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GOVERNMENT FOR FARMERS. Legislation PROTECTION FOR PLANTS. the Ways of Shielding Them From Midday Sun. If pill Ills are not prntcelod from high wlri(D and loo much sun they will not nourish, especially In the early stages of iliolr growth. Tlds Is particularly true of the plants In the vegetable garden, and fortunately there are many easy and simple methods of pro viding them with shade. Empty soap holes raised on block baskets, rolls of carpi spread out on support awnings may all he u empty fruit and matting lo look like li. Old mat in Australia Makes the I Dairy Business Profitable. It may Interest American fanners to I luton that In Australia the govern- ] immt has come to the aid of agricul ture in a satisfactory manner. This is I particularly true of dairy farming The |inivIticitiI government maintains . at Calgary the largest and llnest dairy station and Id storage plant In all i the west few years ago the farm ers of si n: '••i n .\lherla became dls- sattailed with the private creameries then in operation and ask oil the gov ernment to take charge of the busl- i ness. The government Is especially | solicitous for the prosperity of farm ers, and the public policy lias no pur pose that precedes their best interest. Therefore the request was taken up. and government creameries took the place of the old private concerns. These creameries are equipped upon the most modern plans, and, being con ducted with no thought of profit, hut solely in the Interests of the farmers, their operation has been of enormous benefit. They are called "co-opera tive" and really are just exactly that. A chain of them has been established through I he Country sufficient and otti elent to serve the whole farming com munity. They are subject lo the con trol of their patrons, through boards of directors, and under government management. Most of the patrons separate their milk- at home by means of hand sep arators and lake their cream to the government stations, say three or four times a week. There It Is carefully tested, weighed and credited up. At the end of each month each patron gets credit for the equivalent of his cream in butter and receives a cash advance equal to 10 cents a pound. Thirty or sixty days later a check for (lie balance Is sent him from the de partment of agriculture direct—that is to say, the government actually takes Ids cream, makes Ids butter and pays him the market rate in cash and a gov ernment check. This Is neither pa- best days may enjoy a new lease of ternallsm nor socialism. It Is a farm- life as plant coverings. The great t , rs > government, doing business with 11dng is to cover the plants so that ; aad for the farmers. In other words, I hey will he shady, but not without j 11 simply business, and good busi ness at that, for all concerned. The average price paid at government creameries In 1008 was 25.43 cents. Of course these creameries have to be maintained, and Ibis is accomplish- In Paris. 7iy F. A. COLLIJVS. npyrijjhted, by Arsoi Press. COVERING LETTUCE WITH M ATT I NO tings or carpets that have seen t heir atr. Even castoff lints may be used to prop over a delicate now plant, and as straw allows the air to circulate it, will not bo entirely deprived of oxy gen Stones laid on the hat brims will keep them from blowing away ou a: ed milking a charge of 4 cents a windy day. | p 0UIU p One cent of this goes to a < nsioh fruit baskets are excellent j un) j f or {| 10 purchase of buddings and lo cover transplanted plants. I he.v J nl ackinery, of which the farmers be- provlde suttielent shade and do not ( . nn H- part owners to the extent of their ..mother the plants, because the open- contrlbutIonH . ings let In air. They are very light to | A „ , hls wou1d moan m ,i e if | t did handle and easy to store because they set Into each other, besides being suf ttciently durable to lust an entire sea The ormolu clock ou the mantel in the pretty drawing room at Auteuil. near Paris, with windows overlooking the garden, never slept, although its mistress, Mrs. Marion Boultings, did regularly every evening I hat her sou and herself spent alone. She was nodding now over a ribbon decorated basket containing some silk en hose she had been mending. The ormolu clock struck 11, and Otto, turn ing around, pushed a book off to I lie floor. The noise awoke Mrs. Hennings, who sat. up with a start and remarked: j "1 am off to lied. What a stupid evening! i haven't heard you speak for an hour.” “You couldn't,” said Otto. But as she stared at him indignantly he made haste to add, “Because 1 haven't spo ken for an hour.” Mrs. Benniugs got up slowly, and a letter fell from her lap. Otto hasten ed to pick it up. “You’d better read it,” said his mother. “M,v cousin, Ilarry Jones, who is tremendously rich, writes that lie is bringing his motherless daughter lo Paris. Her name is Arietta, and 1 have heard she is pretty and accom plished. We must be very nice to them, particularly to the daughter. She is an only child.” “Then 1 congratulate her. I'm an only child, too,” remarked Otto. “Her husband will he very fortu nate. Don’t you agree with me?” “I’ll withhold judgment till I see the young lady,” said her son. Left alone, Otto resumed the writing of his letter, which he was to address to a certain Celeste, and reflected that probably his mother was already plan ning to marry him to Arietta, Hie daughter of. tlie wealthy Mr. Jones. But lie made a bet with himself that it wouldn’t come off. Suddenly a woman’s voice to the ac companiment of a guitar came through the open window. It was sofl, rich, yet penetrating. “La unite eeoute et se pencil sue 1'oreille,” etc. “Hello!” said Otto. “A strolling singer, and a good voice too.” He went to the window and called out, “Qui vive?” nice fellow you are! But I can’t ea much. I'm too worried.” “Worried?" said Otto. "What about?” “I guess you'd he worried if you | didn’t know where you wore going to sleep tonight." j “So I might:,” said he, "hut where ! did you sleep last night?" | “In the Pare Moneeau." j "In the park? All night?” j “All night, and there was such a wretch near me.’’ “I’m sure there was," said Otto, hunting through his pockets. “Here, take this money. At least you won't have to sleep in the park.” “Then I can’t sleep here?” pouted the girl. “You believe me, of course, hut you have your few little doubts. M.v story is so absurd.” PUBLIC BEST BEAUTIFYING HOME GROUNDS. How a Useful Institution Has Benefited a Smali Town. APPRECIATED BY TRADERS. Merchants Regard a Club In Sunny- How to Select Shrubs and Arranqo Them Tastefully. Beautiful home grounds tastefully laid out and planted with flowers and shrubs improve the appearance of towns very much if care is taken in the selection and arranging of shrubs Shrubs, as a rule, are intended as a frame for the yard or garden, n,,,. are planted around the borders 0 ? t), e I lawn or used to screen the found lion . .... to B || j n coruets side, Wash., Started by Women as a j ’ Good Business Investment Not a The shrubbery f mme for lh " ;irfl of Money Making Scheme. , „, ir( j en should he formed on the same Travelers for commercial houses. | principle as a picture frame, the border son or longer. They cost nothing, can not secure the best market advantages j “Oh, dear,” answered a woman’s for everybody concerned, but it does voice outside, “they told me you spoke I menu that and In a fuller sense than] English." could he secured through any other j T do, after a fashion,” said Otto, process. The government has consol- j loaning out of the window. “Do you?’ idnted the market and conducts the | sales, nil In behalf of the producers. [ The butter is sold through government agencies, principally heretofore in British Columbia and the Yukou dis trict, hut of late in growing quanti ties to Japan. A large export trade in | butter from southern Alberta has sprung up in the Japanese market, 'Why, of course 1 do,” said the j voice. “I’m English; at least I’m Amer- J “I believe every word,” said Otto, , “but this hotel is expensive.” “I’ll take the money,’’ said the girl, 1 “and as soon as my father comes he 1 will repay you. You’ll tell ine your ; name. How he will thank you! Oh, i if only the shops were open so 1 might ; buy some shoes and stockings. These are holes.” Olto ran to his mother’s workbasket, j which she bad left behind her, and j drew forth a pair of stockings. He j offered them to the stranger, who re-1 ceived them with a shriek of joy. “Could I borrow these?” she cried. "Your wife’s?” “My mother’s,” said he. “I’m not married.” “Not married?” cried the girl, hold ing the silk hosiery aloft. “I thought”— This was the scene that Mrs. Ben- j niugs witnessed as she opened the j door in her drawing room to inquire j why her son was still up. She paused j a moment, then strode in, exclaiming: j “Otto!” Otto jumped around guiltily, and j the stranger screamed. “So it is thus,” said his mother stern- j ly—“it is thus you betray the confi- J donee I repose in you. As soon as j you think I am safely iu bed you have j in—to a midnight revel.” “Mother, lot me explain," said Otto, i “This lady”— “Lady!” interrupted Mrs. Bennings. | “What is this lady doing in my house unknown to me?” “I’d better tell her,” said the girl, rising to her feet. But the outraged matron, motioning her to he silent, said: “I will deal only with my sou. As for you, begone!" “Are the stockings hers?" asked the girl of Otto. “Then I’ll not wear them a single instant. I’d rather go bare foot. I would—indeed, i would. I’m very sorry, madam, that I intruded, but I was in great trouble. Until my father, who is to arrive this week”— She stamped her feet into the ruined ; slippers and rose, half crying: “I’m going. I’m sorry I came in.” j Otto was at her side. “I’ll take you ] to a-, hotel. Let mother think what : suits her. Come!” He offered her his hand. The girl farmers and their families coming inti town to trade and others while shop ping would no doubt often appreciate of a rug, etc. It should harmonize with the picture it liicloses, ami each shrub in the border-should liarnwnize some place where they could rest and , with its companions. Too often u , talk over business matters or arrange a deal. To supply this need an ex periment has been tried and proved successful. U is regarded as a good business investment, and what Sunny- side, Wash., a small town of about attention is paid to this kind of har mony, and the shrubbery border in comes a thing of shreds and patches, made up of showy bushes, perhaps beautiful plants iu themselves, but ar ranged without regard to the offt -t of l,ooo in the fertile Yakima valley, has , the shape, color and general app ei EMPTY FRUIT BASKETS FOB PROTECTION. tie collected and saved for the purpose, and weather does not destroy them quickly or winds blow them easily about. Use peach baskets for the larger plants, plum and grape baskets for smaller plants or for two or three of the very smallest and strawberry baskets for the smallest of all. Even these will span two seedlings set near toget her. Choose a cool, shaded corner for let tuce. If you have none such make a retreat for the succulent delicacy. Have a movable screen of reeds or woven twigs with which to protect the lettuce hod from the noonday sun. Take It down at night and do not put it tip ou cloudy days By a little care in tills respect you will secure sweet salad. As the tirst supply of plants shows a tendency to run to seed, have a second and a third installment ready to take Its place. Lettuce that grows in the sun gets bitter, and when the head elongates into a stem it is past use. Radishes also thrive into Juicy mild ness in the shade, although they will lienr more sunshine than lettuce, if set so near a brick wall as to fool the rudiated heat as well as the direct rays of the sun they will develop too fast and become pithy and pungent. Green peas should he planted early Iu the season. Give them rich earth, plenty of light and heat, and water often should the season be dry. Train upon sticks against the wall. If you have room for two crops plant a sec ond three weeks after you put the tirst into the ground. Cucumbers flourish under direct and radiating sunshine, being of tropical origin. They, too. should he eaten aoon after they are gathered. Profit In Geeoo. There is no fowl that will respond to treatment or furnish bettor results than the waterfowl. It will mature just as rapidly away from streams as near them. A generous supply of drinking water is all that is required. There nre many places on a farm that are worthless for cultivation that could ho utilized with excellent results for goose raising. Many farmers are profiting by this and adding to their incomes annually. The care and at tention necessary for raising geese are very small when compared with the lean. “The deuce you are! What are you doing iu our garden?” “I wish you would let me come in and tell you, will you?” “Come In at once. Here, give me your hand. It’s only a step.” put hers in it, and they turned toward the window. But Mrs. Bennings cried: “The door, if you please!” The stranger went to the door and, turning, said, with dignity: “I know that appearances are against mo, hut when my father A pretty girl dressed in a Spanish ] reaches Paris we will call and explain, j done can be at least attempted by oth er towns. Yakima valley is settled quite thick ly, and, while there are many large ranches, the majority are small ranches —twenty, forty or eighty acres—and nre tributary to Suunyside, so a great many people drive there to trade. If it happens to be windy or dusty the visitors present a disheveled and al most demoralized appearance and would like some convenient room where they could retouch their toilet and restore that harmonious and chic complete ness so dear to both men and women. The necessity existed, and a few en ergetic women saw it and determined to do something, hut they had not a penny to start with. Anyway, they started. The Public Rest Room club sprang into existence. There are a 1 president, secretary and treasurer aud ] an executive hoard. The president is i a hustling, capable woman. A room ; iu the business portion of Sunnyside | was rented. The first month’s rent j was donated to offset the expense of I putting the room in order; it was pa- { pered aud made as cozy as possible, j Tables, stoves, floor coverings, rockers j and other chairs, couch and other fur- | niture and fixings were donated or | loaned, many of them not entirely new. | The telephone was also donated. Bread, pies and cakes were freely giv- I en for sale and a present of about fifty ] potato sacks, which were sold at 5 cents each. So Sunnyside had a place where men, women and children could come in and enjoy a warm fire, a rock ing chair, papers, books and maga zines. There is no charge for any of these comforts, but a box for free will offerings stands on the table. Mon know where to find their wives when they are through shopping. Friends make appointments to meet each other at the rest room. The club is not a money making scheme, as no one gets a cent but the matron. There is also a library of about 500 books, including the latest and best. The merchants contribute monthly 25 cents and upward, which more than pays the rent, aud any sur plus is used to add another comfort to the rooms. During the one year of its ance of one upon the whole. In choosing shrubs to grow side by side consider the foliage aiul flowers as carefully ns you consider the size and shape of the hush. Do not put large masses of light green foliage next to masses of dark, or you will have a patchy effect. By care In se lection as regards flowering season you may he sure of having one or more plants in the border in blossom at all times during the summer. Two shrubs that blossom at the same time should not he placed together if the colors clash. In the summer study your shrubbery border and make notes as to new plants needed, their color, size and flowering season, and also what old plants may profitably be moved. These notes will enable you to work accurately in the fall after the blooming season or in the spring. Care in selecting and arranging the plants in your home grounds will never ’ regretted. LAWNS AS BEAUTIFIERS. costume, as If for a fancy ball, fol lowed the hand. Her costume was rich and looked fresh, hut she sank Into a chair by the window, cxclaim- Ufe about 4,000 visits were paid to the rest room, and the merchants look How to Make One With Little Trouble and Repair Old Ones. Well kept lawns about private resi dences and public buildings add very materially to the attractiveness of a town. A bit of green here and there will wonderfully improve a barren and desolate section. It does not cost much to make a lawn or repair it, ami the work is not hard. Iu the spring months is the best time to make a new lawn and to repair an old one. Fertilizer should be applied to grass plots which have been estab lished a few years, and thin portions should be reseeded. If seed has been sown in the fall for a new lawn, watch carefully this spring and reseed those places where the first seeding fails to come up. In making a new lawn great care should bo taken. Prepare the ground as soon as it can he worked. Grade it, smoothing over rough surfaces, mak ing proper level spaces and gentle slopes. If possible the lawn should slope away from the house. The grad ing should be clone to distribute evenly all surface water, avoiding the forma tion of little runs which might pro- “Oh, how good it seems to lie able to sit down again in a chair!” “Have you walked all the way from Paris?” asked Otto. “From Paris and ever so much far ther. My shoes are worn to shreds. See?" She stretched out a tiny foot. Slip per and silken hose were in shreds. Won’t you please tell me your name?" Mrs. Bennings shook her head, hut, , , . , , - Otto answered promptly: ] u l )on 11 iis « £°od business Investment. ; duce washouts. “My mother is Mrs. Marion Ben- | T* 10 now < l l J :lrtors have four rooms— j Enrich the soil with a liberal supply nings.” ! library, dining room, kitchen and a j of well rotted manure. This is essen- The girl stared, then began to laugh 1 room for ,ndies nnd babies - ! tlal where the soil is lacking in humus; hysterically. “Papa’s cousin!” she cried. “Pm Arietta Jones, your Cousin Henry’s daughter. Y’ou are papa’s relatives, whose address is iu my trunk.” Mrs. Bennings looked at her closely. “It is—I see it is true. There’s a re- otherwise bonemeal or other good fer j tilizer is useful. The ground should be “I’ve been singing for two days,” returns, and (he cost of food is also sil *d sb(? . " nn d, sec, that is all I took proportionately small in comparison j :n ’—showing him a few sous—“and with the cost of food used for other j l' m so hungry." birds bred for market. A goose on J “Hungry,” cried Otto, dragging for- rnnge will gather the largest portion j ward a little table with some cakes of its food, consisting of grasses, in sects and other animal and vegetable matter to he found in the fields and brooks. The goose occupies the same place among poultry that sheep do among live stock and if cared for are just as girl looked at it long- A FAIR OF TOULOUSE GEESE. Cure For Spring “Rooters.” Pigs are more apt to be “rooters” in spring, when the ground is soft, than they are at any other time of the year. Much of this can be prevented by feeding regularly with coal, charcoal, ashes or other mineral matter. Ring ing the hogs should be resorted to In extreme coses. i profitable in proportion. It is just as I necessary to pluck the feathers from 1 the goose as it is to shear the wool from the sheep, and the product has a groat demand. I The Toulouse is one of the largest ; breeds of geese and is very profit able, as it attains an enofmous size ! and when fattened brings a high price in the market. It is a fairly good layer, averaging about forty eggs in a season. Some persons labor under the delusion that geese do not lay un til they are two years old or if they do their eggs are not fertile. The eggs from Toulouse and White Chinese geese hatch almost ns readily as do eggs from older geese. As long as geese have plenty of grass they will need very little, if any, feed, except during the laying season, when they should be fed liberally on some riash j food. Geese prefer bulky food. / nnd wine. The ingly, remarking: “Cake. That's what everybody offers me, nnd I’m dying for a—ham sand wich.” “I’ll forage for something more sub stantial,” cried Otto, starting toward the door. “Not till 1 explain. Wait, please,” said Hie girl. “Are you an American?" “You bet 1 am.” “Thank God!” she said. “Then you’ll believe me. I’m not a beggar. I’m in hard luck. These are all the clothes, this is all the money, I have. I'm a stranger in Paris. Day before yester day 1 arrived here and went to the Grand hotel to wait for my father. 1 battle 1 had a maid, half a dozen trunks and a letter of credit. On the way from the Gure du N’ord my maid ran away with the trunks aud my letter. At the hotel they wouldn't believe me when I told them who I was. 1 hadn't a friend in Paris except some relatives of my father, whose address is in my vanished trunks. This masquerade suit hung in the closet of the hotel. I borrowed it and rented a guitar and started out to see if I could support myself. I had read of students in dis tress doing such things. I thought It would be a lark, hut It has been aw ful. And 1 kept thinking I’d coine up with some nice Americans. I was do ing my very best, you see." Otto agreed with her. He couldn't help it, she was so pretty. When ho told her this she permitted him to go for a sandwich. In a minute he came back with some cold chicken aud lit tle biscuits, a small cheese and a pot | of jelly. I “Will these things do?” he queried I doubtfully. j "Do? Do?” she cried, with delight. | "Watch me!" i She perched before the tray and be- I gan to eat ravenously. “This chicken | is divine,” she exclaimed. "What a How Parks Add to City Values. , - A committee appointed to investigate i plowed or spaded not less than eight on the question of how much, in its j inches deep, all stones and similar ma judgment, the present assessed value i terial removed, lumps broken up and of the entire property of Madison, ] the surface smoothed. Then it Is r Wis., has been increased by the work f° r seeding. semblance. Y’ou played this prank to done by the Madison Park and Pleas- ! Use a good lawn mixture. IfM test us, naughty child.” ; ure Drive association and the city by ! parts Kentucky blue grass with “Pruuk!” cried Arietta. “Is that securing parks and drives, both inside ] part white clover, sown not less pin what you call it? Why, I haven’t 1 ibe city and beyond its limits, has de- j five bushels to the acre, is good. Ked- washed my face for two days.” j cided that from 10 to 15 per cent of ] top, instead of the blue grass, or el® 1 Mrs. Bennings threw up her hands the increase is due to the establish- j parts of redtop and blue grass P» in horror. ment of the parks and drives. “I'll have a hath and bed prepared duce good results. Use plenty of and nothing hut pure seed. for you at once. Then you shall tell me all that bus happened.” She left the room, and Arietta turned to the son. “So you’re my Cousin Otto. How nice!” “Well," replied Otto thoughtfully, “we'll let it go as cousin for a day or two.” HOME BOOSTING HINTS. Aid to Civic Welfare A church organization of /non that will take an interest in tha/civic ' v0 -' fare of Kansas City was Armed at a dinner the other night at i/. ■ Lin wood Boulevard Christian ck “This club will he a .Mieial organiza tion with four other Wojects besides the civic one,” said tlieLptov. Burris A Battle of the Bullfrogs. Some years ago the one dollar notes of the Windham County (Vt.) State bank carried a vignette representing frogs fighting. This was engraved to commemorate what was known as the of the bullfrogs. When the Optimism spells outlook. There is no outlook for the pessimist who sits down and complains because things are not coming his way. What he needs to do is to get up and go out and yank things his way by the scruft of their necks. Trade at home and keep the home Jenkins, pastor of the church. "We de cash in circulation right around home. j sire to promote the social, missionary A bargain that dries up the lifeblood i and Biblical welfare of the church and of the community by transfusing the j to increase the membership nod at- blood to some other place is not so much of a bargain as it appears to the unthinking person. Energize! That’s a mighty forceful word, one of the most forceful in the town of Windham had been settled there was a very dry season. There were two large ponds iu the place, sep- whole unabridged dictionary. If you arated by a considerable strip of laud, energize you will make things hum, Each of these ponds was inhabited by and by making things hum you will a large number of frogs. The smaller do the things you want to do. This tendance. As to civ: affairs, we ex pect to take up matters that concern the public in Kansas City, especially where there is a right and a wrong- Public playgrounds and an undesirable liquor license, as examples, will r®" celve our active support or opposition. Our physician members will interest the club in lectures on pure mi pond dried up, and its inhabitants applies to individuals as well as to : berculosis and the public health gen- started in a body for the lower and ! towns or communities collectively, larger po*id. They were met in the Every individual is a unit as well as intervening space by a party from the | a spoke in the wheel. If some indlvid- erally.” arger pond, aud a fierce and long con tinued battle ensued between the rival communities. The hideous clamor of the frogs during this encounter at tracted the attention of several farm ers, who witnessed the strange spec tacle of bullfrogs engaged in a fierce and deadly struggle. The battle last ed twelve hours, and nearly all the in habitants of the little town witnessed it. For many years the war of the frogs was a favorite tradition of AViudham.—Chicago Record-Herald. The Answer. In developing the idea of truthfulness a teacher asked the question, “What is the best thing in the world to do and at the same time the hardest?” A little girl raised her hand timidly. “Well, Emma?” “To get married.”— Argonaut. Clean Up Now. The soil at present is in prime condi tion for weed pulling, plowing aD working ver in general. Vacant lot* now cr th last yearVi crop o dried uid be plowed and bn f ’ rowed smooth and kept free fD® weeds until the seeds have all start - after which they will need no care until next year. Parkways should re Small town people sometimes fall celve sIml i ar treatment with hand unis want to turn one way and others want to turn other ways, how is the wheel going to move? Think of your community as a wheel and turn with it—forward, not backward. If the wheel is now turning backward, face about all your spokes and change the direction. into the habit of running down their tools We eds in gutters and at street own place In conversation. This is al- ; 6ldes wlu now pul i w i t n ease and most as bad as saying you wish you should all be removed while the sol had married another woman Instead u soft from saturation by the recent Ox your wife. If you said that and rains. Do all such work now. D° J your wife heard of It, probably you iea Ve it until the labor involved ® would have a chance to get another much greater than at present. woman. But you’ll never have much of a chance to get another town until you improve the one you're in so that you’ll love it for its own sake. Be kind to your home place and It will be kind to you. Place to Get Them. ^ •He has been a minister for years.’ hnt- ,r What a wonderful collection of tons be must have.”