Exeter Advocate, 1907-07-04, Page 6•
HINTS ON POTATO GROWING'coNneNseu NEWS ITEMS LEADING MARKETS
Special Investigation by the Provincial
Department of Agriculture.
The Ontie Deparimcnl of Agra .;lure
e, making .en investigation int,, the
p.ut►te industry of the irovinc•e by Mr.
11 R. -u,itta, U.S.A. After vesihng the
unset iu.p..rlunt potato -growing beclious
o! Onlur•iu, he is preparing a special re•
/incl for publication. fending the free
report, which will protobty show a
snore serious slate of affairs than is
generally buppused, the following re-
commendations are put out with a
view to impressing upon farmers the
necessity of Immediate action. The
treatment of potatoes to ereveut the rot
is tm matter of extreme importance.
"olefin° produced fewer potatoes in
19(ei than she ever produced m any
single year in all the lime the Provo&•
circ Department of Agriculture have
Been collecting information concerning
Pie acreages annually devoted to farm
crops. Within the past few years the
area planted to potatoes in this provin, e
has dec eaee•I by 50,000 acres; the pro-
duct by approximately 6,000,000 bush-
els. !'resent hide:aliens are that the
crop of 1907 will le lighter than last
year's wills the high a •:ccs teat have
ruled fur some lime strung;)., maintained.
Farmers, on the right kind of soil, who
Have planted a good acreage to this crop'
this o ring, will, if they are able to suc-
cessfully bring their crop to maturity,
reap larger returns from potatoes than
they could likely (alive from any line
of farming in w Imich they might engage,
and it is to point out briefly one or two
little things that in these days must be
attended to, if potato growing is to be
successfully accomplished, • that this
article has been prepared.
Inability to cope with thio rot has been
the great cause of failure in potato
growing in Ontario, yet live dollars or
even less, will cover the entire cost for
material and labor required to treat one
acre of potatoes with Bordeaux Mix-
ture, and this mixture properly made
and consistently and intelligently ap-
plied is a certain sp reventive of rot.
Froin experiments dMhaalty conducted at
Cur•)plm, at Ottawa, and at practically
every experiment station in the United
Stales, and from the practical experi-
ence of growers everywhere, Bordeaux
Afieture has proven the only effective
remedy for Potato Rot. At Ottawa dur-
ing the past three years, the average in-
crease in yield from spraying with this
mixture was 94.5 .u_-hels per acre.
Bordeaux Mietwo for potato spraying
Is made from the following formula :-
Upper sulptmnle (bliieslone or blue
vitriol) 6 rounds, uaslaked lime 5
pc,unds, water 40 to 50 gallons.
As it is inconvenient to weigh the
lime and copper at the lime of mixing
and quite impracticable to keep a sup-
ply of ready -mixed Bordeaux on hand,
stack solutions of the Dopper and lime
are usually prepared ready for mixing
as required. To prepare material suffi-
cient to trent one acre of potatoes four
limes. proceed as follow:, : Pike 72
viands of bluesloue- in n.bag or basket
end suspend it near the surface in 36
gallons of water in a barrel. 11 will dis-
solve in a Jew hours, and every gallon
afterwards dipped from this barrel will
contain exactly 2 pounds of bluesloue.
For the lime block mieturc lake 60
pounds of fresh unstuked lime 01141 30
gallons of water. Sluice the lime by the
use ors Mlle of the water as possible,
and when all is -broken down, bring the
solution to standard strength by adding
what remains of the 30 gallons of water.
Eery gallon of lime mixture now cell -
lams exactly 2 pounds of lime. These
mixtures, if kept under cuccm• and eva-
poration prevented, will retain their
strength all summer.
In snaking the Bordeaux it is impor-
tant to reumelu) er that these strong
"stock" mixtures must never be brought
together. Pour 3 gallons of the blue -
stone solution into u 40 -gallon barrel (an
ordinary barrel holds between 40 and 50
gulkaes), half fill the barrel with' water,
ad l 2% gallons of the lime solution,
1111 up with water, stir thoroughly and
the mixture is ready for use.
For apply:ng, a spray pump will be
found ceonoruical of labor and mater-
ials, find the gain in p:roducl front one
year's spraying of ono acre of potatoes
will usually pay the entire cost of such
a•► appliance, but if none Is at hand,
Bordeaux may be applied after the same
mariner as Paris Green would be applied
in solution for bugs. The object Ls to
keep the crop covered with the mixture
during the season in ivhlch blight is
liable to occur, and while modern spray-
ing: machinery does this a little better
than anything eLse, there are scores of
farmers in Ontario who are obtaining
quite satisfactory results from applying
the Bordeaux by whatever means are at
their disposal. In preg:aring the mix-
ture where any kind of power sprayers
are to be used, always strain the lime
solution when mixing with the blue -
stone. The lime sometimes slakes
lumpy and clogs in the nozzles. If re-
quired Paris Green may be applied with
th : Bordeaux. adding halt a pound of
Paris Green to each barrel of the mix-
tere.
Spraying should begin about July 15th
and the vines kept covered till Septem-
ber. Four applications as required, will
usually accomplish this. Some have got
fairly satisfactory results from one good
spraying; just at the lime the disease be-
gins to spread. and as we gain in spray-
ing experience, the number of applica-
tion may perhaps be decreased, but
ordinarily, it. Is best to use the mixture
al least four Innes.
Bordeaux is the only effective remedy
yet devised for the control of potato
blight. It is easy to make and easy to
apply. and where properly made and
tmeroughly• applied is certain to be effec-
eve. The only precautions to observe in
making are to use pure fresh materials
awl unix these in correct proportions
and in the proper way, and in applying
to keep the mixture on the vines during
the season that blight is likely to ap-
pear.
Parliament Buildings, Toronto, June,
1907.
IT IS 5111 MORTIMElt.
Lleui.-Goytnu,r .Manna itecipients of
King's 16rlhday Minors.
A ckspateh from Lomkni says: The
Kung's birthday honors include the fol.
k•wiug:-
Ilmmnetcy-col. Ivor Herbert, ex-
Major-Gcnerril, Canada,
Knigh;hood--Mr. Nathaniel' Dunlop,
(:na+rnan of the Allan Line.
Order of SI. Michael and SI. George
Gram! Cross -Sir William MacGregor,
(.• vernor of Newfoundland.
Knight Conunander - Hun. Charles
Fitzpatrick.
Cn►npanions - Mr. James Stewart
Pills. Newfoundland; Captain 1t. 11.
Anslruther. ikoyal Navy: Mr, Alfred
Pucka Ilrrelles and Mr. !Martin Joseph
1;1.11in.
Knight Bachelor - Lieut. -Governor
\\ illianm Mortimer i:lark and \I. F. C.
e I.enggelicr and Mr. lkibert Gillespie
It, .,t ,.n recognition of services to New-
t, undland).
\'ielnrinn Order Knight Commander -
1 ail Dundonald and Sir 'f, 0. Shaugh-
nessy.
Sir Ivor John Heeled Bart corm
amended the Cnnn.hian leen1 tomes with
the fecal rnnk of Alnjor•Generni from
t$90 1n 11(115. At Queen Victoria's
jubilee commemoration in 1897 he was
in eernmand of the coloninl troops.
The status of New Zealand ie to tee
ta,sed to tint of a dcmminien.
There is talk of a new treaty Irhveen
Jepnn and the Unita) Stats.
Grt eTt ITY TO LORD fItt' tF.il.
Grill.h Gnternnu'nt 10 Preen! Ilium
W illi $2e0,000.
A despatch from London says: It is
stated Ihnt the Government will award
lord Cromer. who lately resigned his
pest of British and Consul -General in
Egypt, time sura of $250,000 in recogni-
tion of his services in that country,
PI(:kPOCkI:rs HAUL.
Thousand Millar. stolen in Winnipeg
Building.
A despatch team Winnipeg says:
Pickpockets fire busy here, maid numer-
ous Melte are reported. J. J. Miller. an
leen speculator, was relieved of a thou-
sand dollars in the elevator in the Rank
of Ilamilten building on Wednesday
afler•nuon just after tie hnd ensiled a
draft.
Celt17it+U1k1: AT ANGLESEY.
Ihmilding�
are .faker - - Seisnmonraphs
' Record Unrest.
A despatch horn 1.l ndon snys: A se -
':ere earthquake occurred at AJlgesey
yesterday. Buildings and their contents
were much shaken. Otherwise the
shock was 1inrnmless. Veritas misfile -
graphs rec.,r.le.1 Hutch unrest at differ -
(1)1 limes. fret. Brinr reported n very
violent shock, lasting Iwo hours. 2.5,10
Whiles from Lail -Ache. Nitre Milne reported
a great disturbance 7,200 miles distant,
p,rehnbh• in the Fast Indies.
THE PERILS OF LABOR
11A1'f L'\1NGS
FILO\I AL► '1\l:I1 ltlf:
GLOBE.
tlrleUraphl- Rrlet. ream Our Owe ae0
Ulcer countries of tierces
E'ruls.
CAN \I•\.
Prin'• Fushimi donaleed £50 to Toron-
to coot c'l•le institutions.
ee: to purchase the Perth road, and
thus free the county of loll roads.
IteporIs retched un 'Toronto state
leaf heavy rains have drowned out the
lire. around Thessalon.
The Fruit Inspection Department has
decided that small berry boxes must
contain four-Iillhs of a quart.
John Lecovig, an employee of the
\\'bile Bear mine at Itossland, fell 700
feet down the shaft and was killed.
The report of the Minister of Lands,
Forests and Mines shows that 11►e to-
tal collection from all services was *2,-
266,387.84.
The Temiskaming & Northern Ontario
Railway will be completed by the end
of the present season to the two hun-
dred -mile post.
Mr. Henry O'Brien, K.C., in a letter
to the Mayor, slated that the children
of Toronto were probably the worst on
the continent.
The Canadian Northern Railway has
run a branch fine into Moose Mountain,
where Messrs. Mackenzie & Mann have
very large iron ore deposits.
The lwmldon & Southwestern Railway
has settled with MIs. Walter Barwick,
of Toronto, for £10.000 in an accident
on last Dominion Day.
GREAT BRITAiN.
The British Commons by an over-
whelming vote favored restriction of the
power of the Lords.
An evicted tenants .bill for Ireland
has been introduced in the British
'louse of Commons.
The Imperial Board of Trade of Lon-
don, England, will appoint nine com-
mercial correspondents in Canada.
UNITED STATES.
United Slates railmakers offer a perfect
rail for $33 a ton. Wreck -causing rails
cosi $28.
Several persons have been struck by
lightning and killed in New York and
district.
Seven persons were killed by the fall
of a tenement in the Italian quarter of
New York, on 'Tuesday.
Col. H. P. Brewster, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was shot and killed during a riot on an
excursion train by French Tarty, a
negro.
Because the parents of Carrie Strom,
1•i of Chicago, told her they could not
afford to give her n new graduation
dress, the girl left her home.
Mrs. Bell, an aged woman of Medi' ine
(.edge, Kan., is missing, and is believed
to have been blown away by one of the
tornadoes which visited the place lately.
A warrant was sworn out for the ar-
rest of Clarence Byrne, of New York, a
Christian Scientist, whose litsle dnugh-
te: died of pneumonia without medical
treatment.
Herbert Dahl, a Chicago waiter, com-
plained to court of being struck m the:
face with a lemon pie and injured other-
wise by James Vallo and John Azzalo in
n
restaurant.
Frank C. Brindle, of \Vinnipnnk,
Conn.. drowned himself in a mill pond.
when he Ienr•ned that his father, who
died Inst week, hnd left him $30,000.
Grief hnd weakened the boy's mind.
A Guernsey calf belonging to an im-
ported herd, for which Mr. Arthur
Sleeker led lately paid $32.0e0. enjoyed
an automobile ride from Chicago to Mt.
Forest, 111., the other day, as the guest
. ! its owner.
GENERAL.
Sir John Hall, a former Premier of
New Zealand, is deed.
Order has been restored in the wine-
growers' district of France.
FAMILY BURNED TO iDE.ATH.
Mother and Four Lillie Ones Perish at
Arnprior.
A despatch from Ottawa says: A hor-
ril.le fatality occurred itt Arnprlor early
on Thursday morning. Mrs. V. 1'.
Armstrong and her four young chil-
dren were burned to death. Mr. and
M:s. Arnislrong and faintly lived above
heir laundry in the town. At nn early
hour on Thursday niorning \tr. Arm -
Wong was awnkened by sinoke pour-
ing into the room from the lire below.
Ile rushed downstairs to locate the lire,
end found the whole place In (Imes.
Before he could get back to rescue his
wife and children an explosion of gasp•
line in the laundry cul off their exit
from the second story. and NIrs. Arm -
Along and the children perished. Ann -
elle -mg hirncelt escaped fr.mm time build-
ing; with di0lcully. The enure of the
fin ie not Waren. but it chute) in the
trigone mem at the rear of the building.
The firemen were leroou on the scene
and hnd seven streams of writer on the
1::. in a steel gime. The laundry sots
'nplelcly derlmyeel, all the walls fal-
l.ng In.
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No Less Than 91 Fatalities Reported 1t'tt' 1'01 ♦i1 1101111 '11 14:11►.
I.)ii ; nn flour, %%eih Lace 1wi•ted
Around 11iroal.
\ despatch beim Toronto says : ly-
ing, tnse dewneard on. the Ikea-, with n
During May.
A despatch from Owee n rei)e: Re -
'verb; to the labor Ik•pnrlmcnt show
teat the number of trade disputes dur-
ing etas tsar 49, an increase of twelve
ever the corresponding neeilti of 0906 -
The ko.c in wurkingg drys was appr.mxi-
n.al• ly $M.325 as oumpan.l with 45.675
le \lay of last )Cor. 'rte h,crense is
tarts:y due le the stake el (real miners
in Thee wast. and of )' ng•boremen n
Menlo There were ntseul 111 Bruns
and 11.6"7 cnq.loyees nff.;t•ti) by the
serious deputes.
There wag n marked) upward tend. !try
um waist en nearly all hies of beluetry
during, the month. The number of new
agreements with respx, t Iv re-
ported to the tepnrinment wit- ,. n-.•1.•r-
el.1y in recces of That during the cer-
respx•tuling peri•x( to any previous year
since 1903. Neatly all the new agree-
ments were o;n Thr iasis of higher wage
schedules. In the majority of enses the
increase: were obtained ns a result r
amicable negnt alecurt nud einem!
(Hellen beteeen eemployer'• and ern -
ploy Ps'a.
nm-
pl oyer'..
During eery there sere 2s7 work peo-
ple inhume in Industrial netideiils, fl(
these 91 weer (ntol and 196 r'e•ulkd ui
'eetious matinee Rade ay accidents
were respensil•Ie for twenty fatalities
end thirty ay Them were injured.
DItI; tDSr1FFs.
Toronto, July 2. -Lull board quota-
tions are :-
Wheat -Ontario -No. 2 white, 91%c
asked, outside, 89s bid. No. 2 red, b9c
bin, outside, 89%c bid wet; No. 2
mixed, 91c asked.
Barley -No. 2. 53c bid, 4Rc bid for one
lead. SepleumI.e r or October shipment ;
No. 3 extra, 48e bid, October shipment ;
Nc. 3, 5(k: bid.
Peas -No. 2, 8Ic asked, outside.
Oats -No. 2 white, 46e asked, outside:
4`1Xc asked on a 6 -cent rata to Toronto;
41%c bid.
Other prices are :--
Wheat-Ontario- t,lnchanged ; No. 2
white winter, $8c to tel ; No. 2 red or
No. 2 mixed, 88c to 139c.
wheal -Manitoba-Lake ports, No. 1
hard, 95e ; No. 1 northern, 95%c ; No. 2
northern, 91e.
Oats -No. 2 white, 44% to Wee, one
slde ; Alaniloba, 45c to 45%e, outside.
(:urn -No. 2 yellow American, 6O%c to
Glc.
Barley --Nominal; No. 2, 53%,e to
54%e; No. 2 extra, 51)esc to 53%c.
1'eas-No. 2, 77%c to 78%1,c.
Rye -70c.
Buckwhea t -60c.
• Flour -Ontario, 90 per cent patents,
offered at $3.55; Manitoba first patents,
$1.75 ; seconds, *1.15 to $1.20 ; baker's',
*1.75.
Bran -$18 to 819.
COUN'T'RY PitODUCE.
Buller -Prices show no .further change.
Creamery prints 20c to 22c
do solids 19c to 00k
Dairy, prints 17e to 18c
do solids 17c to flee
Cheese -12%c for large and 13c for
twins. in job kits here.
Eggs -17e to 18e per dozen In case
pots.
Beans ---51.50 to $1.55 for hand -Picked
and *1.35 to $1.40 for primes.
Potatoes -Delawares, $1.30 to *1.35, in
car lots on track here. Ontario, 31.10 to
$1.15.
Bald Ilay-$14 to $15 for No. 1 tim-
othy and *12.50 to *13.50 for secondary
grades.
Baled Straw -$7 to $7.25 per ton in
car lots on track here.
PROVISIONS.
Dressed (fogs -Easy at $9.50 for light-
weights, and $8.75 to $9 for heavies,
fanners lots.
fork-Shoi•t cut, $22.75 to *23 per bar-
rel; mess, $21 to *21.50.
Smoked and Dry Salted Meats --Long
clear bacon, 11c to 11%c for tons and
cases ; hares, medium and light, 15%c
1 s 16c; heavy, l4%sc to 15c ; backs, IGjlc
In 17c; shoulders, 10%c to 11c; rolls,
11%c; out of pickle, lc less than
smoked.
Lard -Steady at these prices: 'Pierces,
12%c; tubs, 12%c; pails, 12%c.
MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal, July 2. -Rolled Oats -From
$2.25 I.. $2.27%, per bag. In a jobbing
way $2.30 Ls asked.
A fair trade is passing in oafs on the
kcal market. Holders are asking 49c
to 49%,c per bushel for No. 2 white
eManitot•as, 48%c to 49c for No. 2 On-
tarius, 47%c to 48c for No. 3, and 46c
to 47c for No. 4.
Them is n gond demand for all line's
et nmiltfeed, and bran and shorts arra
firm at unchanged quetalions.
Domestic trade Ls responsible for the
bulk of the business that is passing in
haled Tiny and prices are steady.
l'novisien Market -There was only a
fair demand and prices dmpped 15c to
25e per hundredweight, with sales • 1
select lots weighed off cars at $7 to
$7.25.
Cheese anti Butler -Cheese exper'fenc-
et' a decline this morning. In the but-
ter market prices were unchanged.
Townships 20%c to 21c. Quebec 20%c to
2(•%c, Ontario. 20c. Ontario dairy 17%c
to 18c. The cheese market prices drop-
ped to Ontario 11%c to 11%e, town-
ships i l Xc, Quebec I I %c.
Eggs -Prices were iOXe wholesale
k•Is and 18%c le 19c small eels.
iIUFFALO MARKET,
Buffalo, July 2. -Flour -Quill. \\'hent
-Spring strong; No. I hard, $1.03; Win-
!, firm; No. 2 while, $1.02, 4urn- -
j
tem; No. 2 yellow. 57%c; N... 2 while,
ec. Oats-Uns.•llkd, weak; No. 2
white, es%c; No. 2 mixed, 4:. ;c. Brmr-
l. y--Quiel: Western offered 78 1•o 8•'x'.
Bye -Scarce and strong; No. 1, 91c
asked c.i.f.
fndnl pie..' of Ince knotted six limes
and twisted lightly- about her threat..
Margaret, the young wife of Aochnel1
Inners. a can enter, living at lust Itechl
mend Street west. sne tonna dead from
strangulation by her little kale -sear -4,M
son Nerinnn nboul 5 o'clock en Thurs-
ch.; night. Iles cries attracted Mr..
Louisa Miller, who Reims in the siert
Crouse. awl who informed the authori-
ties. Mrs. Hawes had leen in ill -health
foe •erne time. suffering particularly
from rheum/thane which was nggrn-
valal le tette: in the Iwo £anus tt herb
the little family had en the cellar of the
reonung tem.,. en Aile;nale Streit She
lel: lee children. a le.•y aged four years
and a girl of Ihrre years.
New Slier( WHEAT \fAItKET.
N. w Pork. July 2. -Wheal --$p. t firm;
N.., 2 reel, 97%c in elevator and $I.1ene
14..b. afield; No. 1 northern Duluth. f
X1.03/; f.o.h, afloat; No. 2 hard winter,
e1.t'2% f.o.b. afloat.
CATFI.E M.\RKEf.
Torotito. July 2. --lap ort Trade rein -
tinned quiet. Very ft w cattle were ut-
tering, and the demand writs only mni.l-
d•ing. Qua/diens sere ender. choice
selling in nn 35.G i to $5.75. Medium
grades are dull.
Light offerings and n better demand
eery the features .,f the day's trading
in butcher entie. Lslr'a choice se,1•1
flee) 85.25 L. 35.50. \kdiunm quality
. unchntmged al 81.50 to $1.75.
ell i e ce ws wild tern *3.50 lo $4.15;
cannier' G •w.. $3 In 43.2.1.
Buyers of stockers and feeder cattle
reported a gu•NI demand per geed quo•
i 1). Ilv.it a wen' quoted keen est.75 to
34, common (ream Nees to 33.
Meeh ('.ess sere dull nl 830 to *50
for ch<.iee and 820 to 825 for common.
Veal • alv. s were quiet and unchanged
41: 3,- 1.e Oe per M.
Exp.0 1 en.. were grouted from $.5 In
85.25. and lambs free ec to 9c per ib.
The ninrkel fer begs was easy. fie n
nen! of 11.114y d••lit. re• s, bud rx, further
.'e lines s: n' r-sg steed. Buyers mete
s.l.'r•t. at e6.75, with prcespeetc for
leewer Twit-,
Frame and 'he 1.'n•I•el Stales are en-
ee:leering le negte:late a new cunmmer-
ciut !melee
THE TROUBLES OF RUSSIA
War Department Headquarters of
Revolutionaries.
:\ e.seeeli from St. fete:sburg
The police on '1'ucsduy niglit searet,: ,I
9
department of the War Alinistry and
found it to be the headquarters of one
of the revolutionary groups. Much il-
l/gal literature was seized. The build-
ing was cordoned by police during the
search, but only one arrest was made.
ATTACK ON GUARD HOUSE.
A despatch from Krasnovnrsk, Si-
beria, says: The attack on the guard
tense and detention prison here, which
began June 21, was resumed elm 'Tues-
day night by revolutionists, who occu-
gded the surrounding houses. They
opened a heavy fire on the guards and
the lalkr replied with volleys. During
a fr,silade. !acting over an hour, a cab
e isver was killed. The prison of liras-
neyursk is one of the halting ).uces
fel political prisoners on their way to
more distant places of Siberian exile.
SISI'1. OFFICERS ARRESTED,
A despatch to n London news agency
(rem Odessa says it is auihoriletively
retorted that sixty offices of the south-
ern military district, several of thein
connected with the Odessa garrison,
Lave been arrested.
BOMB OUTRAGE.
A despatch from Tiflis says: A wage
gon containing $125,1,00, escorted by
Cossacks, had reached Eriven Square,
en Wednesday, ellen a bomb was
thrown and an explosion followed. Two
employees of the Imperial Bunk w•ere'Mr
killed and others injured. The money
Lags disappeared.
TEIIIIORIST ATTEMPT FOILED.
A despatch from 51. Petersburg says:
Ar attempt was made on Tuesday night
1 y terrorists to force an entrance into
the magazine of the proving grounds
near Si. Petersburg, containing a large
amount of explosives. A sentry was
fired at and wounded by the men en-
gaged in the attempt, but the shots
caused a patrol to hurry to tho spot,
and the terrorists fled.
TORPEDO BOAT DAMAGED.
During the manoeuvres on Wednes-
day the torpedo boat L'bedirnilny struck
a mine, which explore -el The damage
done was slight, owing to the deteriora-
tion of the mine.
FAILING OFF IN WHEAT AREA.
The Manitoba i)epartnment Issues u (:cop
Bullclin.
A despatch (corn Winnipeg says : A
bulletin dealing with the condition of
crcps, live stock, etc., in \laniloha was
issued on 'Thursday morning by the
local Department_ of Agriculture and
Immigration. Reports of correspondents
indicate promising conditions in every
section of the province. A falling off Ls
reported in the acreage of wheat, but a
substantial increase In the acreage of
oats and barley.
The wheat acreage reported in lnsl
years June bulletin was 3,1.41,537 acre,.
against 2,789,553 acres this year.
Lust year there were 1.155.961 acres of
olds, this year 1,213.596 acres.
Ttie barley acreage last year was
649,570 acres.
As to live stock, time figures show the
cattle fattened during the winter and time
number of umilck cows :
Cattle Milch
fattened. cows.
10.058 25.64
5,916 2.1(7.2
5,512 22,918
3.385 17,197
3,213 20.001
Districl-
Soodhey estern
North-western
N.-rlh Central
South Central
Eastern
Totals
28,142 114,642
The employment and farm labor prob-
lem is shown thus
Farm hands employed 18.501
Farm hands required 21.51(3
Fcnmale servants employed 4.619
Female servants required ... 5,162
BREAD IN SEALED it•1GS.
Direct From Baker to Consumer is Idea
of Winnipeg Controller.
A despatch from Winnipeg says: En-
cnsed in a sealed oiled paper bug and
duoct from Tho baker to consumer,
without bundling by delivery boys or
storekeepers, is the way Controller J.
We Baker would like to see loaves of
b:cad delivered to c.nsurners in Win-
nipeg. Ile is now bringing the matter
before the health authorities, and a
move nlong this line may be expected
in the near future.
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JUVENILE COURTS IN ONTARIO.
Juvenile (:ousts in the Province c 1
Ontario, Canada, preceded those cn the
Western States, and were established
in Toronto and other cities in 1834. The
courts linve been conducted m a quiet
r.nd ionser'ative manner end have net
allrncled anything liko the publicity
given to the nioventenl in Chicago and
Denver. but they have, nevertheless,
,been riming effective work and saving
many chi (ren from a continuance in
crime. The children's courts are con-
ducted by the regular judges and nmag-
lslrates, the pxmpulutien 1if the various
cities not being sufficiently large as yet
lo warrant a special judge. In Toronto
nearly one thousand children are an-
nually nenll with in the court, and ;n
such cities as London. Hamilton and
Ottawa the number verges from one
hundred and Ilfty to three hundred.
Explosion
STEAMER BURNED.
of Lamp Started Fire In
Engine -room.
A despatch (raft Sault Ste. Maria says:
lIie steamer Batchewana, of the Ganley,
Tug Line, was totally destroyed on Wed-
nesday night in one of the flrst marine
disasters of the season at (topper Mine
T'cint, fifty miles west of the "Soo," on
the Cnnnd.an side. At ten o'clock fire
was discovered in the: engine -room, due
it is said to the explosion of a lamp.
The flames made rapid progress, com-
pelling the engineers to make a hurried
exit, leaving time engines in operation.
'Time vessel was immediately turned to
the shore ono mile away and beached,
the crew of fifteen men. under Capt.
James Ganley, all being landed safely.
TI:ey reached the "Soo" on Thursday
morning on the tug Shamrock none the
worse for the incident. The Batchewana
curried n cargo of iron ore from the
Helen Mine for the Algoma Iron Works
a' the "Soo." The boat was partly in-
sured, but the Ganley Line will lose
heavily on the disaster.
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Tl1E Mtn. SUBSIDIES.
Amount Paid Out During Last Fiscal
Year Totalled $1.128.876.
A despatch )run Ottawa says: Dur-
ing the steed -term fiscal year ended
March 31s1 last the email subsidies paid
out by the Deininion amounted to $1,-
121+.876, as against $1,?27.560 in the pull
fiscal year 1905.6. Of -this $460.666 was
kr the mail serice in England. The
subsidies to the Allanlic mail service
in the last fiscal year amounted to 8373,-
916. as against $282.390 in the previous
year. The bounties paid .hiring the fis-
cal year had a total of $1.581,913, made
up as follows: Iron and steel; $1.299,•
eel; petroleunm. $266,553; lead, 31,994
binder twine, 313.595.
CANADA AND SOLTII AFRICA.
Trade Between Two Countries to be
Developed.
A despatch from London say,: Sir A.
Jones, referring to his grant of Gee
passage to commercial travellers be -
le ecn Canada and South Africa, says
there should be an enormous trade be-
tween the Iwo countries. The Elder-
Cenmpster Company would do all they
could to devekop it.
A NEV COMET.
Member of Dominion Observatory Slat
Makes Discovery.
A despatch from Ottawa says: Mr. L
S. Plaskett. wl►ei Imus charge of the bio
telescope of the Dominion Observatory,
a few drys ago discovered a bright
vine' which iS np.proaching the sun
and is daily growing more brilliant. Al
present the comet can lie seen through
an epxera glass in the early morning,
towards the southeast. and in n fete)
weeks will probably be visible to tti
r.nkrd eye. The oomet will increase 1
l.righlrmess till September, when it wit
lie nearest the sun.
NAMES SWEAR UNICE
A Marked Increase Shown in Natural.
ization Statistics.
A drspelch from Ottawa says: The re-
1eans of naturahzalion► In Canada ter
1906 have been Iabulate'' by the Secre-
tary of Slate's Department. and slow
Hint a very large proportion of Can -
/Ma's new c;lmzcn, troll] foreign corm -
Ines are taking the cath of allegiance.
During the year the naturalization
totalled 10,242, ns compared with G,632
kr gime Pres ears year. nn increase r f
:e.G10. The Noturalization Act requires
Three years residence In the Dominion
before 1 npers of cillzenehlp can be takjen
c.ul.
Taking into con elernti.•n the fort
II.nt only the bends of families and
young men over 21 years of age of fer-
e.gn berth nerd to take the •cath of al-
legiance. the total of 10.212 ter last
year probably represents a foreign un.
nmigralinn of thirty to forty Ihnusand.
And since three yenre• residence is re-
quired it w.11 be /Wen that nli not Ila
wi►nkt foreign lnunigrntM of Itsid ha!
!foram, naturalized by lew.
The tolnl nt►luratzntm.u►s of immi-
grants fnorn United Stales were 3.6188,
which, cornpnr.d with the inunigralien
figures of tiers' -03. shi ow that nearly all
ih. American male settlers in the \\'eel
are taking the Dalt► of allegiance 10 :hi
Brit Lek tree n.
The k,le1 immigration tsar the trr•nth
n( April was 41A61. at compel -lel with
1°,313 ter April of last year. an uucr(•aw
..1 25 poi rent. ler the len nx.nght,
July 1 to April 30, the immigration was
163.71s, cant ere( with 1:4.031 for the
corresponding months of the 'Iscal
year. an Increase (4 4/57 or 36 per
ant.