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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-09-20, Page 7THE CHILDREN'S FIOUR JANE'S SECRET,' "What can be the matter, Phyllis?' Address communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto "Nothing at all is the matter," Phyllis hurried 'down' the walk so that Jane should hoten a udseethoBudd tears in her eyes, She did not like t cry. Jane followed Phyllis, deepin it Y thought. A secret is a terrible thing, especially when you can't tell it, to your best friend: Jane knew that Phyllis' felt bad and she was sorry, but she couldn't tell her this secret yet. When the , children reached the school yard Jane was quickly sur= rounded by three mafour girls. Phyllis went off by herself. After schopi Phyllis and Jane had a great ,deal, 9f:fun. making paper -doll clothes. i Jane bad several sheets, of tissue paper, blue and yellow and pink. She had even found some plaid paper l for trimmings. With cutting and fit- ting and pasting the little girls soon , made the paper into dresses. I do love paper dolls," said Phyllis.) "Sometimes I think I had rather have I them than real dolls. I asked mother to give meonly paper dolls fdr my birtbday.r, "That's to -morrow, isn't it?" asked Jane, and she smiled to herself. I "Will you, come over after school? Mother said I Couldn't have a party this year. But she's ordered some ice; cream, and maybe there'll be a cake." Jane had a queer look on her face.' "I can't come right after school, Phil -I lis. I promised Helen I'd go over there," "Helen didn't . ask Me." "I—I know." "But it's my birthday." "I'm sorry," said Jane, but she didn't look sorry.• Phyllis jumped to her feet. "If yon don't like me any more, I'm going home." She ran out of the yard. All the next day at school Phyllis kept away from Jane and from Helen. More than once she saw them giggling and talking together, but every time she came near them they grew quiet. She felt hurt and went home all by herself. Phyllis had a habit of sulk- ing when things did not go to please her, and, even though to -day was her birthday and there was ice cream at home, she circled roundthe house to the back yard. She could do something to make those girls feel bad, and she intended to do it. The paper dolls! Lightly she ran across the back yard and down a side street to Jane's playhouse. She knew just where every- thing was. She picked up a box of colored papers that she had decided to burn or tear or spell in some way. But when she took the cover off the box a scrap of white paper fluttered to the floor. She thought it was a paper -doll dress and stooped to pick it up, but then she saw that it was a note. "Be sure to be on time," it said. "Won't it be a lark! Mrs. Cummins said-" The rest was torn off. Mrs. Cummins? That was Phyllis's mother. What did she know about all this? Phyllis hadn't told her that the girls had a secret. Slowly she put back the box of paper dolls. She DRESSING POULTRY TO WIN HIGII PRICES.' In selling poultry, quality counts, and quality is ecu •onlythe secured not by proper growth of the birds, but also in the manner of dressing and the method of shipping. • For successful marketing it is .im- portant that the whims of the market be studied before it is decided what breed to keep. Some markets call for small roasting fowls, others for med-1 sum; and still' others for large. ' A se- lection must be • made accordingly. Here, in. Canada, the yellow -skinned carcass' is in demand, while in, foreign countries they want white -skinned birds. ' Tho market too is- Iar el influ- g Y encediby advertising. The buying pub- lic becom s prejudiced iced to a consider- able onsia -able extent. Our epicures will not take to a white -skinned table fowl hen it comes to poultry, but they ager for white -skinned turkeys oral owl. What's the difference? II ow, but the whims of the buy-; bile must be catered to or buss ss stops. - ESTABLISHING A REPUTATION. ' While the, market prefers brands of known reputation, it is possible to cre- ate a demand for your own product. I have in mind an enterprising poul-' terer who puts a leg -band on each fowl shipped to market. This band is so fastened on .the leg that it can not be taken off, and on it is the advertise- ment of his farm. The carcasses are put up in special cartons—one good, fat, yellow -skinned fowl, neatly dressed, wrapped in oiled paper in each carton. On this carton is printed not only the name of the farm, but a brief story of the class of bird and how it was fed, housed and cared for. The buyer is prepared for a feast before it is placed on the table, and when tested it meets the require- ments. Naturally, that brand becomes the demand of that family. In time the call for this poulterer's goods be- came so great that dealers telegraph- ed "rush orders." Much of the dressed poultry con- signed to commission houses in large g cities sells low because the carcasses are not dressed and packed with skill. It is of primo importance that the poultry products be placed on the market in .a condition that will make them appear as inviting as possible. It is not enough to turn out superior goods; much is lost if they are not marketed. in the most careful manner. The poultryman who receives the highest quotations for, hie product throughout the year is the one who studies "how, - when and where" to market. He learns that during cer- tain months in the year there is a shortage of different kinds of poultry products, and he plans to produce as large a quantity as possible of these products during the season of scant supply. He then ascertains ht which markets he can dispose of these goods to best advantage,and prepares and packs them according to the require- ments of those markets. THE PACKAGE SELLS THE GOODS. The old style of shipping dressed poultry in barrels and large packing - boxes is not used by the present-day poultryman. The most popular pack- age to -day for dressed poultry is the box holding one dozen .carcasses. These boxes are made in definite sizes to contain similar -sized birds; but in packing them for shipment, it is nec- essary to see that the birdsfittight, else they may become bruised and spoil in the journey. The boxes' should be lined with parchment paper; and for fancy qual- ity, each bird should be wrapped in the paper before being placed in the box. - The carton system Is used for spe- cial trade. A carton six inches high, six inches wide, and eleven inches long, will hold a five or ..six -pound roaster or two broilers. If the birds are nicely wrapped in parchment pa- per, they open satisfactorily at the end of the journey. - =AMMO TO MILL EVERY DAY. The poultryman should try to o dis- tribute his produce over more of the twelve months than he does. Instead of keeping the spring chickens all sunnier long and marketing them in •the fall, some of them at least might lee marketed throughout the season as broilers. Broilers ,command two or three times as muchper pound in May and early June as they would br.ng as roasters in the fall. Hens that have practically completed their use- fulness; and have passed through the breeding season, should be marketed as soon asthe breeding season is over. Hens in June bring considerably more than they do in October and, if mar- keted in'June or July, do not compete with cockerels which are marketed as roasters in October or November. First-class marketstock is well fat- ted, so that the breast -bone does not stick out like the keel of a boat; yea loW meeted, well dressed, cleanly pick- ed, not all roughed up 00 torn, no pin feathers left in, nor'' the legs and feet left dirty, Such stock, if packed to present a neat and inviting appear- ance, will command good prices nine or ten months in the year. Stunted stock, severalCllr s old, hump- backed, h P backed, white meated and hum crooked breasted, are not wanted in market. weuenes FOR MARKET STOCK. Broiler weights should be from one and' one-fourth to two pounds each, the lighter weights being•in. demand from January to July; the heavier for the remainder of the year. Squab - broilers, weighing three-fourths of a pound each, are in demand only through January, February and the early part of March. Roasting fowls should range from five pounds a pair early in the season to ten and twelve pounds a pair in the fall and early winter. Hens weigh- ing four or five pounds each sell bet- ter than either larger or smaller stock. Capons weighing about six pounds each command readiest sale, but the larger birds—nine, ten more—bring better prices. The above weights are all for dres MARKET NOTES ROI Market male birds packages. Market old hens befo to 'molt.- April broilers must one-half pounds each. Market as soon as d is gained. Packages for shipme weigh over 100 pounds. 1 Monday is the best the week. A tag on every carc advertisement. Torn skin will crippl the carcass. There must be unifor grade and size. Never ship in cedar b taints the flesh. The soft roaster is weighing four pounds. Never ship to a con before first writing. All poultry should be before making shipment When possible have th akin of dressed carcass A spring chicken is' weighing over two pounds. May broilers range i tween one and one -qua) pounds, dressed. To establish a regular income, marketing mus regular fixed days. Full -hatched chiekens are in good demand from January 1 Count on a shrinkag pound for each bird.shi All animal heat must be out of the carcass before packing Carcasses should bedry and cold, but not frozen, before for shipment. Roasting fowls sell be months from March tat August. Young fowls in the same package with old stock, will ao vailing prices for the latter. Ship adult fowls in a box20x18x12 inches, to hold twenty -f The head of the dressed carcass should be tucked back under the wing, when packed for shipment. A broiler should not sixteen weeks old, nor than two pounds dressed pounds and sed poultry. LED DOWN. in separate re they start weigh one and ,sired weight nt should not tilling day of ass `is a good e the price of mitt of color, oxer, as cedar a young fowl mission house killed the day e color of the es match. z. young bird n weight be - ter and two - demand and t be done on to April 1. e of a half- Pped. for shipment; being packed st during the to the"last of m zand the pre - our birds. be more than weigh more All carcasses to be shipped should be dry -picked, as scalded poultry will not stand long shipments. The home trade, however•, prefers birds scalded. The regulation box for a dozen broilers measures lJx1Gx4 inches, in- side measurement. It is made of half- inch lumber. For shipping one: dozen roasting fowls, the box should measure 20x19x6 inches, of half-inch stuff. Inspection of Imported Nursery Stock. On September first tine new regula- tions under the Destructive Insect and Pest Act, issued by the Depart- ment of Agriculture go into effect.; A11 importers or nursery stock, which in- cludes all plants for ornamental pur- poses or propagation, such as trees, shrubs, vines, bulbs, perennials, etc.,' except seeds, will be required to se- cure a permit before.' the shipments are brought into Canada. Importations of Nursery stock must be inspected be- fore leaving the country of origin and a certificate'of inspection must ac- company the invoice: Importations from countries, other' than the United States can enter Canada only through the ports of St. John,NMontreal, Que.; ontreal, Que.; Niagara Falls, Ont., and Van- couver, B.O. At these ports the ship- ments wilt be re -inspected. or in the case of large consignments; they may be permitted to proceed to destination for inspection.: The importation of certain plants has been prohibited on account of insect pests or plant dis- eases. Persons intending to bring in, nursery stock from the United States or other countries, are advised' to write for information to the Secretary, Destructive Insect and Pest Act Ad- visory Board, Department of Agri- culture, Ottawa. The natural resources of the earth are the heritage and the property of every one and all of us. We shalll ,each the time when we shall not allow a man to ,till' the earth unless ho is to leave it at least as fertile as he found it.—L. 11. Bailey. would go home and ask her mother what the note meant, . ; Slowly and thoughtfully she walked up the'front walk and opened the front door. "Surprise! opened a dozen merry voices shouted. Then Phyllis' realized what the note had meant and why the girls had avoided, her and why Helen had not asked her` to play. • A surprise party! For her 1 Of course! It was her birth - day. hugging e tight. `Jane was gg g hr t gh . Coma' on, Phyllis. The taule is all set. There's a great big cake, and you are to have the first blow at the candles.r. Of course it was intended that Phyl- lis Cummins should be the happiest little girl there, ,because it was her birthday ,and her party; but she wasn't, Because she felt ashamed of, herself. -By Marguerite Murphy, in Youth's Companion. POULTRY. Boiled pumpkin mixed with: bran makes an appetizing mash to develop a large 'crop capacity in the pullet,.' This has been successfully used by several breeders in forcing the growth of pullets before placing them on the laying ration to produce winter eggs. When chicks have been marked with wing bands it pays to examine the wings soon after the birds reach broil- er age. If the wing bands are bent too tight it will cause a sore on the wing. I think it is usually best to substitute leg bands for '•the wing markers as soon as the birds are half grown. Useful broody coops cal}. be made by hanging the shipping crates against the poultry house walls near the nesting sections. The slatted side of a shipping crate forms the bottom of the broody coop. Each crate will hold six or eight broody hens and they break up more quickly when setting on the slats because there is no chance for them to make any resemblance to a nest, as is the case when confined in a coop on the ground. Now is the time to prepare to store up plenty of mangels, cabbages and cull vegetables for the hens. Where a sufficient supply is lacking it is often possible to "purchase a large quantity from neighbors at a reason- able price. In sections where the win- ters are long the poultryman cannot afford to neglect green feed. If the supply gives out early in the winter it may result in birds lacking in vigor and hatching eggs that will not pro- duce vigorous chicks. Plan on cleaning the laying -houses and filling them with clean straw on sunny fall days. Then you are ready for the cold fall rains and chilly winds which give unprotected poultry many colds. It is a satisfaction to have the birds busily scratching in clean straw and thriving in spite of bad weather. The women of the Holy Land, as soon as their babies are able to sit alone, place them astride their shoul- ders. The women of Nigeria their new-born babies shells. The Tera w carry their. children waist -cloths behind their heads with ca protect thein from the after the Bayaka babies are not washed. Forty thousand ton smoked in the United year. Mali the Coupon and. chatthe all It will bring.you at once 'a copy of our booklet "Buying Bonds on the Partial Payment Plan." 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Some four years in filling my own and might easily allow horses to do silo and helping to fill several in the) some of the work that men have been neighborhood show me that one can doing. cut corners in this job.. We own our own cutter here and have our own power usually. We do not lice to let that power run idle and the time . of two or three men be wasted for an hour or so each day of filling if we can help it. Consequently it is our aim to plan to drive past the cutter with each wagon. If we have to drive lip and then back out, the whole outfit runs idle and the waiting `team and feeder of the cutter are idle. Driving past the cutter enables us to keep the cut- ter working continuously. Our silo filling on each farm: runs from sixty to eighty tons. With the usual farm chores and a thirteen -inch cutter we find this a nice day's work. Usually we don't work until dark. We want to keep the farm chores up and do them nearly on time. That is as tarot much our business as the silo filling in calabash and it is as seasonable too. I found omen in Africa last fall that if the unloading man will slung in their slip ori some extra bundles and throw them and cover then back of the feeder when there )abash shells to is a little time this serves as a reserve. sun, For ayear Then when the empty wagon moves are born they out the feeder can keep the cutter plugging away. We have cone rutted a detachable s of tobacco are feeding table on our nutter, about four Kingdom every feet wide and six feet long. Throwing the bundles on this table prevents get- ting them mixed and enables the feed- er to keep an even flow 02 corn inthe cutter all the time. There is always a supply of one or two bundles ready of the neglect to use. We have found that an extra team doesn't hurt anything when filling. Let the wagon stand loaded. Then when someone comes in too slowly take a man out of the silo and ' run this wagonload through. Last year I tried to use one man in the silo at first, two a little later and then three near the top, and when finishing 1 had four men tramping. I figured that the bottom of the silo would be packed pretty well with the weight from the top. In feeding out I am having a little trouble with small moldy spots around lower.doors. 1 wonder if this is .because of the one man on the tramping work at first? It looks es. though this plan was a mis- take. We 'load our wagons with the tops first, I notice that there has been some discussion about this. I suspect that if we were raising corn about six feet high it wouldn't make much difference, but when it runs from ten to twelve feet on the average that way of handling' would be' pretty hard to follow all day. We use an ordinary low -wheeled. wagon. This saves, a lot of heavy lift- ing but is not so good as the suspend- ed frame racks that are used in some places. ' I hope we'll. get to using that form of rack in time. We figure on How to Get Better Prices for Comb Honey 13Y D. 0. GILHAM. Do you know why so many beekeep- ere howl about low prices and poor market for honey? I'll tell you: Itis because of carelessness in producing or handling the honey. For instance,;I have seen. beekeep- ers place sections in supers that were not meant for that particular type of. section. Result, he sections were diamond-shaped instead of square. Another thing that detracts from the appearance of comb -honey is the presence of propolis (the glue used by bees for filling cracks) on the sections. This is not hard to get off, if you take proper precautions. The best way to proceed is to coat the, tops of the sections, in the supers that are expos- ed to the bees, with a thin coating of paraffin. Do this before placing the supers on the hive. When the filled sections are removed from the hive, the paraffin and any propolis that may have been deposited on top of the sections ss: easily scraped' off, thus leaving anice clean section. The dif- ference sn price that a producer will receive for a clean section and>a dirty one will well repay him for his extra time and work. USE A BEE -ESCAPE BOARD., When a spper is filledandready to be removed from the hive; a bee- escape board should be used. One bee- keeper offered. me extracted honey. Ile had not used a bee -escape board to clean the bees out of the supers, but had smoked the. bees out. Result, the honey tasted from the excessive smok- ing the combs had' received. It took him longer to free the combs of the bees with the Smoker, than it would have; taken to place a bee -escape board under the super. He could` have left; it on for from twenty-four to thirty -1 six hours and then gone and picked up his succi" of Honey and .carried it into his honey -house, free of bees. He lost several cents a pound on his honey, because he didn't invest a little money in bee -escape boards. Some of the careless beekeepers' offer thee• -honey to the retail mer- chant at a'lowerfgure than the mar- ket price. On account in packing' and in the handling of comb -honey, many a section is cracked or a hole is punched in: it. If the merchant buys, he soon has a sticky, messy pile of goods to dispose of and is disgusted with the handling of comb -honey. CARELESSNESS IN HANDLING. I havo found it is : not always the fault of the producer. Many clerks are careless. In one instance where I had delivered an order of combs honey, 'one of the clerks dropped a section on the floor before the pro- prietor had written out his cheque to pay me. . Within a week I received a card asking me to call.. When, I did he wanted to know what was, wrong with that lot of section honey. Every section had been in perfect Condition in sealed wrappers when delivered. -I found 75 per cent, of the combs broken and leaking through torn paraffin wrappers, due to carelessness in handling by the clerks. A section of honey on display, where . customers can handle pees of damaged by in- quisitive persons and not by prospec- tive buyers. All progressive beekeepers use a carton of some kind to protect thein' comb -honey, to,keop it clean and Sani- tary when on display in the store. The tall plain section is my favorite, as it permitsthe use of a heavy paraffin - paper. wrapper and allows the cus- tomer to see what is inside without opening. The beeway section necessi- tates the use of a cardboard carton, which must be opened and the section removed to see it. Some cardboard cartons have a hole in the centre so that the comb will' show through, but this .allows the dust and dirt to get upon the comb. Some beekeepers are shipping comb - honey by, parcel post without sufficient packing. The result is.. a messy pack- age in themaile. If they continue to keep this up, the postal authorities will soon put a stop to the shipping of comb -honey by parcel post, and the. careful beekeeper will have to suffer for the acts of the careless one. two or three men in the field and about four teams to keep our cutter going. I, think there is a chance to ltelp'oiir- selves here in having more teams and fewer men on the job. There is noreason why each driver shouldn't load almost half of his wagon alone. For the last part and he top a little help is handy and pays. But it is useless fol• a man to drive to the field and sit on his wagon untilthe pitchers come to help, The driver has the easy job in silo filling, as he gets a' nice rest in going and coming from the field. Pitchers, the )nen in -the. silo and the feeder of the cutter work all the time thbre is anything going through the machine, When farmers work, their teams usually stand idle. Because of this the use of two or three extra teams on a filling, job would not lose anything. Easier Saving. "Do you believe in daylight saving?" "Well, yes;' it's easier saving by day- light than after the cabaret light is turned an." Father, residih gat breakfast table , P B table, asked William, aged three, if he would like an egg. "Yes, daddy, one -with al light in, please," said William, 1000 Eggs Every Hen New System of Poultry Keeping -Get Dollar a Dozen Eggs—Famous Poul- tryman TELLS HOW "The great.. trouble with the poultry buelness has always been that the !ng life of a hen was too .short," says Henry Trafford, International Poultry Expert and Breeder, for nearlyeighteen years Editor of Poultry Success, The average pullet lays 150 eggs. If kept the second year, she may lay 100 more, Then, she goes to market. Yet, it has been scientifically established that every pullet is born or hatched with over one thousand minute egg germs. in her system—and will lay them on 0 hlghly.protitable basis over a period of four : to six years' - time ifgiven proper care, - Hew to .workto get 1;000 eggs froht every 'beg; how to get pullets laying early; how to make the old hens lay like pullets; how to keep up heavy egg pro- duction all through 'cold winter months when eggs are highest; triple egg pro- duction; make slacker hens hustle; $6.00 profit- from every hen in six winter menthe.- These and many other money makingsoultry seer, a are contained in Mr. Tra ard'e "1,000 EGG HEN" system reader Of this paper who keeps six hens or more. Eggs' should go to a dollar or more a dozen this winter.. .This means of rail ry raising, due coipy of whioh will be sent absolutely roe to a big: profit to the poultry keeper who .gets lh'e eggs, Mr. Trafford tells haw, 10 you tend chickens and want them to make. money Ser yew cut out this ad -and send ft wfth your name and address to.Heng- Trafford, Suite 6300, Herald Bldg., Bing. hampton, N. ].'.,. and a .free copy of "THE.1,000 EGG HEN" will bo sent by return mail. t Back to Work Kendall'. Spavin Treatment will get that lame horse bock on the.job again.. For more than ,forty veer* as Kendall's Spaeth Cure It has been removing spavins s liai ringqbone, thoroughpin and ell kinds. of body growths. Get tt arms druggist', tang ;also the. es book' A Treattre on the Ham and '�he Dbaases", or tarns direct to D'3. B. J. KENDALL. COMPANY, Bnosbure' Falls, Vi., U.S.A. Kendall's Spavin ,. Treatment � � ® t ISSUIi: No. 313—'23. PLANT BULBS FOR EARLY FLOWERING Daffodils or narcissuses are indis- pensable to our list of spring flowers and should be freely used in the gar- den. They may be planted in clump3 in the hardy' and mixed flower border, and, wherever conditions warrant it, naturalized in meadow lots, around the edges of our lawns, in shrubbery g w 1 Y or open woods. Most charming and natural effects may be had by plant- ing the daffodil in grass. Broad but irregular groupware much more effec- tive than when a few bulbs are plant- ed at uniform distances, When planting in grass set the bulbs deep, so that the roots will al- ways be able to have some necessary moisture, this being most desirable during the flowering ripening g and r' e n in per- iod later. It is mast im octant that the leaves, are never cut', until they have died away 'natux•ally,' It is an advantage to plant early; in fact, some growers hold that the bulbs should be in the ground before the fall rains come, arguing that a wet bed is altogether against their well-being before they have begun to emit roots. If you have to plant after the bed is very wet, place some dry soil under and around each bulb, for anything is better than planting in soil that is spongy wet. Daffodils should be in place and ready to grow when the soil becomes wet and while it is still warm. The idea is to have them in place sufficiently early for them to make good long roots during October, and then the less growth' they make till 'March the better for them. Daffodils appear to succeed best in a loam Soil, and even a clay soil which breaks up readily when dug is better for them than one approaching muck or peat, but the planter can generally. trust to the goodness of the ordinary garden soil. Tulips cannot be omitted from our list, and although the many magni- ficent late -flowering varieties have be- come the most popular for bedding purposes, the continuous display can only be maintained by utilizing the early flowering varieties` also, includ- ing both single and double types., Grown in good soil, double early flow- ering tulips will give you blooms al- most as large as those of the peony, These glorious double flowers remain in prime condition much longer than the single type. Times ne ALL THEIR GLORY. 11Iay-flowering tulips come to us in all their glory after the overwhelming rush of early spring flowers is on the ebb. Just as the last of the daffodils and other extra early flowers are quickly passing away, along come the late tulips, made up of Dal -wins, breeders and the old-fashioned Eng- lish cottage varieties. The essential points for success are good, sound bulbs, well-prepared beds and early planting. The latter point willalways largely depend upon local conditions, for if the tulips are', to.: occupy the beds now filled with summer flowers, it is usual to delay until they have become passe, or per- haps killed by the first frost.. We al- ways endeavor to have our tulips planted around the middle of October. The beds are first cleared, removing the old plants, and if it happens that the ground was not manured in the spring, a , two-inch layer of well - decayed manure is spread evenly over the surface, but when digging it is. kept well down in the soil so that it is covered to a depth of quite eight inches. On no account use fresh ma- nure, as this is liable to induce dis- ease; rather rely upon leaf mold with a little bone meal, or use bone meal alone, but mix it thoroughly with the soil. Following digging, rake the surface carefully until It is quite flat, or there may be a marked difference in the time of flowering of the same variety, of bulb, for, after the muleh is remov- ed, the sun's rays warm the soil on the south side of a raised bed, ,leaving the north Side cold and shaded, so that the bulbs there will not fiower for: at least a week or even longer after those on the warm side. After the ground freezes, -cover the beds with a two-inch layer of leaves or rough litter to prevent the frost from penetrgtlpg below the bulbs; but as soon as all danger of severe frost is over, the mulch is removed, being care- ful not to harm the tops which may have made their way through the sure face of the bed, Canadian Bacon Prices -Advance. Canadian bacon is plainly makitg its way on the British market, 'un- doubtedly largely, due to the system of, .grading that is now conducted by the Dominion Live Stock Branch. A cablegram to the branch dated August 24 says, "Canadian bacon prices ad - vaned 10 to 15 shillings; leanest, lean, and prime quoted at 125 shil- lings and bales at 130 shillings; Am- erican 100 to 105 shillings; Irish nom- inal: Danish 134 to 142 shillings. Good demand throughout." Top prices for' hos at theprincipal P Iug markets in Canada for the week end. ing August 28 also showed an advance over the previous week except at Win- nipeg, where the quotations were sta. tionary at $11.27. At Toronto tope were $11.90 compared. with $11.60 the previous week; at Montreal $11.75 compared with $11.25; at Calgary $11 compared with $10.59, and at Edmon- ton ,$11.30 compared with $10.75.'