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FARM FOR SALE NEAR SEAFORT11.
-COB, sale, thet beautifully situated farm, on the
Huron Reed, adjoining the farm a Mr. L.
Meyer, containing 101 items, SO of whieh are clear-
ed ana in a state of good cultivation. The bal-
ance is wall timbered. There are eight acres un-
der fall wheat, For further particulars apply to
L. MEYER, or to I
375 BENSON & MEYER, Seaforth.
FARM FOR. SA.LE.
PAST hall Lot 22, Cori. 9, Hallett ; 59 area; 40
acres cleared, bugle,hrdwood ; small frame
dwelling, log barn and stables; good bearing or -
°hard, grafted. trait, sitnated six ruilea front
Clinton, two and a quarter miles from. Londes-
baro ; mills f1,11ft sehools etnivenient. Terris,
easy. Any party wishing 100 acres could obtain
that, as the other part of the lot IS now for sae.
see aareetisement in last week's EXPOSITOR.
For particulars apply to
SLUES BRAITHWAITE, Land Agent,
3754 Londeshoro, Ont.
GRIST KILL FOR SALE.
T OT Ne. 5. and 6, in the township of Downie, 40
-11--4: acres, 27 cleared, balance in good hardwood,
with a gala Grist and Flouring mill, doing a first-
class basiness. Size of mill, 24140, three stories
high; frame dwelling house and bank baru, 30x40;
-
tro good grafted orchards. Land well fenced and
watered. Only three miles from St. Merys, on
wheat was not winter killed, it was an
the St. Marys end Stratford 'Grand Road. ,rice,
$6,000; $A,000 down, and balance in. five yearly excellent crop, both as to quantity and
instalments, at, 7 per cent. Apply to JOSEFEf quality. Instances were not unusaal of
a yield of from 35 to 40 bushels to the
IREDALE, St Marys, or to .
375 T. J. JONES, London. Ont.
---- acre; but winter killing is asreat draw -
FARM FOR. SALE. back, and to all appearanceS is likely to
f OT 18, COil. 6, Hallett; loo acree, 65 news continue and, perhaps, (vet worse, or-
-le cleared., remainder wooded with. beech and ' Le
maple; frame dweiliug ; River Maitland and a ing, no doubt, to the fact of the country
g,00d spring onlot; 21 milee from Kinburn. and 3 being too much divested of timber. Even
miles from. Clinton. Terms to suit purchaser. - the bush whi ds was lett for tireevood —
For particulars apply to L. MEYER, Harpnrhey 1
34a and there was far too little of that left
or BENSON it MEYER, Seeforth. •
SEAFORTII, FRIDAY, FEB. 12, 1875.
Agriculture in South Huron. - very great importance toiour farmers, as
ealt for manure can at present be bought
at the salt works, in Seaforth, at the rate
of $2 50 per ton. ' , r
Fruits—Any extended remarks on thie
lowing report was prepared of the pres- subject may, with propriety, be left, to
within the bounds of the Society. .The our horticultural Societies, but in pass-
ent condition and progress of agriculture
ing we may remark that, although splen
report has been prepared with consider- did specimens were found to grace the
able care by the Secretary, and. it will tables at our fall shows, yet, upon the
be found by our readers to be. of whole, fruit was a poor crop. The quali-
follows : • ty was very inferior, apples especially so,
mach interest. The report reads as
being eaten At _the core with small worms,
SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT. • and dropping prematurely ripe from the
The management beg to say that they trees. We know of no exportation of
have much pleasure in being in a posi- apples this season. Orchards which had
tion to state that • the ageicul- turned out 150 and 200 barrels the season
tural interests of this- portion of the previous, for exportation, had none to
County of Huron, are progressing, as fa- spare this season. .
vorably as, -under 'the circumstances, Dairy produsts—It will. we presume,
could possibly have been expected: The be both interesting and instructive to
past season, like the1 two preceding glance at the figures in connection with.
ones, was unusually hot and dry, and our cheese -factories in South Huron.
unfavorable, in many respects, for pas- This braneh of agricultural industry iii
tures and meadows ; but, on -the other bat of yesterday with; es, but it has al -
hand, exceedingly favorable, on account ready assumed proportions which are
of our rather damp tenacious clay soil, almost astomehing. While thanking
to the otowth of grain. Where fall those managers of factories who prompt-
ly responded to our call for information,
we regret to say that some did not do so,
consequently our statistics are not so
At the request of the members of the
South Huron Agricultural Society, at the
annual • meeting, recently held, the fol -
FARM FOR SALE,
-FOR Sale, Lot 28, GOO. 7, Usborne, containing
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74 acres 55 of whieh are eleared and. in a state
of good cultivation. There is a good fratneRAR.' der wheat to a - some- n g
and STABLE, The feria ie located on a geed end laying bare the ten
gravel road, ie conveniently situated to schools, ternate hard frosts and sunshine and niilk, which would be at the rate of 20
th While our climate re- poinks per cow. The. price of Cheese av
in the first place,—is being blown down
ter vvintre blasts free scope to sweep the last _season at the said factories. From oats, plow eight inches in the fall, and
with. wind storms, thus
fields of their wonted COVeriug of snow, statements made to us, we believe that Cultivate in the spring. The land used
like 2,500 cows supplied the kr the root crop should be plowed 12
NcLEAN BROTHERS, Publishers.
1 ` In 50 a Year, In advance.
will be worth $50 per acre. besides tur-
nips, carrots and. other green crop, for
the use of the cattle. -This field. cau af-
terward be planted with barley aid
seeded clown. This will give a regular
f There will be 10 acres
rotation o crops.
of peas, 20 of wheat, 10 of oats, 10 of
barley and 10 of roots, &c. I will now
endeavor to giveyou an estimate of the
yield and value of these crops. Peas, at
30 bnsfielsto the acre, would aggregate
300 bushels, 100 to be used for seed and
to fat the hogs on, leaving 200 bushels
to sell at 60.cents ; 20 acres of wheat, at
25 bushels per acre would give 100
bushels for seed and acre,
and 400 bush-
els to sell at $1 per bushel; 10 acres of
oats, at 40 bushels per acre, would pro-
duce 400 bushels, of which, after allow-
ing 200 bushels for the horses mei for
seed, 290 could be sold at 35 cents te 300
bushels of barley, the •t_roduct of 10
acres, at 30 bushels per acre, would give
20 bushels for seed and leave 280 bush-
els to sell at 75 cents. Then we have
two acres of potatoes worth $50 per acre:
Now let us see how mech we have made
from the farm :
Five head of cattle, at $30 per head. ..... $150
One horse at $100 • 100
Four bogs weigh 250 lbs. each, at $7 per cwt70
200 bushel's et pe is at 60 eenta, 120
complete or so reliable as they otherwise 400 bushels of whett't, at $1 per bushel 400
200 bushels of oats, at 85 eoats per bushel.... 70
280 bushels of barley, at 75 cents per bushel...
200
Two -acres of potatoes, at $50 .per acre..,..... 100
might have been. Sufficient data, how-
ever, hes been obtained to enable us to
give at least an approxintate idea of the
results. Cheese was mule last season at
some seven factoriee within the bounds
of our Society. Some of these were pri-
vate factories, that is, not supplied with
-milk by patrons. There ‘eould be in all
leavingthe bit- over 250 tons of cheese manufactured
$1,210
I will now give you my way of culti-
vating the land. • For peas, plow about
seven inches deep in the spring; for
wheat, plow in the fall 10 inches deep,
and / then cultivate in the spring, for
make`such tem orary use of the library miniore The total imports were $127,-
-which is supplied with directories, the
Canadian papers and the London daily
journals, which are duly filed --as could
only be enjoyed at a well regulated club.
No fees are ,charged ; it is enough that
the person desirous of such accommoda-
tion as is here provided to be a Caoadian
to ensure a nordial welcome. A visitor's
book is kept for names and. acld.resses, and
friends from the Dominion may thin al-
ways be able to trace or conemunicate
with each other when they come to the
old country or visit the metropolis.
0
inches deep in the fall, and after the tur-
nips are taken up, plow 10 inches -deep,
mains as it we can .conceive of no eraged 121 cents per pound, thus adding and. again in the spring, And seed down
churcbeis awl post office, and is eel din .
mitigation of this, except by planting to the wealth of our farmers,. from cheese with barley.
Huron Harbors.
In the report of the Minister of Public
from Seaforth and 7 from Exeter. For further •
particulars applyta the proPrietor on the premises.
WILLIAM DINNIN, Jr.
351
FARX FOR SALE. -
itua,- alone $62 500 being at the rate of $25
tions, which will not only shelter our for each cow; and we are satisfied that
• Lumley P. o. out belts of trees in all exposeds f 7 9
fields in winter, but also tend to miti- even this yield can be largely increased,
gate the heat and drouth of summer. even in the face. of parched and bare pas -
This question of tree planting is being tures, by having suitable green food for Works we find the following relative to
agitated and put into practice in many summer feeding. We can speak definite- the Byfield and Port Albert Harbors :
BATFIELD HARBOR.
partst of the neighboring States, and the ly as to horse tooth corn, as we had ex -
Bayfield harbor has been thoroughly
time is not far distant when. our Govern- ' perience last season of an acre and a
merit, both general ancl loeal------
- havhalf, sown broadcast, which yielded suf_ sur veyed and examined. It has beeu on
1
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VOR SALFe, Lot 9, Con. 1, London Road Stan-
-
ley, 100 acres, SO cleared and ander fence, the
balance timbered with first- alas s hazd wood ; frame
barn. 60x40. frame stable 18x40, log house, good
bearing orchard. well watered ; sitmited within 7
miles of See:forth and a like distance from Clin-
ton. Farm well underdrained and in first-class
cultivation- Apply an the preroi,ses or to the pro-
prietor at Bracetield P. 0.
362. ANIFREW MCKENZIE.
FARM FOR SALE,
LOT 4' Con- 5, firillett, 123 acres of first-class
land in excellent conelition; well fenced ; good
bulls -liege, orchard, &c.; spring creak crosses the
lee The timbei. on the 20 acres of bueli land is
very vtelaabla. .The proprietor wOuld sell 75, 100
or 125 acres. Post Offige, Sehools, &c., conveni-
ent. The property is sicuated on a good gravel
. senously to cnsider ways and means to ficient to feed seven cows twice a day for more than one occasion brought -under
' Spring wheat was quite above an av- to note the results of cheese making in dated the 7th May, 1872.- The striking
, quite vvit • inlsounds to say that the yield f The length of this a.rtiele precludes us r crib work, constructed in 1853-51, and
heuce the fruitless- expenditure
. .
' in South Huron would average '25 bush- from going into any details as to progress
! .
it is char ed with much alluvial and
stimulate and encourage the planting of I six weeks as much as they could eat. Lt is the notice of the Department, notably in
• crave clop', and of pod 'quality. It is South Huron. featare of the harbor is the failure of the
els to the acre, and wp heard of no dam- made in our live stock. All admit that
; trees in our Dominion. with great pleasure that we are thus able the report of the Engineer -in -Chief,
wad 51 miles from Seafortla. / pp y
362 A'el-DREW SLOAN, Constance P. O. ' W
i
,
FARM POR SALE IN BRUCE. i n
. ,the attefition of the scientific in such
15 , ,- 1 matters. Some 40 miles of our riding
Iteet sale eheep Lot No- 30, non. 6, Townehip
acres, 30 of which. a..re cleared. This farm is situ- forms the shore of Lake Huron. For,
a Bruce, County of Bruce, containing 100 :
pled -within five miles of the rapidly grovehag vil- say, a mile back from the lake, all along
lane of Paieley. The uncleared Pertillii is well , this strip, spriug wheat during che past
timbered. There is also a Spring Creek running i has been unusually; good—
throush the place. It is a desirable property. three Years
For further particulars apply to the Proprietor, ! last season especially so. The sample
Dox. 24, Seaforth P. 0. : was bright and beautiful, yielding, in
e
332 A. M. CAMPBELTe.
; many instances, 30, 35—and over '40
BUILDING LOTS IN SEAPORTS FOR SALE i bushels to the acre, much ot it with no
nil. COL-EMA.I.T., having Rad. out the grounds 1 extra cultivation, and some but very, in-
ns' rece-utlyoccupied as &Driving Park into Beni- ' different. Barley and oats ' were good.
lug Lots, is prepared to dispose of lots on reeson ! crops, above an Average. Bailey was
(seeking to pnrohase should make Immediate ap- i not quite so large in the berry, nor
able terms to any who may desire them. Parties ._
plication. 364 1 weighing, perhaps, a,s well. as usual, -but
lei a, extra sample as to color. Oats were
PAW< FOR SALE. i good, both as to quantity and quality%
I
rPHE subscriber offers for sale the west half of Another breadth of barley and oats was
of which. are cleared- nd in a good state of eultiva.- sown on account of: fall wheat plowed
3- Lot 22, COLI, 9, "at, containing 50 acres, 45
tion. There is !Mew frame house and young or down which had been winter killed.
chard on the farm, also 10 acres of Isil wheat' i Peas were a fair crop as to quantity, but
Th.e above place ia situated 51 miles -from Glin- .
in mauy localities badly Infested with
. . .
ton, two milets from Loudeeboro, and one Ellie .
"and a half from grist and sawmill ; terms liberal. bugs. Cause not known.
Apply to - JOHN MURDOCK, As previously remarked, the hay crop
372*4 Londesbbro.
li lit - se It is a serious matter
Canada.
Freston rejoices in the fact that it is
free from sickness of all kinds.
—A young man named Fleury, an es-
caped convict from the Beaupore Asylum,
has since killed his sister at Three
Rivers with an axe.
—Mrs. McKellar, wife of Mr. Alex.
McKellar, Puslinch, has nearly complet-
ed a quilt comprising about 3,000 pieces.
_Can any of our lady friends boast of a
similar feat ? •
—Sir John Macdonald says : "Mr.
Brown's treaty was perhaps the only one
in history which pleased nobody." In
that it differed from Sir John's Treaty
of Washington, which, though condemn-
ed in England and execrated in Canada,
delighted the United States. —Liberal.
—It is said that during the panic
caused by the burning of the Beauport
Asylum one of the most unpromising
patients in the female ward entirely re-
covered her reason, and is now perfectly
sane.
—A family named Gibson, consisting
of father, mother, and five children, liv-
ing in Quebec, were overwhelmed by a
snow slide from Ca,pe Diamond, on the
3d inst. The house was completely
buried in the snow, and the impedes
when taken out were all dead. Two
women, named Mrs. Haberland. andtMrs.
O'Keae, living in part of the house, were
also killed et the seine time.
—Only total abstainers, it is stated,
will be received into the Grand Trunk
service in future, and employes will not
be allowed to board vehere liquors are
"1-1The school riots at Cantered, N. B.,
have been quelled, and the troops have
left for home. The matter will probably
be referred to the Dominion Parliament.
• —Mr. Stephen B. Mills, of Sparta,
brought to the pork house, Aylmer, on
Wednesday of last week, a load of live
hogs, of the Berkshire breed, that weigh-
ed together a trifle over 2,500 pounds, or
on an average of 500 -pounds each; one
of them. weighed 1571 pounds. These
five pigs Were out of a single litter, and
raised by Mr. Mills without any forcing
process,—Thcongregation under the charge
of Rev. Mr. Middlemiss, of Elora, have
raised $9,000 towards the erection oftfa
new chu•rch edifice.
—On the night of the 3a inst., about
11 o'clock, a strong puff blew over the
top of tbe east wall of the burned
Queen's Hall, ' Montreal, which stood
about twenty feet higher than the -ad-
joinine building, and several tons weight
of the buck work fell with a crash on to
the roof of flazazer's Aseembly, Rooms.
The roof instantly gave way, and, with
the superincumbent weight of brick, fell
with a crash in to the ball -room. forming $12,000, and the members of the Cabinet
a cavity abeut eighteen feet wide by fif- to $10,000. The Civil Service salaried,
teen feet in length. At this time about it is thought, will be increased. $100 for -
thirty couples who were attending the . five years. By this graduated scale an
Bacheloes' Assembly were forming for employe now receiving $1,000 per annum
the dance acid.° were grouped about the will at the end of five years be in re -
floor. So sudden was the accident that ceipt of $1,500 per annum.
a number of couples were caught by the —It is reported that Hon. George
falling debris, and two persons were pre- Brown is to proceed to England shortly
cipitated with the ruins through the to be mad,e a knight.
floor into an unoccupied store beneath. —General Smyth, the new command -
A second more and great confusion and er-in-chief of the Canadian militia, re -
excitement took possession of the assem- commends the establishment of a small
by ; but although several were more or I standing army.
less injured, none are likely to prove —They have a soup kitchen in Lon-
don. but some of the:"deserving poor"
Lon -
fatal.
n the evening ,of the 3d inst., some grumble at the quality. Let 'em eat pie.,
persuns effected an entry irk the rear of thee.
Chanebets & Bros'. tin shop, Welland, —A young man, named Davenport, a
and broke open a desk and. fund the short time ago opened a store in Strat-
cash box containing $180, which they ford, and proceeded at once to rush off
took. 'There is no clue to the persons dry goods at very low prices. Some of
his creditors, suspecting something
wh_o Acovineinryitstaedd atchceidtheneftto
.
ccurred at Ni- wrong, sent a tria,n to look after his
agara on the 3d bast. As the 10 o'clock method 'of &ling business, and the in
-
train on the Canada Southern Railway yeetigation resulted. M the arrest of
I
was leaving Queen street for the depot Davenport, a,nd the attachment of the
a young man named Frank McFall], son goods. It is supposed that Davenport
.
of $20,000, which has caused
much ill -feeling. The River Bay-
a'e to any extent ddne by midge or the importation into the County of pure
li it in con- bred ammals, since thit Society was or- field has its outlet at this spot, and
tevil. We note a pecu ar y
ection with spring wheat, and invite
was a g
FOR,SALE. for our fanners to know how to get over
A oomFoRTABLE frame cottage, eontaining clover being winter killed. And, more-
l- a dining room, pa.rlor, 3 bedroonade kitchen,
over, more than that, grass seed sown in •
et. Possession given 013. th0 lElt Of May next. spring for the -last three years, has been
woodshed and coal house. Good cellar, pump,
TERMS—One-third down; balance In threeyeaxs. a doubtful affair. ' Evenewhen the seed
Inquire of proprietor.
ga,nized, is now having a mai ket au
Et
beneficial effect. Our shows last season
proved that, in heavy draught horses,
Cotswold and Leicester sheep, and Berk-
shire pigs, we are Second to. no county in
the Province. Our especial boast is
heavy draught horses, and that we have
a lot of young animals of this da.s8, COM-
'ets had entirely cleared away this de-
in,g to maturite, that will be hard to ex-
cel. It is likely theinterest in this de- posit. An examination was made into
this matter, and it was found in no way
pertinent of stock will continue for some
to be thc case, the depthsremaining the
time, as there are at present some 13 or
If measures could be taken to
14 imported atallions in this part of the same.
.accelerate the motion of the curre,9t, it
-'Uounty,i‘adY to take the field next sea-
son. AlWord in connection with pure is not impossible that the deposits might
be much lessened, but their total atoid-
bred Dnrhams—We are of the opinion
ance can scarcely be hoped for. While
that thare is an apparent falling off for
the past two years in the interest taken • the southern pier is utterly valueless, the
northern pier is in good preservation.
in this class of stock. This is not as it
should be, for they stand unrivalled for A harbor could be formed, generally of
nine feet, with the depth of 11 feet 5
crossing to raise grades for feeding for
inches at the entraace, without very
the butcher. We think the dairy intee-
ests are so important as to warrant the
* heavy expenditukn. It is proposed to
exteud the northern pier 50 feet, with
an arm to the south-west of 200 feet.
The south pier being in the worst pos-
sibe condition, it is proposed to construct
a new pier 30 feet wide to the north of it.
Starting front the shore line it will run a
distance of 150 feet in a north-westerly
direction, and thence run generally par-
.
gravelly matter, which is carried. to the
lake when the current is strong. When
the letter is languid, the matter held in
suspension becomes precipitated., accord-
ingly the harbor has become very shal-
low. It was reported in January of this
ear, that the autumn and winter fresh-
- G„ meDouGALTJ. did braird, the severe drouth killed' the
431,' tender plant,sothat a good. catch of
FOR SALE. grass has been a rare thing. We know
A House and Lot, with large stable, well and of fields -which have been seeded down
Jet- pump, in the village of Rotborough, about three years in suceession, and all
EDEN, Harparhey. 872*4 a failure, ehes cempleeely upsetting ev-
two railes from ,Seaforth. Apply to BENS.A.MIN
etythine like a ealcalation of rotation of
.ops, and denying the land. that period -
Teen sale, or will be exchanged for a. good., je
sound driving horse, a young mare -with foal. g
For particulare apply to Mr. James Kerr, Mc- fo
371' t 0
BULL CALF FOR SALE.
VOR Sal, a thorough bred Durham Bull Calf- g
one year old, o a - d color His pedi-e
can
pee is first elass, and can be examined by inten- we have no known equivalent for mea -
364 Huron Road, Tuckersinitle. dos and pasture for a complete rotation
ding purchasers. Apply to G-.11. CHESNEY,
of crope and rest to the-lapd. Sowing
CEDAR POSTS FOR SALU. grass -seed in the fall has bee'n tiied to a
HORSE FOR SALE. GI
al rest, supposed to be so essential to
ood husbandry. Large corn, cut green
r summer feed for stock, can be made
su,pply the want of pastures wheel
hey e arched up, and Hungarian
rass, or mixed oats and peas, cut green,
h used as a silbstitute for hay, but - GEORG E _,A.NDERSON, President.
introduction °La few well bre yr
bulls, as there is as little deubt that the
Ayrshile cow is as much ahead of the
Durham, for milking purposes, as the
Durham is superiorfor beef.
Where soil and climate admit, as it
does in Huron, a mixed system of hus-
bandry must succeed. If one lane
allel to the upper portion of the nor
feat, others may be successful. Let us
therefore cultivate every interest and ne- pier, ,a distance of 591 feet, being at its
1 t none Thus secure from complete termination 140 feet from it. The her -
failure. or sudden financial crises, the
County of Huron may soon become cele-
brated throughout the Dominion for fine
404,169, and the total exports $89,301,-
928. The imports of Ontario were $48,-
476,357.
—A meeting has been held in Paisley,
County of Bruce, to consider the advisa-
bility of granting a bonus to assist the
Wellipgi on, Grey and Bruce Railroad. to
run a branch from that place to Owen
Sound. A liberal bonus was offered. -
—Thursday and Friday of last week
were very cold and stormy at
Several persons had their feet and faces
badly frozen. Theroads there are block-
ed up with the snow, preventing tile ar-
rival of the mails for several days.
—The late storm is characterized as
the vvorst of the season, and in many
places its like has not been seen for years.
—Two men were killed and several
others seriously injured at Montreal last
Saturday by the premature caving in of
SoME earth in course of excavation.
—A party of men visited the residence
of Mr, Gardiner, township collector of
taxes for Enniskillen, last Satueday
night, and on the pretence that they
were detectives ordered to arrest trim for
embezzlemeut, despoiled him of the sum
of 5206.
—A Dimatis man who pounded his
wife was fined $80, and he sold. her silk
dress to pay the fine.
—Farmers and others cannot be too
careful at this time of the year in keep-
ing the roofs of their buiklings cleared
of snow. An instance of the result of
carelessneas inthisrespect occurred in
North Easthope on Thursday of last
week. Mr. Thomas Murtgova,n was en-
gaged in feeding his cattle in a stable in
which there were upwaille of 20 head
tied, when the roof gave way under the
weight of stow that had accumulated on
it, and falling on the cattle, killed two
of them outright, and left some of the
others mihus their horns. Mr. ItInn-
govan himself sustained some slight
bruises, •
—Mr. Alfred Eddisone formerly a k
night operator at the Stratford office of
the Grand Trunk Railway, has invented ,
an instrument by which four messages
can be sent over a single wire at once,
thus increasing fourfold. the value of
every wire. It is called the " quadri).-
plex attachment," and Mr. Eddison has
been offered the snug little sum of $450,-
000 for the patent.
—Stratford wants somebody to estab-
lish gas works there. They are tired of
groping in the " cnnmerian darkness of
coal oil and callow dips." -
—On Wednesday afternoon, inst.,
a colored woman named. Phcebe King
was found lying dead in a lot south ickf
the Grand Trunk Railway track,
Guelph. She had attended. a party at
the house of a colored man named Mc-
Gurn the night before, from which time
-nothiug was seen -of her till her frozen
body was found-
-A farmer named Augustus Wagner
was frozen to death, during the cold
spell last week. He had. been to Mount
Forest, and after starting for home lost
his way, and was _found sitting upright
in a snow drift, frozen stiff.
—The subject of increasing the sala-
ries of departmental heads and Civil
Service employes is now under considera-
tion by the Government. It is proposed.
to increase the salary of the Premier to
farms, good stook, intelligent and
wealthy farmers. In -conclusion, we feel sion: The cost of these works is esti-
that ive *in common with the farmers of niated at $46,000, of which $10,000 will
hot.' will require to be dredged to the
depth required, to the shore line. .Thus
• the inner portion of the harbor will re-
main untouched. till some future occa-
.
Huron, have much cause for gratitude to be paid by the township of Stanley. The
a kind Providence for the great measure design having been approved of, tenders
of prosperity lvhich we enjoy. for the work have been let.
All of which is respecefully submitted. , PORT ALBERT.
H. Lou, Sr., Secretary. Port Albert is about 11 miles north of
Goderich, and at the foot of the Nine -
Mile Creek. A small pier has been con-
structed. at which vessels can load. The
sum of $6,000 was appropriated at the
session of 1873 to the improvement of the
• lties are to be
charge of other
cast up by the
the winter or
square timber—on Lot 6, Con. 4, Hallett, or considerable exte,nt, but not enough of
experience has yet been gained to enable
AN': quantity of Cedar Posts may be had—also
Harpurhey. US to speak definitely as to results.
en application to D. McGREGOR,
FOR SALE, Flax is reported. to have been an ex -
973 -4 .
cellent crop, the stalk being long and the
THE undersigned has a combined Reaper and .
fibre good. t_ Inewhere in tlee neighbor-
.
& INTELIAMS, of Mitchell, whieh he now offers hood of 600 a res of flax was raised last
-1- Mower,. manufactured by Messrs. THOMSON'
- for sale. It has been only two years in use, n.nd year to supply the two flax nsills in_ our
will be said to snit purchasers. Apply to JAMES le This is likely to be an increas-
eteKENZIE, Lot 42, Con. 14, Hibbort. 372 riding-
ing and permanent industry with us, for
there is no better soil for flax in the Do-
miniOn . ROOts'as a, general thing were
EST RAY CATtLiEe
( JAME on the premises of the undersigned, Lot
`-` "ci Con.11, Hilbert, about last November, one -not a first-rate crop, being good in some
red HEIFER and one roan le . Th own.er
places and nearly a failure in otheils.
paeince expenses. JOHN n'eoHoLS, The bugs were not quite so : _ p ta-
. 0
can' have them by' ideutifying the animals and .
-- toes as they vvere last Season, but Were
373'3 .
ESTRAY HEIFER. still troublesome. T The best cure yet
(.4n -tel. -En from the premises of the undersign- known is to pick them off regularly every
1-. ea, Lot 6, Con.. 12, Ilullett, last Fall, a clean day. - Late sown turnips had the best
white HEIFER, rising three years old. Any peri, chance for a braird, and the fiue growing,
co -very will be euitably rewarded. open fall brought them well on to 'Battu-
son giving information that will lead to her re -
373 -1 THOS. NEILANSe Harloek P. 0 ity. The judges at our root crop compe-
tition reported the highest yield of Sevede
CANADIAN PACI-Fle RAILWAY. turnips to the acre to be 817 bushels,
Tender* for Grading—Fort William and the lowest yield 554- bushels. The
to Shebandovvan. highest yield of carrots was 1,162 bushels
LED TENDERS, addressed to the ander- to the acre, and the lowest 689. eiThe
signed and endorse& " Tender Pacific Rail- highest yield of mangolds, 1,100 bushels
,
the 2,7th of February next,Ifor the Bridging and to the acre, the lowest, 661./ It is
way," will be received up to noon of SATURDAY,
Grading required an that Section of the Pa.cific worthy of remark that the first ' prize
Railway, extending from the Town plot of Fort turnips were sown on the 25th of June,
Lake Shebandewan about 45 nilles in length. and were top dressed. with plaster of Par-
-William, near Thunder Bay, Lake Superior, te
For plans, specii.eations, approximate quanti- is and salt, at the rate of half a bushel
ties, forme of tender and other information, Way to the acre of each. Others' manured
Plans and specifications for that part of the with salt at the rate of 200 pounds to the
line between Lake of the Wood and Red River, acre, and- some 400 pounds to the neie.
at the offisee of the Engineer in Chief, Ottawa.
will be reedy in the course of two or three weeks. Experience has not yet quite established
By �rder, the exact extent a the benefits of salt as
Department of Public Worksel a ma . If it is beneficial to any ap-
F. BRAUN, Secretary.
Ottawa,16thJannary, 1875.1 373-3 preciable extent, it will be a matter o
How to Make a Farm Pay:
The following essay on the above sub-
ject was delivered by Mr. Appleton El -
coat, at the meeting of the Tuckersrnith
Farmers' Club, held on Monday, Janu-
ary 25.
The subject for discussion this evening
is an important one, and one in which
we are all interest d, viz.: "How to
./ieMake a Farm Pay , st.", In order to
create a starting point, we must have a
farm of, say, 90 acres of clearing. To
stock this, the farmer should have five
cows and their offspring, .'which will give
him five head of cattle to sell at three
years old every year, bringing, say, $30
each. He will also require two mares,
and one colt one year old, and another
two years old, and. by raising a colt ev-
ery year, he will always have one three
years old for disposal, which should be
worth about $100. He can also fat half
a dozen hogs till they weigh about 250
pounds each, two of which it will be
necessary to keep for his own use, while
the other four can be sold at $7 per cwt.
In addition to this, it is also desirable
to have some poultry. The butter arid
eggs will keep the house in groceries and
the children in clothes. To keep this
stock will.require 30 acres, part for hay
and the rest for pasture. This will leave
60 acres for crop. The farmer must seed
10 acres down every year, and then he
will have 10 acres of sod to plow. He
should put his sod in with peas, his pea
stubble in with wheat, the wheat stub-
ble with oats, which should be well man-
-- -- and afterward put in with wheat,
the stubble of which will. require the
in at least two acres of potatoes, w e their letters addressed to them there and,
rest of his manure. He raust also put
harbor. Similar diffi
found here as at the di
rivers, a deposit being
• lake, and removed
spring freshets. It is considered that a
small breakwater to the south might
have the effect of preventing this de-
posit from forming, and accordingly it is
proposed to drive some piling on the
beach, and to run out 75 feet of crib
_es
work to the south. This structure, it is
hoped, will retaip any deposit `which the
lake may cast up. It is also designed to
lengthen the northern pier 60 feet, with
a small arm to the south-west of 50 feet.
Vessels drawing eight feet of water will
be able to come into this harbor. The
Department has allowed the municipal-
ity of the township of Ashfield to con-
duct this work under the supermtencl-
ence of the Departmental Engineers.
The municipality accordingly advertised
for tenders, and, with the sanction of
the Honorable the iMiuister, awarded the
contract to Messrs. Johnston. a,nd Gra-
ham, who have begun operations, and.
the work will be completed this season.
All the approaches to the harbor were
carefully surveyed.
of -Mr. Thoinas McFaul, of Niagara, fell
,between the baggage car and coach, and
was rue over, cutting his leg off. He
died the next morning.
—A sad accident occurred at Blyth on
has been guilty of some sharp practice,
in conjunction with G. A. Smith, of
Guelph, who lately decamped from that
town. He was released on paying over
51,000.
—The people of Niagara repudiate the
the 5th inst. 'While James Moore was
idea of "Mayor" Murphy and his chil-
sawing shingle blocks with a swing saw
Canadians in LondoiL
We are pleased to find in the ,London
Canadian News the following: "All
gentlemen. from Canada who may be
staying in London, or passing through it,
should understand that a room has been
specially fitted up for their convenience
in the Canada Government offices, King
street Westminster. They may have
in James Wilson's new saw his
right arm' was caught by the saw and.
the elbow was almost cut out Drs.
Sloan and. Gracy amputated the arm
near the shoulder. Mr. Moore is doing some other cause not yet known. An
as well as can be expected . attempt will be made to get at the bot-
-One of the Italians employed on the
—Mr. Bean, who resides within the
neighborhood of Galt met with a painful
corporation limits of Rathho, believes
accident on Saturday, 30th ult. A.
the hog business to be profitable. He
couple of the men were engaged at the
has a hog which, he says, has aggregated.
time ill breaking away the frozen surface
him a sum of $1.86 in one year. This
of thc. earth at one of the cuts. The
dren having died of starvation. It has
been shown- that the -re was plenty of
food and. fuel in the house at the time,
and that death resulted from poison or
•
Credit Valley Railway Works in the tom of the myetery.
Bow has furnished. hiin with three litters
earth is split into pieces by meana of
sold pigs and hogs to the amonnt of $186
Strange to say, Mr. Bean's outlay m the
way of feed has not been over $76, there -
wedges, and at the time to which we re-
refer the injured man was holding one of
the 'wedges, while his companion was
by netting a clear profit of over $100.
the mall was lifted for a stroke on the
of pigs during the past year, and he has
driving it in with a heavy mall. Just as
wedge, the urtfortunate fellow who was —John Arnold, who was convicted at
and sentenced to 1,0 years' impnsonment, •
escaped from the Hamilton jail, while
the usual Sunday afternoon services
were being held. He succeeded in gain-
.
Mg a corridor unnoticed, where he pick-
et1 one of the locks and getting into the_
Open air easily made his escape. So far
to traces of him have been found.
—The Hamilton Spectator says: The
amount of fall wheat sown throughout
this part of the country bas not been
very large this season, but, so far, the
prospects for that grain are very good.
The most of that sown in the county aid
not acquire enough " top," but the win-
ter has proved mild, and the amount of
snow that has fallen tends to protect it
greatly.
holding it, by' some forgetfulness, drew the liamiltoa Assizes for larceny, &c.,
his hand directly on the top of receiv-
ing, of course,the full force of the blow,
and. having his hanill very badly smashed
alresiultO'o:"'frora. Napanee there
iiiv_tehAemile or tw
two
old. people by the name of_
Grooms, whose ages are respectively 90
and. 91. Seventy years ago they were
married, and during all those years an
instance is not known in which they ever
disagreed, always having lived in the
utmost harmony with themselves and.
their neighbors.
--The trade and navigation -returns
for the year ending 30th June, 1874,
were laid before the House on Friday
last The tables show a steady and con-
tinuous increase in the trade of the Do -
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