ARLIAMENT, the press, and other organs of Influence maintain an enthusiastic in terest Jun botiering Lhe agri evitural condition of the country. All feel that the aim is of the best; whether the many schemes Proposed will prove beneficial or de- cidedly injurious is still a matter of Orsy, says a country clergy man writing in The Toronto Globe. , a8 I do, among a community of farmers, T dm in a position to in- form many of those zealous udvisors tht & large majority of practical, intelligent, and successful. farmers have very slight confidence in their suggestions. There is a Teeling among the rural population that most of those who make speeches at eonvehtions and propound theories on paper, have seen very little, if any, of real life on the farm; that most of the reforms which they ad- Yocate are very specious and alto- gether impracticable when submitted to the test of working them out. "What constitutes a State? Men, high-minded men, etc." Whatever aSrinted farms, agricultural col- leges, and annual conventions may accomplish, all must recognize that the real hope of prosperity in this all- important industry depends mainly --- we might almost say entirely---on the sharacter of men and wonien eigag- ed in it. If the development of the edueational systepy of the province, . or of the country, is ever to have any influgnce for good in preserving or elevating the standard of agrieal- tural industry', that influence will op- tain just in so far as the educational institutions of the country contrive to keep .the best blood of the nation tilling the soil, Up to the present schools and legislative bodies have not accomplished, nor even attempt- ed, anything worthy of notice in this respect, ' Allow me to draw arteniion to ane impoftant resource, for whoso nr- manent usefulness to the cause of agriculture no assistance has ever been given, nor so far as I am aware, has ever been proposed. I mean that indispensable and most worthy ele ment of country life---the hired maa. There are growing up in thé rural districts a number of boys or young men, sons of poor parents, sous of widowed mothers. They commence to work very young, and until the age of twenty-one or twenty-two, or even later, all their earnings have gone to the support of the home, They have worked bard and steadily all those years; they understand every kind of farm work; they re- ceived the training that makes a sus cessful farmer. In point of experi- ence, intelligence, industry, general behavior, ambition, there is no rea- son why they could not conduct a successful farming business, Bnt these poor fellows, at the age when other young men are "being settled for life, have nothing, and have no encouraging prospects. Has anyone ever thought of proposing that the Provincial Treasury might furnisn these young men with funds suffi- clent to give them a start on a farm? Perhaps a thousand dollars would be near the amount. I cannot say exactly how much our Provincial Terasury spends on each young man who takes a degree from the Provin- rity, but it is probably a more than this amount. In other words, the legislation of (he country announces its readiness to spend large sums, unlimited sums if fiecéssary, upon the young man who will leave the farm to ecmbra<e some other calling, but nothing at all upon him who is willing to continue thé occupation of farming, and bas given years.of hard labor to prepars for it. Remark also that the Provinelal Tréasury expenids all these large sums on college students and aspir- ants to the learned professions with- out ing for any recommendation jeter, without any guarantee 'on the part of the recip- fent, without any assurance of his future success. Whether or nat he has done anything to entitle him to B Bpecial consideration, whether or likely to abuse the advan- tages placed at his command, whe- ther De ay be no better citizen in return for all this in really never quéstioned. Moreover, through eol- leges and educational institutions, our Government is :pending those 1 ' sons ® the rich as well as of the poor. "It is an absolute waste of nergy attempt to induce city-bred hoys live on the farm. It we arc really sarfiest in our advocacy of "back the land" our efforts should be de- id to ¢ raging country boys 10 st 'thete. When a tFaited to farm- t a a real service to the bini to continue ) ? suggested this matter fin one occasion, I was met 8 answer that many of the ith the country produced men who began with nothin® hrough energy and perseverance : Ives of a farm. Very 6; and thé same can be said of of thé most successful men in Profession. In that case say that any person who become a physician, or a to obtain a university de- 8%. reach that point, thanks "Bis unassisted effort? Why the public funds be expended ment when the most al men have what they are with- 'asgistance? 1318 LH Hi - THE SETTLER He is Learning That Fire Is Not Good for Clearing Land "I have been a settler in these "for seven years. fn I came my neighbors told me the quicker we cleared off the forest hereabouts the better for everybody concerned. So clearing fires were the order of the day, and it didn't matter much whether we started them in drought or in windy wea- thes either. ablike, as like as not before the wee was done a hundred acres went up in smoke. No supervision by the- Government rangers, d've see, and fires became a sort of free-for-all. Sometimes, we burned down our neighbors' shacks and barns, and nearly always, of course, we burned off the best top soil from the land along with the trees. But we argued that with an uncertain profit for our pulpwood and timber and counting in the hard work and the time and all that, the trees were just so much ox- cess on useful ground, and the sooner they disappeared by the smoke route the better. "But one afternoon I began to think it all over and this is about how I figured it. Most farms con- tain a ridge of gravelly, rocky, or sandy ground or a piece of Swamp where trees and trees alone can grow. That's the one likely spot for a woodlot that will give a- man his fence posts, his fuel, and small tim- | ber of all sorts. Just for the sake of hustling thé timber into the bon- fire and gettihg the land clear for crops, wouldn't it be better to do the burning with some thought for the future woodlot and some decent care for the big rocky territory nearby that can grow trees and nothing but trees? "It I could bring a few of my neighbor settlers down to townships in old Ontario where woodlots uc longer exist, I think the farmer oc- cupying that l.nd cou'd tell them enough in ten minutes to persuade them to save a piece of their home- steads for the wood supply. "But there's a bigger end to the argument. [I figure (hat as sixty oor cent. of the whole of Canaca wii! grow only forest crops with profit, our district, like other Canadian d's tricts, ought to have saw-mills, may- be pulp mills, scattered all throuegl the forest land of this regon, with villages of workmen and their fim- ilies located artand them ns « give us an easy market for cur farm crops, . You'll find it that way lots of places in Canada. where the lumberman, the pulpwood buyer, and the settler work hand in hand, every nian helping the other to mak~ a liv- ing. There's room in this biz coun try for everybody. If fisheries and mining forge ahead, farming ond manufacturing have got io flourish too. We're all in the one boat and ought to keep stroke. "Well, as I say, these things kept turning over in my mind and I men- tioned them to two or three progres- sive neighbors. Next meeting of the Farmers' Institute I brought the sub- Ject up for 'discussion and'I can'. say the members were unanimous one way or the other. We let the thing drop, but every few months I revived it and started circulating literature about 'forest conservation.' To male an uphill story short. in two years I had so many supportsrs fn our dis- trict that we drew up a patition and asked the provincial authorities to give us a first-class fire ranger to see that no man cet out his clearing fires t7ithout supervision, and {o make a regular patrol of the nerby timber lands. We got the ranger all right, azd He knew his business. He talked forest protection everywhere he went, and gave a hand cheerfully to help 8 man burn over his clearing with the least possible risk to his neigh- bor's property. To-day we would no more burn down standing timber through carelessness than we would let a herd of cattle into a field of young corn. It's all in the way you look at things. If a settler looks at timber as his enemy, he burns it: as his friend, he protects it. 'Think the thing over! Do your thinking by yourself and I'll guaran- tee you'll come out at the friendly end, same as I did.""--Canadian For- estry Association. £0 in Potatoes To Taste. The day is coming soon when pota- toes dug from the ground will taste like cantaloupes, grapefruit will be plucked from the trees like cherries, and the Sahara Desert will bloom like a rose garden. Such was the pre- diction made by Howard Dean, pro- fessor of cheniistry at Park College, Parkville, Mo., speaking before the Missouri Valley Horticultural Soeci- ety. Prof. Dean sald he already hed succeeded in reducing the starch of a potato to sugar through chemical treatment. He asserted that by feeding certain plants on formaide- hyde they can be made to develop su- gar and starch, fle sald that investigations now being made by chemists show that Liants manufacture compounds that are not normal to them. These in- vestigations, he said, are being con- tinued, and chemists are diligently searching the leaves of plants in an attempt to find the agent which con- verts the carbon dioxide in the air and the nioisture into plant pro- ducts. When the secret is discovered-- and of its early discovery he is eon- fident--he said he would possess an unlimited source of energy. The poiuvt he brought out was that the DPosEession of 'that secret would en- #ble a man to convert the sun's ener- EY to his own use in any way he do- sires. ! Then it would be pbssible, he as- serted, to fill the Sahara Desert with | plant life; to grow any plant so that it would taste exactly as ts grower wished. Hé also said, in answer to & question, that it would be possible to raise grapefruit with the bitter- Bets removed. :? df RETR BE If five acres were sot oe " FARMS FOR VETSRANS, Australia Preparing for the Return of Her Veterans. A Great Dairyman | | In ation to the pra ive } > heme being arranged by m- Senator Daniel Derbyshire, who 5¢ died in Brockville a few days ago Honweaith Authorities i ig hot following an illness of ten days of bi Yar: Tatd 80! al ia paralysis, was one of the most inter- Pe ous ages Rm te alia esting figures in the agricultural Dave Said Pras cal attemp world of Ontario. ure aoa t jute who TS a Born in the heart of one of the Sprond he ueht the Bupite's b es great dairying districts of Ontario, at nea their The local authorities and Plum Hollow, Leeds County, Decem- Treturm. ber 11, 1846, Mr. Derbyshire was the People generally are co-operating in the matter. connected during the greater part of his life with the industry which he _ IB New Buath Wales, for instance, saw rise to immense proportions. So ines ood > So 3 180 Jset intimately and to such an extent was 08 en: earing aA a he associated with the dairying in- Several hundred acres. It is inten dustry that he became known as the to Cut this land into '"'farmlets" of 'Eastern Ontario Cheese King," be-_ 3 low dere ach, and to make the ing for twenty-five years President of °,0CkS, Teady for settlement, ' able for the soldiers as they return the Lass Ontario Dairymen's As-/ from the war. The idea of small t likely to become popular throughout was to the dairy industry of Wester Australia. Ontario, "Dan" Derbyshire was to] In addition to having fertile land the dairy Industry of Eastern On- | made ready for them, the men will tario. For about a quarter of a cen- . | tury the latter was President of the | RAYE the advantage of the practical . | advice and assistance of the settlers, Eastern Ontario Dairymen's Associa-| ® | tion; he might almost be said to have who, by their patriotic actions, have : helped to make the way clear for a been the association during that | period. In physical stature, in per- return from the battlefield to the | sonality, in enthusiasm, he was the position of productive settlers. | dominating figure of all the annual Offers of over eighty estates have conventions held during the period of his Presidency. Even after laying | down the office of President he was a regular attendant at the annual con- vention, and always presided at one session at least. His work was not confined to the more or less spec- tacular duties of convention week. He went up and down the concession Hones and urged the formation "of syndicates for the building of fac- tories, and largely as a result two- thirds of all the cheese for which On- tario is famous is made in the terri- tory within the limits of his activi- ties. Mr. Derbyshire was also chiefly instrumental in inducing the Eastern Association to take up factory In- struction work, and, when the De- partment of Agriculture assumed the task later on, he loyally aided in making the new departure a suc- cess, His activities were not confin- ed, either, to the purely factory . end of the cheese industry, Everywhere he preached better cows, and corn as the basis of feeding the cows. In short, to Dail Derbyshire more than | to any other one man Ontario is in- debted for the pre-eminence she has long enjoyed in cheese-making. He entered the business as a manu- facturer in 1874 at Athens. He came | to Brockville in 1879, and two years later became local représentative of A. A. Ayer & Company. He served as Councillor and was Mayor of Brock- ville in 1889 and 1890. He was a big man in more ways than one, standing six feet four inches in his stocking feet. After unsuccessfully contest- ing the riding of Brockville in the Liberal interests in 1891 and 1900, he was elected in 1904, and three years later resigned and was called to the Senate, Hon. G. P. Graham be- ing returned in his stead by accla- mation. Senator Derbyshire was a ready- wit, also an authority on agricultural matters in the House and Senate. He was Grand Master for Ontario of the Oddfellows in 1909-1910, and was also a prominent Mason of several | degrees. He was a prominent mem- | ber of the Baptist denomination. for allotment among returned sol- diers. In South Australia a scheme has been adopted for veterans on the land. Training camps are to be created for the benefit of the inexperienced, and special as- sistance given to men to set them- selves up as farmers. Reclaimed ir- rigation areas will be devoted to this purpose to begin with. A similar scheme has been placed before the Government of Western Australia. Plans have been prepar- ed by the Commissioner for the Wheat Belt, the Commissioner for the South-West, and the Fruit In- dustries Commission. FB Ge Ben eg DATES OF FALL FAIRS. Dates of fall fairs in Eastern On- tario as announced by 'he Agricul- tural societies branch of the Ontario Department of Agriculture Toron- to, are as follows Alexandria . Almonte ... Arden . Arnprior Bancroft Belleville . ... Bowmanville Brockville . ... Centreville Cobden Cobourg Cothorne . . Cornwall Delt ...... . Demorestville Frankford .... Frankvills . ... Inverary Kemptrille Kingston Lanark .. | Lansdowae Lombardy Maberly Madoc Marxora Mavnocth McDonald's. Corners. Merrickville Morrisburg . Napanee Odessa" | Oshawa Ottawa Parham Perth . Peterboro Picton Port Hope Prescott Renfrew Roblins 'Mills Shnnonville | Stella export | Stirling Tamworth . 3 { Toront Aug | Tweed Wolfe Island Some dates such wrowsmith, Lyndhurst and other fairs have not yet been set. These wil! be addod as soon as announced Sept. 12 . Sept. 19 and 21 Oct. 3 . Sept. 6 and 8 : Oct. 5 and 6 . Sept, 14 and 15 . Sept. 19 and 20 . Sept. 4 and 6 Sept. 16 Sept. .. Aug. 23-24 Sept. 18-19 Sept. 7-3 Sept. 18-20 Sert. 7-8 Sept. 21-22 . Sept. i Oct, Sept. 25-26 . Sept, 2 Sept. A ca I Canada's Poultry Trade | | et et ees sbrcaa Poultry raising is, says an Ottawa bulletin, one of the best organized and most progressive of any of our | live stock industries Co-operation amongst farmers in marketing is im proving the product and realizing for them a higher price than they have | hitherto been able to obtain. The re j SrEanization of methods by the trade 1 18 providing against loss in handling, Is assuring to the consumier a hetter article and establishing our business upon a firm basis It is estimated that Canada and Cuba, during the last twenty years, received from the United States about three-fourths of all the eggs | exported by that countr§' during that , H period. This situation, however, has y now changed. As against an impor- lation in 1913 of 13,240,111 dozen, We imported in 1915 not more than Rabbits a Pest 3,783,952 dozen. On the other hand fof il hs TA "In driving about the country, I The in 1913 ora oared only 147 | notice that the cotton tail rabbits 898,222 dozen. This constitutes a |e One a great deal of damage to ¥ . te | fruit trees during the past winter," net increase in production, in two writes A. A. Knight, of Victoria years, of at least 17,100,000 dozen. | county "Out of about 750 young Practically all of these exports went apple trees in a small nursery we to he United Risdon, all but 350. They have not, how- Canada a Bear J ever, Sune Wack dauiage to the Der. prices during March, April and May | manent orchard, although neighbors have remained at an extraordinarily | high level. For the first quarter of | the year 1916 the price to producers, selling co-operatively, has been at least 4 cents in advance of the price | received, for the same period, ny Sept. Sept, 8- Sept #2 and 4 Sept. 14-15 . Sept, '19-21 Oct. 10-11 Sept. 5-6 Sept. 20-22 Oct, 6-7 Sept Sept 6 Sept, 28-29 Sept. 14 26-Sept. 11 Oct, 1-5 Sept. 19-20 as that of the which were set out several years ago. One farmer near Lindsay had number of trees about five inches in diameter completely girdled It is becoming more numerous year after year and they are gradually working their way northward. Only a few have reached the neighborhood of Lindsay, while in the north part of the county they are unknown. To the south, however, they are very | numerous. 1915. For the month of March, it was at least 5 cents in advance, and for the month of April at least 3 cents in advance, and for the month of April at least 3 cents in advance of last year's price for these respee- tive months. The demand for eggs for local consumption, for storage purposesiand for immediate exporty, has rarely been so keen as at the present moment. This situation is clearly reflected in the prices just quoted. Heavy domestic consump- tion, in the face of the high price for | meats, partly explains this condition. ! Confidence in the export demand, on {the part of the produce trade, con- firms It from another direction. Noi withstanding increased production, the egg and poultry business in Can- ada is in a very strong position at the present time, : (it is possible that they may become {@8 great a pest as the rabbit is be- [coming in Australia." Quarter of a Mile of Root Growth. King, in his work, "The Soil," states thit a single healthy corn plant will produce roots which, if laid end tc end, would extend a quarter of a (mile in length. It is necessary to stir the soil often in order to fur- nish the conditions demanded by such iroot-growth. {@8ry to avoid deep cultivation after * No matured maleshould be allow- ed to run with the laying hens dur- ing the summer, 'planting, frequent cultivation of the cornfield is more than ever neces- sary, es Si id committment Sl om What the late Speaker Ballantyne! local bodies working in this way is | been received, on varying conditions, | settling returned | and 13 | 26-2714 3 'active; lambs $7 to ". Sent. 26-28 ewes, $4 to $7.50 gg..Trade quotati ns: 2 | 50%¢; No. 1 feed 43%c¢c; "| outside, Sept, 16 | lost | | livered, close by have lost 4 great many trees | al : | Winnipeg. a noticeable fact that these pests are | arn, $1.10% ; No. 2 northern, $1.09; { No." 3 northern, $1.07; 84 %ec. .44%ec; No. 1 | 42%e. If they keep on increas- | {ing as they are doing at the present, |No. 2 C.W., $1.54. | the break in tiie Chicago wheat mar. | Peat this year. It is equally neces-; the root growth has fairly started, This year, because of the late date of | 55¢ Canadien western No. 3 53%¢; 6, SATURDAY, JULY 1. 1016 Barley--Malting, 75¢ to 76e. : Flour--Manitoba opring wheat ' patents, first: $6.60, seconds $6.10; strong bakers, $5.90; winter pat- ents, choice, $6 to $6.25; straight rollers, $5.10 to $5.60; straight | rollers, bags, $2 40 to $2.65. Rolled oats--Barrels, $4.75 to $5- 55; bags, $2.40 to $2.60. Dairy Products + _ Toronto Bren, $20 to $21; shorts, $24; Butter. creamery, lb 35 Toronto, June 30. Prices were: | middlings, $25 to $27 moullie, $27 Butter, rolls, Ib. . 30 Export cattle, choice $9.75 to $10.25, to $32. Cheese, Ib. ... butcher cattle, choice $9.50 to $9.75, Hay--No. 2, per top, car lots, . Eggs, fresh, doz. . medium $9 fo $9.40, common $8 to) $20.50 te $21.50. ! RE $8.90; butcher cows, choice $7.50 to] -- $8.50, medium $7 to $7.40, canners' / Chicago. $5 to $6; bulls $6 to $8.75; teed- | Chicago, June 30.--Wheat--No. 2 ings steers, $8 to $9: stockers, | red, nominal; No. 3 red, 96¢ to 99¢; | choice $7.50 to $8, light, $7 to $7.50,! No. 2 hard and No. 3 hard, nominal. clibice smmlkers $75 to $100 each; | Corn--No. 2 yellow, 75%ec to 76% ec; springess $75 wk $100, | No. 4 yellow, 74%ec. Oats--No. 3 Sheep--Ewes) $7.50 to $8.70; white, 39c to 39% c; standard, 40 % ec. Halibut, fresh, Ib. bucks and culls, $5 to $7; lambs,|{Ryve--No. 2, nominal; No. 3, : | Kippers, doa. ... $9.50 to $12. | Barley--60c to 78c. Timothy --8$5 | Lobsters, 1b. .. .. Hogs, fed and watered, $11.50. [to $8. Clover--$7 and $13. Pork Mackerel, 1b Claves, $6 to $12, | 323.50 to $24.67. Lard--$13.02./peren, 1p, ,... .. | Ribs--$13.30 to $13.90. IPED, The + ccnens |{Rock-fish, Ib. .... Salmon Shad, 1b. .... ... to Suckers, Ib: -..... 1! Tile-fish, 1b. ..... nun | Trout, salmon, 1b, Corn | white fish, Ib. | Kingston Markets | Kingston, July | The Market Reports i Butter-fish, Ib. ... Cod, steak, Ib. ... Be vovssnns Finnan haddie, Ib, Flounders, lb. aoe Haddock, fresh, 1b. Montreal i | Montreal, June 30.--Cattle were| 25 cents down for lower grades ow-| ing. to a large run on the live 'stock | market this morning. Hogs were 50 cents up, while sheep were a quarter of a cent lower, Quotations: Butcher steers, choice $9.75 $10.10, fair $8.75 to $9, $7.50 to $7.75; cows, choice $8.25 to! [$8.50 common $7 to $7.25; bulls, ichoice, $8.75 to $9, medium $8 to Minneapolis. Minneapolis, June 30.--Wheat-- July, $1.06% ; Sept. $1.07% $1.07%; No. 1 hard, $1.13% ; No. northern, $1.07 to $1.09% ; No. | northern, $1.03% to $1.07%. { --No. 3 yellow, 75¢ to 76¢c Oats-- | lt My TT 3 white, 37¢c to 38e. Flour-- {fresh) ,| Fancy patents, 10¢ lower; quoted at $6; other grades unchanged. Ship- ments 65,942 barrels. Bran, $17 to $18. Bananas, 492. .... | Cacumbers, each . | Grapefruit, each . Lemons, Messina, doz. Oranges, dos. .... 198.25. | Sheep--Ewes, $7.25 to $7.50; S---- i a gm » or. | Duluth. Yucks od culls, $7 to $7.25; lambs, Duluth, June 30--Wheat on track, | ry { No. 1 hard, $1.10%; No. 1 northern, | . Q 6 i. ' a off cars, selects, $11.50 101 81.09%; No. 2 northern, $1.06% to Peaches, gi pk |" Receipts at the West End Market| 31-06%; No./1 northern to arrive, Plums, doz. ..... oteipts aL. \ . 300: Ys} $1.093,; No. 3 northern on track, Pinea; ples "ench {last week: Cattle, ' ; sheep, 96% c to $1.04. i Pp a 1,200; hogs, 2,000; calves, 2,100 | Strawberries, box. {Today: Cattle, 1,000; sheep, 700;| | Tomatoes, Ib. | a Liverpool. foe an | . of | : ) thogs, 800; calves, 1,000. Lierpool, June 30.--Wheat--Spot | ¥ Atermelons, each Grain. a. | irregular; No. 1 Manitoba, 9s 11d; | Chicago No. 2 Manitoba, 9s 9d; No. 3 Mani- Chicago, June 30. Cattle re-|toba, 9s 8d; No. 2 red western winter, | Barley, bush. ....$ ceipts, 1,000 market firm. Prices: | 9s 6d. Corn--Spot quiet; American Bran, ton .. .. .. Beeves 50 to $11.40; stockers and | mi » 88 11d. Flour--Win- Buckwheat, bush . feeders $5.75 to $8.75; cows and|ter patents, 47s. Hops in London Corn, cracked, swt | heifers, $3.75 to $9.75; calves, $8.50 (Pacific coast)--£4 158 to £5 15s. | Corn, meal, cwt. .. to $12. : . | Corn, yellow feed, Hogs--Receipts, 33,000; market| bush, ve |strong. Light $9.30 to $9.90; mix-| A-- Flour, cwt. .n jed, $9.50 to $10; heavy $9.35 to| Butter Belleville, 32¢ to 35¢; 'Féed flour bag ... 1 $10.05; rough, $9.35 to $9 55; | Berlin, 27¢ to 28c; Chatham, 28c; Hay, baled. ton ge pigs, $7.60 to $9 20; bulk of sales, | Guelph, 26¢ to 28c¢; Hamilton 30c Hay, loose, ton .. 18 189.75 to $9.95. | to 34c; London, 27¢ to 34c; Owen Oats, loeal, bush. . .- Sheep--Receipts, 16,000; market| Sound, 22¢ to 23¢; Peterboro, 25c to Oats, Man., bush. weak. Native $7 to $8; native lambs| 26¢- St Thomas, 29 to 30¢; and Shorts middlings . $7.50 to $9.90 Woodstock, 32¢ to 34c per pound. |Straw, baled, ton. . { - Bggs--mBelleville, 24¢ to 25¢; Ber- | Straw, loose, ton . Buffalo | lin, to 28¢; Chatham, 2; Wheat, local, bush East Buffalo, N.Y., June 30. Guelph, 27¢ to 30c¢; Hamilton, Receipts 3,900; slow; s {to 31¢; London, to 28¢; Owen Honey ping, butchers $7.75| Sound, 2 Peterboro, 2ic; St. White extracted It to $9.75; vifers, 256 to $9.5 Thomas, ¢ to 25¢; and Woodstock, cows $4.25 to $7.75; bulls, $5 | 23¢ to 25¢ per dozen. $7.85; stockers and feeders, $6 75| Spring chickens--Belleville, 18c Beef-- to $7.50; stock. heifers, $6 to $7;|to 20c per pound; Berlin, 22¢ to Cuts, 1b Holy fresh cows and springers, slow 3c to| 24¢c; Guelph, 23¢ to 25c; Hamilton, Local, carcase, Ib. 5c lower, $50 to $1.05, [25c to 30c; London, 25c to 26c; Local Hinds, Ib... Veals--Receipts 1,600; active] Owen Sound, 21c; Peterboro, 13¢: Western, carcase $4.50 to $12.50. | St. Thomas, 15¢c to 18¢; and Wood-| Ib. .. .. .. ., Hogs--Receipts 16,000; active; | stock, 25¢ per pound. Western, hinds, Ib. heavy and mixed $10.20 to $10.25.| Potatoes--Belleville, $1.25 to $1. Western. fronts, Ib, Yorkers $9.75 to $10.¢ 25 per bushel: Berlin, $1.40 to $1- Hogs, live, cwt, ; stags $6.50) .50; Chatham, $1.50 to $2: Gue'ph, Hogs, dressed, ewt. | $1.60; Hamilton, $1.50 to $160; Lambs, spring, Receipts 1,200] london, $1.60; Owen Sound, $1.20; | by ecarcase $12; yearlings | Peterboro, $1.35; St. Thomas, $1- Veal, by carcase $5.50 to $10; wethers, $8 to $8.55;|.80; and Woodstock, $1.50 per bush.| 1b. ... ... sheep, mixed] el Wheat---Belleville, 85¢ w 0 Berlin, $1; Chatham, 95¢; Guelph, Chickens, dressed $1; Hamilton, 95¢; London, 85c to Ib. 'oe | 92¢; Owen Sound, 95¢; Peterboro, Chickens, live, 1b 193¢c to $1; St Thomas, and Hens, dressed, 1b. Woodstock, 95¢ per bushel, | Hens, lve, Ib. ... Oats--Berlin, 45¢ per bushel; Turkeys, Ib. Chatham, 43¢ to 45¢; Guelph, Boe; | Hamilton, 48¢ to 50¢; London, 56¢ | Vi to 58%c; Owen Sound, 45¢; Peter- Beets, bunch boro, 45¢; St. Thomas, 60c to 65e¢; Cabbage, Ib. ..... and Woodstock, 50c per bushel. Celery, bunch Barley--Belleville, 58¢c to 60c; 'Lettuce, bunch... Berlin, to Guelph, 700; Onions, green Hamilton, 60¢ to 65¢c; Owen Sound,! bunch "ean 58c to. 60¢; Peterboro, 5 St. |Onions, dry, 1b.:. Thomas, 58¢; and Woodstock, 55¢ to { Potatoes, bag .... | 60c per bushel, | Potatoes, bush, .. Hay-----Belleville--baled, $18 to Rhubarb, bunch $18.50, loose, $14 to $16 per ton; | Berlin--baled, $17 to $18; loose, | Furs and Hides. $14.50 to $16; Chathgm--Iloose,| Below are the ruling .marke 880 to 90c feed wheal, 83c ta 85, | $19: Guelph---baled, $19; loose, $17 (prices for hides, skins and raw fu HOMInA [to $18; Hamilton--baled, $16 to These prices represent the full val Ontario oats--No. 3 white, 48¢c to| $20; loose, $16 to $20; London-- of the articles quoted, and have b | 49¢ loose, $16 to $18; Owen Sound--bal- approved as correct by John McKay. | Pear--No 2, per carlot,|€d. $17, loese, $11 to $12; Peter- Ltd., for dealers: | $1.70 according to sample, $1.25 to | Doro--baled, $22, loose, $18 to $20: {Beef hides, trimmed, Ib. ...., 14 | $1.50. : . 5 Thonn Sled, $18 to $20; [Detswaz, elear, Ib. ... ar'ey-- Melting, cutside, 65. o{ loose, $15 to $18; and Woodstock -- | cons . as Fig - 2 a rm ae, 3 : | baled, $17 to $18, and loose, $16 per | Foxes, No. 1 red ... |" Buckwhe. t, nominal, 70¢ to 1c. | to. {Ginseng. wild. Ib. .... | Manitoba flour--First patents, in| Horse hides, No. 1 .. 50¢ to $3.0 jute bags, $6.50;. do., seconds, $6; s tries tncnranns x Se ay Hy in wr Bay Roads m Hastings .County. {Muskrats, spring seed Rye--No. 1 commercial, 94c to| Hastings is a county with good Raccoon, No. 1, prime large .$2.5' She | roads, but no Toad is 20 good that it Sheep skins, fresh ...... $2.7 Ontario Flour--Wint trac - | cannot e better, road demon- [8] unk, ... bly fru nh idan according | Stration was held at one point in the (Tallow, rendered, 1b, | sample, $4.05 to $4.15, in Jute bags: | county where Representative A. D. {Veal skins, I. ......cco0ainn MelIntosh pointed out to the great sea { bulk, seaboard, $4 to $4.10 | satisfaction of those present how | George Mills & Co. are paying to 22.00 | much of our present roads could be following for raw furs:-- [ $20; shorts, $24; middlings. $25, to ing this wet weather, utilizing the| Do. medium eves 12.00 to 15.00 3 good feed flour, bag, $1.55 to gravel that had been thrown out and ge pushed outside the tracks where ---- GENERAL TRADE, 26¢c ie 27¢ tle Meats to $7.50. Sheep and lambs 8.00 "os oR | i $7.50 to $7.76. 90¢c; | | -------- GRAIN QUOTATIONS, PY -- 95¢; Toronto. | Toronto, June 30.--Bosird {of Ma iftoba Wheat | ra bay ports, No. 1 northern, $1.17; No. 2 northern, $1158; | No. 3 northern, $1.12. Manitoba Oatse--Track, bay sorts, No. 2 CC. WW, 513¢c; No. 3 . W.. No. 1 extra feed, No. 2 feed Senn 0% ce: 4) 50¢ 52 48% ¢c. American | track, | bay ports { Corn--No Teronto; yellow, track, 8315¢, 80¢, Onterio Wheat--No. 1 coirmer- rding t~ freight 98c t= 99¢; No. 2 commer- { cial, 94c to 96¢c: No. 3 commercial, cia! per carlot, ace | no'ninal, sss enn ee | Millfeed--Carlots, "per ton, de Montreal freigats: Bran, quickly and cheaply graded up ou. Boar IES ....... 15.00 A Do. small 7.00 to 10. {served only to hold the water in the [pas -. large An T road. We graded up about 100 rods," Dy. medium i {in two hours, with two teams, a three- | Do. small ay | horse téam on the grader and two- Hara | horse team on an ordinary plow. The | latter team was also used on a disk Do. small harrow to level up the centre. The . arma {road was left with « nice rounded Wirauspring, large i broad top; the ruts were all shaved | Do. small Barley--No. 2, 681%c; No.|off on the outside and the gravel and 'krats, wint large rejected, 5913 ¢; feed, | sods were left nicely mixed up in the | Do. . en oF, large 59%c. Flax--No. | NW.C,, $1.56 3; | middle of the road, to be packed by! Dom ee | the constant travel. In many Places |p pymnall : {there is gravel enough for years of | , larg'. 4 3.50 to | wear, if only the roads are kept Do. médium ....L250¢te Montreal. v rounded and the present supply of! Do. small tree vi) 1.25 to Montreal, June 30.--There was|gravel graded in instead of being SKunk, black ..... .2.50to considerable enquiry from foreign | shoved SI towanly the ditch. One' a buyers for wheat, but as the prices | man declared that they wou save | The Late J - Mack. bid were all lower i {$200 in the road work on one single | ames a CE ER Ee Cee ket on Friday, business was quieter, | Provides both suitable time and con- . th but the trade in cats and barley con- | ditions for tie fixing up of the iiliria dps Office Ye : tinues good and further large sales, toads. 'sad intelligence that her husband a were made. : | | officially reported killed in 3 Corn--Amer can No. 2 yellow, | High Wool Prices. ! Deceased lefty Belleville over a 83¢ to Bic. | {ago with the 39th Battalion. Ounts--Canadian western. No, 3, | reported. to have been killed Who has stayed in the sheep-raising early of June. - Mr. Mack business. The Flesherton Advance 's man npwards of tells of 51c per pound beng paid at #ge, and In addition to that place for washed wool, survived by Winnipeg, June 3z.--No. 1 north- {Mink, large ...... No. 4, Do. medium .... 99% ¢; No. 5, 94¢; No. 6, 90 Yc; feed, Oats--No. 2 C.W.,, 45%; W., 45% ¢; extra No. 1 feed, feed, 43% cc; No. 2 feed, No. 3 C. 4, 63%¢c; eti This is harvest-fime for the man extra No. 1 feed, 53%c; No. 2 ocal white, 53¢; No. 8 local white, 5l¢; No, 4 local white, 51c,