AGE Mrs. HUbert Tells of Her Dis tressing Symptoms During Change of Life and How She Found Relief. Fleetwood. Ps. "During tho Chance of Life I was hardly able to bo around stall. I always had a headscho and I was so dizzy and ner vous that I had no rest at night The flashes of heat were so bad sometimes that I did not know what to do. "One days friend! advised mo to take Lydia E. PJnkham'a Vegetable Com pound and it made mo a strong well wo man. I am very thankful that I fol lowed my friend's advice and I shall recommend it as long as I live. Befbra 1 took tho Compound I was always sickly and now I havo not had mcdlcins from a doctor for years. You may pub lish my letter." Mrs. Edward 11. lliu DEM1, Fleetwood, Ta. Such wnrnlnp symptoms as sense of suffoctition,hot flashes, hcndnchcs.back nehes, dread of impending evil, timidity. Bounds in Uio ears, palpitation of the heart, sparks before tho eyes, irregu larities, constipntion, vnrinblo nppotite, weakness and inquietude, nnd dizziness, nro promptly heeded by intelligent wo men who nro approaching tho period la life when woman's great chango may be expected. Ly 'If K. 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