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• BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1886.
NO, 4L
VOL. X111.
Spring Wheat rowan g.
A Leiter from Professor Brown
thrift Enetnet R.
In response to he invitation of Mr
Deputy Commissioner of Agricult
take particular pleasure iu drawifig t
tontion of bo farmers of Ontario to
important things in connection with
wheat. This action on our part is t
suit of very many inquiries, pectic
from Grey, Simoos and other norther
north-eastern counties during the pas
ter rut to procuring new varieties of
grain through Government agency. I
ht.= thought by some that 'tho money
ed on the estimates three years ago To
porting new varieties of wheats from iishould 'now be handled for that puree
Otherwise appropriated for farm
While the gooresd inten bionk of tho Legiel
in thisrespect have not as yet boon So
ed up to a practical issue, I think it i
a strong point in the smartness of our f
th
ors at part of the Province took
noticeof the unexpended money untilhr
ea at the farmers' institutes daring
past winter.
That the province of Ontario ,IIIIM
main a prominent grower of the oar
whatever branch of her agidoulture
predominate during any particular pe
113 no doubt true. Competibion does
;greet mixed farming in comparison %el
specialty, nob as dairying, and wheat
absolutely necessary part of aystero
orop growing cannot be neglected iu
thorough maintenance by a system
work in selection, change, and even
making
of now varieties. Before sub
ting the more special subject of this le
I Lind it is necessary to say a word ou
whole qneetion of maintaining the aha
tor of wheats in this country. The sole
of the subject; is not a prominent thing a
where at present, for what has been d
ie creditable to tho practical farmer m
than the botanist. The world 0,5 yet is
well up in what it is that affects the a
duct of wheats under all tho variety of
aumstanatte and phyeical conditions.
witting that there ic a close Analogy in
variation of plants and animals underonostioation,
mestication, the living thing that walks
bout is'easier diaguoued, so to speak, tl
the standing plant, and must always
more interesting and teceive more stn
than the other. I think one of the unc
tivated fields of wheat improvement is t
use of the microscope. If quality, perm
enots, immunity front disease, and oth
characteristics are not part and piece of t
internal Anatomy, then all our mestere
physiology have been wrong. Why, th
the neglect of this simple mad efficient los
There ate early, late, northern, souther
rich soil and poor sod types of wheat, th
tell of their whereabouts and oharaoter
the way the grain and straw are put 1
gather. Take an example of this that o
tinned in Ontario ton 3 ears ego in the as
of the Egyptian or Eldorado spring whoa
which sold at first for $10 a bushel. Ela
our fanners And millers been femillar wi
the propel: mixture of science and praotio
needtd to detest good and bad in this pa
Hauler lino—aud whith, by the way, in th
case required no microscope—they woul
at once have said, 'No, not oven as a gift ;
because the coarse structure of the broke
berry and the pithy, spongy nature of th
straw told of things wo do not want. an
that this wheat could only produce- Ti
prime objeots, of course, are to uphold th
best types already in use, and if possible t
improve them, to also import new varlet/0
and hybridise in view to establishing ne
01110 This work sh.o aid be pat tly the wet
of experimental stationa. Crosses ansongrs
• wheats have not, however, lalado that roli
able sort equal to the beet original kinds
and at present wo ottnnot ask Ontario t
wait Inc developments in this way. On th
other hand the muting of varieties fro
Entopelms been hitherto the mainstay
the oeutinout. Even as far back as 50 years
the wheats of America were found to be
identical with the native sorts of Britain,
and it is something worth knowing that
Britain does not owe a single good variety
of wheat to any other country. In this con -
motion our present and futare experts
should remember that varieties are nob
produced en moth, if aity, by.soil climate
influences, but by what is termed "The
prodigality of nature," Climate possibly
oan only affect in size, vigor and staying
power, and when from such. oircumstanoes
Wo have a variety doing well, it is not so
adapted to change on now conditions of
growth, while on rho ether hand, others are
possessed of so much Variability of ;sharer&
or 00 to conform themselves to (Menges
readily. And hero Allow tho remark that
tho idea of producing tho best variety for
all districts is contrary to the true prinef.
pias of improvement, and in order to grow
many wheats successfully for a period' of
years wo must be well acquainted with the
conditions that made them, as, for examploo
it mth
ay boat high cultivation Mid thin
goading or early and thin seeding are- quite
pppotted to maintaining their whole char-
oath:WE
iles. I have to thank Mr, vershed,
of England, for several of the foregoing
notes, Any sountry of suoll importance as
ems should systematically introdnce and
test wheats for its poople—no sounder pol.
Rth
ios an this, and the future should not
be negleeted in this ifrm. Meantime there
it another work demanding greater Alton.
tion than it has hitherto received. .A vory
common and good praotioe amongst our
farmer0 is change of seed one from another,
and from distant parte of tho Province. In
this respect our leading aeockonen have al-
so done excellent *work. Many of these
changes halm not succeeded. where it May
be wo hade
bano "With after tiro event."
The 'wheat regions of Canada. are already
well outlined, and possessing the ranee wo
do of altitude, elevation, forest innuendo
and soil, it ;teems somewhat strange that
no effort has .been made to 0000 00 outline
tho'countsy by rho kinds of wheat that
.tharaetorizo them. Snell le the variety of
these eonditions, 01,0,11 itt Ontario, that we
to OWo
o m our own hands, possibly, a greater
wheat variety field them Europe itself. At
the pregoot momentm
Coo of the older
standards, such as Rod Fyfe, aro said to be
doing 40 well in tho northeast of the Pm-
vinoe as they did a quarter of a century
. Blue, ago both there and in the more southernure, ure, distriets, whale tont it is said to be im.
he at. possible to seoure the orops of former yeare,
HOMO or to uphold the ninny goodnesses of such
spring a variety es the Red Fyfe. In this there
he re- are evidently important facts for the Pro
ularly Vince—so mush so, think, as to demand
n and immediate soientifia inquiry. Bo it eoil,
t win. Wit -nose, or other looal peculiarities, there
seal is an inoaloulable national value in the veri
t has idea of part of our Province being able to
t
plea- maintain some wheats for an indefinite
r int- period in all their original oharecteristiee
mope The home of a particular variety mey as
se or reasonably be met by conditions in the
seeds. neighborhood of Ottawa as of others, or in.
attire deed, of the Tory 00100 kind in Russia, im.
Bow. mediately north of the Black Sea, from
s not. which some of the best spring wheats have
arm. been obtained.
any Another feature of our wheat growing is
oach- just beginning to loom up in the distant
the Northwest. Tho great field and physical
area being covered there so rapidly is as
likely to illustrate the capability of uphold.
ing the basis of the flAMO or another wheat
fife for many years, if not permanently, as
that referred to in Ontario. In place, there-
fore, of longer waiting and greater risks by
importations, it is clearly the duty of On-
tario farmers to immediately seoure the
good old York from the northeast. tieveral
arguments could be advanced io favor of
this r000rnmentlatith. These is, after all,
more Chance of SUWON by the improvement
of those that have done well with us, both
by the selection of particular harries and
their reinvigoration by studied conditions.
Would it not pay Ontario many hundred-
fold to he able to see the old FYf's days
again, and therefore to hold a first.olass
m
experiental expert for the purpose in-
dicated?
I alose, meantime, in the hope of seeing a
big response to Mr. Blue's suggestion.
Your Obedient Servant,
Wimmint BROWN,
Ontario Agrioultural College, April 9.
Unameasia Catalaitray
James Stevens, Samuel Sloan and
Peter Eisner have been named Li-
cense Cominiseioners foe 'West Hur•
on.
G. N. McDonald for many years
lighthouse keeper at Goderioh, has
accepted the position of city naission-
ary of Trenton, N. J., at a salary of
$1,000. He will work epectally itt
the interest of tbo Presbyterian
Ohurches at Tree WU.
ATI exciting and hotly contested
five -mile race came off at the Exeter
roller rink last week between Rob.
sot Oornyn, of Wingham, champion
skater of Huron County, and John
Veal, of Exeter'for $25 a side and
the allampionship of Huron County.
Veld won by over threaquarters of a
lap. Another race has been arranged
for $50 a side to tako place in Wing.
ham before long,
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Poitatts. Chavisatx Safo-cetta.
Bishop Walsh will oonsoorate the
R. 0. Church at Stratford on June
0, it having been freed from debt.
Prominent oitizens of Stratford are
organizing a company for the intro-
duction of tho eleotrio light in that
city.
W. Good, a forms r strident of the
St. Mary's Collegiate Institute has
just graduated at the Philadelphia
School of Medicine.
It ie expected that several olubs in
the west will join rho Western Oratae-
io Amateur League. The Secretary
is J. H. Duffer, of Stratford.
At the final revision of the Strat-
ford Voters' Lists by the Revising Of-
ficers, 120 Conservatives were placed
upon the lids,. and 40 Reformers,
On April fool day a Rirkton men
Went through a transfiguration as -
sliming the oharaotce of a female
hump; gulling a number of the en.
lightened onee;
At tbe Court of 'Renision held at
St. Marys 105 new nanny vers ad-
ded bo the list for. St. Marytaieof which
57 are Reforraere 1 88 named' <rem
Downie wore added, of which 85 'a.re
Reformers ; from Usborne 28, tg
which 24 are Refotauers, and from
Blanshard 58, of which 29 are Re-
formers.
An individual named Palmer, hail.
ing. from Pool township, has been
viotimiziug sevoral parties in Listo-
wet, Linwood and other places lately
by pretending to have a fine propetty,
and thus getting credit on that score.
He•was brought beforo a bench of j,
P's in Berlin and committed to stand
hie trial at the next assizee. He is
now out on bail,
Nelson Sage, of London, is purohae.
ing about three hundred yearling
mares for shipment to the North-west,
Where they will be utilized on some
ef no largo melee for brooding pur-
pose&
COMMUNiCATION,
Stine Improyement Fund.
1') tan Fleltor of TUB Poss.
Sta.—Io last week's VoSr yen published
ton article on the conduct of the ox-Reove
of Morris on the Land improvement Fund
burtinees. The whole statement is totally
06 varianoe with feats, and you know it,
mads for the purpose of gaining a point
with the Morris Connell. If thoy take the
awkward bait X am greatly deceived inbliotn, thorn. Xours, dm.
Brussels, April 14. Ex-listsvn of Moms,
[NoTs Br Entrou,—Our statement and
that of the ex-Reove is ROW before tho pub-
lio. Without consulting anybody we will
refer anyone who desires bo know who is
stating the lads of the case to thio Cremes
of Brustsole for the past three years, Taos.
Kelly, or the members of Morris Council
for that matter. The ex.Reeve does not
point out a single instance where our re.
marins worn "totally at varianoe with facts"
and ho knows 11,1
LON, 1.1 ITFYIS.
"Sweatt to Silence."
Amu GOOD received, yesterday,
seoclucl lot of thee qieramore"
hats. Adam seems to have a boom
in hats as part of this last lot were
sold before they arrived.
BOLLER MILL LIMSBD.— On Thurs•
day of this week Wm. Vanstoue &
Sons leased their well arranged. roller
mill to Messrs. Stewart & Lowiok, of
Durham, Groy Co., for two years
with the privilege of five. The lams
are both prachaal, thorough gotng
men and stand high in the comraun-
ity where they beloug. They will
take possession of the mill on May 1.
In addition to exporting they intend
working up a large' local trade in
grishng, &o. The National Roller
Mills are well known and being fitted
out with the most approved inachin•
cry the new firm will do well here,
We understand that W. F. and 0. R.
Vanstone will spend part of the sum-
mer in Winnipeg and the Northwest
looking after their real estete.
Down Set and Garden Seeds for the
million at MoOrmokon's.
Once /swab, spring, gentle
spring, wid its balmy breezeo, re-
dolent wid de accumalatorl odoriferous
izadcleringe ob de past winter, am
upon us, and whore am de man who
can't rejoice, and feel he am a new
critter, after de sanitary influence ob
a bottle of Bloodook Bur Bitters hab
completed de raraification ob his
physoological anatomy; as he slowly
meanders his way fro& die beautiful
kentry. And Itis face em fanned by
de gentle zephyrs as dey come laden
wif de oders ob de agricultural de-
positories of de tillers ob de .eile
Once mo' de Beason hab arriv when
e farmer can don his last' harvest's
meek and oberalls, and air hie win.
rs oloze in de kora field. Natur' hab
at on her green mantle I De Can
da thistle and de bur comes forth in
1 dere glory, to gladden our hearts
if dear sweet smell and de barmen -
us 001055 01) de crows am heard 'in
dietetics dey take dare flight from
home eh de man wise prectises too
rich economy in de feedin eb hisMaks. Maks. Once mo' de agriculturist
ee him up aria, in de inornia' and
his forth, to hum de plow, de
rrow azadmder implements of toil,
na de fence corvere, whey he deposit.
dant de prebious for shelter
m de bleak winters blasts. Agan do
mp, iu de inn000ke of his heart,
mei forth from de county jails
poorhouse, and perambulates
only frog de Icetatry, soliciting
nd-out and set -loos, (as de sale
s to humorous too mention,
al cle same titan) koopin his eye
nned to see what am layin aroundos, se, awl whim do Ilene roost 1 De
rry voice ob de skeeter am agin
rc1 010 he eingeth rejoicingly on his
, and gadderith food for his young.
0 more do bull frog emerges from
slimy winter quarters and glad -
s our inmost being wid lits mani-
las melodies, and tolls us nightly
spring hab sprung,' Die old hod
s seen sebenty-Eve, winters and
rage come and go until 11 1102 blos.
ed like de ripe dandelion but
rejoice deer brederen,"cle glorious
am 01102113111 when we will haban
or Grain spring. No froot, no
anow,s14 pery sidewalks, rheum- t
lightuin" rod peddlers, trey a
tit, chilblains, sewing machine i
small poxi or chills, but an
er endin epriog, Whoa de water d
no am nebber green nor plugged,
o gentle sou of Africa'e sunny f
s, can feast on chicken, widout
ob a bar trap made white man's 0
gun. Hopin te see you all dar so
1 tow gently rambneenlate to my tat
Gatansamaii jorneente, of L. R. 0, l'
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Carladian N Wf4
Judge Ross has resigned the posi-
tion of revising barristor for Carleton.
A. beautiful mirage was neon on
Lake Ontario trona Rochester on
Thursday.
All the old Doodlers are racketed,
with the exception of Mr. Oriekmore,
for whom Mr. Lash is substituted.
Mount Forest has et last settled
the fire protection question by pure
chasing a chemical fire,engine, wbiob
cosh about $4,000.
Lnoknow Caledonian games will
hike place on July lot,
A Montreal youth aged thirteen
bats confeseed to eleven burg/caries.
Fifty•seven tramps have been eta
eomnaodated in the Strathroy loolr-up
from Jan, 1 to April 8, 1880.
Toronto is still without its telephone
service, and Manager Neilson stabs
that it will continue 'without it until
the end of the month,
The Grand EfISOX Connty
dieted Sol. Whiteyite, M. P. P., and a
rominent barristor, for aggravated
I Reilly.
itted in
on the
• The
vote in
O
Ne CY
blowb
avoid a
amine
At St. Oatherines. Saturday, John
Hilton pleaded guilty to the charge
of issuing counterfeit coin and was t
sentenced to ten years in the peniten-
Eton. Oliver ilfnwat and Mrs, Mow- 3.
at paused through London on Sat-
urday en route to the Paoific slope, Et
including a stay of some weeks in 0
Colorado.
Win. Beach, champion familiar sail- b
th
lend. He challenges any man ia the 0
the championship.
Since March 1st there were admit- ra
te
tad 21 patients to the Montreal Small.
pox Hospital ; number of deaths, 8 ; 10
number dieoharged, 14 ; in Hospital he
at present, 25 patients.
ho
fine. Tracy, ablacksmith, of Bich -
mond village, near Ottawa, clied on r
Friday from blood poisoning, caus•
ed by a bite from a deceased horse,
given while being shod a few days vie
ton
13 await on au old farmer tweet.
The Sonet Act will be 801.343
he city 01 131. Jahn, R. B ,
Otto inst„ for the second time
eiteurci was defeated by a tie
881.
The ice in the Rideau rive
dinburg, near Ottawa, was
p with dynamite, in order to
reatenieg jam and further d
y floods.
Stratford wants the Queen's Own to
there iu June and spend the twee-
eth anniversary of theft being guar.
rodal that place during the Fenian
id excitement.
A farmer named Downes drove in•
Tees water with a $800 team, which
left standing ontside an adjoining
tel. The team walked into 0 mill
nd and were drowned.
There is a prospect of electric light
rks being eetablished in Walker-
Negotations are on foot with a
w of forming a stronglocal eompany
ed last week from Melbourne for Eng -
world to row hint on the Thames for g
Li
ago.
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Hon. A. M. Ross, Provincial h„
Treasurer, accompanied by the Gov °
element Architect, were at the Agri for
cultural College lately surveying the n0
grounds for the new buildings propos- tun
ba to be erected this year.
J. Weir drove into the Situgeen Ka
siet
river near Paisley last week to wash „cm
his horse. The flood washed the - T
horse and rig away, and Mr. Wier, tors
encumbered with a heavy overcoat, nam
had great chi:Realty in winning the elm
shore.
A fire in the Berlin gae works came- am
arni
furnish the best modern opt ma of
kiting up the town.
An Irishman named Kannada,
naerly a laborer in Lonlota but
w of Detroit, is the heir to a far-
e of a million dollars, left by a
er, who died in Australia, and
venal is not in a position to be-
e a sport.
Wo tittle sons of a farmer at Bat -
ea, Frontenao County, whose
is not learned, went into the
d and finding their father's gun,
lead themselves with it for some
a. Finally one of them said to
cid the supply to be shut off from the the
othe
consumers from Friday to Monday
last. . There was great inconvenience brae.
felt, and the churches all held their eau
Sunday evening services at six o'clook be
instead of seven to get another hour .anyi0
of daylight,
Tite temperaime workers of Lamb- A
ton aro arranging for a great demon- 00n1
stration to bo held at Wyoming on sessi
be held in other counties which laet
into
May 8rd, to celebrate the inauguration t'IP
of the Scott Aot in the county. It is a_0',u
probable that similar
other, "You shoot me," when the
r lad shot the little fellow iu the
at, killing him instantly. De•
ecl was 7 years old and the other
10. They thought the gun was
instance of lir. Drury, a
mitten was appointed at the last
On of the Legislature to consider
q11686.0/1 of reducing the cumber
ounty Councillors. This 00113.
se secured a good deal of inafor-
on and made extensive inquiry
the subject in various directions,
as unable to arrive at any defin-
nolusion. 'Rho proposition most
oved by the committee was one
need by bit. Dryden, of South
rica Mr. Dryden proposes that
ownship Domicile and County
oils shall be entirely sceparated
hat the Membere of the County
cols shall be directly sleeted by
ar vote. He would divide the
y into districts and elect one
entative from each or elect the
Council at ie.rge. Ile also tinge
that the members of the county
should hold office for three
one third retiring annually, It
o that on the lines Kr. Dryden
id down a satisfactory solution
whole question could be work-
. The dietribution of repreeent-
Would not bo materially affected
proposed change, and no doubt
the members at' the County
is would be drawn from the
munimpal bodies. Perhaps
ly difference of importance
the abolition of deal services.
plan of eleotiug at large, able
perienced men would be seaut•
the too prominent intrusion
intereste in a measure abated,
would, of course, always be the
of conflict between the town
nship interest. It may even
this danger would be inoreas-
e plan of electing at large. As
al rule, however, the election
ty represeutatives would pro-
s determined by other imam,
one of the most oomplicated
r municipal problems. Tho
0 bo sought ie io create a
Colwell that will represent
population, the assortment,
tonal inlereste. Our present
f county govertnr, while
effeotivo in rho eotin-
eumberson and expensive
ies of largo area and poplin-
systeni that will be at onoe
cheap, aud efficient is much.
gatherings will un"
men
year adopted the Act.
but w
Dr. Porault has entered action rte 00
against the L'Etenard, of Montreal, „,„„r
for $10,000, for alleged. libel. Dr. awa
Pernik furniehed Hon. Mr. Ohapleau theta
with a certificate that while Riel was the T
confined ip Longue Pointe Asylinn he
was not insane, but only shamming atint
'madness. L'Etenard !snorted that
the Doctor had no connection with
Coon
the Asylum at the time, and it was cr0-iTat
pointed physician. The insinuation A-
is.that the Doctor furnished. a false wiolo
three years later before he WU ap• 2;eenetrses
certificate; hence the action,. . body
A pebuliar aceident happened to years,
Robert White, a trackman near Pais• may h
ley the other day. He was on a hand has la
oar; going down tlie long grade abciut of the
four miles north of Paisley, when the ed out
crank caught his coat and threw•him. ation
off on hie head on the track immed• by bas
Welts in front of it. His bank fell es now
across the rail, and the oar ran over Oounoi
him full speed with three men on it. minor
He wee badly bruised, but was tip the on
and walking around the next day. would b
A patent right fiend called upon 13y tho
Wm. MoLarnon of Seugog, Ontario and ex
county, the other day, offering to aps ed and
point him agent for an invention to of local
dry washed clothing on a rack fixed There
around the dove pipes. Mr. Ole' danger
Lemon made a verbal arrangement and tow
which was to bo written efteewarde, be that
agreeing to the proposed tornas. The ed by th
agent road the agreement which e. goner
seemed satiefactory, and Mr. MoLarn- of coan
on signed it ; but it turned out after- bably.
wards that there was a difference be. This is
weon the way the agent road the of all. on
greemezat and the punctuation, arid object
nstead of the company being cora- County
called to furnish the machines ,mn alikethe
emend," Mr. MoLarnon was to pay and tori
he money on demand. It was, there- system o
oro, a note as well as an order- It 'tolerably
s stated Mr. 1VIoL offered the agent ties, is t
omothing handeome to settle the in count
hailer be sueeeeded or tot.—Port equitable
atter ; bat wo have not hoard ttoionbe. alrod,
erry Standard