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The Huron News-Record, 1893-03-29, Page 6,nt A.rivere.ormsforret A . • . 9, . totee? '' ' ' •1Q1q*WgaT WO,BAT. ' • ' - • -: ' • ' . ' ' , . . some :gouty 0 the other. 1:110 breeti mtkde trent ...th Metteltitte ,hatt•ilt yellowieli, 1 tiht, hut the yellow eedeue ,wae Mega' pre, . 4eilneed IR tbehreg merle R011100' 444ga ' flotue SentPlee 0.ttilie bog' Wore etibmit., to. to gift, *gout% ed. the ,conunitte,0,- on. Of the Iletiefe of Common* thew ins„e„aino„newglee,re they wereimth pron,ownced. erinetakteeitty. • ' • ' ', A 1114 itc Oath tett ef done was tient 0 tWa.•'Otthe , ceding'inkkerain 00010; •Fho it elf eftillw And: finblnitted reports. ' One stated that theladega Neari. A $400 et flour than, the Red ',ON autt 'WoUld. tria e. mere bread to the barrel, intt the Pektitt . of the. heeae made loin it woo not oo geode thO Other wee, Idea et Wilton that ',the Labe, wasethe etranger 01M Of We 004 bntbenig, darker in celeur '1,0)104400 eeine 'feund takv44-40 higu a Pri°0 a° Ole Be -4' Yttet SapeOf bread Made om the frI‘atioga• emit tO 'a nuntber of peeple efog0011 judgment inOttawa, by whom it Wee' rtte n,ounced to he of good.quality, , .... • In eueeinieg un; the evIdeime bronghtto-, BOOM 14 Blfliettft. 4 I used the fellaWMg vrorde, whieh X thought were jilitifted by the faotd presentecle-" The better SaMplea of Ledoga are fully as rich in gluten ea the best Rea Fife and while the Oldtivatio4 of the Red Fife. should be recommended in every section of the North-West, w.here te ie likely with early sowing to escape the autumn frosts, tha geowtti of the Ladege, may be safely encouraged wherevv the ripening of the Red Fife is uncertain, with- out incurring the risk of materially lowering the reputation or the general quelity of Cenadian hard wheats." In the annual reports of the Experimental Farmsfor theyears1889,180ffand1891,furth- orparticulars were given of thetestiog of this wheat, and itis shown that the quality of earlYripthing him been maintained through- out. Many efforts were made during the past two years to secure a sufficient quan- tity of Ledoga to make a thorough test at one Of the larger mills as to the quality of the flour which could be made from it, as the early twits made in a smell Way were held to be insufficient and unrelioble. Finally Messrs. McLaughlin & Moore, of the Royal Dominion *ills of Toronto, agreed to :make a thorough test' if a car load of this wheat could be procured for the purpose. On learning that it could be got in the Prince Albert district, where some of the farmeis had grown Ladoga very sucoosefullY tor several years, Mr. A. Maokay, Superin- tendent of theExperimental Farm at Indian.. Head, was requested to visit that locality early in the year and purchase the nee- emery quantity of pure Ladoga. This reached Toronto early in April, and on the 28th of that mouth the ending was begun. X was present during the greater part of the day and saw the working of the wheat and was satisfied that the test was fairly con. ducted. • On the 9th or May, Mr. MoLaughlin wrote as follows :--" Mr. Coleman has tried the flour, so has Mr. Naemith, but neither have yet made testa satisfaotory to themselves. So far as we have seen of the bread it looks as if thecolour was going to prove very yellow and the strength better than we anticipated, but nothing positive can be said until these bakers have made satisfactory tests." On the 10th be says ; -" In our yesterday's letter we said t hat so far as 'we had yet seen of the Ladoga bread it was going to prove very yellow.g To -day we have samples from both bakers which are surprisingly different from the samples on which we based the "very yel- low" opinion. Mr. Nesmith, 1 think, in- tends sending you some loaves of bread which if they reach you in good order, will do something to confirm your faith in Ladoga. We shall not venture any fur- ther opinion until the bakers have made their final tests." On the same day Mr. J. D. Nesmith wrote as follows :- , 1 sent you to -day by expresa three loaves, two from the Ladoga flour, the other one is from MoLaughlin's 'Queen.' The first comparative trial a week ago was surpris- ing, establishing strength enough, but such a very yellow colour aa I never saw before in bread. To -day's sample if it reaches you in time, I know will gratify you as it did me, I did not at all anticipate such results from first trial." When this bread arrived I was absent from home and did not return for several weeks when the bread . was spoilt. Those who saw it and .tested it while fresh pronounced it excellent. Nothing further was heard on this sub - Mr McLaughlindesperate ject until 14th June, when . --" We have now wrote again as follows . had sufficient experience of the Ladoga to satisfy us that it is never aoin to flour y - g be a favourite with bakers. 'Nesmith has not been able to repeat the loaf he sent you, and Coleman condemns it in unstinted forms, a third man, B. Woodman of Park - dale, to whom we sent some had quite as bad an experience as Coleman. • These aro the only three to whom we have sent the flour. Certainly the bread -all but that one sample of Nasmiths-was untie for Toronto trade." 1 . Mr. McLaughlin's final repert-on t us subject was writtan on the 25th August, and reads as follows :- Toronto, 25th August, 1892, prof. Wm. Sa nadirs, Director Dominion Ex- pertmental lear»zs, Ottawa. Dena Ste, -On the 28th April r.ast, we ground 600 bushels Ladoga wheat shipped to us from Prince Albert, N. W. T. The wheat was in good condition, fairly plump free from smut or frost and very ' uniform. In grinding it worked quite different from ordinary Manitoba hard wheat, being harder to reduce and requiring niore power. In this respect it; resembled "goose' wheat more than any other variety. We sent some of the " Patent " and some of the "Strong Bakers" flour to different bakers in Toronto, telling them what it was, and requesting them to be as careful in their baking1 b "kind tests as we lad eon in mill- in it, • l'n every teat the flours were pronounced ry o. inferior to the flours from ordina N 1 and No. 2 hard Manitoba wheat. • In all cases the deficiency in strength, the very yellow colour, and the coarse texture of the bread were the evils complained of. No dealers who tested it could be permed- ed to buy the flours afterwards, even at a considerable reduction in price from the price of flours similarly made from No. 2 hard Manitoba. Later tests, after the flours had been six weeks old, resulted no better Baked as household flour, the Ladoga; Patent and Strong Bakers worked fairly and made bread that was up to the quality of much that is used in some places, but not good enough •for people who are particular as to appearance as well as taste. . Our different experiences with this flour lead us to this conclusion. Good unfrosted Ladoga wheat, such as the lot we ground, will make better flour than No. 2 regular Manitoba wheat, but not as good as No. 1 regular Manitoba. We still have some of both grades of the Ladoga flour on hand, which we would be pleased to dispose of to any one who wished to test it further. We are yours very truly, tecLano net N & Moo= • ,rrern : foots onheittoilit would APIVOt 4 thertir 40 iorpontiblettn Mideffiteed WOO., '404 frOlit Lidega. fiettrie le Welt eilaier to MAI' bread of itti inferior qttolity, ontin Wolk the' prOper tnethodafer teeiatingthiegottr tePra,' • tege uniferinly geed reintite 091e4b0,aecer. tnined it i000t -likely thot Ladogn wili he ant* Piot. ble •either, te414110011, or ba. .ketea. as tongOS the flOp 0 tho'ned Vire le obtatee able:. Haute: 'lethertiVer, Red Fite .ean 110 :Oriliedi tin) Ofibrteif these AfIttleilf.eng%- Ott itt -wheet . growing., in: the' North, rffeet, Ah0414, he direCted teltePtetitlektet; hY.PertY' '00trinft antPrePer.PreParOtien4Of tneelaile It hi to he regretted that, the Leiloget wheat ba not en eilitelitY nstofe fu114! .t0411zeti'*14e ifenee 40%1* Were .fitat innted.Oreit4''' Ainoe. .4 114.110t14 •N'1% 4.4rae 14114ilikek ft hne !been ten 14 dierent Vartetiert thet the "ginff gt 'whet.A. alt4"glY ra0.0a-Cliag. alil4a t°, :lnt!. latetes intteithlretektf;nrOP• eheieal. eats Ortieti Of teqhmalla.And eliietieity altti that ' in thee partioplate011tikbitell neRed. 'gib); ift superier to thatenonflat other Wbeabte & The ptetientatien ofethis •Miii.e...Of tactLtioe. VadOge. Weald 40,', howeigere: bcCaomplete Without 01014 'ItOna fl‘Otne, of ttnelettaire Which have beee received in fayefier of thia grain. • It le undoubtedly A week Or ten daYs. earlier in ripening than Red Fife and there ili no early vierietY Wong All the hard apring wheats which we heve teited which hats more good points than Ladoge. Some of the. Varieties itnnerted from India Are as early, but theYaresueli'lloor yjelders that no farmer wOuldeAre tegrow them, and no sufficient quantity -had been grewn hero teach* of their being teet.ed by the ,Milleree Many ores's-bred vareatiea 'lave been pro- aimed at the Central farm, between Red Fife and these early sorts with the hope of originating new wheats equal in quality to Red Tife.and earlier. Until thee new sorts are rnaltiplied mid their relative value as, certained, settlere in ,the Canadian North, West would do well to devote their Eaten- tion to the growing of Red Fife, and edema under ouch cenditions as to give it ()Very chance of maturing since no other wheat is yet to be had which will give the ettme sat- isfactory returneOboth for home and foreign trade. .. • , . , As wimples of testithony from settlers and others in favour of Ledoga the following are submitted and manv more „such might' be given. mg geee teeegs.ge stony plain, 'Edmonton, North-West Territories, writes on March 7th, 1892, as follows: "1 sowed a couple of acres of Ladoga last year on the same day as my Red Fife, and reaped it 14 days earlier. It was a splendid crop per- feotly free from smut. reonsider it a first class Wheat, I had a grist ground at the mill, and I never want a better quality of flour, notwithstanding the reports to the con• trary." : r. HenryH. Hayward, of Hayward, .1 a .. d t f ' M h 960 It 9 . , writes un er e. e o arc - 1, d 1892 and says: "In the spring of 1889 I sowed a 3-1b. sample of the Ladoga wheat which you were kind enough to send me and in the fall of last year (1891) I thrashed 174 bushels, the result of the 3 -lb sample. '.Phe 19th of this month I took to the rler mills at as Fort Qu'Ap elle 51 bushels to be our tested to WhatsePort of flit would make. The amount I:received in flour was 38 lbs. of the best, and about 3 lbs. of P oor grade per bushel of 60 lbs. I may say that the se.mple of wheat was a fair one, there being no trace of smut in it. The grain was. much lodged by a storm which caused great waste in harvesting, yet I thrashed' 35 bushels to the acre." A sample of the 'flour was sent by Mr. Hayward of , that part of the grist which was supposed to be perfectly pure, and it appeared, to be very good, but was a little yellow in color. Mr. Alex. McGibbon, Inspector of Indian genmes, writes on ovem er s A 'N b 12th, 1890 , -, from Onion Lake Reserve 100 miles north.; 7os of a t e . r an says: . t - B t 1 fo d, d'" 1 take the liberty of sending you a sample of Ladoga wheat grown on this A enc It was tried for th - fi ' ' g Y. Th I d' e ret time this year. e u ian fields gave a return of 12 bushels per acre, but it was badly dama ed b gophers,th dg Ai fe very dry. a an acre season being y y atin its own field, sown b the Anent ' 1 ' and which received attention gave a return at the rate of 44 kushelsperattention, acre The . • w o e o thie lot is qual to the sample I h 1 f " 1 , sena you. It was sown on the 22nd of A -1 dthe 3 d f S t . pri an harvestedon e r o Septem-were n " Tl 1 t b M M,Grbb er. The samp e sen y r. g i on was very fine end p1ump. The Agent at Onion Lake Reserve, Mr. G. 0. Mann, in a recent report to the De. pertinent of -Indian Affairs, says : "Alt the wheat was saved without damage by frost, the yield being very poor, with the evception of the few bushels of Ladoga wheat. which turned out fairly well. In consequence of this I have asked in my l93' estimates for a supply of 200 bushels of Ladoga for seed, which if supplied, Will I t t ve •a 't ' ani certain, urn out very well, s i ripens so much earlier than the old grade of wheat• there would be no danger from frost." Favorable reports have also been received from other Indian Agencies in the north concerning the successful growth of this Wheat. I am indebted to Mr. C. C. Chipman, Commissioner for the Hudson nay Company for the privilege of sending to a number of the posts of that company in the far north- ern districts of the Doininion, samples of grain of one pound each for test and report. These were sent in the autumn of 1891 to be grown in 1892. The The officer in charge of Fort Vermtllion, Athabasca District, about 520 miles north• west of Calgary, writes as follows: "The sited was sown on the 14th of May last andd Harvested on the 23rd of August. There was no rain whatever for the three weeks after the seed was sown. The Red Fite did not head out at all; the yield of the Ls,doga was 121bs., weighing OOlbs. per bushel: Bon- anza oats, 9 lbs. ; Prize Cluster oats, 7 lbs. • 1 Rennie's Improved Six -rowed Barley, in lbs. ; Spring Rye, 18 lbs. Through the o r. Chi have re. courtesy f M Ch' I 1 • oeived samples of these different sorts of grain. Samples have also come in from tie sa me source from Fort Simpson in the Mackenzie River District, ()bout 750 miles north-west of Calgary. The officer in charge of that post writes as follows : " The kinds of grain sown were Ladoga wheat, Rennie's improved six -rowed barley and Bonanza oats, The two latter never ripened but the wheat yielded 12 lbs. of good .ripe graiii. The date at which these varieties were planted here was the 7th of June and the wheat was harvested on September 22nd. The Ladoga in this instance weighed 62.11bs. per bushel. A very. fine sample of Ladoga wheat was received hist year grown at Dunvegan in the Peace River District, about 340 miles northwest of Calgary, which weighed 64 lbs. per bushel. A sample has also been receiv- eel grown at Isle a la Crosse, about 170 iniles north of Prince Albert, weighing 64 lbs. por bushel. 'No other wheat has ever given such results ao these in those distant north- ern regions. While these tests and experiments with the Ladoga have been in progress, a large acreage has been devoted on each of the Experimental Farms at Indian /lead, North-West Territories and Brandon, Manitoba, to the growth of Pure Red Fife, , for 00 Pena:ale:Of e •4arMerti•Vbelia had/44* Mit i Intre grain fer en fre&totert ; Ind it inPrVe;104 te QQA*Ae titto *kg% 4,14t04.10rgo. awe in f t "9'wr.,',, ' le thlt* 144 Anefint1 MIX7rte afforded of ro. neWin 'the !OW oft 141fAintible gettinfroM timot ;time': ft' k,:Ongs,.. oonreei . . 414.4 fite, ' ..itt. . .' ..:ev. 004' lilt.V0 ;had.. for, War od .. , ,.,', ,.,o,,m WM.. Ontario . tiering thrO rot feiVe yaerig eemples a eoW ern ,,SOit ,tritelkili 4Or • trial; And elit. ti a weENV,httoi,iteeelaot;Ooiormioi Bed Vern 90,10014ken and 4thet veeletieW.Itatre 'been littrilkeeelatladlneentaleenlitteOgretente et ceasiderable- extento etithough these 119Tittlee-a9e9 harden in ' tkft4140940 And 001:011110111 arit.thek.di Oinit la dtatino gnieh, item Aeti Vile,: akeY tio• net. neittidn, the. otiality,, of &ten Whichie fiamillo 'the, ,:eigare PaCrlega ; 444'44teeetiaiderable atilitiOttne ntlY inferior lieet. Willeeener er later Inter; ' the etatraeter and probably redoccite., ppm .01,tent elle price. paor hhrd whey; to,:: - it neriteen euoposed by somapteDle..Wfie pew) nquired very olesely :Pita OM matter itodareoot coneeeseee with teo peoulturitie, 'Of the diffe.rent veXtettea gig: elleethe „loft wheats grown in Manitoba end the North; •meal*" weet Territewies are Ledoge. The Ladoga is not and never has. been in our experience a eat wheet and there iel no doubtethat the quantities grown in -the North-west of the other varieties referred to far exceed the quantity Of Xetdoga wbich has been Pre... duced. While the -idea of growing Lealogit' Wheat as'a competitor. for Red .Fife for ex- port or the general home trade, slioule;be abandoned, therele, no,donietthet th fl Ilr --e -eor, of the Ladoft make* exceltent,eand nettle, time bread or home use, and where wheat growing is Carried on in the more northern districts in a limited way for hinne coliseum- tion, and where Red Fife aeldoin ripens, or on the IndknORetierveswhere a yellow tint in the bread is not a matter :of ' tie math significance, the Ladoga wheat will still erove.a moet,useful and depirable variety. L'''' ,,,,imumoo EITX0 ''''' '' „,- , " : ' ' : "„"'" e _'. ' ge,' ; .... ' ' ' - Waar° 4119 eV* 9.10 944c190Set: - egage4,11.4s It emits 8 oento/ to.rosioter • letter, in roe . le •weee4 .• . -, e ..'"'',' - - ' • • ' i , , , o• , - „ge , • . e A 4'44 9' tv.4•44'4" "T.9444°0°99 . bl OP/II."' °'421$4,.t:i'' ' ''-' .: ' inent,er. According to itirini. beagi (.,',,efattBett • 1441/41!, 109190 ntrgeil.01;:. :,, ' ,; , Thtrty milliOnetygooden epoonit.are mann': :fiwetle featured; lit /Went oyeey. year. ' '" • :tent licere,40, In .1)00,* xn414 to ce ehnpi: liOetieed for the eel§ of ohm,lAiledeingnieniettiMenteeee • . ' - ' '4',"4ing model of Niarra, F*114 wir`b!' 9)5411#04:0,44 Werl(re•k4!!' g -- ' ; 'S..celd7ierileilf"tlio Ttalia4 'adillY eira:1,110we-c ae-p%#, et their. dahy rotiono ; , !. • The lily greere Wildtlii "Senth _ItOty, aid Wee taken 0 zcorth Enroiie in. otio, . . . lee '''' .T4Cre" "'' '61 tt*cl,' of Otent Aritain is 'refried bygmembere et the: Holtife of letrde.' , e - Moecethbaego is iiiiedby' the Anstriaaa in PrOnortitne to' the. popnlatien than' by any Other nation,' . ' '• 1 . „..,:r„. ,, ,e•.,..-4 ' n4, ' ,I .i..,.a '.,...,''.,; - .meeced net'Proure Or tne raonte warm eine ,....tiejetteatse for the past year h w4,"Qu,t"),- _ .• in 78." :Pe" OnlY eiglit of the 69,00,0 Frenchmen who flowtlivuenadnedr at St aterloci aOtt The yalimpf tee Igmey and. wait produeed in tit& United' States, doring tha.paet year has.been eetimated at $g(),000,000, ' i ,ati thdellara of the Hotel : de Ville ai BreMenthereare some cases of wino that 'litiVeheen'Presel- iirecl-fer 250 yearly. , A- n analyst has made thedisceverv that . e • Canfornia rpm contain 20 per cont. more Perfume than therm grown elsewhere. A chestnut tree, said to be MOO years ald, Atilt ficeiriehee at the feet of • 'Mount Etna. It is 213 feet in circumference. Froth milk, applied every week with a 5intideth tightiets and shees, has a frethen- ling and preservative effect ' upon the leather., Horses ' ' s' ' ' 1 if 1 ' are, it is said, -so p ent u in Buenos Ayres that everybody hes ee least even the egfotrs one. It is claimed thatb beg on horseback. ' he Brooklyn Bridge is to have g • T 'a reat P neuinatio tube for the trail's -mission of mail and baggage between New York and Brooklyn. . -The Angora goat supplies the hair which adorns ordinary dolls. An English syndi- cate centrols this product, and it is valued at $40,000,000 a year. A steam -derrick that easily lifts an eighty. -ton irurr, and swings it around as readily as if it were a bale of hay, is on one of the docks at Hamburg. • The costliest pipe in the world is smoked on great eccesions by the Shah of Persia. It is set with diamonds, rubies and emer. alds, and is worth $4,000,000. „ . A oulinary acaderaybes been established by the head cooks of Paris. They meet once a month, diecuss new methods of re- paring food, and condemn some old plans as barbarous. , The electrical bicycle is again cropping ein. The weight of the batteries when fill- ed with liquid is 'to be forty-four pounds, • and the whole weight of the apparatus is to be 155 pounds. Three years before the invention of centre- fire cartridges the idea was hit Open by a nomed Indian. He had collected the shells thrown away by our troop, and fitted a percussion cep into a hole which he hal bored in the top, These shells, which he in turn discarded, testified to his. ingenuity, , ' The tobacco pipe is never seen in Spain ' •th 'money." in use among'the natives, nor are tobacco es to be purefiased in any of the shops Pip • Cigars and cigarettes, manufactured in the Government factories.. in Spain or nnported P from Cuba or the Philippines, can alone be re universe y sino e and a ' 11 k d b .Y the people. M. Marcey, the well-known investigator of a.ninial movements by means of instan- taneous photography and the zootrope; has now succeeded in rendering the beating of a living heart visible to the eye. All the phases of the movement can be followed and properly examined by this new method. The heare employed in his experiments was that of a turtle. • Surprise and terror cadsed some zinc miners to desert a shaft they were sinking at Webb City, Wis. As the opening became deeper, they noticed that the atmosphere became warmer. At the depth of 163 feet the heat was so intense that work was atop- ped, and soon they saw flames burst into the shaft. Several men who have outlived their greatness are now glad to earn their living as coachmen in Berlin. Among them are sixteen nobles, seven retired army officers, and throe pulpitless pastors. Three Brit- . nth notabilities now gleefully creek the whip as London cabmen • they are an ex- member of Parliament, a baron, and a mar- quis. A bridegroom in chains was recently mar- ried in St Petersburg. Alexander Petro- vitch had been tried for murder, and sen. tenced to death ; but the sentence Was afterwards commuted to ten Years' banish. ment in Siberia. He was married in convict garb, and hie chains clattered over the churchfloow His bricle and !mate a wedding breakast, and she will accompany him to Siberia The Gernians have caused their agents to compile dictionaries of all the native Ian. guages spoken in their colonies. The task is not a small one, as there are fifty lan- guages spoken in the East African posses- sions, twelve in those of South-West Africa, twenty in the Cameroons, five_ or six in Tonga and at least hfty in the South Seas. ' di Moreover there are numerouselects of these tongues. • Electric -light baths are among the latest inventions. The necessary parts of such a bath area cabinet which will enclose the entire body except the head, and fifty elee- tric lamps of 16.cand1e-power each, or 110 volts, arranged about the body in groups, with a separate switch for each erou . The - P light is thrown on a section at a time, mak- ing the patient frisky, and browning the skin like an ocean bath. A Paris working -man's bedstead is made so that it can be taken down and put up again in half a minute. By a curious corn- bination of springs, the bed can be instun- taneously surrounded with curtains, a wadhstand wheeled inside, and the occupant can go through his or her toilet without being een. By another epring, the ked is turned into a canopy suited for invalids, who have no need to stir tooperform the transformation. A t011Ohing old rural custom still prevail. in the western parts of France during the harvest season. On the edge of a field bore dering the highway a sheaf of grain is left standing, to which all the peasants of the village contribute, and which is called "the stranger's sheaf," as it is the oroperty of the first tramp or other homeless wayfarer who may care to carry it away and profit by ite price. OWE- QR.00anittlif AniV TAlk . ' ' ' . ' ' . ' ' ' ' " . TWO tliareil bogie, referee . Hie.met POOP 010 tritat. , eatt• tell YOU lentething 'interletini 000101140e in -Tease **z4 $, W. Tet t -la ' Iiii It iti li' I din" fo t : ' .on , allt 0 . 4 5 a . P. oer y . C1 * Vfl :*;. X batre. Made' kifeeini 'Al Q snakeklie! that oonntry, ‘,44 wring& 'gig et to bottom 0 t1e. grent onelte.ohotew . end alie4 I White medemt lover discoaerren-ameinettiefe With the ear; ',of veneinette enakaabiteli ,,'47,1elket: Tnefe; _ o i ',1th11301tritirw-SeNt;eltiltel,041•I:dtift,ki'7040b41.01! .the •oeual. bfileorieo'hwaitIlrAvi' TAW& log Xardeltaretind the:Wilding:a Vila tley re, gorowt• 0.000404.,•40,0:;.0poce•i0. ta gordeo and ooked.iflherAntight eeed for 1 snake ehamer, Qf cenroe4 re .104 Th usaal.prefellional appeared an 't consentei to the Meal terme-00 cente a heed fer gaol rinake paug14. Then We fiet to Work end folloWed and Watched bin) clo_sely. '.. .,.. ." He sent into the ettibleitireteatid':4941 blowiega% horn, Prefiently.alinak coo° otomium out:of a hopt ea, 4440 t,, neck iindmit it into a i12•010t., "no wa N'rV'eaprelatehidnIt.11:3:muded11.°1111,-Bor471:4"VTlya btiht ,odthe !muerte.. They Wereell Co ras trot three t� Ron aset long, and I watched fa .reatelts.,Ile pilledapebblefemethielteekel ntunibled Some incantatiatis e OVerelti an • then bound it over his:..wolinde Which h allowed, ine. , I Only ehuoltle,'. TWo thins hed'otrookAn.i forcibly; '',Qt.ie WO' that col rae,do not clintb Of their men AO:oord. The are ground snakes. Again it struok en that he seemed to know Where to go for It snake every time. I ordered him to catc some more, but he declared that, was al X ineisted on Ma trying. and- he :inarche aroind, blowing his horn, but no moi anakes came., - - "Thea I thought it time to torn ti . te.bles I paid him over the 3 rupees an Seized the basket with the three snakes. li looked alarmed. I sent for my sword av a block of wood. He asked Me what I we going to do. I told him that the mak were mine by right of purchase and. I wi to cut off their heads. He fell on h knees and writhed at my feet as only • Hanka) can, imploring me to have mere upon him. I contented, to 'give him bac his snakees if he would inake a clean at open confession to me. He did so. He sai it was their custom in the trade to go el at the proper season and , hunt a moth cobra with her brood. "They kill the mother and capture ti fifteen to twenty little ilve-inch , snak which constitute the brood. They are ti young to be harmful. Then they pull co the two eye teeth, which are the fangs thi kill. Then they set to work to train tl snakes. They feed them on a basin of. mill and blow the horn when feeding time a rives. After three or four mouths ti snakes get to understanding, the ligoal at come from all parte_of the romigtopecil • che basin. By this time they are groin t to a decent size and all ready for Weiner; "Tho charmet goes round f the night b a S fore and planthis nakes in different pla es. Next day he approaches the premie casually and offers to rid the place of snak at 50 omits a head. Invariably his offer accepted, as you can understand. Then 1 goes and blows his horn. The snakes a hi( are all starving with hunger, prompt come to the well-known callefor fooda.at then he catches and pouches them. •No 61 wants snakes particularly, and his hninb supplication to take away the snakes f taming purposes is invariably assented.to 1 the good-natured Anglo•Indian. In il course of a week he makes a good deal • ..• ' ' ' • •1;0 e ' Itteill_.te Ilk ..11.te IOW NOrtivill9titC,A11,-,,;.••etgriOultlire MIA*Ogleir00/477T,V1Y/144 4.."/ ',-...?7,--' essishistireantractersesteett ,, ' Thetleet bulletin' of the peorariloport% : Apat4::.y•on) i• 41*o 0 o r °not' tee On .. the *erneritnentointheworth,Weet witiv4ittloite, 'tooted „wheat tee.. geamdere the direetor, 0%111 ,tror moy, romi4 poet .the importienee of btelottig: the fiatiteat VIPentitg, varietiee Of ,egreie:ero,ohethe,georid could furoith forteet, 14 we coedialosTorthmeati, haditopreosed, iteelf, on the rondo 'Of Many Oi thele 10110 antry. .on *Wen. Interest, ape Wet coIii :Nolc.4410 late.oh,4dex eV* of Abotlfor4, ueico. imle Qae,,,, visited ' Reia n mpeny Wth ro.,:.4-,34,..Buctti, of 'owe, for the nittree .Were. Of agmileing into the character anel Verdi* next 0 Vie -Indio grown in the, nerthern ' entrteQf tlint contitrae he made inquirittealee 4egergnife the :early ripening, variettel of ' 1.(beat tole.found thc,ro #4,ving cerhflilly • fittidied tha;clitiracter of the Climates he as nertantedthet the fiettson win; ehort and that the climatic! conditione in eome, parts of Aueeia,elesely resemble these whieh obtain du dietricte In the North-West Territoriee of Canada and finding that some of the 'wheatiiiii cultivation there ripened very only, heftedeavoured to procure samples to bring home with him, but did not succeed in obtainingtheM, In uonveree.tion with ' :him after hie return, information was ob- tained al to the localities and sources Where the most premising of the early ripening wheats wouldprobably be, found, and as noon as the experimental farm system was ineugueitted, early in the, winter of 1886, tinder: ,instruotions of the Dominion Min', toter of Agriculture, , correspondence was - opened with a noted seed dealer in Riga, Russia, 'Mr. E. Goegginger, who had enade a special study of Russian cereals. Samples of the best Red Fife obtainable . Were sent to him; and he was requested to seleot from the varieties grown north of Riga, the earliest sort or sorts to be found, and if possible to secure grain equal in quality to the best Red Fife. Re, was also requeeted to interest him- .aelf in obtaining for test on the expert- mental farms- samples of other varieties grown as far north in that country as the cultivation of wheat extended, so that op- portunity might be had for testing here all the more promising sorts to be femme in Northern Russia, with the hope of finding mining them a hard wheat of good quality, whioh would ripen early enough to escape the autumn frosts, which sometime's injure the crop in some parts of the North-West country. . • The variety which Mr. Goegginger recome mendedits most likely to meet the require- ments of the case was the Ladoga, grown in latitude 60 near Lake Ladoga. north ot St, Petersburg, and by latitude 660 miles north of the otter of Winnipeg. This Variety is said to be highly esteemed in Rustle both for its quality and earliness. One hundred r bushels of this wheat was ordered and e- ceived in Ottawa early in the spring of 1887, when samples were submitted to some of the leading millers and other expert judges who pronounced:it to be a promising wheat which they believed. would grade almost as high as No, 1 hard. The kernel was plump, longer than Red Fife but not so bright m colour and it weighed 61 lbs. per bushel. Samples of this grain weighing three lbs: each were distributed -for test without de. lay to farmers in different parts of the Do. minion, '277 of which went to Manitoba g and the North-West Territories and 1,200 lbs, was forwarded by. the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to be distributed among the Indian agencies. The demand from the North-West for samples of this grain was large and it was found necessary to order another 100 bush. els from Riga which was received early in the spring of 1888. 275 reports were re. edited from farmers who had tested the Ladoga in 1887, and 301 from those who tested it in 1888, and these show that the Ladoga had ripened on the average ten days earlier than the Red Fife wherever tested. A bulletin was issued on this subject (No 4) in March, 1888, giving particulars of such information' as wasobtainable regarding this wheat to that date, In order to forth a correct judgment as to the quality of this grain as grown in this country, opinions were sought from the most competent judges and boards of experts in the Dominion. 'rho most promment dmong the Dominion grain inspectors, the largest millers, and the Boards of Trade at Idontreal, Toronto and Winnipeg were all. consulted. Eleven samples ot Ladoga, four of which han been grown in Manitoba, four iu the North West Territories, and three in the Maritime Provinces, were • selected for scrutiny. The samples sent to each were all out of the same bags, they were sent juse as they were received from the growers; information was given as to the name of the variety, . the names and of the parties who had grown the wimples, and an opinion asked for as to how these samples would grade in the markets of this country, if offered in quan- tity, and how they would compare in value with Red Fife. With reference to the purpose of this introduction, I quote the following from the letter which accompanied the specimens, "the object of this intro. .duction is not by any means to displace the lied Fife. I think the growth of that variety should be encouraged in every practicable way, but the Minister of Agri- culture desires that an earlier wheat of good quality should be secured to be grown where the Red Fife does not succeed, and thus discourage and prevent as far as is practicable the introduction of soft and inferior varieties of wheat, so that the present high standard of our North. West grain may be generally maintained." The opinions given on these samples -which were identically tho same in each ease- svere most varied and conflicting. r1 h -'--e same gamed° was pronounced " hard " by one board of experts, "soft " by another, "hard" by a third, bat "worth 5 cents a bushel leas than No. 1 hard," while a fourth judge pro. nounced it as "extra No. 1 bard." Samples of the same lot were submitted for analysis to Mr. F. T. Shutt, Chemist of the Dominion Experimental Farms, and the results of his Itualyses published in 'Midin 4 show that the better samples of Ladoga contained as large a percentage of gluten se the best Red Fife, and the quality of a bard wheat is believed to depend mainly on the proportion of gluten in contains. In November, 1888, sixteen bushele of Ladoga wheat which had been grown at the Experimental Farm at Indian Head were taken to the roller mill at Fort Qu'Appelle, N.W.T., with a similar quantity of Red Fife which had been grown in an adjacent field The dour of the Ladoga, when com- pared with the Red Fife, was found to have a yellow shade. Several sacks of flour from both these varieties Were forwarded to Ottawa, and bread carefully made from each under my own supervision. The Ladoga was found to produce a drier flour than the Red Fife, and 100 lbs, of the Ladoga flour Produced 2 lbs, more of breed than the , ..., - .. , • ,-. - • 4 ,...„ • LETTER rCRIT 26U rEARS AGO: • . _ — • g mai" 411 ade Five Miles an on e• II' r' nig"' . waymen wernitettng. . . Perhaps a little that about the methods Ificult• and di ies_of conveying lettere in by -going gone days may help you to realize and v.p- preeiete the advantagee of the -present. We will not go farther look than the latter ;part of the seventeenth century -about 200 years ago. And we will imagine ourselves in England. - There were no steamboats end steam cars to carry tiavelers to near or distant parts of the country at that time. And as people stayed at home so generally, there was not nearly so much letter -writing as now. We go on frequent journeys, and want ta let our dear one, know where we are, what we are doing, and how we are faring. Besides, there were not inany post offices outside of the cities and large towns and it was only t • • - • • - do important places in the vicinity of Lon- he me. 1 was s nt as often as one on that t i e , , e a day, and towns at.sorrie distance had their lettere and newspaPers but once a week. To remote country places, villages, gentle- men's country 'residences and •farma, espe- cially during the winter, when the publie and private roads were very bad, the mails were very uncertain, being often a. fortnight and. sometimes an entire month apart. At• t that time the bags containin the let - ters were all cerrled by horsemen, the mail - carrier jogging along by night and day at the Kate of about five miles an hour -in good Weather, and in su:nmer time ; for the hignh- ways were usually in very bad conditio , so that fast riding was not possible. The postman often ran the risk of being stopped and plundered by mounted highwaymen, at that time a terror to to, velers by horseback - - or coach. They seemed to be on a sharp lookout -for any valuables in money, paper or otherwise tnat might be sent in the post. bag. They wide the fastest and finest horses were bold and daring, and when the ' ' - en aprocured, postman found himself in a lonely road or crossing a dark moor late at night,you may be sure he urged his weary horse forward and joyfully welcomed the first ray of light that shone froin the lantern swinging to the side of the roadside inn. Hounslow heath, Finchley common and Gadshill in the neighborhood f o oLondon were celebrated haunts of the highwayman, and the secluded roads of Epping forest on the route to Cambridge were often the scenes of plunder in broad daylight. Thes3 robbers at la b d at became so anger- ousand the peril of their attacks so seriou to travelers -of all kinds,11the as we LAS to postmeto that the Government pasied a law makinghighway a tle.1throbbery an offense puiiis- c. 0;oes y • death . h criminal and the cation of all his property. But rob- berie 'II d s ate occurre . • I 1 e n J 83 mail coaches protected by armed guards took the place of post -boys. The e i coaches carried passengers, a so, and, as these general' cerried arms the mail were better -protected ; but '11 d arms, ' de f • • sti ming an 0 ten- times successful attacks were male upon them. Railroad Ramblings. Russian railroads have introduced dinir cars on trains. e There were 9,32, ,446 tons of coal carri( over the Delaware, Lackawanna & Westei lines during 1892. - What are said will he the largest pair driving wheels in the world will be ce structed for the New York • Central Rai road. The wheels, when constructed, .wi be seven feet in diameter. The 'Government purposes to mine Prince Edward Island with the mainiaz by a tunnel eight miles long under Nort umberland straits. The engineers,have col' leted reliminary surveys, and find th, P p , favorablef 1 the sea bottom is generally or t work. • At three large London railway statioi -.Charing Cross, Canon street and Lend; bridge -as many as 32,969 movements signal and point levers have to be mal every twenty-four hours, quite apart fro the telegraphic operations. , In the Schenectady Locomotive Worl there is a handsome little engine which h just been finished. It is named ti "Adirondack", and is to be used as i observation engine for the Adirondack St. Lawrence Railroad. The engine is 8001addresses what smaller than the " Mohawk" of tl Centraleiludson, but 13 very similar design. It is a leer -wheeler, with the i specter's cab direetl,y over the boiler and the front of the engine. The Union Pacific has just turned out its shops at Omaha a powerful passeng engine, designed by J. H. McConnell, si perintendent of motive power of the row The engine is of the ten -wheel type, h twenty by twbuty-four inch cylinder, boil sixty-four inches in diametor,with 300 flue it weighs seventy tons, 120,000 pounds re1 ing on the driving wheels. The diamet of the driving wheels is fifty-one inches. Tl ' 1 ' 'about The I enns yams. company Is discard the old metbod of stamping tielce with ink and will punch tho year and di clear through the ticket by means stencils. This is done to keep scalpers az others. form altering the date. The ne method will be put into praotice March h A peculiar feature is that the month do not appear. Everything is reckoned days of the year. Following the clay stan is the final figure of the year. Austria announces an electric locomoti • which is to travel 125' miles an hour. TI Independence Beige follovis with the stet ment that the North Belgian Compel and the North France Company are co structing a line for locomotives operated 1 electricity, on which the journey fro Brussels to Paris, about 192 miles, will accomplished in eighty minutes, a speed nearly 15O miles an hour. It is furthesstati that the trains will be running in abo two months. The locomotive engineers on the Er system have ordered an engine costb $12,000 to be exhibited at the World's Pei It is paid for by themselves. It will equipeed with tho very latest and me perfect appliances in the way of air brak and all other lai e devices which will add the effectiveness of the working and han ling of the machine. It will haw el wheels, with four wheels connected. ' 1 ;diameter of the driving wheels will be 0 feet, the cylinders nibeteen by twenty -el and it will buin either hare or soft coal. is estimated that it Will he worth $1'2,00 The Darkey's Retort. Jason, a Roston darkoy, was summoned to give evidence in a case in which it was not his interest to be identified. When the time of trial came Jason sent the following note to the judge : "Can't come, sail ; f!se in bed wid er broken hip," The next day a deputy -sheriff saw Jason in the street, arrested him, and took him into court. "You trifling rascal 1" said the judge. " I ought to son you to the Penitentiary." " What f 1 cl, `" or; je ge : "For lying to this court" "I didn't lie to de court." " You did -you i -you said you were lying in bed witha b • " roken hip. "1 wnz • d " , je ge. "How did you get well so soon 9" 1101 l th' ' d . wid , 1, car wa'n'tnu in e matter • , me . "Then you have lied to the court." "No, Bah, I hain't. My son broke his hip tut ler ay, an WAS ben in bed wid h' 1 d ' I • ' " him," 11 Take the fool away !" , "Thank yer.jodge. De white folks dean n , ' • • • , , n erstancl a, thing till airter it 3 splained, but den dey see it wid or mighty bright eye I" &Millen Books for Soldiers. Britith inildiers will wear seamless socks in future, because they insure greater march- ing efficiency. The old style of seamed socks chafed the skin and made the soldiers footeore i the seamless socks do not. Timd• ers for the supply of 910,000 pairs, a year's estimated requirements, have been invited by the government. . The first and only real writing machine is being exhibited in New York. It is a most elaborate contrivance, holding a pencil, against a fixed sheet Of Paper in such a ineemer that the operator is able to make the pencil write on the paper by movfng a set of handles, The procese is ever so muoh more difficult than writing with a pencil hold in the Angers, and that is ' probably why this peculiar device has never corn.° into generil use. • • 5 18 5 a