WEDNESDAY, DEOEMBER 10, 1019 RE ------ -------------- Markets Reports ¢lard grade, $12 to $11.10. Rolled oats, bag $0 Ibs, $4.76 to $4.85. Bran, $45.26. Shorts, $52.28. Hay, | No. 2, per ton, car lots, $24 fo $35. Minneapolis. Minneapolis, Dee. §. Wheat, spot, LIVE STOUK MARKETS, Toronto, } Toromwto, Dec. §.--Heavy steers, choles, $13.50 to $16; baby heavies, $15 to W15.75; choice butcher, $12- - 50; medium butcher, §9.50 to $10. G0; common' butcher, $7 to $8.50; (No. 1 northern, $2.06 to $3.10. Flous light, common, $5.75 to $6; heifers, | unchanged. Bran, $41.00. Corn, ood to chalte, $11.50 to $12.50; No. 3 yellow, $1.48 to $1.49. Oats. butcher cows, choice, $9 to $10.50; | No. 3 white, 76% to 78%. Fx, do. medidm, $7 to $8; bulls, choice, | $5.22 to $5.87. * Tol heavy, $8.60 to $10.56; do. good, | $9 to 89.76; do. light, $7 to $3; | Duluth, canners and cutters, $5.25 to $6.50; Duluth, Minn, Dec. §-~~Linseed stocker, 800 to $00 Ibs, $0 to $9.50; (on track, $5.87 to $5.42; arrive, feeders, 950 to 1,00 lbs, $10 to $11- 145.21 to 35.441 ou icaihat, 33.41 50; do. light mixed, 850 to 760 1ba., | new December, od; Janu $7.50 to $8; grass cows, $13 " $100; {3% $2315 somnatl gow May, 44.77: spring lambs, * $13.75 to 15.50; old May, $4. vf sheep, $7 to $8; heavy sheep and! ------- bucks, $5.50 to $6; calves, $17 to | New York. $20; do. medium, $9 to $12; do. | sNew York, Dec. 9. «Flour, firmer: common, $6 I $8; hogs, tod sis |ooring da %.80 als 3450; watered, $16.78; do. f.0.h., b - | apring clears, to 75. ye a6; do. to the farmer, bid $15.50. [prin firm; fair to good, $8.50 to hc oa {$8.70; choice to fancy 44 js to 1% « { white corn flour firm, $3.75 to $4. I" Montreal, Dec 9.--Butcher steers [Ha¥ Bessy; To. L-N wu pi as; A v a 8, {No. 2, s to 88; No. 3, 5 cholos, $13.25; good, $10.50 to $11.- | ¢, $1.60; shipping, $1.30 toh $1.40. {Hops firm; state, medium to choice, ti + ee ------------ 50; medium, $9.00 to $10.25; com- mon, $7.50 to $9.80; butcher hel 1919, 75 to 85¢; 1918, 80 to 85e: fers, good, $9.60 (0 $10.50; medium, | Pacific coast, 1919, 84 to Hoe; 1918, | $8.25 to $9.50; common, $6.75 ta gg to 66c. : | $8.60; butcher cows, good, $8.50 to | $10; medinm, $6.50 to $8.25; can- | ners, $5.00 to $5.25; cutters, $5.50 | Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 9.----Cattle: | to $6.00; buteler bulls, good, $7.50 | prime steer JHis.s0 to $17; shipp-! 'to 88.75; common, $5.75 to $7.00. | fuo steers. $45.50 to $16; butchers,{ momo grass calves, $7.00; veal, | $9 to $15; yearlings, $14 to $16.50. [ medium, $9.00 to $14.00, 50. | Defers, $6.50 t5 $11.50; cows, $4 to | fa $14.50; sheep, $8.50; | $10.50; bulls, $6 to $10.50; stockers | Bood yearling . ewos, $10. Market | ang feeders, $6 to $10.25; fresh cows | 'Strong. Quotations: Ewes, $7.00 t0|gnq Springers, $65 to $175. Cdlves: .$8.50; lambs, : $13.75 to $14.- 1 $7 Jower; $6 to $22. Hogs: heavy, | "50 vcbmmon, $12.50 to $13.25. [$18.50 to $18.75; mixed and york. | Hog quotations: Off-car Weights, { ery, $13.60 to $13.65; light do., and | § 317; Hghts, $16 to $16.50; SOWS. | pigs, $13.76 to $14; roughs, $13 to| 1313.00 to $14.00, 1 $12.25; stags, $8 to $11. Lambs $8. | 9 | m---- 150 to $18.75; yearlings, $12; weth-| Live Stock. fers, $9.50 to $10; ewes, $3 to $9; | ; » $912.86 to $13.00; | mized sheep, $9 to $9.50, rtop, $13.50; HY, sie 313.00; ! medium, $12.95 to $13.00; light, Slik ry ! $12.65 to $13.00 light light, $12.28 | GRAIN QUOTATIONS, to $12.75; heavy packing sows) Hemme smooth, $12.25 to $12.60; king | Toronto, i ST sy ous, $11.76 to 312.25; pigs, | Toronto, Deo. §.----Manitoba wheat | $11.78 to . $12.60. Cattle--Beef | ~-No. 1, Northern, $2.30: No. 2, . steers, medium and heavyweight; $2.27; No. 8, $2.23; In store, Fort | 'choice and prime, $18.50 to Jee; William. No, 3 OW. $136] medium and good, $11.38 to $18.50; | -Manitoba oats--No. 2 C.W., 87%e¢ $8.75 'a $11.25; light- [No. 3, C.W,, 83%¢; No. 1 feed, 87%¢| Sm Buffalo. YOH common, $1.00. weight, good and choice, $13.85 to $20.76; common and msdium, $8.00 to $13.85; butcher catile, - heifers, 36.50 to $16.00; cows, $6.35 to $13.75; cinners and cutters, $5.35 to $6.35; veal calves, $16.50 to $17.50; feeder steers, $7.00 to $12.25; stock- er steers $6.00 to $10.75; Western range steers, $7.50 to $15.00; cows 4, C.W., 81.35%; rejects, ers, $6.50 to $12.50. Sheep-- | feed, $1.261%. and Lambs, $14.25.t0 416.25; culls and common, $10.00 to $14.00; ewes, medium good and choice, $7.76 to $9.40; culls and common, $4.00 to $7.25; breeding, $7.00 to $11.20. Montreal. Montréal, Dec. No. 1 feed, $1. FEATHERS son on. FUR MUSKRAT, MINK WOLVES, LTC. AND SKINS, Eviny WRITE TO DAY FOR PRIGE LISTS AND ALL INFORMATION. GOOBE DOWN, 75 cents per Ib. REDFOX, prime, $85.00 to $16. BEAVER, large prime, $35.00 to 1090, > hd large prime, $35.00 to $10.00. ¢ Beaver amd: Otter must have Gov. ernment tags om. MARTIN, dark prime, $65.00 to $10.00. sr , dark Bilkey, $65.00 to $15.00, OROBS FOX, large prime, $150.00 to $26.00. SILVER FOX, up to $700.00. RACCOON, prime, $12.00 to $2.00. SKUNK, prime black, $6.00 - to Large prime, full-furred skins, properly stretched. and han: dled, bring the top priced quoted. Unprime, poorly handled stock, 'are graded according . to quality and value. : We manufacture all the fine furs. This guarantees you top prices. Hite Department Horse Hides, No. 1, $9.00 to $7.00, Lamtisging, fresh, $3.35, $3.00, es, trimmed, 2 Ibs. tare, 25c. ts per Ib. > "rendered, 14 cenls per pe GINSING, wild dry root, $15.00 "$1.37 to $1.40. BWAX, No. 1, 35e. to 27e. pee |, ] No. 2 teed; 79 '%¢; extra No. 1 83¢; 'Fort William, in store. : American torn--No. 2 yellow, $1. | 70, track, Toronto, prompt shipment : | No. 3 yellow, $1.60; Canadian funds. | Canadian corn---Feed, nofinal. | Manitoba barley, in store, Fort! Willlam---No, 3, C.W., 81.68%; No. $1.26%; Ontario wheat--No. 1, $2 to $2.01 No. 3,881.97 to 82.08 f.0.b., shipping ints, according to freights: No. 2 193 to $1.99; No. 1 spring, $2.02 feed, | to $2.08; No. 2, $1.99 to $2.05; No. |: | 8 { §.~--Oats, extra | according to freight outside.' Flour, new stand | $1.95 10 82.01. : Ontario osts--No., 3, §8c td doc, Barley--~Malting, $1.50 to $1.53. Buckwhest--$1.30 to $1.32. Rye--No. 2, gominal; No. 3, Peas--No, 2, $2.60, according te relight, outside, Ontario flour--Government stan. dard, Montreal, $9.50 to $9.60, in ute bags; Toronto, $9.50 to $9.60. Manitoba flour and Government tandasfd, $11, Toronto. Milifeed ----- Carloads, delivered Montreal. Shorts, $52; bran, $45; feed flour, not quoted: middlings. 10t quoted; good feed flour, per bag, 3.15 to $3.50. - _ Hay--Baled, track, Toronto, car lots, No. 1, $26; No. 2, mixed, $21 to $28 per ton; straw, car lots, $11.50 to $12.50. ' Winnipeg. Winnipeg, Dec. 9. Oats, No. 2 C. W., 87%¢; No. 8 C.W., 83350; ex- vo. 1 feed, 83% ¢; No. 1 feed, No. 2 feed, 79%¢. Barley, No. 2C.W., 81.50%; No. 40.W.; $1.35%; rejected, 31.25% . Flax-- No. IN. W.C., $5.18; No. 2 O.W. $5.11; No. 3 C.W., $4.75. Rye, No. 2 C.W., $1.57. bi Chicago Chicago, Dec. 9.---No. 3 mixed, old, $1.51; No. 2 yellow, old, 31.59 to $1.60, Oats--No. 2 white, 81 to 83% ¢; No. 3 white, 70 to 84% ¢. Rye--No. 2, not quoted; No. 1.81. 62 to $1.82%. Barley--$1.85 to $1.60. Timothy seed----$8.50 to $11.50. Clover seed---$30 to $48. Pork--<Nominal. Lard--$22.90. Ribs ~-$19 to $20. GENERAL TRADE, Montreal. Montreal, Dec. 9.--Butter---Finest ereamery, in prints, 67¢ per Ib.; in blocks, 68¢c; dairy butter, solids, 54c per 1b, Eggs--~Sirictly new laid, $1 pir doz,; selects, 65¢; No. 1 b8c., Lard---In prints, 31¢ per 1b. Shortening--Per 1b., 28% ec. Ham---Large size, 30¢; small, 36) cooked, 49¢c. Bacon--~Windsor boneléss, 50c per] « ib.; breakfast, 40¢ to 48c. Dressed poultry--Milkfed chickens 37c to 38¢ per 1b.; Yowls, 38¢ to 336; ease, 30c; turkeys, 46e; ducks, 38¢. " Honey-~White clover, strained, 23¢ to 24¢ per 1b; buckwheat, I8c to 18c. ; Aye. imperial gallon, b. Lp 28 .50; sugar, 28¢ per Beans picked, - n hand 8 $5.50 per bushel; peas, $4.50 per|. bushel, Dressed Hogs---- Fresh killedsabat- | toir stock, $25 per 100 Ibe. Cane sugar-- to $12 per 100 Ibs. : Flour---Spring wheat, $11: bbl, ex-track, deliversd indiy, 10 to $11.20; wintér ; N iilreod Bown Fo pet to I ck; shorts, $55. Dar Toronto, te Granulated, $11.25 o THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG ROM CITY To FAR (1) Gold Coin Potatoes grown from hand-selected tubers, rowing from hand-selected (2) J. W (3) Some of his Porkers. . Lucas, an Eastern Canadian ei heads, on Rosehurst Farm, Cayley, ty boy, now owner of this Western Farm, Marquis Wheat plot Alberta, and (4) Grade Percheron Horses, used by Mr. Lucas on his Rosehurst Farm, We sre continually hearing about he farm boy $0¢s to the oity, but we hear lttid about the city boy who goes to the (firm. Yet, just as many farm boys have bedome sne- cessful business men in our cities, 80 there are undoubtedly many city boys who have become farmers, is more in the countries that are beitig new- ly opened up such as Western Can- ada. Among the winners st the In- lernational 3oil-Products Exposition lield at Itansas City recently at least one, If not -more, of the successful axhibitors was born #ity and only became & farmer after Se Bad reached raanhood. Jolin Ww. Lucas who won prizes for white oats, brome grass seed, barley and rye, hatl never been a farmer until he settled on his homestead in Cayley, Alberta, sixteen years ago. However, he Bas set to work to learn ail he could abotit this noble profession and nobody can say that he has made a bad job of it. Mr. Lucas was born in one of the cities of Eastern Canada. Like OUier DOYS 'whose paremts are in circumstances he earn- od money after school hours de- livering newspapers and in wari ods other odd . "Ledving school, he says, he pot a real job at six dollars a week and later came West and worked in Winnipeg for a pu. Hs bad always felt a desire to 8 farmer, however, and it iy @wot surpristag that the call of the Canadian Government for settlers for free homesteads at once appealed to Bim, He cpme to Alberta In 1903 and * : trie ens, roasting, 35 to 40; ducks, 1b, 35 to .40; geass, 1b. .26 to .30; tur- keys, 45 to 55. EA SOLD STORAGE EGGS FOR FRESH ONES Brantford, Dec. 10.-~It has reported to the authorities that on Saturday a market at. tendant and his wife, having Sold out of eggs, adjourned for A few minutes to a local store. where they replenished their stock with cold-storage eggs, which they purchased at from 75 to 80 cents per dozen. On their return to the market these eggs were retailed out as the strictly fresh variety, at from 90 to 95 cents per dozen, The same thing has been pre- viously reported, but this is the first time that the name of the eyewitness has been available for the authorities. . DIED AT LANSDOWNE An Esteemed Lady Passed to Eters nal Rest. Lansdowne, Dec. 6--On the 3rd inst. the death occurred at her home located on his homestead in Cayley, in the southern part of the province, he sami year. Ha is the owner of' eight hun dred ae of land in a bloek, and is iat , besides, in six and a Balt sections of land--4,160. On his farm he has produced as much as 130 bhshels of oats to the acre and 66 bushels of wheat to the acre. The quality of his osta may be judged from the fact that for five years he Won the premier honors for this crap #t the Alberta Provincial Seed Fair. He has also been a regular exhibitor | and prize winner at the International Sofl Products Exposition and other exhibitions held in the United States, It has been Mr. Lucas' ambition to become a good farmer and he has spared no efforts to learn all he cotild about his profession. He gpent the winters of 1912 and 1913 in Towa 4s part of his agricultural education. Hers he visited some of the best farms in the State, asked lots of away with as much knowledge as he could gather. He considers these tw: winters spent in lowa among the best investments he ever made. He learned much about horses, outtle and hogs, and also how good farmers select the ears of corn, how in this way they increase the yield, produc. Ing ears true to type and uniform fa size, He figured that Agi could bo s0 much improved ection the same thing could be done with) the heads of wheat, oats, barley and ills of potatoes. He came back to Alberta and began to use this knowl- edms. . Not only has he {ncreased the yield of these crops but has Gassman, Henderson, Michigan, Mrs. Thomas Dempster, Gandnoque, Mrs. William McConnell, Lansdowne. The funeral services were held in St. John's church on Saturday and the remains placed in the Union vault. Samuel Tedford has purchased from J. D. E. Sheppard, the black- smith ghop he at present' occupies and also the large lot on which it stands; Harry Kirker has rented J. F. Quinn's shop for a blacksmith shop. . The True Blues gave a fare- well on Thursday to James Milian, their popular president, who left for Ottawa on Friday to learn baking and confectionery. - Mrs. Elizabeth Lansdowne and daughter will occupy John Shields' house for the winter while the latter will spend the winter in Ottawa with his daughter. Elmer Burns has erected a new meat shop on the lot adjoining the post office and will handle all kinds of meats and canned goods. RR. Bherman has started cafrt- ing. We now have two carters. G. A. Hurst dnd Mrs. Charles Ganman, Henderson, Michigan are spending the week-end with relatives, ibn DIED AT PRESCOTT of Mrs. D..B. Johnston, who was widely known and estéemed by a host of friends. She had been a sufferer for some years from Bright's disease, but was able to attend to her Household till very recently. She leaves to mourn, her- husband, two sons, Harold and Ford at home, three daughtrs, Mrs. Cecil Stevens, Elgin, Mrs, Wm. McPherson, Seeley's Bay, Mrs. Urban J. B. Warren, Lansdowne, Mr. Melville Was Well-Known at Charleston, - Charleston, Dec. 8.--R. Burch and son, Lyndhurst, were through here last week repairing the telephone Hnes. Miss B. Hudson, Brockville, is visiting her aunt, Miss Sarah Hud- son. J. £ Ward lost his little driver (Button). The animar died after twenty-four hour's illness. The peo- ple of Charleston learned with regret one brother, G. A. Hurst, Flint, Mich- igan, and three sisters, Mrs. Charles diary, 55 to to (75; : > of the déath at Prescott of Thomas R. Melville a frequent visitor to the 1 questions, saw a good dea! and came stoek. improved | J the quality and type as well. of fields of oats, barley Crops with heads of all sises he Row fields of these grains with nearly all alike. By hand of potatoes, saving only hills true to type, he has been sbie to produce as high as thirty-seven marketable potatoes from ome hill, and from one potato planted a yield of seventy-three pounds of potatoes. This 18 a record difficuit to best any. where, Thess are some of the things a eity boy has been able to do on a farm, Not only his Iie become the owner of # large area of land but on this land be is producing erops of the highest quality and a maximum . Practically the whole of the crop grown by him sells as seed at & higher price that obtained by the average farmer, and the demand for what he produces is greater than he can supply. He is 2150 a great believer in lye A man who has studied farm. ing as he has done would he. | Cattle, hogs and horses are rais~ od on his farm and the same pains. taking care in the selection of types and breeding is paid to livestock as he pays to the selection of grain, with results equally as satisfactory. The suceess of John W. Loess should be inspiring to many a eity boy. "Any boy can do what I have done in this eountry." he says. "All it needs, is persistence." To this may be added patience and a desire to excel, qualities possessed by mowt successful men, whether in city or ol lake. He formed one or a party who were the first to arrive in the sprikg after the ice went out. W, E. Green and bride, nee Miss Florence Heffer nan, returned on Tuesday from their wedding trip to Toronto and Nigara Falls: Mrs. M. J. Kavanagh gave the bride a -miscallaneous shower on Wednesday afternoon, when about three dogen of her women and girl friends gathersd and showered her with gifts which were but silent tok. ens of the esteem in which she fa held. Mrs. Leonard Halliday spent the week-end in Brockville. A heavy affliction fell on thé home of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Draper, Pem- broke, when their only son, Thoma William Lawrence Draper, passed away after a comparatively short ill ness from typhoid fever. 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We have them my AY Styles and colors, st very moderate prices. np » ¥ 1 8 -. a Victory Shoe «1 Wine got eradic for mak-] A womun ma' say what she talaks some ues who were born] but [£3 gals ot vhe doern't tink x io what she sive, If a man is friendless it Is Ris own What's the matter with the monn. hl " ; : } tacruner of covsels 48 & reformer. «or