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Volume 14.
UNCLE JOE, COMMUNICATION.
oro rho Editor Of Too POe'1•�
RANI 131, MAKIN A PIM RifyJA
I have naither time nor inclination to l'o the Editor of Toa Pori.
say moll this week, as I am slightly
under thewoathor, no folks stay. There
is not much to write about anyhow as
far as I know for you don't hear much
but polltios and the obancea of the two
political patios for the anconclatoy at
Ottawa/and tho lin 0
ttt look for Boob t �'
Iry •
s ion.
Chan been struck with ono 1 )1
ora the
so of t
o
political question and it noses home to
every ratepayer in our fair Dominion,
that is the rapidly increasing debt of our
country. When a merchant's liabilities
got tho start of his assets he usually
either goes to tho wall or effects a cm.
proluiso at 40 or 50 cents on the dollar.
It is 001/170/1 a safe role, I believe, for a
man's assets to overbalance his liabilit-
ies, and a man who is sinking money
overy year had better sell oat or he will
soon have his nano published under rho
hooding of Assignea's Sale, &c, Tho
rule that applies to au ltdividnal applies
to a nation and I Have been figuring out
the dabt business of our Dominion and
haves como to the conolusion•Lhat our fin.
anoint starling is on the down gracln and
unless a full stop is pit to it we will bo
involved neck and heels or tumble into
ba,kruptoy, You say, give us rho figures,
for figures won't Ile. I ant glad of it for
BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JAN, 28 11
RKS.
Uuol° Joe in leis woolcly epistle dilates
and expounds, illnstratos and shows off,
Itaruossing up a span of big words to car.
ry a small idoa, and (Caving some of tho
important things we old ladies mostly
wish to sso in print unsaid altogd Mor,
Not N w rims i
n s o 11
L blame, for
how can ho e e
b xpeetad to aoo with our
oyos told understand with our understand.
mg, so with a Moat laudable dosire to
place things in a right light 1 pen these
few lines.
I believe in praising things that will
stand praising. If my friends like mo
or my work I svantthem to toll the of it,
to give me the help and encouragement
and inspiration that knowledge will
bring. A few sympathetic, (Mooring
words, a smile, a hand olasp will du more
good than wo sometimes think,
Then whilo Dame Nature sends down
more and more of "the beautiful" all
praise bo to the masculine gondol: who so
cheerfully, thonghtfnlly and thoroughly
plow their way through ourvillagestreots
snaking a path sufficiently wide for two
to walk arm in arm, Nu I 1 haven't for-
gotten my own young courting days, and
can fanny how trying it would have boon
1 Marc comp to that couolusion that the
for 010 anrf. my Jacob to trudge along liluo
Y goy so and gander, (ibis is merely a
:Ire about the only thing that don't dor•- poetical simile) the gander ahead and as
ing many of these election contests and 1
bettor° Ananias and Sapphira would hide
thoirfaces and blush over the 'whoppers'
attrmpted to be ahokod down the throats
of tho electors'omotimas. Tr fe11, to" the
figures :---
On account of iatorrmt :and other cha'g-
os on pubiio debt, Canada paid very no•,r-
ly 021.50 every minute of last year. Tho
public debt of Canada has increased 1175
•a minute during the whole of Sir John
11acdonald's Administration, allowing ten
working flours a day, anal 06 working
days to the month. On account of the
public debt last your we paid 02.51 for
every man, womanand ehfld of our popu-
lation, reckoning that at 4,500,000, and
about 1112 for overy family of five per.
0000. The burden of tho public debt on
tun ordinary country co0(dtuoucy is 1110,.
000 a year. There is a public debt of
moo.: thou $1,0"0,000 on ouch of the con.
stituencies in Camtda.
These statements may stick in the
iin't at of soups people but provo that they
are mous; and Uncle Joe, will admit tiro
iruttfulnees of what they say.
Ono item more and I'll stop. Once on
a time Sir Alexander Campbell wont on
atrip to British Columbia and the taulingnt-
'ox
lncel-
eases of his '
a little jaunt P n cost 7
s rho
country about 112,100. The account, as
found in the Auditor -Genera's Report of
1894, pogo 110, part II, givos the items of
expenditure as follows :--
ho cautiously picked his way through the
deep soft snow, endeavoring to look un.
utterable thins and say a fey loving
words, over his shoulder, to his goose
who was floundering considerably over
ler auldes in his wake. Such seems as
this must havo been very doprossing in
their toncleney and courting extremely
difftoult.
These noble hearted, long -thinking mon
bavo disouverecl the dilliaulty and in en.
deavuriug to ro310 01 it have, 1 am scum,
received the els, okou g atitudo of many
u young and ardent heart, while the
clergy smile a blessing upon their steads.
But what a (hang° for us old. ladies
Formerly our husbands, becoming aceus-
tom of to our loving forbearance and im-
posing on it, as moo wil,, manly booked
their troueorlo::u:; inside their overshoes,
pulled their (oat -Callan up, told their cap
dawn n s
, 1. a hul the i hauchl deme do;tn in
their overcoat rockets and trudgod along,
occasionally I;ltuuvng at his better -half
as she picked l:0r steps (alas 1 the steps
wontdeap,) endeavoring to hold out of
the snow all the wearing ioppal'el she
could gather in her hands. So-dtty we
can walla around town, calling on our
frimncls n t
on Any s r at it
C with len
attro
y to
1
ourselves end Who /snows but profit to
(tilers.
Balt it is au ill wind that blows nobody
good. Sonia must lona if many gain.
There aro fowor complaining of colds,
Canada Pacifies Railway Supplies lies soro•throat, iulianmation and the other
for of loiol oar "Cumberland"0780 25 isle that troist heir to,ha kf which all but
the doctor are truly thankful.
Porter of oiiieialoar services and There looms to bo lnatrim0ny in the
supplies 235 25 air. We, as old ladies, ate credited with
Porter 409 05 seeing more through our spectacles than
Lleotrio apparatus 40 00 we are intended to sso. To -day, while
Two now whoela 37 65 thinking of the dear girls who, report
Painting 100 79 says, are soon to joie the noble army of
Springs for wheels 56 01 martyrs, I had almost said—matrons
Carpets 55 62 I will substitute, I felt constrained to
Dry goods 58 68 give a few hints that I have learned from
ilardw010 30 45 experieioo and any littls crumbs of wis-
71'iltirigs 885 00 dam and knowlodgoIhave gained through
China til 50 tribulation I am willing to share freely.
'Uniform
21 83 Some of these aforesaid crumbs I never
]form far canductol 22 00 found out till I was married thirteen
Cousuoto's cap 5 75 years aucl ]tad been jawed a000rdingly.
Total —` Not but my Jacob is as good a husband
$2,881 78 as is macro, but even with the best mated
couples care is needed to guide the utatri.
monlal ship safely to the limber, Man,
es a alase, etre as tame an animal no this
earth affords, if you nilly know how to
get along with them, and women have to
try various ways and measures. Don't
begin by expecting too much. If you can
only bring pour wind clown to it, it is
]such bettor to expect nothing and then
you won't bo disappointed if you get lt,
as tnu most probably will and if you get
something it will bo a ,joyful surprise to
you.
That lover thinks when loo can claim
his sweet haul and call her his own ho
will be blessed and contented, but he is
not. Jacob 1Irl ma ho was euro I wee an
fungal asci I just an firmly believed him
ono, but wo both found out differently.
The municipal Council mot in Inc Town My winits hove not sprouted no snore
11011, on Jan. 24th, all the mothers plese hate his but We aro 0 happy, contented
apt, thoy subscribed the Usual daalarations old couple trudging down tho hill to etll
of office owl qualification and the Council or lila old John Anderson, .A. goner part
was duly organized, tho Reove oconpiocl of our peace at Mein I attribute to this
the shah. Moved by 11. Mooney, simnel. ono litho roccipt, that would havo been
eel bp S. Caldbick plat Wm. Clark bo ru. worth dollars and dollars to me liad I
• MI•uhrtmd Clerk, salary $125.00. C;ftrriarl. known it years sooner. Let wives wboso
moved by S. Calldbiak, e000nded by 13. other half are wont to cone int lata, soold
'losmanthat Mark Cardiff bo re -appoint- and stamp around or look daggers triton
ed Alditol'. Curiae. The Remo ap• they find dinner not begun, let thou not
pointed W. II. Oloalcoy second Auditor. tell any wrong stories or exagl+gorato or
Moved by C. A. Howe, seconded by 1)1. argue but simply, boforo be arrives, draw
Doman that John Watson be ro•appoint. out the table, throw the tablecloth on
ed Assessor, salary 1180. Carried. Mov- and overythino will move on peaoofnlly.
Cr1 by 37. Bosman, seconded by E. Moon- He will think dieter is almost ready and
cry thot a Board of Health bo appointed will sottlo down as 913101 as a lamb. I
conoisting of t110 following membero s -Tho admit that husbands are trying in lots of
Reovo, Clerk and W. J. Johnston, Donald things ; they need a firm hand at the helm
Currie, 7.'lloo. Laidlaw, Geo. Hood and G. to guide thou along,lhrongh-the ten:meat.
Roily with Dr. Rohner/ as Medical Health nous waves of married life, and got along
Otfioor. Carried, Movod by S. Caldbicic, with them. They are a groat trouble,
nocondedby 18. Bosman that II. Mooney but then 5 1111010 they prey after all. I
be inatruatecl to stave Clark's bridge so- would not trado my Jacob fora houto and
oared with timbersr against rho spring lot in Brussels, no nor a town lot in Port.
freahot, Carried. The following oa age-la-Prair1e, I love that mit and I
counts wore erdorod Who paid :—Willison don't know but the troublo ho has caused
Clark sr., overcharge in assessment, 01.56; me makes 1110 01309 oeser to him. You
lloadin
t & off, plank, D 1 2.86
11 J. Sollars, knowI herdor g , P the ]dal 11 Mor o s
e head boats
gravel 118.A5 ;1Vm, Manton, planking ma. against hurdook bora tine tighter the bur.
vort, 08,00 ; ]]loses ()lark, ropait ing col- dons will' oling to Iris mann. Jacob
Vorto, $1.25 ; P. Murphy, charity, 114.00 ; maths me a 101 of trolblo, but I cling to
J. Moonoy, Collector's salary, 080.00, By. him elo8ol . But I am tree lassie too
law No. 1, 1887, was duly read and passed. long on your patience and moot draw m
The Council then adjourned' to moot again remarks to a otos°, (toping wilat I hero
of Fobrntory 211111. W. CLARK, said may bo a word in s0aoon, and in that
Clock near futuiro I Wonld like to give you mi'
No one should object to a Govermnont
expending the necessary amount for tho
successful carrying on of the affairs of
tho State but when it comes that wo harm
o to pay for such silly oats avaganee as the
above it is time the roso in our ]night and
put this extravagant and useless expencli.
taro clown. What diffo canoe does it make
to us whether 1110 eo ndnotor had a 0ap 01'
not, and why should Nye have $500 to pay
for porter for some "dutlor" having a
holiday trip 7 It's too thin and the rota
of ovory intelligont voter should bo cast
against such worlc. Yours truly,
Timm lot.
Iattorra•ia Connor -111.
oalrrt, unbiased thoughts on Municipal i would desiro to piano on reoorel ito )sigh
matters, eppru(,iation of the Christian lobogrit
Yours truly,
RAcm t.
Scott Act Association.
Tito Convoition called by rho Ex
tiro Committee of the Scott Act Asao
tion to be held in tho Rattenrbury Ht
Methodist o Church, Clinton, C o C sell 0
u the
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inst. '
was well t ell
n t dart:
to the ahssne° of the President,
Rev. Geo, R. Turk, of Goderioh,
carina to the chair asprosidentduring
forenoon. In the afternoon, the Rsr.
Hough, of Londeaboro, fillod the posit
The morning session was occupied w
receiving reports fres the delegates pr
onto concerning the working of rho So
Act in tiro 0001008 localities represent
Theso reports plainly showed that
law is not enforood as it should be,
that the chief cense of the failuro in
foroiug it, is tho lade of a Police Mag
trade before whom to bring the char
of violation. In viuw of this foot
convention unaniinonsly decided to ag
appeal to the County Council to ream
mend the appointment of a Police Mag
trate tvith salary, by the Ontario Gover
wont, and in accordance with that re
lutio't the following mrtnlmial hay bo
forwarded to the County Clerk.
allamnLtL.
Thu County of Huron Scott Act Ass
elation in oonvontion assembled, by 11
memo ial beg to represent as follows:
1, That the second part of tho Cana
Temperance Aot, 1878, has boon brong
into force in no County of Huron, b
the will of the people cxpreosod at t
polls.
2. That tho only persons at• prom'
available, beloro whom proseoutions ala
be brought aro mayors of the towns
the conuty and the J. Ps, of the count
from whom an appeal has to the quart
sossions of the paaeo of tho county.
3. Tont in this West ]tiding of th
county there aro only ono or two J. Ps
who will consent to hoar cases under' 111
Aot. So far as is known there are no
Ps. in the South Riding, heforo who
the Inspector can lay information, tun
in the Bost Riding there aro only ono 0
two.
4. This havo been Police Magistrate
appointed in rho Last' and South Riding
of the minty, by alto Provinoial Govern
melte, but, owing to a recent doeision o
]lir, Justice Armour, they hn.ve uo jnris
diction sitting alone lo hoar and deter
mina eases under thio Scott Act.
fi- No porn n hos a right to be asked t
assume til grave responsibilities
° i t
and n
gtl
arduous antics of Police 1\I:tgietrate, fo
tho wlloho of this large county, withou
salary, and wo believe no one cats be se
cured for suoh a position, without some
fair renumeration.
G. The reprsseltatives of the count3
havo alroady reeommeedeci tiro appoint-
ment of a Police Magistrate with • salary.
That recommendation has never been
enforced, and it is nowjtho bounden duty
of she representatives of the county to re-
peat and enforce tho recommendation
already made,
7. No such appointment, Dao, under
the existing state of the law, be made
without such a reeommendationfrom the
County Council of a county.
8. The oounty, by virtue of an order in
council passed by the Dominion Govern-
ment, now receives into tho troasu y all
lines and penalties collected under the
provisions of the said Act, and thereby
the eoun iy is legally, as well as morally,
responsible for tho dtto onforeemont of
rho Aot in the conuty.
9. Itis believed that all the expenses
incurred by the county, in the ovent of
such an appointment, would be more.
than net by the amount whioli would bo
saved by mob an appointment, in the
fines whioh would accrue, the saving of
costs of a)tiipeal, and in the hearing of
petty crimmai cases which oan be heard
before smell a Pulic° Magistrate instead
of carrying the sums bof0re a judge of the
county,
10. The failuroiu the onforcentont of
this Act is, it is insisted, to a largo ex.
tont, owing to tho want of such an officer
for trio h�oorfug of oases of violation
theroof.
11. Tho 8001031, 0 0110 0 10 011000 of 'tlh
Whirls of jistioc hu 1110 county bringing
contempt upon tie British constitution
and n1)0n the saorod aauoo Of law and
order whioh will t'csult to tho county,
will fur outweigh tho paltay sum of a few
dollnsa which will ]cavo to bo expensed
because of Rusin an appointment.
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, anti stealing worth of Mr. Yates, both as
a oitison and an onion:, in connection
with the euforcatnent of the law, and
while wo bow in submission to the Df ojno
will, in this dispensation of Ills provlti.
once, we express our sympathy with tiro
family of our late brother, and earnestly
pray that God may vouchsafe to them
the support of Ili, glace, ill thio their
earl boroavomnnt"
Anent
the appointment
OfM
r, Pass
to the position 0
Y
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Mr. Ymt• s, a motion wastagreel 10 05 fol-
lows :—"R000lved that this convention
horoby plaeos on record its satisfaotion
with the appoiutm"nt of W. I. Paisley,
as Inspector of Licenses for West Heron.
We assure Mr. Paisley of our cordial
sympathy and our earnest co.oporation
in the discharge of the duties of Ins office.
The illness and death of the lata inspect.
or, have rendered oarnest stud vigorous
work on the part of the present Inspect-
or an im„orativC nmooisity.,,
The convention atul100100,1 elm Boom-
-tin Conunittme to endeavor to get rho
local temperance organisations to also all
diligence in assisting tiro I•tsptmltors iu
alio performance of their duties, by plao-
ing them in possession of any informs.
tion they may ho able to got °oncoming
violations of the Scott Act that 000100.
Bisapproval of trio recent appointment
to tiro Senate of the Dominion was ex-
pressed in the adoption, by m unanimous
vote, of a motion lade by James Timm -
mu, of Clinton, and seconded by R.
A.clams, of Londosboro, totbe effools (that
this convention remota that in roma ap-
pointnlontc to the Sonata no disposition
has boon manifested to consult the tem-
perances sentiment of this Province, and
that the tato appointmonts of Mr. ?ster-
ner and Dr. Caegrain to a house already
overwhelmingly antagonistic to the Scott
Acer, nails for our decided censure." By
the same decisive vote rho convention
passed tho following resolution, "That
whereas the operation of the So.,tt Act
has been seriously emb,iassed for tho
want of 001 01nn important amendments
contrn,platod in the Jamieson Bill, this
convention hails with satiafootion the
pledge whioh tiro Ron, Edward Bioko
has given tho 0)11113' to exert his intim
eleo to secure the needed amendments,
and to aid in the enforcement of the Act
by all the power of executive action, and
recommends to 3'mperaumo electors to re
quire from all cauclidatos soliciting their
votes, not already on record Ln favor
thereof, a pledge to oupp ot all legisla-
tion tondin,; to romoro tho oxisting diffi-
culties, and c
weavethe ±rt fai±'
and fall
trial
of the
.tat in the N '
orians conuties.o
(Rev. 13, 11. Keefer, agent of the Dom-
inion Alliance, was prosout during both
the horning and aftornoon sessions of
trio convention, told oontribnted mucin to
its suceoso by participating in the discus.
cions, and giving needed information on
many points that Dame up in the course
of lobate. The convontion expressed its
appreciation of his asoistauoe by giving
him a hearty vote of thanks.
Tho meeting was closed with the ben-
ediction, and adjourned.
13. It is tho duty of (ivory ono in tie
(Imlay, re duty to Goff aid our country
nod to low and jtistioo'thorcin, to loan
nothing undone to vindicate and mail.
fain the seaway of this law whi011 has
boon solemnly adopted by tho 'apple of
the county. We, theroforo, prey tint
the County Commit of the Cotunty of
Enron, in council now aesonbled, do pass
a resolution affirming aha expediency of
the appointment of a . salariod Police
Magistrato for the County of Huron.
The eonvontion dooidod also t0 mom-
orializo the Ontario Lagislettn•o to alter
tho presort law govorning tato appoint-
ment of polico magistrates i11 such a tray
as to author'izo tbo Provinoial Govern.
wont to make sloh appointment, loam
'sentient of rho notion of the County Cl0un-
ollo. Tho athor tetuporanoe associations
throughout the Province will bo askod to
oo•oporato with the Ilu roe Aseociatioi
fn this.V
mo o,
The following expression of sytnpathlyt
With tbo family of rho tato Iamoitocl Ll -
dense Llapeatm; for Wost Mono,. was
Irneninu usly 030111011: "1105olved that
Mee tho Rob mooting of tiro Scott Aot
Assooiation, it has pleasoa Almighty God
to remove from anonget us by loath Bro.
Stophon Wen, Inspector for rho Woot
Biding of the comity, this coilvontoti
ROTATION OF CROPS.
•
Tho following is the v- ery oxcellont pa-
per read by Robb. Douglas at the Rost
Huron Farmers' Institute, on the Rota-
tion of Crops, which we p1omiae3 our
roadors. It 1s wolf worth a careful porus
al
At the last meeting of the Institute I
listened with suoh plot/sore to the pa-
pers react and the clisoussions which fol-
lowed on "Whoat Culture," by Mr.
Straohan, and on "Grasses," by rllr. Mc-
Millan. The paper on "Forestry" by
Mr. Gibson, I unfortnnatnly did not hear.
The lessons to bo drawn from them, if I
romonpber, right, wino summed alp fn a
few words by our worthy chairman to be
"Thorough tuidordrainttgo, good clean
cultivation end plonty of manure," I
than felt vary strongly, that wo might
very profitably on soots future occasion
kava a discussion 011 the best rotation of
crops to 1)00000 in order to seeuretlh two
objects, viz., good clonal cultivation and
how to raieo plenty of manure. In
order to open tho tray for discussing these
two points, I purpose in this paper to ask
the quostion : What is the best rotation
of 03)01)0 for lm, 110 a rule, 10 adopt ? Gill
10 answer the question according to my
'10w as last 1 g1111 and my viuw 1u nae a
111070 theory, but is what I havo pnrsuod
far a oonsiderablo time, 'as near as cir-
cumstances would permit. It 18 411 old
saying that the person who mattes two
blades of grass grow when only ono grow
boffin is a bonofactor of his race, and so
would rho mat also be, who at a given
period say at tho and of 15 or 20 yoere
had his farm in a bettor condition tlsu
it was at the beginning --that is abater
and richer, and during all these years
has made as much frail his farm as tiro
ono who at ole end of tiro cane period
has his farm dirty and run down, as trio
cowing is, and I bellows this can bo done
by adoptiug and following out some well
considered, judiaios rotation of crops,
That is sono rognlar system wheroby
ovory part of the onitivatod land, in its
turn, gots the sumo etnitivation, grows
the samo kind of orope, and gots its fair
sharp of trio manure. Ito far ale my ob-
servation has gono, 11111uk that with a
great many than has been a groat watt
of system or nnotll.od in the treatment of
trio Viand. It the United States, whore
itns of' ton saido
w son things ort
a large
1
snare, we son this also nxanplifioa on a,
largo soala and also the evil effects of i1,
In many parts of tho Southern States
whores cotton and tobacco wor0 largely
grown yoarafte• year for a long time,
now it Cannot be done) to Itay as it naafi
to. In other panto, Illinois #or example,
wl0ore 00rrn was geoty0 oontintlously for a
long tiro, alto land now refuses to giro
Number ?8.
the same yiolri. Go farther west, say seed down with clover and tiniot11
Minnesota, oto , whelo whelut was the favor- plonty of It ; sovontl] year, hay,
Ito and was grown year after' year upon will have more clover' than tin
the same land, now does not yisld ono eighth year, hay, this will have
half the umber of b•+shels per aero that timothy and less (lover. ; ninth and
it used to fro. l'e, in Ontario, havo not pasture. This complotos tiro rot
deteriorated so denidediy, perhaps, but I A few words on eaob ;--First your,
wheat is not now the satisfaotory Drop You eau plough the sod of the first
that it ono( woo. Our greater safety � work that oan be done iu tho spring
seems to be to grusv a greater variety of have it completed by the time any o
crops 0 g 2 1 order I 1 I Iur
tuf i
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s other t lana is dry though or 1u ]l t
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to work.
of animals, and the proceeds from them I and year, fall wheat. 6A fair orop of
wo now look to, or rely upon to make up 1 wheat Dan be grown with about the I
our income. It is of gr.att importance t amount of labor and expense. T
that we adopt s.rnlo good system both year, Oa,10. Oats, whioh will be a
with the land and with the animals to I crop, porhapo a few thistles will app
ensure the boot results. It is most un- , but not many, if the last turnip orop
reasonable, I would almost soy barbarous pOoporly m0naged, and in the two y
treatmont of the lana, to grow the same of pasture which came after the he
kind of crops y
year 3 aft •
p Y year, without thistles had bac] out 003), oats
t i
giving flack to the /and the proper man• the season. Fourth rear, oats atraio
tiro for their production, As wall might would not lion taken oats again 4but
a man who owned an exoollentllorse with the reason that oats is shah 0.aero c
good both, great musel0 and at splendid so useful and moo to handle alt.' if a
worker in ovary way, 01 reasor1, bly might raking be the principal object, one fi
ho load aid work that horse beyond his of oats is ton little, wo must have t
powor, food him poorly or half stnrv•s fields of this orop. Under thio rotatio
hint and aspect him as atnlli0310 for any ani adisfiedL that enough of nmauu'n
length of rime to do his wont eatiofaot-
orily, but treat him kindly, feed him
well and judiciously and ]coop him cleat
and comfortable, and whore do we find
se greater help to ns in thio cultivation of
our flails ? Mother Earth has a bio
load to carry and support anal the load is
growing bigger every day. We, and our
fathers before no, have got their sustain.
moo hitherto and most of els wish to got
1 a little longer, if we can, and those
coming after will expect the sante, it is
a question of great importance in more
espeats than one bow we, for the com-
paratively short period in which the land
'a unser our care and managomont, it is
E groat importance how we uao tiro land
—whether we leave it when w:+ are Bono
with ft, in n bettor or worse condition
than when we found it. In our manage-
ont of the land it is given to us, to have
great deal to do in guiding and diroot-
ug to a given result, the oporation of
Mum We do not seem to realize at
I] as WO 81101113 the nobility of our work,
oro in reality co-woroors with alto
roator and yna-ainer of tho earth, and
ow much it is put in oar 'sown: to ou-
ch and boatutifv talis fair earth no one
an tell. Could anyone give an approx-
tato rstimato of the loos that Ontario
as sustained during the last twenty
ars on the article of hotter aloud, slap.
through the want of system in the
r°auction of the article ? 1't would be
te'o•ting to Mow the amount of loss
hard cash, no doubt it would bo a
l' e SUM, m, but
the .loss
g in oath, would
t by any moans represent all the loss
waste. Joist picture out to our minds
e amount of labour, oil and drudging
at has been expended and onclurod And
arty all of it to, by that portion of our
milies whom we all wish should not be
rdenecl with toil and drudgery—the
others and daughters of the farmers,
hat a splendid example wo now have
the advantage of system iu the pro -
cation of cheese. I feel satisfied, in
y own mind, that it the •great balk of
r farmers conducted our business in
its details, with more system, that
o results of our labor would be greatly
roused and the pleasure as well as the
oflts greatly enhanced. In the old
d, where many of us came from, what
s there called the 4, 5 a 0 year shift,
s generally carried out, They wore
incl by their leases to one or other of
se, with some modiffoation in certain
es, but in this Ontario we are not
and to any rotation. Everyone does
it 1s right in his own eyes, ae the bulk
us farm our own lards. What rota -
u is generally adopted as a system in
Curio or even in Past Huron I confess
d0 not know. A good while ago when
was gutting pretty well clear of stumps
other obstacles I made inquiry of
vorttl of our loading farmers what rota -
they followed and I failed to dis-
or that thew° was any systematic 10 -
'on 1n operation as a rule. In break-
up sod many took pons. thou fall
at, but after that and until tho land
seeded down, hardly two could I find
y and
whloll
(thy
10000
tenth
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pea6.
field
and
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can
bo made to manure this fold for the eoo-
ona orop of oats. Perhaps there will be
more thistles this time, but nes year
comes the root orop and that is the time
to slake them hide their hoods for a fah
years. Fifth year, roots- »tur0ips, mange
els, &c man0. o in the fall, 0u tivate and
clean thoroughly all sumrnt•r and the
likelyhood a fair crop, and the laud in
fine trim for the following spring. Carry
all the riots to the root h•iuso, roars all
the shaves on tbo field as egnaily distrib-
uted as possible, and never allow the
aattlo to roam on the field in the fall,
Sixth year, barley and seed down with
the barley, put on plenty of thud clover
and timsthy. itis of boa hslror•Ir0110
when seeding down to have the lona rich
and clean., Seventh, eighth, Diu 10 and
tenth years, hay and pasture. This oom-
pletss the rotation. It will thus take 10
years to complete rho round. From the
exparienoo I have had, the only al oration
I would plaice, and I iute03 snaking it
when I can attain it, is that I would put
a soiling mop in botwoou the two oat
crops, anal in 0 der not to alt r rho num-
ber of fields, I +s onld have onl, throe in
place of four 1111 1,o of hay easlpa•turo at
the end of tho rotator, In this rotation
there is no roma for summer fallow or
spring wheat. 31v opinion is there should
never bo s0nmtar 11110,0, unless tho
1a11d is very poor and yon connot tnanuo
it, and then you can enrich it by taking
a summer and plowing in al tho green
manure >sibl cr i
e f a Elsie is
! sash
Po awfully •
dirtythat r I
th c sorbin
else for i
t. As
for spring wheat I wo ild et it alono for
a while. By following this rotation what
manure Dai be macre ?• This of o 'urss
oan only bo 1011101 out by eotual oxpori-
euce, but if we, Itnow (law much material
we Koro to make it of we Can form some
rstimato. What material will we have
We will have the straw and hay from 7
fields or 42 acres in al. Wo will have ±110
root crop of G sores, sayWe wilgonloads,
0 corns of noes, saat 10 bl s. -i50 {i' n' 0,1300116
13 oats, " 40 ' 18) `• 10,:.30"
a " barloy, " 40 " -,140 " 1101)"
86,1110"
and 6 acres of fall \violet whioh will sup-
ply the household with broad and the
balance will pay the taxes, We will thus
have tabor keeping enough for seed about
17 tons weight of coarse grains, 160 wag-
gonloads of roots, 'and the straw and
hay of 42 aaros to food to the stook. If
this was all fed to steak and tho manure,
and especially the liquid part of it looked
after, there would be enough to manure
two fields every year, and 1f the soiling
orop teas gone into, the manure would bo
much inoreasod. I am -satisfied our safe
policy to pursue is to feed ail our coarse
grains to our stock, whether it be aattlo,
sheep, horses or pigs. Of o0urso every-
one would consult his own itaterosts and
tastes in giving preferenoo to rho differ-
ent kinds of stook. 'What I havo sketch-
er] seems to mo to be n good rotation of
Drops, but I would bo far from saying it
would be be ter than sono others whioh
might be named, but in most things
there is a good, a better, and a host and
who followed tiro mono plan, I then if the v. suit of the discus -don which fol -
mused over in my thoughts what wonhl lows be to show clearly and distinctly a
bo bout for me to do in laying out my bettor, I for olio will bo quiolt to adopt
Otitis and tie crops to bo grown, the re- it, I tbiult it will be a long time, before
autos of my thoughts 1 put into operetiol we would all agree to any ono 'lost rota -
as so0n. as I oouhcl and have since follow- tint. In 0question of this kin.] of teems
ed as far as oirouu,sianees lvould permit. olimate soul varieties of soil shmilc'l bo
Whu''vor 5 did (loviat0 from the plan 1 taken into a000ant, but in :test Munn
agreed upon, I ofteru-arde regretted, Ono the have all the same elimoto, and as a
iuetrauce, as an mantilla : altar turnips rule not groat variation of soils, whom
I had a fiola w131e11 looltod exceedingly there is Groat notation of course every.
Moo for growing a goosl orop of spring ono should consider them. Now, gentle -
wheat, .t.000rding to my plait I should 0101.1, this is the sum and Cu1)3t,tnoo of
havo sowed it with barley, but I was my paper. Take it, disouss it thoroughly,
tempted to sow it with spring wheat, that tear at to pieces, or pick out a crop hero
result wit•, a nice braird, fu lino appear- or there as objectionable, but if yoU do
also for a good cep until about 3 wooka 'lbstitato a better, I am glad that we
boforo harvest, but method of nico goldeu hero our friend from Guelph here to
colored straw and woll filled heads rho ]help us in Dur endeavors to arrive at
straw twaa soft and of a greenish, blaok good aonclusiona. Rost. DOUGLAS.
dolour and the grain snail and shrunk
and not much of it at that. The plan 5. (Ion. Wm, McDougall is the Liberal
adopted was this, and to motto it plain, I candidate in South Granville.
Will sfl]3poso a form of 80 acres of elm- Col, Jones, of tiro Dufforin ]bides, Brant-
od land, Run a line through the °Mate ; ford, has rosignorl, and Major Ballaoho
maim a good permanent Enna on oath will be gazetted in hia stood.
y
aide, so that ovary field touches the one ; The Salootion, Arm is to mot a 8
abolish insidefonoes, except thoso whioh 000 barraoks in Bramp
ton shortly, 01,-
enaloso the permanent pasture ; sot apart 000 of the funds has boom raised.
any 20 acres for permanent pasture—this James Maxon, mayor of Ingersoll, has
will inoludo lane, orchard, yards, build. resigned and two oandidatos are seeking
lugs, &c,, tho remaining 60 mos clivido the position—Mooers, (Rowell, and Bn-
or stalco off into ton equal portions 02 (3 she nun.
acres eaob, without any tenths between Tho Catholic Woekly ligviaty is thio
thom, whof
Susilo n
nee are flooded
to title of
avowaper to bo issued .on rho
pasture 111 part of it, have portable fele08 10th of Februoa l in the intorests of Can.
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if possible,, if not common rail fame adian Catholics
can be put up with a little labor. If the Dr, Ma14liclusll, 0f Buffalo, Preeidelt of
farm was largos oar smaller I would not Mho North America 1lnitod Caledonian
alter the number of divisions I would As000iation, lelderod rho Qlieon by cable
simply matte thom larger or smaller, the congratulations of the members on
First year, peas after sod ; drama year, her jubilee reign, and reeei7od in amply ;•.
fall wileot ; third year, oats; fouye
rth ar, "Her Majesty einoerely thanks yo113. for
oats ; fifth yaw, roots ; sista, barloy and yotu• kind congratulations,"
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