et ce mani {CANADA'S SUPPLY |coxEs MaNLY FROM FOR- the sirioture, S208 Westward hve. ETROIT, SICH. WAS A DRUNKARD A Lady Whi Cares Her ustand of A PATHETIC LETTER. od arin t * 1 mercial - agar Mak DAILY WHIG, > io indie - -- EIGN COUNTRIES. Farmers Need to be Very Careful in Getting Their Supplies--On- ly Reliable Seed Importers Should be Dealt With, The Iollowing article is from the pen of G. H. Clark, BSA. chiel of | the west division, department of agri (| culture; If 'the farmers of Canada were ac- quainted with the sources of supply of | their root crop seeds, and the avenues th h which they pass before reach- ling thems, they would be a great deal more pertioulsr when making their purchases, Practically gll the seed for our root crops Js grown in foreign cotintries. However imrportant it may be that the seed for such crops be growu the country where 1t is wanted for sowing, the cheap labor in those European countries, which have be- come the seeds gardens of the world, has the growing industry up- profitable to Canadian farmers or seeds specialists. Our puppy of foreign grown seeds is bought sand jwported principally [by our larger seed firms. They ulay wake their purchases either by paying 8 commensurate price to reliable Buropean seed growers, men -- who grow seggl from selected pedigreed stock or, they may. buy seed at a much lower price--~seed that is grows by wen whose chief aim has been fo privduce a | quantity, independ ent of the quality of the crop it will ptoduce, Ju the former case, the seed is grown from selected plants-- from roots which have an ideal size and form, and sre known to be true to Thame: © - ; For instance, an ideal turnip is one havitg a small neck, and top growth. Such a root when planted will pro- duce a comparatively small growth of stalks, and consequently a small amosunt of seed, but the seed from such a root is apt to produce a crop like the mother root which was plant ed. On the other hand a small turnip having several root prongs, and an expensive growth of top coming from two or three separate neck growths, will transmit its like through the seed to the next crop. Seed can be grown from such roots wich more cheaply than from selected roots, be cause, in the first place the mother roots are culls; and are not as valu able for feeding, and secopdly, they will produce; a much larger quantity of seed. During the last ten or fifteen years the seed trade has, to a great extent, heen passing from the hands of seeds- men, who devote all their time to a study of seeds and the seed trade, in- to the hands of local dealers. Unfor- tunately, fair competition in the seed trade; is practically impossible, since the appearance of most commercial seeds is but a slight indication of 1 (baiz real value. The competition has been; amd is too largely confined to prices . along, Farmers continue to patronize the loce! dealer who is able to quote a low price for his goods. The local dealer demands a low priced wed off the wholesale firms, and in turn there has been a growing strife among wholesale seed firms in the buying of cheap goods, with which to supply local dealers. ~ 1 is well to mention, hoarse, tnt theough the progressive spin © a ih : houses a limited "tradi of the best stocks of root crops seeds has been fostered and there is little difficulty experienced among in- solligent formets, in getting the best quality of seeds provided that they go "the right way about it, and are willing $o.pay a commensurate price. Rut ol 7 The root crop seeds sold in Canada dre rethiled to the farmer at « price quite as low as our Cana- dian seed houses have to pay reputed Buropean seed growers for the best seed from selected ' pedigreed: stock. Appeals have been made, hoth by seedsmien' and' farniers, to place re strictiong ont the grade, as will serve to withdraw "esponsibility connected therewith, from the hands of incompetent local dealers. With root crop seeds, vhis aim may be reached by. allow only reliahle wed howses or Seed importers the right to place sweh goods on the market, by allowing them 1s Place woaled packages, each pack- property labelled, and to bear the name and consequently the reputation of the seed house. m the hands of local dealers to be sold on connmission only. 'Official interference in the seed trade may have objection: able features. Perhaps the mosh strike ing example of where legislation has hon aratied to improve the condi- tions under which commercial seeds are sold must be accompanied with a statement, showing the nage uf pure angl vital, . They have ex- tended to Mheir trade a amodifien- tion of the ack js used in. Can ada to regan te the quality of com- 'that, what- accompany an enfore- in conmection have clearly: ever evils may 3 iH PRODUCE AND PRICES. ------ F: The Standard Rates.- Governing The Local Markets. Kingston, Feb, 25.~The' chief change in the losal markets during the past week is in butter prices which have raised from one to twd cents a pound. Potatoes, 'too, are Bigher, and scarcer. A few more days of mild weather will cause the price of egg to drop materially. By next Satarday fresh eggs may sell at Be. a dozen. Fruit--Calilornia naval oranges, 200., 20¢., 40s. -a-doe.; Florida oranges, 30c. to Sc. a dor; Jumacia oranges, 30c. a dozen; bitter oranges, 25c. to 30. a'don.; pears, 0c. to Me. a doz; Ma- lags grapes; Be. a Ib; eranberries, 124e. to 1Bc. & quart; lemons; Me. to Se. a dowen; bananas, 206 te 0c. a dozen; apples, $3.50 to #6 a lalok. Flour and feed. ~Fampers' flour and bakers' strong; $2 to $2.10°'a ewt; Hungarian patent, $2.20 to $2.30 a ewt; oat meal" and rolled cats; to £5.75 a bbl; cornmeal, $1.50 to $1.60 a owt; bran, $22 a ton; shorts, $22 to $23 a ton; hay $10 to $12 "a tom; straw, $7 to §8 a«ton. 7 Grain--<Wheat, white winter and Can adian ing, 65c. to 726. a "bushel ; local soft wheat, 68c. a bushel; North arn No. 1, T5c. to' 77c. a bushel; Mani toba No. 1, bard, 80c. a bushel; buck- wheat, 50c. as bushel; barley, 46c. to S0¢. a bushel; peas, 72¢c. a bushel ; onts, 38¢c. a bushel; rye; S3c. a bushel. Meat--Beef, forequarters, to Se: a Ho. ; chaice 124c. a Ho. ; western beef, Ge. to 6jc. a lb; yearling lamb by the carcase, Se. to 9% a lh; fore quarters, Bic a ib; hind: quarters; 104¢. a lb.; hogs, live weight Be. a lb; dressed, Tc to 8c. a ib; veal, by the: carcise, fc. a Ib; beef tongues, 3c. each; mution, Gof to 7¢..a Ib. Vegetables--Potatoes 0c. to §l, a bag; onions, $1.10 a hag; car rote, 40c. to 5bc. a bag, turnips, 40c. to 50¢c. a bag; beets, 80c. a bush.; cel ery, Be, to 10e. bunch; cabbage, 3c. to , a head. Poultry--Turkeys, 81 to $1.50 each; geese, 'Ble. to $1.20 cach; ducks, 78c to 90c. a pair; chickens, 40c. to 75c. a pair; fowl, 40c. to 75c. #*pair. Fish--White fish, blue fish and mae kerel, 12¢c. a Ib.: smelts, 12§c. a Ib; halibut, 15¢. a Ib.; bloaters, 40c. a dozen; finnan haddie, 10c. a lb; sal mon trout, 12¢. a Th.; Seattle salmon, 5c. a ib.; salt salmon, salt trout and salt mackerel, 10c. a Ib. smoked eis coe, 10c. a lb; salt ciscoes, Te. a'lb.; salt codfish, 7e. to 15¢c. a 1b.; lobsters, 5c: a Jb; little neck clams, 20¢. a dozen; irogs' legs, 30¢. a lb.; shad, 12¢. a lb flounders and tomcods, Seo. a Ilha kippered herring, 40c, a dozen; pollick; 5¢.-a Ib, Oysters--30c., 40c., 50e. and 60c. .a quart; canned oysters, in piat ting, 0c. a ting Malpeoque shell oysters, 2c. a dozen or 70, a peck. Hides--These priges are given by Joba. McKay, Brock. street i; Dekin skins, 50c. to 60c. each; deer skins, 10c. a Jb.; beef hides, No. 1, 6¢. to Bic. a Ib; horse hides, 82 to $2.25 each; rendered tallow, Bc. a lb.; unwashed wool, 8c. a lb; washed wool, 13¢. a Ib. Fur, mink, 82 to $3; fox, 81 to $2.50; coon; 20¢. to T5¢c.; skunk, 25e to 7 Dairy Wholesale. . Butten--Creamery 2c. to 2c. Ih farmers', in prints, 18, to 20c. Ib; in rolls, 176. to JSc. a lb baking but ter; 14de. a 1b. alb Cheese--93¢. a Ib. Dairy Retail. Butter--Creamery, 25¢. to Xe, a lb. farmers', in prints, 2%, a Ih.; in rolls, 1%. to We, a lb, Cheese--124c, a 1b. Eggs. Wholesale--~Fresh, 28¢c., cooking, 200. a doren. Retail-~Fresh, 30¢. a dozen; cooking, 22¢ a 'dozen. s dowen'; S---------- Toronto Street Market. Toronto, Feb. Wheat, bush,, 2x. to T7c.; wheat, red, 70. to Te; wheat, spring, 73%.; wheat, goose, O8jc. io 67)c.; oats, bush, 46¢. to 4Tc.; barley, bush, 8%. to 63¢.; peas, bush., 83. to S3ic; rye bush... 3c; buckwheat, bish., 5%. : hay, timothy, per ton, $13 to $14.50; straw, per ton, $10 to $10.50; seeds, Alsike, choice, $7.50 to 85; Alsike, No 2, 836.50 to 87; red clover, $4.65 to $4.85; timothy, $2.50 to $3.25; dressed hogs, $8 ito 88.25; butter, in fh, rolls, 8c. to Ze. buttee, creamery, Xk. to 25¢.; chidkens, per ir, 9be. to R3e¢. : ducks, per pair, er to $1; turkeys. per 1b., Ie. to Ide; geese, per lb. Re. to 9¢.; eggs, "limed, per dagen, 20c. to Fc.; eges, now laid, Jo.; apples r barrel, $3 to $4.50: potatoes, per jag; 70c. to 806; turnips, per bag, 3 carrots, per bag, white, Se. : _parsnips. uliflower,. per , per doz 40. to requarters, £5 to $6.50 ; beef, hindquarters, 87 to 83; beef, ge: dinm, carpase; 85.50 to RG.50: beef. choice, $7 to $7.50; lamb, 58 to $9: Fr $6 to $7; veal, choice 8 to 00. " re Fens Te s FE pat i g f i in i if ni [TE ACTOVY IN STEEL! IT IS GREATER THAN EVER HAS BEEN. Mills Are Not Able to Xeep up With Consumption, Which Reached 1,500,000 Tons In January, Far from improving, conditions in the iron and steel industry have be commm-stil more distressing. Neods ave no dese and consumers in many lines are urgent, save Duns Review, of New York. Prospects: ave bright for September or later, unless new. plants under construction are in operation earker than expected. The adverse feature is the amount of business that may be. placed abroad, yet this can: pot be profitably done except on early shipments. The outlook is certainly most envouraging for the rest of this vear, and probably next, but there is always the possibility that productive capacity will be: so largely extended that any check to consumption will theow a lot' of - machinery 'into idle ness, This fear of excessive capacity lias been in evidence throughout the last three of four years, and it is this excess of conservatism, together with tio _ diminution in pational . growth, that has brought the industey to its present congested condition, Statistics of pig iron output and consumption, as complied by the Iron Age, are little short of phenomenal. These figures indicate that the con sumption during January must have amounted to about 1,500,000 tons, or at the unprecedented rate of 18,000,000 tons annually. i A most effective comparison is made by taking the rate of weekly = pro- duction on February lst, which sur passed all pecords at. 340.612 tons, and comparing it with the output on Jetober 1st, 1900, which was 223,169 tons. Yet, in the face of this increase of over 100.000 tons weekly, consump- tive needs have been such that fur nace stocks declined from 670,531 tons at the easlier date to 154,200 tons on February 1st, 1902. While these figures do pot include the holdings of steel works producing their own pig iron, they show that present supplies are down to hard pan, and threaten seri ous interruption to work at finishing mille. Shortage of coke is now add- ing to the difficulty, and it is probable that the present output of pig iron well below the record-breaking figures at the opening of the month, which. were by no means too large. All branches of the industry are affect ed, Billets and sheet bars cannot be obtained, and there is a vigorous de mand for all the structural material or railway supplies that can he turned out. There is still evidence of con servatism in quotations, but quick de liveries easily command good pre- miums. = Domestic producers natural lv strive to prevent such advances as stimnlate foreign shipments to this market, The lake freight on iron ore has been practically fixed at eighty cents by signing a large contract at that fgure, Some Good Sense, Coamphbelliord Hérald Don't ask the editor to rebuke every evil in the town and community, but when convinced so, write an article in the paper: yourself and sign your name to it for publication. The man who is too big a coward to thus ex press an Gpinion is the very one who will ¢tand on a corner and ta'k loud ly about the cowardice of an editor, Spring Derbys And Fedoras. For the past five years we have heen the first to show. the real new styles of hats. So again this year.. Bibby's fhe Kidoeys and Uric Acid Serious, Painful = Ailments Which Arise From Neglected Kidney Derangements -- Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills a Thor oughly Effective Cure. Uric acid is the mame given by medical men to the poisonous imatier which the kidoeys filter from the ulood. When the Kidneys are weak, inactive or diseased they fail to per- form their functions as filters, and the uric acid poison remains in the sood to find lodgment in the weaker srgans, and produce the most painiul and fatal results, The symptoms of kidney disease, such as backache, frequent and pain ful wrination, deposits in the urine, saine in sides and limbs, and headaches, are so familiar that ic seems unnecessary for anyone to be i nt of the approach of this Headed malady. Dr. Chase's Kidney- Liver Pills are ever at hand as a thoroughly effective remedy, as they are for sale by nearly ev dealer who pretaids 6 keep any family me dicines, Not. only the kidneys themselves be aowe Uiseased, but the uric acid | iocms crystals in the joints and mus oles, causing the most extreme pain. and. what is known ae ; B Disease which can never be. cured untii the kidneys are made healthinl, and vipa. : ¢ nother form of kidney disease is dropey and heart failure. 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Dr. Mclaughitu: Dear Doctor, --Re garding the Beit 1 purchased from you a couple of months age. 1 beg fo say | am anore than pleased with It, and would net lose the greal benefits | have received ron h or ten times the fee, for 1 feel je ome MEW MAD as Lary as 1 ever did in pag life. 'The Belt gives grand benefits AL least It did for me, and | have great plegsure in re commending them. Gratefuily yours, E Atwdod, Bridgeburg, Ont, cember 26, 1901. ' CAUTION. LC] al terms to Free Bool | Now 1 can do a fair day's work | ake at Nberty to publish this Hf yon see { | Cook's Creek, Man., December 13, I give a free test to all who calle If you can'beall 1 #1 send you my = beautifully illustrated book with full inforyat ion free. now. Bun't delay, L . DR. M.K. MCLAUGHLIN, 130 Yonge St., Toronto, OFFICE HOURS--9 a.m. to 830 p.m. Electric Belt Is Sold on This; | en Everywhere. Not a.Cent weeny the Cure is Complete. ,. o + oy. 7 ff Fa ' a i GO TL oR dd "' /The Dr. MoLiaughlin. Electric Belt is the on remedy ithe worl hich san be sold on a plan. It is the only never-Tailing curd Top Rheumatism, Lame Back, Nervousness Gen I ® Debility, Loss of Power in Young. Mild ong « and Old Men, Varicoeele, Weak k and Ki neys, Brains of Vitality, Wasted Energy, 8 lessness; Pains in Head, Back, Chest, Shou and Limbs) Female 'Weal Bearingde Pains and all those ailments f oh womes nd - Se 2 or. don't see how any one can doubt thi: of electricity as a bu r.of vi stop just-a minute and think of what tis d in lines. It's a mative power, th '8 sottier Co oh I claim that it will run the te niade during my twenty years lied right, and "I prove ' 50.000 vd P ny experience. yO belt * I gunrantes! my Strieture Cured, | Dr. McLaughlin: Dear Sir--It gives | me the greatest pleasute 40 Shp. ARS thing concerning your Beit. 1 am feel | ag lke u iou (ot Jookt" Fedbi ald. ONG | to ted you the truth d bane Bot felt wn | well for tén yer Tho paiow Bare all: The sirictare has & fie peared, Urtluens 1a WIT gone, ine reane ; i well Ths Auybne" ug Ton. i Forty Years, Dr. M. A McLaoghiing: Dear Sir, <1 have to ackuowiedge that your Electric Belt hax dose ww more good than oll the doctors aud other remedies 1 have ever tried, { used o Belt fram Moat real witch done: me no good, 1 sise tried another remedy which wax a foil ure. 1 have had rheumatism for over forty years: In fact I Dave not been able to do auy hard work for. years You for what You 'have he 1 your Electrie Reis, ia. yours stucersly" Jol 7 lv { Ont, 901. Bt. | remain, yours truly, David Irving 1001 November 14, 1 Beware of old style, burning! electrode helts which are hig a inftation bby cushion Slocttoden, ¥ ina} ent : by persons whose bodies mn seared and scarred by the bare metal Qatlest snd dangerous ¢ Patiyone having one'of these old bagk-buhers. My office contains hundreds of these old 'belts, focirodes. 1 ald =Freg Test ont. Gall or write Address isd NEW CENTURY SUNDAY. It Is Indispemsdble To Man And Was Made For Him. At a legislative hearing on a ques tion of legal restriction of Sunday trade, a gentleman favored wider lib erty' because we are at the opening of a new century, implying that Sunday laws are a religgof the dark ages. Not of the varkest ages, he should reflect, They do not prevail, now in "Darkest African," or in any, dark and savage land, wor ever did. © Suncay obser vance is not a mark of aude uneulti vated lie Only enlightened chriftian nations observe Sunday 'rest, and protect the civil rest day by law, as a wise pro vision for the gyod of society Not on ly savages, but bad men everywhere do without Sunday. FEither they are not able to see that it is a necessity of wise living, or they do not wish to live wisely, Just in proportion as men advance in enlightment; ane in a desire to live accoraing to the best tight, they keep Sunday. There am exgoptions, but on the large scale, and in the long ren, exactly ax men gan | i in spivitual insight, atten breadth of | view, and a comprehension of the forces and tendencies which govern ha man life, if they also are wise enough to eonfortn their conduct to their m- | thy ail it with all their How creased knowledge, Sunday; and keep Beart. This is absolutely sure do. we know it? Un the word Him who ennnot who is the truth. for he said, "The Sabbath wax made for. man,"! for man as man, al witys and everywhere; not jor Jesus alone, not for certain centuries only, but for all the centuries, for the twen sieth and the fortieth, for all hlessful and prosperogs ages when hu man progress shall have lifted to the high vantage ground of en joying the blessings a kind Providence makes ready for his. use. Ana of all these blessings, one of the richest in salue in itself, amd most prolife of other hlessings is the day of Sunday rest and worship. And when Goa made the Sabbath err; for man, he thereby declared that She ; Sabbath is something man needs every age and land. It in indispen sable to his property. © Therelore 'a kind heavenly Father will see to .it that this precious gift shall not al ways be as pearls cast before swine. He will sdweate men and train them up to soe what is good for them, and will give them wisdom ei 0 take what is good for them. Any. men it now, for they ave like very young kitiens--they "have not got for them, for "the coming re the man who will mot fly in the face of ¥ and trample - its best ibe. good results, His will, that prim: of | those | man | ALE and PORTER AWARDED. THE © ... 1100 & ; posh A GOLD MEDAL ay POSITION. 1901, For their excellent qualitigs sin comparison hy a similar exhibits fiom all parts of America. JF 4 m------ TY eh JAS. McPARLAND, AGENT. + oF Hedi x D. J. McDermott, »