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The Crops and Live Stock of
Ontario.
PRESENT CONDITIOI.CS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS.
The Ontario Department of Agriculture
has -issued a bulletin referring to the con-
dition of the crops and live stock in the
province up to April 22nd, the bulletin be-
ing a summary of reports furnished by over
six hundred correspondents. The following
is a summary:
whole, at least one fifth of last year's wheat
is yet in farmers' hands. Oats are every
where reported plentiful. A large portion
of the extraordinary crop.of 1891 still re-
mains unmaiketed, especially in the eastern
counties. It may be worth while calling
attention to the contraet between the above
report and that of May, 1891. One year
ago hay was abundant and cheap, oats very
scarce and dear, and many farmers were
buying their flour; thia spring hay is scarce,
wheat plentiful, and oats abundant. The
supply of fat cattle is hardly up to the
average,' owing to the shortage of hay.
Beyond the requirements of home demand
and those already disposed of, there are not
many fat animals available, but the supply
is greatest in the West Midland counties.
The supply of store cattle is up to the
average'and is a little greater than home
demands.
CONDITION 01/ LIVE STOCK.
Stock of all kinds have conte through the
winter in fair flesh condition. a little thinner
than usual owing to the limited supply of
fodder, especially of hay. Sheep have
suffered considerably daring lambing season
owing to the unfavorable cold damp
weather, and many lambs have been lost.
The litters of pigs are not, according to
many reports, quite so large and promising
as desired. The health of stock during the
winter was exceptionally good. Beyond a
few reports of ringworm in pigs, lumpja,w in
cattle, and grub in sheep, the only disease
very prevalent or causing much loss was dis-
temper in horses, reports of the existence of
which have come from all parts of the pro-
vince. The supply of food was quite ample
where used economically, and where stock
were properly houeed. Hay wee most de-
ficient, the price being $10 to $16 per ton.
In some sections there was some old hay to
meet the deficiency, and on the whole, grain
and roots were in fair supply: while there
were here and there cases of absolute want,
there appears to have been sufficient in the
province for all requirements. Many had
enough to bring their stock through in first-
class condition, a few were able to buy from
their neighbors, some were compelled to re-
duce their allowance, and as a coneequence
have very thin animals. There is a very
general desire expressed for a rapid improve-
ment in the weather, and the growth of the
grass, as though early and rich pastures
were especially needed this year. -
FALL WHEAT.
The past winter has proved a very favor-
able one for fall wheat, and the crop—
particularly the early sown—presented an
exceptionally promising appearance when
spring opened. Being protected by a suffi-
cient depth of snow, it suffered but slightly
from winter killing. The snow left very
rapidly, and fair growth was made until
about the end of the first week in April,
when the fields looked at their best. Frosty
nights, sunny days, and cold winds then
followed sa that at the time of writing the
weather was particularly detrimental to
growth, and it is reported that on this ac-
count the young crop has received a notice-
able set -back and now presents a somewhat
browned appearance. The fear- of a con-
tinuartee of such conditions was causing
some anxiety, and warm moist weather
was earnestly looked for, as with its advent,
if not too long delayed, the crop will doubt-
less quickly recover itself. As regards the
condition of the crop on various soils—
although there is much uniformity—it is
looking particularly well on light, warm
learns and well drained clays and clay
loams. On black mould and on low-lying
wet lands it has suffered to some extent
from frost. The damage from insects, ect.,
appears to have been inconsiderable, The
Hessian fly did slight injury in some localie
ties on early sown fields, as did also the
wire worm on recently broken pasture lands.
Practically the only unfavourable reports as
to the condition of the crop come from the
County of Essex and vicinity, where, on
acoou,nt of local drouth, the crop did not
start the winter in very satisfactory shape.
Excepting in this locality, the present indi-
cations are that very little winter wheat will
be ploughed up, and, provided the critical
time between now and the middle of May is
successfully passed, the prospects for a good
crop are promising.
GENERAL REMARKS.
Our correspondents are unanimOus in re-
porting the past winter to have been exceed-
ingly favorable for the farmer. In most
places there was a fair amount I of snow,
whioh covered the ground uniformly, and
which remained until- spring. The roads
were in gated condition. Cantle , were not
exposed to any very severe storms. No
damage of any extent was done to fruit
trees, and the prospects at preemie in this
industry are very favorable. In Kent and
adjacent counties some ploughing and sowing
were done before the first of April. In the
eastern and northern districts spring opera-
tions were just beginning about April 15th.
Although the snow left early the return of
cold weather put back the spring work, and
only now in the middle of April can the
work of ploughing and. sowing be ssid to
have fairly commenced for the whole pro-
vince. As regards improvements in agricul-
ture, most reports refer to the introduction
of improved tools and machinery and the
advantages of underdraining. The advan-
tages of better stock and better systems of
feeding are repeatedly referred to, and an
increased interest is being manifested in
regard to the silo. Although a few state
that the supply of farm help will meet the
demand, the great majority state that there
is and will probably be a scarcity. One
correspondent states that in his township
alone 100 additional farm hands are needed.
The cause universally given is the removal
of the young men to Manitoba, the North-
West, and the States. Their planes are
supplied principally by Young men from
towns and immigrants equally inexperi-
enced. The use of machinery decreased the
demand for help, but in the case of careless
farmers the increased expense is said to be
very great. There is constant cemplaint as
to the low prices for farmers' produce, and
tendency is indicated toward dairying and
stock feeding in place of growing grain for
market. In the old barley dietricts the
farmers appear to be in doubt as to what
line of agriculture they should pursue.
WINTER RYE.
Mach that has been said respecting winter
wheat applies also to this crop. It suffered
but little froni winter killing, and its
appearance now is generally quite satisfac-
tory. The crop is grown only to a very
limited extent, and is utilized as a rule for
early soiling.
try for a laborer, and in which he seems to
doubt the veracity of some statements I
made in a former issue as to wages paid in
North Dakota. Evidently "Laborer" is
laboring under a delusion, In the Mgt
place he makes out that I am of the opinion
that "far away fields ere green." Not so;
for nowhere do fields appear as green to the
as here in North Dakota, and if 'Laborer"
had the same experience in working in both
countries as I have had be would,I am sure,be
of the same opinion as I sm. He then goes
on to eay that fermere are as well or better
off in Ontario than in Dakota, and cannot
pay such wages as I stated are paid hero.
Whether they are better off or not I am not
going to dispute, but I do know that a great
deal better wages are paid here than in On-
tario, and for "Laborer's" benefit I will just
state that I commenced to work on the first
of September het at the harvest, and after
working about three weeks at it,' I went
threshing and when we quit threshing on
December 17th I had cleared about $156,1
besides being at home nearly two weeks
during that time. I do not mention this ae
a boast, but as proof that my former state -I
ments were correct.
Next he says, "Why is it that so many]
come back to Ontario for the winter?'
Surely "Laborer " does not insinuate that
we go home to work for the _few short
months we ate allowed to stop there; or
worse, does he think that we have to go
down there to get something to eat? I sin-
cerely hope that "Laborer" has not so pots;
an opinion of us laborers in North Dakota,
No, friend "Laborer," we do not - go home
for either, but to have a season of rest and
of pleasure, and. more than all, to see those
wbo are near and dear to us, our parents,
our brothers and sisters and friends of our
childhood days, who, though so far away,
are ever fresh in our memory. And then,
the pleasure of being once more at hone
where we spent the happiest days of our
life, our childhood days.
"A home, that paradise below,
Of sunshine and of flowers, -
Where hallowed joys perennial flow,
By ealw, sequestered bowers."
If "Laborer" knew what a pleaaure it is
to be at home after a few years' absence, he
would not ask in so slighting a way why
people go home. He again says that $28
per month ought to be enough to induce peo-
ple to stay here. So it does. I have yet to
learn of a case of a man who werked here
for a few years and then desired to go to
Ontario to work. He also says the thresh-
ing season is short. I worked 50 days -last
fall, and had winter not set in I could have
worked 20 days longer, with a machine.
Yes, the seasons are short, but we can gen-
erally do a good deal of plowing in a short
time, as three horses will plow from 4 to 5
acres a day. To cap all, "Laborer" says
that Ontario is as fine an agricultural coun-
try as is in the world. Different here.
Dakota, for a poor man or laborer is far
aheed of Ontario, and I do not need to say
anyithing to prove it, as the number of farm-
ers and,young men'who are leaving Ontario
for the Went speak volumes in favor of Mei;
country:- Lastly, "Laborer" seems to think
that we are net sure of our wages here. I
have been working out off and on for the last
6 or 7 years, and never lost a cent of my
wages yet in Dakota, and have yet to hear
of a case where a laborer did. In conclui
sion, I would respectfully invite "Laborer'?
to come out for one season and see for bim
self the vast difference between the wagee
paid here and in Ontario, besides which, thwork is not nearly so slavish or uncongeniai
as in Ontario. Yours truly,
PETER STEWART.
CLOVER.
As in the case of fall wheat,clover winter-
ed well. The crop had not, however, made
much advancement at the time of writing,
and no very positive opinion could be ex-
pressed as to the out -look. The present in-
dications are that over the greater portion
of the province, it will average a light yield.
The most'fa.vorable reports come from the
Lake Huron and Georgian Bay counties—
particularly from Simcoe, Grey and Bruce—
where the indications for a fair yield are
satisfactory. In nearly all other parts of
the province the drouth of last summer did
much harm to old fields, while the catch of
seed in the fall was for the most part un-
even. The plant is consequently too thin
on the ground for a heavy crop of clover
bay to be looked for. Elsewhere than
in the districts above mentioned, con-
siderable damage has been caused from
heaving, eapecially on old meadows and on
low, undrained soils. The recent heavy
frosts have also injured red clover to some
extent.
VEGETATION.
The spring opened up somewhat earlier
than usualrbut as the weather remained dry
and cool, vegetation made but little head-
way until the beginning of April. During
the few warm days at the early part of the
month, grass made a vigorous start, and the
fields in the southern and western portions
en the province are quite green. But on
account of the unfavorable weather at the
middle of the month, all growth e was more
or less arreated, and vegetation is now in a
backward condition. In the northern and
eastern districts hardly any progress is yet
observable.
Labor in Dakota.
LANGDON, April 20th, 1892.
DEAR EXPOSITOR.—In your issue of April
15th I noticed a reply to Mr. Stewart's
letter from "Laborer." He seems to doubt
the said gentlema,u'e statements in regard to
the wages of farm laborers in Dakota. Now,
Mr. Editor, it looks very much like as if he
had never been outside the township of
Morris, or, at least, not very far from home,
and, if such be the case, how is he able to
judge of the merits one country has compar-
ed with those of the other? In his letter
he says that Ontario is as fine a country as
there is in the world. No doubt it is, but
let him wait till this country is as lung
settled as Ontario and I think it will com-
pare with any. country in the world, too.
As I am a laborer myself, and have travel-
led and worked in different parts of Mani-
toba and Dakota, I never met with a farmer
who was not able to pay hie hired help and
the highest wages at that. He also wants
to know why so many men go beck to On-
tario in the winter. It is true there is not
much work to be got here in the winter, but
when men get such good wages here in the
summer they can easily afford to go back
to visit their relatives and friends in the
winter. How many of them stay there
when they go back? Do they not return
in the spring again? Again, he says that
. the threshing season only lasts a few weeks.
In this he is greatly mistaken,for it lasts at
least three months, and a good ma,n can earn
as much money in that time as he could in
Ontario in eight months. He also states
that if Providence does not send the farm-
ers a good crop of wheat they have nothing
else to depend on. Well, dear laborer, they
do not depend on wheat alone. They grow
oats and barley too, and most of them have
considerable stock to depend on. I might
also say there is far more pleasure in work-
ing on a farm out here than there is in On-
tario. There are no thistles or noxious 'reeds
to contend against, and there is not half the
drudgery about the work here that there is,
there. Now, Mr. Editor, taking every-
thing into consideration, I think this coun-
try a far better plate for the laboring man
than Ontario. I will now close by inviting
"Laborer," whoever he is, to take a trip
out here and get his eyes opened. Trusting
I have not imposed on your valuable space,
I remain, your constant admirer,
S. CRERAR.
Free Trade and Some of Its
Benefits.
DEAR EXPoSITOR,—It seems strange that
among the many undoubted Free Traders
in Parliament to -day among the Liberals,
there is not one, apparently, so brave
_as to do the Free Trade policy reverence on
the floor of the House. Who is going to be
the Cobden of Canada, is a question which
often occurs no doubt to many a Free Trade
Liberal. The coming Messiah, however,
does not yet hold a seat aeemingly in Par-
liament and the Free Traders are unfortun-
ately without a leader there to espouse their
cause, although backed by some very able
journals and men throughout the country.
"There is a tide in the affairs of every man,
which if taken at the flood leads on to
fortune." This was evidently the belief of
Sir John Macdonald, as evidenced when he
inaugurated the National Policy. He struck
just when the iron was hot, and at the most
opportune moment. Every one knows the
results which followed and which made him'
and his party all powerful ever since. The
tide is again at the flood, and history is re-
peating itself. The same condition of affairs
again confronts Canada, only worse con-
founded. The same depression and unrest
is again hovering over the country after 14
years of a trial of the great patent medicine,
which was to have increased our population,
without any doubt, to ten millions by this
time. The Conservative party then howled
blue ruin till their lungs grew tired, just -as
they say their unpatriotic opponents do
to -day, which last goes to show that human
nature is pretty much the same whether
Grit or Tory. The same opportunity is now
presented to the Liberal leader to seize the
bull by the horns by declering for the
genuine medicine for national prosperity,
viz., Free Trade, and ride into power just
as his great antagonist did with the bastard
policy of protection, although he at heart, at
the time was a Free Trader. The country's
extremity is Mr. Laurier's opportunity as
politics are played. New is the day and
now is the hoar to strike for Free Trade aud
liberty, and not stand as we do between the
devil and the dark blue sea, by annexation
on the one hand or a gradual process of ex-
tinction, notwithstanding our wonderful re-
sources, on the other. Will he do it, if not
why not? That is the queseion.
Political Unionists, Ubrestricted Reci-
procitists, Imperial Federationists, Annexe-
tionists, and last but not least the Exodists
are all travelling in the same direction, look-
ing for freedom and larger extension of
trade. Why make_ three or four bites of a
cherry, or travel by circuituous routes to
the ultimate destiny of this continent, which
is Free Trade? It seems to the writer that
Canada is essentially an agricultural, mining,
lumbering and fiehing country, and that
Free Trade is as necessary to the one as to
the other. Notwithstanding the fact that
all the world is privileged to dump its
pauper and protected manufactured indus-
tries on the shores of England, how far
does the world succeed in swamping and
driving out the British manufacturer. Not-
withstanding the facts that the world is
privileged and does dump its surplus bread -
stuffs and meats on the British Isles in
enormous quantities, the British farmer
lives and moves and has a being, and it is
heralded over the country here, as a great
and important event if at any time a batch
of these IMMO farmers can be induced to
settle in this oountry by our immigration
department. Under Free Trade all our
natural industries. would thrive and prosper,
and our manufaoturing industries - would
keep pace with them in a legitimate way, in
FARM SUPPLIES.
There is barely sufficient hay in farmers'
hands to meet local demands, and only in
rare inatances is there any for sale. In some
dietricte not more than one twentieth of the
wheat of hist season remains unsold,in other
districta at least one,third has been held for
a higher price. Taking the province as a
the same relative proportion, and would be much riches. Doctors say both are in -
on a sound basis. Surely the lot of the jurious. Sc i chemists give US the properties
Canadian farmer would be immeasurably of different reed. One hundred pounds of
improved by Free Trade. No one how the following foods produce the following
attempts to argue about the home market amount e of flesh: Potatoes, e lb.; Swedish
doctrine; that is relegated to the past, but
it is to the Free Trade country of Great
Britain they are told to look, by our Tory
Government, and in such an insinuating way,
that I believe a great many firmly believe
it is a privilege only accorded to the
Canadian farmer. It is incornprebeneible
how any farmer, by his vote; will aid and
abet a protection government in competling
him to buy in the dearest market and seil in
the cheapest. Why does not the faemer
hold hie rights just as dear as the manu-
facturer, or who ever heard of a protected
manufacturer putting party before busipess
interests, whether he were Grit or Tory. In
other words, does it ever occur to the faemer
that the protected manufacturer openly ad-
mits that he cannot live without the tariff,
and that his business would be unprofiteble
unless the farmer by his vote comes te his
assistance and gives him a bonus of 35 or 40
per cent. over the natural price of the goods,
more than could be got if the same were sold
in the open market, and that this bimus
comes from the unprotected farming indus-
try which has to sell ite goods in the open
minket. The writer is sanguine enoug to
believe that population from the Old'Cou try
would come to our land and fill up the great
North-west much more freely under a Free
Trade policy thee under protection, and
that very large additions would come from
the United States. The reason being, that
Canada would soon become known as a
cheap country to live in, where a dellar
;would purchase a dollar's worth and not
merely 60 cents worth. In order to meet
the legitimate revenue of the country the
government would have to be carried on
under strict business principles, exteava-
gance would have to beelone away with in
every form, boodling could not hold up its
ugly head, and there would be no Red
Parlor mine to draw from. All the vicious
systems which protection always fosters
would be rooted out. The vast and expen-
sive legislative machinery of Canada would
have to be simplified and no doubt Maritime
union would soon -follow. All unnecessary
public works and railway subsidies, for
which money is now so freely voted simply
to bribe whole constituencies, would be
looked after with jealous care. All sinecures,
and perhaps the Senate, would go. These
reforms would surely follow in the wake of
Free Trade, simply because the people would
not tolerate any government that would
not be conducted on economical and honest
lines, consistent with the public goodl In
fact there is no reason why our Federal gov-
ernment could not be conducted in the
same careful way that our County Coencile
are. Simply because direct taxation means
intelligence and knowledge, as opposed to
indifference and ignorance in indirect taxa-
tion—the present system. All power to
John Crerar and Senator Boulton, and may
Mr. Laurier lead where they both. have inti-
mated to him publicly they will follow,
Yours,
LANGDON, NORTH DAKOTA,
April 23, 1892.
DEAR EXPOSITOR. —In your issue of the
15th of April there appeared an article
headed, "Dakota Against Ontario Labor,"
and signed by "Laborer," in which he tries
to make out that Ontario is the better cotui-
R. G. REYNOLDS.
Goinducii, April 26, 1892.
Reply to Leadbury.
DEAR EXPOSITOR.—For two weeks the
monntain groaned- in agony and brought
forth a mouse, bundoubtless, the fond parent
deems it a prodigy of literary merit and
political wisdom. In my reply to Lead -
bury I was careful to avoid all abusive per-
sonalities, and can only regret,for bis own re-
putation that my critic has disgraced himself
and soiled your pages with unprovoked per-
sonal abuse, the like of which could ecercely
be equalled by a London fish -wife. Te this
part of his last epistle I have no reply, as it
is beneath contempt, and only proves that
he has lost control of his temper, and hence
his cause is only weakened by such an advo-
cate. But we need not wonder at such con-
duct, as be aptly copies, in this respect, the
teachings of the Mail in its unregenerate
days, and regards such weapons as all pre-
vailing, as they are so frequently used by
his great preceptor, Creighton, of the Em-
pire. Leadbury's advocacy of his political
opinions is about on a pan with his effort in
the other direction and about as effective,
but I will, with your -permission, in the near
future, draw attention to some of tee ab-
surd conclusions reached by him in appport
of his pet political views. Thanking you
for so much of your valuable spaoe, and
wishing my friend Leadbury abundant suc-
cess in his agricultural operations, I have
the honor to subscribe myself, Yours,
EGMONDVLLLE SCRIBELER.
turnip, 1 lb.; Mangolds, 1 lb.; Green oats, 1
lb.; Oil cake 22 lbs.; Oatmeal, 18 lbs.;
Barley meal, 13 lbs.; Peas, 13,1 lbs.; Indian
corn, 11 lber And the same weights pro-
duce the fojlowing of fat form : Potatoes,
18.9 lbs.; Swedish turnips, 5.2 lbs.; Man -
golds, 12,6 ths.; Green oats, 8.e lbs.; Oil
cake'51 lb.; Oatmeal, 51.1 lis.; Barley
meal, 52 lime; Peas, 41,9 lbs,; I dian corn,
66.7 lbs, Ih 100 lbs. of oats, 23 lbs. of hulls
are good for nothing except f el. Now, I
will leave it to your readers if wbisky,
tobacco and turnips are is ood as the
majority of people argue and say they know.
If they are, then doctors and o semists are
humbugs and science e farce,
COMM N SENSE.
McKlug
or, ay 2, 1892.
Canada.
The fire t pcean steamship of the season
arrived in Montreal on the 22nd nit,
— Between $12,000 and $15,000 in prizes
will be given at the Winnipeg Fair this
yearj
—Joseph Myers is in custody for stealing
700 gallons of wine from a Cookeville vine-
yard.
— Mr. J
Union, Elg
hn H. Laur has ju
in county, aged 74
t died near
years. He
had lived on the same farm 51 y ars.
—Rev. Robert McCosh of 1etro1ea has
assumed the incumbency of Christ Church,
Chatham.
—Mr. Deeke, the retiring mathematical
master of Chatham Collegiate Institute,
was presented with a gold watch and chain.
—The ladies of the East London Metho-
dist churchnetted over $100 at their late
hazer, the total receipts being about $130.
— The butchers of Hamilton, Woodstock,
Brantford and Guelph wilt hold a demon-
stration at Brantford on July lst next.
—Non-union moulders are coming to
Hamilton from Montreal and the Western
States, and getting employment.
—Seven thousand five hundred pounds of
pickerel were- shipped from Waubaushene
the other day, being the catch of one night.
— The three excellent iron bridges in Paris
coat $33,036, repairs on which for the past
ten years amounted to $3,501,
—The total number -of students in attend-
ance at -Queen's College, Kingston, during
the past session was 484.
— Two new wholesale manufacturing
establishments and one wholeaale house have
been added to Winnipeg's business institu-
tions lately.
—The Imperial upper and kip tannery of
Bowman & Zinkan, Southampton, WAS de-
stroyed by fire early Thursday morning.
Lose about $25,000.
—A by-law has just gone into effect in
London which requires, that all bakers carry
scales on their delivery wagons for the pur-
pose of weighing bread.
—Hon. end Rev. R. Moreton
toneis ill. He has been troubled
nia for some time, and his nervous system
is run down.
—Mrs. Jane Clement, an ol
years, walked to the polling bo
on Monday last week and reco
vote.
—Thomas Keown, of Ailsa
in hey and cattle, has assigned
200 acres of land in East Willie
Gillivray townships. ,
—Fred. Daly, ten years old,
Deering, eight years old, fell fr
which they were playing, at Su
urday, and both were drowned.
— Mr. Robert Wilson, of the
sion of Usborne, purchased a s
acre farm in the township
recently fpr $4.700. ;
—The ;Parkhill Gazette has changed
ford, having
as assumed
, of Hamil-
with insoin-
Feeding Cattle, or Turnips and
Whisky.
DEAR ExPOSITOR.—Your readers are
mostly interested in Agriculture and as the
raising and feeding of cattle belong to that
branch of husbandry, I ask you to publish
the following: D. D. Wilson, Seaforth, has
a herd of cattle that is not only a credit to
the township but to the province. The
Model Farm at Guelph cannot beat this
herd for the care, condition, a,ppearapce and
stabling, and number of animals. The Mod-
el Farm has angreater variety of breeds, but
for the number of Durhams and eommon
cows and care given, Mr. Wilsoe beats
them. It would pay any farmer in the
county to make a visit to this farm, if he
would only follow the example in feed and
cleanliness half -way. Farmers argee thus:
."It is no use to try t� feed as Mr. i Wilson
does, he is rich." Now if it makes a profit
for him to feed, it will make a prefit for a
poor man also. Yet if a poor man writes'
about how to feed or tries to show; the ex-
penditure in high places, the farmers say
let some rich man that knows how to make
money write on such tbings ; thus, the average
farmers cannot be suited in advice. This
County has about ten thousand farmers, and
out of that number there are not Ave hun-
dred who have their cattle in as geod con-
dition as they were in last fall, and it will
take one month on the best grass of ;the year
to get the cattle in the same condition as
they were the first of October. Ilor eight
months in the year, cattle are fed on the
principle of keeping alive and if they have
cast their old hair the first of June And each
year's stock one year behind what they
ought to be if well fed, their owners think
they have done well. Mr. Wilson's cows give
as much as 50 and 60 pounds of milk each
in the day, while the average fed cows do
not give 30 pounds. There never was 'inch
a crop of oats and roots in the county as last
year and yet cattle are in no better condi-
tion than four year ago, when feed was
scarce and roots a poor crop. I have not
much faith in turnips for feed. People who
favor turnips do not test the feeding quali-
ties with other food. One acre of ground
prepared for oats as for turnips, weuld give
70 bushels with less labor and would yield
just as good a crop next year. People tell
us "yon cannot feed without turnips."
They also say, "-Men must drink whisky
and use tobacco and neither will hurt as
some men live to old age and get rich who
use both." But, women who do not as a rule
use either, live just as long iiiII , make as
lady of 89
th at Milton
ded her first
raig, dealer
o the sheriff
s and Mc -
and George
m a raft on
ton, on Sat -
4th oonces-
lendid 100-
f Plympton
hands, M. Mackinnon, of Me
purchased l the businese. He
full contrel and management.
— Mrs. Johnston, the lady b
Kingston penitentiary, was in
other morning on her way to
bring some prisoners east.
—There are at present 51 i
Elgin Howie of Industry, th
years.. Last year the eeerag
inmates was 72. ,
—Benjamin Ferguson, Iii
Edward clounty, had a cow giv
calf, part of the body of which
with wool and part had neith
hair on i .
—Dnri g April 4,237 actual
rived in Manitoba, and they
cars of stock and effects. Dur
months of this year, 9,294 settl
rived and 813 cars of ;stock ancl effects.
—Mr. George Hague, ma ager of the
Merchants Bank, Montreal,
historical atone of the Young
tian Association building, in
May 9th
—Rev Dr. Kellogg, of St.
Presbyterian church, Toronto
accept 4. position as co-tr
Scriptures into the Hindoo
will go to India for that purp
—George E. Lundy, forme
township, county of Peel, wa
iliff of the
London the
Windsor to
lisinnent in Georgetown. After their mar-
riage the couple kept a hotel at Edmonton,
Peel county, for a time, subsequently remov-
ing to a farm of 70 acres which Lundy's
father gave him. A verdict of wilful mur-
der was returned by the jury on Lundy's
case.
—A citizen of Hamilton recently purchas-
ed 140 acres of land at Burlington Plains,
and has since been gratified to learn that a
portion of the soil submitted to analysis con-
tained 22 per centage of aluminum, 44 of
silica and 14 of iron.
e --Ralph Murray, of Rommore, died on
Thursday, 28th ult., at the Kyle bouse,
Belleville, from an overdose of morphine,
taken to relieve a headache. Murray, who
w:015686m20yree.ars of age had for several years
menaged the Rathbun Company saw mill at
—Tho London Advertiser says: Ensign
VVoodgate And wife of the Salvation Army,
left Thursday for the Maritime Provinces.
Mr. Woodgeten health having failed him.
He had been in the city some months and
had labored for years in this district. he is
a gentlemanly and popular officer.
—The winter butter -making experiment
in the east and west Oxford cheese factory,
near Woodstock, proved a grand success.
The result was most satisfactory, inasmuch
as from 15 to 25 per cent more butter was
obtained, especially from the milk of -"strip-
per cows,"
'—Hugh Fraser, of Bullock's Corners,
near Dundas, bade his .mother and sister
good-bye on Wednesday morning, last
week, the next day his body was found in
a mill pond near by, and whether it is a case
of suicide or an accident is not known.
—Two petitions, prepared by Mrs. John
Rockwell, of Kingston, and signed by eigh-
teen thousand Canadian women, are to be
presented to the Dominion Parliament, ask-
iwntlikfoerr the extension of the franchise to the
—Mr. James Taylor, of Manchester, Eng-
land, while attempting to walk a distance
of four miles through the blinding storm
which prevailed throughout Manitoba on
Thursday, last week, missed the trail, and
being compelled to remain out all night died
of exhaustion and exposure.
—One evening lately while Mrs. John
Moll, of Harrisburg, was carrying a lamp
upstairs, she by some means tripped and
fell, breaking the lamp, which set fire to
the upper part of the stairs. The fire was
got under control before much damage was
done.
—Mr. De McCormick, Q. C., a well known
barrister of Montreal, has disappeered un-
der mysterious circumstances from that
city. He was trustee for several Private
partial, and it is feared that he has lost
money in speculation. A guardian of his
estate will be appointed. -
—Mr. Wm. Saunders, Canadian Commis-
sioner to the World's Fair. has been notified
by the director-general that space has been
allotted for the exhibit of Canadian Hoe
-
stook at Chicago as follows: 75 horses, 150
cattle, 300 sheep and 100 swine. It is pro-
posed to allot the number fairly among the
different Provinces.
—The post office at New Lowell, near
Owen Sound, was recently entered and a
letter containing $77, $53 worth of postage
stamps and a lady's gold watch taken. The
following night the offiee at Hillsdale was
entered but nothing removed, and still later
Meaford was visited. So far no arrests have
been made.
—Rev. Peter Currie died on Friday even-
ing, last week, in Strathroy. He had been
a retired Presbyterian clergyman there
nearly ten years, having formerly been lo-
cated at Teeswater to which place his body
was taken for interment on Monday. De-
eeased wes about 75 years old, and was
well and favorably known throughout West-
ern Ontario.
—The suit brought by the Winnipeg
Catholic !school trustees against the city to
eecover 'honey collected from them during
1890 and, 1891 has been decided by Judge
Killam. . He holds the city liable for the
taxes collected in 1890, as the new Mani-
toba School .Act did not go into force until
that year, but held them not liable for 1891
or futnre years.
—Mrs. A. 13. Clarke left her purse and
$20 on a Canadian Pacific Railway car win-
dow at the Union station Toronto, on Wed-
nesday eeening. She decided to take a
Grand Trunk Railway train and did not
miss the purse until asked for her ticket.
TelegraPhieg to the conductor at Streets-
ville, it1 was returned to he; by the 9.30
train.
—Mr., .Andrew McNaughton, stipendiary
magistrate at Sudbury for Algoma and Nip-
issing districts, died at his hoine there on
Sunday, and the funeral took place to the
family burying ground at Port Newcastle to-
day. He was for some years president of
the Reform Association in 'West Durham,
while he was one of the leading baldness
men in Newcastle.
—Mr. H. B. Knistere of Comber, met
with a paiuful if not fatal accident the other
day. He was repairing the flat roof of his
store and dwelling, and while climbing up a
; ladder with a pail of boiling pitch the ladder
broke and Mr. Knister fell to the ground,
the pitch flying into his face and scalding
him badly about the eyes. Mr. Knister may
lose his eyesight.
—Mews. Roswell and James Goldie, jr.,
caught, at Guelph, a speckled trout, weigh-
ing 5e pounds and measuring 20 inches in
length and 3 inches thick, in the dam at the
head of their mill race Friday. The mill
was besieged by people to look at the speck-
led beanty, and he was a beauty, speckled
and spotted from the tip of his nose to the
points ef the fins on his tail.
—A eingular accident occurred on Friday
in the factory of Messrs. Crench & Fralick,
of Nepenee. While the machinery was in
motion the joining of one of the driving belts
came apart and a small bent wire link flew
out, passing eight:through the wind pipe'of
Mr. George Cole, until it partly protruded
through the skirt on the opposite side of his
neck. It was easily removed, and no very
serious harm is expected to result from the
accident.
—The 10 -months -old baby girl of Mr.
and Mrs. John Gregory, of Chatham, had
a narrow escape from death Saturdey morn-
ing. The infant got hold of a metal
"Jack," a small six -pronged toy with which
boys aid girls play the old time game of
" jacki stones," and swallowed it. By the
time the mother had reached the doctor's
office, the child was black in the face. Dr.
Holmes succeeded in dislodging and
drawing out the article. A few moments
later and the child would have suffocated.
—Soya the Kentville, New Brunswick,
Star: , "Nola F., infant daughter of J. G.
and Ivy D. Ward, was recently taken to
Blackniver on a visit, and was there greeted
by till° following relatives, all of whom
were resent:tFather, mother, grandfather,
grandMother, two great grandfathers, one
great 'grandmother, one great great grand-
mother, two uncles, four aunts, five great
uncle', two great aunts, and a number of
cousins. This 'child has living the follOw-
ing relatives Father, mother, grandfather,
grandmother, two great grandfathers, two
great grandmothers, one great great grand-
mates in the
lowest for
number of
lier, Prince
birth to a
as covered
✓ wool nor
settler, ar-
rought 214
ng the four
re have ar-
will lay the
Men's Chris -
Kingston, on
ames' Square
has agreed to
slater of the
language, and
se.
ly of Toronto
caught in the
storm at Reaburn, Manitoba, on Wednes-
day, lase week, and perished rom exposure.
—E. B. Stewart and Georgh Fox, of Ruth -
von, are on their way to the Old country to
prove their heirship and that of other rela-
tives in Ontario, to the James Stewart
estate in Scotland, which is valued at
$80,000,000.
—Mie E. King Dodds, publisher of the
Canadien Sportsman, has received word of
the doth of his eldest brother, A. M.
Dodds, Of Preemie, in the Orange Free:
State, $outhere Africa, where he bas been a
prominent trader for over 30 years.
—Thj • steamship Manitoba, Captain
Anders n, of the Canadian Pacific Railway
line, cl .ared from Owen Sound for Fort
Williant last Saturday afternoon, being the
mother, four great great uncles, six great
great aunts, sixteen great aunts, twenty-six
great uncles, seven uncles, eight aunts, and
cousins too numerous to mention. Who can
beat this record?
—Mr. John Striker, of Bloomfield, near
Picton, is the owner of a dog worth having.
Mr. Striker heard his dog barking in the
vicinity of the shed where his sheep were
sheltered. He immediately went down, but
discovered nothing. Later on the noise in-
creased, when he went out again, and by
the time he got to the shed there was one
dog dead. One sheep had been killed by the
intruder, but Mr. Striker's dog had resent-
ed in a most unusual manner by literally
tearing his victim's head to pieces.
—A sad accident occurred the other morn-
ing at the old Northern railway workshop,
Toronto. John Allison a married man, who
had been working in the shops for a number
of years, had hie left eye gouged out by a
piece of steel ,which flew with great force
from one of the lathes in operation. A
doctor was called, but it will be impossible
to restore the organ. Anout three months
ago Milson Jost his right eye in a similar
manner. The poor fellow was taken home
to his wife and two children at 93 Defoe
street, but he will never be able to see them
again.
—The Picton Times says: A farm in Hil-
lier, valued less than a dozen years ago' at
$70 an acre, was sold a few months ago for
$2,270, which is not more than $22.70 an
acre. A farm near Wellington tha,t in 1885
was sold for $6,350 was again sold last week
for $3,000. Forty-three acres within the
corporation of Wellington were not long ago
bought for $1,000, and the same 43 acres
were valued when the right of way was ac-
quired for the Canadian Pacific Railway, at
$80 an acre.
—Miss Williams, of Guelph, bas institu-
ted legal proceedings against Mr. C. F.
Whittey, of the staff of the Government Ex-
perimental Farm, Ottawa, for alleged breach
of promiee of marriage, claiming damages of
$10,000. The lady states that arrangements
had been made for the marriage to take place
in June next, but it transpired that mean-
while Mr. Whittey suddenly became enam-
ored with one of the capital's fair damsels,
and on March 24th last carried her captive
to the shrine of Hymen. Messrs, Fold &
Wissler, of Guelph, are counsel for Miss
Williams,
— Oldest settlers in the Prairie- Province
agree in calling the atorm of Wednesday
afternoon, last week, an old-time blizzard of
the rarest kind in Manitoba. The barometer
was exceptionally low; the wind gauge re-
ported the gale to be 60 or 70 miles an hour,
and a velocity of. even 90 miles an hour was
said to have been reached in some places.
Many wires and poles were prostrated, the
electric street lights disappeared and various
other modern conveniences of city residences
suffered more or less demoralization. Many
large buildings vibrated, to the disturbance
of timid persons, though no collapses were
reported.
—Last Saturday night at Sault Ste.
Marie, the steamer Peesadena caught watch-
man George F. Ford against the dock at the
canal and literally crushed him in two,
The under part of the body dropped into
the caned slid has not been recovered. The
upper part of the body with his heart fell
over on the dock. The Passadena was enter-
ing the head of the canal, bounddown, when
Ford started to climb down the keel rope to
take the line. He got too far, but did not
notice it until the steamer was too close to
the dock to raise himself and the dock was
too high to reach. The next instant the
steamer bad lined him against the dock tim-
bers. Ford's parents reside near Courtright.
He had been a school teacher at Sornbra,
near Sarnia, and this was his first and last
trip.
—Mr. George T. Blackstock the well-
known criminal lawyer and politician of
Toronto, was sighted recently in a western
town by a correspondent who refers to him
thusly : Mr. Blackstock has a practice that
brings him in something like $20,000 a year.
Besides this he has a very rich wife. But
one would not think, to see -him on the
street, that Blackstook was so well off
and such a money maker, He carries an
old rusty valise worth about fifteen cents,
with G. T. B." in white on one side;
wears corduroy trousers that have seen
better days. His hat sits jauntily on his
head, but is much too smalnfor him, andhis
overcoat fits so tight that it looks as if it
might belong to his little boy. An old -
clothes man would look a long while
before he would give $10 for Blackstock's
outfit,
—A Haysnille correspondent writes Mr.
M. Calanan has bought the house and out-
building erected in this place by John
Blatchford, -Sr., nearly forty years ago he
is moving the house to the east end of the
village, on the lot that Mr. Calanan resided
on before he bought the farm he is now re-
siding on. The taking -down of the above
house brings to mind the parties the old
gentleman used to have. In sending out
his accounts at New Years he would mark
on the hill: pay day—Jan. 8th, dinner at I
p. m., and I can tell you there were not
many who forgot to go and get a good din
ner, even if they did forget to pay the bill.
It was looked upon as a holiday, and if tbe
bill Nee only 25 cents they would eat and
drink 50 cents worth, and in the evening the
young people would come in and have a
dance, and it would be morning before a
good many thought of going home. Most of
the old people that used to attend, have
passed , away, but old Will Lake and his
wife, now residents -of . Plattsville, old
friends of the Blatchford family, are still
alive.
first steamer from any Geor
lake Superior.
—The sales of the Caned
department last month w
the company's history. Ov
were Bald, nearly all in Yea
of it td actual settlers, *h
sessionJ
—114. Douglas, an empl
TelephOne Company ae
aroused from slumber min
a tapping at his Window.
windo* a revolver shot,
but fortunately missed. ' N
—After lingering four da
Kavan gh, of Ottawa, su
effects of a dose of carbolic
inadvertently took. Deceas
daughter of the late Wm. Warwick, booln-
seller, of Toronto,
—A Brampton dispatch says: Just at the
moment when James Lundy shot his wife
fatally, one of the guesta in the drawings
room was singing," Only a Pansy Blossom."
The Lundys were married 25 years ago.
Lundy was then a clerk in Brampton, and
leader of the brass band. Miss McKinnon
was a daughter of Squire McKinnon, of Hal-
ton. She taught echool at Norval, and sub-
sequently conducted a dressmaker's estab-
ian bay port to
an Pacific land''
re the largest in
r 66,000 acres
itoba, and most
are now in pose
yee of the Belt
Brantford, wee
uesday night bY
On going to the
as fired at him,
o clue.
s Mrs. Michael
climbed to the
acid which she
d was the eldest
—Rev. Sampeon Nichols, pastor of the
Congregational -Church, Listowel, was, a
few days ago, made the recipient of a hand-
some parlor set of furniture, the gift of his
friends and congregation in that town. Mr.
Nichols came to Canada only about a year
ago, and has been the pastor of the Congre-
gational Church, Listowel, since Christmas.
He bas endeared himself to his people in no
small degree. The gift was quite a surprise,
and in acknowledging the same MT. Nichols;
very feelingly referred to ,the many acte of
kindness he and his family had experienced
since coming to Listowel.
—The regular monthly meeting of the At-
wood Auxiliary of the Women's Foreign
Missionary Society of the Presbyterien
Church, in tbat village, held on Tuesday
afternoon, last week, was one of more than
ordinary significance and interest, as it WAS
the closing one of the Presidency of Mrs.
Calder, its first and only President since its
organization. Greatly beloved and respect-
ed for her devotion, zeal and earnestness in
all Christian work, and for her kindly dis-
position and sympathetic nature, her de-
parture from the community is much regret-
ted by all. After the election of Mrs. Jos-
eph Priest as President, Mrs. Hammond as
Vice -President, and Mrs. R. Knox as Sec-
retary, Mrs. J. L. Mader read a most feel-
ing address, and Mrs. A. Campbell handed
Mrs. Calder a costly and very beautiful gold
watch, in acknowledgment of her suooeleful
term of office.
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