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The breeder who is fortuitate,enough
to possess a range of stabling, elab-
orate riding schools and tan tracks
and ule services of a skillful breaker
is naturally...in a better position to in-
sure full justice being done to his
young eteak than a neighbor whose
sole belongings are a couple or so of
mares whose interests are looked after
by the coachman and groom attached
to the establishment.
The young etock raised by the breed-
er in tit small way, saiti the London
Live ,Seock Journal, are usually sent
away'lrom home to be broken by con-
tract and when returned, in a greater
or less condition of tractability, are
probably very little worlted for days at
a time, with the result that what they
have learned, is. forgotten by them,
and they grotrilp practically innocent
of manners. The fact is that a great
proportion of the good horses bred by
"little men" are neglected or, at all
events, do not get a fair chance of do-
ing justice to their merits, owing to
there not being a sufficient number Of
them On tbe premises to justify their
owner in engaging a regular breaker,
whereas those ,youngsters belonging
to a big stud are systematically train-
ed from the first and are never permit-
ted to forget their preliminary educa-
tion.
This, moreover, is not the only man-
ner in which the breeder in a small
way is placed at a disadvantage, for he
must always experience a greater diffi-
culty than the big man in disposing of
his stock. How rarely does it occur
that where there is only one animal to
be inspected it succeeds in captivating
the visitor, and yet are there not many
of ,us who before now have made a
special journey into the country on
purpose to see one particular horse
which we have not cared for in the
end, though we have found another on
SHIRE STALT ION DUNCAN Ir.
the premises which suited us? Such
instances must always be occurring,
first, because there are very few peo-
ple who will be found to regard the
merits of an, individual horse from the
same point of view, and, secondly, be-
cause it is only natural that the man
with a horse to sell will try and de-
scribe his animal as resembling the
horse which a prospective purchaser
wants, in the hope that if the young-
ster does not exactly tally with the de-
scription the visitor will buy him all
the same rather than return empty
handed. On the contrary, a possible
buyeroif he runs down to a stable in
the country where he knows there are
several young horses, feels that out of
so many there is very likely one that
will suit him, and so the owner of a
big establishment stands a better
chance of dealing directly with the am-
ateur than the little man. The latter is
unable to form a market of his own,
and is therefore in the majority of in-
stances compelled to dispose of his
stock to dealers. or their agents, which
Is the same thing, the inevitable result
being, diminished profits; or else he has
to take bis eisk with them under the
hammer, and most of us with any ex-
perience of sales know what that
means unless the vender is at the head
of a very fashionable stud.
It seems surprising, therefore, that
the horse breeders in a small way have
never yet made a serious attempt to
form themselves into groups and en-
deavor thereby to compete on some-
thing filth equal terms with the own-
ers of extensive studs. The public
'cannot be blamed for declining to
waste time and money In visits to es-
toblashments where there are only one
or two horses for sale, but the agents
of the dealers can and do do so, and
between the prices paid by dealers and
those received by them there is a pret-
ty liberal margin, a perdue of which
might have gone into the pocket of the
breeder if he could only have succeed-
ed. In persuading people to come down
and see his animals.
Care Angora.
A hill to impose an export duty. of
$500 on evert; Angora goat leaving
Cape Colony has passed to a second
reading in the colonial parliament and
will doubtless become a law. Severe
penalties are provided for a violation
of the law, which is applicable to both
male and female Angoras. It begins
to look as if the government of Cape
Colony was determined to ptit an end
to the further exportation of Angoras.
'Are the Angora breeders tafeald of the
growing importance of the mohair in-
dustry in the United Stales? If not,
:why the necessity of a doubly prohibi-
tire citify on the exportation of An-
goras? -Sheep Breeder.
Largest Steer.
Advices from Fort Collins elaint that
;ton a ranch .in that 'vicinity Is to be nen
the World's biggest steer. Itds stat,ed
that "this animal stands more, than
,ri feet high, is 18 feet from tip to tip
end 5 feet from the,brisket to the top
of the withers. It weighs between
4,500 and 5,000 pot:Inds. It will;be put
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fri good flesh end, it is said, vill be
used for exhibition purposes. aaving
tittem purchased by show people, '
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SHEIEP''PROSPECTS,
TiiE VARCII OF DEATH
A. Good Thing Rather Thp.m. a 131g
Thing.
Tile luau at Preeent without sheep
wio leenot getting hold of a few or the
man with sneep who is not extending
lus eperations, intensifying Ms man-
agement or reducing it to a scientific
basis Is not living up to his privileges,
sas J. MeCraig in The American
Sheep Breeder. Prospects never •were
better for sheep buelness. The general "° sb°t8 w°11' "r"d °v" the °we'd
toneouoy of pout (Amite ip favor of inen"-eonte tele salute wae Given,"
sweet, Juicy, palatable meats is putting lint tli" licek"ing Will lie a Dear
the sheep business on a lasting and c'"46- for the R°'re If the 0P- w
solid basis. Sheep raising is thought portuniry ou Fair 'reruns
by Many to be a kind of primitive in- Come*.
dustry suited to poor lands and unde-
veloped agricultural conditions. Many
who raise sheep on good lands look on
them as a sort of corner product or ad-
ventitious gain that demands no skill
In management mid little expenditure
of labor at any time of the year. It is
true that sheep will do better than any
other kind of stock on the minimum of
care. They will yield a profit on ordi-
nary or even poor pasture alone, but
they are, on the other hand, most sus-
ceptible to generous treatment. Theoe
hundred sheep to the souare, mile on
the expensive and highly cultilitted
lands of England does not look as
though sheep were to be relegated to
P000 countries oe ,pectr pastures. Nei-
ther does it look detliongh tie taste
for inuttonebelongto entiretrMs In a
primitive sta e of industrialism of of
progress.
There is every encouragement for a
prospective shepherd to start now.
Wool aucl mutton are both good and
are both short of the requirements of
the couutry. There is a strong 'com-
mercial Impetus which will affect la-
bor, the demand for labor; hence popu-
lation and foodstuffs for that popu-
lation. Present prices are not boom
prices, but are such as ,7111 enable the
beginner to get a stand of stock at a
price that will make it impossible for
it to die in his debt.
Sheepruen do not stand much chance
for a boom, as their stock multiplies so
rapidly that there cannot be any long
continued failure of supply. There is
not much room for the boomster or
speculator in the sheep business, but
there is always plenty of room for the
steady, consistent and confident man-
ager who is looking for an adequate
a.ud satisfactory retuun for a moderate
investment of capital and care. The
sheep business offers a good thing
rather than a big thing, and a good
thing that is safe.
If you haven't been in the business
before, take a part of your., available
capital and begin now. If you have
not bred sheep before, start easy and
buy ordinary ewes, but figure on 1111-
proviug your ewe -flock in the future
by getting a good ram. The greed
principle of success is to raise each
year youngsters that are better thou
their ancestors of the ewe flock. and
this is most economically done through
the use of superior males. If it were
not possible to vary your'flock accord-
ing to the character of the coupling,
there would be no such thing as skill
in breeding,. Bank on a good sire,
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Nebe.ther your fleck is common Or se-
Iet
lf you have been breeding before,
you are acquainted with tbe individ-
uals of your flock. You know tie at-
teutive mothers, the good milkers, the
heavy shearers. You know the ones
that breed singles, and those that
bring twins. Finally you know which
ones answer to the accepted type and
to your ideal. You knew the coarse
head, the heavy ear, the cloudy wool
foul dark skin. Hold on to the ones of
tried breeding qualities and that con-
form to your ideal and let the others
go to some less ambitious shepherd
who Las yet to learn the expensive les-
sons ' of old experience. A hard old
mistress she is.
Grirn Scenes at the Funeral cf
the Highlanci-r's Leader
SILENT VOWS OF VENGEANCE.
Cholera and Brood Sows.
;fames. Riley of Indiana, theveteran
breeder of Berkshires, says:
"I lin.ye had hog chelera in my herd
eight times in.20 years. have made a
practical study of the, disease and have
tried a great many different remedies.
1 have slaughtered animals after they
had recovered, but could find no trace
tehe disease. I have bred sows after
recovering from the disease. I think
sows should not be bred for at least
t-wo months after f u ly Tee° veri ng. At
least '75'per ,cent of the sows. proved to
be breeders that had the disease. It
affected mature sows less than it did
younger ones. I regard any hog that has
had cholera and fully recovered as'im-
mune from further attacks. .1 believe
000 of' th6 best measures for breeders
and farmers to adopt to stamp out the
disease Is tobreed it out with the
Proper sanitary .manngement. When
.cholera strikes a heed, it weeds out the
w'onlc ones first. Those that have
great constitutional vigor are able to
vesist the disease. Sows that have re-
sisted and recovered will breed stron-
ger aud more vigorous pigs.. We have
22, sows ln our herd tint have had the
ehole.re, and fully reeovered, and they.
have been geed breeders. Most of them,
have raieed two litter8 a year.for tWO
years.
"We have one sow 7 years old. She'
had the cholera badly, six trearS ago,
vylieia 1 year old. She fully recovered'
and farrowed four litterS of ten pigs
catch and raised them in two years,
and she has raised two litters each
since and never bad lege then'
niae pig's' in a litter until thie spring,
whim she had rally six, She ,hae gene
throegh the cholera twice since acid (ltd.
eet take it, Her pigs hate been very,
Strong and vigorous. ' We have had
Several Other Sows that did Il"carlY as
well. 1 regard ti sow that has bad the,
disease and frilly recovered, 12 lt lute
left her a breeder, as very valuable,
nevee knew a hog that had the genetne
cholera and' fully recovered' ever to
take it the seemad time."
London, Jan.' 18. - Some of the
most brilliant work,' in the way of
descriptive writing, ever done by.
British war correspondents, has been
appearing in the London papers dur-
ing the last few days.
.After tracing the terrible loss suf-
'fered by the Highland brigade at
Magersfontein, The Daily News cor-
respondent thus -writes of the burial
of General Wauchope: "Three hun-
dred yards to the rear of the little
Township of eredder River, just as
the sun was sinking in (1 blaze of
African splendor, on the evening of
Tuesday, the 12'th of December, a
long, shallow grave lay exposed in
the breast of the veldt. To the
westward the broad river, fringed
with trees, runs murmuringly to the
eastward; the heights still held by
the enemy scowled menacingly; north
and south, the veldt undulated peace-
fully. A few paces to the north-
ward of that grave 50 dead High-
landers lay dressed as they had fallen
on the field of battle. They had fol-
lowed their chief to the field, and
they were' to follow him to tie: grave.
How grim and stern these men look-
ed as they lay face upward to the
sky, with great hands clenched in
the last agony, and brows still knit
with the stern lust of the strife in
which they had fallen! The plaids,
dear to every Highland ,clan were re-
presenfed there, and, as I looked,
out of the distamc'e came the sound
of pipes. It was the general coming
to join his men.
"There, right mider the eyes of the
enemy, moved with slow and solemn
tread all -that remained of the High-
land brigade. In front of them walk-
ed the chaplain, with bared head,
dressed in his robes of ollice. then
came the pipers with their pipes, 16
in all, and behind them, with arms
reversed, moved the Highlanders,
dressed in all the regalia of their
regiments, aud in their midst the
dead general, borne by four of his
comrades. Out swelled the pipes to
the strains of 'The Flowers of the
Forest,' now ringing proud and high
until the soldiers' heads went back
in haughty defiance, and eyes flash-
ed through tears like sunlight on
steel; now sinking, to a, moaning,
waii, like a woman mourning eor her
first-born, until the proud heads
dropped forward till they rested on
heaving chests, and tears ,rolled down
the wan and scarred faces, and the
choking sobs broke through the sol-
emn ry then of the march of death.
'Bight up to the grave they march-
ed, then broke away in companies,
until the general lay in the shallow
grave, with a Scottish square of
armed ,mea around him. Only the
dead mares son and a small remnant
of his officers stood with the chap-
lain and the pipers while the solemn
service of the church was spoken.
"Then, once again, the pipes peeled
out, and "Lochaber No More- cut
through the stillness like a cry of
pain, until one could almost hear the
widow in her Highland home moan-
ing for the soldier she would wel-
come back no more. Then, as if
touched by the magic of one thought,
the soldiers turned their tear -damped
eyes from the still form in the shal-
low grave :Coward the heigbts, where
Cronje, the '''Lion of Africa,'' and his
soldiers stood. Then every cheek
flushed crimson, and strong jaws set
iilee steel, and the veins on the hands
that clasped the rifle handles swelled
almost to bursting with the fervor of
the grip, and that look from those
silent armed • men spoke more elo-
quently than ever spoke the tongues
of, orators.
• "For, on each frowning face the
spirit of vengeance sat aed each
sparkling eye asked silently for
blood. God help „the Boers when
next the 'Highland pibibch sounds
God rest the Doers' souls when Inc
Highland bayonets charge; for nei-
ther deieth,n or h nor things
a,bove, nor -things below, will hold
the Scots back from their blood
feud."
-At the head of the grave, at the
point nearest the enemy, the General
was laid to sleep, his officers group-
ed around him, whilst in line behind
him, his soldiers were laid, in a dou-
le row, wrapped in their blankets.
NO shots were fired over the dead
men resting 00 peacefully, only the
sithite was given, and then the men
march ed campwards as the darkness
of an Afr'ican eight rolled over the
far stretching breete of the veldt."
111 Jtoetreal.
,Tan. 1.8. - ,The value
of the inereltatidise entered for con-
suntiction ,at the port o.f illontrea,1 for
December shows 21,862,501 more
than for the corresponding month of
1.89.8, as follows:
1599. , 1.80S.
Total dutiable ......s2,025,007 S1,879,25e
Free .......... , 1,53e.0e2 854,2:le
Coln and bullion.... 02,0:35 29,480
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Totals .. .$2,710,07ti
J. 0. A Imo'', Droptm,i need.
Winnipeg, Jan, 18.- . T0.
.
Auger, employed in the Custom
14 Ouse here, dr opped "clea,d last night
witile entering the house of a rela-
tive, Deceased was 'about, 45 years
of age, and n son of S. G. Auger, re-
gistrar of Montreal.
TY mrriston'm Pork 1'.kelce1',,
Ha,triston, Jan., Infornial
Opening of the Ilarriston Pork Pack-
ing Ilouse took place here yesterday
and Was attended by over 2,000
farmers from the adjoining town -
PROV/ISIONING A TROOP SHIP.
ee.eollei of the '1'hittatt Which Go 10
Mahe UP the Stoarneete Larder.
The provisioning of a troopShip is a
detail of army transportation itt
which Cauttdians may be asslimed, to
take seme passing interest at the Pres-
ent moment, seeing that the second
contingent of Canadian troops have
left our ellores for South Afriea.
Just what the Dominion has stored
on board the Laurentian for the con
emanation of our boys during the five
weeks' voyage to the Cape nobody
seems to definitely know, but the
eteamslup w111 probably be suppled
similarly to the Smdinian, which
carried the firet contingent out a
little bver two 'months aao. These
Governinent provisions will also be
added materially to by private and
municipal contributions of little lux-
uries "on the side," which will cer-
tainly be appreciated on the long voy-
age.
A correspondent in the London
Times of December 23 tells how an
English troopship, .salling from. Lien -
don or Southampton for South Africa,
is provisioned. He takes the Sum-
atra, which left the Royal Alberts
docks on December 24 for the Cape,
by way of illustration, though, he
says, as she is conveying not more
than about 1,200 men, her supplies roe
present what those concerned regard
as rather a small order. To per
sons unacquainted with these things,
however, the quantities will appear
formidable enough, especially as the
supplies in question refer exclusively
to what will be required at sea.
Thus, under the head of "Troop
Stoxes," the men sailing in the Sum-
atra are to have 6,000 pounds of pre-
served meat, 14 tierces of salt beef,
and 21 barrels of pork, with the ac-
companiment of 2,500 lbs. of preserv-
ed potatoes of 400 lbs. a compressed
mixed vegetables. Should they take
mustard with their meat there will be
100 lbs. of it at their disposal; of salt
there will be 672 lbs., of pepper 60
lbs., of vinegar 150 gallons, and of
pickles 100 lbs. The stock of rice is
put down at 1,250 lbs., and that of
split peas at 1,300 lbs.
There is a suggestion of Christmas
puddings in 3 cwt. of suet, 900 lbs. of
raisins, and 140 barrels of flour; while
with 6,000 lbs. of Demerara sugar
on board there should be no clanger of
the 113 lbs, of chocolate and the 1,300
lbs. of coffee having to be taken un-
sweetened. Of oatmeal there is a
total of 4,500 lbs., of syrup 1,800 lbs.,
and of biscuits no less a quantity than
10,800 lbs. These are th.e ordinary
supplies provided by the Govern-
ment.
Should he want more there evill be
the canteen for him to fall bacle on at
his own cost, and. the canteen stores-
frOm which purchases are generally
made a pennyworth at a time -will be
psovieled on no less generous and vari-
ed a scale, the articles being disposed
of at a -eery low charge indeed. These
particular stores comprise, tarrioug
other things, 200 1-1b. tins of corned
beef, 1,600 lbs. of lunch biscuits. 890
lbs. of sweetened biscuits, 1,008 lbs.
of ginger nuts (a luxury of which
soldiers are especially fond), 700 tins
of bloater paste, 300 1-1b. tins of
brawn, 1,000 34 -ib. tins of butter,
1,500 lbs. of American cheese. 60 1-1b.
tins of haddocks, 400 1-1b. tins of fresh
herrings, 200 1-1b. tins of kippered
herrings, 150 1-1b. tins of lobsters, 60
1-11). tins of mackerel, 2,000 1-1b. tins
of assorted jams, SOO 1-1b. tins of
maxi -naiad°, 250 half-pint bottles and
1,000 quarter -pint bottles of pickles,
1,000 1-1b. tin.s of salmon, GO X -lb.
tins of sardines, 1,000 penny bottles of
sauces, 120 1-1b. tins of sausages, and
600 tins of Dotted meats.
If "Tommy" wishes to still further
improve ori the offie,ial dietary in the
way of puddings, etc., the canteen
will offer him raw materials in the
shape of 30 half sacks of flour, 86 lbs.
of' candied peel. 200 lbs. of currents,
200 lbs. of Valencia raisins, 781 lbs.
of moist sugar, and 80 lbs. of lard;
while the varieli eatables he can wash
down with the help of 120 1-1b. tins
of sherbet. Should so miscellaneo-us
a diet disagree with him, it may be
hoped he will be put right again with'
the help of 96 bottles of Eno's fruit
salt and 800 seidlitz powders.
The danteen will also ha,vo in stock
350 clay pipes, 1,500 tins of Anglo -
Swiss roalk, and such naiscellaneous
articles as blacking, boot and shoe
laces. lead pencils, soap (180 tablets).
tobacco (150 lbs.,) and supplementary
vinegar (350 bot(les). The other ar-
ticleson the list include 10 lbs. of
cream of tartar, 10 lbs. of earbonate
of soda, and even -14 lbs. of Sweets!
The "medical comforts" 'for the use
of the sick comprise 99 lbs. of preserv-
ed meat, 153 pints of prepared soup,
805 quarter-pinis of essence of beef,
27 lbs. of arrowroot, 214 lbs., of nee.,
481 tins of preserved. milk, 203 bottles
of lime juiee, 1,056 lbs. of - Demerara
sugar, 55.0 lbs. of refined sugar, 60
piutp of vinegar, 144 lbsof preserved
pota,toes, and 90 lbs. eonroressed
veget,ables. In addition to all this
there is a large supply of "general
Steres'' Which need'uot be specified.
The StlrIlatra was the twenty-first
troopship that has,been supplied with
stores by the contractors since (be war
begAn, so that, if the above figures
are multiplied 21 times, some rough
idea will be gained of the sum total
of the food, etc., already needed for
the troops in their long jommey across
the seas, without regard to what tly.)3'
require on laud.
Cloth is being euccessfrilly made
from wood.
TO IMPRISoN HER HUSBAND.
lie Defaulted on .1 Ilo 11 110(1, 11.11
Dee idea Aktkitti.t,
An interesting judgment was rend-
ered at Quehce by Judge Routhier
arising out of an action of a inmeaed
-woman for separation from her hus-
band. as to bed and board.. in July
last the defendant was ordered to pay
Ins wife a monthly allowance of $12
pending the outcome of the action.
After paying for three months, de-
fendant defaulted. The plaintiff ap-
plied for 'an order to court, Judge
Routhier deCided that the alimentary
allowance was an ordinary debt, re-
coverable as such and not of a penal
character.
Improving Country 1t,.4105.
Evidences abound in every part of
the country that people of all 000000 -
tions and pnrsuits are considering
carefully the results to be obtained by
having highways hard and firm for
travel at all seasons of the year. A
farmer in Kansas state e 'the case truly
when he says that "there is no one
who appreciates good roads more than
does the farmer," and he states that
last spring' they had enough ex-peri-
euce -with bad roads to ,set anybody
thinking. He says: "We cannot go
110 b
0' toea,
town or anywhere se;
eelseetilltbien w
tgetes
hitch up and drag through, the mud
rolling up over the wheels and mak-
ing great furrows in the roads. Then,
when the spriug rains come, the water
runs down the hills in those farrows
and washes out great ditches in the
middle of the roads. Then there is
just about enough road work done to
patch them up, only to be tepeated
again next year. Why We can't go
to church on Sunday without being
afraid of getting stuck in the mud or
pulling a single tree an two, or some-
thing, else of that kind."
Such experience is common to
every farming district and to each
section in the laud where ordinary
"country roads" exist. The only
remedy is to improve the roads ,by a
thorough system of Maintenance, no
'Matter whether they are continued as
"dirt roads, or whether gravel, shell,
stone or other Substance be laid upon
them to improve them. It is often
'thought, but not mistakenly, that if
a road is ma6adamizeA., it will need
little or no care, at least for a number
of,years. There is no worse error.
Every road or street, no matter how
constructed or laid, requires constant
watching, itt order to keep it at its
best and got the maximum results
from it. This not only securee the
highest efficiency, but the greatest
economy. of service. Country roads
can be immensely improved by hav-
ing then ca.red for constantly by ex-
perts, and hiring competent persons
to attend to there, instead of depend-
ing on the -worn out, inefficient, ex-
travagant a,ud unbusinesslike plan of
"working: out" road taxes.
In order to have better roads than
now exist, it is by no means ner,essary
to expend thousands of &Alms in mak-
ing substantial stone surfaces. Such,
of course. are the most satisfactory,
and useful when circumstances per-
mit of their construction.; bat there
are hosts of places and localities and
sparsely settled districts in which
they are not practicable, on account
of the expense, nor actually a 'neces-
sity, on account of the relatively lim-
ited alr1.01111t of travel. In such places,
and under such circumstances, it is
quite possible to get along with them,
and actually to do very well by im-
proving the common earth roads anli
instituting a scientific S7Steni of
raain.tenance, for there.
In order to get good results from
oonamon country roads, they, as a
rule, require to be thoroughly graded
and drained ; for if they are not kept
free of water 'a,t all times, it is abso-
lutely useless to expect that they can
be made decent. The first and fun-
damental requisite 'of good roads is
thorough drainage, and this means
both sarfacc drainage and subdrain-
age. There must be suitable gutters
on both sides of the road; water must
be carried away from penetrating 1111 -
der it, and the surface must.- be kept
smooth and even, so that rain.will im-
rnetliately ran off into the gutters.
After this is provided for, a system
of maintenance must be established
whereby some one man, or a few men,
will be constantly employed in, going
over the roads, filling up holes and
depressions, removing stones, clearing
gutters, and doing the thousand and
otte things which tire a daily necessity
if roads are to be kept good. This, of
course, means that "working out"
road taXeS must be done away with
forever, and a businesslike money sys-
tem adopted in its stead. This is a
necessary preliminary to docent roads,
and once 1301 into operation is more
economical, efficient and satisfa,ctory
than the old way, and if properly
combitecl with a suitable system of
road Maintenance will, in a short
tirne, irninfauSely improve the roads
of the district in .which it is em-
ployed.
1,:tdybn!n; Sent to Portugal.
Not many years ago Australian
ladybugs were iMported into Califor-
nia to make war Oil 0 species of scale'
w'hicli was then rapidly destroying
the orange groves of the Pacific coast.
The little niereenaries did their work
offectively, and now California has
sent them to am aid of Portugal,
whose orange and lemon trees hate
lately suffered from attacks of the
Seale insect. From a few individuals
sent to Lisbon two years ago. mil-
lions at the ladybugs have since de-
veloped, and it is reported that they
'are making short, work a the scale
pest in Poring I
.CANADIAN SOLDIER
Prvst, 03Emi 000d ‘V"r" f°r
jtra,Vvry.
3ce M1
IC:v(Ir;Citsilo
lilli.lai'i.Yilli111.1:met'sy
he says:
'T
athe and Oat
at the fine qualities displayed in' t
dashing little eng,ageonetite, The cOn
duct of both contingents Wits 113.°8.'''!
soldierly, and is an earnest pf what -
the behavior of all colonial forces veiit
be on many a hard foile.lit field intdetz'
40
the old flag-. "
THE STANDARD,
The Standard says that from the-,
point of view of Lnperial unity the..
little fight at Sunnyeitle was one or'
the most gratifying events recorded -
in the recent history of the British
race.
THE DAILY NEWS.
The Daily News says the colonies I
did not go into this war as if they
-
were going to a picnic or 'parade
they, went prepared and hoping to"
fight, and if need be to die side by
side with the other soldiers of the.
Queen. They would do whatever -
work was allotted them. The, only
coinplaint hitherto had been that they
had not yet had to bear the brunt of
battle in this affair. The honors of
the day wore all with the colonial:
troops. The Empire has to thank
tlleta for their first piece of work
which was well carried out.
THE LONDON GLOBE.
The Globe says that this brilliant
feat of arms has a special consequence
of its own apart fromthe immediate,
tactical moral gains.
The soldiers of the Empire have
again fought and bled together. Thee -
chief share of the glory falls to fel'-
low-subjects who 'lave hurried from
the opposite ends of the world to up-
hold the Queen's Imperial. authority..
ST. ,TAMES GAZETTE.
The St. James Gazette says that thee
colonies fought with coolness, brav-
ery and judgment that goes without
saying. From their -methods, the re-
gular soldiers from home may learn
nseful lesson. It is a military rea-
son that Sunnyside is not to be forgot-
ten.
Some Bloody Itatth.s.
Three of the greatest battles of the -
century in the sense of being the,
bloodiest were: Leipsic in 1813 (90,-
000 men lost); Borodino in. 1812 (loss.
74,000), and the Belle Alliance in 1815
(loss, 61,000). In the battle of Water-
loo the.loss of the allies is stated -in
an up-to-date History of England ----
as 22,976 killed and wounded, while,
the Frenck. lost over 80,000, laesiclee
many prisoners. There were many'
big battles in ,the Crimean war -prob-
ably quite 'as big and bloody as any
that have yet occurred in. Sciut,13.
Africa -and, according to historical
authority already referred to, the
losses of the allies amounted to no
'less than 250,000 men, while those of
the Russians have been placed ' as -
high as 750,000. The allies loss ate
Alma was 619 killed and 2,860 wound-
ed; the Rustian loss was reperted
be about 8,000. At the fall of Sebas-
topol 1S.000 Russians were killed and
wounded aud 22,000 made. prisoners.
The numbers engaged at the Wilder-
ness (the largest battle in the Ameri-
can Civil War) were 141,000 Federals,
and 52,000 Confederates; eacb side
had one-seventh of its strength put
hors de combat, whereas at Grant's
ba,ttle each lost a full fourth. The,
battle of Koniggra,tz (or Sadowa) inc
the Austro -Prussian war of 1866 was,
next to Waterloo, the inost decisive
and important battle of the centurY.;
it was also one of the bloodiest-. The
Prussians lost in dead, wounded, and
missing 359 officers and 8,794 men,
and the Austrians 1,147 officers and
30,244 men. The proportion of the
losses to the total force engaged on. ,
each side was -for the Prussians, once
twenty-third; for the Austrians, one-
seventh; for, both together, one-
ele-venth. At Leipsic, the proportion
of losses was one-fifth; Borodino, one-
th.ird; Belle Alliance, onez,thied.
There was very hea'v'y losses in the
Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. par-
ticularly at Rezonvillo and Gravel-
otte, the Freach loss, in three days be-
ing 15, 000 'in killed alone.
oeo, or rile coming- Ind ustries.
A lot of reports received from car -
respondents and published in, the
November crop report of the Bureau
of Industries, indicate, that poultry
production is rapidly coming to the
front as one et the leading industries
itt counectiou with agriculture iu On -
train. ''Poeltry," says a correspond-,
ent in Woolwich, Waterloo county,
"has paicl better this season than fox
a number of years." To this a cor-
respondent in Clinton, Lincoln. coun-
ty, adds that "poultrylas bronght
higher price this year than at any
previous time in my recollection."
A like report comes from Adolphus -
town, -Where a correspondent reports
(hot "eggs have seldom, ±1 ever, com-
manded as high a price the whole
season throttgli." , "Hens here," adds.
Clenboro, lIalelimand correspondent,
"been one of the niost paying things
ou the foam this Year.'' Another Hal-
diii!and correspondent declares that
properly cared for hen should yield
a profit of at least fill per year: ft
:Bruce county report says that ono
limn made $50 from fifty hems, while
a Orel,' county correspondent asSerts
flint :poultry have this season' paid
a oat as well es anything on the
r
farm.
aterfals in a Piano.
'There aro 4l different tnaieriale nsed
in eenstrueting, a piano, from no fete-
,;-;.• ban 16 different countries, employ.44, -
log ere 45 ditf ut Lands
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