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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1896-08-21, Page 14 • 6 •:!; = • 1896, ; 1 4 onth of Su ieao Fall Goods. , heIving ,n Shape so as to be - await upon you as rsie like to • comer 7heil we are reed -yr . • mer Goods,. r ethings here yet eher, ana for the hose -whatever is i than their real. ;we hitve pieced: LINTElt Olt Ile clear day. )ds PanYt Dry !Goods Store,: earreaseamassesesmeee r, places.—Mr. A. le concrete , wails • le saperiuterided : he -has a better . sie-i Isriek, and. at .ffe used Usher'e I 1 i e !le Sunday night seder and, ligthrt- er this locality, ler, of the Brown-. ne south of this tning and with its isurned. The fire • a driving house a the whole were contained the ens the peas,: which was with . ;great nd rig e were got some hees were - et difficulty the d - the wind not - have gorse. Mr. dings, arid they - rope of this sea - ;withstanding his lay, and he re - thy of the en -ti -re• he Sunday night 'deuce of Mr. H. ipie were asleep , cover what had The damage done- e nigh s the barn,. ick manufacturer, ig and some kl* xned, but fortun- ae done. 's is 1 visiting his sister, Mrs P. n returned from :See intends o t Grafton, Nor 11; hie Of her sister's. P.. 1,-Vurrn, from parents.—Mia ,re 'risking our Mr. J. Mense4. ived here a few Michigan, and ler, jar has r.—.Mr. Milton i.i.) I to Buffalo- ' got home safe He says it w s rn baseball cla re on Saturds. y nine innings!. vere six ahead], er with the bala it was wet. A -reditori club has! n, had a ball ter e.rne should pro - : e citizens purs price, but tha iit the game to hus prern aturily- 1 aceounts, if th en played, tha Us victorious,ard r chaps flunked sal broke up th t Colborne town ag visit on Wed ning a meeting li was held iri c advisability of , , police village.1, J. A. William sea secre-, were made and lose ef the meet- celyi Tile maia ro tee ti on which end which will !ur cempers have ,.i. math revived essari last week t'Babylon line, all bis crop iTh. is a 'hustler aria , ' 1 ---- : , the division a r of July- svere : bods, $12,073 n pea ; colIeeted, , $14,507. eine transferred ef the Bank of anch, was pre - Lae by his Lis- _ s indulged in a ✓ day and they, s witnessed the egistrate Flagg' Titles have been water for the :has now threa` hick gives up. 5 of good,oleare , tVirENTY-NINTH YEAR. 1 vniQLE NUMBER, 1,497. f IIJTUB1TY SALE No 2 ' 1SATURDAY, AUG. 22nd. ; an the 15th of February last, we held our lints futurity sale, the reasons assigned for ;holding such a sale under this title were vele u follows: Via se the sellers, converted into cash a considerable amount of stock' that might otherwise have been carried over for a sea- ica We made a, lot of customers for the lature—We more than satisfied a great num- cof people. People .who had been only :occasional customers then, became regular customers, because they recognized that what we had advertised concerning the futurity sale was correct.. So now, in this eareecond futurity sale, the prices quoted arena as will command the interest of all purchasers of Clothing. The balance of our $12 and $10 Men's Suite, futurity price $6.50; our $8 and $7.50 en's Suits, futurity price $4.75; our $2 esel $2.50 Men's Pants, futurity price $1.50; 'ea $1.50 and $1.25 Men's Pants, futurity *ice 900; Men's White Vests, regular price I to $1.50, futurity price 90c; Men's Sum- ene Underclothing, regular price $1 and $1.25 suit, futurity price 80c a suit; Men's fine black Cotton Sox, futurity price 18c a Oak' -Men's Straw- Hats, regular selling price Pont 45e to $1, your choice for 35c. i Youth's' and Boys' Straw Hats; regular iriees 45e to 75c, futurity price 25c. In gni' department the heaviest cut is made, -for in these goods it pays to lose rather than 31sery— over. hien's Straw Sunshades, 5c each. i Men's White Shirts, unlaundried, special futurity price 45c. Men's Colored Shirts, separate collars and 'CIA, regular prices $1.75 and $1.50, futurity price p. Other lines, regular price $1 25 and $1, futurity price 85c. Boys' Suits, prices ef which are all -in ac- cordance with quality, the futurity price will be one-third lessthan regular prices. We are a little overstocked in boys cloth- ing. and seine unusual values will be found iathie department. The futurity price of a lot of Wash Ties will hetwo for 15o, or four for 25c. Other special ties at 10c, 15c and 25c. In Ordered Clothing we are doing the futurity prices right. Anything in our line aot quoted. herer will be sold at, futurity WE HAVE ONE PRICE TO ALL M MM •••••• GREIG& MACDONALD CLOTHIERS, O. T. W. S. O. T. $. , S. B. 1 SEAFORTH, - - OXT. Up -town store— Carmichael's I Down-toWn store Bloc I Cady's Block. GETTING. INTO SHAPE FLORIDA FEATHERS. SONG AND GAME BIRDS BEING RAP- IDLY EXTERMINATED. The Once Abundant Ibis, llerpn, Flamingo and Pellean—Itockeries Silent Where 0 . ce Tlycla Faiz' •ly Swarmed—A. Plea For 0 r Feathered Friends, ' [Special Correspondence.] IN IAN RxvEri, Florida, Aug. 17.—"Yon Yen -ccs," as the peopleresident here have a hnait of calling everybody living in the norts , are ehead of us in some respects. Tha we will admit. For instande, you hay provided for the Preservation of your grea rivers by promptly conserving your fore ts and have looked out for the future of y ur song birds by passing laws prohib- itin their killing or capture. Florida has, I believe, some sort of a bird and gam law on her statute books, but it is not sy any ineans rigidly enforced. Even the ocking bird, which any sort of eivi- Hz:, man Would be likely to cherish as one of t se chol est gifts of heaven, has been elm ost ext rminated. When I first came to lorida, now over 20 years ago, tho moc ring b' ds and cardinals were as plenty as si arrows Now they are hard to find. Inds -di if 4ne is heard near a dwelling . placi or tos n, out sallies some ignorant nes . or 0 acker to shoot him !or the few cent- he ca get for his skin.' Fl ride h '3 -suffered from an influx of so call s "nat ralists." 'Men and boys who coin; down here pretending to be work- ing or 'sal nee' have nearly cleaned out niat to beautiful birds WO had. This state was inco th paradise of song and plume bird . On our groves, and meadows we alive ith birds of sweetest song and gleamed wi h those of brightest plumage. But now all is changed. When I first as- cended the St. Johns, away beak in the seventies, the great white and snowy herons were abundant in every -swamp and seen feeding at every bend of the river. One day, between the St. Johns and Salt lake, I saw and fired at a flock a wild turkeys, seven in number, from the steam- er's deck, td, as for deer and alligators, they were a nost too numerous to count. Now most of the deer and turkey have dis- appeared. t haven't seen one in three months. Aid even the helpless herons are becoming aS scarce as hens' teeth. But it isn't many Tears since I might have found a heron rookery by looking for it in the right place almost anywhere in or near the upper St. Johns. It would be found situated on an island in the midst of a vast swamp, su rounded with shallow water swarming vith gators and, snakes. In the daytime you could be assured of its locality by he great flocks of herons hov- ering'over it, some blue'rsonie gray, most of them white as snow. As a boat ap- .proached they Would rise from the trees and nests liy hundreds, making a great commotion,' and sail about on wide ex - ‘s L tended win , uttering hoarse cries. The noise was d afening, the stench was fear- ful, and thd excitement was something to be remembered. If one wanted to, he might• secure dozens and dozens of heron eggs, and, if he were cruel enough, shoot as many of the birds as he could carry. ' When there carao a demand for the love- ly plumeswhich' the unfortunate herons carried on their backs and the natives found that they could, get high prices for ' For a big fall -trade. Last week we were somewhat upside down, on account of enlarging the premises, but the carpen- ters are now through their work and in a few days we will present to the pablic one of the most convenient, best lighted and best equipped stores west of Toronto. In the meantime we are busy clispoeing of the balance of our 1Summer Shoes at a sacrifice, in order to have everything in good shape for the arrival of fall goods. We are now in a position to serve twice as many customers as formerly, and we expect by dint of good values that this season's trade will be the largest in the his- tory of the store. SEAFORTI-Z Opposite f TWO Opposite , Expositor Office i.STORES f Town Building H. R. Jackson & sON Direct Importers of eaasa Jules Robin & Co.'s Brandy, Cognac, France; Jno. de Kuyper & Sorailolland Gin, Rotterdam, Holland; Booth's Toni Gin, London, England ; Bul- loch & Co.'s Scotch Whisky, Gies - ow, Scotland ; Jamieson's Irish Whisky, Dublin, Ireland ; also Port and Sherry Wine from France and Spain. Agents for Walker's Whisky, Ontario ; Royal Distillery and Davis' Ale and Porter, Toronto. 70 THE PUBLIC; We have opened a retail store in connection with our wholesale busi- ness in the rear of the new Dominion bank, in Good's old stand, where we will sell the best goods in the market at bottom prices. Goods delivered to any part of the town free. TELEPHONE 1489-13 .11o. axe- - ' , SCENE ON THE COAST OF FLORIDA. . a them, they, were slaughtered Without mercy. ; The. heronries were soon entirely depopulated by bands of lawless gunners, and as this process of extermination has been going on for years the result is that now the birds can rarely be. found. It is onlyby penetrating to the almost unknown swamps in! the South • of Florida, in the Everglades,that we ca,n -find them now in abundance. Not only tlie herons, but the rarer ibis, and also the great grayspelicans, were once 'se nurneroue here that they could be shot by scores. One of the pelican rookeries was half .Way down Indian river, and when I eaw tlarstthe rnasegrove trees were bending beneath the weight of their big, bulky tests and filled with eggs and young: These pelicans, by the way, are solemn. looking birds, clumsy and, big, who are always industriously ,fishing when not pursuing their lumbering flights along the coast, They fly just above the surface of the water,: scanning it sharply as: they go along. S-uddenly they see a shoal of fish, andquick as a flash they drop among their finny prey, seize as many as their bil141 can heild, _then' quickly elevatetheir heads and throw them into the great pouches beneath. But they are not often left unmolested to enjoy their.captures, for.there is a speeies of gall which usually. attendsimon them and annoys them dread-. fully by ste ling the fish right Out of their mouth.' his bird is called the "laugh- ing gall" lecause of its shrill -cry. 1It awaits :the iioinent when the clumsy pen - cane have t eir heads up, striving to throw the fish into tlasir pouches, and then pounces urea] the' . While the poor peli- cans are shaking the water out of their eyes the gulls seiz the fish froth beneath their very nose, a it were, and then fly off with them, la ighing heartily at the victims of their cue ning. The sttipid fish- ers seem to pay no attention to these -sea robbers, but go an fishing as though noth- -ing had haPpened. In the haunts of -the pelicans- were for 'erly found the extreme- ly rare scarlet ibi , the stately flamingoes and the swift fl ing inan-o'-war hawks, but to get them i ow we must take a run over to the Bahain s. In some of the least visited of these jell nds the flamingoes still breed, banding cu ous nests of mud and clay hall as high as themselves. I have seen them there a d on the coast ef Mexi- ed, but -never in lorida. They look at a distance .like soic iers. in searlet -uniforna, and when flying a ore the sea appear like a great red cloud noving across the hori- zon'.- But, I fear, bot the flamingo ancl the Ibis are no longer to be regarded as denizens et the United- States, haVing been driven away by the persistent shooting of many years. - It will not be long, I predict, before all the lovely' birds of Florida, will be as ex- tinct . as the dodo unless our legislators ellen be taken. with a spasm of sense and exact a game law that shall protect them. Meanwhile I would.. implore the so tamed r - scientists and taxiderMists te keep away for a number of years—at any rate during the breeding Seasone--m4ti1 our birdsshall have a chance to recuperate. SEA FOR J. W. DARTRAM. r 1 • The Crops of Ontario. The cropreport of the Ontario Bureau of Industries for the season,. has just been issued. The fall wheat is reported to have been ploughed up in considerable area in all parts of Ontario, the two counties most noticeable in this respect laying Prince Ed- ward and Haldimand. The reports of the final outcome of the crop are variable and conflicting, but on the whole rather under than over the average. In Essex and Kent, where hervesting began as early as June 26th, the reports are rather poor. There are nuneerous complaints of damage- by "Hessian fly," though some say also, "or some ether inseet." In Elgin and Lincoln, the condition was fair, In Haldirriand the situation is summed up thus : "The worst failure for many years." Welland gives yields from five to twelve bushels per acre.. Lainbton sends good reports, Huron, fair ; Bruce, poor; Grey, variable ; Simcoe,goodi In the West Midland counties,from Middle- sex to Dufferina the situation may be sum- med up as fair yield with good quality., Wintert, Wing, drouth and grasshoppers were cai.ses in various localities for decreas- ing the yield below what was expected. In the east most of the crop was harvested from Jaly 10th to 20th. There are many reports of injury, yet on the whole the crop turned out well, the quality being very good ; while from the east, where the acre - 'age is much less than in the -west, there are some reports of complete loss, there are others olfexeraordinary yield. SPRING WHEAT. This rrop is still on the decline. Reports are no more encouraging than they have been for several years. The principal com- plaints p.m as to inferior quality, though a ;few seetions in the east give good yields and firs ...class quality. Most reports are of ,modera e yields. Harvesting began July 124th, aid was quite general over the pro- vince a the end of the first week of August. 'There re a few reports of rust, and also of grassh pers. OATS. The ondition of oats in the west was fair. ome injury by rust, and here and there t e army worm is reported. In the latter ase individual farmers have suffered severel , but the effects upon the total yield of the rovince has been very small. From the east we get reports of a large acreage . and go4d condition. The hot weather has caused rapid filling, and spme report light grain. BARLEY. • Along Lake Erie there is a fair yield, but the late rains heve discolored a large por- tion. In the West Midland district the quality is better, with a fair yield. In the west t e loss by insects is no greater than usual. In the east the indications point to a crop above the average in quality. Not- withs nding complaints as to early drouth, rain a' harvesting, grasshoppers, etc., there are pr spects of a good yield. ,. PEAS. - Lat sowing "to avoid the bug," is more comm n than ever, and as a consequence there as been little harvesting done by Augus 8th. There are very few poor re- ports many report a heavy growth of straw. Mildew has been found here and there. The report of- "I bugs " are not so nunie us as formerly. The following are fair sa plea of correspondents' comments : —" Ai excellent crop ;" " Our best crop ;" "Verr few bugs ;" " Never had better ;" " One of the best crops of Ontario;" "Grass- hoppe s don't eat peas," etc. I CORN. l An ncreased area is reported. Grubs and grassioppers did some injury, and a few correspondents feared the army worm, but the crop was not seriously affected by in- sect pests. In many sections, more particu- larly in the Lake Erie district, considerable dama e was done by rain, but the splendid corn eather of the -last two or three weeks has brought the plant along gradually; and althotigh a considerable portion of the seed was put in late, to supplement the anticipat- ed poor crop of hay, the main crop of corn was s soken of as leering in a most satisfact- ory ei anner. FLAX. Onl a few corr spondents report regarding flax. The crop is said to be a good one, and the s pply'appears to be fully up to the demo, d. BAY AND CLOVER. Th the of th the Alsik up t favor has tu reports regarding red clover are, on hole, not very favorable. The drouth previous summer, wed the freezing of ast winter, were both 'destructive. is somewhat better, but still hardly the average. Several speak very bly of mammoth red clover. Timothy ned out better than in 1895. In Es- ( 'sex and Kent thereports are froin one to two tons per acre. NIgin and Norfolk also had fairly good crops. Haldimand and Wella d had very light crops,in some town- ships a failure. Lambton was fair. Huron and Br ce were under the average. Grey was lig t; drouth and grosshoppers both being i jurious. Simcoe rather light. Mid- dlesex, Brant, Oxford, Wellington, Water- loo and Dufferin gave varying yields—from one to wo tons. In the west the rainfall varied uch as to time and quantity. As a rule o d meadows were light, throu h the lack o ram in the summer of 1895. Throug out the Niaraga peninsula the crop was sh rt. From East York along Lake Ontario the yield increased, and the ! crop was w 11 saved. Along the St. Laurence the yie d is very good. Carleton jgood. Prescot good. • Russel extra good. I Lan- ark an Victoria ,the yield is up to the average In the northern districts the crop was far. The Rainy River country has probabl the heaviest yield per acre in On- tario. POTATOES. Whih reports regarding potatoes do not fully a ree, it looks as if there will be a fair yield i most sections. Early planted are small is size, owing to the drouth, but thee° put in 1 ter promise a better return. Rot was rep rted in low lying places in the Lake Elie co nties,but other districts have so far been co paratively free from it. The bug was re rted as numerous by some corres- ponden a, Whileathers stated that this pest was no nearly sb bad as usual. Repo somew townsh ed to f but th ably w attacki the Nell presen or Carr Not great son. ROOTS. ts regarding the root crops are at contradietory, even in the same ps. The seed in many quarters Wi- lly " catche"' owing to the drouth ; t which canje up was doing remark - 11 where th g it. Ho le for toots turnips pro ts. grasshoppers were not ever, the prospect on is encouraging, and at ise better than mangolds or many yeara has there been so yield of apples as in the present sea- uch terms as "An extraordinary H, F crop," "An enormou; ever known," are fre those expressions ap to summer and fall s remarka ly free fr m worm and scab. Pears gi es a fair yield, but many trees are suffering from blight. Peaches are also abundan , and plums are up to the average, although, in one or two sections a tendency to rot is reported. Cherries were rather small, but of good quality. Grapes promise a large return in most localities and small fruiti haye been abundant. Taken altogeth- er, the simmer of 1896 has made one of the beat records in the way of fruit supply. PASTURES AND LIVE STOCK. Between the drouth of June and grass- hoppers, astures were rather brown and bare unti the more showery weather of the last fortn ght enabled the fields to pick up. Live stoc generally are in a healthy condi- tion, alth ugh perhaps a little on the lean side. B t little disease has been reported and nothing of an epidemic nature. The here flyIas not yet disappeared ; but, ex- cept in Pr rth and a few other western counr ties, it ha caused but small annoyance this simmer. The milk supply has fallen off greatly nd a number of factories have closed up for lack of patronage, while the low pric of cheese has had a depressing effect upo patrons. Hay will be scarce, but such upplementary fodder as corn and straw w.11 be abundant; and live stock, from present appearances, can be easily car- ried through the winter. THE APIARY. Not for many years have beekeepers had so much to encourage them. H There has been an abundance of nectar, and the flow of honey as been liberal. While a few cor- responde ts mention only 10 to 20 pounds it honey. per hive, a number speak of ex- tracting ifully 100 pounds. The average yield is about 55 pounds, and this will like- ly be 'segmented, as buckwheat was in bloom•S hen the correspondents wrote. Colonies ave been about doubled by swarm- ing, and eo disease is complained of. i LABOR AND WAGES. There is a surplus of farm laborers, and wages have beenlovver than usual. Farm- ers are trying to do without hired help, and are relyipg more upon improved machinery for help. Harvest hands have got 75 cents to $1 a dry, and from $13 to $20 per month. ][DAY, AUGUST 21, 1896. yield," and "Largest uent in our returns, lying more especially rts. The fruit is also • The Winter Wheat to Sow. BEST RESULTS By EXPERIMENTS. DEAR Exromon.—Within the past seven years,o7 hundred and thirty-three varieties of winte wheat have been very carefully tested tn the experimental department at the Agricultural College,' Guelph. Besides ascertaiaing the comparative yields of grain and str w of the different varieties, the wheats JIlaTe been closely examined each y ear fo their quality of grain, time of ma- turity, trength of straw,freedom from rust, etc., in rder to determine which kinds will give the most satisfactory results, when grown tinder uniform conditions. After the various varieties have been carefully tested at the college for a few years, those which have given the best satisfaction are selected for distribution throughout Ontario. This system of co-operative experimental work . enables the farmers to determine for them- selves which of the leading varieties will give the best results upon their own partic- ular farina As a practical result from ob- taining information in this way, hundreds of farmers are now growing varieties in their regular farm practice, which were en- tirely uhknown to them a short time ago. For instance, the Dawson's Golden Chaff variety of winter wheat, which has recently given such high average yields of grain per acre, both at the college and throughout Ontario', was scarcely known except in one neighborhood near Guelph, until it was sown in our experimental grounds in 1891, and afterwards distributed for co-operative experinientel work. This is now one of the most pepular, varieties of winter wheats in this Province. . In the fall of 1895, nine leading varieties of winler wheat were distributed in this way. They were divided into two sets, with -fi e varieties in each. The Dawson's Golden Chaff was used in both sets to , form a basis by which the results of all the va- zieties couid be compared with one another. Each person who wanted to conduct an. ex- periment, stated in his application which set he 1esired, and the five varieties in the set sel eted were sent to his address, with full ins ructions for conducting the experi- ment. The grain was Sown at the rate of one and one-third bushels per acre, upon. plots eiractly uniform in sieseand shape. The yields per acre have been calculated from the ac al results obtained from the plots. Ninety reports of carefully conducted ex- perime ts have been received this season up to the time of writing. As these came from twentyeseven of the counties in Ontario, the results !should be of real practical value to the far ere of the province. The f llowing table gives the comparative results f straw and grain per acre of the winter wheat varieties tested during the past sea on on 90 Ontario farms. Straw per acre. Grain per acre. (tons) (bus. -60 lbs.) Dawson' Golden Chaff 1.29 26 9 Jones' inter Fife.... 1.46 26.4 Pride of Genesee 1.30 25.0 Early R d Clawson. 1.27 24.9 Surprise 1,27 23 8 America Bronze 4-31 23.7 Early 0 nesee Giant.. 4.26 2.3.1 Bulgaria 1.20 ..... ... 21.3 Jones' S uare Read1.12 2).2 CONCLUSIONS 1. In average yield of wi acre, Dawson's Golden Cha among eleven varieties teste in 1893, ine varieties in 18 in 1895, nd nine varieties ainong fty-three varietie agricultu al college for fiv cession. 2. In he co-operative 1896, Da son's Golden Cha Fife, an Pride of Genes yields on heavy soils, and Fife, Da son's Golden Cha on light oils. 3. Pri e of Genesee, awson's Golden Chaff, an Jones' Winter Fi e made the best appearan c in the spring of 896. 4. Ear y Genesee Giant, arly Red Claw- son; D4. eon's Golden Chaff and American Bronze' ssessed the stiffes straw in 1896. 5. Pri e of Genesee, Jone Winter Fife, Bulgari , and American ronze produced the great st length of straw 6. Da son's Golden Cha , Bulgarian and Pride of eneeee, were the least, and the Surprise, Early Genesee Gi b, mad Ameri- can Bron e were the most a ected by' met. 7. Ear y Red Clawson and Dawson's Grolden haff were the first to mature, and the Prid of Genesee, Early Genesee Giant, and Bulgarian were the last to mature. 8. DaWsen's Golden Chaff, Surprise, and Early R d Clawson produced the plumpest ter wheat per steod highest over Ontario 4, nine varieties in 1896, also grown at the years in suc- xperiments for , Jones' Winter e, gave the best Jones' Winter , and Surprise 1, grain, a E:roaze, 9. Da the mos mentene 1 d Jones' Winter Fife and American he most shrunkep grain. son's Golden Chaff was decidedly popular variety with the experi- in each of the put four years ; and in 1896 it was chosen by about fifty per cent. ef the farmers who sent in full re- ports, as being the best among the varieties tested+. 104 Six varieties of winter wheat have been tested over Ontario for three years in succesSion with the following average re- sults in bushels of 'grain per acre: Daw- son's Golden Chaff, 31.8 ; Jones' Winter Fife, fa)9.2 ; Early Genesee Giant, 28.5; Early Red Clawson,28.4 ; American Bronze, 27.8; Surprise, 27.8 ; and Bulgarian, 27.2 11. Reports of successful experiments with winter wheat have been received this season from twenty-seven counties in On- tario, sixteen of which are situated east; and eleven ,west of the eity of Guelph. 12. The principal failures in the - winter wheat experiments, not included in this re- port, were caused by winter killing, grass- hcppers, accidents, eta, and in some in- stances by the experimenters not conduct- ing the tests in exact accordance with the instructions given. 13. Of the two hundred and eighty-four experin4enters who have repOrted the re- sults of Itheirtests for 1896,only three speak of wish ng to discontinue the co-operative experi ental work, and much interest has been m nifested throughout. - 14. Varieties which have given good ayer- age results in the experiments at the Icol- lege fora. few years, have also given good satisfaction throughout Ontario. DISTRIBUTION OF SEED FOR TESTIS PURPOSES. In the folic:wing table will be found t ree sets of winter wheat varieties, which ill be sent free, by mail, in half pound lots of each variety, to farmers applying tor them, who will carefully test the three kind in the set which they choose, and will report the results after harvest next year. The seed will be sent out in the order in which the ap lications are received as long as the supply lasts. Set 1o. 1—Dawson's Golden Chaff, Early Genesee Giant, Early Red Clawson. Set No. 2—Dawson's Golden Chaff, Pride of Genesee'Poole. Set No. 3 --Dawson's Golden Chaff, Stew- art's Champion, Siberian. 1 Eac1person wishing one of these sets, should write to the experimentalist, Agri- cultural College, Guelph, mentioning which set he desires, and the grain, with instruc- tions for testing, and blank forms on which to report, will be furnished free of cost to his address'until the supply of grain for distribution becomes exhausted. C. A. &Ism, Experimentalist. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, GUMMI, Aug. 14, '96. • Notes From the Queen City. (By our own Correspondent.) TORONTO, August 17th, 189e. r The managers of the Industrial Exhibi- t on have this year net only arranged to s rpass all previous years in existence, but a e also making the first week as attractive the last. Any time after and including ednesday will be as good as the closing ye, for all the exhibits will be in their ace on Wednesday, and the fireworks will so commence that evening. The mineral hibits this year from Ontario and British olumbia will be an interesting feature. There is certain to be another vote taken the unday street car question some time tweed this and the first of January next. he st4et cars and ferry boat companies, gether with the restaurant keepers, and her of similar occupations, who coUld ake money out of the Sunday travel, are agitatxng strenuously for the vote, giving as niotiyes, of course, the 'welfare of the city, and the pleasure and.health of the workiag- man. The scheme is too transparent to de- ceive many. . Toronto will not now recede from •tei enviable position, unconsciously attained, as the model city of America. Its quiet Sin - day is the admiration of all distinguis ed visitors, ' and to -day the great American cities are holding up Toronto as evidence that/good laws may be enforced, and that one day in seven as a rest day for all i a lexury, a joy, a public blessing that he down trodden and burdened._ should be granted not merely on religious but an hunianitarian grounds and for the-publho good. i The contemplated board of trade to Brit sh Columbia, which a portion of the city pr se in the interests of srculators and the rail- roads has been tryi g to boom is notprovi g to be a " traveling success," as up to date only fifteen of the $Ii tickets have been sold. The "gold pigsr"aSthey are metephorically called, are neager enough to invest their money in certaintie , even in gold mining, but they are not th ones to go with brass band's and flags to tempt the covetous, for they knew that the woods and hills out there are full of sharpers, who would be literally " laying for them." The excursion willno doubt run, but it will not be what the b omsters wanted it to be. If any class Of pepie are to -day giving heed to that script re recommendation, to "be as wise ents," you can count in the Toronto of trade among that number. a V I a 0 0 ; as ser board Greed sometimes meets its just reward. On account of the few disastrous fires in Toronto'of a year ago, the insurance com- panies have made a determined attempt to increase the rates. Accordingly, when the policie on the board of trade building, which iad been running for seyeral years, at 75 c nts per hundred for a term of three years, expired last week, the local compan- ies would not renew for less than $1.20. Withoat Waiting to quarrel with this spec- ies of advance the board of trade simply transferred their insurance to a New York company at the old rate, 75 cents, thus sav- ing $1,300 in the transaction. The local in- surance men are now thinking of having their plaotographs taken in a group, to see if they actually look as green as they feel they must be. Judge Morrison was reported a few days ago as giving las judgment in a case between landlord and 'tenant, that in the matter of giving »otice to vacate, a lunar month— thirty ays—would answer as well as well as a ca ander !month. If he is correctly re- ported thnt w uld be another case for a su- perior udge t4 set aside if the aisle were ap- pealed, unlessI the month in question hap- pened o be J ne or another short month. The In lams fiid it convenient to go by the moon, ut Calaadians and live Yankees gen- erally count by the almanac. If our judges were held per onally liable for damages sus- tained, when heir judgments, based upon the interpret tion of the law, are set aside by the higher courts there would not be so many Moon struck judges, nor Would there be so nuch rthcertaiuty about law suits as there i4 to -date Rev. Dr. TM, formerly of thie city, and popula ly kn wia as the prophet of Bond street, 1 preached on Sunday last, in the Westeitn Evangelical church, with all his old time originality and eloquence. There are multitudes of people in Toronto who would walk a long distance to hear the doc- tor, because they always hear something, and oan remember when they go away what they ' heard at church: Not many clergymen have that reputation. The city banks have given notice that tt. 1 MoTIRI A N BROS.,Publishers. $1 a Year in Advance. • after this 15th inst. they will discount ing on Lake Michigan, and will run them American bills ten per ceet, and they will from Sandusky to some favorable point an the Canadian shore of Lake Erie, probably Port Stanley. iotic and wonderfully prudent, but —Three little girls were crossing the It is only another needless thrust Napanee river in a boat Saturday, 'where iness interests of this country, and lighting killed two of them named Lindsay uncalled for hostility towards our and Ellis. ighbor. The banks are always —Reports so far of the salmon catch in e common interests of our peo- British Columbia, have been very meagre, but they seem to indicate that the results are away below last year. —Andrew Maher, railway laborer of Portage la Prairie while drunk, fell aekep on the railway track. A passing train cut him to pieces. ; —The Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific Railway Coinpanie,s have agreed to do away with all up town ticket offiees in towns and small cities. —Elections in Colchester and Lunenburg counties, for the Halifax Provincial As- sembly resulted in the return of Messrs. McClure and Morash, Liberals. probably`not accept American silver et all. This ma seem to some at the present time to be pat it is not. at the b an act of great n against t ple, and Ithere never has been a strigency in finanCial circles in this country that the banktis have not aggravated for the bene- fit of the r stockhblders, The bill before the House of Commons at its last session, to reduce the rate of legal interest, was killed by the banker, that they might continue to extort the present ruinous rates of dis- count. It is for their interests to keep money as scarce and dear as possible. The attempt on the life of Sidney Flynn by James Moran by shooting on Friday last at Toronto Junction is doubtless another case of partial insanity. No reasonable mo- tive can be assigned for the act. Mr. Flynn says that six years ago when Moran worked in the same office with him that he showed signs Of mental uhbalance. Such cases have been 'seriously numerous during recent years, doubtlees being one of the defects of the cemmercial depression through which we have been passing. Men Of atrong minds and feirly successful are even ItaW driven to their wit's end to know how to manage, while many of, the less fortunate are crowd- ed out of the tace, and the mentally weak driven to despair, and sometimes incited to revengefor an imaginary injury that they have brooded over as the cause of that dis- aster. Until the depression lifts there is need of more attention being given to those who show signs of a mental break up, and also more leniency in dealing 'with those who are carried away. yen those who are not personal or political nds of Sir Charles Tupper will sym- hise with him at the present crisis in his lical life. That "Man's inhumanity to n makes countless thousands mourn," is notruer than the fact that the world never forgives A man who fails. , When the Hon. Alexander Mackenzie went back to Parliament after the wash-out of 1878 with only a reinnant of his party with him, he was shoved to one side, and not long did the sincere, but proud siiirited chieftain survive hiS humiliation. When Sir Charles Tupper has failed to carry the country, and the is hardly cleared away art' baronet to get a red cohimns before he rings that betoken his Sir. Charles ?came over erate game of chance fri Pa po sneak° of the conflict enough for the stal gliinpse of his disord hears ominous murm political execution. the see, to play a des and lost. The cedar block rlavements of Toronto, copied from a Michigan city, are one of the worst things ever borrowed from the Ameri- can Republic. They are quite a novelty when new, and answer very well for a few years, as an apology for a pavement, but when a little worn, are worse than any' corduroy road that ever ran through a huckleberry marsh. If any other town or city ever thinks of adopting cedar blocks, just let them send a deputation to new Robert street, for instance, by gas light, and they will- take the first train home again thoroughly satisfied with their own streets as they are. Some of the holes and caverns look like the entrance to the bot- tomless pit. They may perhaps be conven- ient for the boys to hide when playing hide - and -go -seek, but no carriage or bicycle would ever venture out among them under. the glare of the electric light. While taking a stroll through some of the examination halls in the city during the last few weeks and wetching the "victims" who were trying hard to work, pray or buy their way through the educational purgatory, I made a discovery which 1 will whisper to your ear. Do you know, Mr. Editor, that the chief cause of the exodus of young men from Canada to the States, is not, after all, that row of custom houses along the bound- ary line, but it is the enormous and senseless quantity of "red tape" here that smothers them. Read even the list of examinations for law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, or for a veterinary surgeon or teacher, in a place in the civil service and it will take your breath away. All these professions and positions that young men covet, are so hedged about with restrictions and almost impossible conditions that only a comparatively few can work their way through. Thousands of the most intelligent, after looking sensibly at the eonclitionr of things before them here, turn away With mingled regret and disgust to go to the neighboring republic, where brains count, where men are taken for their worth, where abilitY, and not age or parchments are con- sidered, and where the way to every place of emolument, trust and' honor is left as wide open as possible, and where these pos- itions re held up as trophies to incite the a.mbiti us and gifted to do their best in a fair fled. Not only is this the tendency of this systeel in Canada, but even the avowed parpose is to protect the professions. Is such a course politic? Is it not treason against the people? No wonder our young men leave us when they reach the age that necessity as well as ambition eqmpell them to do somethpg for themselves. This is the vey wo t kind of protection. This exodus f our at blood will not stop until we tear lown the fences from around the - desirahl plac s and let the masses have a chance. In a other letter I will give some details. s W. H. —Ailsa Cr efficient 6 e p —BrantCo four distiets f have decie ed discount. The—The : am ran has been s sld troitefor 5, —Rev. a potato a h_tifuofaleet ern .H ent wrig t he at take place th— e i,oxv_em diedl sudd apo' exy, it; the of torn. by a vicious bull dog. —John McLean, of West Zorra, Oxford eounjty, is 100 years old, but he voted for Jam s Sutherland, M. 1a, at the last election. —trhe success, of the car-farries between Conneaut, Ohio, and Port Dever, has in- duced the Columbus, Sandusky and Hock- ing Railway, one of the principal coal roads in Ohio to extend its operations irsto Can- ada.' ihe company is said to have charter - I rs. er settlers of South Essex, is dead, at ge of 97 years. three-year-old. son of Wesley Revell, oodstock, was the other day frightfully Canada- ig is agitating for more' otection. nty has been divided into ✓ county council purposes. Iton Street Railway Company o take American money at a Opera House, at Chatham, o Mr. R. 0. Kinney, of De- cMullen, of Woodstock, has p his garden which is six and in eight. as istruck by the Manitoba Gov - ell boring machine near Cart - depth of,62 feet. estern district rifle matches are to September 30 and October 1, 'at ang,es, London. yor, W. G. Sniith, of Guelph, nly on Wednesday of last week of. a ed forty-nine. illiam A. Haynes, one of the — Philip Nead, charged in New York with , the misappropriation of five thousand dol- St's lars from the Canadian Pacific Railway, has been discharged. — Mr. John Waddell's residence in Chatham, was on Saturday, robbed during the absence of the family at the lakeside, and $200 'worth of jewelry stolen. —Mr. F. W. Ileubach proposes to exhibit the products of Manitoba and the North- west at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition in a building made of baled hay. —Alexander Barry, of Hamilton, one of gang of three who attempted highway rob- bery in Toronto on Friday night, was cap- tured. by the police after a desperate fight. — Burglars entered the house of Mr. George Smith, barrister, Woodstock, the other morning and carried off $30 in coins, besides a gold watch, which wkert new, cost 8200. —The total number of business failures in the Canadian Dominion last -week is 35,com- pared with 35 the previous week, 29 in the week a year ago, 40 two years ago and 26 three years ago. —Friday morning the taaanery of John McLeod, Kingston, was destroyed - by fire. It is said the conflagration was of incendiary origin.' The loss is fixed at $20,000, with half that amount of insurance. — Fifty-six people are.honselesses,nd eleven families minus the whole or the greater part of their household possessions as the result of the fire at Deschene's Ottawa, on Friday afternoon. —An eight-year-old boy named Hyland, - went to sleep beside the Michigan Central Railway track near Essex, Tie rolled over n the rails and was cut to pieces by a pass- ing train. — Eliza Brown a 90 -year-old woman, who was an inmate of Holies Of Providence, Toronto, fell from a third storey window of that institution Friday night and was in- stantly killed. —Michael Overholt, Eel., of East Oxford, claims to be the oldest Juistice of the Peace in the county, of Oxford., He is now 89 years of age and is as hale and hearty as a man of half his age. , —On Sunday last, Louis May, one of the St. Thomas Young Men's Christian As- sociation baseball players, succumbed to injuries receiyed from a fielded ball on the previous Thursday afternoon. —Woodstock board of health is talking. of closing all the wells within the fire limits of that town. The board believes that die well water is in the main responsible for one or two deaths which have occurred recently from typhoid fever. - —Early Saturday morning burglars suc- cessfully cracked the safe of the Hamilton Engine Packing Company, but got away with only $5, the same amount of postage stamps, a gold and a silver watch, a, re- volver and a number of valuable papers. ' —It has been decided that in the Mari- time Provinces and Quebec one half of the infantry battalions will go into camp after Parliament has voted the necessary appro- priations. The artillery camps will not be held until next June. —W. H. Nelson, a prominent grocer of Kingsville, left his business on Briday, walked up to Greenhill cemetery, sat down by a grave and :deliberately shot himself through the lungs, very close to the heart, with a revolver. —The other mornitig Samuel Parker, an employe of the Grand Trunk Railway, was found lying by the side of the track near the overhead bridge east of Brantford, with both feet almost completely severed frora his legs. — A writ has been issued on behalf -of Mrs. Rosana McLaughlin, of Summerville, against the Toronto Railway Company, and the Toronto and Mimic() Electric Railway, claiming $20,000 damages for the death of her husband, Patrick rticLaughlin, who was killed in August liat,sti — Very Rev. Den Harris and Mr. John McKeown, left for New York on Tuesday, sailing thence for ueenstown, Ireland. They go as delega to the great con- vention of Irishmen rom all parts of the world which will mee in Dublin on Sep- tember ist. . —Two of the oldest residents of Zorra died wthin the past few days. Mrs. David. Ross, mother of . 'Hugh Munro, 7th coneession, aged 92 ears, and Mrs. Alex. Murray, mother of Ira. George and- John Morrison, 9th line, n rth of Braemar, aged 96- -John Haym, of Collingwood, set his house on fire and afterwards attempted to end himself by shooting. Not succeeding in this, he then tried to drown himself, and later to poison hinieelf. He has been living -alone-for some time and has shown continu- ed evidences of eccentricity. '—Dr. Carson, veterinary surgeon of St. Thomas, had a close call' from death the other night He got a bottle of medicine from a eity physician for nervousness, and went to his office and took half the contents at one dose. Then he took a dose of opium. and the two nearly got in their deadly work. . —Oa the recommendation of the Minister of Agriculture changes have been 'made in the regulations governing the importation and exportation of horses. The original regulations promulgated in May, provided • that horses imported from Great Britain or the continent of Europe, destined for Mont- real, must be inspected at Quebec during the summer navigation. The new rule is that in the absence of special direction of the Minister, they may be inspected at Montreal. All horses tor exportation by sea must reach the port of exportation 24 hours before shipment, for rest and inspec- tion; and in order to enable the inspector to make a careful, indiviclaal- examinatien, owners of such animals must notify him at least 24 hours 'before embarkation and such notice must be in writing and sent to the office of the inspector. A new regulation provides that settlers" horses entering Canada shall he subject to such inspection as the Minister of ,Agriculture may direct, but entry shall be prohibited to An tiers " horse found on hispection te have od sOveral largo car -ferry -boats now operat- contagions disease. - t".