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NORTH WALES HORSE SALES. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,, Messrs Frank Lloyd and Sons conducted their quarterly sales of horses at Wrexham. The catalogue comprised about 800 horses of all classes, and they were as fine a lot as one could wish to see together. The hackneys were great goers, fit to win in any company the town horses were mas- sive animals of great power, and the young horses and shires were full of promise. On Tuesday, the harness horse day, a very great number of foreign gentlemen were present, together with an officer of His Majesty's Government, and these gentle- men were keen on good animals. Conse- quently many were shipped abroad, and many were enlisted in the army. The prizes were carried off by Mr John Jones, White- gate Stud the Hon. Mrs Bathurst, Lydney Park Mr J. C. Savage, West, Moor Mr E. Morris, Abergele Miss Bookerbank, Ifton Hall Mr G. Ledson, Bromborough Mr G. G. Finnercliffe, Platt House. The prices were far in advance of late previous sales, and the clearance was a grand one. The horses made up to 120 guineas, pairs up to 180gs., cobs up to 96gs., and Welsh ponies up to 26gs. each. On Wednesday the sales were for heavy town horses, and it must be at once said, a finer lot of animals together it would be hard to find. They were principally direct from. the breeders on their farms, and were in no way got up for sale, but came straight from hard work. The London buyers were very keen on them, and consequently the trade was very brisk and a grand clearance effected. There were about 180 town horses catalogued, and out of these only seven were unsold. In several cases the lots were making more money than the vendors ever expected. It was acknowledged by old dealers and judges to be the finest trade seen in any repository in the country On Thursday vanners, stallions, shires, and young horses were offered. The catalogue comprised about 300 of these, chiefly Welsh grown horses from the hills, very hard to beat. There was again a record trade and clearance, although the stallions were a bit hard to part with. The young horses es- f pecially were in great demand, and a good sample was shown, and they were full of promise. During the week several special trains were chartered for London and the ports for shipment abroad, and it was gra- tifying to see such a revival in the horse trade, and reminded one of old times be- fore the motor nuisance was introduced.

Stitch in Time. • There is an old saying, A stitch in time saves nine," and if upon the first symptoms of anything being wrong with our health we were to resort to some simple but proper means of correcting the mischief, nine-tenths of the suffering that invades our homes would be avoided. A dose of Gwilym Evans' Quinine Bitters taken when you feel the least bit out of sorts is just that stitch in time." You can get Gwilym Evans' Quinine Bitters at any Chemists or Stores in bottles 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each but remember that the only guarantee of genuineness is the name Gwilym Evans" on the label, stamp, and bottle, without which none are genuine. Sole -i ProprietorsQuinine Bitters Manu- facturing Company, Limited, Llanelly, South Wales. I

MONTGOMERYSHIRE CENTRAL AGRI- CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. The Committee of the above Association I met on Tuesday week at the Unicorn Hotel, Newtown, to receive collecting books, when i two very important subjects were discussed. As to the open champion class, the question was raised whether it is wisdom and to the advantage of the Association to award prizes to men hired by firms of plough- makers to compete, especially with heavy ploughs, which farmers in general don't believe in using as general purpose ploughs. It was suggested that if they were to con- tinue under the previous conditions the firms should give the prizes, as it was dis- couraging others to compete, especially with such heavy ploughs. It was stated that a gentleman had offered a cup for next year to the man or firm who will make IT J?not t0 exceed a certain x x* uuer was thankfully accepted, and considerable discussion ensued as to what should be the weight of a general purpose plough. Eventually it was resolved to adjourn the subject to be settled at a public meeting to he held on March 29th when it is hoped there will be a lar2'P gathering, as this is an important matter for farmers in general.

TEACHING CALVES TO EAT. The caif is easily taught to eat solid food by placing a small quantity of meal in its mouth, and after the calf is eating unaided do not allow its food to remain to become sour, but begin with a small quantity and I increase gradually as the appetite of the r animal demands it. The same rule should be followed in feeding hay, and increase with the growth of the calf. The dairy calf should be fed with a view of securing rapid growth, without a ten- dency to become fat, and for this reason feeds too rich in fat and carbo-hydrates should be avoided. Protein is the element needed. Successful dairy calf development re- quires regular feeding the milk should be warmed to blood heat the food and water must be pure and clean, and the calves kept contented and comfortable.

CLOVER, HAY, CHAFF, AS A POULTRY FOOD. Although it is inadvisable to feed poultry on foods containing a large amount of fibre, yet, at the same time, there are certain methods of preparation that render such feeding stuffs valuable additions to the usual diet. Clover hay chaff comes under this heading, since, if properly cooked and mixed with middlings and barley meal, it forms a cheap and excellent ration during the winter months. The chaff should be placed in a bucket, and slightly more than covered with water, and the whole sim- mered for two or three hours. It can then be dried off with equal parts of barley meal and middlings, and fed direct or, better still, the mixture, in a crumbly moist state, can be cooked all night in a steam jacketed cooker.

BREEDING FROM IMMATURE STOCK. To secure chickens of high vitality it is essential to have the stock birds of ma- ture age. A large number of poultry breeders make a grave mistake in hatching eggs from pullets in their first laying year, or, in other words, from stock that is im- mature. Undoubtedly, pullets produce eggs at an earlier date and usually in larger numbers that do hens, but, at the same time, it must not be forgotten that profit is made not from the birds that are hatched, but from those that are reared successfully to maturity. If the progeny of the pullets is to be used for killing for market poultry, the practice can be ex- cused, but on no account should stock birds be reared from such parents. The birds be reared from such parents. The increased vitality of chickens from mature stock fully compensates for the slightly decreased numbers.

BARLEY GOOD FOR STOCK. Barley will grow under a greater variety of soil, climate, and altitude than almost any other grain crop, says an American writer. As a feed barley is practically equal to corn. For putting on a higlJ. market finish corn is about 8 per cent. more valuable, pound for pound. For young stock, and for the first weeks of fattening, marley is superior to corn. It will produce a meat of better flavour and superior quality. The amount of meat it is capable of producing per acre is fully as great as the best corn in the corn belt. Eight hundred pounds of ipork per acre have been produced on bar- ley, a meat yield rivalling the very best of the corn belt. With a feed like barley, which we can grow at home cheaper than we can import corn, why import corn to make a poorer quality of meat ? The high- est priced pork on the market at present is barley-fed pork from Denmark. It com-

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BLOOD FOR LAYING AND GROWING STOCK. It is generally accepted that animal food is essential to growing birds and laying stock, but it is a debatable point whether it pays to feed purchased granulated meat at the present price. For some years (writes a correspondent in a contemporary) I have made a practice of using blood in lieu of meat, and the results, apart from the question of cost, have been all that could be desired. An arrangement was entered into with the village butcher to supply fresh blood on killing days, in re- turn for which I undertook to give him the morning soft mash for the dozen birds he kept. Four days a week blood is used, mixing three parts of the barley meal and one part of toppings with one-third blood and two-thirds water. The whole is made crumbly moist, and steamed all night. In this way all the necessary animal food is obtained at a very small cost. In warm weather the blood remains good for three days, and in winter for nearly a week.

MANGE IN SHEEP DOG. Severe or neglected mange does affect the general health, and though we cannot call to mind any case of death from, canine mange, as we can in horses and cats, yet we have seen dogs brought perilously near to it. It has been said, and by a veterinary

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RURAL JOKES. It was a very hot day in the summer, and the congregation were glad when the beadle opened one or two of the windows to let in a cooling breeze. The minister had declaimed the first part of his sermon, and was proceeding to the second head. Secondly, my brethren," he said, im- pressively-a pause. Secondly, my breth- ren," he repeated, fumbling among his papers. The beadle was heard to say in a loud whisper: "Secondly flew oot the; windy two minutes ago." A church dignitary tells a story of a man who took a basketful of kittens into the market place, and thought he could sell them quicker by calling them Tory kittens. But he sold none. A fortnight later he went again, and called them Radical kit- tens. Then someone came forward and asked how it was that a fortnight ago they had been Toy kittens." Well," said the man, don't you see that a fortnight ago they were blind ?

FooTBALL.f,.In the recent international match between England and Wales, played at Cardiff on Monday, Mr George Latham played at centre half, and his fine exhibition has won many enconiums from the press.

Mr. David Davies' Beagles. Once more these "little fellows" proved their worth, when on Friday week they were at Sychtyn. A hare was speedily afoot, but hadn't run long when the hounds checked, and finding a couple of leverets close to where pussy was started, caused them to cast for a fresh one, This was soon found on the Hafod, but' after about an hour she crossed the brook to the hill opposite, where another change re- sulted. However, this was the last. The hounds hustling their quarry with great determination, showed that there was only one thing for it, and that-death. After several futile attempts to elude Messrs yrj^bush and Co., pussy was caught and held by "Handsome," as he vainly en- deavoured to find refuge among the few remaining stumps of an old thorn fence. This is the second March hare," and the seventeenth of the season. LARKSPUR."

Montgomeryshire Liberals in Manchester. Two Montgomeryshire men spoke at the yearly meeting of the Manchester Liberal Association on Friday week. Mr F. E. Hamer (formerly of Newtown) moved a resolution recognizing the need for unity and co-operation between the older Liberal organizations and the younger bodies. He said that one feature of the recent election was the discovery of a tre- mendous body of Liberal enthusiasm which the older associations had failed to tap. It was the courage of some of the Liberals which appealed to the fighting instincts, convictions, and intelligence of the people as a whole. Seconding this resolution, which was carried unanimously, the Rev E. Lloyd Jones (a native of Llanfyllin) expressed the need of intelligent and sympathetic study of the teachings of Labour and Socialism, and the willingness to accept what was sound in them. J

AT the Manchester Dog Show, held on Tuesday, Captain R. J. W. Arbuthnot secured two second rizes for his retriever. n

"CEIRIOG": THE BURNS OF WALES. At a farmhouse known as Penbryn, in the Vale of Ceiriog, in the south-east of Den- bighshire, John Hughes, the son of Richard and Phoebe Hughes, afterwards known by his bardic name of Ceiriog," was born on September 25, 1832. His birthplace is ex- ceedingly beautiful and full of historical and literary associations. Here the Battle of Crogen was fought in 1165, between the forces of Henry II. and Owen Gwynedd here, too, between the years 1622 and 1709 lived Huw Morys, the famous Cavalier poet. Ceiriog went to work on the farm, but as he soon showed a preference for books he was sent as a printer's apprentice to Os- westry. Thence he passed to Manchester, where he got employment first as a railway clerk and afterwards as shipping agent in the London Road Station of Cottonopolis. CEIRIOG'S EISTEDDFOD. During the sixteen years thus spent in Manchester he educated and trained his mind, and discovered his poetical self, and two facts are of special import in relation to the lyrical work thus begun. On the one hand it is to be noticed that his most charm- ing pictures of Nature and rural life were painted beneath the murky pall of Man- chester on the other, that much of this beautiful artistry was created under the influence of various eisteddfodic competi- tions. In 1858 was held the Eisteddfod at Llangollen, which may well be called Ceiriog's' Eisteddfod," for his prize love- poem Myfanwy" was there given to his country, and charmed the whole Welsh nation by its natural diction, its ingenious versification, its pure and elevated tone, and its patriotic references to Welsh customs and traditions. Dr Johnson once rather cruelly said, Prize cattle are only fit for making tallow candles, and prize poems for lighting them." No doubt this holds true of most school and University poetical exer- cises, but when we remember that the old comedies of Aristophanes and the tragedies of JSschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were prize poems, and that the same may be said of famous poems by Schiller and Voss, the Doctor's dictum may be revised. Certainly Myfanwy," though it won an Eisteddfod prize, came to stay. [Myfanwy, a Welsh chieftain's daughter, upon whom the young bard HoweU ap Einion has written an unsigned love poem on a peithynen (a set of illu- minated wooden tablets), finds it hidden in an oak cleft. Overcome by its passionate pleading, she falls in love with the unknown author, and. unable to answer it in verse herself, thus commisiiions the Bard himself to do so in a fresh peithynen, on which two red hearts are to be carved, with her name in one of them.] But, Howell ap Einion, then when you make That love-song, indeed, for my bleeding heart's sake, 0, say I'm the lovely dove left on a thorn, And how for my lost mate I mourn and I mourn, And wander the greenwood and wing the blue sky, As I call to the rover, Still over and over, Come back to our Tree Cleft, come back ere I die! Without him I'm Lettinig-sav this when you sing- Black night for blue day, sullen Winter for Spring, And, instead of dear life, living death the year long; Oh, Howell ap Einion, set that in your song 1 The little love song he recited, hen sighed It is faulty, I fear, But doubt not your lover delighted Will deem its worst blemifhea dear. Love, like the moon-beswayed water. How mighty to wound or to bless, Rising-is never found less Falling-is never found less! He sang while in struggle the sorest, Myfanwy's love-labouring mind To the minstrel unknown of the forest, And now to young Howell inclined. But show me now, Howell, my brother, Those hearts you have shaped on the frame; Myfanwy is one-and the other Left clear for my love's unknown name." He turned the last tablet leaf over To clear her dear mind of all doubt, And the name of the hid forest rover As if from his oak-tree leapt out. Oh, then, with delight she discovers Two hearts clinging fold upon fold; And within them her name and her lover's— "Howell "-in letters of gold. In 1860 Ceiriog published his first book, Evening Hours (" Oriau'r Hwyr"). These poems took his countrymen's hearts by storm. Not only was the book soon to be found on the shelves of the peasant, but its beautiful lyrics were recited and quoted and sung through the length and breadth of the land. Musicians were quick to see the merits of Ceiriog's" lyrics. Owen Alaw, in his Gems of Welsh Melody," made use of a large number of the songs, and later on about fifty were written for Brinley Richards' Songs of Wales." A MASTERPIECE. After the National Eisteddfod held at Carnarvon Castle in 1862, Brinley Richards and "Ceiriog" collaborated in producing the seng "God bless the Prince of Wales." The original version was in Welsh, but it was afterwards sung in English to George Linley's words. Ceiriog's second book, Mournful Hours," appeared in 1862. It contains "Alun Mabon," regarded by many competent critics as Ceiriog's" masterpiece. This poem is a series of twenty-six short songs, descriptive of suc- cessive episodes in the life of Alun, the shepherd, of which this is a closing lyric: Still the mountains stand rockfast, Still around them roars the blast; At the blueing of the day, Still outpours the pastoral lay Underneath the frowning scaur Still the daisy lights her star But the sun and moon behold Other shepherds than the old. Over cottage, church, and grange Steals the silent band of Change; Like the ocean's ebb and flow, Generations come and go. Life's tempestuous struggle o'er, Alun Mabon is no more But unto the dear old tongue, Still the dear old songs are sung. IN WALES AGAIN. j The Hundred Songs was published in 1863. In 1865, after a life of nearly twenty years in the metropolis of rain and cot- ton," he yearned to return to Wales, and had his desire granted by his appointment as stationmaster at Llanidloes but this change was unfortunate for his poetic out- put. When he began to write again he showed a strange predilection for allitera- tive verse. In 1868 his Other Hours was published, which contained much less of Nature and much more of the study of man than his Manchester books. In 1870 he

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BERRIEW. PARISH MEETING.—This meeting was held in the Boys' School at 7-30 on Saturday, the 12th inst. Mr A. E. Humphreys-Owen presided. There was a large attendance, and much interest was evinced on ac- count of the long standing school question. There were thirty nominations for the fifteen seats. The following were elected:— Messrs Thomas Bebb, Luggy W. C. Black, Bronllwyn J. M. Bennett, Coedajol Edward Davies, Felindre W. Davies. Brynderwen G. Hughes, Fachir R. Jarvis, Keel; D. Jones, Cross Lane; John Lee, Red Gates; Evan Lloyd, Tyny- coed Norman Lloyd, Rectory Alfred Lucas, Berriew G. Rowland Owen, Garthmyl W. T. Owen, Velindre; and David Proctor, Pantyfrydd.

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I published his last volume, Summer Hours" his fifty lyrics in The Songs of Wales," already referred to, appeared in 1873. From Llanidloes he went to Towyn, where he held the post of stationmaster for some little time. Upon his appointment as manager of the Van Railway he removed to Caersws, where his later years were spent, and where, after a long and painful illness, he died on April 23rd, 1887. Here is one of the writer's translations from his songs to Welsh airs: I THE VALE OF CLWYD. (Yn Nyffryn Clwyd.) By Clwyd, all hoar with moss, Lies a storm-shattered cross That guarded once a hero's grave Around from wood to steep The shepherd calls his sheep, Below in centuried sleep Great Einion grasps his glaive. But though his shape is dust, Though his dread sword is rust, To memory's light they leap forth anew; Till, Clwyd, with prouder swell, Our hearts thy praises tell, For their stern sakes who fell To Gwalia's standard true. If black Oblivion's pall On their blight fame must fall, I It first shall quench the stars' keen fires For O from hills to waves, While holy Freedom pave;) Our footsteps with their graves, We'll celebrate our Sires FROM JENNY JONES." (Cadair Idris.) She sat by her father and I by her brother, Her sisters, like roses, ranged round me for choice But of all and of any, I orfiy saw Jenny, And listened alone to each tone of her voice. In the Church of Llangollen, when joy bells were chiming, If once my wits wandered, right well I know why. 'Twas Jenny's I take thee! to Heaven sent them climbing. Until her soft pinch pulled me back from the sky. I love a good neighbour, I love rest and labour, Good music and preaching, my pipe and my purse; But above all and any, I love my own Jenny, For richer, for poorer, for better, for worse. A POET OF THE PEOPLE. Ceiriog has been described as a man of gentle manners, pure morals, and noble aspirations, with a heart full of sympathy with the poor and a spirit full of love of the Divine, and his poems abound in beautiful and ennobling thoughts. He mingled hu- mour and pathos to a delightful degree, and I he was a most captivating companion. Ceiriog" is, and will ever be, the Welsh popular poet, just as Robert Bums will always be the poet of the Scotch people. -Mr Alfred Perceval Graves in 'T.P.'s Weekly.'

mange when they were really due to con- stitutional causes. If the case is one of true sarcoptic mange, proceed as follows:— Give the dog a warm bath, using a good dog soap rinse well and dry thoroughly. Then all over, or at lgast involving an area well outside the. parts apparently affected, dress with a mixture of equal parts of sublimed sulphur, oil of turpen- tine, spirits of tar (oleum picis liquidum),

and olive oil. Allow this dressing to re- main on two days, wash and dry again, and repeat the dressing diluted with double the quantity of oil.