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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-8-19, Page 6OUR OTTAWA LETTER. DENUNCIATION OF THE GERMAN.. BELGIAN TREATIES. mistake in England the other members 'Liberal Claims Nov Supeorted by Facts— of the Government have been asleep at The Government .Asleen—Liberals Now Ottawa. They have done nothing towards showing the hostile Congress of the Fusing as Imperialisve—Drawing a Mee., States that we are prepared and deter- not suface. The truth is that Sir Wil- countries. Time every vestige of prefer. frid's love for the /Academic and impos- owe whether for Britaia or Germany sible theories of Free Trade blinded his saw. Belgitun, is at owe shown to be political Vision, and compelled him to do clone away with. The worst of the case an injury to the men who are the back- is that Canada will have to grin and bone ot Canadabear it for another six months—or until The Government Asleep. Parliament meets—in the ease of the While the Premier was making this sore of cow/dales mentioned, and for en, other year in the case of Belgium and Germany. The whole tariff is a unigniii- cent exaraale of naasterly inoompeteacy. Drawing a Berri:kg Across the Trail. • Israel Tarte, drIven into a corner, has mined to look after our own interests in done his best to draw a herring aoross vespect of the lumber duties. Raft after the trail of his iniquities. He now an - raft of round. timber is being towed nounces that, fifteen yeare ago, the late across the great lakes. The Governor -in- Thos. McGreevy offered to pay for shares Council—otherwise the Government—has power 'to irapose an export duty, but the Ministers sit with their hands folded. "Our friends the AmerIcans" as Mr. Fielding cans them, need fear no 're- prisal at their hands. The Liberal press tells us with exultation that the ques- tion of export duties "has not even been discussed." The delay is disgraceful. Canada need have no fear of losing her lumber market. With the exception of the culls, the market for which Is gone, closed by Dingley & Co., Canada oan sell nearly as rauoh lumber as ever, and which is much to the point, can export it in Canadian bottoms, There is no rea- son why there should not be a revival of the Canadian shipbuilding industry. The Liberal Government had this on their ante -election programme, but, since June 28, 1896, we have heard nothing of it, There is no reason why our lumber should not be sawed here and exported in Canadian vessels. The Americans have set up this wall. It is impossible for us to gee over it. We cannot allow our capi- tal to reraain idle. The thing to be done is to seek uew markets. The Govern- ment can aid the mill -owners very large- ly, and it is the Government's duty to do so. Liberals Now Posing as Inaperialists. rina Across the Trail. tFrorn Our Own Correspondent.] -Ottawa, Aug. 10.—Here in the na, tional capital the politicians have little to talk of these days. It would be thought that the members of the Administration would have been fully apprised of the doings of Sir Wilfrid in his European trip, but the fact is that the Ministers are almost as Ignorant of what has gone on as :me the readers of the daily press. The reports from England cormerning Sir Wilfrid's speeches bave been rather meagre, and it will not be until he shalt return to Canada that we shell know jun what he has done or said to his English. audiences. The denunciation of the German and Belgian treaties by the Imperial Government has been re- ceived with Satisfaetion by an classes of Canadians, and the Liberal press has been quick to assert that the Ottawa Government bas been the cause of Lord Salisbury's action, The claim is hardly supported by the facts. For years manu- facturers have been complaining of the competition of the Germans and Bel- gians, who, because of the cheaper labor luerket in those coantries, are able to tit:Orson the Britishers. To such an ex- tent had this competition grown that the Irsaperial Parliament had. to pass an act providing that all German goods sold in Britain should bear the words "Made in Germany." Lord Salisbury's action in denouncing these two treatiee has been a political move, in that it appeals to the British antipathy to •Germany, and se aurese for the British manufacturer t'a ootanial markets. By the tertus tsf treaties Germany ansi Belgium ware ea titled equally with Great Briten. to any preferences which any colony raitar: extend to the Mother ottutey, Fasa. pureln piditiesi motivethe gentleman se the Liberal press have pietured Lea. eallibury to us in the attitua at' u b :y servant of the Libe,a1 elo.erninent ci Canada, humbly doing his ie tssi the plane a Sir Wilfrid and his col- leaestues. The truth is that L r; Sent - bury sew an opportunity to strone ha k his hold on power and seized the. chance. We needy() incidental :lay:mt.-aye, ad- vantages which, it lusty be remarked. will not be visible for a twelvemonth Led for the time by The Glebe, the Liberal newspapers have been endeavor- ing to convince themselves and their readers that the supporters of the Gov- ernment always have been ardent Imper- ialists. No man who possesses the rem- nant of a memory will be deceived by this claim. The Conservative party in Canada always has been a staunch upholder of Imperial Federation. The liberals have been as strongly opposed to it. Sir John Macdonald firmly be- lieved that a time would come when Im- perial Federation would be possible. Sir Wilfrid Laurier is on record, as saying that "The time will and must comq when Canada will have to separate from Eng- land." In 1891' the Liberals chase as their battle -cry "Commercial Union." Many of them believed that annexation to the United States was Canada's doom. Han. Edward 13Iake left the party of nrhich be was leader because he believed its platform to be disloyal. In his letter to his constituents in Durham he said as much. Mercier was damning every- thing British; the then Mr. Laurier had assured his loyal supporters that, had he beep in the Northwest at the time of the Riel rebellioa, he would. have had plea- sure in fightiug against and firing upon the troops sent up to subdue the rebels. And with this record staring them in the face, the Government of to -day have the audacity to tell us that they seek to knit the scattered parts of the Empire more closely together. Had they not so often changed front; had. they not shown themselves to be opportauists of the most depraved type, it tnight be believed that their conversion was genuine. Their effort now is to make Canadians believe that the denunciation of the treaties is what they were working for. Their claim is ridiculous. The action of the Imperial authorities is due to the efforts of the members of the British Empire League and the Imperial Federation League— organizations in which Canadian Lib- erals are as scarce as mosquitoes in Jan- uary. The Imperial idea bas always had as it bitterest and most pertinacious foes the followers of the Manchester school, the Cobdenites, and the Canadian Liber- als. What Lord Salisbury, the leader of the Conservative Administration In Great Britain, has been done in spite •of,and not because of, the actions of tbe Cana- dian Liberals. A point which has escaped the attention of many newspaper readers and which is kept out of sight by the Liberal editors is this: There • is not a word in the Fielding tariff referring to British Preferential tasde. Unscrupulous writers have tried to make it appear that the new tariff is pro -British. The "reci- procal clause" of the tariff mak& no mention of Great Britain or any other colony. Probably the Ministers feared to hart the feelings of their "friends, the America.ns," trom whom'until a very few weeks ago, they hadhopes of obtain- ing decent treatment for Canada. The Laurierites for years had abased them- selves before the Americans. They had cheered John Charlton when in the House of tannmons of Canada, he boast- ed that he had gone to Washington to tell Cleveland's cabinet how to put the screws oil Canadia,n lumbermen. Yes, the Laurierites expected something from the licKiraeyites. They were disappoint- ed and immediately they began to show signet of newly -acquired love for the Old Land. They declared persistently that the Belgian and German treaties 'would not apply to their tariff, that the nations with treaties containing the "favored nation" clause could not come under it and that therefore Great Britain only would benefit. Of course, as has been shown, they were ignorant. Lord Salis- bury has shown them that they did not know what they were talking about, Sir Louis Davies spent nearly a clay in try- ing to oonvince the members of the House of Coneroons that the Govern- ment's view was the right one. It took Hon. George E. Foster half an hour to knock the ground from under the Govern- ment's feet. The events of the past week have shaven that tar. Foster was right; that bis -view Is the view of the Imperial authorities, and that, in short, the Lau- rier cabinet made a plunge into a morass from which Lord Salisbury found it con- venient to extricate them. Had the Brit- ish Premier not done so, Canada would have been the slauehter market for Ger- many and Belgium. In days gone by it was the intention of the Liberals to make • the Americans the recipients of this priv- ilege. It probably will not mitigate the woe of the Canadian producer to find that it is a German instead of a Yankee who is underselling him in his own country. But the Government's friends the Americans have not been sent empty away. When the tariff was revised the average of duties on American goods was lowerea, while that rin British {,Jods was ihcreased. Thus Uncle Sam was not for- • gotten. The Fielding -Cartwright tariff also involves an anomaly that its authors never anticipated. More than a score of countries enjoy treaties with Great Bri tain which specify that any prefeeeecs given by any colony to any other main. yet. Already the Britieh exporter is per- zaitted to enter his goods at our custom house e under an import one-eighth less than that enacted from exporters of other nationalities, But, until July 1 next Belgium and eiermany will enjoy iden- tically the same privilege. After that data the British exporter will have his goods admitted at 25 per cent. less than the regular duties, and for a month, tbat Is to say, until August 1, 1898, Germany and Belg,ium will ''have the mune privil- ege. The treaties do not expire until Aug. 1 next. It is easy to see that Cana- dian manufacturers: may have a most un- pleasant twelvemonth before them. Since the passage of the Dingley bill by Con- gress the markets of the United States have been closed to the Germans and Belgians, Advices from over sea tell us that the German manufacturers are hugely over -stocked. Canada will furnish their most accessible market, and Cana- dian manufacturers will have to pay the piper. Mr. Fielding, whose knowledge of fiscal matters is lamentably small, told Parliament last April that the Bel- gian and German treaties would not be operative in so far as we were concerned. This Is a view of the favored -nation clause that is held by the United States, but by no other great power. The Ameri- cans hold that it is allowable to make a favored nation treaty with a certain state, and then to make another similar treaty with a second peeves., receiving and giving certain preferences from which the first state is excluded. This is very much like diplomatic ohicanery,but it was a view which commended itself to alt. Fielding and his colleagues. The Imperial Gavernmene, whether Conserva- tive or Liberal, bee never accepted this theory; in fees, Lord Randolph Churchill once was applauded by both sides of the House when he described it as dishonest. The Imperial Governments have always held that a bargain, once made, should be adhered to. and not wriggled out of In the manner so dear to the Americans. The denunciation of the German -Belgian treaties seomes at a time favorable to the Lauri»r Government, though our export- ers; v i hink several times before en- do e a the Premier s stateneent that we siothing iu rata. n, and would ac- cept no preference if such were offered to us. .as has been pointed out before, a preference of say 2tad per bushel on wheat, or a balfpenny per pound on meats would be of incalculable benefit to Canada. It also would have the effect of showing the Americans that they could no longer rely on the unchanging oom- ph/is:tame of the Imperial authorities. The Aniericans are do.ng their best to exchxdc British manufacturers, They have oommenced to apply the Dingley laws with unprecedented rigor, and le Seeing to be their determination to adhere to title line of action. Public opinion in Britaitt, we are told, would not rebel against a certain discrimination in favor of the colonies. The landlords might object, but the landlords and farmers are In a hopeless minority, The days of wheat raising in the; "United Kingdom have been over for years. At present there is scarcely more than a three weeks' supply in the country, H • Canada were given a preference Russia and the States would have to suffer a • diminution of their wbeat-exporting trade and Canada • 'would benefit. Yet Sir Wilfrid tells the British public that we want nothing of • the kind; that our farmers are well enough off as it,is. Here it was that the Prime Minister had an opportunity to (choose the right line, and solely because of bad judgment, chose the wrong one. Wizen he has returned to Canada most of ras will want to hear his explanation of this mistake. No doubt We will be given in a. laud company for air Adolphe Caron, Hun. Edgar Dewctneya Ron. T. Robitaille and Sir Hector Langevin. Mr, aloGreevy is dead and the able Minister of Public Works is safe in making any charge against him. But what the pub- lic wants to know is: What did Tarte expect to get out al the Drummond county railway deal? Tarte did his best to bluff the Senate into allowing Gale steal to go through. He announced that the Upper House would be abolished if it did not do as he desired. Luckily the Conservative Senators knew what Tarte't threats Were worth. They did their duty and Tarte was unable to hand over dee Gevernment's good money to the friends. who had presented him with La Patrie. Ever since then Mr. Tarte has been threatening to do awful things to the men who thwarted him. He has an- nounced that be was prepared to make terrific revelations, He has posed as an ex -Conservative leader. T,he truth it • that at no time was Tarte esteemed or trusted by the Conservatives. Sir John Macdonald would, always have it that the man was looking out for himself first, last :tad all the time. In Dominion polities ae never took any active part until he became Laurier's right hand man. During the Mercier regime he was. one of the "most notorious boodiers in Quebec " as Hon, Thos. McGreevy said not two years ago. Tarte, despite his asseverations at no time was a man ot prominence in the Conservative party. He was a camp follower, whose principle ocoupation was borrowing or begging money. For years he fattened on Thomas McGreevy, and, wbenthat personage de- clined to hand over any more money, Tarte formed an alliance with the equal- ly sweet -scented Ernest Faceted, They had a regular eyetem of collectiag "toll" front Cioaernattent contractors in the Province of Quebec. They have been proved to have extorted 810,000 bleak - mail from Contractor Whelan, and it also has been shown that Tarte secure a largo slice of the Bale des Ca:Gears spoil. Contractor Armstrong swore tc She latter fact in the.witness-box. Tarte said that the statement was false, gave a fine imitation of indignation, and an- nounced that he would prosecute Ann. sarong for perjury. Of course, he did nothing of the kind. Tarte would rather give up an ear than get into the witness. box. He wants no publicity, .A.nd this ix the man who is Laurier's chief adviser. This is the man who is at the head 01 the biggest department in the publio sea vice, His abortive deal with Greenshields over the Drummond county rallwae shows that he has not forgotten his old ways. Doubtless Tarte will continue tc attempt to make people believe that he was at one time a man of light and lead ing in the Conservative party. As long as inen hare memories his efforts will be In vain. Waverly worded eXcliftee, but they will try shall be 010(484 by these treetr- _, — TEE WRONG AN. , When, our foreman went Away to ,the Northwest -territory to find a cattle range unspoiled by settlers, Hobert was put jet charge of the ranch. This was equivalent to. u pronaotion of Biddy :Geo, for the altesourian, waose batty frame had been built from the limestone waters of his native state, was still the partisan and protector of the sappy youagster lama northern Vermont. You are a Canadia,u pony and I am a Hanabletonian," said Robert. "But if we like to trot together I guess the other bosses of this range will have to take our dust." %he friendship between these two men was founded on complementary qualities, and only a woman could break it. The wornau in this instance was Miss Belt, the echool teacher at tbe Bend. The burned cshild dreads the fire, but a bird will return and again dash into the flames. Robert's encounter with the fair fence cutter was like a name to the bird. He sought an introduction and forthwith became a suitor for her hand. Biddy, the only one in °amp who took it upon him-. self to criticise any act of Robert's, re- monstrated with him. " Yousare a bird, aren't you?" said he. "The girl mesmerized you once. She'll bambozle you for twice and bounce you for three times.! What do you mean to do?' "I mean to marry her if she will have me," replied. Robert simply, "'Yes, 1 kuow I told you plenty times that a cow- boy had no business to m trry, and that's right, but I'm an excel/don. I don't know how and I don't know why, but I know I'm h: hard. I've got to have her." So Robert, lag, hulking, 40 years old, was in love for the first time in his whole life. If force and. earnestness avail, be should win, Lees forcefut, less earnest, half as old, Biddy was in the same plight. His ad- vice to Robert to let the girl alone was in good faith. He thought it the best thing—for Robert—but he had a bad case of "physician, heal thyself" upon his hands. He, too, was resolved to win and marry Miss Bell. Re did no say so to Roam% so hard is it for most men to be Op'U in a love affair, and for a time Robert knew nothing of it. Every oue elec. saw it, and Scotty told Biddy be had isegtor stand front under. "If you lock horns with Rabert," said he, a he'll get you down and walk all over your lrame." And Scotty added some reflections on the law of supply ana &maul, "lf there were twenty sehosanuthuns roan here, you would not look at oue of them, but because there is ouly one you are fixing to get your skin so plumb full of bullet holes that the wled won't whistle as it blows through." 1 iddy laughed and went his way to eel] upota Miss Bell and. urge hi suit. And Robert went his way—evhich was the saiat.‘ way—upon the same errand. I cie not know whether Miss Bell gave to either man any manner of encour- agement, but as the dead shot is said to add a ectch to the marks' on his pistol ter ip for each man he drops, so it is am- ps seable that about this time this young lady increased her list of rejeeted suitors by the names of these two cowboys. It was doue in her kindest manner, this rejection, and she had said to each; "I am sorry this has occurred, but since you have so honored me, you must come to my wedding I ani to be married next month in the church at Hammond. I shall really feel it if you do not come." And each Man had promised to be there. It had come to Robert's notice before this time that Biddy was his rival, but with the hope and intention of success trong within him he had been affected differently from Scotty's forecast. Ile went straight to Biddy and told him to "ego in and wip if you can. I don't want the girl unless 1 oan get her fair and hold her against all comers." But when both had been refused, each inan thought tho other was accepted, and each waited for the other to broach the subject. • It was a difficult time. There were dark looks, but no explosion. They avoid- ed each other, and this little cloud, no bigger •than a woman's hand, seemed about to cover the whole sky. Biddy asked for leave of absence and got it, They did not meet again until the wed- ding day'. That day found Biddy still storming at fate, but Robert, who feed a simpler and stronger nature, had put his own disappointment behind him and was looking forward with pride, if not pleasure, to his friend's happiness. What follows is in Robert's words:— "1 got there early and took a seat in the back part of the church. I wanted to be wbere I could get out if my nerve 'failed me. Many people came in, and at last the bride, looking very beautiful, came • out from a side doer with three men and stood up in front. And I was proud for Biddy that he was going to have such a line wife. But I couldn't see him anywhere, and the preacher said any man having an impediment was to step forward. . "Then I looked for Biddy, but he did- n't come. I had never before been at a wedding irs church, and I tholight may- be is was the way TO keep him corralled In the little r007/1 until the last moment for fear he would go back on to the old range. "The preacher went on saying things, and I didn't pay close attention, because I was thinking how pretty She looked, until a 11 id man in a Hereford shirt and low necked vest took her hand, and the preacher said, 'I pronounce you man and Cleverest Conjurers In the 'World. These are the Hindoo juggers, who. for marvellous tricks and feats, put out European performers in the shade. One who moves about perched upon s single long stick is the latest novelty. This performer is mounted on a bamboc pole about fifteen feet bigh, the top of witioh is tied to a girdle worn round hit waist. .A. small, cushion is fastened a few feet down the pole, whioh acts as a leg -rest. He also exeoutes a sort of dance, and goes through a little pantomime. Il Is a marvellous feat of equilibrium. 1:113 appears absolutely perfect in the art of balancing. He can balance a very light stick on his nose and another on his chin. When balancing these two sticks, end on end, he will make one revolve in one direction and the calm in the other. True to Her Trusts. It is one of the glorious things that can be said of the true church of Christ that she is true to the trusts reposed in her. No organization can be glorious that is untrustwOrthy. It is a blot upon character that no greatness of number: or wealth or enterprise can ever remove. Dishonesty in peasant or prince is a blight that even the world abhors. But integrity marked on character is every. where a passport to publio confidence Just the Bind. The youth in the tan colored cycling suit turned to the white mustached man with a deferential gesture. "Pardon me, Mr. Bards," he said, "but will you permit me to ask what kind of matches you prefer for demestic use?" "Matches?" echoed the old gentleman. "Matches for domestic use? What an ex- traordinary question! Why, safety match- es, of course." The young man smiled. "Then, Mr. Bards," he said, "permit roe to inform you that your daughter Mil- lie and I eloped on wheels this morning and are now batik for the oustornary pa- rental blessing." He blew lightly on his wbistle, and the lovely girl darted into the roona—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. 'Business. Jasper—So you finally bad a business talk with ban? Jumpeppe—Yes, and a thoroughly can- did one too. Jasper —How on earth did you manage autnpuppe—Well, when I went in I did a little lying, and he did a little lying. I knew that he was lying, and he knew that FOR MARKETING PRODUCE. ----- Wagon For Selling From Door to Door. Box For various Products. Many gardeners and farmers have discovered that mach more money es made by selling their produce at first hands from clear to door than by selling to merchants or commission men. .A convenient wagon is of the greatest im- portance if one is thus to market his produce. Such a wagon is shown itt the out here reproduced from American Pardening. It is "low hung" and has A MAREETING WAGOi. its lower part boxed an and floored aver. Access is had to this inclosed space by raising the driver's seat in front, by a door on each side in the•middle and by two doors in the rear. At one side two drawers are shown. One of these is most convenient for oarrying the fiat parch- ment covered prints of butter to market, carrying the drawer to the customer's door to avoid handling. The other can be used for eggs, using the ordinary pasteboard fillers placed one upon au - other. The rear can have drawers or not, according to the nature of the produce to be carried, Above the rear doors are two metal openwork doors that hold in the vege- tables or other articles that are piled in loosely in the wagon's top. The cal - ter of this tap space is easily reached from the canvas door in either side. The top is of course covered with Cant'lla and should have the name of the farm painted upon each side, with the nature of the goods carried. This will advertise and enlarge one's trade. When one carries to the customers on his route or to the general market a va- riety of farm products, as butter, eggs, berries, eto„ it is often desirable to have a box that gives separate space for each • variety. Such a • box was depicted not long ago in BoX The Farm Tour - nal and is also here given. This box is made of such light material that it van be carried easily, even when well filled. The handles are arranged to fall down over the ends that the cover may be raised. The shelves can be movable and made either solid or of slats. Make the ends of three-quarter inch stuff and the rest of three -eighth inch Tine. Then 'Great Scott,' jumped up wild. Great Scott,' I yelled, 'that's the wrong 21:18,1111 "At that instant somebody clapped a hand over my mouth and hustled me out of the church. " 'If you don't want to get shut up for drunk and disorderly,' said Biddy, for he it was who dragged me out, 'atop that racket!' " 'What's up?I said soon as I could get my breath. 'Why aren't you in there I I was lying. I knew that that he knew at getting married? "am not in there getting married,' was lying. and he knew that I knew that ho was lying, and I knew that he knew that f knew that he was lying, and he knew that 1 knew that he knew that I was lying. . Conseguntly, as we under- stood one another thoroughly, we dropped all persiflage and got down to business.— New York Journal. The Silver Lining. • "Maud's husband has an awful temper. About once a week lie gets crazy mad and tears up her best hat." • "Oh, how nice!" "Nice?" "Of course, you silly thing! DepSn't be have to get her a new one next day?" "I hadn't thought of that."—Cincinnati Enquirer. said Biddy, 'because she wouldn't have zne. I thought you were to marry her/to- day.' " 'What! Me?' said L never was within a thousand miles of it.' " 'Why didn't you say so, old man?' asked Biddy. " 'Say so yourself.' said I. 'You were dumb as an oyster.' "Then vve both laughed, and while the folk inside were crowding up to the front to congratulate the happy pair Biddy and I had a hearty handshake on the side- walk, and we went home together."— Argonaut. Be sure you are wrong before you go backward. • VALUABLE ALFALFA. Its Increased Cultivation—Compared With Other Prominent Forage Crops. Alfalfa has spread by successive steps froni its probable native honae in the W est Asian valleys to Greece, Borne, the Mediterranean colonies, Mexico, South America, Califoruia and our western mountain and prairie states. .As lucerne it was raised in New York many ypars ago without success, but its remarkable popularity in the west has again attracted attention to its merits, aitcl-its culture is rapidly extending. It has been grown at the New York sta- tion for several years and has yielded heavy craps of very nutritious foddek. Experiments in feeding alfalfa to railk cows has given at this station very fa - Parable results, In a bulletin from tbe New York sta- tion alfalfa is compared with corn as follows: Farm animals of all kinds find the fresh material very palutable, as much so as coria, and it is much richer in the nitrogenous, or rauscle forming, matters than is corn. It thus supple- ments the nitrogenous poor corn ratioa and supplies the lacking ingredient in a highly relished forro, As compared with the mature fresh oorn fodder fed at the station, the alfalfa forage con- tains a little more moisture, ash, fiber and fat, much less stare]) and similar compounds, but nearly 1M times as much of the nitrogenous protein, and of this protein about 77 per cent is in the form of easily digestible albuminoids. Alfalfa *will furnish three or more cuttings each yea; and from fields at Does Subsoning Pay? According to The National Steelman, theoretically the use of the subsoil should pay in most soils. The settling of the ground, the tramping of teams in the bottom of furrows and the absence of much organic raatter tend to exclude the air from the subsoil. A thorough stirring of this soil, loosening the whole muss to a depth of six or eight inches below the surface soil, commends itself to one's judgment. Granting this, it is a somewhat remarkable fact that very few subsoil plows are ever worn out. A progresaive fernier will buy such a plow, use it one season, and then four times out of five cast it aside. His ex- perience does not inspire him with sufficient faith to continue its use. There are exceptions to this rule, but comparatively few farmers practice sub- aoiling, notwithstanding the antiquity of the idea. The idleness of the plows all over the country is no slight evidence of lack of faith in their use. The difficulty seems to be that a subsoil that easily packs and becomes hard is of such texture that a few soaking rains will compact it aft- er being stirred by the subsoil plow. Deep plowing is more effective, as it puts sods and other vegetable matter be- low to hold the clayey particles apart. Mere stirring of the clay beneath, with- out the addition of material to hold it loose, is chiefly temporary in its effects. The New Feed Stuff. The new corn product being talked about is obtained by grinding corn- stalks • The pith of the stalk is used for packing between the plates of ironclad warships. The hard shell of the stalks, after the pith is taken out, is ground into a fine powder. It can be bagged like oats or bran and will keep as well as any other ground feed. Analysis proves that it is richer in muscle makers than the whole cornstalk, and experi- ence shows that stook will eat it up clean. The stations tell that a balanced ration can be readily made up by mix- ing the new feed stuff with oil meal or cottonseed meal. A ton of the ground stalks will occupy but little more space than a ton or ensilage. There is author- tty fog believing that this new feed stuff will have some effect in reducing the price of hay. Seeding a Lawn. "To have a good lawn," says Rural New Yorker, "the work mast be start- ed in good form, groiand well pulver- ized and raked smoothly after having been carefully dug and well roanured. After seeding it should be rolled and sotue chemical fertilizer applied to give growth. We have had a large experi- ence in seeding for grass, as we usually geed some acres every year, and the best results have been obtained by seeding during the month of September, which we find to be the best time With ns. We always use Kentucky blue grass and red •0, which have never failed to give 110 11 epleittlid yield of grass." ALFALA I CORN enp.et peah esxgremitorsso 7V7C-441:. IEED CLOVIRILfge:F.,T, u oicarAA evarre* I ritievir 1-gb:C6R'iA acts& A4:411awo IMANclai pzieS,e4' TIAD AND FOOD VALUE COMPARED. the station from 1 to 8 years old which have hardly attained their prifne and on soils not thought to be best adapted to heavy growth the average yield of green fodder from five crops of four cut- tings each waa over 17 tors per acre. This yield and its food value as cow - pared with high average yields of other prominent forage crops of the farm are graphically shown in the out here re- produced from the bulletin quoted. The blocks at the left represent by their width the comparative relations between the total crop yields, the shaded portions show the relative oraounts of digestible matter in the yields, and the black areas are proportionate to the quentities of digestible protein. Clover as a Sou Renovator. The importance af clover as a soil renovator is beginning to be appreciated in New Hampshire, according to a Nev Englaud Homestead correspondent, who 'writes as fellows: When seeding a grassfield, mix a little clover with the timothy seed. It oats are being sown at tho 21ume time, pot on a very light seeding of grain, or if a hay crop is desired the first season do not me oats at all as a nurse crop, but sow the clover seed alone on plowed ground and cover as deeply as oats. The crop will catch more readily and not be liable to winterkill. If a heavy growth of oats is on the ground, the clover may get a little start, but will be over- shadowed and so weakly when the oats are removed that great injury will be done by the sudden exposure to the sun. I have had most excellent success in sowing clover seed without any grain crop. In sowing timothy and clover alone I have been able to get a good crop of hay the first summer. Barnyard Manure. Conclusions reached by a German au- thority are that the manure pile must be carefully constructed and protected from extremes of moisture and sun- shine. It should be kept moist, but not wet. It is well to turn cattle in upon it occasionally to tramp it down, and thus exclude excess of air, When the heap is completed, it should be covered with earth. If these precautions are ob- served, the use of preservatives may be dispensed with. The profitableness of the use of the latter in any case is de- termined by their cost. Best Grain shock. Nine bundles of grain make a better "shock" than the old fashioned dozen, writes a contributor to The Farm Jour- nal. He says: Get up four in a cross, then four more, one in each of the spaces between two of the first four, and cap with the ninth, well broken, and the tops toward the prevailing wind. If well set—that is, each sheaf standing op its own bottcm and thoroughly closed in at the top—such a shock will stand a stiff windstorm and a three days' rain without harm. News and Notes. It is said that the Dwarf Essex is the best variety of • rape for the United fitates. The next fat stock show will be held in Chicago Nov. 9-20. In addition to the fat stock provision has been made for an exhibition of agricultural and horticultural products, also a poultry show. After you have pipked early tomatoes three or four weeks run the cultivator between the rows if the vines will ad- mit. Farm Journal says that this will renew the plants, starting a • second growth. • If wheat is to follow oats, have the manure you ietend triapply ready to spread on the stubble before it is plowed. It is claimed that all kinds of plant lice yield to kerosene emulsion. FalI plowing lessens the number of cutworms the following spring, ,Celery grows best on soil that is full of manure that bail been applied to previous crops.