The Exeter Advocate, 1892-7-21, Page 2" I :sever lienowed,''
(Wins T. Croasdale in Fuck, of Tan. 7, 1885.)
Old Billy B was a pioue man,
and Heaven WMhis goal;
For, being a very eavingenan.
Of emirs's, he'd save Ins soul.
But even in this, he used to say,
" One can' t too careful he
And he sng with a fervor unassumed,
"1'm glad salvation's free."
But the means a grece " he had to own
Required good, nead-earned gold,
And he took ten pews, as well became
• The richest a the fold.
"He's a nobje maul" the preacher cried,
"Ow Christie -it Brother13,'
And Billy smiled as he sublet nine,
And got his own pew free.
In class meeting net old. Billy told
How Heaven bad erections boon,
Tea, even haokin the dark days when
Re was a man a sin.
"I's bundle a barn on my er farm—
• All I then had," be said,
• "I'd run out o' boards, and was Media' hands,
On nothbe but corn bread,
"I'll tell yo, bretherin, that I felt blue,
Short o timber and cash,
And thought I'd die when the banks then bust,
And flooded all my mash.
But the Lord was merciful to me,
And sent right throngli the net
• The tide had made in the river banks
A lumber raft adrift.
"Paint y o' boards was there for bhe barn,
• And ea top wasp, cheese,
.And a earl opork as sound and sweet
As any one ever sees.
Then 1 :tad bread and. meat for the men,
And they worked with a will,
While I thanked God, who'd been good tome,
And I'm doin' of it still.
A shrill-voieed sister oried "Bless the Lord"
The whole class cried, "Amens"
But a koen-eyed man looked at Billy B.
In thoughtful way, and then
.Asked " 13rother B., did you ever hear
Who lost that raft and load I"
Ail& Billy wiped his eyes and said:
Bre therin, I never Icnoweda
TWO PAINTED DOORS.
A Similarity Which Broucht •About
Peculiar Complications.
MR. MILNER boarded at Num -
her Three, Simpson Terrace.
(There was no terrace, but the
'Squire thought the name
sounded sonorous and pleasant,
so he had ohristened his five
little cottages "Simpson's Ter-
race.") He boarded with Mrs.
Chipley and her two daughters Maud and
Marian, who felt it a great (11U/salon to
be of any service, however slight, to the
pastor.
Maud gathered fresh flowers for the study
table every, day; Marion sat up late nights
to iron and mend table linen so that the
good man might have a clean napkin every
day, and to darn his stockings so that you
could not tell mended places from the
whole, and the •little widow herself ex-
hausted every culinary resource to humor
his dyspepsia, and to contrive dainty dishes
out of the least possible foundation. To
theae three simple women Rev. Milo Milner
was like an embodied saint.
"And now that Mr. Milner is safely gone
for the day," said Mrs. Chipley, "we'll
clean the sitting -room and whitewash the
walla. Run to Dixie's, Maud, for a lump of
=slacked lime, and—oh, by the way, bring
some cornmeal, dear. We'll have hasty
pudding for dinner, and eat at the kitchen
table. Hasty pudding and milk will do for
us women."
"Of course it will do, manuna," said
Maud.
"1 just like pudding and milk 1" cries
Marian jumping gleefully up and down,
"and although Air. Milner is such a dear,
good man, yet it is a sort of relief to have
him gone once in a while, so that we can
clean house and eat hasty pudding and
milk. Oh, Maud 1" she whispered to her
mathetia sister, as Mrs. Chipley went out to
hang the big "kettle over the fire, "I've
such an idea in my bead! If you'll only
get a little grass -green paint, ready mixed,
when you are at Direy's and a medium-sized
brash 1"
"Green paint, Marian? What for 1"
"Hush ! don't let mamma hear! I'm so
tired of hearing this called the house with
the blue door."
Maud obeyed; although the elder in
point of years, she had long been accustomed
to be domineered over by pretty, positive
Marian.
"But it is the strangest thing, Marian,"
she said, as, fifteen or twenty minutes
later, she handed over a mysterious tin can
and an oblong paper parcel to her sister;
"Joe Dean is out now painting his door
blue."
"Tastes differ," said Marian, shrugging
her shoulders, now invested in a preter-
naturally shabby old calico gown, suitable
only to the extremest exigencies of house-
cleaning time.
"Blue is a lovely color, but, as applied
to a house door, I am heartily sick of it.
Joe Dean has no more taste than a New-
foundland dog."
"The Deans are expecting city company
to luncheon," said Maud. "They sent
to borrow the butterfly china plates this
morning."
"It must be nice to have city company,"
sighed Marian.
"Oh 1 bat to think of the work of it!"
said Maud, lifting her hands.
Mrs. Chipley came in at that moment
also clad in what Marian called her
"scrubbing regimentals," and wearing
an old olive silk handkerchief tied around
her still bright and glossy hair, aret the
three set themselves deternunedly to work.
Rev. Milo Milner, on reaehing the rail-
way station, received a telegram that his
friend, Prof. Klingenburg, could not possi-
bly meet him that day.
"Very good," eaid Mr. Milner, "I'll
just step back home and get a mouthful of
luncheon, and then Fit go to look over
those ancient manuscripts with Dr.
Hodges. He has been urging me to do so
for some time past, and I may, never have
a better opportunity than this. '
Mr. Milner tucked the umbrella under
his arm, tipped his black, wide.rimmed hat
over his eyes and set off on a swift swinging
•.stride baok to Simpson Terrace. • The blue
door stood wide open, ' So he walked in
without the least ceremony.
" Fresh paint 1" he said to himself, ele-
vating leis thin isostrile. "11 there's any-
thing on the face of the earth I detest, it is
froth paint. And I've got ib all over the
•skirts of my best coat, too 1 Where is Mrs.
Chipley ? What has 'become of the girls ?
Nobody ever seem to be in the way when
they're wanted. But, fortunately, here's
lutieheon ready epread. I wonder, now, how
it happened. Hisev could they know I was
•coining baok. Cold road grouse, with or -
rant jelly—chicken salad—pickled oysters
—really?, now, this is something quite be-
yond the ordinary tun of. our bills of
fare 1" ,
The pastor sat down and ate with an ex.
oellent appetite. He made a big hole in the
Cilinken Salad mound; he picked the bones
of a crisp, brown grouse with genuine satis-
faction ; he buttered a flaky, biocide and
added to its flavor by several epoonfuls of
•ember quince preserve.
Et All 010 amine," said be to himself o as
he Wiped hie Muth with a damask napkin,
and rose from hie chair, with another
glance at the vegetableehaped watch,
‘4 Wi
O aort of thing s quite beyond Mre.
Chipley's means, thought she had better
south. I mot really speak to her about it.
In the month:lie I must make good speed if
I expect, to have much time at my friend
Hodgee' place."
Awaybe trudged, much °widened and
sustained as regarded hie inner man,
Joe 1 Joe r shrieked 31/fiss Erancesca
Dean, coming into the room a few minutes
later, what have you done? Eaten up
all the company luncheon ? Oh, you
greedy "--
" I didn't do no such thing," shouted
Toe from an upper room, where lie was
transforming himself from an amateur
journeyman painter to a modern tenni
player. What are you talking abgut 1"
"Some one has eaten his fill 1" cried
Mies Franoesca. "just look at the table 1"
"Then it's sem° tramp sreaked in through
the door that I left opeu to dry the paint,"
bewled Joe, smiting his leg.
And while the Dean family were
endeavoring to repair damages, the task of
house-oleaning went swimmiugly on at the
Chipley domicile, only two doors away, the
girls and their mother scarcely taking time
to sit down and eat their hasty pudding,
svhich, by the way, got scorched through
11laud's over -devotion to puttingthe chintz
ourtaina at the pastor's study windows.
But hasten as they would, the newly
whitewashed walla were scarcely dry, and
the furniture not yet rearranged,when dusk
descended on the scene and Rev. Milo
Milner came in.
Oh, take care, Mr. Milner 1" exolaimed
Maud, "the door, the paint is fresh,"
Mr. Milner solemnly advanced into the
area of the lamplight, and, twisting him-
self around to get at the skirts of his coat,
eyed them disconsolately.
"More paint," said he. "Bine pants 1"
" No " said Marion. "Green."
The
"No,"
colors were ludicrously alike by
lamplight. The green might be mistaken
for & lively blue—the blue for a dull green.
"Bine 1" said the astor, firmly. "Do
you think I haven't the use of myeyes ?"
"Green," persisth,d Marian. I know,
because I put it on myself."
"It is not well," said Rev. Milner, "for
the young to be too positive."
"But truth is truth," said Maud.
"And while I'm about it," said Mr.
Milner, now thoroughly exasperated, "1
deem it my duty to remonstrate with you
concerning the extravagant and unevar-
ranted style of diet in which you indulge
during my absence V'
"1 don't know what you mean," said
Mrs. Chipley, feebly °etching her breath.
"Hasty pudding and milk can't be called
extravagance," hazarded Maud.
"Scorched at that," murmured Marian.
"Roast grouse and currant jelly," said.
the pastor. "Chicken staled and sponge
cake. And—here again I trust to the evo
deuce of my eyesight—all set out on your
old butterfly pattern china. I know, be-
cause I ate of it myself."
"You—you got into the wrong house,"
gasped Maud.
"It was the house with the blue door,"
serenely uttered Mr. Milner, as if this were .
an incontrovertible argument.
Marian clapped her hands hysterically.
" Mamma," she cried—" Maud, Mr.
Milner was the tramp who ate up Miss
Dean's company luncheon. That was just
what Francesca Dean told me they had
prepared 1 And on our butterfly china,
too !"
" It was the house with the blue door,"
stubbornly repeated Mr. Milner.
"But Joe Dean painted their door blue
to -day 1" exclaimed. Marian. "And I
painted ours green."
The pastor sank limply into a chair.
"Then," he said, "I've got green and .blue
paint both on the skirts of my coat—and I
have made a dreadful blunder in thesbar.
gain! And I must go at once and apologize
to the Dean foanily; but not until you, my
kind friends, have forgiven me for my med-
dling interference."
"Bub really," said mischievous Maud,
i
hasty pudding en't an extravagance."
Mrs. Chipley and Marian hastened to
deprecate the pastor's humility,and he went
sadly to make his peace with Mies Fran-
cesca Dean.
"It is kind o' queer," said Deacon Phil-
pott, talking the matter over some days
afterward. "The dominie he plumb admits
that he's sort o' absent-minded, and needs a
wife to keep him straight. And I'll bet
even on pretty Miss Maud and Free:mace
Dean."
The deacon, however, was wrong for
once in his life. Pastor Milner did get
married, but it was neither to blue-eyed
Francesca nor dark-orbed Maud. Like a
sensible man he prop:teed to Widow
-Chipley herself, and was accepted at once.
"But, if Mrs. Milner does rot object,"
he said with due courtesy, "I should like to
have the front door painted blue onoemore."
—Home Queen.
The Latest Agricultural "Rick."
"The farmers are never satisfied any-
way ?" said the chap from the city as he
leaned against a stump at the Ormsby
camp ground the other day, with a group
of the "horny handed" surrounding him.
"They kick like steers when it rains, in
fear of getting too much. When the sun
conies out hot they kick, for fear the wheat
will get rusted. In fact, they are never
satisfied. Now just look at this beautiful
season. What's the matter with ib? Is
not the growth something wonderful?
Was there ever such hay? Was there ever
such a prospect for wheat? Had the
farmer ever better roots? All the cereals
look well. In fact, all around things never
looked more .prosperous." The city man
eyed the group trimnphantly. He thought
he had silenced the croakers. But one old
fellow drawled, "Yes, you are right about
the growth, but have you considered how
it exhausts the soil ?"
The Derivation of " Gingerly."
To speak of a peraon acting in "gingerly"
fashion would certainly convey a clear
enough idea, and we easily connect the
word in some vague manner with the word
"ginger," perhaps from the association in
our minds of the sparing use made of that
condiment. The word, however, is innocent
of any such round -about derivation, and
comes directly from the old word "gang,"
to go—still preserved in the Scotch ysirase,
"Gang that gate "—and thus Originally
meanswith cautious,faltering or "gingerly "
steps. —Chambers' Journal.
No Cause For Fear.
Friend—Hew are you to -day?
Sick Man—Pretty bad. I'm afraid I'm
going to die.
Frieed—Nonsenee. Cheer up, old fellow.
Only the good die young.
Went Out Too Olten.
" Xo, I dan't say that I like the play,"
8‘ Queer; L think in Uri plot and special
features it is admirable."
" Yea; I adinit that, but it has too matly
acts—got tipsy last night."
Nothing further of importance has trans-
pired at Homestead; Pa. The etrikent
bounced two reporters yesterday. kr.
Andrew Caraegie arrived. at Brenner in
Aberdeenshire, Scotland, lab night. He
refused to talk on the subject of the trolibles
at his Wile at Hetrietitead.
THE FARMERS' PICNIC.
411.1.••••••••••••••••••
• Farmers awl Fruit -Growers at
Grimsby:Park.
• SOME PRACTICAL SPEECHES,
inspection of the Fruit 'per the World's
Fair—A Great Exhibit—President Awry
and Prot, Mills Talk ite. the Afternoon
Mr. J, S. Woodward and Hon. John
Dryden Speak in tine Evening.
The Ontario Fruit, Grows& Association
is holding a speoial onion in conjunction
with the Farmers' Institute. Many of the
leading, members of that body are here, and
were treated to a drive this morning to
Grimsby village and the fruit farms' eon-
tiguous. They inspected the magnificent
display of fruit in Grimeby which, has been
got together for the World's Fair. The
proceedings will wind up to -morrow even-
ing with a baud concert and display of fire-
works.
The Central Farmers' Institute of Ontario
is one of the largest organizations which
exista in the Province to -day.. It has a
membership of over 20,000, has active and
energetic offisers, and there is no reason
why anything they take in hand should not
be eminently sucossfuL Howeeer, the
demonstration held under the auspices of
the Institute at Grimsby Camp grounds
Thursday, and which is being continued
to -day, was not nearly so largely attended
as it should have been. What was the
cause? Well, there has been a great deal
of rain throughout this section of Ontario
for the past few weeks. Farmers have been
praying for fine weather in order that they
might be enabled to get somei
work done n
the way of haying, etc., and there is little
wonder that when such a beautiful dry day
as yesterday came that they stayed at home
and attended to such important matters in
preference to rushing off to a picnic. Of
course, by net going to the picnic they
mined hearing many things which they
could have turned to advantage in the cul-
tivation of their land, but that's their own
lookout. Grimsby Park never looked more
beautiful than it did on the occasion. Many
of the cottages are occupied, and residents
on tho camp ground were oat in full force
to welcome friends from a distance'of
whom in the crowds that thronged into the
gates there seemed to be not a few.
Some Who Were There.
Among the picnickers were Messrs. James
Gibson, .Ancaster ; Thos. Wilkinson, Thos.
Maoklem'Barton; George Smith, Thos.
Crooker, West Flamboro ; George Bildt,
Wm. Orr, A. Foran'Foran, John A. Car-
penter, Saltfleet ; William Smith, Hiram
bmith, Glanford ; Chas. Seeley, Dr. Mc-
Gregor, J. Higginbotham, J. Mulook,
Waterdown ; Thos. Connell, A. F. Pirie,
R. T. Wilson, Dundas; S. Hunter, Thos.
S. Henderson, Win. Cowie, Beverly; Thos.
Mulook, EastFlamboro' ; T. B. Sheppard,
M. Bingham, Waterloo; Michael Dalton,
Fonthill ; F. Lloyd Jones, Burford; B.
Goot, Arkona ; H. M. Smith, St. Cathar-
ines; Thos. Kells, Vandeleur '• W. J. Mc-
Naughton, Lancaster; Rolland W. Gregory,
Mr. Wilson, Aaron Cole, Louth; George G.
Pettit, W. D. Kitcher, L. Woolverton, W.
H. Nelles, W. H. Pettit, Dr. Milward, E.
Woolverton, J. B. Boualaugh, J. W. G.
Nelles, 'Henry Sinith, George Smith,
Grimsby • C. M. Housberger, Jordan: D.
Nichol, Cntarisqui ; Thos. Sells, Vandeleur ;
Wm. Kew, Toronto; John Little, Greaten ;
Carmen Pettit, Cornwall; Jno. Carpenter,
Winona; John Eustice, • Hamilton.
Those who arrived at the camp ground by
early train and steamer amused themselves
as best they could until the afternoon, when
the grand gathering took place in the
pavilion. These few hours were pleasantly
epent in listening to the beautiful music of
Heintzman's band from Toronto, in strolling
on the well -kept walks and picnicking
beneath the shade of the grand old trees.
TheFrult•Growers' Exhibit.
About 11 o'clock the directors of the
Fruit Growers' Asseciation athembled in the
temple, and were received by Mr. A. H.
Pettit, President of the Ontario Fruit
Growers' Association and Secretary of the
Central Farmers' Institute, a gentleman
who has recently been appointed Superin-
tendent of the Ontario fruit exhibit at the
World's Fair. The gentlemen present
were : Messrs. T. H. Race (Mitchell), Vice -
President ; L. Woolverton (Grimsby), See-
retary, aud N. J. Clinton, Windsor; W.
S. Turner, Cornwall; A. M. Smith, St.
Catharines; J. R. Howell, Brantford; John
Craig, Ottawa; D. Nichol, Cataraqui ; A.
D. Mali Alleu, Goderich ; J. D. Stewart,
Russelvale, directors'and Hon. MreDryden.
These were escorted to carriages in waiting
,and were driven to Grimsby village to the
office of the Superintendent, where the
fruit already put up in preserving fluids
Was examined. A good deal of work has
already been accomplished, as evidenced by
the number of jars already filled with the
smeller varieties of fruit, suoh as strawber-
ries, currants, cherries, gooseberriea'etc.
For the smaller fruits there are 1,600 jars,
as well as a vast number of larger
jars for pears and apples. The Jars
are of all sizes ; some of them hold a half
pint, others a half bushel. Some are six
inches in length ; others are three feet. A
few are of such demensions that the entire
limb of a bush can be placed in thorn, so
that not only the fruit will be displayed
but the wood and foilage as well. The
designs of these jars are most artistic. They
are of all shapes, from the common bottle
to the magnificent urn, with ant glees
stoppers. The jars .will be arranged in
pyroanide at the great fair, and the whole
will be surmounted by, a tripod. The urn
svillbe filled with fruit and the vase will be
decorated with Canadian flowers. There
are aix of these pyramids, all of different
form and design. The effort is being made
to have the exhibit of Canadian fruit
second to none from any country beneath
the SUN and if poesible superior to all. Of
course the fruit display now being prepared
is for the opening of the fair. -The later
fruits will be sent to Chicago and kept in
cold storage;:so that when the exhibition
opens not only will the earlier qualities be
there in jam but the later will be shown in
its natural state. These will be supple-
mented from week to week by next season's
frait and fresh exhibit e will be forwarded
during the fair, Mr. Awrey, the commis -
Biome, told the TIMES reporter that the
;space allotted to the fruit display of Ontario
alone was four thousand square feet.'
After getting through this interepting in.
epection the gentlemen partook of lunch,
and then drove to the office of Mt. Wol-
verton, secretary of the association, and
there held a bueiness meeting. They then
inepected the splendid fruit orchard belong.
ing to Mr. Woolverton, after Nvbioh they
returned tci the park in time for the big
meeting In the Temple.
Sonic Speechifying.
It was 3 o'clock when the gathering took
place in the temple. The crowd wee
attracted thither by the excellent music of
the band, which Was stationed on the 'plat-
form, Mr. N. Awre3r, M. P. P., President
of the Central Farmers' Institute, ()coupled
, s
the OW,
Mr, Neal Phelps, President of theGaterio
Methodist Camp Greund Compeny, ad.
yawed to the edge of the platform as Won
as the audience was eeated, sued weloomed,
on behalf of the company, the members of
the Farmera' Institute and their friend e to
the park. It west only a few days ago, he
said, he had the pleasure of welcoming
3,000 of the Patrons of Industry ou a ohm.
lar occasion.
The President's Speech.
The chairman then addressed the meet•
ing. He regretted that Hon. Mr, Carling
and Dr. Montague, M. P., would not be
present as announced, but exonerated the
committee from all blame, as these gentle,
men had pirmised to cora°. General Hoard,
of Wisconsin, and Mr. Woodwind, of Look.
port, N. Y„ would be with them later
on. Hon. John Dryden, Minister of Agri-
culture of Ontario, he was pleased to say,
WAS On the platform. (Applauee.) Prof.
Mills of the Ontario Agricultural College,
was kso present. (Chore.) The speaker
then, after a pleasant referenee to eir.
Phelps' remarks, proceeded to deal with the
objects of the Central Farmers' Institute
All branches of business, he said, had asso.
ciations which met from time to gine to die'
curie matters of intereat to themselves. The
farmers felt the want of some such organiza-
tion, and some gentlemen met five or six
years ago and considered the subject. They
felt that an interest which represented
$99,000,000 of capital • in the Province
should have a tiociety through the medium
of which they could reaoh their fellow men.
The result was that the Central Farmers'
Institute was established in Toronto, dele-
gates being in attendance from all the
electoral districts. At that time there was
a membership of only 500 ; now tnere were
20,000 members enrolled—all progressive
farmers residing in the Province of Ontario,
working for the common objects of the
society. They were not a combination.
They asked for nothing unjust. They
wanted just legislation; they demanded a
fair field and no favor, and were prepared
to work out their destiny on these lines.
The institutes in the several electoral dis-
tricts had been visited and ad-
dressed. by learned professors from the
colleges, on subjects of interest to members.
Papers on practical questions had been pre-
pared and read. They were working out
their destiny somewhat different from that
pursued some forty or fifty years ago. In
those days there was something in the soil
which responded readily to the labor of its
tiller. Thanks to the lessons which the
Canadian agriculturist had learned, the
farms were being worked so as to make
Canadians engaged in this industry the
peers of any others on the North American
continent. Both the Doniinion and Ontario
Governments had been vying with each
other in attentions to the wants of the
farmers since the establishment of the Instis
tute. The Ontario Government had done a
good thing in placing the Department of
Agriculture in the hods of a praotioal
farmer. The Institute was to be thanked
for this. In the Hon. John Dryden they
had a man who himself knew what it was
to handle the plow and perform the drudg-
ery attendant upon the farmer's occupation.
He knew their wants—a plain, practical,
approachable'intelligent man. Like him-
self (Mr. A) he now earns his bread by the
sweat of his hired man's brow—(laughter)—
but this did not make him any the less com-
petent to discharge thedutiesof hiaposition.
Mr. Awree, then referred to the benefits
confered by the college at Guelph and the
experimental station at Ottawa. All along
the line the farmers were being aided and
encouraged in their work. Heretofore they
generally had a lawyer, or a news-
paper man or some other profes-
sional at the head of the Agricultural
Department. The change was brought
about simply because the Central Institute
had appealed to the Government for a pro°.
deal man to be put in charge. Out of all
the electoral districts he was pleased to say
that only two had held aloof from the
Central Institute. The speaker then pro-
ceeded to impart aome good advice to the
farmers. They were not in the habit of
doing business like the merchant or manu-
facturer, who kept strict accounts of ex-
penditure and income. For thirty years
they had depended on wheat and barley.
The time had passed for that. Men had be-
gun to grow fruit with advantage. Thous-
ands of dollars were realized every year in
this way in the Niagara part of the Elletriet
and elsewhere. The sooner they came to
the conclusion they could not compete with
other countries in the matter of wheat the
better. The cost of production and the
value of land were too great. The estab-
lishment of cheese factories was commented
upon, and commended. Canadian cheese
was worth icr. to lc. more per lb,
than that produced au any other
land on God's earth. (Applause.) He then
touched on butter making. Canadians had
not been able to supply the article de-
manded by the English market. Little
Denmark sent sixtymillion pounds of butter
every year to England. Canada didn't sell
a million pounds. Following the example
of Denmark, the Canadian butter maker
should make butter on the same principle
as he manufactured cheese. • Scientific
methods should be observed in the making
of butter. He expressed regret that the
audience was not larger. Providence had
been weeping on the earth of late and the
labors of the husbandmanhaelbeen retarded.
Possibly anxiety on the farmers' part to get
farm work pushed on accounted for the
absence of many. If Barnum's circus was
in Hamilton the hay might suffer (laughter),
but they could not come here to listen to
words otwisdom from learned and eloquent
men. The institute had hoped to see seven
or eight thousand people there. Every
arrangement was made. The fare from
Ottawa was only $5 and from other points
in proportion.
The band then played a beautiful selec-
tion. principal Mins Speaks.
Prof. ULM, M. A. Principal of the
Ontario Agricultural College, was then
introduced and delivered an excellent
address. After some preliminary remarks
he said that it seemed to him that the great
fault amongst the farmers was laolc of
thought. They did not sit down and
consider what they ought to do and how
to do it. He then spoke of the
desirability of giving up, in a large measure,
the attempt t� grow wheat. He pointed
out that the climatic change had been each
that those who clung to wheat -raising mutat
come to financial difficulty. • The growing
a wheat had become so uncertain that there
was no use to oontinue it. He thought it
much better to go into the growing of corn,
°eta, peas or barley to be fed on the place.
The risk was not nearly so great, and the
certainty of Owen much better. With
plenty of grain arid roots, he thought the
fanner could engage in dairying withal well-
grounded hope of success. Attention should
be. given to cheese in summer and butter in
winter, If they do not care for that s they
could give their attention to beef -raining
and butterenaking. These could be sue -
cuddly pursued in any part of the Pro-
vince. The risisidg of sheep was also ppm -
mended, and the young men advised to
raise latilbe for the &taiga market. It
would be found to be pnifitable. Fruit -
raising was recommended. By taking his
advice, he thoutt the mortgagee might be
removed from is Iola by many & man in
Ontario. The remind point Which the pro.
tosser dwelt tmort at acme length was tin
necessity of cleaning up the farm and keeps
in it °loan. lb referred to the noxious
weeds which were allowed to flourieh
throughout the haul. In this respect things
were gettiug worse in the Province, Twelve
years age the laud wall conmartively clean.
Now wild muatard, flex, tares and wild -
everything -else were pampered Metead of
exterminated. The farmer should grapple
with the weeds, get rid of them and keep
rid of them. Nobody could afford to raise
two or three crops at a time. Men who
allowed the weeds to got so far ahead
should Bell out and go west or enter the
preaching er legal profession. The sooner
the better for the country. • (Applause.)
The profethor also dealt with tho import-
ance of early after -harvest cultivation .of
stubble ground, the benefit of red clover to
the soil, the benefit of frequent stirring up
of the soil among hoed crops, especially in
dry weather, the necessity of testing and
culling all the cows kept for dairy purposes.
In conueetion with the last point he seed
that no cow should be retained as a milker
that did not produce seven or eight thousand
pounds of milk in the year.
Mr. Jonathan A. Carpenter etated that
he had a Jersey that produced 10,102 lbs.
in the twelve mouths.
After dealing at length with the subject
ofpasture, and talking for a while on the
education of the boys who are to be the
fanners of the future, the epeaker closed his
most interesting address.
Mr. Awrey complemented Prof. Mills on
hie exoellent speeoh.
The Evening's Proceedings.
Rev. J, S. Woodward, of Lockport, N.Y.
delivered an address on " Sheep a.s Assis
tants to the Apple Grower." He said tha
apple culture was the most important bran°
.
ag.rioulture, but the apple grower was in
s
d
trouble. The land was nearly exhauste
when orchards were planted and every yea
each succeeding crop had been reducing th
fertility still more and little hoe been re
turned. He noticed the foliage of Canadian
orchards looked yellow instead of dark
green and healthy. The apple grower i
too avaricious and wants hay crops beside
fruit. Ho does not fertilize the ground no
does he destroy insects. No wonder he i
in trouble and needs assistance of some kiaid
Keeping sheep is the best remedy he coul
suggest. They would keep down
every spear of grass at littl
expense. Between insects and codling
moths leaf -rollers and borers, the frui
was being all destroyed. True, many o
these pests could be subdued by the use o
inseotioides, but spraying won't kill the
apple maggot. • Piga are too slow, but no
worm or mh
maggot escapes the sheep. Put a
a hundred sheep to every Jen acres o
orchard and hive them to work. Give them
nitrogenous food and they will be voracious
for the apple insect& It costa $3 a week
to pasture a hundred sheep. With that
buy 250 pounds of bran and 100 pounds of
linseed meal, and give them a hundred
quarts a clay. They will do better with
ehis than being in any man's pasture.
lion. John Dryden.
Hon. John Dryden, Min/liter of Agricul-
ture,.altuded to the benefits that farmers
• derive from such meetings as the present,
the seclusion and comparative dullness of
their lives giving place to a more cheerful
disposition. As other classes found it a
benefit to be organized, so they met for
mutual support and help. If it, was found
necessary for other classes to organize, it
was ten times more necessary that farmers
should organize, because the farmers were
so dependent one on another that one could
not succeed without the other. Apart from
material consideration, farmers' gatherings
ledto the cultivation of a spirit of sympathy
and good feeling among all who took part.
The new and improved methods adopted
by farmers showed the good work the
Fanners' Institutes were doing. Ten years
ago there was scarcely a silo to be found.
Now there are hundreds of them. The
progress made in this direction could be
traced to the disoussions in the Institutes.
The Patrons of Industry and the members
of the Farmera' Institutes were not ants-
gonistio. Though they had different
• spheres of action, they should unite in the
good work of improving the condition of
their °lass. It might be asked what the
Governmentcoulddo tohelpthefarmers. The
Government Gould indioate the best methods
of cultivating the soil and show the
necesidty for the adoption of such methods
by the farmer. In this wayithe pro-
ducts of the soil would be ncreased.
By showing the people how to im-
prove the quality of their products
the Government would raise the price
of those products. The work done by,the
Travelling Dairy was an example of this.
By this means they received help front the
Goverzunent without injury to any other
class. The advantage obtained from the
Travelling Dairy benefited the farmer and
the whole community without iujuring any
one. Daring the past fifty years rapid
advances have been made in farming
methods, paid better work is now done than
ever before. Fifty years ago they had to
depend upon one orop, wheat, whereas now
wheat was almost the lowest on the list of
exports from Ontario. Lad year lees
than $1,000,000 worth of wheat was
exported, while the export of apples
was $1,500,000, cheese $9,500,000,
stock $10,000,000. And yet the limit of
production was not reached. It will soon
become necessary to increase the yield per
acre. This is an age of specialism, and in
other callings than that of farming trusits
are formed to control the market. Farmers
in self -defence -must contend against this.
Mr. Dryden in conclusion, spoke of the
great natural resources of the country,
g,hich needed only clevelopment for the pro-
duction of wealth. On the farmers chiefly
depended the development of these resources.
They should always drive to do their
utmost for themselves and for their country,
so that the name of Canada will become a
light to the nations of the world.
A Lay Sermon.
aide'. G. 8. Woodworth, of Lockport, N.
Y:, who delivered an extremely interesting
and able address here last evening, was
next introduced to preach a lay sermon.
Hill 'subject was, "How to Raise Good Boys
and Girls," and his text was taken from
Chronicles x., 1, "A wise son maketh a glad
father, but a foothill son is the heaviness of
his mother." God worked with the leasb
possible appearance of effeot. He made the
tree, but He did not place fruit upon it at
once. If he was to take a poll of the audi-
ence as to why man was created, he did not
believe two persons would ansWer alike.
Even his oletioal friencle, who would prob-
ably say ib wise because man might lead a
virtuous life and go to Heaven, would be
wrong. The remelt Wati that man niight
propagate his species and multiply on
the earth. He sometimes (petitioned
whether babies had mind at all, as
their only aocoropliphinent at first
seemed to be squalling. (Laughter.)
A child's first desires Were purely animal.
Every chilcl was, at an early age, a natural
pig, thief aid liar, and it was the duty of
the mother to develop their moral nature to
moll an extent that they would in after life
share their last mouthful with a comrade,
and die at the stake rather than tell a lie.
First, then, parents should give their chil.
then sound bodies. & great naiad in a
poorly developed body Was like. a clever
engineer in a broken-dewn engine. Another
matter of urgent importance was oleanlinata
io thephysleat and. moral conditions ot oa
ir
children, n their oonceptione and ideas.
Truthfulnese was also a Matter of vital'
importance, yet how many parenta lied to
their children in many small ways every
day 1 Reliability, and honesty too, should be
impressed upon them, It was better not to
inake promises to children unless it Wee
strictly intended to keep them. Parente
were apt to forget, but the little ones never
forgot. Children, too, should be taught to
investigiste and to think for themselvee,
They Should be given a eat of tools miff
allowed to use them freely, and to invent if
it is in them. They should teach their beys
to be temperate and reverent and inane-
trious. They would all make mistakes, but
who among them did not? Above all things
parents should never betray the confidences
of their olaildren. The confidences were very
important to the children, and he hated
to hoer parents " giving away " their chil-
dren. There was a tendenoy, perhaps more
among farmers'ohildren than others, on the,
part of the girls sometimes to ridicule the
boys because they might not always be re-
fined, and 'sometimes had big feet.
(Laughter.) He despised, too, the parenta
that scolded their children. More children
were sent to hell by that means than by
other errors of management. No matter if
parents did not leave fame or riches behind:
them, if they left well grown manly =nand
womanly women behind them, the Lord
would say to them, "Come up higher."
(Applause.)
Prof. Dean on Dairying.
The proceedings closed with a lerief and,
instructive address by Prof. Dean, of the
Guelph Agricultural College, at 3.30 p. m.
He onfined his reraerlia principally to.
dairying and the possibilities in extending
and improving the induatry. While Canada
turned out a splendid cheese produote her
butter was not up to the high standard that
it ought to reach. There were two kinds of
dairying carried on in Ontario, private and
co-operative. He had nothiug to say of
private dairying except that it would be
better if more of it was done on the eo-oper-
ative plan. Ile referred to the benefit of ths.
oo-operative plan, and the instruction that
had been . ditheminated by means of the
travelling dairy. His address was listene't
to with evident appreciation and interest.
The proceedings broke up with the usual,
votes of thanks to the president and direct -
tors of the Grimsby Park Co.'Heintzmanat
Band, the railavay companies, the speakers,
and the press. All the members of the
Institute present, AS well as outsiders whet
attended the smithies, were unanimous ani
warm in their praises of the beauty of the
park and its environs.
Etiquette fee the Street.
It is decidedly ill-bred to eat anything,
even confectionery, in the street.
No woman, unless in feeble health, should'
cling to a man's !inn during a. uaylight
stroll.
Do not discuss politics, religion or love
affairs in a public conveyance.
Personal matters should never be intro-
duced ata chane,e meeting if the Weird party
is not conversant with the facts.
No lady will accept e, seat vacated bya
gentleman for her convenience without giv-
ing in return a smile, a bow or thanks..
It is optional with a lady to recognize at,
the second meeting a gentleman who Ma
upon a previous occasion rendered her &
service.
• Bandying words with an employee of a.
company is mere waste of time. If he be
insolent or unreasonable, take his number
and complain to those in authority.
Street flirtations are in this enlightened
age regarded as the height of vulgarity.
One breach of good taste m this direction
is enough to destroy your claims to good,
breeding.
Brick Pavements in Holland.
If one wishes to go back into the history
of the brick pavement, let him go into Hol-
land. Brick is used there in many instances
because it is the local material most readily
secured. The thoroughness, the honesty,,
the cleanliness of the Dutch have led them
to give the brick pavement a splen-
did test, than which the resulte
could not be more satisfactory. After
travelling over the brick roadways and pave-
ments of Holland it is difficult to meet wide
anything more satisfactory. The readineas
with which such a pavementmaybe cleaned,
its fitness for thecomfortof the horses which
travel over it, its famous history for sta-
bility, all tend to proclaim it an admirable
and almost ideal covering. Long history
and severe tests in Holland present to the
advocates of this pavement the best evi-
dence of its permanency and generally satis-
factory character.—Louis H. Gibson in
Paving and Municipal Engineering.
Poodle—Why are you wearing your tail
so straight to -clay, Puggey ? Pug—Do you
suppose I want to tempt the boys to hang
firecrackers on it?
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