The Exeter Advocate, 1897-4-15, Page 3ts.
COW BARN.
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MARKETING BUTTER.
One City Whore Commission Men Pay
Afore Titan Wholesale Grocers.
I F. A. Leighton writes from Philadel-
phia th The Creamery Journal:
There was a meeting here in Philtt-
delphia, *which 1 attended, of the means-
ery men within a half day's drive of the
city. The men got up and made the
statement that they received more reou-
ey for -their butter wben they shipped
it to the commissiou men than when
they sold to the wholesale grocers or to
any other line of trade. Now here is
the point If these people within 20
miles of Philadelphia can do better
with commission men thou with auy
other class of trade, will not tho same
tlaing hold true with us in the west?
These creamery men are here where they
cau watch the business, but still all are
• agreed that tho safest way to do busi-
ness is through the commission men.
I wish to call the attention of the
butter makers to the correct way a us-
ing the parchment lining for tubs. My
authority on this is one of the largest
commission ArillS in New York. They
say there is no doubt that the parch-
ment paper is one of the great im-
- proveraents of the age in butter making
and something that will have to be uni-
versally used in a short time, but there
are not many who know how to use it
properly. In the first place, don't buy
the parchment circles for the top of the
butter. They are not wantecl on the but-
ter at all, they are more of an injury
than a benefit Tyave aen
hehtdency to
Convenient Dairy Stable Built In the
Porm of a Cross.
Aroong the many plans for stabling
dairy cows sve think the one here given
Duo of the most desirable. Jared vau
Wagenen furnishes the plan in The Ru-
ral New Yorker, and says of it:
Experience has shown how other
elasses of factories should be built, and
I think that we are coming to have a
pretty generally accepted typo of cosv
stable. It is the half basement of a
building frona 82 to 86 feet wide and as
long as may be necessary to accomsno-
date the desired number of animals.
This width allows for two rows of cows 1
facing the outside, with a feeding alley
in front of each row and a driveway,
through the center for removing the
manure. The stable should be flooded
with sunlight theough immerous win-
dows and be well ventilated. This xnat-
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wrinkle the surface of the butter and
cauciaortat COW BARN, • make it rely unsightly. When the lin-
ter of ventilatiou is, pethaps, the most ing is used, let it come up about an
difficult problem about the whole de- inch above the top of the tub; then, aft -
sign. Probably what we raay call the er the straight edge has been used, fold
typical dairy barn should take the form the paper over the butter and place the
of a cross in the ground plan, as here cloth circle on top, then a light sprin-
shown, i kling of salt.
Our own barn, built last year, has 4 And now a few words about flavor,
precisely these essential features, and IHere is a subject that will stand more
see no reason for changing them were investigation by ens-expo:intent stations
we to rebuild. This style of barn can be than any other feature of the dairy
either two or three stories high (in our business. It is something that we don't
own case three). Grain can then be . know anything about. One butter maker
spouted from the *wagons to bins on the will win the sweepstakes at a coarveu-
second floor and thence to the lower tion, but he does not do it the second
floor as needed. The silo can be filled tame. way? Bemuse he doesn't know
from the third floor, a 14 foot elevator how he did it before, and wben be comes
being all that is required to fill a 80 ' to snake a second tub like the one he woo
foot silo. The shortest; arm of the cross with at the previous show be is entire -
is the main entrance and bridge house, 1 ly in the dark. I believe the whole se -
which contains the granary on the sec- , oret is in the ripening of the cream. It
ond fioor and the cue feed roma, grain must be possible for us to make as fine
box and engine rOora beneath the gran- ; butter in some a our creameries as the
ary. ' classes of this eOuntry aeho are selling
The longer arm of the crosspiece is a their butter for from 40 cents to $1 per
hay MOW above, sheep on the second pound.
story and calif pens and. horse stalls M i I am stumbling on to tbis butter about
the basement beneath. I consider that, every day 110W, and I say to you there
with modifications to meet individual is nothing equals it that I has% seen in
conditions or fancies, this may be, per- ' tho west It is no better than ours on -
haps, the best genera shape for a dairy , ly in flavor. The mechanical part is no
barn. better. Ours has just as good grain, is
Of the cow business in general Mr. seasoned and colored and worked just as
Van Wagenen writes: well, but the flavor, "that's the 1'1113.'7
Let us pay more attention to flavor.
Probably a cow should rest frona her
a labors for six to eight weeks each year.
liost of them will insist upon such an
annual vacation, but many COWS of pro-
nonnced milking type, will, if not dried
up, milk "from calf to calf." Some
111111c Shippers.
o dairyrnall should aingage in sup-
plying milk to the trade who is not
willing to produce a reasonably nui-
' good cow keepers advise this practice, form amount throughout the year. Un-
th
but I believe at the old i
time idea s even production is a great menace to
best. When a cow is milked continta remunerative prices. This was the un-
ously, the amount given after calving is derlying muse that occasioned the nip -
small and never reaches the "flush" of tura between Philadelphia's producers
a cow whica has gone dry a few weeks and dealers five years ago. A fair pro -
and recuperated and increased her milk portion of the cows should be fresh in
giving or mammary apparatus. In other the fall of the year instead of so large.
words, the cow needs time to "Inake ly after the new year as is now the
bag." case. The supply of milk is allowed tc
fall so low in the late fall and early
winter that dealers in the emergency
take on additional shippers, though
these, like the previous furnishers, may
Ing public. Some are paying a slight , at the time be producing only a small
quautity of milk. About the new year
advance in price for milk of superior
excellence, and many are delivering the these dairies, old and new, by the cern-
milk to consuraers in bottles. There is, ing of fresh cows, begin to largely
the mu-
d course, an added expense in supply-
iincrease the supply, and thus
ket is demoralized at a time when by ng bottled milk, but the dealer finds ;
corapensation in being able to keep a better management a good and steady
lucre strict accotmt with his business, sale could be had.
Souse milk shippers indulge a jeal-
as irregularities in measurement are
done away with. Also, the milk- can be ousy toward the suppliers of whole and
! skim milk that enter the masket from
delivered with much more dispatch,
i the creameries at the time of low pro-
reduced.duction. Such jealousy is shortsighted.
whereby the cost of service is materially
The gain to the consumer is
great. The exposure incident to street
Until milk shippers shall properly dis-
tribute their fresh cows thioughout the
dipping is avoided. Also, the milk may I
be retained in the bottles until used, year the creamery may continue to ren-
der a valuable service to the regular
thus avoiding contamination of poorly ,
shipper of milk, for by thus supplying
oleansed vessels and from dust and odors.
the temporary shortage dealers are re -
Also, the cream can be hadfrem the top ,
of the milk,while, if this is not desiredlieved from the necessity of seeking new
Bottle the 111fik.
Upon the part of the dealers also im-
proved methods are being adopted, the
better to meet the needs of the comma -
by inverting the bottle for a momnt,, e , Permanent shiPPers'
•
the cream is again incorporated with 1
the milk. Then, too, there is Dairy and Creamery.
opportu-
Peas and oats, half and half, sown
oily to observe the richness of the milk
together make a good soiling crop.
aid to determine if it is free from set- '
tlings.—Philadelphia. Ledger , Corn drilled in is also one of the best
.
of crops to be cut green in the blade
Dairy and Creamery. I and fed to cows. The oats and barley
from spring seeding should be fed just
There is no question but a cow ought
to go dry and. rest a month before ally- i as the head is forming.
Ing. The calf will be stronger, so will • A "soiling crop" is one designed to
the cow. Her flow of fresh milk will bG be out green and fed to animals in a
heavier than where it has been drained stable or confined place.
atraight up to the time of the birth of 1 In the reduced scale of prices to
her calf. Nature and reason alike favor which everything has come it is the
this drying off. • . first duty of the daiumau and cream-
! ery man to study the production of milk,
Have your cows come in fresh in the
fall always. The Danish dairy experts butter and cheese at reduced cost. The
lead the world, and they declare experi- dairyman should make a scientific study
ments demonstrate that a cow calving of foods and form a ration that will
In the fall gives 25 per cent more milk bring better results at less cost. • The
• than the cow calving in the spring. , creamery m an should utilize every scrap
Jared Van Wagenen says in The Ru-
of waste products in his factory and
scan
ral New Yorker: "We feed ie nto the inan-
narrowly his machinery and see
gers (the hoppers) •t our machines whether labor cannot be saved there.
rough, crude materials worthA shorter diotance to transport the
from $6
, milk, emit:IA:tieing every pound Of pow -
to $12 per ton, and after xottny manipu- er possible, making so many pounds of
'Mims we early to the express or freight
steam perform two or three operations
Office a product worth from $300 to at once, are ways in which the cream -
9600 per ton. I often think of this when ' ery man may cut down expenses. It is
I drive down on a light buckboard 'not economy, however, to use cheap or
wagon with the equivalent of two or
Wornout machinery or old, and rusty
three tons of hay and grain packed iu
pound prints."
milk utensils and old soakers of butter
tU bs.
When cows come in fresh in the fall The report of theElgin board of trade
and are well fed all winter, they keep 1
, shows that both the butter and cheese
tolerably flush of milk for six mouths. of the district handled by that. board
Then they begin to fail. somewhat. But fell off in 1896 as compared with 1895.
just in the nick of this time of failing in. 1895 the figures Were 89,028,543
comes in the rioll and ililaY arming Pas- pounds o• f butter and 10,696,910 pounds
tura, and there you are again, with cows of cheese. For 1896 the board handled
.Velloge flow of raja is greatly increased 88,655,249 pounds of butter and 7,297,-
by the green grass. •
977 pounds of cheese.
OUR OTTAWA LETTER
MGR. MERRYDEL VAL AND HIS
MISSION TO CANADA,
Deithle Dealing—Violated Promises–Mite
Tittitr lias Not Yet Made Os advent—Mr.
Illatrdy a,,L the Prolvibl.tionists.
[From Our 'Own Correspondent ]
Ottawa, April 6. --These are difficult
times for the apologists and advfiers of
the gentlemen who sit ou the Treasury
benches here in Ottawa. Every week
the Ministers make some volte face that
• keeps the members of , the rank and. Ale
awake nights guessiug as to the reason
of the change of front. The cause is not
far to seek. The Government, true to its
policy of trying to keep solid with all
classes and all divisions of the Canadian
people, is obliged to revise its views
weekly, if not daily. On a certain day
this week we heard Israel Tarte, in a
mock heroic strain, aCknOwledge that it
wa.s true that he and. forty-two other
Senators and members of the House of
Commons, had written to the Pope,
humbly beseeching His Holiness to call
off the bishops of Quebec, The Minister
of Publics Works, appealing more especi-
ally to the Englislaspeeking members of
the House, made a bid. for their applause
on the ground that the petitioners had
made request for the Pope's aid th seour-
ing civil liberty. But did the able Israel
exactly tell the truth as to the history of
the case? Is is not a fact that, a few
months ago, the Liberals announced that
they were set in battle array against any
dictation from the bishops? They said
that they were determined to figlat the
hierarchy until their lordships should sue
for peace. 'What followed. is within the
recollection of all of us. A Liberal news-
paper in the city of Quebec: was de-
nounced and suppressed, The valiant
Tarte of course continued the fight? ICo
indeed, he proceeded to draw up the
petition to Rome, asking that the Court
of Rome come to their aid, And, it must
be remembered, these brave warriors for
civil liberty and boasted, not a month
before, that they reared. no foe and that
they. were ready to fight the battle single-
handed. Tbe petition was sent, and the
hut is now claimed by Tarte and his
friends as highly meritorious. Their VlOWS
and methods have changed hugely
within the past few months. When Abbe
Proulx, the first and unsuccessful emis-
sary went to Rome, aim Laurier protest-
ed that he was in nowise an agent of
himself or of the Administration. Wben
Solicitor -General Fitzpatrick started,
ostensibly for London, but in reality for
the Holy City, the .Premier assured every-
body that his young lieutenant was on
pleasure bent, and held no commission
from the Government. Doubtless Mr.
Laurier has relegated both of these state-
ments to the vacuum of his memory for
he applauded lustily when Tarte acknow-
ledged that the Liberal parliamentarians
had sent agents to Rome, and that they
gloried in the fact. The members of the
Administration have lost no thee in try-
ing to convince the people of Quebec that
Mgr. Merry del Val has been deputed by
the VatiCall 10 take the bishops into the
Liberal camp, or, at least, to make the
ecclesiastics the friends of the Adminis-
tration. With this quarrel we in English
Canada have nothing to do, but we have
every right to denounce the Govern-
ment's action in bringing any extermal
forces to bear in settling a question that
concerns Canadians only. The Court of
Rome has never abandonod its claim to
be considered a smilax power. Its able -
gates are still sent to the court of every
Roman Catholic country. They rank
above all other ambassadors if they have
the necessary qualification of seniority of
service, and they perform axabassadorial
functions. If we knew the truth we
should find that Mgr. Merry del Val has
been sent to Canada on a mission that is
quite as much secular as it is religious.
Double Dealing.
The whole affair is no credit to the
Government. The rnethods by which the
school clifdaulty was patched up 'were
discreditable enough, but the results
seem to suit the people of Manitoba. The
rest of Canada can well afford to let the
question drop. The Government's course
in other matters has been 330 straighter
than it is in this. The Opposition has
plenty of materia for criticism of the
Administration. Sir Charles Tupper in
his able effort at the opening of the ses-
sion, told us' that he was ready to let the
Admielstration essay a task which it has
aleetaly found. itself incompetent to Per-
form. in Quebec Mr. Laurier has prom-
ised that he will obtain further coaces-
sions for the Roman Catholics of Maui-
toba. In the Champlain bye -election Mr.
Fitzpatrick Ms said the same thing. It
Is the old story over again: Ona plan for
Quebec, another for the rest of Canada.
Laurier & Co. assure Jean Baptiste that
they have secured only an instalment of
justice for their alanitoban co -religion-
ists. In the other parts of Canada the
Ministers declare that they have danced
upon the grave of the Manitoba school
question and that there never will be a
resurrection. The only effect this disin-
genuous course will be to show the
people of this octunti7 that the Govern-
ment of the day is not to be relied
upon; that its policy varies with ge-
ography, and that it either has no
fixed opinion or else that it does eat de-
sire to take the people into its confidence.
• Violated Promises,
Louis H. Davies, the Minister of Mar-
ine and FiSherieS,10 hi oveiT way entitled
to his place in the Cabinet True, he does
not possess the recommendation of bay-
ing turned his coat like Tarte, or of
being, like Clifford Sifton, a man who
&maims to settle with his creditors. In
other respects, though, Mr. Davies is a
fitting companion to his associates. He is
ready to make any promise that ieay aid
his party. He is prepared to distort facts
so that they become unrecognizable. Mr.
Davies went up into the county of
Wright during the bye -election campaign
and made a eptech in favor of caudidate
Champagne. `Within a week after the
opening of Parliament" shouted the
orator from Prince Edward Island, we
shall have our tariff ready, and shall an-
nounce its terms to the people of Can-
ada." Without auttely pressiog air.
Davies for the fulfilment of his promied.
it nasty be remarked that considerably'
more than the week is gone. We have
LATEST MARKET REPORTS.
seen no indication of the tariff's adveut -
We have hardly heard the word men-
tioned except by Mr, Fielding, who In-
formed the House that the man who bad
charged him with giving private inform-
ation as to some of •the schedules was
unfit to be admitted to polite society.
The gentleman who made this statemeet
happens to be a Liberal, a fact which
had net come to Mr. Fielding's know-
ledge When he denounced him. Tarte also
stated thea the Liberals would "not make
fools of themselves" in respect to alter-
ing the present tariff. Let as glance at
the Liberal platform, • Concerning the
protective principle it has this article of
• belief: "We denounce the principle of
protection as radically unsound and =-
just to the 31 -lasses ot the people and we
declare that any teriff changes based on
that peineiple must fail to afford any
substantial relief from the burdens under
which the couutry labors." Therefore, if
the Goverenient of the day make any
alterations which do not look towards
the abolition of tbe protective principle
they will be convicted of insincerity, as
well as of, to use the words of Tarte,
"making fools of themselves." It is an
open secret here in Ottawa that the Gov- ;
meant will make few important
changes in the various schedules. Mr.
Fielding has to meet a five million dollar
defleit this year, 'Das country's bills must
be paid. Ono of the best ways to pay
the, it seems to me, would be to get
more people into the couetrys The Gov-
ernment supporters will tell us, nq doubt,
that the dministration has taken steps
to this end, and woefleriul steps they
are. Two experienced emigration agents
have been dismissed and three new ones
have been engaged. The latter form a
notable trio. The first is "Charley" Dev-
lha, late member for the county of Ot-
tawa, A year ago Devlin was one of the
six Liberals who voted with the Govern-
ment on the Remedial bill, At that time
Devlin was in no great favor with his
leaders, but he purged. himself of his con-
stituency by annexieg his signature to
the petition. to Rome. Then he started
out after the Irish Emigration Commis-
sioner's job, and got it. Of the second of
the trio, Alf. Jury, you already have
heard. Mr. jury is a professional labor
advocate, and hes as much regard for
himself as lie has disregard for the nice-
ties of the English language. Until the
Liberal tiovernreent canto ha :fury acted
as emigration agent in Canada for the
American Government, without salary,
doubtlees, leis time was devoted to show -
bag tee laboring classes that thie country
was not worth living in. Anti the third
of the above-mentioned trio is Jolen
Grant, Lord Aberdeen's butler. It is
the aim of the Administration to cued.-
vate the vice regal pair and one of the
methods of arriving at that end is by
malting am of His Excellencies' upper
servants an emigration agent. Doubtless
John Grant is—or was—a very good
butler, But it is very doubtful that he
will make a successful emigration agent.
Like most of his kind, he has had a large
contempt for Canada ever since his arri-
val here.
Mr. Hardy aud the Prohibitionists.
From Toronto comes news of a signet
Molt -down on the part of the Govern-
ment. Hon, A. S. Hardy, ever since his
Induction as Premier, has protested his
regard for the prohibitionists of Ontario.
It was with peat gratification that these
haters of the liquor traffic learned last
January that Mr. Heady intended to
bring in a. neve liquor net. The measure
has been brought in, has passed its vari-
ous readings and now only requires the
tieutenant-Covernor's assent before it
becomes law. And what changes, it naay
be asked, have been made? Not one of
any importance. The retail trade will
hardly be affected; the bar -room will
flourish as it has for years. The Prohibi-
tionists have asked for bread and have
been given a stone. "This Government
• is a temperance government," said Mr.
Hardy not long ago. It may be that its
members are temperanee men, but its
friends are not those in the Prohibition
ranks. The point is that the Government
has haled to carry out its pledges in this
respect. As to the desirability or other-
wise of prohibition,every man is entitled
to his own opinion. The Dominion Gov-
ernment stands pledged to take a plebi-
scite on the question. To the ballot paper
will be attached some enquiry as to how
the $S,000,000 of revenue that will be
lost may be replaced. The Administra-
tion hopes thatprohibition will not carry.
Even Sidney Fisher, the prohibitionist
in the Cabinet, sees that it would be a
diffieult thing to raise the necessary reve-
nue without the duties on liquors. Some
rider is sure to be attached to the vote
that must be taken within a twelve-
month.
'The Food That Man Needs.
"As in the daily wear and tear of a
life a great deal of the substance of a
man's body is used up, it is absolutely
necessary that the repair to the body be
carefully and systematically looked after,"
writes Mrs. T. S. Rorer in the Ladies'
Horne Journal. "Then, too, man must
create heat and force, according to the
elinaate in which he lives and the occu-
pation he follows. A wise combination of
food is, therefore, necessary to keep the
body in working order. In cold weather
we need a larger amount of carbonace-
ous-foods—fats, sugars and starches—
than we do in sunnier. In the hot cli-
mates and clueing the hot months fruit
and green vegetables, containing the salts
necessary to keep the blood in good con-
dition; should be used freely. According
to anr method of living in this country
we should take about two parts of repair
food, such as meat, eggs, milk, cheese,
or, in the vegetable kingdom, the old
peas, beans and lentils, to three parts of
carbonaceous food, such as • white bread,
potatoes, rice, better, cream and fats of
all kinds. Thou we must have a certain
amount of bulky or watery vegetables,
eh, cabbage, onions,
such as lettuce, spine
end also the fruits. In making out .a
daily ration we should have at the be-
ginning of the meal some light dish that
may be taken slowly, to prepare the
stomach for the food that • is to follow,
thou a moat or its equivalent. With beef
we :311ould serve potatoes; with mutton;
eice. With chickens, either rico or pota-
toes.
• :Robbed to Get an Education.
Two young women of Moscow recently
steengled an old female miser and took
her money, as they explahaed in court,
"in ardor to provide themselves with
funds fax traveling abroad to complete
their scientifie education."
Mitigating Circumstances.
"Your fattier -in-law is quite a howl-
ing old. swell, Churepley. '
"Yes. But we nmet make some allow-
ance. Re is having a terrible attack of
the gout just now."—Detroit Free Press.
Toronto, April 12,
BREADSTUFES,
Wheat—The further slump. in Chicago
gave a week tone to the local market.
Red wheat west sold at 700, and White
at 71e. It is not expected that there will
be much further decline in • Ontario
wheat, as the residue of the orop is most-
ly in strong hands. Mauitobas are easier.
No. 1 hard, Midland, is quoted at 79o,
and No. 2 at 780.
Moor—Dull and nominal. While the
wheat markets are so weak it is impos-
sible to sell flour.
Millfeed—Brart is quoted at $8 to $8.60
at western mills, and shorts at 99.
Oatmeal—Oar lots of rolled oats, in
bags, on track here, are quoted at $2.80,
and small lots at 92.90.
• Peas—Steady. Car lots, north aud
west, sold at S8e, and east at 40o.• ,
Rye—Car lots, 1.0. b., west, are quoted
at 32c.
Barley—Very little trade doing. No.
2 is quoted at 28e, No. 1 at 810, and,
fa,ney at 34 to 35o outside. Feed barley
is quoted at 22 to 23o, north and west
freights.
Corn—Lower. Car lots of yellow, Chat-
ham freights. quoted to -day at 230.
Oats—Rather easier, in sympathy with
the rest of the market. White oats, west,
are quoted at 19c, and east at 200,
PRODUCE.
Eggs—The demaied has steadily en-
larged as prices declined, until 9c was
touched. To -day the maxitet was higher,
itt 9Xe for new laid, New laid are quoted
at 9%e, and held fresh at 50.
Poultry—Offerings light. Quotations
for bright stack are Turkeys, 10 to 11c;
geese, 8 to 9o; ehickeus, 40 to 60e; and
ducks, 50 to 80e,
Potatoes—Reeeipts are liberal. Car
lots, on track, are quoted. at 180, and, out
of store lots at 25 to 27e.
Beans—Hand-picked white beans bring
.70c, less commission, for single bag lots.
Round lots sell at 60c, less coramission.
Common beans sell at 85 to 500.
Apples—Quiet. Dealers quote small
lots of dried here at 2 to ego, and evap-
orated at 3 to 3Ke.
Alaple Syrup—Demand is fair, but sup-
plies here axe quite large. New run
maple syrup is quoted at 80 to 850 in
large tins, and at 90 in small tins. Old
syrup sells at 75e.
Baled Hay—Unchanged. Choice to
fancy hay seas at 810 on track here; No.
9 is quoted from 97.50 to 98. Dealers
quote eivo.ton lots of No. 1, delivered, at
911.
Straw—Demand quiet. Car liltS of oat
straw, on track, are quoted. at 95 to 95.50.
DAIRY PRODUCE.
Butter—Choice to fancy dairy rolls are
in gone. demand. In fact, tbere is tot
sufficient °onling forward to meet the
demand. Quotations are: Low and me-
dium grade dairy, tubs, 8 to 9c; choice
dairy, tubs, 11 to 12e; large dairy, rolls,
13 to lee; small dab7, rolls, strictly
choice, 15 to 10o; creamery, tubs, 18 to
19e; and erecunery, pounds, 20 to 21e.
Cheese—Steady. Summer makes sell
at 10 to 1034e, and fall makes at 1134e.
DRESSED HOGS AND PROVISIONS.
Receipts of dressed bogs are light.
Light lean hogs, on track here, will bring
90 25 to 96.60, light fats $5.50, and heavy
fats 93.35. P1'0'4510/18 contimae in good
demand. Quotations are: Barrelled pork,
shoulder mess, $10 to $10.50; heftier
mess, 02 to $19.50; short out, $18 to
910.50.
Dry Salted Meats—Long clear bacon,
ear lots, 7o; ton lots, 7N:c; case lots,
'rale; becks, 7Kc.
Smoked Meats—Hams, heavy, lOci
medium, llo; light, 12e; breakfast
lateen, 110; roll, 8c; backs, lle; pienie
hams, 7 to 7`,c. All rtaeats out of pickle
le less than pieces quoted for smoked
meats.
Lard—Tierces, 70; tubs, 730; and
pails, 790; compounds, 6 to 6)0.
THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Toronto, April 12. --Receipts at the
Western cattle yards Saturday totalled
sixty loads, including 1,800 hogs, 170
sheep and lambs, 70 calves, and about
the temal run of milkers. The market
was a :nixed one in all senses; for good
tuff the ctemand was brisk and price -
erne and occasionally higher. The
amount of Easter cattle here was not
large, and as the good stuff went off
quickla doubtless more would have sold;
us it was we had no trouble with the
better grades, but secondary and com-
mon stuff was slow of sale and. weak in
rice. Export cattle was slow, and prices
were unchanged, at from 3ee to 4eec,
with in occasional 4%e for seleetions.
All the actual shipping stuff sold, ant
the indications are for a better enquiry
next week.
Wheat, white, new
W`heat, red, per bush...–
W13 ea , goose, per bush
Peae, common, per bush
Oa cs, pe r bush ..
Rye, lair bush
assay, per bush
leueee, spring pee pair--
Oat. ens, per patr . ...
Geese, per lb
Blame in 1-1b. rolls
E4gs, new laid.... . . ...
ale aiois, per bag
ileatis, per latish ... .
Deets,. per doz
Perstims. per dez
Apples per bbl 40 150
tae. amothy 11 00 13' 00
6 50 7 00
ands 04 06
02 03A
,eta.-. carcase, per ib 6e 7-
Vee1. per lb 05 el
eitotee, per lb..... . . 04 05
Dressed hogs 6 00 6 25
00 74
00 72
00 63
40 41
21 23
32 88
25 29
40•
eu
25 • 50
08 09
12
10 9
20 31
75 85
09 10
9 10
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
East Buffalo, April 12.—Cattle—Re
eeipts, 2 ears; market ruled with a fair
Meal demand; the outlook for goo
-tockers and feeders, and partioularls
a set light stoolters, is considered firm,
that of the forepart of last wove.
. 1. and calves—The supply was tair;
1!.) rket was • quiet and unchanged.
!i,g,—Marlzot opened slow, with Western
I lower, good to choice Yorters,
94,15 to 94.20; mixed packers' grades,
94.15; medium weights, 94.15; heavy
hogs, 94.10 to 84.12; roughs, 93.50 to
93.90. Sheep and lambs—The offerings
worn fairly moderate; native lambs,
to prime, 90.80 to 96.50; good to
• 95.30 to 96.25; cciannion to gocd,
4,75 to 95.75; culls to common
93.75 to 94.85; clipped
to bests 93 to 95.40; fair to choice
sheep, 94.40 to $5; culls and ceni-
Inon sheep, 93.26 to 94.25; export sheen
to 95.40; clipped handy weight
culls to best, 98 to 94,85.
The Globe •Mem Mills at CernWall
woe burned, entailing a loss of about
9:15,000.
VALUABLE MAINE PELTS.
An Iidand Colony of -Foxes, Some of Thera
With Skins Worth 6400.
There is an 1 off the coast of
Maine, six rants' Fide of Boothbay
harbor, where the rarest of one species
of fur bearing easimals are found in
numbers. They are black and silver
foxes, and it may be said in beginning
that they did not get on the island by
themselves.
• A few years ago Tbonaas F. Morgan
of Groton, Conn., who was summering
at Boothbay harbor, conceived the idea
of stocking one of the numerous islands
in that vicinity with black and. silver
foxes, that are liONV almost extinct in
tho wild state. He looked around fax a
suitable island and finally bit upon
• Outer Heron as posseseiog all the condi-
done necessary to the SIICCOSS of such it
colony as he desired to plant. Outer
Heron is a wooded 'eland of 100 acres or
so, with considerable elevation and bold,
rocky shores. It has plenty of fresh wa-
ter, and its dense growth of spruces,
pines and firs breaks the force of winter
gales. There is a good dwelling house
on the island, and in winter a dozen, or
more lobster fishermen live in shanties
around the little •cove that serves as a.
harbor. The island was owned by Rich-
ard H. Enaerson, it veteran, who resided
at East Boothbay. From him Mr. Mor-
gan obtained permission, in considera-
tiori of a yearly rental, to stock the is-
land with foxes.
An order was sent by Mr. Morgan to
a fur company, engaged in breeding
blaek foxes on an island in Alaska, for
a consignment of the animals, and 80
good speeinaens were started east The
journey took raany months, being made
by vessel and steamer to San Feaneisco
and thence overland, and when the con-
signment arrived at Boothbay harbor
only seven of the foxes were alive.
These were put on Outer Heron about
a year ago, and they have thrived awl
multiplied from all. indications. A few
mouths ago it company was formed un-
der the laws of Maine to foster the in-
dustry Mr. Morgan thinks he will make
out of the fox raising business on Outer
Heron. Mr. Knight has the reputation
of being one of the best fox hunters in
his county. He is familiar with the
ways of the red fax, and has shot as
many of that variety as woad stock two
or three islands like Outer Heron. He
is obliged to confess, however, that he
Imows very little about the black fox.
Ile has set about the task of studying
those on the island, but with slight suc-
cess as yet, for the valuable denizens of
Outer Heron are very shy, unless hun-
gry, and as this has been an open win-
ter they have not suffered for food. Mr.
Knight talked entertainingly about the
prospects of raising blackfoxes for mar-
ket
"We don't expect to get any returns
right away," said he, "but when we
get the island well stocked we ought to
do well. Last year there were only 1,700
black and silver fox skins sold in Lon-
don, the fur market of the world. They
neatly all came front Alaska, and. they
were 14 months on the way. If we can
raise skins here we can get them to
London 13 months earlier than ther
could be sent from Alaska.
"We intend to breed out all the light
strain, or silver foxes, from our stock.
A silver fox is by no means a cheap ani-
raal—the pelt cif a good one is worth
$75 to $100—but the black fax is mach
more valuable, the pelth being worth as
high as 9400 each,"
Mr. Knight is now arranging a feed-
ing pen for the animals in the barn on
the island. Recently a horse was taken
to the island and killed in the woods.
The animals have fed on the carcass and
have kept out of sight of the settlement
at the shore. If driven out of the woods
by snow to seek food, it is expected they
will come to the barn and feed, and thus
get the way of feeding there. After the
animals hae become tame enough to
feed at the barn Mr. crnight intends ta
rig traps to catch them. All "silvers"
will be sorted out and taken away, leav-
ing only those with very dark coats. It
is expected that by this system of breed-
ing animals with entirely black coats
can be obtained.—Boston Globe.
Reviving Business.
"What's your line of work, young man?"
"I'm in a dentist's office, sir."
"And is your business reviving?"
"That's just what it is, sir. I shake up
the customers after the old man gives 'ena
lau.ghinfe aas."—Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Big Rat In iChnrch.
• This is what happens to the man be.
hind the hat. The preacher disappears
until nothiog reraains but a voice. And
with the hat standing against the spot
where the voice is, and the modulated
sentences breaking against it, how is
attention to be fixd upon the sermon?'
The mind grows lax, the quiet and
sweetness of the sanctuary tend to dis-
traction, the hat fills the whole visi-
ble universe, and involuntarily one'e
thoughts cutter n,pon it. It is a wonder-
ful construction. There is a yellow rose
trembling on a long stem with every
movement of the wearer's head, aud one
begins to cake:date the extent of its ay.
There are bunches of feathers disposed,
apparently, with view to preventing
anything from being seen between them
whichever way the hat is tamed. And
there are stalactites of ribbon, upright
and immovable, which still further ob-
ecure the horizon. Occasionally one gets
moosentary glimpse of the hand al
the preacher as it is stretched out in
gesticolation, but it seems it mere de-
tached fragment uselessly beating tbe
air. The preacher hiniself bas disap-
peared as if he had never been. The
only thing visible when the hat is turned
for a moment is another hat of the same
kind farther on. —New York, Observer.
BER
(11 AT
AA liCIME„
Young man. learn the Barber Business
at home, Vire teae i It, by mail. You
can 5510 55 it week after school hours.. Write
for further information. Address all letters to
the Secretary, R. e. GIR20e.le el Trinity Square, .
Toronto.