GRIME EI LOR ____THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, JULY Wa Se £5 "To Stay on the Farm Parliament, the press and other or- influence maintain an en- interest in bettering - the tural condition of the coufitry, that the aim is of the best, the many schemes proposed Ove beneficial or decidedly in- '18 still & matter of contio- ving, as I do, among a com- Ly Of farmers, I am In a position ) OF many of these zealpus ad- visors that a large anajority of prac- ligent and successful farm a very slight confidence in thelr siggestions, There is a feeling among the rural population that | most of those who make speeches at con ons and propound theories on oe r, have seen very little, if any, of real Hite on the farm; that most of the féfarms which they advocate are : rious and together- im- ible when sdbmitted to the test of Working them out. * Whit constitutes a State? Men, high-mifided men, etc," Whatever experi fental farms, agricultural col- leges, afd annual conventions may accompli h, all must recognize that the real hope of prosperity in this all. Ffnportant industry depends mainly we might almost say entirely--on the char@eter of men and women engage- ed in dk 'If the development of the educational system of the province, or of the country, is ewer. to have any Influence for good in preserving or ating the standard of agri- cultural industry, that influence will obtafy Just in so 'ar as the educa- tional institutions of the country con- trive to keep the best blood of the nation 'tilling the soil. Up to the present schools and legislative bod- ies Hye not accomplished, nor even' attempted, anything worthy of notice in this respect. Allow me to draw attention to one important resource, for whose per-| manent usefulness to the cause of agrioultare no assistance has ever been given, nor so far as I am aware, has 'ever been proposed. 1 mean that Indispensable and most worthy elemént of country life--the hired man ere are growing up in the rural districts a number of boys or young fen, sons of poor parents, sons of widowed mothers. They com- mente 6 work very young, and un- | til 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 hard and steadily all those years; they under stand every kind of farm work; they | recelved the training that makes a successful farmer, In point of ex- perignce, intelligence, industry, general behavior, ambition, there is no réason why they could not con duct a successful farming business. |t But thése poor fellows, at the a when other young men are being settled for life, have nothing, and havé no encouraging prospects. Has anyone ever thought of proposing that the Provincial Treasury might furnigh these young men with funds sufficient to give them a start on a farm? What We Do Now For Students. x ps a thousand dollars would be rf the amount. I cannot say! Pata, to to young man has been t ing until his twenty-first, his twenty-fifth vear, y lie entirely we not be doing a real country that occupation? | private with the best were men and through energy an possessel" themsel should th for his advancement when the d {made them out.such a | | | | exactly how much our Provincial Treasury spends on each young man | who takes a degree from the Provin-| clal University, but it is probably considerably more than this amgunt. | In other words, the legislation of the country announces its readiness to! spend large sums, unlimited sums if necessary, upon the young man who will Jeave the farm to embrace some | other calling, but nothing at all upon him who is willing to continue the occupation of farming, and has given years of hard labor to prepare for it Remark also that the Provincial! Treasury expends all these large] sums on college students and aspir ants to the learned professions with- out asking for any recommendation of character, without any guarantee of industry on the part of the reci pient, without apy assurance of his future success. Whether or not he has done anything to entitle him to this specjal consideration, whethers or not he is likely to abuse the ad- vantages placed at his* command, whether he may be no better citizen in return for all this is really never questioned. Moreover,-through---eol- lages and educational -institutions, our Government is spending those immensé sums on the sons of the rich as well as of the poor. The Government of some monwealths--the Province of Scotia among them---are ing financial assistance migrants from all parts w willing to settle on the land. Com Nova offer 0 Surely everyone feels that the boys of our own province, who have familiarized with farming operations a here, not enly have a but are also more likely in the occupation and grown detail of conducted prior claim, to conti > cont every t nue with success of energy bred It an absolute waste attempt to induee c¢ to live on the farm. If are reall; in earnest in our advocacy of "back the land' our efforts should be de voted to encouraging « untry boys and girls there. boys to stay rained t in that directi ervice to the to continue in enabling hini jection Met, Having suggested this matter one occasion, I w answer that many of the citizens the country produced who began with not & One Obj in on as met verance m. Very the same t said of d per; f rue; and any of the very other rhy not gree should that point, thar to his own unassisted effort? Why publie funds be expended most en have are wit Jes e tinguished professional Ives what they tance? +A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. lis infigence Of br fa Heredily in Roots While the character of the sea son much to do with the relative ricigess of roots, there can .be little doubt that heredity plays an import ant part in this direction. To obta'n datd oft this interesting point, name- ly, that a certain character as to confpatition may be transmitted, two- well-khown varieties of mangels the Post and the Giant Yellow Glo were selected fn 1900. These have been grown side by side yearly sinéé that date under the same soii 'and _ seasonal conditions, and the comparison of results as to dry mat- ter and sugar makes a very interest- ing and instructive study. A rec- ord kept by the Division of Chemis- try at the Ottawa gxperimental Farms for the years from 1900 to 1914 inclusive shows that averaging the fifteen years the dry matter in the Gate Post variety amounted to 11.68 per cent, and that in the Giant Yellow to 9.58, while the sugar in the juice of the former averaged 6.20 per cent, against 4.72 in the latter. The figures for the fifteen years show that without a single exception the Gate Post has proved superior to the Giant Yellow Globe, both in dry matter and sugar, a fact which indicates that quality may be trans- tted and, incidentally that im- provement in farm roots is possible hy skillful work in selection and breeding. ; ~ SHEEP ON THE HIGHWAY. An interesting case for farmers and motor owners recently went to appeal in England, ! Part of a flock of sheep belonging to an English farmer broke out of & field and got upon the roadway. A motor came along and one of the flock ran into the car and part of the steering apparatus of the motor was broken. The owner of the car sued * for recovery of damages, and- got judgment for £100. The farmer ap- _pealed to a higher court and judg- ment was reversed. The motor own- er carried the case to a still higher court and lost there again, the court of final resort holding that the own- er of the sheep was not liable for the damage caused. One of the judges of the final court said, in delivering judgment, that the experience of cen- turies had shown that the presence of domestic animals on-a highway was not inconsistent with public safe- 3 hn wed Aue roads' thought those must take the | mid-June lof UD! 1ast year. cause cold dition, es of tionof ar the pretty { his barnyard with field stone grouted with concrete portion of one dry And 1 cause of the lack of bi ing the coming fall, as comparat Iy smal] quantities were carried over in cold storage in Canada or the Unit- ¥ CHOPPED STUFF No matter what the type of silo, it, is a farm necessity for the utilizing | of corn to the best advantage and | profit, WwW, C. a couple of Shorthorn steers at 8iX- | teen months at $9.80, of $93 each. Good, of Brant county, sold' of strong springs under the seat of his mower and so added to his com-| fort while cutting the hay crop. A New York State farmer grows; soy beans with his corn and silos the! mixture, Thus he has a well-bal- | anced ration in one feed. soil survey of the county of Chautauqua in Ohio has shown that every one of the twenty-three soil types represented needs lime, Potato planting in eastern and nor-! thern states was not completed by and prospects then were for a smaller acreage than last year. An American farmer built a ce-| ment block silo five years ago, ap-! plied a 'coat of liguid waterproofing all over the inside, and he has never lost a pound of silage. Six motor trucks for farmers were landed at one New York State rail- way station in one day, and orders were booked at the same time for twenty-five more for Tutire deliv- J. A. Kidd, of Simcoe county, writ- | ing in Canadian Countryman, attrib- utes recent failures in clover to lack lime in the soil and the use of seed imported from warm countries. | The June Monthly Crop Report of the United States Départment of Ag- '| riculture estimateg the American ap- 7 2,000! ple crop of this year at 670,000 barrels, as compared with 76, in of year was , and that ive men in the silo writing t cost American Agriculturi An The Jury n y orchards was ex ceptionally, severe last winter be- of the heavy autumn rains, which sent much of the wood into the | in soft, sappy con-| weather Sheep require little attention com- pared with that given to other clas live stock With the excep-| 1 in the spring during | on, they can rustle themselves. State farmer covered | five to | ~ and then! mixed in pro- This left a | surface. farmer lambing well A New fc York inches in diamet to five slippery State but A New not York mixes the seed used .in seeding In this way fertility is help- the 1d is gradually inoculated alfalfa and the quality of the produced is improved Farmers millions of dollars to kill be de uch co all spend poison ins herwise stroved { an t numbers nt 8 'the chie the boy with a A bulletin of the Manitoba Depart- ment of Agriculture says that prices for turkeys promise to be high dur risks as known to them, and put up ed Sta with such risks as the speed of their vehicles occasioned, not only to them selves, but to others. The ment appears to have been based, not on' any statutory enactment, but on the common law. Treating Seed for Smut. Approximately twenty thous farmers in Ontario treated their s grain this gepring as a protection against smut, largely as a result ef the campaign waged by the Ontar Department of . Agriculture durix g the fall and winter Returns Just been compiled showing that Oa- tario druggists so far this year sold to farmers 66 formalin for e with 1,1 § of 1015, 1d esti treated and the ir against a repetition smut damage, save a million dollars anid and 0 has nav surance of. last given season. It is estimated that the damage to {the opening of spring to June 10th, | Brockville .. barley, wheat, and oats in Ontario last year from smut was about five | million dollars, The serious nature | of the loss led the Agriculture last fall to inaugurate a | movement to educate farmers to a | De judg-! ing county hle has occurred i | G00 An insect that attacks the beans| just as growth begins has been caus-| some alarm to Prince Edward] bean growers As the trou- fields long in sod] the remedy appears to be short rota- | winter harbor of the pest | Scarcity of feed and low prices for] poultry in the fall of 1914 caused al thinning out in flocks in Manitoba, | and this reduction was not made good last year. As a result Mani- | toba's egg production was less last spring than it was two years ago. { According to the Animal Welfare | Association of Detroit there are 60, horses in that city In four-! teen years, in spite of the auto-truck| 0 gallons of [and the 4,000 automobiles .in the| to, are as follows: , compared | Same city, the horses have increased]? le 00 to 60,000 | creameries were | the past| from less than More than twenty in operation throughout year's | Winter in Manitoba, and none of the, Bancroft Ontario farmers will | city dairies found it necessary to im- | Belleville . . "ee | port any milk or sweet cream. From | Bowmenville ,..... seven cars of creamery butter were | shipped out of Manitoba. | Analyses have shown, says an) artment of | Ohio State bulletin, that young plants | Colborne of a non-leguminous nature, such as rye, wheat, rave and blue grass, | realization of the importance of seed [are as rich in nitrogen as are the! treatment. Advertisements giving di- | rections for treating the seed were | inserted in all the rural papers of the | province, and thousands of handbills | were distributed, The result is | shown in the Increase of four hun- | dred per cent, in the amount of | formalin used. The increase was general and particularly marked in Eastern Ontario, where the advan- | tages of formalin treatment have not | been so widely appreciated in the | past. l The campaign will be continued | this fall and winter, Rdcently a de- putation from the grain section of the Toronto Board of Trade waited | upon Hon, James Duff, and strongly supported the department's decision, pointing out that much effective work | could be done in encouraging farmers | to treat winter wheat to be sown this fall ? An American farmer sows rve in| his corn just before the last cultiva- | tion. The sowing is done by hand, | while walking along every fourth! row. The rye is afterwards plow- ed under and adds a lot of humus to | the soil. > | Two-thirds of the feeding value of | the alfalfa plant is in the leaves, says Farm and Dairy. If the leaves are lost in curing only one-third of the feeding valué remains. (ence has taught that a feeding sur- i should be removed daily. | Too often they leave college possess- | life taste the weariness of manual | labor has a poor chance to win and is { to be pitied.--H, E. Cook in Ameri- {can Agriculturist. {sandy or gravelly soils. legumes, and should be classed as! nitrogenous feeds As these plants become older the proportion of ni-| trogen they carry decreases. { Silage of all kinds readily spoils unless it be fed regularly, evenly and at a sufficient rate. Experi- depth Very of- ten five or six inches are daily fed, and when such is done no waste re- sults, even in the warmest weather, We need the plain, homely truths driven home to school graduates. face of at least two inches ed of a self-centred notion that the world is under obligation to them and that their education has made them wise enough to live without manual labor. A man or woman who does not at some time in early In Ohio forty-two per cent. of the alfalfa two years old or over was killed last winter. Of the 1915 seed-| ing forty-five per cent. 'was winter- killed. The principal killing was in heavy clay soils and ' the least in Grimm al- falta suffered as badly as the com- mon varieties of seed secured from north-western states, Winter-kill- ing 'in red clover was only half as iwell as in dairy cows. OF an average |, ending buyer in these days of the | kee A New York farmer put a couple | 4 { records to go by in making a pur- {a day should be noted, also the num- | ber of eggs laid without a break, be- | cause two | judged as bad. | feeding ration of" birds is very exten- 1¥ ; bone ! sold for that extensive as for alfalfa. Shape of Hen And Laying Habits | Kingston Markets tte e Wedge shape seems to be an in- dication of production in poultry as The shape of a cow makes less impression on the ping of milking records than it when the animals were not-so closely observed with regard to their production Yet the dairy form still appears in the case of most of the big milkers; and the same matter of general appearance seems to coin- cide with large egg-laying capacity in hens, though there is a 'question of whether the shape of the hen's body influences her egg production or vice versa, Where there are no Fl H Pi poultry the shape in the intended. for egg of the birds making of a chase of production will assist choice. To gain a real knowledge of a hen"s value as a layer without keep- ing absolute count of the eggs for an. entire season, it is necessary that her habit of laying as regards regu- larity be known. The amount of time that passes between the periods in which a hen lays without missing Ti Cu the laying of four or more eggs in succession and a repetition of this performance after a break of | only one or two days indicates a good hen, that is if this habit is main- tained for a long season; but if only or three eggs are laid with a succeeding break of two or more days between periods, then the habit of the hen doing such laying can be Pe Pl Re Te Ww laying of a fair number of succession with the perform- ? peated frequently and after short rest periods indicates a strong constitution, which is an important consideration in large egg produc- The Cc Ce SBR Pe re Brera ser Gre Puen Cut Green Bone As Poultry Food addition to the Fl Os St. Green hone as an St sively used nowadays, because poul-! try breeders have found out the great difference it makes to the out- put of eggs and the growth of the stock, It is more than an egg-producer; muscle than on any diet yet Il. discovered. Chickens thrive on it; Lc laying hens keep on laying right into, W moult, and at the same time] maintain their strength. Freshly- iW cut green bone contains the right, w proportion and in a more convenient | rm 1y other kind of foou H One ounce per head per day, fed i 1 n for right thing n be reduce bird in contains the thar ice, is the nd it ¢ oI unce per Green bone fat, lime and all to enable nitrogen, phosphates, other substances required the heng to lay eggs. { It is an easy matter cut the now that there are machines | purpose, but even where | it would not pay to go to the ex-| pense of a bone cutter, bones can be pounded up on a block with an axe| or broken up in any other manner |p. that may suggest itself, and fed in Ci th u auner, { who feeds green hone to { U | Ce Ct to 1 al m The one his birds, especially in winter, is the cost is very trifling. Ct Or I | DATES OF FALL FAIRS. | Dates of fall fairs in Eastern: On- tario as announced by the Agricul- tural societies branch of the Ontario Department of Agriculture Toron- Pc Pc RY pr of Pp! | Lt. . Sept. 12 and 13 Sept, 19 and 21 Oct. 3 | ra Arden Arnprior .. Oct. 5 and 6 | Sept, 14 and 15 Sept. 19 and 20 Saas Sept. 4 and 6 : Sept. 16 Sept, 26-27 Aug. 23-24 Sept. 18-19 Sept. 7-9 : Sept. 18-20 Gi Centreville Cobden Cobourg Cornwall Delta ar) Demorestville Frankford Sk 28-2 . Sept. g 13 Sept. ..+ Sept. 23-24 . Sept, 26-28 Sert. 7-8 Sept. 21-22 Sept. 9 Sept. 26-27 .. Oct, 3-4 Sept. 25-26 ..» Sept, 21 . Sept. 29 Sept. 14-15 .. Aug. 1-3 Sept. 12-13 areOCt, 6 . Sept. 11-13 ... Sept. 8-18 vvr..+ Sept. 19-20 . Sept. 42 and 4 . Sept. 14-15 Sept, 19-21 Oét. 10-11 Sopt. 5-6 nverary . Kemptville Kingston Lanark Lansdowae Lombardy Maberly Madoe Mariora Mavnocth . M«Donald's Corn Merrickville ....... Morrisburg «.. .. Napanee .. Odovsa ,........ Oshawa itawn ,...... Parham Perth ; Peterboro .... Picton . Port Hope Pre=cott Renfrew Pia Roblins Mills ... Shannonville | Ste vvead Stirling ... Tamworth Toront:; . Tweed ....... : Woite Island ..... .... Sept. 19-20 jn Some dates such as that of the! Harrowsmith, Lyndhurst and other! of fair: have not yet been set, These' will be added .as soon as announced. | ers 1 cata o- . Sept. 20-22 Oct. 6-7 th . Sept. 28-29 4p vonwne,e Soph. 14] Aug. 26- Ont, "+5 Butter, creamery, 1b Butter, rolls, 1b. . Cheese, 1b. Eggs, fresh, doz. Cod, steak, 1b. .. Eels, 1b. . Trout, Ww Apples, peck Bananas, 0s. .... Currants, black, qt. Cantaloupes, Cherries, red, bskt Gooseberries, bskt. Grapefruit, each Lemons, Oranges, doz. ... Strawberries, Feed flour bag ... Hay, baled, ton Hay, loose, ton Oats, Shorts, middlings . Ww w ens | Hens Turkeys, Onions, Muskrats, spring Ra Sheep Tallow, rendered, Ib. Veal skins, 1b. Cubs Fox, red, large . Mink, M' Raccoon, large .. Skunk, black ---- Kingston, July 29. Dairy Products 35 30 32 37 32 22 36 16 10 . 12% ounders, 1b. ... addock, fresh, 1b. Halibut, fresh, Ib, Kippers, doa Perch, 1b, ke, 1b. .... Rock-fish, Ib, .... Salmon Suckers, 1b. le-fish, 1b.. ..... salmon, 1b, hite fish, 1b. (fresh) ---- irrants, red, box each new, doz raches, doz. Pears, doz. ums, doz. aspberries, box . box. omatoes, 1b. ... atermelons, each Grain. Barley, bush. ....$ Bran, ton .. .. .. Buckwheat, bush . orn, cracked, cwt Corn, meal, cwt. .. orn, yellow fee bush. our, ewt. ...... d, 1 16. ats, local, bush. , Man,, bush, raw, baled, ton. . raw, loose, ton heat, local, bush Honey. hite extracted IL Meats Beef-- | fowls fed on it grow better and make | Cuts, ib. | more three quarts of alfalfa seed per acre! with down, ed, with hay yeal, carcase, 1b. eal, hinds, 1b estern, carcase Bh ov cv an as estern, hinds, Ib. estern, fronts, Ib gs, live, cwt. dressed, cwt. spring, VES, bs, by 1 arcase Poultry \ickens, dressed 1 dressed, 1b. itve, 1b 1b. 22 Vegetables. ets, bunch ve 'a 3, bunch «Jb. bunch slery, 10 tion and fall plowing to break up the!one who will get the eggs, and the { Lettuce, bunch... icumbers, each ions, green bunch el wn dary, bb... otatoes, bag .. tatoes, new, 1ubarb, -bunch Furs and Hides. Below are the: ruling market pk. ices for hides, skins and raw furs. | These prices répresent the full value the articles quoted, and have been proved as correct by John McKay, d., for dealers: * > Rr od | Beef hides, trimmed, 1b. .... Scpt.6 rng R Beeswax, clear, Ib. Deacons Foxes, No. 1 red nseng, wild, 1b. 40¢ on, No. 1, prime large .$2,60 kins, fresh $2.76 unk, ..60c to $2.00 22¢ George Mills & Co. are paying the following for raw furs: -- Bear, large 18.00 to 22.00 12.00 to 15.00 7.00 to 10.00 ...According to size ...$ 7.00t0 8% 8.00 5.00 to 3.00 to 4.00 to 3.00 to 1.60 to Do. medium Do. small Do. medium Do. small large Do. medium Do. small krats, spring, large Do. medium Do. small krats, winter, large Do. medium Do. small Do. medium .... Do. small 3.00 The best way to get a profit-pro- ducing daisy herd is to use only good, pure-bred sires, take good care of e cows, and keep the calves "com- g!' right from birth. As some men see it, our national Sept. 11! game is any kind of a skin game. No fool at forty will ever break to the late King Solomon's class. Pawnbrokers are advance agents hard times. ip Vanity is apt to be its own reward --and no questions asked. 8o| LIVE STOCK MARKETS, Toronto. Toronto, July 29, -- Export cattle, choice, $8.00 to $9.00; butcher cattle, choice $8 to $8.50, medium $7.25 to $7.75, common $7 to $7.25; butcher cows, choice $7 to $7.50, medium $7.25 to $7.75, can- ners $4.25 to_$5, bulls $5 to $7.50; feeding steers, $7 to $8; stockers, choice, $7 to $7.50, light, $6.50 to $7; milkers, choice, each, $65 to $90; springers, $65 to $90; sheep, ewes, $7 to $7.76; bucks and culls, $4 to $6.75; lambs, $13 to $14; hogs fed and watered, $11.40; calves, $6 to $12.50. Montreal. Montreal, July 29. -- Quo- tations: Butchers' steers, good $8.75 to $9; medium, $7.60 to $8.50; common to fair, $7 to $8; fair to good, $6.50 to $7; medium, $5.26 to $6.26; cows, fair, $5.50 to $5.75; common, $5 to $5.25; bulls, best, $6.50 to $7; fair, $5.60 to $6; can- ners, $4.50 to $5. Sheep, 6c to 7 1-2¢; lambs, 10c to ec Calves, milk fed, 8c to 10c; grass fed, 6c. Hogs, selects, $12 to $12 .50; roughs and mixed lots, $11.25 to $11.75; sows, $9.75 to $10.25. Receipts west end market, last week: Cattle, 900; sheep and lambs, 200; calves, 1,700; hogs, 1,100. To-day: Cattle, 650; sheep and lambs, 1,200; calves, 1,000; hogs, Chicago. Chicago, July 29. -- Cattle--Re- ceipts, 12,000. Market firm. Native steers, $7.70 to $8.90; feeders, $5 to $8; ws and heifers, $3.30 to $9.20; calv 8, $8.50 to $12. Hogs--Receipts, 27,000, Market strong; 5 to 10 cents up, Light, $9.20 to $9.95; mixed, $9 to $10.05; heavy, $9.05 to $10.05; rough, $9.05 to $9.20; pigs, $7.50 to $9.20; bulk of sales, $9.30 to $9.85. Sheep--Receipts, 9,000, Market firm, Wethers $6.75 to $8.30; lambs, native, $6.50 to $10.30, -- Buffalo. Buffalo, July 29. Cattle--Re- ceipts, 3,800; slow and lower; ship- pipg steers, $7.75 to $10; butchers, $7 to $8.50; heifers, $6 to $8; cows, $4 to $7.25; bulls, $5 to $7.25; stockers and feeders, $6 to $7; stock heifers, $5.50 to $6; fresh cows and springers, steady, $50 to $110, Veals--Receipts, 1,200; active; $4.50 to $12.75. Hogs--Receipts, heavy and mixed, $10.45: Yorkers, $10 to $10.45; pigs, $10; roughs, §9 to $9.10; stags, $6.50 to $7.50. Sheep and lambs----Receipts, 3,000; active; lambs, $7 to $10.75; year- lings, 50 to $9: wethe $7.75 to $8; ewes, $4 to $7.50; sheep, mixed, $7.50 to $7.75. stockers and 10,000; active; i GRAIN QUOTATIONS. Toronto. Toronto, July 29 wheat, track, bay ports--No. 1 north- ern, $1.293%; No. 2, $1,27%; No. 3, $1.23, Manitoba oats--No. C, "W., 61%c; No. 3, 5l¢; No. 1 extra feed, 60% c; No. 1 feed, 50% cc; No. 2 feed, 4934 ¢; track, bay ports., American corn--No, 2, No. 3, track, Toronto, 93. Ontario oats--No. 3 white, 47¢ to 48¢, according to freight outside. Ontario wheat--No. 1 commercial, $1.01 to $1.03; No. 2 commercial, 98¢ to $1; No. 3 commercial, 92¢ to 94c; feed wheat, 89¢ to 91c. Peas--According to sample, $1.25 to $1.50; No. 2, nominal, car lots, $1.75 to $1.85. Barley--Good malting, 65¢ to 66¢; feed barley, 60c to 62c. Buckwheat--70¢ to Tle. Rye--No. 1 commercial, 97¢. 0 nominal; 96c to jute bags, $6.50; second patents, in jute, $6; strong bakers, in jute, $5- .80, Toronto. Ontario flour--Winter, $4.15 to $4.25, track, Toronto, according to sample; seaboard, $4.25, prompt shipment, Mill feed--Car lots, delivered Mon- treal, shorts, $22 to $24; good feed flour, per bag, $1.65 to $1.70; mid- dlings, $24 to $25. Hay---Baled No. 1, to, best grade, $15 to $18; $10 to $14; straw, $8. 2 grain market Chicago. Chicago, July 29.--Wheat--No. 2 red, new, $1.21 to $1.24%; No. 3 red, new, $1.19 to $1.20 No. 2 hard, new, $1.18 to $1.21% ; No. 3 hard, new, $1.18%. track, Toron- No. 2, The Latest Market Reports beef cattle, $6.80 to $10.60; western | Manitoba | Manitoba flour---First patents, in| Corn--No. 2 yellow, 82%e to 843% c; No. 4 yellow, 79%e to Sic. Oats--No. 2 white, 41¢c to 41%¢; standard, 42¢ to 42%ec. Rye--No, 1, new, $7¢; No. 2, nomi nal. Barley--63c to 76c. Timothy----$8.50. Clover--$7 to $14. Pork--$26.50 to $26.20. Lard--$12.97. Ribs--$13.32 to $18.92. Minn Minneapolis, oss. wheat---No. 1 hard, $1.82 to No. 1 northern, $1.26% to No. 2 northern, $1,23 to $1.27 3 northern, $1.16 to $1.23; No. 1 rum, $1.13% to $1.18%: No. 2 rum, $1.09% to $1.16%. Future September, $1.26; December, $1.26% ---- Liverpool. Liverpool, July 29.--Spot wheat market closed very firm, 2d advance. Spot corn market closed steady, un- changed to %d lower, Quotations: No. 1 northern Manitoba, 11s 8d. Spot corn, American mixed, 10s 10d; spot corn, La Plata, 11s 1d. Montreal Prices. Montreal, July 29.--Oats--Can- adlan western, No. 2, 53 to 5334c; do., No. 2, 52 to 52%e; extra No. 1 feed, 52% to 53¢; No. 2 local white, 63c; No. 3 do., 52¢; No, 4 da, ble, Flour--Manitoba spring wheat pat- ents, firsts, $6.60; do, seconds, $6.40; strong bakers, $5.90; winter patents, choice, $6 to $6.25; straight. rollers, $5.10 to $5.30; do., in bags, $4.80 to $6. Rolled oats--Barrels, 65.05 to $5.45; bag of 90 Ibs; $2.40 to $2.60. Millfeed--Bran, $20 to $21; shorts, $23 to $24; middli: . 26 to $27; mouillle, $31 to $33 Hay--No. 2, per ton, car lots, $18.50, Winnipeg. | Winnipeg, July 29. --Wheat--No. |1 northern, $1.22; No, do.. |$1.19% ; No. 3 do., $1.15; No. 4 do., [81.11% ; No. § do, $1.05%. Oats-- {No. 2 C.W., 44%¢c; No. 3 CW. |44%c; extra No, 1 feed, 43¢c: No. {1 feed, 43%c; No. 2 feed, 42%ec. {Flax--No, 1 N.W.C., $1.74%; No. 2 CW, $1.71, New York. New York, July 29.--Flour-- {Market firmer; spring patents, $6.40 |to $6.60; winter patents, $5.65 to | $6.90; winter straights, 5.25 to 185.50. : Rye Flour--Market steady; fair to good, $5.16 to $5.20; choice to fancy, 1$5.35 to $5.50, Cornmeal---Market steady; { white and yellow, $195; coarse, $1.78; kil dried, $4.30 to $4.40. { Rye--Market quiet; No. 2 wes! fern, new, $1.02, ¢.i.f., New York. | Barley quiet; feeding, 71c; malt (ing, 80¢, c.i.f., New York. Wheat--Spot market strong; No 1 drum, $1,313; No. 2 hard, $1.34; No. 1 Northern Duluth, $1.41; No. 1 | Northern Manitoba, $1.36, f.0.b, New York. | Corn--Spot market easy; No. 2 | yellow, 93%, c.i.f. New York. Oats--Spot market steady; stand- lard, 47% to 47%ec. GENERAL TRADE. Produce In Toronto. Toronto, July 29.--Buttéer--Fresh dairy, choice, 26 to 27¢; inferior, 24 to 25¢; creamery prints, 29 to 3l¢c; inferior, 28 to 29¢. Eggs--New-laid, 29 to 80¢; do. in cartons, 31 to 33c. Beans--$4.50 to §5, the latter for handpicked, Cheese--New, large, 17¢; twins, 17% ¢; triplets, 1734¢, : Maple syrup--Prices are steady at $1.40 to $1.50 per Imperial gallon. Dressed othr Dae ckens, 25 to 27¢; towl, 23 to 26e, . Potatoes--New Brunswicks ed at $2 per bag; western, $1.8 -- - Produco._ in Montreal, Montreal, July 29.--Strictly new laid eggs, 35¢; No. 1 selected eggs 33c; No. 1 candled stock 30c: No. 2 candled stock 26c to 27¢; straight gathered stock 30¢. ; Butter--Finest creamery 29 %c¢ to 29%c; fine creamery 29c to 20%¢; undergrades 28%c to 28%c; fin- est dairy 24c to 25¢; fine dairy 22¢ to-23c. > : Pure maple syrup 8-1b. tins 85¢ to 90¢; pure maple syrup 10-Ib, tins $1 to $1.10; pure maple syrup 13-1b. tins $1.25 to $1.30; extra choice syr- up, 13-]b, tins $1.40 to $1.50; pure maple sagar, per 1b. 12¢ to 14e. Beans--Canadian hand-picked, car lots $7; three-lb. pickers $5.75 to $6; six to seven-1b pickers $5.10 to $5.25. Potatoes active. in car lots at $3.50 pe Jobbing lots at $3.75. American quoted r barrel, and in 0 SKIM MILK MAKES GOOD FIREPROOFING PAINT, Trade Secret Is Given Out by Engineer for Benefit of Farmers. ---- Boston Transcript, Instead of feeding skim-milk to the hogs, farmers may. use it in the manufacture of a fire-resistant cov- ering for building purposes, especi- ally shingles. This use of what farmers. have sometimes considered Practically a waste of the farm fis announced by Ernest McCullough of Chicago, fire protection engineer for the cement industry. The casein in skim milk, it is declared, fs the medium used to hold intact the pigs ments in cold water paint, so by using skim milk without water the integrity of the paste is assured. Furttlermore, this use of skim milk in the preparation of certain paints is said to have long been known to the trade as a trade secret. - = -- Now it is given out to the gemeral public so that any farmer can cover his own farm buildings with a fire- retardant paint made from the skim milk from his own together with cement and fine sand. It also makes a waterproofing paint. sommes Women on English Farms, The Farber and Stock 4 ports that a day's farming wag carried out in the Branston trict at Long Hills Farm, cently, The work includ ing and drilling, and wore the green armlet the Board of was carried out in washed the 'cowsheds. was! co was ploughing with a sis plough, there with & jmp! nt, hile: re-