The Huron News-Record, 1893-03-29, Page 6,nt
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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=
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,rrern : foots onheittoilit would APIVOt
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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. .. •
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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.
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- Waar° 4119 eV* 9.10 944c190Set: - egage4,11.4s
It emits 8 oento/ to.rosioter • letter, in roe .
le •weee4 .• . -, e ..'"'',' - - ' • • '
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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.
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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;
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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
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' 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
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• LETTER rCRIT 26U rEARS AGO:
• . _ — • g
mai" 411 ade Five Miles an on
e• II' r' nig"'
. waymen wernitettng.
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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.
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