The Signal, 1917-5-3, Page 6st
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AP/111. 30th
Toronto Catty Market
Choice heavy steers .. 911.76to$11.76
do, medium 10.60 11 00
D
utchors' choice
handy. 10.75 11.60
do. gaud 10.86 10.60
do. medium 9 76 10.26
do common 8.60 9.26
Pechoice cows9.26 10.'226
. do. good 8.00 8.60
do medium 660 7.00
6Butehers' bulls, choice9 25 10.50
do good 8 25 9.00
do. medium 7.26 8.00
Feeders. 900 to' 1,000 lbs. 9 26 10.26
do :ailed., 700 to 800. 8 26 9.00
Stockers. 700 to 100 lbs. 7.26 8.64
do. medium 6.60 7.00
Crass cows, 800 to 1,000
lbs.,. 6 76 7.60
t'utters. 6.25 6.36
Qsi.nNry 6.25 6.76
Milkers, good to cholce80.00 96.00
d,r cam. and med60.00 70.00
Springers 66.00 96.00
Calces. veal, c'holce13 5o 13.50
do. medium• 9.60 11.06
do. common 6.00 8.00
do. grass 6.00 7.06
do. heavy fat 7.60 10.00
Iambs. yearlings, chokce14.60 15.60
do.' medium 12.50 14.00
do. culls 9.50 11.00
do. spring Iambs. each 8.00 13.00
Sheep. ewes, light 11.60 14.00
do: heavy and bucks. 9.00 11.00
de. culls 4.00 7.00
Mugs, fed and watered,
ebolee . - , 10.76
• do. of cars 17.00
do. f.o.b. country pta.15.75
16.90
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18.15
Toronto Gr:.:' Market*
Toronto Board of Trade market quo-
tations:-.
Manitoba Wheat. -Nominal, track,
Day ports, No. 1 Northern, $2.83;
No. 2 Northern, $2.71%; No. 3 North-
ern. $2.73%.
Manitoba Oats -All -rail, delivered.
No. a e. W.. 82%c; No. 3 C. W., 82o;
extra No. 1 feed. 112c; No. 1 feed, 80',40.
American Cern-No. 8 yellow, 91.62.
nominal, subject to embargo. '
Ontario Wheat -No. 2 winter. 92.70
to 92.72. according to freights outside;
No. 3 winter, 92.68 to 92.70. '
Ontario Oats (according to freight*
ostetdel-No. 2 white, 74c to 76c. nobs -
!nal: No. 3 white, 72c to 74c.
Peas --Nominal.
Barley -Malting, 91.35 to 91.37, nom-
inal.
Rye- No. 2. new, 91.89 to 91.90
Manitoba Flour-Flrat patents. In
jute bag 913.80; seconds, in Jute.
913.30; strong bakers', in Jute, 91.90,
Toronto.
Ontario Flour -Winter, new, track.
Toronto, prompt shipment, according
to sample. 911.30 to 911.40.
MIlllfeed-Carlota, delivered, Mon -
al freights; Shorts, 946; bran. 943,
lddlings. 949 good teed flour, per
. 83 to 13.101
ay-Track. Toronto, extra No. 2,
911."0 to 912.50; mixed. 98.60 to 911.
Stra -(Carlota. 98 to 99.
Chleapo Live Stock ,
Cult! - Receipts. 1,000; market
rtroag; . ves, 99 to 913.40; stockers
and fe r•. 97.15 to 910; cows and
Heifers, $ .70 to 911.20; calves, 98 to
SP.:. 1fog. Receipts. 10,000; market
steady; lis t. 114.76 to 915.86; mixed.
$15:30 to 91 96; heavy, $16.3II_1o...1L;
rough, 915.30 to 915.50; pigs. 110 to
13.76; bulk sales, 916.50. Sheep-
'elpts, 1.00 market steady; lambs.
,nate, 912.40 t" 916.90.
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set a • alo Cattle
tattle, i6 car. slow. Hoge. 20
cars, slow;\ttheav 916.26 to 916.40;
yorkers, 911 916. :; Piga. $13.50 to
914. Sheep -Th y cars..- dull 'and
lower. Wool lam. 916 to 916.26;
clipped, 917 to '113. • • yearlings, 911
to 812.25; wethers, $ 75 to • 912;
ewes, 911 to 911.50; cal; 112. low-
er. Top. 913; fair to , 112 to
9(2.50; fed calves. 95 to 9
Wholesale Produc
Toronto wholesale prices to th
trade:
1$gs-
Ieecv-laid, cartons 9 .38 t • $ .29
do. ex -cartons .36 .00
Battitr-
Creamery prints, fresh.44 4i
('rc .tmery prints, storage .42
Creamery solids .41
Chc•Ice dairy Prints.38
Ordinary dairy prints.34 .31
Bakers' .30 .31
Cheese --New. largo. 27%c; twins,
28e; Juice, large, 23%c; twins, 29c.
Live Pou1117-Buying price delivered
Toronto. Wholesale price to the trade
is two coats higher.
(thickens, fat 20 .22
Fowl tat .21 .23
Chickens, ordlt:ary .22 .00
Fowl, ordinary 6 .20 , .22
!leans -Japanese, hand picked,
96.25; p►Ime, 95.75; Canadian, and
picked, bushel, 97.25; prime, 96.16.
Honey -Tins, 2,94.16. dna, Ifir a Ib.;
6-ih. tins, 14r.4c a Ib.; 10 -Ib. tins, 14e a
915.; 60 -lb. tins clover 13c to13%c a
15. torah honey -Selects, 12.40 to
92.75: No. 2, 92 to 92.16. Buckwheat
honey; 60-1a tins, 10%c to Ile a Ib.
Maple Syrup -Pure, 91.66 to 91.76
per imperial gallon.
Dressed Meate-Wholesale
Toronto wholesale houses are quot-
ing to the trade as foluws:
Beef. forequarters $15.00to117.00
do hindquarters ,19.00 21.00
('arc saes, choice 17.60 19.00
13.00 13.60
9.60 11.50
12.80 14.60
,18.60 20.00
14,40 19.64-
20 00
4:4420.00 11.00
21.00 11.00
do common
Weals. common
do medium
do. prime
Heavy hegs
-Shop hogs
Abattoir hogs
Mutton, heavy 10.00 11.00
do light 16.00 11.00
Lambe, 1b. 0.21 0.10
d0. spring 11.00 14.00
Chimers Merk.ts
St. Hyacinths. Que.-150 boxes of
cheese sold at /6o
Belleville --176 white dreamt WWII
olere4, All add at Mho.
Io+ -fie thousand bates wu
offered st fix c. All sotd-
_' _.0 Seen MaMoM
Hearse, tasnedtate, prompt and
ilpmetel, 510; Labaa, 17e par po
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THE fiTGNAL GODERICH. ON'M O
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'amine and WorId-flunger
Are On Our Threshold
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ONT*RIO
in the nation's honour, heed!
Acquit yourselves like men.
As workers on the land, do your
duty with all your strength!"
- Lloyd l:eurga,
THE CRISIS
France, England and Italy in peace times did not
depend upon America but on Russia, Roumania and
Bulgaria for most of their breadstuffs. With these
sources closed the crisis of the hour demands that we
see that our soldiers and the Motherland are fed.
Everyone in Great Britain has been put on limited
rations: meat is prohibited one day a week and the
making of cakes and pastry has been stopped. Further
restrictions are anticipated.
Bread has gone to 28c per four -pound loaf in Eng-
land, for the first time since the Crimean War.
Lord Devonport, British F Comptroller, pro-
poses taking authority to search the uses of Great
Britain to prevent food hoarding. •
Forty million men, less the casualties, are now on
active service.
Twenty million men and women are supporting
them by service in other war activities.
In the last analysi6, the land is bearing this burden.
One million tons of food -carrying ships have been
torpedoed since February 1 st, 1917.
Germany's hope for victory is in the starvation of
Britain through the submarine.
Canada's sons will have died in vain, if hunger
compels the Motherland's surrender.
The land is waiting --the plough is ready will
we make the plough mightier than the sword?
Will we help the acres to save the flag?
1 World -Hunger. Stares Us ' in the Face
David Lubin, representative of the United States to the
laternational institute of Agriculture -maintained by forty
Governments -reports officially to Washington that the fdod
grains of the world on March 31917, showed a shortage
of 150,000,000 bushels below the amount necessary to feed
the world until August, 1917. declares it is beyond
ration that unless a greater acreagge\,is put to crop in 1917
there will be WORLD -HUNGER befoge the 1918 crop Is
harvested. _._ -__. \ .
The failure of the grain crop in the A entIs&'R pu
which is ordinarily a great grain-ex'Qorting na ion, resulted is.
an embargo .being placed, in March, 1917, upon,,, he export of
grains from that country to avert local famine. '
The United States Department of Agricuttuae, in Ib
official report, announces the condition of •t a fall wheat crop
(which is two-thirds of their total wheat crop) on Apr 1st,
1917, to be the poorest ever recorded and predicts a yi of
244,000,000 bushels below the crop of'19.1S. The 1916
was poor. Even with favorable weather, the wheat trop
th United States is likely to be the smallest in thirty-five
yea not more than 64% of the normal crop. -
U er date of Apri} 10th, Ogden Armour, executive head
of Armou Company, one of the world's largest dealers in
food prdduc x stated that unless the United States wishes to
walk deliberat into a catastrophe, the best brains of the
country, under , vernrnent supervision, must immediately
devise means of Increasing and conserving food supplies.
\, Armour urged the cuiyation of every available acre. The
\ifood shortage, he said, is, worid;vide. European production
s cut in half, the Argentite Republic has suffered droughts
\.anada and the United States must wake upl
People are starving, to -day In Belgium, in Serbia, In
Poland, in Armenia, in many quarters of the globe:
Famine conditions are becoming more wide -spread every
day.
On these alarming food conditions becoming known,
President Wilson immediately appointed a Food Comptroller
for the United States. He selected Herbert C. Hoover, fo
whom the world is indebted as Chairman sof the International
Belgium Relief Commission for his personal direction of the
distribution of food among the starving Belgians.
Mr. Hoover is already urging sacrifice and food restric-
tions, for, as he states, "The war will probably last another
year acid we shall have all we can do to supply the necessary
food k carry our Allies through with their full fighting
stamina."
The Problem for Ontario i
The land under cultivation' in Ontario in 1916 was
365,000 -acres less than in 1915.
Consider bow mt ch LESS Ontario produced in 1916 than
she raised in 1915:
Year Acres
Pall Wbest 1916 704,867
1915 811,145
1916 529,886
1915 562,318
Barley and Oats . , , ,
Peas and Beans . . , . 1916 95,542
1915 126.943
Cora 1944 258,332
1915 300,773
Potatoes and Carrots . 1916 139.523
1915 173,934
Mengel-Weenie
Betedele
14,942,060
24,737,011
12,388,969
19,890,129
1,243,979
2,043,049
12,717,072
21,760,496
7,400,429
11„257.027
1916 42,703 9,756,015
and Turnips . .. . 1915 50,799 25,366,323
Other crops show as critical decline.
Reports from Ontario on the condition of fall wheat for
1917 are decidedly discouraging.
As there is an average of not more than one man on
each hundred acres of farm land in Ontario, the
prospects indicate even a still smaller acreage under cultivation
m 1917 unless extra labor is supplied.
1916 DLGRICASE
Ades Reebok
195,315 5,754,191
7.4,432 7,594,115
31,401
710,1170
S1,441 1,043,424
34,411 S,8S8,214
11,106 15,100,309
e.a r• ti 1114.Y•imitral Nom UM,. r. Tr - •
The farmers know that they are the last reserve, and"
that the soil on which crops are grown is the strategic ground
on which wars are decided. To their care is entrusted the base
of supplies.
To exaabie the farm to do the work two factors are essen-
tial The first is T®e. Whatever we are to do must be done
at once. Nature waits for no man. The second is Labor-
alsny fanners cannot plant the acres they would because they
cahoot get the necessary help. Many are afraid to increase
their acreage because they fear they would not be able to culti-
vate
olavate and harvest an ,mussel sop after they have raised it. if
they are to do the work that is essential for them to do, the hist
ostia o end' city, town and village must be mobilized at once.
Every man not on Active Service can help. In every city,
town and village are men who, by their training on the farm,
or by their present occupation, can readily adapt themselves to
farm work. These can render no greater service to the Em-
pire at the present time than by answering the call of the farm.
Cspnbie men and boys willing to learn should not allow their
tack of farm experience to stand in the way.
Can the employer render a more sinal service in this
arises than by encouraging these men to help the farmer to
cultivate every available alae, andby making it easy for them
to go?
Ontario's farm lands are waiting -the implements are
ready -the equipment is complete -the farmer is willing -all
he needs is labor.
So short is the world's food supply that without increased
production many in Canada must go hungry, and even with
enormously increased production we cannot expect cheap food.
The world is waiting for our harvest.
If peace should be declared within a year, the food con-
ditions wll be no better, for the accumulated hunger of the
Central Empires must be met. This will absorb a large part of
World's supply. - __ •
We do not know when this war shall cease. It is endless-
its lengthening out has paralyzed the thought and conception
of all men who thought about it and its possible time of con-
clusion- Three months -six months, we said; nine months, a
year, we said; and yet two years and eight months have passed'
thea long dreary and sanguinary length and there is no man
who can tell how long this gigantic struggle may yet last.
Lloyd George, in a letter addressed to farmers throutbout.
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the Empire, said:
" The list which the British Empire
"against the Germans is held by those who WORK \
"ON THE LAND a well as by those who fight
"on land and seas If it breaks at any point it
"breaks everywhere. In the face of the enemy the.
"seamen of our Royal naval and mertaistile marine
"and the soldiers gathered from every part of our
"Empire hold our line firstly. You workers on land
"must hold your part of oar line as strongly- Every
"full day's labor you do helps to shorten the strug-
"ole and brings u s nearer victory. Every idle day,
"all loitering, lengthens the struggle and makes de-
feat more possible. Therefore, in the nation's
"honour, heed ! Acquit yourselves like men, and as
`workers on land do your duty with all your
. strength t
So, for'the honor of L:anada's soldiers in France -and
tor the glory of our New-born Nationhood -let it be said of
Ontario's citizens that, in the hour of our greatest need, their
response was worthy of their sons.
W .etre a grt:t debt to those who are fighting for as.
04.40 ♦ a • naa,..
Hung&
Tighter
His
Grip
as
-Pilots, Prima L.e deo (Ere.) Byetaaaer.
A 15 -year Old Girl at Work
Miss Alexandra Smith, one of the thousands of British women
workers on the land. She recently won an All -Comers' Cham-
pion prize for plowing.
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Food Production is the Greatest Problem
the World Faces To -day
Owing to destruction by submarines, ocean ships are
scarce.
It is much easier to protect shipping between Canada
and England than on the longer voyages from India be'
Australia.
One vessel can make twice as many trips from Canada
to Britain as from India, and four times as many as from
Australia.
Therefore, every ton of food stuffs grown in Canada is
worth to the Motherland two tons grown in India or four tons'
grown in Australia.
Why the Call to Canada is So Urgent
If this country does not raise a big crop this year, not only
will the people of Canada suffer but the Motborteild sad her
Allies will suffer and thZir military power will be weakened if
not paralyzed. Therefore, the right solution of the present war
problem comes back to the farm, as to a foundation upon which
our whole national and international structure most be built
and maintained,
Organization of Resources Committee,
Parliament Buildings, Toronto.
'cliatrmaer: lits Rowan, Air Jena 5. Hendrl•, lC C,H-a. C.v.o..
iMetenaat-Ooveeaor or Ontario, vis -Chairman: Rme•r•by g1r Wil-
liam R. Bearet, K.C.M.0., Prime Ylaister of Ontario; K. W. Rowell,
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Leader of ti• Opposition; Secretary' AlbH
ert . Abbott,
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