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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1890-01-24, Page 117, 1,890„ Goods • January 18 fig week, SELL ale Cost jug Lines: 1;ETS,, OL SHAWLS, WOOL HOODS, S,' EROOATS,. OVERCOATS, TABLES, . ED BLANKETS ine% we have only Et and in order to )•ut Profit :3PAUL, FORTH. ding tour prior to their • me. We wish them oyage through life. Wawanoeh. EING.—The naemberfs of nosh Agricultural So - ✓ anneal meeting on try 9th, when the fol - ,ere elected: President, : Vice President, Chas. Direators,—R. Stone- ' a, R. Currie, Thomas ')wens, Robert Sterling, e-cldes and James Har- e—J. G. Stewart, Jas. r, C. McClelland ; Sec- rson, ng to the damp, cis - her of the past few al of sickness is report- 3oultes has been laid up tack of influenza during net is slowly recovering. erson, Sr., is also eon - under the doctor's care. of the Sixth Line liter- ig society intend holding Friday evening, January in Sowler and Mr. John appointed captains and .ed the best local talent, ent from Westfield, Bel- moch, to sustain them ; Itewa.rt and Mr. J. Ding - id piper of Kintail. A Pected.---Wm.and Joshua lamed from Michigan, d been working in the Blyth ENINGS.-r- We regret to uncillor John Wilford is• aimed at present. His - wish for his speedy re - T. Bs.wden and family departure for the land of day last week, leaviug. citizens to mourn their evening last week Miss e accomplished organist eh, was made the recipient address and a well- y the congregation in her valuable services.— sty services of Trinity eid ot Sunday. Although re was very disagreeable ion at each of the three fair. Rev. Canon Rich - London,. preached able discourses -at each of The offertory, in aid of' und, was a liberal one. — was cast over the town on he unexpected telegraph itish Columbia of the death Watson a former towns- eceased young man had en since he had gone to. and had bright prospects his demise. His parents e sympathy of the entire their bereavement. He e and child to mourn his. - TWENTY-SECOND YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER! 1,154. Great Bargains —AT THE— Cheap Cash Store —OF— HOFFMAN & CO. Great Bargains going in good useful and suitable articles for Holiday Pres- ents at our CHEAP SALE ONTARIO CREAMERIES ASSOCIATION. WHAT WAS SAID. (Reported for TUB EXPOSITOR.] The following is a condensed report Of the proceedings Of the Convention of the above Association held in Seaforth last week: THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. The first session opened at 10 o'clock a. In. on the 14th inst. The President, Mr. D. Derbyshire, of Brockville, giving his address. lie complimented the en-. terprieing town of Seaforth on securing this Convention against so many other places which had worked hard to have this meeting held with them. After ex- pressing his pleasure at being present to talk over matters he stated that there were 43 creameries in operation in Om tario, and that fancy butter had been made in most of them and that under the able instruction of Messrs. Sprague and McHardy the quality hed steadily advanced. He urged the Convention to continue thorough inspection and prac- tical teaching in each creamery in the Pillovince. He urged the importance of keeping stock exactly suited for butter' making. He condemned- scrub cows. To do good work you must have a good machine, and a cow is only a machine. A cow, naturally, will give 2,000 lbs. of milk, but man, by an, enlightened and intelligent judgment, can so develop the mille-giving power as to increase the yield to eight; or even ten thousand pounds per year. Thousands of cows now in our Province by putting them into warm stables and feeding abund- ance of nutritious food would give twice the milk they are giving to -day. With regard to a cheap food, corn and the silo solve the problem. Sow corn in rows feet apart, dropping:a kernel every 8 inches. With thorough cultivation you can raise 30 tons per acre if the land is -rich. He would build a silo in the bay of the barn ; a silo 14 feet by 16 feet and 16 feet deep holds 150 tons. The silage will not cost more than $1.50 per ton, some say $1.18, and two tons of ensilage will make more milk than one ton- of hay; Thus yeti. can make twice as much butter at half the cost. If we, as Creanaerymen,take hold of this question in an intelligent way we can drive out lb, millions of pounds of common butter' that now infest every market in this country, and sell our fin- est creamery in every market at twenty cents per pound. Ninety nine and four- fifths per cent. of our cheese is made in factories while only 3 per cent of our 30,000,000 pounds of butter is misde in creameries. Ninety-seven per cent. of our product is made in our dairies. Creamery butter will readily sell for four cents per pound more than dairy. You can easily see from this the loss to the country by not having all the butter' made in -creameries. Fur cents per pound for 30,000,000 pounds is $1,500,- 000. Of which the following are a few : Dress Goode, Mantles, Mantle Cloths, Furs, Blankets, Shawls, Clouds, Scarfs, Hats, Caps, floods, Corsets, Gloves, Mitts, -Hose, Collars, Cuffs, Handkerchiefs, Laces, Ribbons, Lace Curtains, Milli- nery, and a host of other.articles too numerous to mention here. Please call and take a look through the stock be-' fore completing your purchases, at the Qheap Cash Store —OF HOFFMAN & CO. CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEA PO RT H. SCIENCE Has conquered SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1890. tMcLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.5O a Year, in Advance. ed when and and to what extent the Jas. McPherson has 30 cows, received solved further, that we commend to she had purchased in the city, but no \ . guide dairymen in for skim milk,...his cows to tail up in the from the Government in experimental on January 14th, George Rutherford —At Chilliwhack, British Columbia, shot and killed Edward Hall and John Seers and killed himself. He was de- spondent owing to disappointment in love, and accused Hall and Segers of tampering with his food. —Capt. Joseph Pareons, of Kingston, has made the latest round trip to Oswego on record. He crossed over to Oswego on Thursday of last week in the ship Ella Murton, barley -laden, cleared on Friday, and arrived back at Kingston on Saturday. —Mr. John Whelan, of Lucan, met with a serious accident the other even- ing. His horse attached to a buggy ran away and threw him out. He received a very severe cut in the head, and it was several hours before he recovered consciousness. The buggy was smashed. —A respectable looking man named John Owen, who said he came from Winnipeg and was on his way home to Scotland, was found wandering in the streets in Montreal the other day. He was taken in charge by physicians, and on his person wee found a ticket by the Onion line from New York. —A horse attached to a grocer's wagon ran away last Friday night on King street, Hamilton about eight o'clock, jest when the th'cnoughfare was crowded to its utmost. Although the horse ran for half a mile before he could be stopped, no one was hurt, nor was any damage done to the wagon. —At the annual congregational meet– ing heldin Stanley street cheirch,Ayr,on Monday last week, Mr. Wm. Baker was made the recipient of a very handsome gold headed cane from the members of the church, in recognition of his faith- ful services as treasurer for a period of thirty years. —Mrs. Thomas Crompton, relict of the late Rev. Thomas Crompton, one of the pioneer ministers of the Methodist Church, and formerly Primitive Methodist minister of Guelph, died on Tuesday, 14th inst., at Weston, at the - residence of her son-in-law,Rev. Walter Reid. Tin. Pound, an insane man, who imagined himself worth a million dol- lars, was arrested in St. Thomas on Friday last. Amongst the papers found on him was a draft of a patent for "a new,useful and amusing game to develop the muscles and the wrists." —It is estimated that there are 1,700,- 000 bushels of wheat in the elevators at Fort William and the country west; that the quantity of wheat in farmers' hands is considerably in excess of that generally supposed, and that about 1,000,000 bushels remain to be de- livered. And made it possible to Restore Defec- tive Eye Sight to Normal Vision. Zetland. It. Myerseraitroad inspee. ereton, was at Mr. George ud Mr. Hagerman, of Lon- e last week shipping limit nd Mrs. W. Arbuckle, cr axe been sorely called to cit youngest child, at the eleven years. He was s ising boy. He was taken e,aslea in the- first piece: -er seemed to strike dut e died on New Year's day. use around here has tvic cases of measles. Mr. has. rented his farm to Mr. rinedy for a term of 5 year& and family intend trying dominions for a whiie.—tdr. nagh left for their neve home, . They propose to locate ' May prosperity be theirschool of Zetland is closed, e ilinesss of the teacher, Misa here quite a lot of sick - present. All of Mr. Poi - are down with measles ad is also down with therm escape measles la griP1* ms of.—Mr. Robert Taylor ek for Mr. James Marli ick. J. S. Roberts parties interested thought fit. $70 per cow in the year, and refused the special attention of the Government money. Having secured the satchel the PROFITABLE COWS. $15 per cow for skim milk: He -is not a and the new Dairy Commissioner the fellow made off. Mrs. Odell returned Governor Hoard delivered a practical summer dairyman. Another patron -re- needs of the butter -making industry as to the city and gave the case into the address, in which he brought out the beives $40 per co*, and was offered $10 deserving apecial consideration and aid hands of a detective. points which should the purchase of the most profitablecows. spring. It costs 10 per cent. more to i . In trotting horses, he said, no one ever keep a cow in milk in winter than to like a a now as she ought to be kept when saw yet one that was built like a y es - dale ; no draught horse was ever seen that was built like a trotting horse. They understood these things in horses, he said, but forget them in cattle. They should purchase an animal . that would take a certain amount of food, and turn that food distinctly down a certain chan- nel, not down another channel, and so give a certain product in proportion to the feed consumed. A dairy cow start-' ed with the specific function of mother- hood,a. beef cow with that of iniserlipod. The one stored up in her body all that they gave her, and refused to give it back until she was laid on the block. The other took food liberally every day,' and dispensed it in a motherly fashion. Motherhood was the basis upon which 'they should proceed to investigate the character of a dairy cow. They must give her warmth, they must refuse to gisie her cold water,and must not turn her out in her relaxed conditions of mother - hoed to,travel half a mile to drink cold iced water. She was like the Arkansas jurors Who were asked if they found a verdict for the defendant or plaintiff. The foreman said, "We find for our- selves first." (Laughter.) The jury- men had not got their fees at the time. The cow would invariably protect her- self first. Let them seek.first the king- dom of God and His glory and all things should be added thereto. That was trueof religion, and he was often sur- prised how many things agreed in the handling of a dairy cow with Biblical things. Let them seek first the enhance- ment of the cow and all would be add- ed unto them. Let them not drop into the notion that the cow was the least important thing they possessed; there - fere, if they were engaged in producing . . and living and sustaining 'themselves npon her products, learn first how to plroduce and breed and feed.a good cow. Is happy to announce that he has secured Patent Dioptric E34 Metre, which will enable him to fit all defects of visions ASTIGMATISM, HYPERMETROPIA, MYOPIA, PRESBYOPIA, OR ANY COMPOUND DEFECT. Astigmatism is due to irregular shape of eye, and is usually congenital. Many school children with this defect are called stupid, but with pro- perly fitted glasses they may become the bright- est of scholars. This is quite a common and dangerous defect.—Hypermetropia is a malform- * ation which keeps the ciliary muscle in constant use, whereas in a normal eye it is at rest when tooking at a distance. This defect if neglected may result in nervous depression and pain, and even prostration.—Myopia, is a diseased condition of the eye, which should be very carefully fitted to prewent an increase of the defect, and perhaps ultimate blindness.—Presbyopia is a loss of ex- commodation in the eye, which may cause catar- act unless corrected by artificial aid. Frequently nervous or sick headaches, and also serious illness, are brought on by one or more of the above dOfects. Remember, no' charge for testing your eyes. J.S.ROBERTS, Chemist 8e Druggie OARDNO'S BLOCK, SEAFORTH, dry,. but her product is worth 30 per cent. more than in summer. Eleven years ago Jas. McPherson had a dairy of shorthorn grades, which averaged 150 lbs of butter per cow, and their live weight was 1100 lbs.; by using a Jersey bull his herd now averages 258 lbs. per cow, and weigh 900 pounds each, being an increase of 108 lbs. of butter per cow with 200 pounds less carcass to feed. Food costs $40 per cow, leaving $35 profit per cow, besides having the skim milk from 6000 pounda of milk per cow. In a test made to ascertain the value of skim milk for hog -feeding continued for 56 days, the hogs bought at 4i and sold at 4i cents per lb., the milk was worth 22-ic per hundred pounds. The New Hampshire experiment station made, the following test to ascertain at what age a pig gives the greatest gain in weight for the food consumed: Up to 50 lbs. they continue to increase in pro- portion to the food consumed ;eater 50 lbs. they decrease ; at 100 lbs. they de- crease 10 per cent. more than at 50 lbs.; at 150 lbs., 17 per cent. more than at 50; at 200 lbs., 24 per cent. more than at 50; at 300 lbs., 34 to 48 per cent. more than at 50; a 300 lb. pig requires six lbs. food for support before it can lay on one pound of fat. AFTERNOON SESSION. The report of the nominating corismit- tee was adopted naming the following gentlemen as officers and directors for the year 1890: President, D. Derby- shire, Brockville ; 1st Vice- President, John Hannah, Seaterth; 2nd Vice - President, Aaron Wenger,. Ayton. Directors—Ira Morgan, Metcalf; T. G. Miller, Spencerville; John Sprague, Ameliasburg ; Robert Philp, Cadmus; James Davis, Toronto; David McCrae, Guelph: W. J. Weldon Hamilton; J. S. Pearce, London ; E. Miller, Park- hill; F. A. Walden, Ayton; A. Wark, Wanstead ; J. N. Zinklean, Wellesley ; Jelin Croil, Aultsville. The auditors report was adopted and showed a balance on hand of $524.50, from which balance will be deducted the expenses of the present ConVention, CANADIAN Y. AMERICAN BUTTER. Mr. Colitt, an extensive produce deal- er in Cardiff, Wales, being called upon, stated that he bought large quantities of Canadian creamery butter, as it was the only Canadian butter good eno-agh for their trade. He also bought States Creamery, but he would pay from 2 to 4 cents per pound more for Canadian creamery, as it had Much better keeping quality. He advised farmers to sup- port creameries in preference to private dairying, as creamery butter netted 4 cents per lb. more than dairy after the cost of manufacturing is deducted. , A REVIEW. Prof. Robertson, reviewing the work of the Convention, spoke of the neces- sity of cleanliness in handling 'milk. The loss by churning sweet cream is 15 to 23 per cent. Butter should be put in attractive packages and salted with fine salt. Creamerymen shonld cultivate the home market. He saw two kinds of butter sold in Toronto a few days ago ; creamery sold at 26 cents, and dairy butter at 10 cents. Points of a dairy cow: Long udder, soft mellow akin, long rump, thin hips, long barrel, thin Long neck, fine face, large lustrous eyes. The silo reduces the cost of feed for a milk cow from 22 to 11 cents per day. 250,000 cows are kept in the Province at a loss of $6 per cow, being a total loss of $1,500.000, while by winter dairying there would be a profit of $5,000,000. QUESTIONS ANSWERED. In answer to a question by Mr. Walter Cunningham, Prof. Robertson gave the following ration for a mulch cow: 40 Lbs. corn ensilage ; 3 lbs bran, 4 lbs clover hay, 3 lbs. peas and oats, and 1 lb. cotton seed meal. A question by Mr. Snyder, St. Jacobs, with regard to the oil test led to a dis- cussion taken part in by Professor Robertson, A. H. Musgrove, Aaron Wenger and John Hannah. 'All agreed that thek,•oil test," when carefully con- ducted, le a reliable test. The committee on dairy utensil's re- ported that Strong's Standard Aerator is valuable in cheese factories or creameries that handle the whole milk, as it not only cools, but deodorizes it. The but- ter tubs shown were of two kinds, ma- chine and handmade. Both were good of their kind, but the hand -made pre- ferred. The Daisy churn is a nice, convenient churn, the agitation of the cream being on the right principle. CLOSING UP. After some further business the Con- vention adjourned. Votes of thanks were given to the Corporation of Sea - forth for their hospitality, and also to the Railway Companies for reduced fares. The following motion was moved -by Mr. A. Wenger, and seconded by Mr. J. S. Pearce, and carried unanimously: "Resolved, whereas the Dominion Gov ernment has by Order in Council, created the office of a Commissioner of 183 00 Dairy Husbandry for the Dominion of Canada, to assist the further profitable I93 woo 199 75 development and extension of dairy farming, to help in the improvement pf the quality of milk, butter and cheese, and he furnish information relating to, the needs 'of the markets which are now, or may be, supplied by our.. pro- ducts, we the officers and members of the Ontario Creameries Association, in Convention assembled,, hereby express. our satisfaction with and approval of the action of the Government in the creation of said office, and in the ap- pointment thereto of Prof. James W. -Robertson, who has been intimately and actively interested with thw work of • this Association since its inception. Re - Short addresses were made by Mr. John Hannah; Mr. A. H. Musgrove, of Whitechurch Mr. John Sprague, of Prince Edward County, and Mr. D. D. Wilson, of Seaforth, who on behalf of the Town Council welcomed the Cream- eries • Association to the town. The President made a suitable reply after which the meeting adjourned to 1:30 o'clock. -James Ammoore, of Aldfield, who was found guilty last week in Hull, for having an illicit still in his possession, was fined $100, besides being sentenced to one month's imprisonment. --Thomas Adams, of the second con- cession of Delaware, had a narrow escape from being killed on Stanley street, London South, Saturday last. He was crossing the Grand Trunk by tho Wharncliffe overhead bridge when a train came along,frightening the horse so that it ran away and collided with one of the- telegraph poles on Stanley street, smashing the buggy and throw- ing Adams out on his head. He re- ceived a very severe scalp wound, and was insensible for some time, but re- covered sufficiently to continue his way into the city and transact business. —A woman named Bly was arrested in Montreal on Saturday last for entic- ing a young girl from Cornwall into her re,nclezvous, a house of ill -fame, under the pretence that she wanted her as a servant. The poor girl was net long in the house till she discovered its char- acter. After being there a short time she managed to get out, and at once laid a complaint before the Recorder. It is probable this vile procuress will be severely punished. It is believed that many young girls are enticed into the city under such false pretences and ruined. The police are well aware of the existence of such dens, but fail to do anything to suppress them. —The inability of the Government to 'successfully manage a printing bureau as they boasted they would, plain business principles, is becoming more and more obvious. The political bosses find it' impossible to keep mechanical merit above political merit, and as an inevitable consequence there is trouble. The men want a general raise of wages to $13 per week. The main points raised were that the cost- of living was higher in Ottawa than in other Canadian cities, and that the wages of Govern- ment printers in Washington had been recently increased. Mr. Chapleau ex- pressed his willingness to grade the men according to ability if the 'Typograph- ical Union would consent to such an ar- rangement. The Minister adrnitted that the Governmentprinting work costs more than it did under the contractors. AFTERNOON SESSION. Mr. Thomas Macfatlane,chief analyst, Inland Revenue Department, Ottawa, Teed a paper on "Dairying in Denmark," in which the most recent experiences gained in that country as regards the production and export of butter was described. The essayist traced the his- tory of butter production in Denmark for over twenty years, and pointed out the causes of the increase in the export from eighteen to forty-seven millions Danish pounds annually. The different epochs through which the butter busi- ness had passed were described as the repacking period,the centrifugal period, and the partnership period. The effects of the introduction of the centrifugal separators were described, and the de- plorable results recorded which ultim- ately overtook this system in the hands of the dairy operators who purchased the milk and sold the products. The part- nership system was also described, and its unequivocal success up to the end. of 1888 attested by complete statistics from official sources. According to this plan the farmers of a certain district combine to build and work a dairy on the separ- ptor syetem, borrow the money to do it, and share in the proprietorship and management in proportion to the num- ber of cows which each of them own. They ,are paid for their milk every month and receive back the skim milk, for which they pay ic per pound. The money resulting from this has been founctsufficient to pay for the cost of running the factory and keeping in re- pair, for paying the interest, and in- stalments of the debt, and ultirnatelY giving the proprietors, the factory free of debt and in good. condition. The sys- tem has spread wonderfully and is now taking in the small farmers. In the season of 1887-88 an increase in the ex- port of butter from Denmark took place of 12,000,000 pounds Danish over the export of the previous year, and this was almost exclusively caused by the extensien of the partnership system. Another feature in Danish dairying, which has already been adopted in 200 factories, is the plan of paying ,for the milk according to its percentage of but- ter fat. This is having the healthiest influence on the agriculture of the whole country, for farmers are flow obliged to look more closely to the character o their stock and take care that the in- ferior individuals are weeded out. The essayist did not bring forward these facts by way of recommending the adop- tion of the partnership system in Can- ada, but simply thought it advantage- ous to put -them on reccird and lay them before the dairymen and farmers of Can- adfaleaving the new system to be adopt- GENERAL REMARKS. After GOvernot Hoard, in reply to a question, had explained the . benefits of warming water for stock and his system of doing it, Mr. John McMillan, M. P., gave a short address edvising farmers to grow soiling crops to feed in addition to pasture whether for dairy or beef stock. Mr. A. Bishop, M. P. P., declined to make any lengthy remarks. Mr. J. Sprague gave a short description of his silo and spoke very highly of the value of ensilage as a food for milch cows. work, instruction and encouragement. NOTES ON THE CONVENTION. Everybody says Mr., Derbyshire is a Model chairman, as well as the largest and bestslooking Mayor in Amalie& A McKillop farmer in town on Tues- day was induced by one of our towns- men to go and hear Governor Hoard. lief became so much interested in the proceedings that he staid in town until the close of the Convention, attend- ing every session. Mr. -John Renkie says he would glad - 17 two more days to gain as much information as he gained at the Con- vention, and John is one of the most successful farmers in Tuckersmith. The Entertainment Committee of the Business Men's Association, assisted by Mr. J. Aird, President, and Mr. D. D. • Wilson, Reeve of the town, did yeoman service in receiving and entertaining the delegates and visitors to the Con- vention. The members of the Creaineries -Asso- ciation highly appreciated the kindly treatment they received, and . hope to return to Seaforth at no distant day. THE CHURNING. surveyor general, and was Speaker of the Assembly in 1879. He was a can- didate for Charlotte in ,the federal elec- tion of 1882. Mr. Stevenson took e. leading part in Masonic matters and was usually a member of the represen- tative assemblies of the Church of Eng- land. —Mrs. Laura Rowe, Cataraqui, 82 years of age, while going to the door the other day to admit a friend slipped and fell, breaking her hip bone. Owing to :the extreme age and feebleness of the old lady the injuries may prove fatal. Mrs. Rowe is an aunt of Mr. Erastus Wiman, of New York. Her soh, Wiman Rowe, is a baker in King- ston. —The other night the attention of Mr. J. R. Gillean, landlord of the Lake View House at Amherstburg, was called to a window on the lower floor, Which had been broken into, and, upon inves- tigation., itwas discovered that kerosene had. been scattered around the room, while a quantity of kindling wood and a handkerchief saturated with coal oil were also found in the room.- The would-be fire bugs had evidently been frightened away. • —On the last day of the old year Thomas Sutton, son of Mr. Mark Sut- ton, Erin township, met with a peculiar accident while engaged in forking straw into a barn. By some means a small scaffold teole fell from the roof about four feet above him etriking b* on the back of the head near the nat.A, com- pletely paralysing the whole body. Three physicians were in consultation over the case. -Sutton is Perfectly con- scious, and has been all along, but yet his recovery is very doubtful. —Mr. W. M. Galloway, of Cintra Portugal, and formerly of Grey County, was in Toronto on January 17th. This gentleman, only a few months ago, was leading a retired life in Canada, and happening to hear:ofta projected search for the heir to the Galloway estates in Cintra, Portugal, laid his claim to it. The estate, it is said, is woath from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. He left for Portugal a short time ago, asserted 'his right of ownership, and has returned to evind up his business transactions in - Canada. —Dr. H. M. McKay, of Woodstock, died Thursday night of last week. He stood at the head of his profession in the county, and was universally esteemed, not only as a physician, but also as a Christian gentleman. His very large practice resulted in a phytical exhaus- tion that could not resist -the attack of pneumonia, and that &pease' carried him off. He was an actiele member of the Provided Board of Health. His brother, the Rev. R. P. McKay, of Parkdale, was with him during the last days of his illness. —There is now on exhibition at 189 Yonge street, Toronto, the remains of a most remarkable specimen of a now extinct race of animals. These remains were found some ,time ago on a farm in the township of Amaranth, and are the wonder of scientists. A single tooth weighs 161 pounds, while thergigantic horn measures 12 feet 8 inches in length and weighs 200 pounds. Prof. Bell, of Belleville, says the remains in question are of the pure mammoth, the -same as e found in Siberia, and now on exhibition in St. Petersburg, —At the civil assizes in Toronto • on January 16th the case of John Shaw against Mrs. McCreary was tried. It was an action to recover $21000 for per- sonal damages incurred by being hugged by a pat bear belonging te the defendant that had got loose and wandered about the streets. The bear was rather affec- tionate in his embrace, and the result was that Shaw was copfined to bed for a considerable time. He sued for. $2,000 damages, Matthew Shaw, the young man's father, tiled sued for $300 for nursing his son. Two hundred dollars was allowed to each of the plaintiffs. —An amusing case was tried on Fri- day last at the Assize Court, Hamilton, by a specially selected panel of -five jurors. One David Hobbs purchased a horse la.st October from Thomas Snider for $60, believing that the animal was not over nine years of age. He subse- quently discovered that the horse was unsound, and nearly twenty years old. He had paid twenty dollars of the pur- chase money, • but refused to pay the balance. The lawyers' addresses were racy, and provoked much amusement. The plaintiff, Snider, finally obtained verdict for 37 and costs. , -L-At & recent meeting tef the free- holders in school section No. 3, in the township of Biddulph, the following resolution passed unanimously : "Re- solved, that we are of opinion that the general welfare of this township and country at large cannot be effectually promoted without lessening the exorbi- tant rate of interest charged by loan companies. Resolved, that we are de- cidedly and unalterably determined to seek redress for these grievances,and we pledge ourselves to each other that we will at the ensuing election support those candidates only who will support us in redressing our 'wrongs." —Last Monday morning, when the Sarnia train arrived at London it was found that a gentleman had died, on the cars between Strathroy and London. On the body being searched a ticket was found to Philadelphia and the dead man was found to be a Mr. William H. -- Webb, residing at 714 'North' Fifth street, Philadelphia. On him was found: a cheek for $700 and over $200 in bills, besides an old draft for $5,000, -which had apparently been kept for years.- Dr. Smith gave a certificate that death had Canada. The customs duties collected at St. Thomas during the past year amounted to $67,523.52. —The first train was run over the Brantford, Waterloo, and Lake Erie railway on Saturday last. —The Toronto retail grozers have de- cided to issue a monthly list of people who fail to pay their debts. '—The congregation of Knox church, Hamilton, have raised the salary of Dr. Fraser, their pastor, to $3,000. —There are said to be 130 employes ofthe Grand Trunk under doctor's care- insPoint Edward. --Hon. R. Hamilton, who has been ailing for about a week, died Wednes- day of last week at Peterboro. —Wm. K. North, for the past seven year e superintendent of the Toronto House of Industry, is dead. —A. W. McEdwards, formerly of Woodstock, was frozen to death while out hunting in Wyoming Territory. —De. Reynolds, of the Hamilton Asylum, has been appoined superinten- dent of the new Mimico Asylum. —The faithful Witness, issued by the Toronto Willard Tract Depository for the last three years, has been discontin- ued. —Rev. Robert Ewing, of Coiling - wood, was taken ill a few days ago and died Wednesday evening, 15th Wet. —There were 28,787 names of school children on the rolls of the Toronto pub- lic schools last year against 25,000 the year before. —Thomas Kane was sentenced to death -in Toronto on Wednesday, 15th inst., for the murdrr of his wife while he was drunk. —The Salvation Army in Canada and Newfoundland have raised for the self- denial fund $7,790.14, of which they sent $6,000 to India. —Rev. Father Dixon, P. P., of Port Lambton, was recently presented with a handsome gold watch and $75 by the members of his congregation. —Mr. W. J. C. Allan and Miss Amy Scobell, daughter of S. Scobell, account- ant of the Penitentiary, at Kingston, were married the other night. —J. Stinson, aged 101 years and 8 months, died at Stanbury last week. He was a vigoroois farmer until recently. He came to Canada in 18,27. —J. Foster, who has tun a grocery store at Eagle place, has not been seen for some time and his books can- not be found. G. Foster, of Brantford, is the principal creditor. —The revenue during the past year at Knox College was $17,721.80, and the expenditure , during the same Period amounted to $18,390.80, leaving a de- ficiency of $479 on the year's income. —Miss McBride, matron of the Luna- tic Asylum at West Selkirk, Manitoba,' formerly of London, Out., died last Sunday from the effects of a severe at- tack of la grippe. —Reports from the north shore are to tke effect that lumbering operations are actually retarded by thiagreat quantity of snow in the woods. . From the lack of snow on the south shore, operations in the woods are at a stand still. " The churning exhibition advertised to take place this afternoon, owing to the late hour at which it was commenced, was not completed. The cream through not being warm enough when put in the churn, refused to part with its butter in time to finish the operation before the meeting adjourned. After the cream was raised to proper tempera- ture butter came in eight minutes. The Daisy churn was used and was kindly loaned for the occasion by Mr. 0. C. Willson, agent, Seaforth. EVENING MEETING. Professor Robertson gave an address on "Skill in Dairy Farming." He said, all man's food except fish is the product of the dairy farmer. Skill finds the food for plants in the soil ; skill finds the means of preparing the food for the plants; skill, can take his soil and through the atmosphere harness the sun for his use.. The horse gets his strength from the sun acting on his food, in the growing plant. The corn crop, which n9 farmer can do without, must have sunshine to develop it. Skill must provide a suitable place to preserve his corpstalks, which place is a silo. A 100 ton silo costs $1 per year, interest on the money invested. There are.750,000 cows in Ontario, but only half of them pay for their board, being too poorly fed and receiving too scant attention to give milk in paying quantities. Calves for profit should be dropped from Octo- ber to January. Skill used in making good butter would increase the consump- tion. It is six times , as expensive to make butter in at dairy of 10 cows as in a creamery .of 500 cows. By making our butter in creameries in five years we could have $20,000,000 coming in for butter withoiii taking cote gallon of milk from cheese factories. • A cow will yield 300 pounds of butter per season and can be kept on half the acres now usually devoted to her. Skill in our men and women will do it. Skill will make our land rich through manure. Manure will make more crops; more crops will make more animals;'and more animals more population. The merchant will have larger sales; the mechanic more work; and the farmer more money to pay for increased ex-_ penditures. SALE OF SKILL. The following table which he gave, shows the amount taken from the farm and the amount to go for labor and pro- fit in each $200 worth sold of the follow- ing articles : Labor and Milk at 86c per hundred, 22 00 $152 00 Farm. Wheat at $1.00 per bush., $48 00 Cheese at 10c, 11.178 0000 178 00 13 00 182 00 Beef at 5ic. Pork at 51-c, 7 00 Horse at Butter at 260, MOR TING SESSION. Dr. McFarlaties opened the second day's proceedings reading a paper on "Dairying in Denmark," giving the by- laws which govern 200 partnership creameries in that kingdom. Governor Hoard gave an address on the "Standpoint of my Creamery, 124 Patrons." Butter sold every month; 4 cents per lb. for manufacturing.; keeps a vat for Jersey milk and one for com- mon milk; Jersey vat makes 5 lbs. of butter per hundred lbs.; common milk 4 lbs; meeting of patrons every month. _ 26 —Hon. Senator Trudel died last Fri- day afternoon at the Hotel Dieu Hospi- tal, Montreal, after a long illness. By his death the TJItramontane party loses its head, L'Etendard newspaper its edi- tor, and the French Canadian press one of its most vigorous writers. —A deputation of printers from the printing bureau at Ottawa waited upon Hon. Mr. Chapleau on Friday last and asked for an increase of wages from $11 to $13'a week. Mr. Chapleau declined to grant the request. The printers, 150 in number, threaten to strike. —The large, and extensive barns of Mr. George Black, one mile west cf Ayr, have been destroyed by fire, to- gether with all his crops andimplements. By great exertions the horses and cat- tle were saved. Loss from $3,000 to $4,000; mostly covered by insurance in the North Dumfries Mutual Insur- ance Company. —Wednesday evening last week a fe- male babe of about two months old was left at the door of the House of Indus- try in Berlin. Attached to its clothing was the following note: "Little Eva, born December 11, 1889. Please. be kind to this little homeless baby." The authorities are making an investigation for the child's parents. —The Canadian Pacific Railway Telegraph Company has opened an office at Halifax. The Canadian Pacific Railway now controls a continuous line of telegraph from Halifax, on -the At- lantic, to Vancouver, British Columbia, on the Pacific„ and also to San Bernar- dino, 100 miles south of Los Angelos, in South California, a distance of nearly 6,000 miles. —Miss Agnes Knox the elocutionist, of St. Marys, has made a 'very success- ful tour through Manitoba, Dakota and the Northwest,having read to very large audiences in Winnipeg, Grand Forks* Regina and other, Places. —A stranger fell through the window of a store in Kingston the other day. He produced a ,.$20 bill and offered to pay the diethige. Xhe proprietor took out $1.50,:but after the fellow was gone discovered that the OA bill was amoun- . terfeit, —During the gale on Monday, 13th inst., an old woman wile was 'seising along the street in lKingston, was knocked down by a filling brick. She had to be carried to bed, and ie now .dying. —Messrs. -Crossley and Hunter have postponed their meetings in London, me account of la grippe in the city. Seven ministers in the Union have become vic- tims of it. Montreal is the next field of the evangelists. _ —On Saturday morning between -10 and U. o'clock a daring highway rob- bery was committed on Mrs. Odell, of Westminster, who had been in London on business and was returning to her home. A little beyond the city limits she was overtaken by a man, who grasped her satchel, and in the struggle Mrs. Odell was violently thrown on the ground. She Pluckily !held on to the rascal's clothes, and in the tussle tore part of his shirt to pieces. The satchel oontained a number of articles which' • —The cottage of Mrs. Frank Benson, a poor widow living at Niagara Falls, was burned to the ground on Tuesday, January 14th. Hardly a thing was saved- Loin, $750. The unfortunate women wm sway nursing -a sick woman at the time of the fire, the house being left in charge of one of her little daughters. Two children had to be carried out sick with the influenza. —Miss Powers, one of the lady mis- sionaries who left Toronto on Tuesday, 14th inst., for China, was taken sick on her way, and on the advice of a doctor left the train and Was sent to the Gen- eral Hospital', Winnipeg. The disease from which she is suffering has develop- ed into measles. She will receive the .best care and attention. Her com- panions proceeded on their journey. ' ---,Constable M. Dillon, of Fletcher, went to Tilbury Centre on Thursday- of lastweek intending to return home on the eVening express.'While running down the track to catch the train at Tilbury station he was struck by the express and knocked -in the ditch. A number of ribs were broken, and he was severely bruised all over his body. It is feared he cannot recover. —One of the best known of the public resulted from chronic pulmonary 1 men of New Brunswick, lion. B. R. trouble, and the body was sent home on Stevenson of St. Andrew's, Charlotte the 11 o'clock train. Deceased had ap- arently been on one of the Raymond. ex- cursions to the West. , The lied circum stances of a Man, rich and, travelling for pleasure, dying alone on the care provoked much comment among the railway officials, and much sympathy was expressed in the case. county, died on Wednesday, 15th inst., after a short illness. Mr. Stevenson was 55 years of age and a leading law- yer and Queen's counsel. He 'entered the New Brunswick legislature in 1867, was made a member of the Government four years later with the portfolio of