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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1909-05-27, Page 2PROROGATION CEREMONIES Earl Grey Delivers the Speech From the Throne. A despatch from Ottawa says: The first session of the eleventh Parliament of Canada was pro- rogued at 3.30 on Wednesday after - neon by his Excellency the Gover- ner -(general, with the usual pump and circumstance. The session, w iiich had lasted just four months, has Leen one of the shortest in many ye -ars, and, with the excep- tion of the debate on the question of Canada's part in naval defence, has been perhaps one of the most uneventful. 1n all a hundred and sixty-one bills have been passed, of which some forty have been Gov- ernment treasures. The chief items are contained in the speech from the throne. SPEECH FROM THE THRONE. Honorable gentlemen of the Senate: Gentlemen of the House of Com- mons: In relieving you from further at- tendance on this session I thank you for the assiduity and diligence which you have given to the dis- charge of the duties entrusted to your caro, and it trust be a source of satisfaction to yourselves that you have been able to perform your labors in a comparatively brief space of time. 1 am pleased to notice that your attention has been engaged in some measures of great importance. AMENDMENT TO RAILWAY ACT. In the first rank of such measures is to be noted the amendment of the railway act, uuuer which by the joint action of the national Govern- ment, Provincial and municipal authorities, together with the railway companies level rail- way crossings are to be gradu- ally removed, and a constant mien - ace to Inc and property thereby effectually done away with. LOAN TO, GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC. The loan of ten million dollars to the Grand Trunk l'acific Railway Company will no doubt ensure the completion during the coming sea- son of the prairie section of the National Transcontinental Railway, and will secure to the fast develop- ing western Provinces for this year's crop at new and competitive outlet towards the sea. The act to place the Department of Labor, which has been in exist- ence for some years, under the direct responsibility of a Minister of the Crown, exclusively entrusted with its management, is in accord- ance with the oft -expressed wishes of labor organizations, and is a further step in a field of legislation wherein Canada hes already taken a not unimportant part. \VILT, FACILITATE BUSINESS. The act charging the Secretary of State with special responsibuity in regard to the external affairs of Canada will faciliate the transac- tion of business in connection with tht most important branch of the public service. The resolution adopted by the House of Commons for the organi- zation of a Canadian naval service, in co-operation with and in close relation to the Imperial navy, is a prosier acknowledgement of the duties now appertaining to Canada as a nation, and as a member of the flritish Empire. The financial conditions through- out the world seem to be more hope- ful than the- were four months ago when I opened this session. and whilst in Cadadn we have undoubt- edly suffered less than other coun- tries during this period of univer- sal depression. it will still he the part of prudence to exercise care and economy in all branches of the arr' era'. PJOVISIONS FOIL PUBLIC SER- VICE. Gentlemen of the Huuso of Com- mons: 1 thank you for the provisions which you have made for the pub- lic service. Honorable gentlet,.en of the Sen- ate: Gentlemon of the House of Com - teens : I sincerely hope and pray that Almighty God will continue to pour His blessings upon our country, and let us now offer Him the fer- vent expression of our gratitude for the signal fasesse which we have re- ceived from Him. --..----- CANNON BALLS OF ICE. They Killed Eight Men in Uvalde County, 'Texas. A despatch from Galveston, Texas, says: An unprecenentod hailstorm on Monday in Uvalde county cost at least eight lives -James Carpenter, seventy years of age, and seven Mexican hired hands -while many were in- jured, and from 1,500 to 2,00 head of live stock killed. The hail- stones were like cannon balls„ weighing six and given pounds, some weighing from ten pounds. They measured from ten to seven- teen inches in circumference, and fell for thirty minutes in two storms about two hours apart. Rumors of many more persons killed are not confirmed. Searching parties are out scouring the range -s. '1'11'O ('.11RS LEAVE RAILS. Trainmen Injured in Wreck That Could Have Been %Verse. A despatch from North Bay says: No. 97 westbound C.P.R. express, with a big passenger list, met with an accident at Red Sucker, near Jackfish. 434 miles west of North Bay at 3 o'clock on \Vednesday morning. From some unknown cause the baggage car and express car jumped the rails and plunged down the steep embankment, the engine and other cars fortunately staying on the rails. The express car was demolished and Messenger Demere, of Montreal, was severe- ly injured, but will recover. En- gineeer Ben Ward of White River was injured, but not seriously. Passengeiss were severely shakctn up. Traffic was delayed eight hours. rUFFALO FOR ALBEiRT.1. A Herd of Three Hundred Is Now on the Way. A despatch from Ronan. Montana, says: The e::pedition sent by the Dominion Government to secure the remaining 300 buffalo, bought from Michael I'ablo for Bultalo Park, Wainwright, Alebrta, arriv- ed on \Vednesday in charge of Mr. Howard Douglas, Commissioner of ('anadian National Parks. Sixty Mexican cowboys have been busy during the past fortnight persuad- ing the buffalo toward the corral in the valley of Pend D'Oreille River. An attempt will be made to force them into the corral, which, if successful, will snake the balance of the task sotnewhat easy. These buffalo are the outlaws of the herd, and the task is fraught with some difficulty. 4• "I have Teen tribes," said t•he traveller, "who voluntarily undergo all sorts of self-inflicted lacera- tions." "That's nothing." ans ser - ed 11!r. Tutt; "I know a int of people who insist on shilling them- selves." "ODR AIIM IS A HAM" These Aro tho Words of Field Marshall Lord R•ob..)rts. deep:al<•'u from London says ••tetr army is n sham. We have no army." exclaimed Field Mar- shall Lord %diems. enruestly, dur- ing a debate in the Hou..e of Lords upon the Duke of Bedford's motion for an inquiry tete the con- ditiuu of the reset, e, on Wednes- day. Earl Reeherts. who is known t.e faverr compulsory nuititary train- ing, (leclared that he as amazed at the nnann:•r in which both Houses treated the army as a party pies - then, and at the apathy of 1Ime na- tion regarding military defence. The nation, he. said. did not be- lieve, in the danger eef iii anion, eked no wonder, for their leaders te•Id them there was no fenr of it. 11e added : '•1 k now perfectly well t.h:,: lie frank and tell the nation the leaders in beth horses arc ,t ..at is before them. They will re - anxious about the future. but they .nd." do not te•11 the ceuntre that We have ilk admonitions were eddiesUe.l neither an army t•e Send abroad or t. the Government representatives. to defend the country at home 'flu. Peers , nee •'I their apprm%01 While ur are sitting 'here. takiit it easily and eemfe•rtabl•. , the clang e• is conning nearer and u,e srcr to us daily, and unless you cease telling the people they are living in safety and get an army tit to den' with any enemy we shall one day come to such utter grief that you will bittcryegr 1 regret(• your inaction. CONDENSED NEWS ITD1SiTHE WORLD'S MARL{EES HAPPENINGS 1'ihOM ALL OVEU THE GLOBE. Telegraphic Briefs From Our Otte and Other ('ouuU•ies a/ Rev( Int Events. CANAD... REPORTS FROM THE LEADINGTRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle. Grain. Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Houle and Abroad. AREA DSTUFFS. Alberta farmers look for u re- Toronto, May 25. -Flour - On- curd-oreaKirg crop this year. tario wheat 90 per cent. patents, :Navigators are warned to look *5.40 to $5.50 in buyers' sacks out - out for a shoal near (;ucterich liar- side for export ; on trace, s oron- bur. to, $5.60 to $5.70. Manitoba flour, Three young Montreal men were first patents, $6.20 to $6.40 on track, fined aed sentto jail for beating Toronto; second patents, $5.70 to a horse to death. $5.80, and strong bakers', $5.50 to Trade returns for April show an $5.60 on track, 'Toronto. increase of $4 028,267 over the same Wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.:39'/.,, month last year. Georgian Bay ports; No. 2, $1.- The resignation of Chief of Police 26%, and No. 3 at $1.25/. Ontario Wheat -No. 2 $1.30 to - •-- - - - ---- - Parnell has been accepted by the St. Catharines commissioners. Mrs. Sarah Ellen Carr of King- ston, who claims to bo 104 years old, has been sent to jail fur a mouth on a charge of vagrancy. A man locked up in the police cells at Moncton, N. B., for violat- ing the Scott Act, found a hundred - dollar pearl in a (hell of clams. " WHEAT IS COMING UP " The Season in the Prairie Province Is Not Late. A despatch from Winnipeg says: "\\'heat is coming up" is the wel- come message the crop report of the Canadian Pacific Railway sends out this week. The weekly report. of the company's agents along tho system was compiled on Wednesdayby Grain Agent Atcheson, and has the effect of wiping out all the ideas that the season is very late and the crops will not do well. In very few cases do the agents report the seed- ing delayed. In these instances it GREAT BRITAIN. It is reported in England that Ger iauy has a great depot of arms and aunnuni:iun iia London. UNITED STATES. President Eliot, who has been forty years at the head of ltarvard University, retired from o ice. Workmen digging in a peach orchard in Is ►usaaa county, found a pit containing about fifty human skeletons. Dr. G. H. \1'ynkop, ono of the first surgeons in ,.;I:erica to operate for appendicitis, died elfappoudici- tis at New York on Monday. C. B. Schmidt, Conmissioncr of Immigration of the Rock Island - Frisco lines, says more people are emigrating from Canada to the United States than are going in the opposite direction. GENERAL. Floods in Porto Rico have seri- ously damaged the sugar planta- tions. The General Federation of Labor at Paris has declared a general strike, but no notice is being taken of it. et AN IMPUDENT t1l'I1(:L1111'. '1 hieses Loot a Trunk in North BayPolice Station. A despatch from North Bay, says: North Bay police station was burg- larized on Wednesday afternoon, the office door being forced, and a trunk opened, the loot including a number of "phoney" gold rings confiscated from a faker, several jack knives. and Chief IR,ayner's re- volver. Win. Flowers, released from jail on Tuesday, after serving a term for attempted housebreak- ing, was arrested while trying to sell some of the rings in Little Italy. A man named Frecdlander, also released on Tuesday, after do- ing time for stealing whiskey from .t C. P. R. car, was arrested as be- ing implicated in the burglary. �F- TItEAT MENT OF INSANE. 300 Medical Men to See Methods at London Asylum.A despatch from London says: Three hundred medical men from all ovor western Ontario are ex- pected here on June 7 in response to invitations which are being sent out by Dr. Robinson. Superintend- ent of London Hospital for the In- sane. Hon. Mr. Hanna is expect- ed to be present and the idea is to show the work which is being done at the institution in the alle- viation and cure of amental trou- bles. TO RUN INTO PORT AARTHUR.ARTHUR.Granas Trunk Pacific Conferring WithCity on question. A despatch from Montreal says: It was stated on Wednesday at the oihces of the Grand Trunk Pacific. Railway that Mr. E. .1. ('hamberlin had gene to Port Arthur to confer with the city regarding the matter e f the G. T. I'. securing a route of entry there. In the meantime, in order that Port Arthur can be made the terminus of the Superior branch, arrnugements may be made with the Canadian Northern to use their tracks from \fest Fort. 4 ---- -- "It is a perfect marvel to me how COST OF TARGET PRACTICE. Great Britain can see what is go. If you give a little considerntien ioog on around us in Europe and be to the matter you will find that tar- tontent with the condition of one get precticc in the British Navy is army. Ne country in the world an expensivenecessity. Every time would attempt to defend its, If with at 12in. gun is fired bang goes $150 the paucity of hien and with the un- e•f the taxpayers' money ; a 9-2in. truined men wt' have got. You wilt gun fires a cordite cartridge which never have a real army until you vests $:0; and even the 6in. gun, hate taken the nation into sone con- which is a modest weapon, uses a 6denee and toll them their danger. $1:3 charge?. Shells run from $60 to 1•• e may think yon are safe. but $15 fur the comon arieties, are note though armor -piercing ones (not used in the ordinary competitions, of coulee mar cast As much As $I:to. Then the-rr is the wear and tear of the Fete cunsidi r, and this may be t•erkenu d as expensive, seeing teat aft' life" of each weapon is i.n f ; and while a bin. gun costs 1+-,360. n 9-2 in. tuns to $ ii.250, and :• w irA-hnnnd 12in. mean diture of quite $50,000. to carrying the shake of Redford'• motion against the Oso-erntuent by' a vete of 73 to :2. All rxpen- $1.35 outside.u per pound. Milch cows were in de - Barley -No. 3 extra, 62 to 63c mend at from $30 to $65 each. outside, and No. 3 60e outside. Calves sold at $2 to *10 each, or 3 to 5%c per pound. Sheep sold at 5 to 0 c per pound; lambs at $4 to $6 each. Goods lots of fat hogs sold at 8% to 8%c per pound. • .p.- KNE11' HIS BUSINESS. This Agent 1Vas a Good One, Bat Oats -Ontario No. 2 white 52 to 52%c on track, Toronto, and 49% to 50c outside; No. 2 \Vesture Can- ada, 52% to 53c, and No. 3 at, 51%c, Bay ports. Peas -No. 2 95 to 96c outside. liye-No. 2, 74 to 75c outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, 63 to 65c out- side. Corn -No. 2 American, yellow, 82% to 83c on track, Toronto, and No. 2, 82c on track, Toronto; Ca- nadian yellow, 76 to 77c on track, Toronto. Bran -Manitoba, 823.50 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24.50 to $25, Toronto freights. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -$-t to $5 for choice qua- lities, and $3 to 83.50 for seconds. Beans -Prime, $2 and hand-pick- ed, ;+2.15 to $2.20 per bushel. Honey -Combs, $2 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10 to Ile per pound. Maple Syrup-S5c to $1 a gallon. Hay -No. 1 timothy, $13 to $13.- 50 a ton on track here, and lower grades $11 to $11.50 a ton. Straw -$7.50 to $8 on track. Potatoes -Car lots, 90 to 95c per bag on track. Delawares, $1.10 per bag ou track. Poultry -Chickens, Spring, dress- ed, 35c per pound; fowl, 1.2 to 14c; turkeys, 18 to 22c per pound. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter --Pound prints, 20 to 21e; tubs and large rolls, 16 to 18c; in- ferior, 14 to l5c ; creamery rolls, 23 to 24c, and solids, 19 to 20c. Eggs -Case lots, 18 to $181/2c per dozen. Cheese -Large cheese, old, 1.1 to 14%c per pound, and twins, 14% to 14%c; new cheese, dull at 12yi to 12%e. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, 13 to 13%c per pound in case lots; mess pork, a$22 to $22.50; short cut, $24 to $25. Hams -Light to tnectaum, 15 to 15%e; do., heavy, 13 to 13%e; rolls, 12 to 12%e; shoulders, 11 to 11%c; backs, 17 to 17%c; breakfast ba- con, 16 to 16%c. Lard -Tierces, 13%e; tubs, 13%c; pails, 1.1c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, May 25. -The market for oats is strong, with prices 1 to 2c a bushel (nigher ; peas, No. 2, $1.05 to $1.06; oats, Canadian Western No. '2, 5-t% ; extra No. 1 feed, 54%c; No. 1 feed, 54%c; No. 3 Canadian Western, bee; barley, No. 2, 70 to 72c; Manitoba feed barley, 61 to 61%e ; buckwheat, 69% to 70c. Flour ---Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $0.30; Manitoba Spring wheat patents, seconds, $5.e0; Manitoba strong linkers, $5.60; Winter wheat pat- ents, $6.15 to $6.25; straight rol- lers, $6 to $6.10; straight rollers, in hags, $2.90 to $3; extra, in bags, $2.50 to $2.60. Feed -Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; Manitoba shorts, $21 to 825; Ontario bran, $2J to $•21 ; Ontario shorts, $21.50 to $25.- 50; pure grain mouillo, $33 to $36; mixed mouille, $2.8 to $30. Cheese --12%c to 121Ac, and easterns 12 to 12%c. Butter -21% to 22c. Eggs --- 19 to 19%c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, May 25.-1Vheat-- May, $1.20%; July, 1.27%; Sept. $1.08 cash, No. 1 hard, $1.32 ; No. 1 Northern, $1.31; No. 2 Northern, $1.29; No. 3 Northern, 1.27; to $1,27%. Flour- First patents, $6.10 to $6.30; second patents. $6 to $0.20; first clears, $4.75 to $4.95; second clears, $3.35 to $3.55. Bran -In Bulk, 824 to ts24.50. Chicago-\Vheat--('ash. No. 2 red, 81.49' ; No. 3 red, $1.40 to $1.47; No. '2 hard, 81.30 to $1.36; No. 3 hares. $1.25 to $1.30; No. 1 Northern, $1.30 to 131.31 ; No. 2 Northern. $1.28 to *1.30; No. 3 Spring wheat, 81.25 to *1.29. Corn --No. 2, 76e; No. 2 white, 76%c No. yellow, 76'/I,e ; ! No. 3. 76% to 75',e: No. 3 white, 76%c; No. 3 yellow, 76 to 76%c: No. 4, 74% to 75;;c. Onts---No. 3 white, M to 60c; No. 4 white, bpi% to 59e. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, May 25.- Prime beeves sold at 5','y to a little over Oe per pound ; pretty good animals, % to 5'::c; milkmen's strippers, 3% to 4%o; common sticks, 3!; to 414 1 Failed to Make a Sale. A wanderer wearing a suit of clothes that might have been in the fashion in 1879, ascended the hall - door step of a Toronto dwelling a few mornings ago and asked to see the lady of the house. "May 1 trouble you for a glass of water, ma'am'1" he said, removing his hat on her appearut: 'e. "Certainly," she replied, "but the housemaid could have-" "1 beg your pardon, ma'am," he interposed. "You were about to say that the housemaid could have supplied me with as simple a thing as a glass of water ; but this is a case in which a domestic could hardly be trusted. 1 am indebted to the lady of the house next door," he continued, feelingly, "for a col- lation of stewed mutton and rice pudding particularly grateful to the palate of u hungry man, and this is why I do not ask you for the remains of the boiled ham, evid- ently a masterpiece of cookery, whose rich fragrat,ce still lingers in the air of your kitchen, if I may take the liberty of so expressing myself. Before I trespass on your kindness for a glass of water, however, you will pardon me if I make a stipula- tion which could not be met at the house of your generous neighbor next door. Do you use boiled water '1'' "We do," said the lady, wonder- tngly. That is good," he rejoined, with emphasis. "One question more: Is it filter- ed'!" "No, sir ; it is nee." 'That is unfortunate!" he ex- claimed, shaking his head. ''You will pardon me if I withdraw my request for a glass. I ant a little particular," he continued, with a hollow cough. 'The operation of boiling, while it destroys the life of the harmful organisms that render your city drinking water at this season of time year, as well as at all others, dan- gerous to the human system, yet leaves them floating about in the liquid itself. They are unfit for human consumption and should be eliminated. "And this leads me to remark," he went on, placing his begrimed hand into his coat pocket and draw- ing forth a small brass object, "that 1 am the agent of a filter which can he attached to the nozzle of your tea -kettle, and is guaranteed t At this juncture the Indy of the house shut the door in his face. f MONSTER ROOM. The largest room in Inc world under one roof, and unbroken by pillars, is at St. Petersburg. It is 620 ft. long and lo0ft. in breadth. By daylight it is used for military displays, and a battalion can com- pletely om establish a central agency, whence thousand manoeuvre in it. Twenty the output of all the Scotch cent - to wax atroof are required panics,' will be distributed. Tho to lipaiht it. The roof of this cisme• P tore is a single arch of iron, and it promoters of the scheme believe this exhibits remarkable engineering will enable the meeting of Anieri- skill in the architecture. can competition. is on account of rain, which only means that the land will be its much better condition to receive the seed. The weather throughout has been generally favorable and the rain that has fallen has been a blessing. 1l is what was wanted to give t he wheat a start. The work of sovi:,g the coarse grains has been cotu- menced, and in many parts this seeding is very far advances. Re- ports from Alberta show that as much as ninety per cont. of the MAN I BARLEY. oats and barley has been sown.-- One hundred and fourteen named varieties of barley have been grown 11E1,11 UP IN I.Ium: IIT. 1 in the Experimental ourartment at the College for at least five years Daring Rubbery of the Express Of. in succession, and some of them flee at Truro, N. S. i have beeu grown in tach of twenty :1 despatch from Halifax say::: years. In the spring of 1859, one P pound of the Muudseheuri barley, Fifteen hundred dollars was stolen which was obtained from Russia, at the muzzle of a revolver front the was sown on a small plot in the Ex - office of the Canadian Express Com- perimental Department to be tested parry at Truro, on Wednesday af- u ith sixty other varieties. It pro- ternoon, by three men who are still danced comparatively stiff straw and at large. Entering the office, c.ae gave a large yield of barley which man clapped a gun to the head of was of good feeding quality, being the only clerk in the building. while fairly thin in the hull and plump another went through tho safe and in the grain. It has continued to drawers. Then, with the third man, give good results, the average for who had been standing guard out twenty years being 69.8 bushels of side the building, they disappear'grain per acre, in the experimental ed and have completely eluded the ],lots. local police and several Halifax de- i Small quantities of the mandsch- tectives. It was one of the most curi barky have been distributed in daring affairs of the kind that has - each of the past fifteen years to ever occurred in the Maritime those farmers who applied for the Provinces, for the office is located experiment with barley in connec- next to the Intercolonial station tion with the Experimental Union. and right in the heart of the town.; From these ono -pound lots so dis- Yet no one saw the men enter the tributed there are now about 567, - office or leave it. J. Burgess, the 000 acres of the Mandscheuri barley clerk in the office, was the only per- grown in Ontario nn•aually. Thr in - son there at the time. Burgess de- . troduction of this variety has had a Glares that while the robber was- wonderful influence on the barley rifling the office he was forced to production of this Province . keep his face toward the wall, the second man standing over him with the gun at his head, all the time t' reatening hint if he made any outcry. • YOUNG FOO'1'I'Al SENTENCED. Teruo in Central as Penalty for Hold-up Near Beainsville, I ri l'lto% 1:11ENT ON FARM CROPS. BARLEY IN ONTARIO. The barley crop in Ontario has itt- creased in market value from $1,512,1111 to $12,1,e0,6139 during the past ten years, according to the lat- est reports of the l►,itario Bureau of Industries. In the same period, the arca devoted to barley i.lcreased from 438,78.1 to 766,891 acres. 'ilio average annual yield of bats I,er acre fur the last ten years wa. :.'.5 per cent. greater than that of the ten years previous. These largo increases in areas and in yields per acre are undoubtedly due, to a con- siderable extent, to the introduction of the Mundseheuri variety by the Ontario agricultural College, and to the distribution of the same through the medium of the Experi- mental Union. O. A. C. NUMBER 21 BARLEY. In the spring of 1903, 9,972 select- ed grains of the Mandscheuri barley were planted by hand at egtijl dist- ances apart in the Experimental Department at the t,ollege. When the plants were ripe they were cure - fully examined, and thirty-tlyee of the•most promising ones were select- ed, harvested and threshed separ- A despatch from St. Catharines ately. In 1904, thirty-three separ- says : Jesse Strickler, the young ate lots of barley were grown from man who held up ex -Warden Calder the plants selected in the year gre- at the point of a revolver, on the viuus. 1''rom that time forward. toad near Bcamsville, last week, ly the best strains were grown in and afterwards compelled a boy to the tests as follows: Fourteen in .drive him to Beanisville Station, 1 1905, eight in 1906, seven in 1907, after firing several shots at his par-! and three in 1908. In one instance, suers, was brought before Judge over forty bushels of barley were Carman on Wednesday, and plead- grown in 1905 as the product of one cd guilty. He was sentenced to four seed planted in the spring of 1903. months in the Central Prison, and Of all the selected strains, the Dino if not deported before the expire- which is known as "0. A. C' Nurn- tion of his sentence ho is to be ber 21" has made the best r.•vord. given 48 hours to leave the coon- In each of the last two years it has try, or he Will be rearrested and actually given better results than sentenced on n charge of shooting the Mandscheuri variety in yield of at Calder. ' $rain, in freedom front rust, and in both length and strength of straw BALLOON STRUCK TRAIN. in the experiments at the College, and also in (ho cooperative testa .teronaut in Spain Had a Narrow throughout (Latino. The grain is Escape. A de'patch front Seville, Spain, sate: Mortimer finger, the aero - quite easily distinguished frorn that of the Mandscheuri Farley. From one -pound lots of the O. A. C. Number 21 barley sent along with Haut, had a narrow• escape from ul- two other varieties to Experimental jury on Tuesday. Just after he had Union'applicants in each of the past cast off for an ascsent., the wind three years, several thousand dashed his balloon against the rail- bushels of this barley were grown road station, from which it hennas- I in Ontario in 1908. One farmer in tooff, striking a moving train. M r. i Huron County harvested nine huu- Singer threw out ballast just in the died bushels of the 0. A. C. Number nick of time and the balloon shut 21 barley in 1908, which was the upwards. third crop produced from onoi;ound 1 OIL. of seed sown in the spring of 1906. TO FIGHT STANDARD Farmers who had kept the burley nd for 'the Scottish CompaniesAmiga- Poe <I !largead a his springtrol mtheiiraneigh- mating. boring fartners, and in some' in - A despatch from London says: stances realized as high as $1.50 The Scottish oil companies are dis- per bushel. Time demand for seed cussing amalgamation to fight the next year will likely he more gen- Standard Oil Company, which has eras, as the barley will be better lowervl prices. It is proposed to known. It is quite probable that in a very short time this barley will be grown more extensively titan any other variety in Ontario. IMPROVEMENT OF FARM CROPS TO INSURE THE UNEMPLOY Winston Churchill Announces a New Scheme in Britain. A <le�'.�patch from London says : years and thereafter 170,000 pounds. In the )muse of Commons. on \Vod- j A bill establishing the exchanges nesdny. \Vinston (ihurehill, presi-was introduced in the House on dent of the Board of Trade, out- I Thursday. lined the Government's scheme for The insurance scheme will be establishing labor exchanges and steak with at the next session. It State insurance against unemploy- I will involve a compulsory contribu- ment. The exchange will be de- tion from employers and employes, signed to organize existing employ- in addition to a State grant as re - meet, and to furnish seekers after garde seven specified trades, in work infe,rnation as to where it which unemployment is eon•iderable can be obtained. There will ho and chronic. The se•heme pro% ides about 230 exchanges throughout for benefits somewhat lower than the, country, with advisory commit- those paid by the strongest trades teem representing employers and unions. The labor members gave employes. The estimated cost of tho echenie a hearty reception as ft working thio :scheme is 200.000 whole. hut criticized sumo of its pounds yearly for the first too details. BY MEANS OF (.ttOSS FER- TILIZATION. EIt- TILIZATION. Besides the work in seletion for the improvement of bar!. s and other farm crops, the College ham made twenty-five distinct crosses between leading Varieties of hurley, oats, spring wheat, winter wheat. Redd peas, within the pa. years. About forty thousand plants, besides one hundre( seventeen plots of hybrids, grown in the Experimental Der id - trent in 1909. Some interesting and important results are expected freest these hybrids during the coining season. C. A. Z. VITZ. Press bulletin from the (benrie .1ricultural ('allege, (Guelph, Can- ada. A (101,DE BOOK. The most valuable work in ex- istence is said to he a copy of the Koran, now treasured in the Me, hammedan city of dspnnn-11ur.a Persia. The covers, 9', _in. by -SM., are of solid gold, > in thick, while precious stones set in symbolic de- signs figure in the centre and at each of the centers. The book is written upon pnrehm•'nt, and this part ei the w urk :aluu• is valued at 150,000.