... said J. T. Gordon, of the Winnipeg | AGRICULTURAL TOPICS FOR WHIG READERS such portions of the wheat crop as may bé under grade, will come out not in the form wf ghain but in: the form of cattle and hogs. JBven in the matter of poultry, and dairy products. which the west formerly imported quite freely, Mr. Gordon is convinced that there will be.in a very few years a considerable export movement. Already poultry and eggs are being shipped out; and the expansion in the direction of cheese and butter is most marked. The chief advantage tat Mr. Gordon gees to the farmers of. the plains is that®*they will have money in their poekets all the year round, instead of waiting long periods for the pro- ceeds of the grain. -erop. This will make them much more independent of credit and greatly alter the normal business situation in the west. The Fly in the Dairy. As an instance of the numbers of bacteria the common fly can carry, the following figures given by Pro- fessor Easton may be cited:--He caught 100 flies in a kitchen, put thier in a pint of sterlized water and rinsed them about, and then examin- ed the water, and found that he had raised such a number of bacteria off them. that each fly . averaged over 300,000. 'He next caught a similar number in the cow barn, and they evaraged over 800,000 each, another 100 in the pig pen, and they averag- over 1,000,000 each. It may be sald that when 6ne-goes into a factory or ho hoe: finds many flies, one is imniediately justi- fied in condemning the sanitary sur- roudings of such premisés, One can appreciate the fact that in factories where flies abound it is next to im- possible to keep them out of the milk ; SE and the seeding of the milk by the Live Stock in the West. . | bacteria which they carry must be very appreciable, The evil deeds of Two years go the west had a great grain harvest, but because of ihe ay Bo asisine, a9 je the unfavorable weather during the Y early fall much of the grain was Totsgaarh: Hi BUNCE, Hise} ».but uth, is, the fly serves no good pur- found to be in a damaged condition, | 1000 or 'serves a purpose which can be better.performed in other ways. * The department of agriculture states that the cost of producing a bushel of wheat in Saskatchewan is 556 cents, or 62 cents to put that wheat on the cars at country points. This cost has increased; while the selling price of wheat has fallen from 81.2 cents to 66.125 cents per . This leaves a wheat farmer a of 4.125 cents a bushel, How of the consumers' dollar. does this Canadian wheat grocer receive, and how 'much of the product made by that consumer can he buy with Ho 4.125 cents? asks Rural New Yor- or. i a x Keep Eas Two Years. One foreign firm 'in' Shanghai use for thelr export egg trade a liquid preserve, which they state keeps the . eggs pert fresh in the shell for a od of two dren and during that time are no different from new-laid eggs, says Gordon B. Johnson, Cana- dian Trade commissioner at Yokoha- ma. They pack them in casks in a Wainer that renders breakages lia- bility practically nil, and are carried in the head of any -steamer as ordl- nary cargo, and by rail in freight cars, In other cases, on reaching Vancouver or other coast ports the eggs are forwarded to their destina- tion by express. The fréight rate from Shanghai to Vancouver is §8 (gold) per ton of 40 cubic feet 'eq- onion' to 17% cents, so that the tate per case is 45 cents, "As Chitra is the largest egz-pro ~ ducing ¢ovntry in the world." he ccn- tinues, "and the business of ex- porting' this produc: is only iu its 1afancy, it is probably safe to awe that the next few years will see » great development in this businiss with North America." , firm of Gordon, Ironside & Fares, pork packers and cattle dealers. The result was that a great deal of it had to be disposed of at prices much un- der those éstimated. The farmers saw 'that It 'would have been more profit able to feed the grain to animals, and there was a distinct movement toward acquiring stock. This season that movement begins to show results. Already from thirty to thirty-five: thousand hogs are being marketed weekly in the three Prairie provinces. These hogs for the portion of 1914 already expired have been worth to the farmers almost nine million dollars, and there is .still room for much expansion. Milk For Dairy Calf. A serigs of tests was conducted by the Illinois Experiment Station to demonstrate the value of milk in calf raising and to ascertain the mi- nimum amount of milk necessary to insure to the calves a satisfactory start inlife. The first test was preli- minary and indicated that during the first two weeks the calves must be fed a reasonable amount of milk con- taining about three per cent butter- fac (this to be gradually changed to skim-milk), the calves receiving practicialy all af their nourishment up to eight weeks from the milk. Fol While the acquisition of cattle has lowing this, a grain supplement may « been slower, Mr. Gordon is convinc- | be fed. In the second test, in which ed that within a year, or two there] the average amount of milk used was will be a very considerable export of {153 pounds of whole milk 'and 435! cattle, and that the great barley!pounds of skim-milk, the calves crops of thé west as well, |made an evarage gain of 65 pounus "here! WHAT'S ALL THIS ry pe " WELL, 1 SAYS THE GIANTS HAS A BI TEAM THAN THE ATHLETICS, WR SAYS I CAN 'T PROVE IT, AN ru nr.' . Most of us think we don't like to have our ¢hil- dren too militant, but when Jack puts it over Billy or Tom next door, Father usually swells up with Pride, and Motlier--while pretending to feel very jadly,--gets Jack over in a corner and kisses him! an' Husky bodies and stout nerves depend --more often than we think--on the food eaten. made of whole wheat and barley, provides all the _ nutriment of these rich graigs, ineluding'all their invaluable mineral phosphates. : 2 Grape- Nuts isa capital food for growing voung-- * sters--and just 'as good for grown-ups, as w ell. . Comes ready to eat direct from the package--erisp £ and appeti ng. . ~ "Then's a Reason" for Grape als : --sold by Grocers everywhere, CANADIAN POSTUM CEREAL CO. LTD, WINDSOR, ONT. i Housing in Hot during tho frst milk was fod, but it was found to be: unnecessary. 'The cost of the milk fed 'euch calf variedifrom §1,61' to $4,62, which is eonsiered compara~ tively low. ' Weather, The selection of 'the quarters that fowls are to occupy during the sum- mer months requires 'the greatest care, sinte with the coming of the hot weather many matters eall for immediate attention. Chief among these is the question of overcrowding. This must be avoid- ed at all tintes, but particularly in summer, There are fay poultry yards in which "large numbers of chickens have.up to the present slept in eroops and brooders, and they are now gathered together and crowdea into: a house that probably is only capable of comfortably holdthg half that number. No amount of venti- lation can overcome this difficulty. Open-fronted houses are now ex- tensively used, and they have many advantages, especially for summer use. , When they are proper- ly construeted they will hold many more inmates than will a house of the same «dimensions which is built on the old lines. There is nothing that hampers the progress of older birds to the same extent as that of breathing the im- pure air of an overcrowded house. If, therefore, health is to be maintained the sleeping quarters must be ade- quate in size for the number to be kept therein. Ventilation should be at the highest part of the house, so that the current of air is right above the heads of the inmates. -- i, Points in Calf-Rearing. Mr. Sandeman, a well-known Eng- lish Aberdeen-Angus breeder, has re- cently (says the "NewcaStle Jour- nal") given some valuable points on calf-rearing. Though an advocate of suckling or whole milk breeding for a time, he attaches considerable jm- portance to oats as soon as the calf is able to eat. Contrary to the usual practice of crushing, these are fed whole, with bran, for the first three or four months."They are then replac- ed by crushed oats. Mr. Sandeman's experience indicates that young e¢al- ves digest oats more easily whole than crushed. Whole oats he also 'finds useful in preventing scour. His calves have constant access to rock salts and lumps of soft chalk, both of which they lick freely. To the latter is attached the virtue of correcting excessive aridity of the stomach. Briefly, Mr. Sandeman's method is to leave the calf in a box with the caw for the first ten days. The cow is then taken away, and is prought fo the calf,or the calf taken to her, three times a day for a fur- ther ten days. At the end of this por- fod the calf is suckled twice a day till thé two go out to pasture together, when the cow is in calf again. When the calves are separated from the cows several aré put toze- ther in a box hedded with oat straw. A bundle of good hay is tied up with- in reach, a box containing rock salt and chalk -is provided, and another with whole oats and bran. After the caives have sucked they are tiéd np round the box with an ordinary dog collar and chain for an hour or so. The tying up prevents sucking each other and breaks the calves in to the halter at a later period. Mr. San- deman emphasises the importance of a good supply of whole milk during the first month. A large number of well-started calves, he finds, can sub- sequently be reared by one , good milking cow, Produce and Prices. Kingston, June '20.--Market reports the following : Meat, beef, local, carcase, 12jc.; carcase, cuts, 10c. to 22¢c.; mutton, He. to le; live hogs, $9; dress- d hogs, 12§c.; veal, 8c. to 12c.: lamb by carcase, $5; western beef, l4c. to 15¢., by carcase. Dairy--Butter, creamery, 30c.; prints 27c.; eggs, 22. to 2Bc. Onions, be. bunch; parsley, 10c. a bunch. oJ. A. McFarlane, Brook street, re- ports grain, flour and feed selling as follows : Oats, 500. per bushel; wheat, $1 to $1.10 per bushel; yellow feed corn, 90¢. per bushel; bakers" flour, $2.75 to $2.90; farmers' flour, $2.75 to $2.90; Hungarian patent, $3; 'oatmeal and rollgd oats, no bbl; cornmeal, $2 per cwt.; bran" $25 per {ton;. shorts, $26.50 ton; baled ary $9 per ton' potatoes, $1.40 a bag; steed straw, $9 s ton; pressed hay, 5 The Dominion Fish company reports the following prices: Whitefish, 15¢. Ib.; pike, 12ic. lb; blue fish, 15¢c; Chinook" salmon, 30. per pound; fresh haddock, ? 2c. 'per pound; steak cod, 12§e.; salmon trout, 15¢. per 1b; Saginaw salmon, 33¢ per 1b.; mackerel, 15¢. per Ib. clerk Just an Incident. Londofi Advertiser. A well-known London police' court character stood in front of one of London's leading hotels. Addressing the crowd that athored as he started speaking he called out : "No wonder you want to abolish the bars !| Look: at me 1" An Advertiser reporter accepted the invitation and looked at the 'man. What did he reveal 7 A great giant's body, poorly clothed, with a button off his coat, and patches in his sleeves; a pair of dirty overalls and no socks bn his feet. "I'd be.a good cftizen to-day, men, if it wasn't for liquor," he sHouted. {It's made my life useless. I'm just a scavenger now, 'and that's all I'm for." | A man on the curb smiled and eal) ed aloud ¢ | "Come and have a drink," he eried to the man. And the erstwhile tem. perance lecturer went in. t. It was not the fact that the man had spoken for temperance that was the vital thing in the incident. It was the man's weakness for liquor when 'the test came. If there had beeh no. bar there the mau would not hive fallen its victim again. rm You may own acres and acred of land, but be kind enough to remem- {her that your . final portion will be just enough ta cover you wp. i Men dislike details, . but pacticulass, want the ul certainly | growth of chickens and retards the Rev. Father Minchan, of Toronto On The Open Bar--It Is The Drunkard's School. Some people say that it you close the bars you will drive the liquor traflic into the homes. Well, we have heard Protestant ministers by the hundred condemn and denounce the bar, many of them life-long conser vatives. Let us hear what thie Rev. Father Minehan, of Toronto, has to say of the bar-rooms. He is a priest who is in as close touch with the lives of the tollers in Toronto as is possible for any one interested in social and moral reforni work to be. Father Minehan says of the bar: For my part I do not believe that it will be necessary to go to this extreme (speaking of prohibition). 1 believe that the spinal column of the liquor curse is the bar-room. Practically every drunkard with whom I have 'been brought in contact received his initiation in the bar-room and graduated from that seminary to drunkenness. It may be said that if you close the bar-room a man may bring liquor home and entér upon a debauch in his own house. number of men who will swill at home-is, according to my observation, very smmll, and their number will grow smaller as their nursery, the bar- room, is cut off, for they are mainly bar-room products. - Rarely have 1 seen the police van drive up to the door of a home; whenever I have seen it oh its gloomy errand it is geperally going towards or coming from sétiie bap-room. When | meet any member of my flock who has been on a spree, I almost invariably hear his confession: "Father, I did not in- tend to"get drunk; but they pressed me to have a drink wity, them. I had to order my treat like the rest,'and the moment we had two or three Morning! And sure enough some. of us did not go home until morning, or until well on to noon, for we found ourselves figuring in the daily parade of drunks that interview the police magistrate." Dr. Ross is in favor of keeping these bars open. He has never: lifted his little finger to help the carrying of a lcense reduction by-law. Yet he claims credit for the government because of the gumber of times They were carried, however, by the temper- measures have been carried. And the local option law is a ance people, mot by the government, liberal measure. All Whitney did was to add the three-fifths clause to it, resulting - in keeping many bars. open that wonld otherwise have: been closed. ' \ A A A A AR AAA AAA PAA SAA AAA NAA NAA BIBLE READING IN SCHOOLS. two years a plan for # ------ campaign but, while the Sunday school leaders are eager to push the wirk, there ix a fear that the time is not opportune for a campaign with a body of speakers and organizers tour- ing the country. One million new Sunday school mem- bers a year, one million total abstin- ence pledge signers, one million pledg- od to Helinite community one million new church members a year recruited from the Sunday schools, and one hundred thousand new mem- bers of teacher training classes; these annual accretions are the principdl goals before the assocciation 'it was declared. Protestant, Catholic and Jew Co-op- erate in United States. Chicago, June 26.--' "Co-operation by Protestant, Catholic and Jew in the matter of Bible reading in the public schools is an indication of the grow- ing spitit of brotherly regard and tol- eration," said © Marion Lawrence," sé- cretary of the Interhational Sunday School Assbeiation at the: session of the fourteenth triennial convention here yesterday. "This is a great step forward in 'the study and recognition of the Bible. Encouragement of the reading in public of these portions of the Bible agreed upon by all is the aim of such co-operation." A crucial problém before the present conigrence is the method to be adopt- ed in advancing the Sunday school work, he said. 'The association has had under consideration for more than service, this world would be much better if all who attended church and had their names on the churen roster were trie Christians Let's be sure of our foundation that leads to political glory. Fo = Come in and look over our stock. 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