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BRANCEI ALSO A'T. CREDITON
GROWTH OF CITIES.
.3ntario's Wheat Belt Must Be Viewed
Close Up.
--"Too many reports are based -on
thservations taken while seated in
it ) cushioned luxury of a parlor car."
'his thought became firmly fixed in
;ha writer's mind as he set forth upon
en examination of the natural wealth
ind resources of Northern Ontario,
to far as one small human being
could cover a subject with a geo-
raphical extent including 16,000,000
ores of good agricultural lands. What
as noted is duly chronicled in the
hhsreport which
will b
e
Pu
b-
asdhorly
by the Toronto Board
f Trade. A few little stories as to the
;adhering of the information may
rove interesting, says Fred W. Field
In Toronto Star Weekly.
One of the most striking personali-
ties met in Ontario's Northland was
1 mining newspaper man. The first
acquaintance was made at one of
Uaileybury's hotels, near the beautiful
lake. Dressed in a loud suit of the
most approved racetraek pattern; a
soft felt hat, the latest from New
York; with an elegant gold -mounted
:ane, which he was flourishing as a
oandmaster docs his.bator., the man,
rho weighed surely two hundred
.bunds, had a line of hotel officials in
;rant of ihim whom he was denounc-
;ng with great gusto. The subject of
complaint was the fact that he had
pot been awakened at the desired
*our. Desk clerks, dell boys, charm
f),ermaids were commanded to appear,
ne after the other, and finally, tke
betel proprietor, who smoothed the
enraged temper. It was explained
;fiat at least three persons had drum•
lied upon his door at the proper time,
':That's no good," he bellowed. "I've
:got to be pulled out of bed. Good
%leavens," he added, with even more
emphasis, "this north 'country,
mate is like chloroform to me."
The same evening some one intro.
duced me to the man, who made he
way around Haileybury as a mental,
Lhysical, and oratorical cyclone
earning that it was a meek indivi•
dual from Toronto whom he had it..
hand, the mining newspaper man int
,mediately commenced to pour abuse
Aipon Toronto. people -all greenhorns
After reciting a list of all the mining
damps visited in all the continents a:
-the world, he proceeded to belabru
• ;With a long tongue the Haileyburs
folks, whom he dubbed as knowing
.only how "to grow potatoes." Ther
, he explained how the mining mat
ritn this world in general and in par
ioular, until a listener interjected s
'emark to the effect that it was a goo;;
hing "somebody stayed at home tc
ow potatoes." The two hundred
ounds of concentrated "hot air" was
dot disconcerted. "Yes," he replied,
is cheat taking on more size, It 1
,good job somebody stays around
q get food for us empire -builders.'
he last impression of this human
hiriwind was that Haileybury would
• `oon get tired and he would seek nem
fields for empire -building.
Remembering the "cushioned lux,
ury" proverb, the writer went from
Morth Bay to Temagami in a freight
ain's 'caboose. Judging from the
Bence of the conductor, the passer'
er was regarded as a suspicious
aracter. When a notebook was seer],
owever, he inquired if the country
as being -written up, and obtaining
an affirmative reply, his face brighten.
d ^and he got a promise to have
ccopies of the articles .sent to him.
ich only shows that a man's chief
nterest is often and should be in
e country in which he lives. At
ilepost'17, a French-Canadian ' sec.
ontnan is looking after the track and
racticing the Rooseveltian theory in
e matter of families. He, a widower
'th nine children, married a widow
1th eight children; total seventeen.
ilepost 17 is just out of North Bay,
nd our silent conductor gravely won-
ered what would happen if the sec-
onman moved to milepost 24.
Railroad Plans.
Railway construction and extension
work such as the world has never
seen in a similar period of time will
be undertaken in western Canada as
soon as the winter breaks. It is esti-
mated that the Canadian Pacific, the
Grand Trunk Pacific, and the Cana-
dian Northern will spend during the
coming summer months no less than
$100,000,000 in extension work.
,Owing to the enormous increase in
coal traffic at the Canadian head of
the lakes, the Canadian Pacific pro-
poses to install a modern coal -handl-
ing plants -at Fort William, a new
25,000 -ton freight shed and a new dock
for lake shipments. The great grain
elevator will be increased to a capac-
ity of 9,000,000 bushels. The company
intends to pursue actively its policy
of double -tracking.
The Grand Trunk Pacifio will spend
$20,000,000 this year for construction
both of branch lines linking up the
principal towns of Alberta and Sas-
katchewan, and of part of the main
line to Prince Rupert. It is expected
that only 200 miles of main line will
remain to be completed in 1913. East
of Winnipeg the main line construc-
tion is under the Dominion Govern-
ment and it is expected to take two
years to oonnect Quebec and Winni-
peg.
The Canadian Northern expects to
srend $25,000,000 in western Canada
during 1912 for betterments all over
the line, new steel bridges, better sta-
tions, and newerminals, as well as
a number of additional lines into new
territory. This company hopes for a
future transcontinental system; and
will do much building this year west
of the Rockies.
Labor Conditions.
There were twelve strikes in exist-
ence in Canada `during February, af-
fecting about 50 firms and 1,200 em-
ployes. The loss of time in working
days was approximately 10,000, com-
pared with 12,000 dews lost from the
same cause during January, and over
32,000 days lost in February, 1911.
Eight strikes remained in existence
at the close of the month.
According to the record of industrial
accidents kept by the Department of
Labor, 61 persons were killed and 178
injured during February. In January
86 were killed and 214 injured. In
February, 1911, 93 were killed and 197
inj ured.
G1HIpAG•O, March 28, --Corn to -day
known
i sold at the highest prices ever k n
1 for the month of Mardi. Extraordinary
I scarcity of fodder on farms, owing to
prolonged and severe winter coabdi-
tions, was declared to be responsible,
. Closing quotations were steady at 110
to 3-8c to 1-2c above last night. Orate
! finis'hed unchanged to 1-8c to 1-4c up,
but wheat a decline of 3-8c to 1.-21 to
z 5-00, Latest trading left hog products
varying from 50 lower to 22 1-2c ad-
vance.
Liverpool wheat closed 1/ed lower than
Yesterday, and corn unchanged to
lower. Paris wheat closed %o lower to
to higher, Antwerp %c higher, Berlin %e
higher, and Buda Pesth 114c higher..
•„ Options.
Op, High. Low..Close, Close.
Wheat-
Mdo new.. 101% 101r%b a 101 101%b 102
170 101%
101%
July „ 103s 10314a 102% 102%b 103
Oats To -day. Yester.
May
July 46% 471/8 46456k1y
Toronto Grain Market.
Wheat, fall, bushel. .......50 96 to 50 97
Wheat, goose, bushel 0 93 ,...
Rye, bushel, 310
Oats, bushel 0 60 068
h Barley, bushel 0 80 000
Barley, for feed • 0 65 0 75
Peas. bushel 115 1150
l3uckwheat, bushel 0 68 0 65
Torr -to Dairy Market.
Butter, creamery, Ib. rolls. 0 37 0 SS
Butter, creamery, solids ,. 0 35 . .
Butter, separator. dairy, Ib, 0 84 036
Butter, store lots 0 92 084
Cheese, new, lb 0161,6 v0 017
honeycombs, dozen 2 60 2 o0
oney, extracted, lb 018 ...
Eggs, new -laid 0 24 026
"Marvelous Recovery"
Montreal Man So 111 With
Dyspepsia Thought
He. Would Die.
No more convincing evidence was
ever put on paper than the following
letter from one of Montreal's well-
known citizens, Mr. D. R. Larose, of
338 Joliette street.
"Permit me to write you a few Sheep, ewes, sold at $5 to $6 per cwt.;
words concerning Dr. Hamilton's Pills. rams, $4 to $5; yearlings, $7 to $8.50;
I suffered from d. spepSia and indiges- spring lambs, $4 to 58 each,
tion for five years. I suffered so Hogs,
much that I could hardly attend to) and$7.80Eedb.d nd wars ttled ed sold p int to x8,16,
my work• 1 was weak and lost all
courage. I enjoyed no rest until 1 Eist 134ielo Cattle Market.
decided to follow your treatment, after BAST BUFFALO, March 28. -Cattle -
having read your advertisement In Receipts 70, steady.
the paper. To my great surprise I Veals-Receipts 300; active and 60c high -
immediately began to feel better. 1 ' er; $5 to $11.50; a few, $11.76.
am now using the second box and I Bogs -Receipts 2400; active and steady
feel so well that I want to tell you to 50 higher; heavy, $8 to $3.10; mixed,'
that T owe this great change to your $8.10 to $7..15; Yorkers, .57.60 to 58.15; pigs,
famous pills. I recommend them to
57.15 to dairies,
57 to $7.15; stags, $5
too gg6; dairies, ;7.60 to 58.
every person who is suffering from Sheep and lambs -Receipts 4000; sheep
dyspepsia. Your grateful servant, D. active and steady; lambs slow and Se
R. Larose, 338 Joliette st,, Montreal, lower; iambs, $6.60 to $8.60.
P.Q. Chicago Live Stock.
Let all who have weak stomachs, p March 28. -Cattle -Rete is
and those Who suffer with indigestion, 'CHICAGtoO, lv ,
2800headaches, biliousness, know they can $5.25 market,o58.Texas steers, ,toe56,75;
$6.16 to $8.G6; Texas 54.60 to $G,7G;
be perfectly cured by Dr. Hamilton's western steers, $5,20 to 56.80; stockers and
Pills. Successfully used for many feeders, 54.30 to $6.60•' cows and heifers,
o all 6 50 to 8.90.
6cper box, •calves
safe, 2,80 $ • $
mild andto 6 ,
ears2.G0 $
years,
$
market, slow,
Co.,24 000^ .ma w
dealers, or The Catarrhozone , ,
Kingston, Ont. generally steady; ilght, 57.60 to 57.771
mixed, $7,45 to 57.80; heavy, 57.50 to 57.82/x;
rough, $7.5.0 to 57,60; Pigs, $6.26 to $7,26;.
bulk of sales, $7.66 to 57.80.
Sheep--lzeeeipts, 18,000; market, strong
to 160' up; native, 54.85 to 56,25; western,
$4.40 to 56.50; yearlings, $6.75 to $7; lambs,
native, 35.75 to 55.86; western, 58,20 to 38.26.
•
ewes .•.* Grain and Produce.
MONTREAL, March 28. -Cables oa
Manitoba spring wheat came strong at!
a further advance of 1%cl, per quarter..
The demand was good for all grades.
and a fair amount of business was work-.
ed for July -August shipment. The de-
mand for ocean grain room during the
week has been good from both American)
and Canadian exporters, and it is esti-
mated that fully 1,500,000 bushels have)
been booked for July -August shipment.
This has tended to strengthen the mar-
ket, and agents are now asking an ad -1
vance of 8d ner quarter, 2s 9d being paid;
for Liverpool. Butter is quiet, the high!
prices checking the demand.
Corn -American No. 2 yellow, 81355,
Oats-Canarllan western, No. 2, 521,40 tel
630; No. 3, 60c; extra No. 1 feed, 51c; No.
'2 local white, 50c; No. 3 local white, 49141
No. 4 local white, 48c.
Barley -Manitoba feed, 63c; malting,
$L05 to 51.10.
Buckwheat -No. 2, 72c to 73c.
Flour -Manitoba spring wheat patents.
firsts, 55,70; seconds, $5.20; strong bakers'.
55: winter patents, choice, $5.10 to 55.36;
straight rollers, 54.65 to $4.75; do., bags,
92.15 to 52.25,
Rolled oats -Barrels, 55.06; bags, 90 Mal
52.40.
Milifeed-Bran, $26; shorts, 527; mid.
dlings, 529; mouillle, 530 to $34.
Hey -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $14.60
to $16.
Cheese -blest westerns. 157Ao to 161,4c$
finest easterns, 141,40 to i51.
Butter -Choicest creamery, 8514c t0 36c;
seconds, 341,ic to 35c.
Eggs -Fresh, 25c to 27c.
Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, $1.56 to
51.70.
Dressed hogs -Abattoir killed, 511.76 to'
Pork -Heavy Canada short cut mess,'
barrels, 85 to 45 pieces, 522.50; do., backs,)
barrels, 45 to 55 pieces, 522.
Lard -Compound tierces, 376 lbs. 814cIi
Rood pails. 20 lbs. net, s'5 c; pure, tierces,
375 lbs., 11%c; pure, wood pails, 20 lbs.
net, Mc.
Beef -Plate, barrels, 200 lbs.. 514.50; do.,
Plate, tierces, 300 tbs., 521.50.
Liverpool Grain Prices.
LIVERPOOL, Mar. 28. -Closing -Wheat
-Spot steady; No. 2 Manitoba, 8s 3d; fu-
tures steady. May, 7s 8%d; July, 7s 714d;
Oct., Ts 4%d.
Corn -Spot firm; American mixed, new,
6s 41%d; old, 6s 10%d; kiln dried, 6s 7%d
futures steady; May, es 5%d; Sept., Ss'
Flour -Winter patents, 29s. Hops in!
London (Pacific Coast), 69 15s 610 15s.
Buffalo Grain Market.
BUFFALO, March 28. -Spring wheat,
no offerings; winter, firm.
Corn -Firmer; No. 3 yellow, 76c; No. 4
yellow, 733%; No. 3 corn, 74%c to 74%c;
No. 4 corn, 72o to 73c, all on track, thru
billed.
Oats -Higher; No. 2 white, 5835c; No, 3
white, 581/4c; No. 4 white, 5774c.
Barley -Malting, 51.25 to 51.38.
Duluth Grlln Market
DULUTH, March 28. -Wheat -No. II
hard, $1.08%; No. 1 northern, $1.073/-; No.
2 do„ $1.04% to $1.05%; May, 51.0748 to.
$1.07%; July, 51.0814.
CATTLE MARKETS.
Toronto Live Stock.
TORONTO, March 28. -The railways
reported 53 carloads of live stock at
the City Market, comprising 517 cat-
tle, 2060 hogs, 95 sheep and 123 calves.
Butchers,
Easter cattle sold from 57.20 to 58; best
quality butchers, 1.100 to 1200 lbs., at 56.75
to $7; butchers, 1000 to 1100 lbs., at $6.60 to
56.75; good, $6 to 56.25; medium, 55.60 to
to 54.90 cows, 53 to 55,50 bulls, 54 to inferior,6,60.60
Stockers and Feeders,
. Feeders, 300 to 900 lbs., $5 to $5.25; stock-
ers, $4.66 to 55.
Milkers and Springers.
Trade in milkers and springers, of
which there was a goodly number, was
inclined to be slow. Prices ranged from
$35 to 560 each.
Calves.
The, farmers of Ontario are'to blame
for se large a number of "bobs" that
have been delivered on this market. This
class, of which there have been several
hundred sold from 52.60 to $2.75 each, Good
to choice' veal calves of which there was
not enough to supply the demand, sold
from 54 to 58, while Easter quality sold
at 58 to 59, and one at 510 per cwt.
Sheep and Lambs.
Dr
Hit n
am to s Pills
Cure Dyspepsia
"MOVEYS"' AT OTTAWA.
Cinematograph Men 'Take Everything
in Sight on the. Hill.
a i willt
Future cher t ons wi itnes ;� ho
g
Borden . Cabinet at wort in the Privy
v
y
Council chamber, It will be a real
oinematograph picture showing the
leaders of the nation taking sweet
counsel together,
The other morning for half an hour
e cinematograph men were busy in
111 a e efore a
P i Coun ch mb b
r.
r
vy
fvi1 aa -net withthei
r machines and
hey came avday pleased at the good
they
impression,which will be shown to
sevnty illions of people daily
throughout the world when they are
ready.
The pictures are part of a scheme
by the Vitograph Co. to write a cine-
matograph picture history of Canada
from thed s a Jacques Cartier up
to the present of Jat Premier.
And royelty will figure in the pie-
ture. The picture men by royal per-
mission attended a skating party at
Government House and caught the
duke moving about, the duchess re-
ceiving her guests and pretty Princess
"Pat" gracefully figuring on the ice
with a crowd of Ottawa's best and
brightest,.
The Premier in his sumptuous pri-
vate office was caught in the act of
writing letters and dictating to his
private secretary, all for future Cana-
dians to gloat over in wondering in-
terest.
Speaker Landry in the Senate posed
clad in his crimson robe, while Speak-
er Sproule, preceded by the sergeant -
at -arms, represented the walk from
his private apartments to the green
chamber. And the ex -Premier was not
forgotten. He smiled- o'er again his
famous smile and walked down Par-
liament hill, all for the benefit of fu-
ture statesmen, who will want to
know how it was done in the year of
grace 1912. The press gallery "boys"
are also included and room eight, with
its dozens of typewriters, roll -topped
desks, voluminous blue books and
diligent inhabitants performed special-
ly under the inquisitive eye of the
clicking machine. •
When the history is complete, a
special set will be sent to His Majes-
ty King George, who will have Canada
as she is placed before him.
British House
uofffrago CoBili,mmons Defeats,
London, ,March 29,---13y a vote of
222 to 208 the House of Conilnons
last night rejected the Cen iiiati
on
bill, which was before the House
on
its second reading. This measure aim-
ed at conferring the right tovote upon
every woman possessed of the house-
hold qualification and would enfran-
chise 1,000,000 women,
The announcement of the result was
received with deafening cheers. Last
year a similar bill, introduced by Sir
George Kemp, passed the second read-
ing stage by a vote of 255 to 88 ou a
non-party division and was referred
to a committee of the whole House,
I�nnaiding no further progress. The as-
touilding reversal in the views of the
members which has since taken place
, is attributed to the strong resentment
aroused by the window -smashing tee.
ties of the militeat suffragists.
The bill is a private measure, not
backed by the Government, and in
recording their votes the members
were
snot restrained by party consider -
The debate
re end d the
novelel spec-
tacle
ec-
tacle of members of the Cabinet tak-
ing opposite sides. The Prime Minis-
ter strongly , opposed the bill on the
ground that there was no evidence
that it was desired by a majority of
either the men or the women of the
country, and in his opinion: the pro-
posed change would be injurious to
the hest interests of women and
fraught with the gravest consequences
to future good government,
Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Sec-
retary, on the other hand, gave it as
his opinion that the enfranchisement
of women would neither injure the
state nor the home, but would benefit
both, as had been proved in all conn-
tries where it had been tried.
Crowds of suffragettes . were await-
ing the result of the vote outside the
House and strong forces of police were
held in readiness for emergencies.
Although there is no doubt that re-
sentment over the window -smashing
resulted in the transfer of many votes
which otherwise would have been giv-
en in favor of the conciliation bill,
an analysis of the voting shows that
its defeat in the final instance was
directly due to the attitude of the
Nationalists, not one of whom voted
in its favor. Forty-one of the Nation-
alists voted against the "bill and ten
abstained from voting.
Weak on Holy Writ.
The truth is out. The weakness of
the large majority of the members
of the Parliamentary Press Gallery
is not for the Holy Writ. They re-
mind one of • Chaucer's Doctour of
Phisyk, whose "studie was but litel
on the Bible." In the course of his
eloquent speech at the Liberal ban-
quet to the victors of South Renfrew
the other evening, Dr. Michael Clark
paraphrased a quotation from the
song of Deborah in the Book of
Judges. "Ah, sir, the stars in their
courses are fighting against Sisera."
Every Liberal newspaper man pres-
ent who used the quotation in his
report endeavored to make it a clas-
sio, representing the westerner as
having chronicled a conflict between
the firmament and Cicero. It is re-
ported to have been Sir Wilfrim Lau-
rier, himself an adept at scriptural
quotation, who first spotted the blun-
der of the newspaper men. Thereupon
there were manifold trips to the Par-
liamentary Library to inspect the
dust -covered copy of the Scriptures
which there abides. A poll of the
press men was taken on the question
-With disastrous results to all but the
Anglicans. Not a Presbyterian nor
a Roman Catholic in the Gallery
knew whence the quotation was taken,
and only one Methodist; qualified.
Seven of the Anglicans, however, at
once recognized and located it, these
oorrespon'ddii:ts; with the one Metho-
dist, being the only members of the
Parliamentary Press Gallery who ap-
parently had any acquaintance with
the Book of Judges. Only one Angli-
can went wrong, and he confessed,
amid laughter, that he was brought
up a Presbyterian.
SAVED FROM
AN OPERATION
How Mrs. Reed of Peoria, 111.,
Escaped The Sur-
geon's Knife.
Peoria, I11. -"I wish to let every one
know whatLydiaE Pinkham'sVegetable
Compound has done
for me. Fortwoyears
I suffered. The doc-
tor said I had a tumor
and the only remedy
was the surgeon's
knife. My mother
bought me Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
ble Compound, and
today I am a well and
healthy woman. For
months I suffered
from inflammation, and your Sanative
Wash relieved me. I am glad to tell
anyone what your medicines have done
for me. You can use my testimonial in
any way you wish, and 1 will be glad
to answer letters. Mrs. CHRISTINA
REED, 105 Mound St., Peoria, Ill.
Firs. Lynch Also Avoided
Operation.
Jessup, Pa. -"After the birth of my
organic fourth child, I had severeganic inflam-
oration. I would have such terrible pains
that it did not seem as though I could
stand it. This kept up for three lone MayAdjourn on Saturday.
months, until two doctors decided that !
Ottawa, March 29. -It is pbesible
prow that Paslianient may adjourn by
Saturday night. • Splendid progress is
o andonly
made in the Hous
being,
to bedisposed of.
2ew
bills remain
a
The Senate, by dint of working morn-
ing, noon and night, have succeeded
in catching up with the Commons,
and yesterday afternoon, with the
t cleared
easing of the (train Ac .
heir slate, and are waiting lot marc
ills Rouse.
� from the I
Must Raise Engineers' Pay.
New York, March 29. -Warren S.
Stone, grand chief of the, Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, predicted
here yesterday that when the result
of the strike vote on the wage ques-
tion is made public here on April 1
it will be found that less than 2,50
of the 25,000 engineers in the brother
hood oppose a strike.
"It is significant," said. Mr. Stone,
"that in none of our conferences with
the eastern railroad representatives
have they once declared that our de-
mands were unjust. They do not say
we do not need the increase; they
say merely that they cannot afford to
grant it, because they are not allowed
increased freight rates. The Interstate
Commerce Commission stands in the
way of any raise, and, as the com-
mission represents the public, it is
really the public that is the stumbl-
ing block. That is why I repeat that
the public needs an object lesson to
convince them that the roads are en-
titled to more pay for the freight they
carry. Freight rates are bound to go
up."
Exit the Phosphorus Match.
Washington; March 29. -The bill bp'
Representative Hughes of New Jersey,
Democrat, virtually taxing out of ex-
istence the phosphorus match indus-
try in the United States, was pass-
ed yesterday by the House after a
heated debate. The vote, 163 to 30,
was remarkable in that Minority
Leader Mann was the only Republi-
can who joined the Democratic op-
position to the measure. The high
death rate among workers in the
phosphorus match factories of the
country inspired the bill.
Besides imposing a prohibitive tax
on phosphorus matches, heavy fines
and penalties are provided for viola-
lations of the law. The exportation
or importation of the matches also
is forbidden. The main features of
the law will go into effect on July 1,
1913, if the bill passes the Senate.
Montreal Tunnel to Start.
Montreal, March 29. -When the first
sod is turned, inaugurating the con-
struction of the Canadian Northern
Railway's tunnel under Mount Royal,
a public, ceremony will be arranged
for by the management of the road,
at which a number of prominent Cana-
dians will be present.
Mayor Lavallee will, probably, be
the first man to commence the gigan•
do work of burrowing under the,
mountain, and will declare the work
officially open, after which the thou!
gands of workmen who are to be enlr;
bToyed will start the excavations at,
oth ends of the projected route i
which will connect the city with th
model city, Mount Royal, and th
business sections of Montreal.
Set -back For Anti -Gamblers.
Providence, R.I., March 29.-A 'Siit
t
to establish a state police force, whk
the Republican platform in the las
campaign advocated as a means
suppress gambling, was defeated 1
the House yesterday by a vote of 4
to 28. Governor Pothier, who re-
icently began a crusade against gam-
bling, had favored this bill.
The representatives from practical.
ly every town and city which the
governor has visited in the course of
his crusade, voted against the bill.
an operation' was needed,
"Then one of my friends recommended
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
pound and after taking it for two months
I was a well woman." --Mrs. JOSEPH A.
LYNCH, Jessup, Pa.
Women who suffer from female ills
".
should try Lydia E. Pinkham s Vegeta-
ble Compound, one of the most success+:
Ail remedies the world has ever known,
before ,submitting to a surgical opera.
tion. y -
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CHERRY TREE DISEASE.
Unless P e surtons Are Taken Gums
mosis Will Limit. Llfe and Usefulness.
"Certain varieties of the cultivated;
sweet cherry found in the Facile
northwest are very subject to a dies
eased condition which is commonly
known as 'cherry gummo$is,'" says
Fred L. Griffin, a gradeate student of
the Oregon Agricultural college, dis-
cussing some investigations which he
carried on in the plant pathology de-
partment there,
"The disease is characterized by a
more or less copious exudation of gum.
from the tree," Mr. Griffin continues,
"the gum coming from the branches,
spurs and buds as well as from the
trunk, and a pustulated appearance o$
the bark is noted near the diseased
areas. Often but little gum is exuded,
but in such cases an examination of
the affected trees generally discloses
discolored tissues which are infiltrate;-
with gum. Such areas are spongy to
the touch and are usually discernible
by the variation in color of the bark
as compared with that of the normal
tree.
"Cherry gummosis appears in both
a localized and generalized form. In
Photo by Oregon Agricultural college.
(MERRY Term AFFLIOTED WITH auMMosrs.
the former the disease is apparently
confined to a rather limited area on
,the trunk or branches, snob area being
most often associated with a blighted
spur or bud. In the generalized form
large areas of the trunk or branch may
become involved, and it often results
in complete girdling. This latter type
of gummosis often appears to origi-
nate in the -crotch of the tree."
Mr. Griffin has suggested that the
use of top worked, resistant stocks will
prevent body girdling. Mazzard seed-
lings top grafted to Lambert cherries
have proved quite successful in this
connection, as have the same seedlings
top budded to Royal Armes. The
Prunus Mahaleb is a species distinct
from the sweet variety and as a wild
seedling le native to Europe. It is,
like the Mazzard, a resistant stock,
though the Mazzard has proved the
better for the cultivated sweet cher-
ries. By having the body of the tree
of a stock immune, or nearly so, like
the Mazzard, the worst that can hap-
pen is the loss of a branch or so,
whereas if this precaution is not ob-
served the main body of the tree is
liable to be affected andthe life and
usefulness of the tree limited.
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ONE CROP FOLLY.
The evils of one crop agricul-
ture are not to be measured in
the immediate present, but in
our declining years or when we
turn over a wornout farm to our
children. The vast cottEn fields
of the south and the wheat fields
of the north and west bear mute
but emphatic witness of the sui-
cidal policy of adhering to but
one crop. -Kansas Farmer.
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Grade Seed Grain Early.
Do not wait until spring to clean and
grade your seed grain. Do it now,
while you have plenty of grain at hand
from which to select. The best twenty -
Ave bushels of grain out of a hundred
bushels are worth much more for seed
than is the grain that can be cleaned
from a much smaller amount in the
spring. The cost of thus cleaning and
grading the grain is very slight, and it
enables one to have heavy, plump seed
grain at very little outlay. -Exchange.
Fertilizer For Dahlias.
Any good commercial fertilizer rich
in ammonia and phosphoric acid and
liberally supplied with potash will suit
dahlias, but the best results are ob-
tained by using it in connection with
manure. Prepare the ground as you
would for corn. When he plants are
flowering freely a handful of top dress-
ing to each plant and four parts bone -
meal to one part nitrate of soda will be
very helpful. -Rural New Yorker.
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Before you kick the other let-
low for not bringing home the
borrowed maul go do= to the
barn and see if his borrowed ax
stands behind the door. -•Farm
Journal.
GROWING HORS,ERADIS
0.01000 Crop Dees Nest After 11e
.Cauliflower or Early Ceb ega,
A. W10e001 Subecriller of 4.40t..
4.gtieulturist aalClil lies ltitortentiorti;,
the methods of raisin and
Werke
horse radish Although the horse
fs h is a perennial .and will ..bontlp0
grow indefinitely if sole' Of the
Tire left in the ground, It Isu
treated as an annual .*ellen rale
commercial bar en
iu .
. It is Most 1 .
stable as a second crop, following bee
cauliflower or early cabbage, Only :t
main root le used for Market, the $
rootlets being broken, oft and preserve
for planting.
The upper part of each set should
cut straight and the lower part al
ing so that they may be planted rig
end up. Of course, they will grow
will a e ,a more ea"
how, but they m k
factory crop if `planted properly. Th,
sets may be stored for the winter Inn.
cellar or .in pits out of doors, It Is
good thing to sprinkle sand betty
them to prevent heating. While
crowns of the , plants may' be reset
will grow, they do not produce a v
satisfactory crop of roots for mark
and will net pay for replanting.
The sets are planted between rows
cabbage or cauliflower In boles
or ten inches deep made with a ..
crowbar. They are covered two
three inches deep,
If they are note
deeply they are likely to come. up ;
soon and interfere with cultivating an 3{
harvesting the first crop. By plan • };
one hill of horse radish opposite
cabbage plant from 12,000 to 18, ".
plants per acre are grown. One cal+
vation is usually sufficient, because,*
ground is already clean front` the H
crop, and horse radish leaves soon s
the ground and prevent weed growtblr .;
SELF CLOSING GATE.
Directions For Making One That 14'
Serviceable and Inexpensive.
Here is a good plan for a self ;los
gate, reproduced from the Orange,Ju
Farmer, from which cuts and descri0
tion are taken. The upright piece 4
the hinge end of the gate is made higl +l
er than the post it swings on. A. er
bar is driven tightly through a bole
right angles with the gate. Make
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crossbar two feet long or over and rant.
GATE LATCH.
wires from the ends of the crossbar MI
a point two feet from the crossbar and
continue by a single wire for one foot.
A spiral spring from a mower or bin&
er is here attached, and a wire is consi
nected with this spring and run to the
second post of the fence. ThIse ga
will swing either way and be pulled
shut again. A latch made as described
in the drawing will be a great helps'
Take a piece of hard wood -oak or mall
ple-and saw as indicated at c. T
should be 8 by 2 by 2 and sawed so
sELF CLOSING GATE.
should be one inch thicker than the thhe
parts. Two pieces should be sawed likeji
b, just so the thin part of c will slide
easily through. it. Then saw a, making
the groove one and one-fourth incbe>5
wide and its edges rounding so the
latch will work easily and attach to the
feneepost horizontally. A spiral spring
from a shade roller is attached, as'
shown in sketch. This is inexpensive'
but serviceable and works well if right-
ly made. e
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cept a few fish and a hope in the
hereafter comes out .of the
ground. Be good to the ground.
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Orchard and Garden Notes.
Early cabbage, lettuce and menders.
er are sown in the north in hotbeds!
any time from the latter part of James
ary to the lst of March. Sowing early
in February is preferred by most grow-
ers, although excellent results may be
secured by later sowings if the framed
are bundled properly.
It usually takes nearly aweek to get
the manure ready for the pit. and froull
four days to a week is generally re-
quired for the temperature to drop he
the frame sufficiently to make sowing
safe. The reader will tbus understand
that the manure for the hotbeds should
be stackedt;about two weeks before he
intends to sow.
While fiats are not used by many;
gardeners there are strong points in
their favor. It is afore convenient t
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to C
onifo
rtabl
t flats in a war
sow n
room, carrying the fiats to the hotbed
or cold frame after sowing or pIltntin
and perhaps watering,-althoegi4 watete
Ing Is more frequently attended to
the hotbed or frame.