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' TIIE WINGIIAM TIMES, AUGUST 30, ` 1906
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TUE WIN rnAM TIMES.
R. ELLIOTT. PUBLISHER ANRPROPRIETOP
THURSDAY. AUGUST 30. ee06.
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
The iron and steel bounty payments
paid by the Dominion Government for
the financial year up to Jnly 1st amount
to $2, 00.4.339, as compared with $1,540,-
203 in 1905 The payments indicate a
very large increase in the output of the
Canadian iron and steel industries,
AUTUMN SOWN CROPS. In eaoh of seven years, experiments
have been conducted in treating Winter
Results of Experiments Conducted at theWheat in different ways to prevent the
flea' harvest weather still continues
through the whole west. It is estimated
about 80 per cent of the wheat is now
cut. The most reliable estimates places
the probable yield between 80,000,000
and 90,000,000 bushels. Latest reports
indicate the damages to wheat from the
repent hot spell was about 2.02 per cent.
Mr. Cecil B. Smith, Chairman of the
Temiekaming et Nor thern Ontario Rail-
way Commission, has learned that a
prospector from Lexington, Ky., has
struck it rich in Northern Ontario. The
Kentuckian in question has located gold
in the township of Playfair, north of the
Height of Land, about 80 miles north of
Liskeard. The samples analyzed about
411 onces of gold to the ton, or about
$8,000 to the ton. Besides, there was
silver in the ore that went about 400
onces to the ton.
Ontario AgriEultural College and, development of stinking smut, and the
Throughout the Province. results have been very satisfactory. In
.1. Buchanan, B. S. A., Agricultural College, the average of the past three years, un -
Guelph, Ont treated seed produced 4.4 per cent. of
Owing to the deficient snowfall and smutted heads, while send which was
the alternate freezing and thawing of the immersed for twenty minutes in a oohs,
ground daring the past winter, most of tion made by adding one pint of formalin
the autumn sown crops iu the province to forty-two gallons of water produced
suffered considerably. As a consequence, a crop which was practically free from
some of the fall wheat was ploughed smut. Not only did the formaliu treat -
under in the spring, and many of the went effectually prevent the develop -
fields which were left yielded rather meat of the smut in the crop, but a con -
uneven crops. Quite a number of the t siderably larger yield ot grain was oh -
co -operative experimenters reported a rained when the treatment was applied.
The average yield of grain for the three
years from untreated seed was 38.7
bushels, while the crop grown from seed
to which the formalin treatment has
been applied yielded 45.6 bushels per
acre. This indicates a gain of about
seven bushels per acre in favor of the
treated seed. Several other methods of
treating seed for the prevention of smut
wee tested but the formalin methed
herein described was the cheapest and
most practical of all, as well of being
effectual.
Many tests conducted at Guelph indi•
cate the importance of Bowing about
ninety pounds of winter wheat per acre
on an average soil. This amount might
be increased for poor land and decreased
for rich soil. If the land is in a good
state of cultivation it matters but little
whether the seed is sown broadcast or
with a tube drill, but if the land is dry or
lumpy, that which is own with the
drill is likely to give the best results.
The highest yields°per acre have been
obtained from sowing between the 26th
of August and the 9th of September.
Common Winter Rye and Mammoth
Winter Rye have been grown for seven
years in succession; the Common giving
an average yield of 57.9 bushels and the
Mammoth 59.3 bushels of grain per acre.
Among five varieties grown for the
past three years, the Mammoth White
stood first with an average yield of 66 6
and the Washington second with 61 7
bushels per acre. Winter Barley has
been grown at the College for several
years and when it is not winter killed
gives very good yields. This season it
made a poor showing in the spring but
recovered from the effects of the un-
favorably winter and yielded 58.5 bush-
els per acre. Hairy or Winter Vetches
produced an average yield of 10 2 tone
of green crop per acre in the experiments
for four years and 6.7 bushels of seed
per acre in the tests for six years. Home
grown seed has given considerably better
results than imported seed.
total failure with Winter Vetches and
Winter Wheat, and in several cases even
the Rye was somewhat injured. At the
College, both Wheat and Rye came
through well, but the, subsequent growth
of the Wheat was not as good as might
have been expected, and ou the whole,
the yields were somewhat lower than
those of last year.
1-ExPERI]IENTS AT THE COLLEGE.
About two hundred and fifty varieties
of Winter Wheat have been tested at
the College within the last seventeen
years. In all cases the varieties are
given a thorough test for five years, at
the end of which time the inferior kinds
are discarded and only the more promis-
ing ones retained for further experiments.
During the past season sixty-one verities
were grown; twenty-nine of these have
been under test for the past five years,
and fifteen of the twenty-nine for the
past ten years.
The following table gives the average
weight per measured bushel and the
average yield of straw and grain of eaoh
variety for ten years.
The no-breaktast practice is not a
craze nor a fad, but a practice whioh
thousands have found to be wholesome
for both mind and body, while increas-
ing the luncheon capacity. As for cut-
ting out the luncheon, many hard brain -
workers find the taking of only one meal
a day an advantage. As during the
sleeping hours the body is assimulating
and using for repairs the toed taken the
day before, the breakfast is an illogical
meal. The world is becoming less de-
voted to . astronomy.=Windsor Record.
The Weekly Sun haebeen investigating
the effect upon the Ontario farmer of the
development of the West, and comes to
the conclusion that the injury is to bo
found in the influence on farm valves,
on the volume of farm labor available,
and in adding to the general burden of
taxation. Even this is partially upset by
the markets the West affords for certain
lines of Ontario produce, and by what
farmers in the Province have done to-
wards creating a home market at the door
of Ontario farmers -Brantford Expositor.
LOWER WINGRAM.
Mr. George Srigley is spending two
weeks in Toronto.
The friends of Mr. Geo Phippen are
congratulating him on his appointment
as a provincial constable.
Mrs George Orpant returned to her
home in Toronto after a two weeks visit
at Mr George A. Phippen's. Miss Geor-
gina Phippen accompanied her and will
spend a couple of weeks in Toronto.
1he Indians who have been camping
here for some time leave this week for
their homes in Sonthampton. An inter-
esting and largely attended service was
held on Sunday afternoon. being con-
ducted by Rev. Mr. Crowe. After the
Indians had sapper at Mr. Geo Phippen's
the service was continued in the evening.
The body of Levi Taylor, an aged citi-
sen of Cobourg, was found in the water,
He left a note expressing his intention of
committing suicide.
It is reported at Winnipeg that the
Canadian Northern and the Grand Trnnk
Pacific Companies have agreed to build
a railway from Saskatchewan to Hud-
son's Bay.
In a collision between two freight
trains at Iberville Junction, Quebec, a lot
of matches in one of the cars started a
blaze that consumed five cars filled with
merchandise.
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Golden Chaff, white
Imperial .Amber red
Early Genesee Giant white
Russian Amber red
Egyptian Amber Red red.
Early Red Clawson red
Tasmania Red red
Rudy red
Tuscan Island red
Geneva red
Bulgarian white
Turkey Red red
Kentucky Giant red
McPherson red
Treadwell white
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59.7
605
59.7
607
612
58.9
61.5
60.8
61.0
62.2
60.5
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3.5
3.6
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54.0
52.3
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50.4
49.6
49.5
47.7
47.1
47.0
45,9
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44 8
44.6
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Among the sixty-one varieties grown
this season, the Abundance snood first in
yield with 50 4 bushels per acre, and the
Prize Taker second with 50 2 bushel's.
These are both white wheats,very closely
resembling the Dawson's Golden Ohaff
in all respects. The Abundance also
gave the highest yield among all the
varieties grown in 1905 and is a promis-
ing variety, al,hough not of the very
best milling quality. It is interesting to
note that this year two of the' compara-
tively hard red wheats -Russian ember
and Imperial Amber -have come up to
second and third places in yield of grain
with 49.8 and 49 4 bushels per acre respect-
ively. All four varieties mentioned above
were over the standard in weight, the
Imperial Amber being the heaviest and
weighing almost 631bs. perbuehel. The
five varieties giving the heaviest weight
per measured bushel in 1905 were North-
western, Geneva, McPherson, Economy,
and Auburn; these, however, were all
rather low in yield with the exception of
Auburn which was fifth in weight per
measured bushel and sixth in yield of
grain per acre among the sixty•one
varieties grown. Generally speaking,
the white wheats yield more grain per
acre, possess stronger straw, weigh a
little less per inearured bushel, and are
slightly softer in the grain than the red
varieties.
At the present time efforts are being
made to obtain improved strains of some
of the best varieties by systematic plant
selection, and while the ordinary seed of
Dawson's Golden Chaff gave acompara-
tively lower yield than usual this year,
three new strains of this variety, obtained
by the above mentioned method, each
gave a much higher yield than any of the
varieties iu the regular test.
Much work is also being done along
the line of cross breeding and it is expect-
ed that some profitable results will accrue
from this work in the near future.
During the past year many hundreds of
hybrid plants were grown, and, judging
from present indications, some of these
Live 8toeic Markets.
Toronto, Aug. 28 -.-There was a light
run at the Western Cattle Market this
morning, and the expected slump in
prices did not Dome. The market was
not partioularly active.
The receipts totalled 78 cars, consist-
ing of 1,115 cattle, 2,081 sheep and
lambs, 200 bogs and 161 calves.
There was a fairly good trade in
butchers' cattle, and almost everything
was bought up. Common stuff is not
wanted, however, and brings but a low
figure.
Nothing doing in export cattle. Ranch
cattle, Doming in from the States, glow
better than the common class of export
cattle. There is a moderate demand for
good exporters of heavy weight.
The business in feeders and stockers
is very slight, No appreciable demand
for them yet.
Milch cows of good quality are in de-
mand, and bring tie high as $50.
Sheep and lambs remained steady, and
the price of hogs was unchanged.
The following are the quotations:
Exporters' cattle- Per 100 lbs.
Choice
Medium
Bulls
Light
Cows
Feeders -
best 1000 pounds and up-
wards . - 4 85
Stockers choice 3 00
" bulls...... ..... 2 25
Butchers' -
Picked 4 65
• Choice 4 50
Medium ..... 4 00
Cows ................. 335
Bulls 2 25
Hogs -
Best
Lights
2-1LESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS THROUGH-
OUT ONTARIO.
No less than two hundred and forty-
one farmers in Ontario conducted co-
operative experiments with Autumn -
sown crops during the past year. Good
reports of carefully conducted tests have
been received from many of these, and
all deserve credit for the useful work
they have done for themselves and their
fellow farmers. Following are some of
the summary results of these tests.
In the autumn of 1905, five varieties
of Winter Wheat were distributed to
those who made application. The fol-
lowing table gives the average yield of
grain and straw:
Straw per Grain per
VARIETY acre (tons) acre (bus.)
Banatka .. 2.2 30.0
Early Geneeee Giant... 1.9 25.5
Crimean Red ......... 1.9 25 4
Imperial Amber 1 9 23.4
Dawson's Golden Chaff 1.7 21.6
$4 75
4 25
3 75
325
3 50
. 6 65
6 40
Sheep -
Export ewes ..... • 4 50
Bucks.,... 3 50
Culls .... 300
Spring Lambs per lb.. 6 50
Calves. each ... . 300
$4 85
4 00
3 50
3 75
5 00
3 25
2 40
4 70
4 65
4 20
4 00
2 40
4 75
3 75
3 50
7 00
3 50
NOTICE OF CLOSING.
We, the undersigned Lawyers agree to close
our offices during the months of July and
Augrret as follows: -On Saturdays at 2 P.15.,
and on other days at 4 P.M.
DICKlNsOte &5 SOLMIs.
HOLYEs, ()LAAKa & HOLHas,
WINGRAM MARKET REPORTS
Wingham, August 30th, 1906
Flour per 100 lbs..,. 2 25 to 2 75
Fall Wheat ,,.. 0 76 to 0 76
Oats, 0 32 to 0 34
Barley .... ..... 0 4ee to 0 45
Peas 0 65 to 0 65
Buckwheat 0 55 to 0 55
Butter 0 20 to 0 20
Eggs per doz 0 17 to 0 17
Wood per cord 2 50 to 300
Hay , per ton ' 6 Oa to 7 00
Potatoes, per bushel new 0 50 to 0 50
Tallow per lb 0 05 to 0 06
Lard ... 0 15 to 0 15
Dried Apples per ib 0 05 to 0 06
Live Hogs, per cwt. 6 50 to 6 50
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Dawson's Golden Chaff and Imperial
Amber gave smaller yields of grain than
the other three varieties, they have first
and second places in popularity with the
experimenters; the Dawson's being the
most popular, probably because of its
clean strong straw. The Banatka which
stood first in yield of grain was third in
popularity. This is a hard red wheat of
good milling quality but produces rather
weak straw, and therefore lodges con-
siderably, especially in badweather.
Of the three varieties of Winter Rye
distributed last Autumn, the Mammoth
stood first in average yield of grain with
41.1 bushels per acre, the Thousand -fold
second with 32,9 bushels, and the Com -
are destined to become the progenitors mon third with 31.8 bnehels. These
of very valuable new varieties. For this three varieties are very much alike in
work only the very best of the standard most respects, though differing some -
sorts are used as parent stocks. Among what in yield.
these might be mentioned the Dawson's For the production of fodder Hairy
; Golden Chaff, Bulgarian, Turkey Red, Vetches and Winter Rye were grown
Imperial Amber, and Tasmania Red. this year for the fourth time. Several
The results of twelve separate tests reports of this experiment were received
made at the College show an average in-
crease in yield of grain per acre of 6.8
bushels from large as compared with
small seed, of '7.8 bushels from plump
as compared with shrunken seed, and of
35 6 bushels from sound as compared
with broken seed. Seed which was al- classes of. animals, In general, the
lowed to become very ripe before it was Vetches were relished by all kinds of
cat produced a greater yield of both stock but the Rye was not so freely
grain and straw and a heavier weight of eaten, except by horses.
of grain per measured bushel than that 2. -NOTICE TO ESP$RI3fENT&R8,
produced from wheat which was cut at
any one of the four earlier Stages of Each of the experimenters withspring
maturity. In 1897 and again in 1902, a and summer crops wi.l kindly report the
large amount of the winter wheat in results of their experiments as soon as
Ontario became sprouted before it was they can after the crops aro harveatod.
but ae the Vetches were completely
winter killed in most places, no good
comparison of the yields can be made.
In several testa, Winter Rye gave very
good results. The experimenters report
that these crops were fed to several
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