The Brussels Post, 1891-7-17, Page 66 TSB BitUSSELS POST.
j1r1.,Y 17. 1891
• AGRIOULTI3 RL.
SUbstitute or Bay,
To the Erlftor
the importance of allowing earn for ensilage
to pow until it had reached the glazed
state, when the [Minna of tlry food, the most
desirable pert, was greateet, sold tho glresed
state was reached about September 3. nem
SITt,—Ths continued dry weather Of the the =silken state to the glazed no additimial
present season has been oi such a .character work was required, foul tilers was 111, Nether
on to create apprehension 111 1110 101)013.13 of the exhaitetion of the ground, as On :Oh; tonal
farmers in reference to food supplies tor the
grOlrill was taken trom the attimplier
, MR. AND BOWS.ER, ly. Wo Meet 11100'a splint hire m. it wit)
be better for you to go beck to your mother.
You eau !set four teems out, of 10 1' a day
TILE MODOCTGAL WSALEMIC
TL VESSEL,
Successful Operetietts ern item Prentiss's*
AMPAIA AS A POW,SR,
say a New Process.
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" I'd like to get my hands on the chap :—Itucl your 'millet. would meet yen at the I'm" 44""" (.01111 0 NsviStille the Creet
fm. Detrint, Mrs. Bowser—fonr tiairus a (lay .
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of the use of ammonia as a motive power to eeell1med Mr. 11' weer the other mornieg es but where were they last night, Mrs, Bow. The old balled commetwinn
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displace steam. The test wen the first thet lis shoved away from the hreelosst 0101110, soy''
A tnoet sneteasful test was trade recently who made thie shirt for abottl: a inhilitie V' depot there, Socks ! Yes 1 1 nee them now :
North Sea Lived a W hale" 1113i IS lute now
Lenox.
" Anything wrong [period 11113. Bow- .M. WAIL 111 a 100(3.18118 adaptation of this line te the
has ever been Made on a 8114') engine, and
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grain luts not come up regularlyand i would 101 13115(10111 cattlealonewhit0 nsl- ohms haa been fitted oinithIng liW. Anythng wrong? W mld I complin Superior, OV iein eon memoratcteptleo,t
thoho
nearly all locelitis thee itlikely to be a agemadefromcornwicha arrit 0,ate.,eywhich made 1 tripupend lown the f there matesomething wsnDoes ney MRSGRIMWOOD, turnwhim: or the first twil veesels of
shortage in the bay crop, While hby the glazed state would. Schuylkill ritor, etics:Led the new schemeMullinnd ever 101111101111)13.10 until the lasstraw MeGotgill widebLek pattetnbuil
010]? may be fairly good wherelocal showers o a practical tet, It is known as the mees 1110 camels back ? Il's all lnnles—:—• shipyard in that citan evet etthke
e fallenin other 801114011 ‚10113011 gravel Campbell ammonia engine system, and itsendlneolive ad endies e ire whoWent Through on the afternoon of th15
sub -soils (Minener thesurfce itwill scarceThJwit 10Awortngs arenovel ana11)131904jognOt 011lint it: WMolyyeeterday you !Vero sa- errible reeerseeeutiavembebit The wo boa1)) oIsle
ly be worth harvetang. rioutto the mechanical end scientific eirsles bitmg what an elegant lit this last lotwere.yMrs. Orintweed, whose distinguished hetWater idew)sand 111 1113 went into the
In view of this shortage in what is probe)). Brms de Hirsch, the wealthy Austrian also the lymen of the industrlal voted, .'' Never sid noything of the Kett Fact:lf V her braery in the retreaof the as if they werein heir atorl 'Jude slips
ly the meet valuable crop of the ountry,„w1111gays$2,00,0110(1 one strokreAny mithery 3.111,1)10 can be cotiVerted Is I tweet11(11 a sh)rtwhiehfittedme withinBritish survivore from Maelptiehas eenrtThe semewhat :surprisinmement
evereasonblefft should be 11110(113 (11) or the benefitof Issfllwveligiouists into a Cample1 ammonia engine simply by lortY rodsand(lever expect to haveanditslatilig some ofbee experienee to au English an kdentcast 0011411111 :113 011(1011011 to
gow some ebstitte that will to souse terea, explitins in elle of the monthly1the madmen of a ‚‚ generatots” which is the sante with collars." reporter, sillesai1 the recet ept of the Icontaind n
tent take its placeThere are only two orreieyve how he proposes to Ind thHebrew 111111111 like s hhill.".tem"' is 110"11 51110311 !here essuely something wrong this were 011 perfectly frendly terms ey of Navigetionin whieh it is mmiesion
throe ways left tousofmeeting the ditileultylegatees from Russta to lie Rod thrivekt forth,eperpose tn !witting the aqua 10111111011110 11101111113. she MidRS $118 1118110 Itelosor in- Witte Aellitplti I ofterde oatitthe registired tonnage edthat
now. It is too late to grow corn for thu theoutset o11;18 1(1110113 his dicourses othe , 111 the generator. The heated ammonia 311001131111, "Letuseget you auothee ocher," the princes, end there Was nothing What.Neieted on the (VIin.
sileor even for green food in best form,intless attathedto the possession of 3.1181 '(1>0 "gsele4vint-t s weal, oisti011 lif Itw""110"1Y11"Li'same'1"PPM°ey toteem Beefwhat was:miningWhen ending0,toier l ls op ;11,year
lthough ut111 at cne it might vetriches. Reconsides 111(11(10.10 only the tem- ammonia in the bottom of this builerelike its my fate to go through life with a (11(11-3. they begnto tiro at the 10141(11111303' we 1111,1 1110'c of those inspxreme othe ten-
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answer for the'letter purpose, '
1>0(01313'f.1>0(01313' ailm,unstrator of the '1'1'011111, he taffair, When, biaising the temperatue
011 ,no,no1101 OP between my elio—ulders and a
10 fly. 1re stayed as long as 00 could, buenmet od echteon the Atlantic
mese things msyyetbe ,Ione „ths], „111 10131)31.0 131 and 1)1(1 it is his duty to 01(11. of the =Moine, siolicie»t pwr is (1111101301. ""Usrsswiig h5' ears ME I suppose therethoe, was nothing else to he done 11 theend, those inspin excess ohe 1001(11)10 of
provehelpfulif rainscome enonOurclovertribIlly Ill 1110 OW11 way to the 1811s0 of1111 edthe throttle valve is opeuedand the are 3111300 Wile pay smile little attention toWehadto leave in tt terrible hurry there mine and all ohe ayleend 0111
meadows may be cut early, andwe an growsutiermg 1,1 those who are herd prseed by gas passes into the cylinder of the cogine,their Iniehands' votam:6s, but "—
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:wetee no time to pack or take tnyt Sting, els
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tatesI ic oems b. int easdnt ticTrvers othe Unrited
milet 100111 1)10 If clover 1131118111(1131118111(1330 arcut at1111 111(411013 prhlenin phibilithrepy andpropels 11,,. p01011 red111 every way the '11Ywser‚11113 Oaieil those shirts1shonld 1.130 111011 to take my ewellery and hill 13 itoeee detelopmentof th,e
early we have still a chance ofa seeontpis to make 111111131.11 11(1113113 who are capable of tame as steam. It ihere exhausted th5'ourself 1 She interrupted. waitde thigs that cold easily e aried.o title arm
which nuty eo far to make up for the loss of '1001313 outof indvidals who otherwise sliest tame as steam, but at this point the gas is '' CerthinlY I had siceevenmshat—absolutely nothing t:ome yes wthie hpast
thefleetme,Thw,of(mum.,c,,,wilybebecome paupersand in this 1130) 13 creetcooledand co»ducted bakto the geoeratonYen were satisfied with them 3.13 1>1 the clothes 1 wore1I3 shoes anti 0118 1111d ia atetainly been iavel
donewhere tho 110111(110113 red cloversgrown,useful niephers a 0001e13', The obleet f Before itreaches thlatter vessel it is ear. Yes.eoc egs, which were very thin were it edmeniato the import
Millet firniShes an excellent substitute the 1ttron s life and for which he is eady to vied by a "ermY 0011 " 11", point where'They sot perfeetly lovely 'rege long 1(1.0110ore we got to British territory,
for bayas many of our farmers very 3(011 5310113 hiwealth mid hie inteiectual powers the gas ('11110311es in 0011Illewith the 8111810111(1 ,, Weill' ani had to walk barefoot. )ly ('10111014 got
213001313' 101111 it may be sown any time tele isto give to a prtinn of hie companions in I 001111-08,whieli bag been rejected feom the '" Then what have I to do with it1" boiled and toen, and 1 had to throw away .
month. It will furnishrfrom one to three
ta
th
the. poed':11s ty 01 fueling aunewpexiets
ge'ne"rator, anld heree the s0011111,110011111,111 iie r0501100(1' g- '' eMrs. i
Bowsieerr," 11e8eeceandyt01)01(001)01(0011. 08140
1<e1lha1v1me1tytheing
,1Iicould 10 whctle:it, and al
l daoey
tons of fodder, as valuable ton for on for ('11'('.1111I11rily as farmers, and also eille: abeorption and by thenturill affinity Ile arose and assumed his favorite ;0 ong we were MIrehing along trying to get
feeding p11131080" as good hay lten it iseel-amberaftsmen, in those lands where "131 1111(1 between water .17,11 ammonia. '' thre aresullthiugs s button -holes urther may. When '('0 were in the jeigle
at the right titne and poperly curedIt the laws and 1(11)110011 14111-1,1400 permit by 1 his means the sante betly rif ammonia shirts, Tee are bands (47(11 yokes and it was 31. little better; but in 1110 p011, with
also much relisited by the stockit is an thesis to early on the etruggle foe ('131510113>0 is rsi onsfativ, exhaustingiself otris, to seams. A sht may no the bureau the 0(11) poureg d(lwn, it wits,terrible, le
excellent food for 1)111011 cows. There are 05001)11111131 vespensible sulqeets ofahumane be reeharged meth Item, lfe and to be re. folded in an intellieent 111031001' 01' it 1111113' te 1i101s;3- suca half we had nothing at
several varieties, as common millet. Hun- retirement. Bayou de 'Resel says it has 1(1-3e'1 t" 1110 generator. The same be ruined and crumped mud spoiledA to et, exeept roots and leaves that we
(11111)1311 gamC:evenalmilletItaliand,,m,111,10e11,1 0130 ainseaeu,,,o1, is trite of the wateruedThe steam in the wifely wfe lookoet fthese thingsA 1 ones Slenetlines m t food 12 1111
en millet and the golden willet0e111n81 theJews duothey 11:1V0 1311 Melina. generator imparts its heat 10 the ammonia, wife who doesn't 1111 1100 ciente foe heyenative:: when we reaelled it villagei but
The 00011110e milletand Hungarian grasser,-
togm. for .
agrieulture or manual labor. That
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andis thereby condnsed to becarred backto husband's comfort hienel'concern ,herself they were not (91(011.(91(011.70 iiiely to le, 111(1best kno(0!, in this country, anti are )310'4 -he insists, jean error whieh is contradicted the boiler tote 113011,)) ('1. I11hCeinple31 about smell trifles. Ged morninSIrswhen they were hostile wecoulddo nothing
ably as good as ante although the 3151131011 (1,1 en1V y modern examples but by history,ammoniaengine theee ii absolutely nowaete, Bowser !" gbut burn heivillage, in sheer selfelefene
'(001'(0011110113 nillet is well spoken oi In the'' The Israelites in the timeof Christ werUthe other hand there is a stvieg f Iie hadn't been gone haf an hogrwhen Fortunately, I knew thesurroundlegs well,
United States, ariculturists par exCelience. While trade, col, ne the engine can be operated on one- Mrs. Bowser was looking high soul low for ens1 seem be a oide the utficers nd
Millet wilgrow on a greet '('11110'7 of winch. 3111101gfrom thepractce of the Jews half the 1011(00111, Of fuel. On the Hartley his nightshirt. It 0012111111e be foundIt men with me, alrof whom were strangers
to me.
toils, but is best adapted to hm
uus seem sod ,
of to -day, should be the inheritanee 0( 1811001, ' only oue of the ttvo furnaces(0210 nas 8 1108d, and had dtsappeared olf the face of the earth,
rich. learns, It is least adapted to light sands '4Y then est irekf in the itandS Of the Plueni- there was all the speed and 311'eS$111•8 that leaving net even a button behind. When
and gravels. It will not germinate well in lans,the Greeks and the people of the Slecli.me up to 1 (Inch elle said :
terrimean suttee." The dews, ns long as they could be desired, he ca
Jumpy soils. As it is a, shallow feeding Many advautages are claimed for tho " Sly. Bowser, I can't find. your night -
were politically independent, cured for their Campbell engine. The principal one is that shirt,"
plant, thorough, pulverization is of meet)
consequence in prepaying a seed bed. It fields. They drove their herds and were the life of a boiler is more thao doubled. " I presume not 1" lie cemly replied,
should be cut when fully headed our, and handicraftsmen. The tendency towards 1The average term of service of a boiler is "some houses have rt, head and it systeni,
cured after the 01e11)0110 adopted in curing work M the fields and 111 the less thau ten years, and a boat is laid up cool the nightshirt don't get mised up efith
cloverur
, If ced by the sunlight while shop existed, therefore, and his own sheet one-tenth of the time 110110031010g re• the potatoes down eellar I"
lying where tmwobservatioes and
the 100130511 •left it, the color airs to the boiler. Becausertn of the unifo' But I don't. b
elieve you took it off'
fades, and its feeditig value is much impair- have proved that ithose of others Pt is quite possible purity of the water this clone away with in this morning, You put your day shirt 'in
ed. It should, therefore, be cured in the to reewaken in the race this capacity and the Campbell process, and the boat is in over it, and lrIlti.CS the reason you had such
cock after it has become tbs.:toughly wilted. love for ag-rieulture, and to bring it into constant service. Thie and the saving of trouble."
If not cut until the seeds begin to ripen, it existence again. " Of his OWn power, there. eoal are the chief advantages claimed, " 51es. 130weer, if you wish to infer thst
becomes woody, and its feeditig value is fore, the poor Jell', who -until 1/010 1188 been but not an unimportent one is the dispensing I'm 811 MICA, just speak right out, in plain
mach impaired, It is a, plant that flourishes listed as Ill] outcast, will win for himself with the many disadvantages of the Inbei- language 1" reseed Mr.
by froet at any stage of the growth. %Where Bowser serves th
are
best in wm weather, and is easily injured (10a00 alai independence, love for the ground eating oils. These are whn
olly unnecessary, table.
Fe tills and for freedom ; and he will become
as the ammonia itself serves as a 1111111'" But you might do such 11 thing."
spring grain has failed to grow millet may EL patriotic citizen of his nen- home," At cant.
harrowed, where it is clean, in preparing
the seed bed. If rain should come soon and
time w ould permit, old meadows that pro:
ed. The land may simply be cultivated and
constitution being a guartintee of happy de -
faiths. Further consideration eonvinced hint
velopment for the followers of all religious The census statistics of Ireland furnish en t
The Religious Census of Ireland. cegLacialf,‘.11,'rtal.:811ei."111:nrtit1141:sif,:issoilleitio:b1syl:lific.tnatpitlibsvi.:1(11:01:;:ti.11:1:173i'il!iBsikalsietbYeLitic.tsitoi:tr;cil!oi:01;t11t°11t;lut:i:
first the baron thought of North America
be sown, 11.11,1 El good crop may yet be obtain -
as the place for his experiment, a liberal
missed little or no crop couid be lightly that to inerease to any great eXtent the al-
, interesting field for study. There has been a
large loss in population clueing the last de.' I know it ! Ill dare you to remove your
ploughed to the depth of, eay four inches, ready enormous number of Jews in this collar 1" she exclaimed.
and the millet sown. The /end should be section of the continent would not be to the cede, but it is a nomble fact that this loss Is h
" I ave said that this lame bed no sys-
rolled as soon as possible after it is plough- benefit of either the United States or Camels almost wholly Roman Catholic. The three
leading Protestant denominations
tem," he slowly replied as lie rose from the
ed, and also hell before and after sowing or of theJews tliemselves. Anstralimd antProtestant Epise
he are the
table. " To prove thia I am right I will
the seed. The harrowing should be light. Argentine Republic offer advanta es for the opel, the Presbyterian, and
take off my collar and unbuttnn the band of
Erom one-half buehel to one bushel of seed work, and he has concluded to begin with cheWesleyan Methodist.TheProteettostISpis-
my shirt. Now, then, are you satisfied that
is sown per acre. •the Argentine leepublic. 'r he reselt of an copahans 110NY /1110/81' 000,830,a lose of 38, -
it ts owing to your want of attention "--
There is still time to sow rape; 101111 171 expeHment already tried there has influene- number 446,687, which is 24,047 less than
744, or &beet 0 per cent, The Presbyterians
"You've got, it on :" she interrupted, as
root -growing sections this will prove of much ed him to this choice and given him colitis/. she yulled at the band of 11 18 IligilD shirt.
serviee in providing peewee in autumn ence in the success of his undettakin,g. in 1881, a loss of Meet 5 per cent.. while the
which may be used ill the plicee of supplies " Some years ago," he says, "several linn- Wesleyan Slethodists heve gained about 12
Itctall'e'lrebeit!"is ! Yon forgot to take it
of fodder which, under other circumstances, dyed Jewieh families were exiled from R118- per cent., now numbering 55,23:), an increase
off 1" Mr. Bowser turned pale and walked
sia to the Argentine. In spite of on- of 6,390. In the meantime the Roman
off op -stairs. , Ten minutes later he came
would have to be used, Barley may also be
sown an up to the end of June, .or even teld suffering, in epite of the greatest Mrs: Catholic population lets decreased 41 1,1 40,or
down mid said :
3ater, to cut for green fodder. It has not drancee which they encountered, they sue. more than I 0 per tient , the present total
eboeuenntrmyu, cbhutuhsaesd pforor vetdhios f pmuurpeloi sseerivnicethiins Tceheedseeds, ianmteakfaimngilireoso, twhinicthhEeL ifreDwewyeahreomageos., oinvg rotnhlye 3h,549,7e1a1dingThe Cethole majorbitey-
suc"hMtrickBonw
'ever play another
Protestant denomintt-
" Why, what had I to do with it?" she
providing fodder in anti:lulu in the Xew bending under heavy burdens, appeared to tions is less by 355,000 than it was ten years
asked.
ego, The continuance of such changes
England states. be only wandering tradespeople in Russia, - " Never you mind about that, but don't
l'hoee dry seasons which keep coining om have now beeame thrifty farmers, who with would, in process of time, settle the question
attempt anything more of the kind 1 I have
easionally remind us of the importastee of plow and hoe know how to farm as well as if of Home Rule, since one of the leading
already stood far more than most husbands
growieg a variety of fodder crops. Those they had never cloue anything else. They factor's of opposition to it is furnished by
Irish Protestants. It would bo an interest. would !"
who have a good crop of rye to cut as a seb. lay out their farms in the best manner, and Regularly every morning at a certain hour
stitute for hay need not have so much .con- build themselves soch pretty little houses ingquestion to know definitely whet 001.111 -
Mr. 13owser pee tipstairs to dress himself.
cern. On this farm we have 40 acres af rye :that every one in the vicinity employs them Catholic Ireland.
try has received this drain front Roman
Five minutes after he hes disappeared his
We have been using it since shout the .04 carpenters in house building." voice is hoard calling over the bannister :
first of the month for the stock, and •" Mei. Bowser, do you pretend to
have some twenty acres of winter fdder. it standing in Morning Hymn. Saints' Days. this house, or are you a lady boarder with runa
the shock, to be used as e
, While yot the faint horizon giveth warning cartload of novels for baggage?"
The remaining portion will be put in That Ony's laborious round will soon be here, " What's the matter, dear ';"
the silo. The ground on whieh it Now in 1110 early freshness of the morning " Don't dear 1 I'd either have a eye.
g
Draw me, 0 Father, to Thy footstool near, rew is now being ploughed for rape, ,We tent or acknowledge that I was a failure !"
have thus seamed a crop which this year is Tugh the dim 'hewn I hear a lark confcs
Thee. " I3ut what is it ?"
more valuable, acre for acre, than hay. We hro"Look here I"
expect to get a crop.of rape, 0,0 last year, of His tiny life bet rayeth heavenly care ; Ho holds 10014)5n shirt in hifl left hand,
i kneel in silent reverenee and bless 'rhea,
more value for feeding than the rye, 1, ill and with his right he points to it in a dra-
per lo, Thy loving Rand's everywhere.
thoroughly clean the ground at the same :natio way and hoarsely whispers:
time, &nil it will be left in a good condition Thou art /Mout us ns we bear the burden. " 13uttons, Mrs. Bowser—buttons !"
dor growing crop the following year. Or etrain the nerve in 01(003. 3311(1 noisy mart ; " What abottt buttons ?" she treks.
Beetowlng etreme h, and often gracious guerdon
Of course many of our farmers know all "Not a button on this ehirt—not a one !
Of sweat eafreshment te the weary heart.
about the subjects of which this letter treats, roar buttonholes, but not a button 1 All
but sometimes there 10 1310 harm in being re. But in tide 111)1(4'of nature's calm transition
Ere toil begin, with thebot sun to breed' een bwitilled off, and not one replaced !"
minded of what we already know,
"My. Bowser, you haven't had a shirt.
Those earth -born films which hide Theo from
• Yours, ole., TTIOMAS SHAW. ourvision, button on your shirts sine') we were mar-
Ontaeto Agricultural Colldge, • Thy sitered Presence 0,0emoth near Indeed. ried 1 You use the removable metal but -
Guelph, June 16. tons • there they are just as you took them
The Puritan, iconollasticism which tore
from church walls pictures of the lovely
Madonna and gave images and rosaries and
crucifixes to be burned, which built the deso.
late, bare, ugly meethighouses of early Nev
England, and scowled with 13eadford on the
Christmas games, was simply a declaration
that the multiplication of pictures and rose.
ries and images bed not made men and
women -more truthfueuprighte iberty.loving,
and self.denying ; heel not yet purified and
ennobled human life in England. Perhaps
they were doing the good work, but impels
eeptibly to the eager Puritans. Saints' days
and rosaries, they said, will not bring a
heaven upon earth. There are probably
enough dead saints in the calendar to make
a, saint's day of every day in the year. Bet
what WO need, brethren, is not so much
days for the saints, as saints for the days,
Andelterefore do these waking thollghts adore
. Theo, ..
And point the willing soul to things above;
Oh! let my prayer like incense Ago before
Thee,
eke:Ise:1a me forth in Thy protecting love:
sotionv GREY,
Canght a Flying Frog.
Thomas Marshall and Fred Grace of Pitts-
burg,Pa„ made a catch of peculiar freak in
the shape of a part frog, part bird. They
tyere out in a skiff when something fluttered
Mier theiolelesds and fell into the boat, It
peeved to be frog with tvings and a tail
something like a famtail -pigeon. It weighs
exactly nine ounces. The wings ere otnn-
poeed of elastiedike skin, and when stretch -
e
out o'f. your other shirt !"
Orops in the North-West. He Is caught. He realises it, but after
The Regina, N.W.T., Leader, Mr. Davin, gasping once or twiee he breves op and re -
M. P.'s.paper, states that ; "Farmers say plies :
the gram never looked better than it does " Very well, Mre. Bowser 1 Next time I
now. The June rainshave fallen in abolish: go home I'll take my ehirts along and see if
&nee and althotigh the days and nights have mother can't possibly find time to 80103?
not been hot crops of all kinds have made a some buttons 1 I've load to use these because
-vigorous growth and now look magnificent. I had no others 1" '
lt will be glad news to the farmers to know The other ewhilly hoe day he mono limp-
-that good prices are likely to prevail this ing home and fell into a ehair anti groaned :
year generally." .
. ''' I'll be haeged if I don't hire a blind.
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In Manitoba.
A report just issued by the Department of
Agriculture promises well for this year's crop
returns in Manitoba. There ere 910,000
acme in Wheat, OM increase of 170,000 over
1800 ;305,000 acres in oats, an increase of
'70,000 ; 89,000 in barley, all increase ol. 23,-
000, and 12,705 acres in potatoes, alt inceemee
of 1,89,3,
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The ja0kal aS a Snake Hunter,
In the wild regions of .Auetralia yon can
find the laughing jackal, EL 1100153', toisy
ereature, but a great enemy ao the snake,
and. as there are es many snakes in Australia
Ito they tell us there need to be in Ireland,
the jackal is bound to be really useful and
is protected by the Government, The ani-
mal jumpe about a make until it can get a
aline)) on its neck, when the reptile is quickly
dispatched.
het Robertson's Experimenta
Prof. Robertson, of the Experimental Farm,
appeared before the Committee on Agricul-
lure to -day, and gave some interesting 1110011'
31113)31011 astothe experimentaiwork in feeding
steers, fattening swine, feeding inilch mom,
raising corn for ensilage, eeld the general
work of crop growing. Regarding the feed
-
Mg of steers, he was of the opinion that two
tons of ensilage, costing 82.80, would make
as moth beef as one ton of hay, costing 68.
Speakingof clews, he said there was no
advantage from feeding a large quantity of
meal daily. Seven or eight pounds per day of
meal was ample, hue scene Ampere fed from
14 10 17 pounds, 1,,Nith 7008 pounds of meal
a clay cows should he fed all thh fecel
they would take. Coming to 'the eel/jct./a of
feeding swine, Prof. Robertson staid that
Canada imported large quantities of becon,
and exported the sebstartee which makets
batten. 110403e115 in Canada had riot,studiecl
sufficiently the methode of feeding swine.
He gave tile resat of .oxperiments at the
farm; slicrseing that eolti raw feed was as
good for the purpose of making pork as
steamed food,. except that pigs fed with
Warre food gamed faster. Ile referred to
are hardly milkmaid°, It can /Vim as well I go into the--**—*--tvoods clueing jely end early
ed out measure nine inches from tip to tip. , ' While Oil tile sulqeet of fishing I may
When the frog -bird is in the ea,,ter the as well acidness a few remarks to a certain
whip awl tail fit elosely to the body and claes of anglers who seem utterly enable to
as an ordinary frog and can fiy a ltng die. a.ttgust without taking with Om gun or
tame. rine, or both of these weapon& Ask these
men what they expect to shoot, and the
11318W00 will probably bo : ' 01, something
'ill 8110W il.fielf i we'll get a hawk, or eagle,
or loon, end perhaps 5110 11 boar or bobcat.
1 80 I. v oods, and if we see no game we'll do a
No telling what ono will run noross in the
Aeres in wheat 745,0;18 pi 0,1164 little 1.114(501 shooting, ote. Now, that is
" oats, ..... 2115,5:34 30a,044 what those men say ; but what do they do?
• " barley 0140:35 80,828 Three-fourths of them either shoot or try
" peas 1 3515 to shoot deer, and WOO betide the
" potatoes , 10:81 7100 1,2,700 young grouse or (Mak discovered
" roots Oil 9,301 within range. No sooner are they
fairly within the shelter of the woods than
Owing to plentiful rains this scation the the game laws and laws of sportmairship
prospects of the Manitoba harvest are said are forgotten,and they are eager to kill Some
to be excellent, game, espeeially « deer. In most of the best
Ilogarth had a notable passage of arms fishi»g regions aro to be found a few settlers
With a fastidious nobleman who absolutily who are only too willing to enconrage city
refused to receive the fitli.lopgth which the fishermen in killing deer tmlawfully to in
groat English master had exeented, a»d doing anything else that will drop a few dot -
actually returned it on his hands, where- lar into the sottless' pockets, fl'ho upshot
upon sturdy Will Hogarth wrote to his of the matter is 110.1 11501' and other game
high-born patron threatening that if a draft aro killed whenever chance offers, and the
for them/meet due to him was not at once law is broken by noon who ought to know
forwarded he would send his lordship's and clo know better, and a shockingly bad
portrait, with the addition of horns, hoofs, example is set the backwoodstnen, who
and ts tall, to I'Mrs Htt'in a well-lcnown wild. promptly follow it whenever it suits their
beast tamer of the periods The cash wag purp00e."--104, W, Sandys, in Outing for
immediately forthcoming, Juiy.
The following figures, jitililishod hy the
:Manitoba Government, show a marked in -
°tease in the crop Ramage of thee province
over last year :
13100,
" But though they were strangers, I can-
not finds words cosily holy ind and thought-
ful and considetette they were, One tries to
tell of much things, but it, is really impose
sible to express 111 words what one feels
aboet it. (1011 3011 imagine what it was to
Ito the only woman with a number of
soldiers, tinder snob eiretnnstances, where
privacy of any kind is E1/1 1111p0851
tint they were one and all more thoughtful
than 311111001 10 woman could be, They tool:
• olf their emus at night that I might be
warm ; they thought of a thousand
little things that would make it
a little estates: for me and 1 truly believe
that one and all of them would at any mo-
ment have laid down their lives for me, I
shell never, never forget what I owe to
them." For a moment her voice broke as
Mrs. Grimivoed said this, bet she collected
herself almost immediately, and went on.
" One of the olficers helped 1115 up every
hill for the first two days, and it wits only
then Oust I found out thet he had a wound
in his leg, tvhigh all the time must have
01013200(1 111111 the most fearful suffering, though
he had said never a, word. And it was the
same ell through for the nine days end
nights before we reached British territory.
Alter a few days they got a pony, with a
man's saddle. I lind ridden a great deed,
and could ride altnost anything ; so, with
the one stirrup thrown over the saddle I
could manage, slthough, 100y00 eau imagine,
11 13,00 not an easy position. Then I rode up
the hills, but had to walk down, because
they 13001.0 too steep for tiding. Later on
they made a kind of tent for me— just 10 3)111'.
110)11 behind whieh / could sleep at night on
a bed merle of their coats ; that was all the
privacy I had. And all the time 01101 not
know what hail become of those that had
gone to the palace. e 1)113(1 1)0100(1 remours
from the untives, but knew nothing certain.
The first thing I heard after we had reached
our own territory was what had really hap.
pened, and what I heard was the worst I
had to fear.
"A dear friend came to meet me in her
carriage outside the town. She gaVe Me
clothes, and I stayed with her, and she did
everything that kindness could do, I got
very ill indeed, bot I believe that illness
53311011 11)7 reason."
Days of Beet,
Rev. Theo, L. Cuyler, writing in the
Evangelist, says : "'01)0 last: time that I met
Mr. Gladstone he fetid to me, Amid all the
pressure of public cares and duties, I thank
God for the tfabbath with its rest for the
body and the Soul.' One reason for the
wonderful vigor of the greatest of living
statesmen at the age of eighty.ona is that he
has 1101 robbed himeolf or his 11101(011 03 the
Sabbath. Bet neither he nor auy ether
healthy Christian nutkes the Lord's cley a
day of lounging or of profane ant:moment.
The load of msre and toil is laid off, and the
soul 1,010 110 pure refreshment and heaven-
ward uplift. Like that poor man's bench
1 nsleething London stands the unrepettled
o minutiae of the 8abbath, and over its bless-
ed portals 18 written, 'Root, het do not
lounge or leiter.'"
In these rushing times many peolle do
not rest enough. Brain, band tend heart are
llowed but little repose or recreation. This
fact may partially, eneount for the immense
a dismal° re of tho neevous system and the
411(111)1115 ation of stalden deaths. The host
1 &mot 011111 clowo "the brakes" ()NM
wain" 10 Qom, hero amd isois „ewe my niS ,t1) BY ought. A lamented philanthropist
things 1 5Iy feet are all 01(1 110 pieces by wtte 11101. 1(3' a friend a year or two ego, and
these infernal old socks 1" wits asketl, "Whet brings ynu here -,'"rh
" old so.ke 1 Why, I bneght 'cm new
for you only three days ago I"
" Holes 111 both of en), but I might have
expected that, Look there I"
pulled off his shoes end displayed a,
pair of all -wool soaks with a hole in the
heel of each.
pathetic 11»81001. 1088, " My doctor says I
must quit work foe a while or die ; I don't
want: to clic, but I don't see how I can quit
work." 'That ova -busy and benevolent life
15 entled perhaps move rest might have
prolonged it, A fair cuestion for every
(, neaten to risk /hese]: is, ought I not to
Whet on emelt aro you doing with those refresh and invigorate my life, and also to
socks on ?" slmo exclaimed, " I told you last prolong It, by nnbentling the strained bow
night where to ilnml 810 "Iv p11113.5 of sum. and taking more rest,
mer seeks !"
" They weren't therm'
" But they were, and yon went into the
elothes•press and dug these 00( 00 the bottom
f 1 "
Not A.ltve,vs the Oase,
Debrag—' Nes, when I ohurged him with
stealing Inv $200 stop watch lie hadn't a
word to say. That's 11 0500 where silence is
" Mrs. Bowser, you saki I'd find socks in
r, y40..
" Well, there isn't 11, sock those, There 1gvoi 1. 5,1 ,t1 jogntli 1
the bottom drawer of the bureau."
ins—" Well, no; I should foxy it
Isn't the !slightest reason to believe you ever
put a sook there. 111 bet a million dollars
loto cent there aro no socks there 1" The Nationalists have scored 10 point in
" Como upstairs I"
Masseebusetts, A. law, called the Munici-
Ho followed her up, and she went to the pal Lighting 13111, bats just reeeived the
bureau, palled etre the drawer and pointed Governor's signature making it legal for
to 1120 8111 pairs of seeks resting there, municipalities to provide them own light.
"Yes, 0500 1" he observed, ash° backed off, Commenting on the measure the Netc111tfion
"But where wore they last night when1 Edward I3ollany's journal says 1 "'.0118
wanted thom 1111 0004115 a turning 3101(11 17) (lie logielation
"ltIghil, tiler I" of tho By State, 11 10 based 01 .011 the
Urn I Mrs, Bowser, I don't want, to mill- principles that appeal to tolI Nations, ists. It
did your way of keeping house. No husband is a practical measure for the people, and
ever fincls fault with his wife whon it is posbees opened the oyes of co»servative men to
ethic to avoid it, and he is always willing to tho virtne of Nationalism as a movement Myriads of loop lice have appeared ito the
to suffer and endure, 13nt, Mrs. Bowser, 0 statesmanlike in its inception and applie. Puyallup valley, Washington, hop fields
feel it my duty to sit clown and heves, long able to the machinery of government already within the past, few days, and threatens to
talk with you, anti speak 10 301 very plabr. established," destroy the hop crop of the entire valley.
1/1100 of that niter -state eJtunterce whieh is
largely the protleet of the poet thirty years.
Less ban ten years ago 11 81.011.111 propeller of
1,200 tens registry was a large earyser upon
the Great Leiters, mut its carrying eapacity
was generally limited to about an even ton.
nage 1113]h its registry by the cumbersome
power used and the amount of inter-
ned " works " deigned necessary to give it
strength and solidity. But 011108 1880 the
size ot the lake steamer 1108 gone up as
high es 1,900 tons registry, mud with a
comeion though varying carrying vapacity
of from 2,000 to 3,010 tons, with 901131.. ve.e.
sets ef 4.000 tons eapasety,
'1)11 811111(1(1 vessel is rapidly paesing into
the lirilto ef torgetfulness, and the dorpanil
fast steemey is gathering to itaell the busi-
ness 00 3.110 I ate carrying trade. The lumber
traffic still adheres to the sailing vessels, but
iron ore, ;foal, wheat, Hour, and merchandiee
go to the steamers for low rates and quick
transit. Anil the present tonnage of the
lake:, is kept in en absoebing chase Of
dist:Incas by ' the enormous teethe turned
over to the vessels by the railroads rat deep
water terininals like Chiaago, Butiklo, and
Superior.
In the made rush of invention upon tile
land, marine archi het ure was allowed for 0,
Twice oft century in OM country to entree
somewhat. Land traesportetion nbsorbed
all the powers of men's itivention. But le
wits only a slumber for a season. Cheap
transportation between the East and 'refit
became 00 impertant 10 !tenor that Minnie
nature coilld not reeist the pressure, and se
it happen: that from the deep Armor's ond
in the middle of 3.1118 0011 where land
and water have their final junction, so to
speak, from the head of Lake Superior,
within dinner call ot the farmers of Minna -
Sofa and Neliraeke collies the lateet and
most 11'0/1C1011111 18110VELEEMt On marble archi-
tecture that has met the waterssieeeFultrm's
steamboat 14(10)1111. aflomt. Alex..MelJouea'1,
of Superior, Wis, an old lake vessel master
and agent, as the inventor, tool is now at
the head of the practieal operations of o,
ship yard at that place which has keel
blocks for the simultatieous construetien of
ten steel vessels, and from which the Ameri-
can Steel Barge Company, the owner of the
plants anti patents, expects shoo te tame out
10 vessels per year, 01' one each week.
These vessels are built both as tow barges
and as steam propellers. The first boat of
the fleet (there are now eleven afloat), the
1014 1(00330 " 101," a small craft of 437 tons
registry and 1,400 tone carrying capacity,
excited unlimited ridicule and amazeinent
among lithe vessel buiLiers, but her cost was
only $45,000, and in two seasons ehe has
netted her owners over $70,000, in the face
of active competition, so that the laugh is
now diflerently located. This boat was
built in the summer of 1885, ancl wits im-
mediately denominated "tho pig 'by vessel
mon—to name that clings to all of her kind.
The first steam propeller, the Colgate
Hoyt (named after the president. of the
American Steel Barge Company), was built
in the winter of 18310.59, and has bees in
successful commiesion during the season of
1890 in the ore, grain and ooal carrying
trade between Superior and Lake Erie ports.
She earyiee 0,800 tons of iron ore on a le
foot draught, and readily makes 701(11180 an
hour with a tow barge in charge carrying
2,400 tons.
The Joseph L. Colby, /mulched November
15, is somewhat smaller vessel than the
Colgate Hoyt, being designed for pELS.
WV) throng)) the Welland Canal and
St. Lawrence River to Montreal. (ter
dimensions are 88 follows: Length over all
205 feet, width of beam 86 feet, depth of
hold 22 feet, All subsequent steamers of
this pattern will be built SS feet bean and
24 feet depth of hold.
The tow barges 1020.11(1 108 are of 1,132
tons registry and 3,000 tons carrying capa-
city ; the tow barges 104, HA 107, and 109
are caeh of 1,210 tons regIsty and 3,300
tons cerrying capacity.
The Colgate Hoyt 313 registered at 1,008
tons, and 3,000 tons carrying ottpacity,
with lb speed of 15 knots per hour on 800
1101355 (30(001'. Thio statement will be under-
stood when 11 10 said that the fine steamers
on the lakes of 1,800 tons registry', 15 knots
speed anti 8,000 tons cateyingcapacity,
require 1,600 horse power for their work,
The " whalebaolcs" are all built upon the
same pattern, They two round decked, fiat
bottomed, and encledup like tho pointed ond
of is algae. Thu wheel home on the tow
barges is in a mere turret, and tho mon's
outrters tit takes five to man mut of them)
arc under the wheel house, On the steamers,
the cabin and wheel house are set iv on
three turrets. These are the peouliarities
that make of these boats a, complete revolu-
tion in ship building, There is no ponderoes
bullc above the 131113it01' 10 011.8011 and fight the
main a storm. 3115 (00101' washes over them,
not against them The round deck may
inake of them the Incest formidable naval -
vessel over bu tit. The flat bottom may make
of them /annum river hones,
Tho ship yart1;at Superior has six. "slips 1
anti ten piers or ways rap keel blocks, so that
ten of these beats can be tinder construction
at 0110 and the sinno time, And Manager
McDougall speculates with some enthusiasm
upon tho fleet of " steam pigs" which he
will send to the St. Lawrenee in the fall of
1801 to 011(1830 1(1 the Atlantic coasting trade
for the winter season.
There is at present a whaloback tew barge
lying on kdry (look NOW York City, that
was oonstrnoted at the Erie Basin for tloe
coast and river trade, while two MeDougall
propellors are expected hero in a short time,
ono of Which 15 10 be 0011( a01'050 to Liver-
pool and ono to Puget Sound, on the Paoiflo
eoest.