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COMITY'.
The Toronto Globe has a travel-
ling correspondent going through the
province giving reports on how he
finds the crops in different parts of
the Country. The following is his
letter from this county ; Wingham,
July 12. --The rain has come at last,
and come in that section of the Pro,
''ince which needs it about as badly
as any. Since noon it basbeen rain-
ing round here pretty continuously,
and everyone is rejoicing at the pros-
peat of abreak in the long -continued
drouth, for the appearance of the
heavens would indicate that it will
continuo for some hours, though at
present there is only a small portion
of what is needed. I have travelled
over a goodly portion of the County
of Huron to -day, and am compelled
to report that the condition of affairs
is decidedly unsatisfactory, There
•is Renate variation in the several dif-
ferent townships; here and there
are shall portions in which. the con-
dition of the crops is equal to any I
have seen in Perth or Oxford, but
these unfortunately are the exception,
and taking the county from one end
to the other the outlook is not good.
Taking Goderich as my first starting
point this morning, I found that in
the immediate vicinity north, south
and. east the drouth had been
severely felt. But south of the
Township of Goderich, that is, in the
southern section of the county, there
was much improvement. I had the
good fortune to meet four or five
gentlemen, who had just returned
front a driving tour of some 45 miles
round the neighboring townships,
'which they had taken for the express
purpose of ascertaining what the
prospects were, and their report may
be taken as an accurate and well -
considered statement, Of course,
they varied slightly in detail. but
I will give the statements of two as
a fair summary of the whole.
A RELIABLE STATEMENT.
The fast gives it as his opinion
that fall wheat will yield from 60 to
G5 per cent. of an average crop;
spring wheat not more than a third ;
barley and oats the same ; peas are
good ; bay scarcely a third of an
average ; corn will be a fair crop,
and roots, as far as can be judged at
present, will be good. As to fruit, he
found apples almost a complete
failure, and other varieties poor, and
in occasional instances fair. Another
of the party believes that in a few
instances fall wheat may yield 85
per cent. of an average crop, but in
the main will yield only 60 per cent.;
ti spring wheat, what there is of it, will
be poor barley scarcely- half a crop,
and oats less. In fact, in not a few
instances the oat crop will not be
worth cutting, 1 -lay, he says, will.
not go over a quarter of an average
crop, and the quality is very inferior.
aR,. The whole party agree that the pas-
tures are in a terrible condition, and
it is diffieult to say what the farmers
are going to do fey feed this winter,
.As I have said, the section just north
of the Town of Goderich appears to
have suffered most, and my own
observations fully bear out the
following terse description of affairs
in the Township of Ashfield, as sent
in by a correspondent of The Huron
Signal yesterday from Port Albert.
He says: —Gloomy, very- gloomy
indeed, are the crop prospects here;
net a pleasant looking farmer within
miles of this village to -day. Fall
wheat, of which there is very little
sown, providing it escapes rust, will
be an average crop; spring wheat
poor ; barley useless ; oats about six
inches in height, heading out ; peas
plenty of straw, but should the
present dronth continue two weeks
longer, or even less, the grain won't
be as big as duck shot. Hay, " ask
not the Ashfield farmerany questions
about his hay ; he hasn't got any,''
A FRUIT GnowEIf's REPORT..
I nese had a talk with an exten-
A sive fruit grower in Goderich as to
the oat -look in his particular line,
The importance tall
ee of the a f'rui
P t crop err
this country may be understood
when I mention that a full crop of
apples means a million barrels, and
the revenue to the county in the
Inanufaeture of barrels and in labor
is in the neighborhood of $100,000.
My informant told nit that this year
apples are a very poor crop, • many
varieties being a complete failure.
Plums are scarcely fair, but the
small fruit harvest has been and is
• good. With such a condition of
affairs as this is, is it to be wondered
at that the whole country side is
praying for rain'? They had a slight
shower on Dominion Day, but hard
ly enough to lay the dust, and this .
has practically been the only fall
since spring. Their only Hope now
is for a good wet fall, and It' tees is
in store for them it well at least help.
the cattle through, if nothing else.
Incidentally, in passing through
the county there aro other evidences
of the phenomenal dryness apparent.
Bush fires, for instance, are raging
in various parts, though, at present
they have not booing serious enough
to cause alarm, and the Maitland
River, entering the lake at Goderich,
is so shallow that it can be waded
through at almost any point, whereas
in its normal condition it is quite a
respectable stream,
THE PAIR FARM, •.
Leaving Goderich I doubled back
to Clinton before striking north to
this town, and I was glad I did, for
it gave me an opportunity to visit
the farm of Mr. James Fair, and
that visit has been the bright spot in
my day's peregrinations, Mr. Fair
is known far and wide not only as
the senior piopriotor of the mills in
the busy town of Clinton, but also
as a model, up-to-date farmer. His
domain extends over 220 acres of
some of the finest rolling land one
would wish to see, and in walking
through his well•kept fields one
could scarcely realize that the gener-
al condition of the crops through the
country was as I have described it.
For instance, ho pointed out to me a
sixteen -acre field from which last
week he carried 30 loads of hay,
whereas a load an acre is considered
exceptionally good this season, and
in too many cases a load to five or
six acres is all that has been got,
and I did hear of one instance,
though I hope it was unique, where
a single load was the yield of thir-
teen acres. Of other crops on the
Fair homestead I noted some splen-
did fall wheat, fairly long in the
straw and well filled out, to which
the sickle will be put next week, and
more than one field of barley we
passed which was equal to anything
that could be desired, strong, full
• and healthy. It too will be ready
to harvest next week. Spring wheat
looked well and was heading out
satisfactorily, and peas were as good
as the best. As a substitute fox• hay
as cattle feed, Mr. Fair has several
acres sown with peas and oats mixed,
which will be cut green and stacked.
Oats on this farm were variable,
some being very good and others
quite short in the straw, almost too
short in fact, to harvest with •the
binder. The only crop which did
not look well here was a field of tur-
nips, which made a very indifferent a
appearance, but even these may yet.j
come on with a few good drenching, I
showers. k
THE WI 1GR.AM TIMES, JULY 19, 1895
LIICKNOW.
The battle of the Boyne was
fought over again here on the 12th,
when ten thousand Orangemen from
the good and true Counties of Buren
and Bruce congregated to do honor
to King William III.. This being
the centenary of the foundation of
the order drew an unusually large
crowd out, and from end to end the
village was packed with pleasant -
faced. visitors. Ample accommoda-
tion was given to ail who came,.
The hotels and eating -houses supplied
abundant and good food, for all the
hungry, Newer a its history, not
even at Caledonian games, did Luck.
now present sueh a gala appearance.
The. decorations of arches and bunt-
ing were of the highest order,
Seven evergreen arches spanned
Havelock, Campbell and Ross streets.
They were beyond anything of the
kind ever seen in Lucknow, and were
the admiration of the large number
of visitors who were present. On
Thursday night that splendid musi-
cal organization, . the Band of the
32nd Battalion, came into the village,
and for an hour or two delighted the
lovers of musie. On the morning o
the 12th, Mr.. Alex Davison, master
of ceremonies, was around on his
grey steed, and got the band in
marching order for the G. T. R.
station to meet the train from Blyth,
which brought in a large crowd.
Lodges were represented from nearly
every place in the district—liinear-
cline, Wingham, Brussels, Dun-
gannon and other places being
among the number. The Kincardine
Fife and Drum Band, as well as that
of Wingham, greatly assisted the
32nd in their supply of znusic for the
day, The procession of lodges had
just been concluded when a thunder-
storm came up, and the speaking,
which was to have taken place in the
open . air, was adjourned to the
Caledonian Hall, where Messrs.
Weismiller, Hensall ; Col, Scott, Kin-
cardine ; Musgrove and Dickinson,
Wingham, and Rev. 4[r. Livingstone,
Kincardine, addressed a mass meet-
ing on the objects and desires of the
order. An immense crowd gathered
in the Town Hall for the concert, at
which such talent as Miss Libbie
Beach, Harry ' Rich, of Toronto and
McLeod, of Seaforth took part.
During the afternoon, part of the
verandah in front of McGarry's hotel,
while occupied by a large number of
persons, fell. The street was packed
with people beneath the verandah,
*tnd quite a number of those, both on
nd beneath the verandah, were in -
wed, some of these quite seriously.
t is a great wonder some were not
illecl.
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day the long looked for rain arrived,
and crops and grass look fresh again,
Ilay is very light; one farmer here
Peastook one small res.
and oats look f rlyeig well ht abut
the latter will bo short in straw. --At
a meeting of Court Wroxeter, No.
257, Canadian Order Foresters, held
recently, the following officers were
installed for the current term: C. It,:
I3ro. R. IL Fortune; V, C. IZ.,13ro. L,
Brown; R. S., Bro. W, Sanders: F.5.,
Bro. W. M. Robinson; Treas., Bro. J.
Bray; Chap,, Bro. T, Walker; S. W.,
Bro, A. H. Moffitt; J. W., Bro. T.
Sage; 8, B,, Bro. 3, A. Barnard; J.
B., Bro. J. Davidson; Auditors, .Bros.
Rae and Davidson,
MORRIS.
Miss Atelia Chambers of the 5th
line is visiting friends in Seaforth
and neighborhood. --J. Forrest in-
tends taking a trip across the ocean
for the good of his health. We hope
it may do flim good.—Thos. Bernard.
and wife have returned .from a
lengthy visit among relatives and
friends in and around Paisley, -,--W.
H, McCutcheon of the 6th line has
f , built a large stone hog pen, and also
a frame driving shed 30x42.—Mr.
Malcolm. Kerr, of this township, re-
turned en Wednesday from a visit to
the old country. He visited London,
England, and different parts of Scot-
land, while away.
THE EXPLANATION.
It may be asked why such a
difference was found in this one
farm to those around. •The secret
undoubtedly is that the owner has
cared for his land consistently season
by season, treating it generously
with manure and thereby storing up
a supply of nourishment which has
stood it in good stead in time of need.
I would not have it understood that
there are no other farms as good as
this.' Doubtless there are many,.
but it must be that there are too
many of another class in which the
farmers are content to take all they
can out of their land and neglect to
feed it that it may continue rich and
fertile. On leaving Clinton an hour
or so before sundown we first en-
countered the rain, for although it
has looked lowering and threatening
rain all over to -day. the probabilities
of the morning, "Local showers in
nothern portions," have so far been
decidedly local. Midway between
Clinton and this town I stayed a few
minutes for a chat with a Belgrave
farmer, and found him in fairly good
spirits. His hay, he said, was about
a third of a erop, barley good, oats
only fair. Of spring 'wheat ho had
none, fall wheat fair, but he con-
cluded If this rain will only keep up
a couple of days it will double the
crops. o
p I and now on the northern
confines of Huron County, and to-
morrow will either go further north
into Bruce or northeast and east into
Grey and Wellington. Bruce, I ani
told, is €a severe sufferer. The soil is
elay largely, and is baked right up,
and the north part of Wellington is
reported as not rnueh better. But
the rain has been coining down to-
day over a large part of these see-
WROXETER.
The council met on the evening of
Tuesday, the 16th July. All the
members were present. The Reeve
in the chair. Minutes of last meet-
ing were read and confirmed, on
motion of T. Rae, seconded by W.
Rutherford,: - The following accounts
were presented and passed: A. Gib-
son, plank, $6.35; J. Ross, lodging
tramp, 50 cents; John Walden,
spreading gravel, ,4",8.08; Robt. Hain-
stock, shovelling gravel, 65 cents;
W. C. Montgomery, repairs on bell,
$4.60; Jas. Paulin, culvert and grad-
ing, $13; Thos. Sage, culvert, $1.50;
Alex.. Smith, shovelling gravel, 60
cents; Chas. Sanderson, ringing bell,
$12,50; Jos. Cowan, .1 year's salary
as clerk, $37.50; D. Saunders, print-
ing voters lists and notices, $7;
Thos. Gibson,. gravelling streets,
$75. John Weldon reported that
4623: yards gravel had been drawn.
F. V. Dickson appeared before the
council in referenec to gravel taken
front his mother's lot. County Clerk
reported $140.27 wanted for county
rate in 1895. On motion of Wm.
Wilson, .seconded by J. Barnard, the
council adjourned to meet on the
third Tuesday in August, or at the
call of the Reeve.
. COWAN',Clerk
Miss Maggie Miller is at present
visiting' in Goderich, making the
trip on her bicycle. Mr. John Lums-
den, from New Zealand, is visiting
i!ir. A. L. Gibson, Mr. Gibson having
learned his trade with his father in
t
Scotland. ---Mr. A. Goebel visited
ft'
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tions, and I am hopeful that matters pl
may look much better' on eloser
acquaintance than they do at thish
tc
distance.
fends in Mitchell this week,—The
Unions " go to, Ilarriston on the
th to play the "Browns " of that
See.—.ni.
, Thos. Gibson received
wo cars of lath from the North
ore. --•T, P. llliller is in Toronto at-
nding the Grand Lodge of Masons
For thehalf* year ending Juno
30th 2,322 immigrants arrived at
Winnipeg.
no
i►i:f
or
up
lei
w fn session there. ---Clue;- baker,
Kerr, is at present pushed with
dors for bread. Ile cannot keep
to demand. We would advise
m Lo enlarge his oven. -On Mons
The Banque du Peuple, of Mon-
treal, has suspended business.
The first carload of cheese ev er
exported from Winnipeg was shipped
to Montreal, last week.
The Coroner's jury found that the
death of Mr. William Barnes under
chloroform in a dentist's chair at
Woodstock was due to paralysis of
the heart.
W. A. Lamed won the Canadian
championship at the Niagara lawn
tennis tournament. Mrs. Sydney
Smith of Ottawa won the ladies'
championship from Miss Osborne.
Rheumatism Cured in a day.—South
American Rheumatic Cure of Rheumatism
and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days.
Its action on the system is remarkable and
mysterious. It removes at once the cause
of the disease immediately disappears. The
first aose greatly benefits. 75 cents.
Warranteed at Chishom'sdrua store.
Dairymen have given up the
establishment of a cheese market ince
Stratford as a forlorn hope. The
third attempt to start the market
was made on Friday, but only one
buyer and four sellers attended.
A collision, which entailed fatal
results, occurred on Saturday after-
noon near Victoria 'Park, Toronto,
between a city special with a picnic
party aboard and a Scarboro' car.
Two boys, Jaines Stewart and Frank
Townsend, and motorman W. J.
Graham, were very seriously injured,
and a number of others slightly hurt.
The two boys have since died, and
the montorman's chances of recovery
are not very good.
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Weak, Tired, Nervous
Women, who seem to bo all worn
out, will find in purified blood, made
rich and healthy by Hood's Sarsapa-
rilla, permanent relief and strength.
The following is from a well known
nurse:
e I have suffered for years with female
complaints and kidney troubieb and I
have had d great deal of medical advice-
during that time, but have received litter.
or no benefit. A friend advised me to take
Hood's Sarsaparilla and I begin to use ft,
tOgether with Hood's Pills; 1 have real-
ized more benefit from these medicines
than from anything else/have ever taken.
Front my personal experience X believe
Flood's Sarsaparilla to be a most complete
blood purifier." MRS. C. CROMPTON, 71
Cumberland St., 'Toronto, Ontario.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is the Only
True Blood Purifier
Prominently in the public eye today.
i fi3 Pills :asyinbieffect'Oa,tarce
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STOCK
Must be reduced before Stock -taking, Therefore, to aecom-
plisll our object, we will,
FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS
and some very desirable lines will be sold regardless of
cost,
ABOUT $2,000 WORTH OF
CHOICE FALL
Rave just been passed into stool
have these New Goods com • til
Wholesale Houses are an - s to
in Stock and will got e same
Goods.
We will quote a few cuts, so
the sacrifices we are making:
Lace Curtains, now, for
All Wool Dress Goods, were 25c. and 35c., now..
Corsets, all sizes, were $1.00, now
Good Factory Cotton, yard wide, per yard
All Wool Flannel, good width per yard
Men's Good Tweed Suits, properly made
Every other line goes in the same way.
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We did not intend to
after Stock -taking, but
unload and so they are
as Spring or Summer
that you may judge of
>•lir .moi a► . -
Beautiful fragrant (Direct Importation) Teas, in Blacks,
Young llysons, and Uncolored Japans,
e�. Worth from 35c. to 40c., now at 25c.
ev Worth from 46e. to 50c., now at.. 35e. and 40c.
Cash, Eggs and Good Butter taken during this Great
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Sale.
P. S.—Please note that we carry the BEST and
CHEAPEST BOOTS D.
SHOES in Wingham.
M. GORDON,
The Anchor House,
Wingham.
wrtmennumm
GL,EARIIVG SALE
OF
C4- 32) S
in many cases
111. Pkir 1:31,
in a great many cases
°CO W
the present purchasing
GIVE US A CACI, AND GET
OUR PRICES.
MACDONALD BLOCK.
G. McINTYRE,
WINGH.t its.
1,000 PIECES OF
CHOICE PRINTS
PROM 5cts. PER YARD UP.
FIJANNELETS
Prom 44.ets. per yard up.
A Choice Stock of Men's and Boys'
SHARD AND SOFT H
ATS..
Direct Importation.
A JOE LOT AT 25Ct-
s. EACH.
A Cali Solicited.
T. A. IVIT.S,
Wr'c;F1,
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