-erate sulphur dioxide gas, which RN v : RRNA AIT SOAS Ce eb eI ok Stat { Poultry Breeders' Chance aaa Canada in years has import ed more poultry and more eggs than she has expdrted Yet tion has materially increased, past her produc but it has failed to keep pace with the con s sumption. In twenty years the egg production from. 64,459, 241 dozen to 123,071,034 dozen, but the consumption increased from.11.8 per capita to 17.39. That is to say the individual fondness for eggs had had increased over fifty per cent. The population grew in those twenty Years, or from 1891 to 1911, at cording to the census, from 4,833, 239 to 7,204,833, an increase of 2, 371,599, and the egg production mounted up 58,571,793 dozen. In spité of this fact, and although the exports fell about to zero, 2,378,640 dazen had to be imported In the same time the number of poultry Canada grew from 12,696,701 to & 548,723. developed Here again, altheugh the increase was close upon thirteen mil- lion, the imports exceeded the ex ports in value 'to the amount of $111, 696. "Last year, the excess of imports of eggs over exports reached the .yir- tually enormous total of 11,150,106 dozens, while of poultry in 1914 we exported in value $206,370, but we imported 06,336 difference against us of §199.996. These fig« ures, striking as they are, and al most: impossible they seem, are yet official, being taken from Pamph let No. 7 of the Poultry Division of the Dominion Department of Agri culture, entitled. "The Egg and Poultry Situation in Canada, with notes upon the possible effect of the war upon the Developmént of the In- dustry," by W. A. Brown, BSA, M S., and ean be verified on application fog the pamphlet to tfre Publications Branch; "Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. The statistics given in the pampn let are both phenomenal and interest- ing. No other articles of food have shown such an increase in. popular- ity. At the same time prices gen erally have increased and been well sustained. Mr. Brown does not un- dertake to explain the phenomena, but contends himself with proving that it is so and that the increase in every particular is common to all the provinces. H® also gives particul- ars of imports of poultry into" Great Britain, which in 1913 amounted in value to $5,411,684, of which Russia supplied $1,640,923, the © United States $999,890, Austria-Hungary $470,767, Italy $410,902, Holland $121,739, Belgium $108,268, Nor- way $68,960, Germany, $58,005 and Canada, seemingly, nil. From the foregoing figures and the general condition of things in Europe, Mr. Brown arrives at the conclusion that Britain will this year be short of eggs and poultry to the amount of a million and a half of dol- lars, or of éggs alone to the sum of one hundred million dozen. Every Canadian producer shoulda endeavor, therefore, to produce this year more and better eggs and poultry than ever before. a as GAS SAID TO BE THE SECRET OF DUNDONALD'S WAR PLAN FARM-YARD SONG. Over the hills the farm-boy goes, hadow lengthened along the land, u A giant staff in a giant hand; In the poplar tree, above the spring, The katydid begins to sing; The early dews are falling: lnto-the-stope-heap darts the mink: ] The swallows skim the river's brink; And home to the woedland fly the crowye, ~ When over the goes, Che ly calling, "Co", boss! co', co'!" Farther, farther, Faintly "Co', hill the farm-boy hoss! co'! co'h over the hill, calling, calling stillis-- boss! co', boss! co'! a Sa co: Into the yard the farmer goes, With-gratedful heart, at the close of day; Harness and chain are hung away; In the shed stand yoke and * plough; The straw's in the stack, the hay in the mow, The cooling dews are falling. The friendly sheep his welcome bleat The pigs come grunting to his feet, The whinnying mare her master knows, When into-the yard the f Hisveattle calling, "Co," boss! co', boss! co'! co!" While still the cow-boy, far away, Goes Seeking those that have gone astray, : . armer goes, co'! co'! "Co' boss! co', boss! Now to-her task the milkmaid goes, The cattle come e¢rowding through the gate, Lowing, pushing, little and great; About the trough, by.the farm-yard pump, The frolicsome yearlings risk jump, > While the pleasant dews are fall ing' The new-milch heifer shy, But the old cow waits with tranquil eye, . And the white stream into the bright pail flows, - When to ler task the milkmaid goes, Soothingly calling,-- "So, boss! sop boss! The €heertul stool, sits cool, Saying, and is quick and so!" takes her so! milkmaid And and milks in the twilight "So! ! so, boss! so! so!" To supper at last the farmer goes, The apples are pared, the paper read, The stories are told, then all to bed. Without the cricket's ceaseless song Makes shrill the silence all night long; The heavy dews are fa)ling, The housewife's hand has turned the, lock; Drowsily ticks the<kitehen clock; The household sigks to deep repose; But still in sleep the farm-boys goes Singing, calling,-- "Co, boss! co', co'! And oft the milkmaid in her dreams Drums in the pail with the flashing streams, ¥ Murmuring, "'Se, boss! so!" ~-John Townsend Trowbridge. boss! co'! co"! Famous British Invention: Rejected Because Too Inhuman Reported to Be the Very Thing the: Germans Are Us- ing---The Idea is a Hundred Years Old. CoWeEpondence. Lebdon, Aug. 22.--Ever since the beginning of the war one has heard from time to time of the famous plan of the first Earl of Dundonald tor the destruction of any army against which England might be fighting. Lord Dundonald invented. it when he 'was Admiral Lord: Cochrane and he guaranteed with its aid to over- come any enemy against whom he was sent. It is now a. full hundred years ago since this famous invention was put in a pigeon-hole, and during all that time it has remained one of the secret documents of the State. It was rejected in the first place as being outside civilized warfare. Twice Government 'commitiées - are sald to have examined the plan dur- "ing the first halt of the nineteenth century, 'only to put it-back into its pigeon-hole again as. being too cruel. "At the beginning of the war Lord Dupdmiald"s famous plan was talk- ed of again: Nothing," however, wag heard as to what it 'was until the day before yesterday, when Prof. V.] +B. Lewes In a lecture to the Society of Arts gave a deseription of it, which shows that it was nothing more or less than the German plan of using asphyxiating gases. . Dun- donald's prescription was: J "Fires fed with tar and pitch to give 'dense céfumns of smoke which, would act as a screen for the attack: . sulphur burned on the fires to gen- _-- " There is more catarrh in this. section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until: the last few JeArs was su to incurable For a great many years doctors pro- nounced it a local disease and pre- soribad local remedies, and: by cone "stantly failing to cure with lecal © treatment, prohounced it incurable. Science has catarrh to a constitutional disease and therefore r quires constitutional treatment. Catarrh Cure. manufactured by ¥. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market It internally. dt acts directly ood mucous, surfaces of the system. They offer one handred dollars for case it falls te cure. for virculaes and testimonials PO CHENEY & CO, To ists, T8& - 3 Family. Pills for coast: or would produce asphyxiating fumes and aid the attack." Government Refused Use. The professor added that the idea was revived dn the early stages of the present war, but the Government refused to consider it. "The inhalation of a very small proportion of this gas," says the pro- fessor, "causes coughing and spitting of blood; and four volumes in ten thousand of air render it unbreath- able. ' "If the sufferer escapes from the zone within a reasonable period the effects of this gas passes off, but the German method is more inhuman, as they employ chlorine gas, which, if it does not kill the men, leaves them in mest frightful agony and injures the lungs for life. : "Dundomald merely proposed to use sulphur fumes to make the en- emy bolt; the. Germans use their gases to asphyxigte™ » The professor does not advocate retaliation with gas, as the whole essence of the gas attack 1s 'surprise. The chief gases _the German are using are 'chlorine, bromine, nitro. gen, tetroxide, and smiphur dioxide. All these can be 'neutralized quite | siniply--respirators and a bucket of washing soda .solutian jn the tren- ches to dip them in, are a simple and efficient remedy. According to Prof. Lewes these gas attacks do not worry the British troops so puch now, as they are prepared for them. 3 Grateful Papa. pat Miss Curley kept a private school, and one morning was interviewing a new pupil. "What does your father do to earn his living?" the teacher asked the little girl : "Please, ma'am," was the nrompt reply, "he doesn't live with us. - My mamma supports me." } 4 "Well, then," asked the teacher, "how does your mother earn her liv- fet HE Foplied the Net : . ® the te gel, fo an artless manner, "she gets paid for | she ought to have bee 'THE DAJLY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1915. for, corn was offset by the a wetting. Grain has suffered as | KINGSTON MARKETS | --- Kingston, September 4. Meats. Beef, local carcases, 1 11 13 15 Beef, hinds, 1b. .. Beef, cuts, 1b.... Beef, western, by carcase, 1b." . ... Hogs, live, cwt. Hogs, dressed, 1b. . Lamb, ~ spring, by carcase, 1b. .... Mutton, carcase,lb. Veal,by carcase, 1b. Veal by qtr, 1b. Fish. Bloaters, doz. .... Cod, steak, Ib. ... Finnan haddie, 1b. Eels, 1b. serve Haddock, fresh, Ib. Halibut, fresu, 1b. Haddock, frozen; 1b. Herring, ffesh salt water, doz. 5 ippers, dos ... Mackerel Pickerel. Perch, 1b. Pike, 1b, Rock-fish, 1b. .... Salmon, Saguenay, Ib. 13 Ib. Trout, salmon. White fish, Ib: Suckers, 1b. Poultry. Chickens, pair 100 Chickens, live, 1b .s DAYS OF DRUDGERY PASSED FOR MAJORITY OF WOMEN. And It Is Good Thing, Says Writer in Answer to Lament of { Editor. Kansas City Sta The editor of 'Better Farming" bemoans the passing of the olden days when women made nearly ev- erything that was eaten, worn and used in the home. He says: The mother of Abraham Lincoln did not live within reach of a de- partment store, neither did she have the money wherewith she could go- and buy a pair of ready-made every- things' nor 'hang 'up the bill on Thomas. She not onl patched the tlothes to make them apt three or, four seasons, but she saved the wood asnes and made lye and with Ive and hog grease made soft soap. No elec- tric lights illuminated that little Kentucky cabin. She had to try out the tallow from the mutton and mold it into candles. All these ex- pedients and makeshifts and domes- tic economies are in the days that have passed. E Yes, and the editor of "Better Farming' may recall that the moth- er of Abraham Lincoln died when n in the prime of life, died from hardship and drudgery and exposure, died before her time and because she had to cook and weave and sew and knit and make soap and candles and Carry water and do the washing and patch- ing and overwork generally, as many Another woman died: in "the days: that have passed." : Ii-is a good thing those days of drudgery have passed for the ma jor- ity of women. It is a bad thing that for so many women they still exist, " ---- The Return. They are coming from the mountain, They are coming from the sea, They are coming from the lake-land, Or wherever they may be. Th ard" coming, .they are coming, They are coming home ag They aro coming with their luggage And they come on every train. With their browa and sun_kissed * clear, » From the joy of summer outings, Coming home from far and near; From the mountain, lake and river, From the shore-line of the sea, They are coming in a hurry, Home again to you and me. - <Frank Democrat. ; st iets Perhaps You Don't Know, Did you ever know that common i bicarbonate of soda will exterminate black ants quickly? It will, and ground cloves alse rids a place of the tiny red ones. faces, . | With _ their eyes £ bright and Falr, in the St. Louis make excellent bread 2 staying away from father." earance of mangels and. turnips. however; was in the expecté Plentitude of oat'straw and coarse grains, granaries, and in not a few cases there will be tots best-of the straw should be stored by itself at threshing time, over the winter rests on King Corn. Turni bag «, .« o ps, ae & a | ally, Time.-- Winston Churchill. Stone jars with tight fitting covers] lhe Feed Situation (W. 8S: L., in Weekly Sun, Toronto.) ~ x as 5 - A short time. ago thé was promise of abundance of feed for winter. True, hay hut cereal crops gave-prog@ise, of excellent yields, both in grain and straw, and the moderate outlook The The almost uninterrupted succession of soaking rains which have followed up the big storm of the third, have changed ail t} well, loss from rotting in There is no cause for panic, but there is reason for making 'tlre most of every possible eunce of feed. Hay, which was mostly saved in good condition, will have to be carefully husbanded, and the Corn has not done as well as usu weeks of favorable wedther from now on would work a miraele in this line. taken, where there are no silos, to see that the usual loss between cutting and feeding time does not take place, this greatest of- fodder crops will yet save the situation. Ducks, 1b. Hens," dressed, Ib. Hens, live, 1b. Turkeys, Ib. 15 15 10 20 oils 18 Dairy Products. Butter, dairy Butter creamery 1b. > Butter, rolls Ib .. Cheese, old, 1b, .. Cheese, new, 1b, ,. ggs, fresh, doz. Fruit, Bananas, doz. .... Cantelope Cucumbers, each Grapes, 1b. Huckleberries, qt.. Lawton berries, box Lemons, Messina, doz. rresane Peaches, doz, Plums, doz. . . . Nuts mixed, 1b. .. Oranges, doz. . Tomatoes, ib. .... Watermelons, each Vegetables. Beets, bush. reseed Cabbage, 1h. .... Celery, bunch , Potatoes, bush{ .. Parsnips, bush Barley, bush. Bran, ton 'vane Buckwheat, bush. . Corn, yellow feed, bush. a Cron, cracked, cwt. Corn; meal, cwt, .. WISE WORDS BY GREAT MEN OF BRITAIN Let discord die.-- Winston Church- i ill. 'We are certain to get to Constan- tinople:--Sir Edward Pears. L Nothing' counts except to save the national life.-- Lord Ilaldane. «This is not a time for profit, but for equality of sacrifice.--Mr. Mc- Kenna. : It is a great deal easier to criti- cise at home than to fight in - the trenches.--S8ir John Simon. Those whom war has joined to- gether peace must not be allowed to put asunder.--Lord Curzon. Let each man of #s see that we spare nothing, shirk nothing, shrink from nothing. Lord Kitchener. Every man, who fights in, our cause is a hero and every maa-who dies in it is a martyr. -- Bishop of London. If wisdom does not come soon to Europe, it will go straight to bank- ruptey in 'a comparatively short time. --Lord Loreburn. Five great powers are «dllied to- gether against Germany---ourselvesy France; Russia, Italy, and that grand The great curse of humanity fer the past forty years has been the yearly addition of a million young savages to the German population. --° Sir James Barr. Victory will come, but it will not come of itself. We have got to win it,'and the whole nation has got to win in.-- Bonar Law. : If we lose this war, not only is the possibility of votes for women go- ing to disappear, but also votes for men will' be a thing of the past.-- Mrs. Pankhurst. a Ph It is the duty of every First Lord of the Admiralty to maintain the fleet at all times in a state of instant and constant readiness for war.--Mr. Asquith. » Dia The Government still holds that the practices of 'German $hbmarines are not only in flagrant breach of the laws of war, but are mean, toward- ly and brutal --Mr. Balfour. - We hold only thirty-five miles of- battle front, as against more than 300- miles held by the French, but those thirty-five miles are the crux of thé position.----Ben Tillett. ' Repentance. Billy Sunday told a San Francisco reporter a story about repentance. "Too many of us," he said, "look A repentance in 'the wrong way They look at it like the little girl. "Now, my little girl, tell me, said a Sunday School superintendent, "which would you rather be--beau- tiful or good?" *I think." the little girl Adwered Vast quantities of straw have been practically ruined, from feeding standpoint, and very little of that which remains is free from that musty odor due to frequent' Aside from the heavy loss in shelling, due to beating down and delay in harvesting, there is serious deterioration in quality. There will be much heating in the a But the chief hope for getting safely i Summer months. --- » was short, chief * cause for confidence, a the fields. al this season; but a couple of In any case if care. is : J NA A mg AE om, Flour, cwt Hay, baled, ton Hay, loose Oats, local, bush. Oats, Man., bush. Straw, baled, ton. . Straw, loose, ton . Wheat, bush. 50 50 00 45 70 00 00 ar 25 19 19 Fe 1 Hides. Beet hides, cured, per Ib. .. Beef, hides, green, 1b. Heavy bulls, 1b. . Veals, green, 1b. . Deacons, each ........... Tallow rendered in cakes . Kips or gragsers, 1b. .. Calf skins, per 1b. Lamb and shearling, each Sheep skins, each, UP 10. ven Horse hides, each, up to . V-------------------- cede Clover To Fight The Sow Thistle. Prompt medsures to check the weed nuisance 'in Manitoba, pafticu- larly the menace of the sow thistle, have been taken by Hen. Valentine Winkler, the new minister of agri- culture in the Norris cabinet. Mr. Winkler has put the experts of the. Manitoba Agricultural College to work on the problem and the first step of Principal Black has been to send out Professor Harrison in charge of field husbandry work. He will make an investigation of the act- ual conditions and report. The sow thistle nuisance is prob. ably worse this year than it ever has been on account of the great amount of moisture during the early The minister of agriculture states that he receives as many as half a dozen letters a day complaining of these conditions, many of them giving advice as - to how the thistles may be. eradicted. FOR BACKACHE and RHEUMATIC PAINS | This morning he exhibited a letter {from DD. W. Shunk. 534 Newman street, Winnipeg, which he said was one of the few sensible ones he had received on the matter of termination. The writer prefaced his remarks with some comments that under the political" expediencies of the Reblin regime the matter of weed inspection had beer a "pretty expensive joke,""in the pro The district, he said, for seventy-five miles around Winnip naa been overrun with thistles right un: der-the eyes of the late minister of agriculture and his staff, What was wanted was not so much inspec tion as prevention. weed ex ce sow Feed The Soil What It Needs. There are several ways in which the producing power of soils may be increased, viz. by adding organic matter and lime, by inereasing the supply of plant food elements, by improving the watér supply and tilth i'his is not a fixed improvement for mula for every kind of soil but it points out methods of attack. wet marsh needs no addition of or ganic matter, for that would be "car rying coals to Newcastle." A poor sand, on the other hand, always 'has good tilth, @nd good tilth, in this case, is not an indication of fertility. A long-cropped clay loam or a slit loam soil' usually requires attention in every particular. What makes it lighter colored than it was twenty years ago? The, humus has. been largely used up. Why does it Work harder and bake? Here ain the lack of humus, or organi¢ matter, largely responsible. If the soil acid and refuses to grow good rec clover, it doesn't ~ contain enough linte. H the crop dries up during : short dry period the water supply is at fault. If the crop is short and the vield is low, when other condi- tions are favorable, starvation is the cause--the soil hasn't sufficient avail able nitrogen, phosphorus and pot assium. bo is Sowing Rye. sted, in h Suggests Mr. Shunk sug that the.sowing of rye in Au t had the. effect smothering out the thistles in the spring when it got an early start of them He knew of another remed) which he said was no experiment. He was pre pared to guarantee that it would be a success, and offered to give a de monstration free of charge on the worst patch of sow thistles that could be found in the province: His remedy was in brief to sow the land to sweet clover. He claimed that not only would a valuahle crop be grown, but that the thistles would be "smothered off the face of the earth.' He added a warning, how- ever, that they would return unless preventive remedies were continued etter, of also Berries In The Garden, "I think that we should grow more small fruit in our gardens," says Nel son Mitchell, of Molesworth, who has tried it, and finds that it is a big help to the menu during the summer months. "Here at home swe have Tots of. berries for -our own use, just becausé we have that little patch of shrubs. - .Anybody, almost, can grow -them if he wants to." wi { 'HAZOL-MENTHOL PLASTER 25c. and 1 Yard Rolls, $1.00. - * What is the by lining walls and covering. It 3 » -may-hurry a fire with accidentally overturned? Cellar-- where an ov cause a tragic fire in the dead of night? Wherever it is, you can it omt. Liriabestos Asbestos and cement, united under hydraul lightness, and practically everlasting durability to : They make a roof that actually and time-oroof--that never Davis & Lawrence Co., Montreal . Which is Your Danger-room ? home in your kerosene ? 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CHOWN & CO., 252 Bagot St, Kingston, Ont i | Not A Well-Known Goat | "Most parts of Canada where live- stock production prevails ard suit- able to the raising of Angoras, pecially if the land-is high and dry the greater 'par{ of the year They will withstind the rigor of even .thes coldest winter and do not reguire any greater shelter than a shed to protect them: frem wind and storm, provided a sufficient quantity of nu- tritious food and pure water is sup plied The Angora goat perfoms a two-fold service in the Canadian stheme of farming It produces a high grade of mohair and at the same time may be used for the des- tryction .of underbrush en lands to be broken for subsequent culitva- tion." Such is one of the opening paragraphs of Pamphlet No. 12 of the Sheep and Goat Division of the Liwe Stock Branch devoted to the Angora goat and a general discussion of methods Omanagement, feeding and breeding, and ef mohair produc- tion, by T. Reg, Arkell, BS.A., B.S and Horace V. Bent, B.S. that can be had ap no cost whatever by appli- cation to the Publications Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. The pamphlet gives a brief sketch of the origin and history of the-Angora, which from be a native of Turkey in Asia has travelled somewhat ex tensively into South Africa, Is fairly well-known in the United States and as well n in Canada as des irabte Mohair, of which "Turkey, In times of peace, supplies 10,000 - 00 pounds, annually, South Africa 15,000,000 poupds, and thé rest of world 6,000,00 pounds, is the technical name given the hair of the Angora goat The word is derived from the French '"'mohere" and, pri mariy;- from the 'Arabie "mukhay yar," meaning mohair cloth. This, with a vast deal more information about a particularly useful goat, furnished in the pamphlet under tice Nature and the neces treatment for breeding and raising set forth with details of market possibilities, of shearin of grading and of preparation for shipment. Ex tracts from letters written by ue cessful breeders in Canada and the United States telling of their exper- lence are printed as well as some ac count of the complaints to which the animals are occasionally subject, with advice to preventives and remedies Illustrations of types and the fleeces carried at various lend impression, expression and terest to the pamphlet. 08 knoj is no ary ages In Some Silo Paragraphs. he corp amount of made fit 'The silo with the as the food. The preserves minimum entire plant crop loss, is for silo equalizes the supply of feed, by carrying a surplus over, in good condition, from one year to another The silo can be used for ensiling clover or alfalfa during a spell of wet weather, when it would be im- possible to cure it for hay. The silo furnishes the most econo- mical, convenient feed for supple menting . short. pastures during petiod-of drought. a ----- Auto Tires, No. 1 $12. Ford Size 'BIBBY'S GARAGE, Phone 210-917; an oil heater may be the studding. It can't burn is cammonly used without e, give fireproofness, hat is wind- , weather. thoughtfully, 'that I'd rather Beautifui--and repent.' " i