\ ling of a farmers' in a little town of 1,000 belt. The celebration had attended by some 2,000 people, to the local paper was & glorious success. To read the ac- count one would never think that yone t. could possibly have been . Bit written on the margin this mewspaper clipping, with its story of joy and gayety, were there words: "Why leave the farm? Sent by one that is foolish enougt to be per- suaded to leave the farm more than a yoar ago and who has not had a moment's real peace since." A Heartache in Every Word, It brought the tears to my eyes to read those few simple words. Isn't there a heartache in every word- Isn't there a tear behind thé smiles that the celebration elieited- Isn't there regret lurking behind every line in every column of the newspaper's story of funmaking? 'Perhaps you can find out something in this article worthy of space," wrote the sender. Indeed 1 did find something there: 1 found a human-interest story there, # story which has a great big moral. 1 t to t his. qecaslon.; An po an nes Pir leaving the farm in one's old age. There is a certain street in a grain- - belt town where | am well acquainted that is called Widow's street, bécause every other house Is occupied by a widow; in one block there are nine widows. Three-fourths of these wi- dows are farm women-who came to town, with their husbands, in their old age or after prosperity had come, The husband was accustomed to hard work, he thrived on it. In a life of idleness he pined away and it was not long before there was a crepe hanging on the front door and an- other farmer had, left farm, not for the city, but @ cemetery. Old Age at Home It is a good thing to pass-dur de- clining years where we sre best known and mest content. Human life is not easily transplanted after it has attained its a is like tear- plant it in barren clay. We should no more expect a rugged farmer, ac- customed to farm life and surround- ings, to be at home and thrive in the city than her lot jo Ii may have much of this world's goods, but she has none of that greatest of | thihgs: Péace and contentment. 'es, the newspaper clipping much of interest to me, much was worthy of comment, though I read but little of it. y me, was in the few words written on They tell a story that you and I--all of us--must™ never, never forget if the dusk of life is to find us lying down to the last long sleep in peace. . the margin. and moved to fe is I do not HONEY A GOOD ( The oh of the Ontario Bee- keepers for this year there is a good honey crop and that the price will not be advanced. The quality is unsurpassed, being of a light color, heavy body and a very good flavor. This; the report Points out, will be good mews for the. housekeeper, town. know; shows The story, for "ROP - What what that 'or cats to sow on their farms, many fariners seem determined to obtain something different from that which their neighbors are sowing. This filen is entirely wrong when it comes ag" ehooking 8 variety of grain' for send purposes. While visiting 100 farms in Waterloo county in 1916, n Conservation the Commission of found that 28 varieties Of oats had been sown, and 16 varieties of wheat, in Northumberland county, 18 vari- eties, and In Carleton county, 19 varieties 'of oats ware found. Prev- fous surveys disclosed similar cordi- tions in other provinces. Many far- mers were suffering a distinct loss by not sowing proper varieties. tho most suitable variety for acy of the farms visited in 1915 by the Commis- sion may be found among the first two or three at the top of the list of those testéd at tha Centirel Experi- mental farm, Ottawa, or at the O.A. C., Guelph. Sow a variety which has been test- ed and tried, and which has given When selecting a variety of wheat Where All Up-to-iate Methods Are Being The farm of -Caudwell, of Lambert Hail, eston, Spalding, England, consists of 3,000 acres. All the fields on this farm (they range in dimension from 110 acres down to not less than thirty-five) are con- nected with the ten or twelve miles of light horse railway which threads horse can draw twenty toms of po- tatoes on a winter's day with greater ease. than three Shire horses could pull one ton in the old "days. By means of this railway, the produce is taken to a specially constructed dock where it ¢an be rapidly tipped on to six-ton motor lorries, which whip it off to the stéam railway some five or six miles away; or else the produce is taken to a wharf on the River Wel- land, which borders part of the farm, where 'it is shot into one of the fleet of 100-ton steel barges, which float down on the tide to Suifleet Station. It is seldom that any other power than the wind and tide is required to take the barges, but when it is, one horse can take two fully-laden barges, containing together 200 tons the tract and by means of which ong] as honey needs mo preserving and will keep well in any dry, cool place. The prices rocommended by the committee composed of Wm. Couse, H. G. Sibbald, W. J. Craig and Mor- ley Pettitt, secretary, are as follows: No, 1 light 'extracted, wholesale, 10 cents to' 11% cents per Ib.; retail 12% to 15 cents per 1b. No. 1, comb, wholesale, $2 to $2.75 per dozen, No. 2, comb; wholesale, $1.50 to $2 per dozén. These prices are f.o.b, in 60- Ib., 10-lb. and 65-1b. tins, the first] being met weight, with the tin thrown in, the two latter being gross weight. The average number of pounds per colony this year is 89.6 lbs, and the number of colonies reported is 23.- 763, 48 against 20,402 in 1916, when' the average weight of honey per col- ony was 57.6 lbs, good results for years, and if youriof potatoes or the equivalent, with neighbor is sowing the same variety | ease it will be_so much the better -- for | hi m. r Do not try every new variety that the 'scientific and complete methods | is brought to your attention by beau- | which prevail. Mr. Caudwell has no | titul illustrations in seed catalogues |less than : or by the persuasion of agents, tho K phone wires on his farm, which keeps | high as is so often thought. = After testing is being done for you at the institutions for that purpose, and the + Two other instances of many which {could be quoted will serve to show twenty-six miles of tele- {him in contact with every part and | with the outside world; and specially Temperature In the Sis, 1 Every one who has used a silo has observed that at times the silage be- comes hot. This is generally noticed on the surface during mild weather, as when the silage is being fed _in rather small quantities, Many have supposed that the entire mass of silage becomes very hot and that a certain amount of heat is necessary to rve it. Agents of various types of silos have also taken ad- vantage of the lack of general in- formation on this subject to make claims for or against certain types of silo on the ground that the tempera- ture of the silo is influenced by the particular construction. The Missouri Experiment Station decided two years ago to get the facts. -Electric thermometers were placed in silos to take the tempera- tures. A bulb was placed in the silo during filling at any point where it was desirable to take the tempera- ture. The bulb had wires leading to the outside of the silo, 80 the temperature could be taken with an electrical device at any time. Tem- perature readings were taken near the centre of the silage mass and at the wall at frequent intérvals during the two seasons in from eight to ten silos, including stave, iron, tile and concrete, | in the depth of the silage is never | Alling, the temperature rises from i'five to ten degrees the first few days, information you want in this connec- designed cottages for the accommo- | and then slowly declines during the tion can be had free by writing to|dation of Irish labor at certain parts | fall and winter until it reaches the your nearest Dominion Experimental {of the year are erected. Farm or to the Central Experimen- | The inundation of the Dutch onion- tal Farm, Ottawa, or to your near-|producing area some months ago, and nick, ) Sa -------------- est agricultural college.--F. C. Nun: Unknown Grains in Ontario Twenty per cent of the 400 farm- {the price which the vegetable has | commanded since the last crop, sug- | gested the idea of starting onion- { lowest point, about 40 degrees, in { March. In good silage, the tempera- | ture seldom goes more than a few | degrees, if any, above 100 F., and may not go above 90. The only high temperatures found are at the sur- It was found that the temperature | 'THE NEW SILO FILLER In a recent. letter to the Sun, The Connor Machine Co. refers to our ar- ticle on their new silo filler, saying in part; "When we say that a few dry leaves may be blown away, we mean just that. In filling a silo the waste will probably amount to four or five bushels of silage only. The blowers will usually waste more. The deep buckets in which the corn is carried, and the speed at which it is raised, keeps the corn in so the wind has no play. "As for a distributor in the silo, some of our customers use them, and they are giving good service. The need is not"so great with the slower rate of filling, the man in the silo having more time to spread the corn. "While a good percentage of our orders are from individuals, they generally have an - understanding with a few 'neighbors, and the ta- chine is used to fill four or more silos, the men working together to make a sufficient crew" Another ar- rangement that works well is for a company of four or more buying the filler, one - supplying the engine, which he rents to the others. The rent varies from $2 to $4 per silo, every man buying his own gasoline. When the filling is done, the engine is used by its owner for grinding and other work, either of these methods qvercoming thg objection of one man tPying to fill dfbne." i Separator Speed As much as 50 percent. variation in the richness of cream may be ob- tained by variation in speed of ap- erating the separator. If normal speed is 55 turns of the crank per minute, 75 turns will bring rich cream and 25 turns will bring thin cream. A great deal of fat is lost in the skim milk when low speed is used. Sometimes nearly one half 2 {growing on a large scale, and Mr, | face, when the air comes in contact of the fat may be found in the skim Caudwell has 315 acres in onions. 1916. and a cockerel. The State of New Jersey is to hold an egg-laying contest that will run for three years, starting on Nov, lat, Each pen of fowls entered is to consist of ten pube-bred pullets Trap nests will be used to determine the individual per- formance of each female bird, and a bo BR ATR CORR 5° ers visited in the Conservation Com- HiTs8fofi' Agricultural Survey in On- tarfo in 1915 did not know the name of any variety of grain sown on thei: farms. ' In 'Dundas county, where 100 farmers were visited, of' a total of 86 farmers growing barley only 11 knew the variety grown. Fifty-two per cent. of the 400 farmers visited in the province were growing barley and only eighteen per cent, knew the | The purchase of a ton of seed--when {you think of it, remember that the ordinary price has been about 2s an lounee--was in itself no light under= taking. but it was accomplished. Then |eame the labor. problem. Most of the |available men had enlisted (a dozen |of Mr. Caudwell"s farm hands have i been killed in action), and the neces- |sarv woman labor was, certainly not 'to be found in the near locality. Con- | sequently an ~advertisemento-. was | record of her egg-laying and that of her progeny will be kept. 'The in- vestigators expect to be able to de- termine some of the important prin- ciples governing breeding and 'in- heritance of egg-laying qualities in fowls from this experiment. 'Com- petition in the contest is open to poultry raisers in all parts of the United States. It is being rufi in connection with Dr. J. G. Lipman, of the New Jersey Experimental Sta- name of the variety. Only 64 per cent. of all the farm- ers visited knew the name of the var- | result that to-dav fety of oats they were sowing. Those | being who did not know. the variety used |four miles to the onion fields on six- | may be sowing grain unsujted for|ton motor lorries specially adapted. | There is very little ex- | Others their farms, of proved excellence, cusé for the prevalence of such con- places. ditions, ithrown on- the screen in- picture- | houses at Boston, England, with the 400 women are taken a distance of twenty- are brought from They are fetched in the Every farmer sowing an un- morning and taken back at hight, known grain lives within reach of [and are some farmer who grows a known sort| Among them #%e sixty, war widows. Journal. from whom paid half-a-crown a day. The onion ladies art clad in service- will consist: of poultrymen, and Canada, rae paint brush is an instrument of magic in beautifying a rural Jand- we should expect a forest scape. r ee tion and his experimental workers, sixteen prominent representing feut, Maine California, New Jersey The State of New Jer- sey will appropriate $3,000 annually to maintain the contest. Connect- seed can be obtained. Farmers wish- ing to obtain seed for . mext should arrange for it early choose a variety which has been tested and proved to be good. The Central Experimental Farm at Ot- tawa, and the various Agricultural Colleges, have carried on such tests for the benefit of farmers, the results of which may be obtained free upon application. and A PA ASN I. NA 7 NS The Latest Market Reports September, $1.59%; No. 1 hard, $1.656% ; No, 1 northern, $1.69% to 1.63%; No. 2 northern, $1.56% to 1.61%. Corn--No. 3 yellow, 86¢ to 87c. Oats--No. 3 white, 44%e¢ to LIVE STOCK MARKETS, 4 Toronto. Toronto, Aug. 25.-- Receipts at the Union Stock Yards.to-day were 229 cattle, 40 calves, 1,463 hogs, 464 sheep. Hogs Were easier, rt cattle, choice $8.25 to $8- .50; butcher cattle, choice $7.80 to e ium $7.25 to $7.50, common $36.50 to $6.76; odutcher cows, choice $6.60 to $7, medium $6 to $6- 25, canners $3.50 to $4.75, dulis 36 to $87.75; feeding steers, $6 to $6- 50; # , choice $6 to $6.25; light $5 to $6; miilkers, choice, éach $65 to $100; Sptingers, $65 to $100; sheep, ewes 1 $9; bucks and culls, $4 to $5.50; lambs, $11 to $11.25; hogs, fed and watered, $12 to $12.25; ealves, $6.10 $12. Sie ; .. Bufislo. : Buffalo, Aug. 26.--Cattle--Re- ipts, 200; slow. Oe etis--Receipts, 25; ative, $4.50 ® 13.50 cone 2,000; active 8, y H avy and mized, $11.40; Yorkers, 10. lo side, Jous ha, $9.76 to 10; stags, $7 to $8.75, y Shoop and lambs--Receipts, 600; J sheep active, lambs slow; prices yn- changed e---- «Cl Aug. 26.--~Cattle: Re- [ ,000. icrket weak," Beeves, $6.66 to $11; stockers and feeders, 4.80 to $7.50; cows and heifers, 3 $8.10; calves, $8.50 to $12. Market i , $10.15 to $11.10; 10.76 to $11.05; ro to pi or = Manitoba | No. ok, bay j1.66% ; No. 2, $1.63%; to Montreal; good feed flour, per bag, $2.25; mid, dlings, $29. Hay---Baled, No. 1, track, Toron- to, . best grade, new hay, car lots, $10 to $12; straw; $6 to 7; No. 2, $9 to $9.50. were made. $ ho $14, Pork --37 to $14, $18.92, Ribs--$1.1 $1.85 to $1.95. Barley--Food malting, nominal; feed barley, hominal. Buckwheat--Nominal. Rye--No. 1 commercial, nominal; No. 2 new, $1.02 to $1.05. _ Manitoba flour--First patents, in Jute bags, $8.40; second patents, in jute, $7.90; strong bakers, in jute, $7.70, Toronto. Ontario flour, new--Winter, $5.70 to $5.80, in bags, track, Toronto, ac- cording to sample; seaboard in bulk, $5.60 to $56.70. Millfeed -- Car shorts, lots, $28; Montreal. Montreal, Aug. 99¢. a Oats--Canadian western y $0c; Canadian western No. 3, 50¢; No. 3 local tra No. 1 feed, 59¢; white, 5dc. + Flour=-Manitoba- spring patents, firsts, strong bakers, $7.80; winter patents, choice, $7.50; straight .ollers, $6.90 to Hl straight rollers, bags, $3.25. to $3.40. Rolled oats--Barrels, $6.05; bags, 90 bs, $2.90 $8.50; Bran, $25; . Winnipeg. ; feed, C.W., 50 %e. 0, 1 N.W., $1.72.. Aug. 35.--Wheat, No. ? ~~ Nom 2 bran, Timothy nominal. delivered $26; 25.-- Cables Manitoba wheat were firm, but the demand from foreign buyers quieter, and only sales of a few loads A fair amount of busi- ness was done in Manitoba barley. Prices: Corn--American No. 2 yellow, 98¢ No. to 'shorts, $27; middlings, {1 $29; moullte, $31 fo $34. et Winnipeg. Aug. 25 -- Wheat, No. 11 northern, $1.58%; No. 2 northern, $1.56%; No. 3 northern, $1.52%; No. $1.45; No. 5, $1.39%: No. 6, $1 $1.21%. Oats---No. | hughel Barley, No. '3, 79¢; 4, 75¢; rejected, 68c; feed, 8%¢c inal, o $14.6 on was wheat seconds, $8; Clover Ian 45¢. Figur =Bachajred. Bran-- $19.50 to $21. Duluth. Duluth, Aug. 25.--Wheat--No. 1 hard, $1.65%;: "No. 1 northern, $1.63%; No. 2 northern, $1.50% to $1.605% ; September, $1.59% bid; RE GENERAL TRADE. Butter. Belleville, 34c to 35 per pound; Berlin, 28¢ to 30¢; Cobourg, 32¢; Chatham, 40c; Guelph, 33¢ to 3b¢; Owen Sound, 30c to 31c; Port Hope, 80¢i Stratford, 82c to 34c per pound. Eggs. Belleville, . 28¢ to 30c¢ per dozen: Berlin, 30c; Cobourg, 30c; Chatham, 28¢c; Guelph, 32 to 45c; Peterboro, 28¢ to 32¢; Port Hope, 27¢; Strat: ford, 30c to 31c per dozen. Spring Chickens. Belleville, 20c to 26¢ per pound; Berlin, '25¢ to 30¢; Cobourg, 18¢ to 20¢; Guelph, 22¢; Owen Sound, 21¢; Peterboro, 20c to 22¢; Stratford, 18¢ to 21c per pound. Potatoes. 3 Belleville, $2 to $2.25 per bushel; Berlin, $1.50 to $1.60; Cobourg, $2; Chatham, $1.50; Guelph, $2.20; Owen Sound, $2; Peterboro, $2.30; Port Hope, $1.60; Stratford, $1.20 to $1.30 per bushel. y . a - Wheat. Belleville, $1 per bushel; Berlin, $1.10; Coubourg, 90c to 98c; Chat- ham, $1.10 to $1.15; Guelph, $1.20; Owen Sound, $1.02 to $1.05; Peter- boro, $1.16; Port Hope, $1.10. to $1.12; Stratford, $1.10 per bushel. Oats. Belleville, 55¢ per bushel; Berlin, et; 7 48c; Chatham, 46c to 48c; Guelph, 66¢c to 60c; Owen Sound, 65¢; Peterboro, 50; Port Hope, 50c¢ to 53¢; Stratford, 35¢c per 60¢c; Cobourg, 66c to 60c: Guelph, 60¢ to 65c; Owen Sound, 66g: Peter- boro, §6c; Port Hope, 60c' to 65c; Stratford, 556¢ per bushel. to tham-- loose 3.3 pHmneapoliL, baled $19 to Minaeapolis, - Aug. 35, «Wheat | $14; Owen Sound--ba year Harley. Belleville, 60¢c per bushel; Berlin, able raiment, trousers being popular, with khaki breeches and | puttees a narrow second. This dress | 1s convenient in that it allows them twhen hoeing to take three rows with one on either side. 4 A --------------------. An agricultural college education will not make a good farmer out of a natural born piano tuner. $11; Peterboro--baled $12; loose $5 to $10; Port Hope--Iloose $8 to $10; Stratford--loose $8 to $10 per ton. Millfeeds at Toronto. Millfeeds are selling this week on the Toronto market at practically un- changed prices all round. Bran, $24 per ton; shorts, $26 te $27; mid- dlings, $27 to $28; and good feed flour at $1.75 per. bag. Beans at Montreal. The quotations for beans are steady at recent advance. Canadian hand-picked lots are selling at $6.75 to $7; three-pound pickers are quot ed at $5.76 to $6; five-pound pick- ers, $5.60 to $5.65; and seven-pound pickers, $5.26 to $5.50 per bushel. Honey at Montreal. Clover honey is still unchanged Wholesale quotations are: White, extracted, 12¢ to 12%ec per pound; brown, extracted, is steady at 10¢ to 11¢; and buckwheat honey, 9¢ to 10c. : Small Fruits at Toronto. Cherries are about off the market for this season, but some sold at $1 to $1.10 per basket. Thimbicherries are keeping high, and good ones are selling at 15¢ per quart. Huckleberries aré a little lower this week, and bring $1 to $1.65 per 11-quart basket. Black currants are easier this week after having shown a decided advance a week ago, and they are now selling aréund $1 to $1.25 per 11-quart basket. Red currants are 65c to 75c 11-quart basket. | Kingston Markets Dalry Products Butter creamery 1b 35 Butter, rolls, 1b. | : Cheese, 1b ...... Eggs, frosh, doz ----nin : Fish Cod, steak, Ib. ... Flounders, Ib. ... Hahtaek: freab. 1b. ; frésh, 1b, sibivaa. ., Bike, 1b. ........ Roek-fish, 1b, RS per ease, for they straddle one, and take | | with silage. Furthermore, a tem- | perature much above 100 means loss | of silage. as some of the material is | being actually burned -to-make ihe heat. Mould will raise the tempera- | ture some. Corn put in the silo in a mature condition develops more heat than that put in green. No re- lation was found between the ma- terial used in the construction of the silo and the-temperature of the sil- age. Practically no difference in the | fréezing of the silage on the wall | wag observed with the different kinds {of silos. i Sn---- The Tragedy of Unwise Land Settle ment. "The opening up of non-agricultur- |some of the most far-reaching and | pitiful tragetlies in the Dominion's | history," says the Canadian Forestry "Every province has com- munities which have been permitted very {to make the fatal error of a bgd lo-} cation. Their subsequent history is lan unbroken line of bad crops, pov- erty, suffering and human demorali- { zation." One of the most pressing duties of | those in authority after the war ends, {will be the devising of means. by { which such lands can be restored to | their "Proper purpose, that of grow- iing trees. be White fish, 1b. .. (fresh) .. .. Fruit. Apples, peck ..,.. Bananas, ons. .... Currants, black, qt. Currants, red, box Cantaloupes, each Cherries, red, bskt Gooseberries, bskt. Lémons, new, doz. Oranges, doz. .... Peaches, doz. Peaches, local bs Pears, doz. "x Pedrs (Calif.) doz Pears, local, bskt Plums, doz. Thombleberries Tomatoes, 1b.~ Watermelons, kt Barley, bush, ....§ Bran, ton .. . Buckwheat, bush Corn, cracked, cwt. Corn, meal, cwt, Corn, yellow feed, bush. ...... .. Flour, ewt. . . Feed flour bag Hay, baled, ton Hay, loose, ton Oats, local, bush, . Oats, Man., bush. Shotts, middlings . Straw, baled, ton. . Straw, loose, ton . Wheat, local, bush "ee Homey White extracted IL Meats Beef-- Cuts, 1b. Er Local, carcase, Ib. Local, hinds, 1b. . Westqrn, carcase Be iniine an as Western, hinds, 1b, Western, fronts, 1b. Hogs, live, ewt. .. Hogs dressed, ewt---- Lambs, spring, by carcase, 1b .... Vea!, by carcase i... avke a ---- Chickens, dressed ib. Chickens, live, Ih. Hens, dressed, Ib. Hens, live, 1b. ... Turkeys, Ib. .... seit Vi Beets, bunch .... Carrots, bunch Cabbage, doz. Celery, bunch ... Lettuce, bunch... Cucumbers, each . Onions, green | dune «si + 1.00 05 .s {milk when the separator has been run too slowly. This demonstrates the fact that there is only one speed for economical operation of the sep- arator, and that is the right speed. This speed i= indicated on the crank handle. / | Leaf-Spot on Cherry and Plum Trees. | Rainy weather conditions this year {have been especially favorable to thy growth of the leaf-spot or shot-hole fungus, which attacks most varieties of sour cherries and the European varieties of plums. This fungus causes the leaves to turn yellow and drop, often in July or August, and a new growth starts. Such a condition often causes the trees to die the fol- nearer |al lands to settlement has produced lowing winter. Bordeaux mixture is, says the botanist of Ohio Experi- mental Station, the most effective means of combating the pest. Sale of Wool Prohibited in England. The British War Office has prohib- ited the sale df wool in the United Kingdom, the object being to enable the Government to take over the whole clip at first cost. There's a lot of information com- ing from the would-be agricultural experts that is just as available for practical farm use as is the potash in powdered feldspar. | rating Wheat For Su, "Grain dealers advise me, says: Hon. J. 8. Duff, "that it has meant & difference of as much as tlc per bushel Jor grain delivered at elovat- ors, aside altogether from -making some of the wheat unmarketah This means a loss of $3 to $5 per acre, while the cost of treating to is only a few cents acre." The method heap on clean canvas or floor. Sprin- kle the formalin solution over the grain, then shovel. Repeat this un- til every grain is moistened by the solution; thén cover thé pile with sacking and leave for three or four hours. At the end of this time spread the grain out thinly to dry; shovelling it over three or four times will hasten the drying. Forty ns of the formalin solution is sufficient to sprinkle thirty or forty bushels of grain; smaller amounts in proportion. Bags, machinery, "or anything with which grain comes in contact before being put in the ground should be thoroughly treated. ' Immersing the grain in the bags is sometimes practised and is equally effective. : MOST ESSENTIAL . ° Use Pure Milk Only For Batter- Making It is most essential to use only pure uncontaminated milk for thé produc tion of butter when the finished pro- duct is to be prime quality. in a Kreat many cases where butter Has an objectionable flavor it is due ti e milk employell being badly contim- inated with undesirable bacteria. Cream is ripened by bacteria, and it is only when the right species of germs predominate in the cream that it will ripen properly. The germs which produce lactic acid, and thus ripen the cream, have the power of overcoming other species of bacteria unless the cream is very badly con- taminated, in which case the cream- ripened organisims could not per- form their functions. Likes the Ayrshires At a meeting last winter, Prof. Archibald said, speaking ef the dairy herds of the Dominion Department of Agriculture: '"The records they are making are good, honest, commercial records. We are having no trouble with tuberculosis, and lese troubls with abortion and contagious trouble, which you will find all over Canada withthe Ayrshires- than with other breeds. "They are really a better animal for many paris of Canada than any other breed. I would say that to a Holstein or Jersey audience, just as [ would to you." PRESSE THIN IER The Illinois milk producers won their fight for higher prices by organ anv 3.78 60 06 Fpatoes, bag .... otatoes, new, pk. . Rhubarb, bunch . .e Furs and Hides. Below are the ruling market prices for hides, skins and raw furs These prices represent the full value of the articles quoted, and have been approved as correct by John McKay, Ltd., for dealers: Beef hides, trimmed, Ib. ..... 1l4e Beeswax, clear, 1b. .....: 2 Deacons seu Foxes, No. 1'red Ginseng, wild. Ib. .. $7. Horse hides, No. 1 ..$4.00 to $5.00 Mink . 50c to $3.00 Muskrats, spring Y. 40¢ Raccoon, No. 1, prime large .$2.50 Sheep skins, fresh $2.7 Skunk, ..B60¢ to $2.00 Tallow, rendered, Ib. . Cc veal skins, Ih. ...........: 22¢ George Mills & Co. are paying the following for raw furs:-- Bear, large 18.00to 22.00 Do, medium 12.00 to 15.00 Do, small ..... 7.00 to 10.00 Cubs .... According to size Fox, red, large ....$ 7.00to § 8.00 Do. medium .. 6.00 Do. small 4.00 Mink, large 5.00 Do. medium 3.650 Da. small . hi M"krats, spring, large Do. medium Do. small {'krats, winter, large Do. medium .. Do. small ....... Raccoon, large .... Do. medium .... , Do. small ...... 1.25to Skunk, black ..... 2.50to Lime in the Soil. In renovating worn-out soils: or even in maintaining the fertility of virgin soil, lime plays a very import- ant part. Indeed, so much is this so that'it may be said that the judicious 3.50 to 2.50 to "Tuseof Hime withthe addition of or | ganic matter to the soil will restore almost an'y soil to its former state of fertility. Where thuch farmyard man- ure js used, lime soon becomes necessary. On the average soil, about 800 pounds of lime is washed out of the soil per year. To make up for this about two tons per acre of ground limestone should be applied every five or six years.--Canadian Countrys man. Make the Best of It "Whether it's wet or whether it's hot, we have to weather it whether or not," runs an old jingle. There is & good dea! of philosophy in it, too. We can't chauge the weather by worrying about it, but we can do om best to make the most of favorabls weather and overcome the effects of wins success in every movement, Many farmers believe that oats and peas make one of the very best hay crops, and they have planted largely of this mixed crop. And they are men whose opinions are worth while, Farmers in the richest limestone sections find it profitable te apply lime to their soils. This being true, it is especially necessary that lime be used liberally on soils that are. not of limestone formation. When nitrogen is estimated a1z cents .a pound, phosphoric acid # 7 cents a pound and potash at 4% cents, Halligan estimates the average vaiue of farm manure as follows: Droppings from one- horse, per ton, $2.49; cow, $2.43; sheep, $4.25; pig, $3.20. But as a matter of common experience we know when the man- ure is properly kept and applied to the land it is worth more, for the fig< ures given do not include 'the value of the humus, which may be con siderable. : The amount of manure voided by avimals varies according to the kind, size and age of the animal, Helden estimates that for every 100 pounds of dry matter in the feed the horgs voids 210 pounds bf fresh manure, the cow 380 pounds of fresh manure, the sheep 180 pounds. _ As to the proportion of urine to. the manure, Snyder estimates. that a well-fed horse will produce about fifty pounds of moisture a day. Of this, one-quarter, or twelve and a half pounds, will be urine. In a stable, the horse will void about six tons of mamure per year, according to 'the same authority, 'A milch cow on an | produce. . from 60 {o 76 manure per day, éstimating both solid excrement and quid manyre, Of this, from 20 to 30 pounds will be liquid manure. The daily droppings of a well-fed cow of average size are about 80 pounds, including the abe sorbents. » og average will D ---- , The best way to have manure is to apply it to the land as fast as enough accumulates to pay for the time re- quired to spread 'it. Bedding should be used in the stalls to absorb the liquids, which are the most valuable parts of the manure. By applying this manure as fast as it acotimulates the danger of flies breeding in it will be reduced and much of the ineredi- eats will be saved. But if it ia possible to apply for some tinge, sty in a pile, keep dry and screen or hellebore on it ly to pres Weather that 15 pot so favorable, oecasional vent flies trom breeding in it, Place the grain to be treated in a . ized co-operation. It is the power that prevent smut and prevent this loss i