Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-9-16, Page 2V Snbeeribera who do not receive their paper regularly will please notify us at once. Call at the office for advertising rates. THE EXETER ADVOCATE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1897, The Week's Commercial Summary. The first carload of Canadian peaches and pears to be shipped in cold storage all the way to England will leave the Niagara district this week. Regular ship- ments will be made to Leaden wed Glas- gow. The settled fine weather which has prevailed in the Montreal district for the past week has been helpful to business, besides being of great benefit to the farmers, who needed it badly for har- vesting. As it is, the grain crop will hardly yield the excellent promise of sev- eral weeks ago, oats, the staple grain Drop of this section, showing signs of rust in some districts. Flay on the whole has turned out a better crop than first. calculated, the yield on rolling lands proving generally a fair average, but on low laying meadows the return is poor. Cheese and butter, while hardly so firm as last week, are bringing very fair prices, and the output continues large, The trade situation in Toronto for the past week has been quiet with the excep- tion of the wbolesale millinery houses. The Exhibition was duly opened on Tuesday, and promises to be one of the finest ever held here, the various exhibits being particularly good, and the number of visitors to the city at this early stage is very large, including many buyers from all parts of the Dominion, who are buying liberally. The recent great ad- vance in the price of wheat has, bad a 'very beneficial effect, and will undoubt- edly prove a great stimulant to trade, which has not been so promising for years. The money market is steady and the prices of stocks have still an upward tendency, while railway receipts have gone up with bounds that are surprising. The wheat harvest has been well gather- ed in, and with a few weeks of fair weather to enable farmers to get in the balance of their crops, Ontario will ex- perience one of the most prospe:ous years it has ever had. There has been a, very fair business in. the aggregate in the dry goods market during the past week, but the quieter demand remarked upon last week has again been noticeable. It is evident that the first rush of buying bas largely ex- pended itself in both staple cottons and in woolen goods, but there are still re- quirements in evidence sufficiently large to keep up a steady demand of fair extent for some time to come, The jobbing trade here and elsewhere continues good, and according to the general run of reports, stocks in second bands are by no means extensive. The tone of the primary mar- ket continues very firm, and although few advances have been reported, the market is on an average somewhat high- er, there being a gradual closing up to previous advances on the part of sellers 'who have been tardy in quoting higher prices. The woolen grade division ton- tines strong in tone, all previous advan- ces being well maintained. Silk fabrics are iveIl sold up and firm. Linens are firm also, with fair sales. Hosiery and underwear in good request, but prices no higher.—Dun's Review. This is to be a year for big prices for the Canadian farmer, not only in wheat but in almost all other products of the farm. In an interesting article in this 'week's issue of the Weekly Sun, we are informed by Mr. R. M. Ballantyne, the well-known cheese man of Stratford, that the dairy farmers of Western Ontario, without any material addition to their herds, are making $1.550 out of cheese this year where they only made $1 last year. Mr. R. Paton, manager of the Collingwood Dead Meat Company, states in the same article that Canadian live hogs range about $1.50 per hundred- weight above American. This, he says, is because oars is pea and barley fed, while the Americans use corn. "Warn hog producers against corn asfeed," says Mr. Paton; "its use will ruin an import- ant industry." Mr. Paton apparently does not approve of the free corn schedule In the tariff. He notes a tendency on the part of farmers to use American corn instead of our own coarse grains in fat- tening their hogs. The best way to retain the reputation that Canada has gained for her hog products in the English mar- ket is to discourage the use of American corn by subjecting it to a high duty. Here and There. Jokes with points to them seldom fall flat. All thins are stingyto the g stingy man. , The man who cannot be honest cannot be respected. Birds of a feather sometimes meet on the same hat. The gas -meter joke has furnished lots of light reading. A penny made honestly is better than a pound secured by trickery. A man can't live so fast but what his wrong -doing will overtake him. True patriotism doesn't men, one should hate all other countries. It's unfortunate for some children that their father and mother are their par- ents. Multiply what you have done to -day by a life -time and see if the result please you. The man who works Will live to serve as pall -bearer for half -a -dozen men who worry. Only about four months till Christmas. What are you doing W your summer salary? The face is to real beauty what the tongue is to wit --only a means of ex- pressing it. It is a peculiar Christian who is con- tented in thinking that he and his are going to heaven while the most of the world is going the other way. manwho is busytells The ng of the. great things be did yesterday and is s go- ing.to do to -morrow hasn't the time to anything else to -day. TOPICS OF THE WEER HERE IS THE NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. idlnes from all. Parts of the Globe, Con- t:ensecl and Arranged for Busy Readers. CANAllIAN- judge Jamieson, of Guelph, is i11 with appendicitis. The piano and organ makers of Guelph have formed a union. The G.T.R. contemplate building a new depot at Guelph. Watford is now supplied with electric light by two different companies. The apple crop of Canada is expected to be below the averse,:• .nis year. The Government dre,.i;_; Winnipeg is sunk at the mouth of the heel