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E DAIRYING INTEREST IN
CANADA.
This letter le the first of a series
which the writer is about to address
to the dairymen of Canada, as 000
outcome of a four monthsetude of
the dairy question abroad, by a Can
ediar, from a Canadian standpoint
and pith Canadian intorestsin view.
Thal the letters will be read by all
Canadian dairymen the writer tine
a right to ask and It reason to ex.
pec`. The right to ask comes of
what the letters have cost the writ•
er ; the reason to expect eomcs of
the fact that the work done has been
done in the interest of those ad
dressed. Tbttt the opportunity of
reading will come to ell who wish
it, we have au assurance in the atti-
tude of the Canadine press on this
subject. The intelligent iuterest
taken by the neweparer editors of
Canada, for several years past, in
the question of the improvement d
our dairy industry leaves little to
be desired. The experience of the
writer hoe been such that he feels
warranted in the belief that if the
thele! ;s not made of hie own humble
efforts in tine direction, it will not
be the fault of his fellow -country-
men of the press.
It is due to myself and my sub-
ject to say at the outset that the
work which I olid undertake was
not the original intenthou of my
visit abroad. There was no lack
of suggestion of the need of some
swell action and its large possible
value to Canadian agriculture ; but
it did not seem, on the one hand, a
work to devolve upon any single in•
dividual to attempt to accomplish,
while on the other hand, whatever
agency was the proper one did not
appear alive to its responsibility
The more immediate object of the
visit was in a response to an invi-
tation from the British Dairy FArm-
ers' Association to give an address
at their annual conference. The
ultimate or main purpose of the visit
was to make the opportunityan oo
cation for acquiring information of
enough valve to justify the necess
ary outlay of time and money, which
outlay oould not be afforded other -
else. Actual line of work followed
out, therefore, was quite different
from what had been intended, and
waa a line of work that appeared to
open up of itself, a natural se
quenoe, practically, of some years
of work that preceded it.
Immediately the fact of the pro•
posed visit hsviug become publicly
known, from various quarters there
came, spontaneously, suggestions of
the pressing needs which the op-
portunity might be expected to
serve. Members of Parliament and
other public men, more or less en-
thusiastically in favor of improve
ment, made personal suggestions as
to what might or ought to be done.
The following extracts from a letter
written me ou the first day of May
last by Professor E. A. Barnard,
then director of agriculture for the
Province of Quebec, will illustrate
the expectations entertained of my
visit,
Prof. Barnard wrote : "Delighted
to hear of your being called to Eng
land on such a complimentary mis•
sion. I hope you will take time to
look into dairy matters there some-
what carefully. What we need
moot for the English market, I
think is (1) An organization such
as the Dominion immigration agent
at Liverpool, promoted for the sale
of live stocir ; (2) a package or a
ayatem, by which our fresh butter—
properly preserved—pan be laid on
the English consumer's table, i
have been studying the question for.
some time, and 1 have come to the
conclusion that we can press our
butter into a. lb. squares, nicely
stamped, pack eaob pound in a
parchment paper box, say 24 lbs.
together, or even 12 Ib. boxes. --put•
ting up say eight 12 Ib. boxes into
a large shipping ease. The whole
must be so arranged with a preserv-
ative againet great changes of tem-
perature, as to reach the retailer in 1
the best of shape. If that can be t
done, and en active, honest agent
found to take acre of our shipments,
we shall have done a great deal for
our country. ,
"I am prepared to help you, or
anyone else, with all my might, for '
the realization of such an object. S
"With our promised new era of I
feet steamers, competing dines, etc.,
With our proximity to the seaboard, N
with 000l storage, and with care in t
making and dapping, our butter p
should. reach the consumer in Great k
Britain in 'as good condition as the
best of Normandy. Of course our o
butter is longer on boned ship, but e
cool etorege and the right package, o
excluding air, or nearly so, from n
the moment the butter comes in m
the churn to the Time it is 'rut on b
the table, even in England, reeked a
this poesiblo for us, as well as for t
*Mandy makers, if we organize a
attd go properly to work about it. e
"Try, by all inertia, to study this t
matter out thoroughly. 1 wish the
.t5epartmrnt of Agriculture at Ot.
tuwa would help you in thin matter,
, Should yon see Mr, leo a or the
I IIon, Mr. Carling about it, I have
•
no doubt they would !live you full
assistauce, and edible you to ob•
I tate from this voyage the ptiblio in-
! formation 100 PO mole require,
"A trip to Oopeihnkell aid a
visit to Mrs, Mauna-Neilsou'4 dairy
scliuol would also bo meet useful.
"Wishing ,you evet;y pr•'sperity,
no eepecielly all advantages for
the furthei•ax:co nl the objecte you
aim at, in this important voyage,"
Prof, Barnard 1e wail end fav-
orebly known for hie great interest
in this ques!ioo, u�ot ouly in Quebec,
on his official ground, but in other
provinose wench he has fr, gneutly
visited.
N' wepaper et-min-onte alight lir
given here to shoo stuffier expco-
tatione entoreaiurd regarding for
intended vi,it, but epaee forbids,
The pnlihc iuiroductiou to British
agriculturists, thr'.ngii an bunorary
citine.ctlen with the Brinell Daily
Ferment' Aeseci,ttiou, was mt'et op-
portune for my 1•tupo.e, and paved
the way for lee by hanging me let
tyre of introtlueti .0, Leen lntn'e I
thein than I could esu, L0 ,•uly in
the .t3ritish mins but on 'ho cult
tineut, The time of my visit itself
was opportune, eepeoially in the
matter of exhibitions. 1 had au
opportunity to attend the dairy con
teat at Ipswich, the Glasgow exbib
tion, the Irish exbibi'iou in Lan
don, the Scandinavian exhibition it,
Copenhagen, the Royal exhibitioi
at Nottingham, and the Belgian ex
hibition at Brussels. There were
special dairy features a, all these
exhibitions, except Brussels. At
the Glasgow exhibition the working
dairy was parried on under a chff'er•
ent system each two weeks. There
were employed, In succesei'n, Eng.
lisp, Irish, Swedish and other dairy-
maids, to afford a comparison of
methods. At the time of my vieit
the Irish dairymaid (the head dairy
mail et the Glasnevin dairy sobool,
near Cork) was about to leave and
give place to a Swedish butter mak
er. At the Irish exbieition, I
found the welt -known Canon Begot
full of business and push, with his
company of good-looking, clear
complexioned Iriah maids, making
butter, and supplying the hungry
visitors with milk, cream and but.
termillr, along with calces, fruit
sods, eic.
The exhibition at Copenhagen
was one held ouly once in five years,
and its working dairy and exhibition
of dairy products was one of the
great lessons of my trip.
The countries visited were. Eng
land, Ireland and Wales, Denmark,
Sweden, Germany, Renaud, Bel-
gium and France. I made it a
haute to interview leading dealers
iu Liverpool, London, Glasgow,
Dublin, Cork and Bristol. I visited
butter and margarine factories,
private dairies, butter markets, and
consulted with all the leading agri-
culturists, dealers, and experts I
could meet.
One way in which I hope to make
the moat of my enquiries, and the
suggestions which are the outcome
of my studies, is by giving to the
agtioulturiste of Canada, through
an appreciative and helpful press,
the series of letters of which 1 said
in the beginning this is the first
one, and of which this letter rs praa•
ticall only an iutrodnction. I may
here assure the reader that, though
I spent four long months in careful
iuveetigation, my letters will not be
as voluminous as the abundance of
material would have made possible.
1 propose giving mainly only the
conclusions of mature study, along
eitli facts enough to justify such
conclusions. In writing my letters
now, with all my material in hand,
I am able to dispense with touch
detailed work which led up to those
conclusions,
The subjects of letters to follow
will be, some of them, "Canada as
a Dairy Country," "Canada's Status
n the English Market," "Among
he British Dairy Farmers,"
'Among the British Imparters,"
Butter Packages for Export Trade,'
'Lines of Possible Improvement,"
'What the Danes Have Done," "A
Model System of Mint Supply,"
'Dairy Schools," "The Normandy
ystem of Marketing," "Now
deal Learned from Foreign Prac•
tices," "A. Dominion Organization
eeded," "Government's Place in
he Work," "Need of Private Enter.
rise," "England as a Futuro Mar -
at," "Something About Unique
Holland," etc, The above is as
lose a suggestion of what is to
oma as can be made at this stage
1 writing. If these letters shall
of possess enough of interest to
y toiliug countrymen, who are the
aokbone of our splendid nation. of
Iity, to be acted upon to make at
heir labor more easy, and romunor• M
*Iva, it will not be because 1 have de
pare(. every possible effort to make to
ti interesting and valuable. d
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THE BRUSSELS MUST Noy. 30. i,is
fllw.,..•:14=3''''''iv. sa ''"NFA.vFnT.le't'yC7!'S,aS,GF1i7.eterArre.s
rotoe of le:l,ova,1
511:LLS leen t)telLglNal DARNS.
'.These buildings are uiteu err sued
vety much at raudeul, 11111 .nitbout
ttcareful estimate of their ue,de,
aid with imperfect lnllwledge of
any useful details. The followir'r
to enty brief rules, 1f observe
w001]) Often save nt'tu,Y meet 0
gtiitements, end h ILl'd coeveuienot
although others mi81N be added ;
1 Iu the first p! gee ascertai
what will be wanted lu the prop,'
ed biti'u,
2. Ectimato the utnxlber of tv
of hay to be storod, the bunds of lin-
laden]
ill laden] grain, the required eta
.t-uts of the granary, 11111 the title
her of home null cattle to uacui
the •tables.
8 Calculate the room requited
ter hey at 000 tabic. Leet nn •'i e,.
eraao fur a ton, and »early the 4111
flu untbrasbeei vein
4 Determine granary r0U11)
allowing taus and a quarter enb
fee. to he bushel iu the bins,
5 For cattle and horde stable
allow for stalls et least three and
lea or four feet `vide for cattle, au
five feet for horses ; and fourtee
rte; for eulire leugih iuoludiug pee
,8r muugers.
0 Then provide retain for bit
Beal grain bays, space fur straw
area for threabiug fluor, room f
taws and horse -power, size of gra
ars, entire space for cow and hors
stables, root cellar, silo, and manor
ehede.
7. iu arranging all these, plan
the threshing floor convenient 1
the grain bays, and the grauar
oentieuoue to or below them ; th
Iced rooms, toots, meal or ensilage
on a level with and near the an
male ; and give heavy products th
first plaoe for oonveuient position.
8. Provide for good working epaoe
for horse forks and hay carriers,
9 Having thus laid the general
pian, select if practicable gradually
sloping ground for the barn so se
to Rive ready exceed to the stables,
cellars, oto., below, on one side ;
and to the principal floors above by
a slight embankment, on the other
side, for ready access of wagons.
10, Every barn should beat least
a two story one ; the basement may
include cattle stables, sheep pens,
root cellar, cistern, water troughs,
silo and area for manure.
11. The next story above may
have central floor for drawing in
crepe, tool rooms, horse etalle,
granary, harness room, including
horse -power,
12. A three-story barn should.
have an upper 'bridge or cauaway
for entrance, and is particularly
cunvenieut for unloading hay and
grain. It ehould have at least 20
feet posts.
13. Chutes should be provided
for throwing down hay from the
second or third story to the animals
below,
14. All barns should have good
eve troughs, connected with space
ous underground cisterns, if water
is needed.
15 The basement walla should
Mane au small stones or coarse
gravel in a broad deep trench, to
effect drainage ; and if on wide and
heavy flag -stones, projecting sever
al inches within the walls, rats will
not barrow under them,
. 10. A. space of a foot between the
basement walla and the earth out
side, filled with broken stones or
coarse gravel, will effect good drain-
age down to the drain below, and
prevent heaving of the walls by
frost.
17. Every granary should be
graduated inside, so as to show at a
glance the number of bushels it may
happen to contain at any time.
This graduation may be quialtly
mede at any time by multiplying
the cubic feet by 45, and dividing
by 50.
18• Petroleum makes inside
floors last longer, and gives outside
woodwork the character and dura-
bility of cedar.
19. The value of a barn, With its
surrounding cattle yards, Is increas-
ed by evergreen ecrseue, which are
the most pleasing and cheapest
shelter against winter storms.
20, The cost of the barn will
vary mice with locality, pried of
lumber, and skill iu the builder',
but a tolerable approximation may
be made beforehand by allowing
one dollar for each two equaro feet
of area if the barn is made of rough
lumber, with stone wall basement ;
and whoa materials are very cheap,
two and a half or throe square feet
may be had for a dollar. For plate -
ed. lumber, and good fluids, with
paint outside, one•halt more may
be added.
John 1)enoon, cattle dealer, of
Peterboro, turd Itlis iia Si, eleir, 01
3oeton, were married .14 Wednesday.
The bride and l:rnntn had not teen
cath other for ten yrbrn, deco they
left the Old Coen.,)'. Tho bride
d. received it large number of presents,
including ono from II"ole, Italy,
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A few days ago four generations
this Cryslerfamily dined together
Mrs. Batter's, in Middleton, via,:
re. Boger Crysler, senior ; her
ugbter, Mrs. Baker; grand-daugli
r, Mrs. McLeod, and a great grand.
`tighter, Mies McLeod.. A number
other members of the family. were I
neut.
The Palmerston Telegraph Boys :
Rev. Japes Aka li•etcr, 'meter of Mie
141 thodist churl' here and chilli..
Wan 01 the Pahn'rafon District,
eninmitte3 nu not Ills• week which,
Wothink, ehonld be nude human' far
'Telegraph' (Alice ittrhnr�the
t notioenf
an intention to hell 1, missionary
meeting, 41t which a c?dleotitli wits
to be made. With the tnanuseript
he handed in 00 cents, remarking,
ay he did so that le Id ant think
it right to expect 4ltell ttotioes to the
in„erted without Illy inrnt. We kola
him that 4' wt re 1s accord with
hitu ell that point, no whilst always
willing to give. 4 h'e notice of a
special service --each, for instance,
its tt sermon to young people—we
thought that where money 0415 Con
stpeatd s w1..ith10. it, each nre otte'should
hHoe
German last• year itnportcd 02,-
000 horses.
While firing salalee itt the Repub-
lican jubilee in South Hts 011, Geo.
Williams had till riiht hand and
arm blowu of. ..nether man lost
a thumb and suet ine[1 a mutilated
face at the mime tiwe.
Tile Crown Prince of Germany,
now six and a -half years old, is
drilled every day, for half an Hour,
by a Sergeant Major of the First.
Regiment of the Guards. I7e is an
extremely handsome little fellow.
ALLAN LINE.
1888• SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. 1888.
LIVERPOOL & QUEBEC SERVICE
PROM DroNTnE.tL 1 BTE:tarl a, 1 YAWL QUEBEC
Sept. 18 Circassian Sept. 14
Sept10 Polynesian Sept. 20
Sept..7 Sarmatian ' Sent. 28
Oct. s Sardinian .........•. . 0oc.4
Oct. 30 Parisi.. oat. 11
Oct. 18 tit^Oaseitil 004,10
Oct. 21 Poi y:,c.etan Oet. 25
Nov. 1 &UMW i,11 Noy.2
Nov. 7 Sardinian Vol. e
Nov. 1.1 Parisian Nov, 15
Rates of Passage by Rail Steamers.
Cabin 8004870 anTo
350 naoordlu41 to accom-
modation. Servants in cabin, 850 Inter-
mediate 880, Steerage 850. 1:attiro ttokets,
Cabin, 8110, 5101 and 5150. Intermediate,
500. Steerage840.
t BY Polynesian, Oirraeelnn or other ex-
trasteamero. Oabin fifty, sixty and seven-
ty dollar, according to accommodation, 1u,..
turn tickets, ninety. one hnndrod and ten
and one hundred and thirty dollars. Intoe.
mediate sixty dollars, Steerage forty doll-
ars.
Passengers can embark at Montreal the
day before without inoreaeed charge, 00
yourself or
14 eduata rates. Por Prepaid
in
formation apply to
.1. R. GRANT,
Brussels.
SDR HODDER;S
BURDOCK.
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Liver Oomph nt
Dyspepsia,
Biliousness,
Sick Headache,
Kidney tronbl's
Rheumatism,
Skin Diseases,
and all impure
ties of theblood
from whatever
Canes arising.
THE GREAT SPRING MEDICINE`
I-m=0m 75c. (-,-Lthr—'L11r5 $i)
BR. HODOzgar'S
LITTLE LiVER PILLS,
(very small nus easy to take.)
NO. GRIPING. NO NAUSEA
Bold everywhere ; price 26 cents,
IONIION 11E000106 Co., Proprietors,
TORONTO, CANADA.
T. FLETCHER,
PRACTICAL
WA.TOI I£AXER
AND JEWELLER,.
Thanking the public for past favors and
support and wishing still to secure your
patronage. Wo are opening out £ulllinee
in .
GM.? e' 811„,,,ai WATCHES.
SILVER PLATED WARE
from established and reliable makers,
fully warranted by us.
Cloclr.s of the
Lct,te,st _Design`s.
Wedding Rings,
I,adloe Clem Rings,
Broaches,
Earrings, ck6.
Aldo have 111 stool` ain't] tins of Violins
and Violin'21;111gs. Aar.
N.1:3.-Issnor of Marriage Lim/Inns.
T, Fletcher,
Having leased the store Moly'
vacated by M1'3, Alexander 1
have Removed ray Business
there.
1 have Purchased a Nice Lino of
New Tweeds,
&c„ and will bo pleased—to show
thein to the public.
Give vee a Call at the Now
Stand.
E. Dunford.
11IEncm4NT TAILOR.
Mrs. Shiers Mock. Brussels,
itgAD7 roil THE FALL AND
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tt FY' p r
is prepared to attend [>
Carriage io1.i r ;
Carriage
in all its b1'anclles, its t1 as
Sign and Ornarn >:•Ital
Painting.
Ile has had years of 0x1,. ri,lucee
and guarantees hie wort, tt, give
satisfaction. A rig well -t•:Enlace
is half sold.
Estimates and terms f41. r•u-fttliy
given.
GIVE IUIM A CA LI,
Shop in the old 1' t- r Pub-
lishing House, King sty:. s.
ants.
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�1P147 have one of the nicest it.00rt-
2” a ' ments of COOK, 130X, PAA tt1,OR
and COAL Stoves ever exhibited, and they will kr: sold
at Reasonable Prices. Our
"ORIGINAL" Cook Stove leads the Va',
TO hand a large (Stock of new
® LAMPS and lamp goods We
wish to call special ti"ttention to a new range of handsome
HANGING imps. They are dandies.
All kinds Of G7'c572btz,'are, CistlerZ/, alit , •kelt
Goods always in Stock. Our Stock of Tiitwui ,'
is always first-class and Goods we have not
got in stock will be made up on
Short Notice.
A Nice Stock of Silverware always on H °nd,
People can save money by trading with us. Call in
and see our Goods.
Sopb'25 9011-t1
.114 YCz,1 OFT 4' T URJv Ji £1 LL.
ETHEL
18T AW
FLOUR fifilith.
The undersigned having completed the change from the stone to
the celebrated Hungarian System of Grinding, has now the Mill in
First -Class Running Order
and will be glad to see all his old customers and as main; new
ones as possible.
Flour and Feed! ,& ways on Mad.
Highest Price paid for any quantity of Good Grain.
AVM. MILNE.
A Positive um,
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dimness of night, i-1 - ,;, walls rf r ,:,11,.0, , oidanan el conversation,
desire for 001111,11 1l•t .++o.. ant iii, i f:Sty to Mc to attention 0n 6 Pai•tMillet 'subject,
cowardice, dopravotoa of ,1 !, t i ,. idJb, ,ns, 1003 00 , r 1,10, excitability or tamper, aper.
ntatorrhma, or loan of the ., ,1:111 1, 1,1—too, remit oil ,tfntbnso or marital es0aso Impo-.
tonoy, fnnabritiou 01r.e11h ,, 11a1Tnn1 acs, pairitrticn of the hoar, hysteric footings in
females brombif , 11u1,n a 1 1 , disturbing dreams; 0„0., Bra nn symptoms of this terrible
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tension, every function wanes in ,ono, quenoe. `oioiltif.n WY/ tees sea 6110 s0 ,erhltoudente
of insane asylums 11,140 in [ acri!1.tig 10 the effects of oaif4tl,000 the groat majority of
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ditties of business, inna»aottettod for the enjoyments of lite, ;No. a offoro an maim from
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