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or ------r for beef, and when- a herd has much of the bided of er of these breeds in 1t the type of is generally found. are good lot and stall rs. They make rapid gains and fairly good dressing percentage. re a little inclined to be leggy 1 ding, which Is against them, . hey are quick to adapt themselves any changes and environments, The Hercfords as meat producers have high rank. These cattle have {made marked Improvement within the i t twenty-five years. The breed is Rk ! for having an excess of x 4 dewlap and lack of devel- 'opiment of rump and hind quarter. The nd steer is noted as an excellent berde D $2 made a remarkable record "No other breed lias made £0 fine a rec- ord In wiening the high honors at the Chicago international live stock show. The breed has wou many honors not only in champion fat seer classes, but _ also ii carload lofs. The steers ure cx- eet feeders, but mast not be too s TYPICAL HEREFORD STEER. closely confined. They are more less wild by nature, so that strang and dogs inust keep away. This breed appears to stand shipping by rail somewhat better than the other | 'of cattle. They are not so well adapt ed to the range as the Herefords, but mature early and are highly prized hy mapy growers of "baby beef." What Beef Men Think of Silage. r The success attending the nv of silage in the dairy business has created | much Interest among beef cattle nico |Billage furnishes a cculent food, which is quite ess to the dairy cow In keeping her dig ve system in good condition. The sa found true for the beef an ty pounds of silage per day will supply 'all the bulk and water led in a , fattening ration. The otl roughage may cousist of either long fodder or mixed hay. The ecconomy of using isilage for fattening purposes Is well | brought out by Professor A. M. Boule ' of the Virginia station, who has stated © ithe following conclusions: 4 "There was a difference of from 8 sf Fun and Good Training For § Child In a Pony. favorable day of the spring t rare sight of a number o years ago. Many fortunate youngster spend most of thelr leisure time in aed a the little girl wearing the divided skirt and riding boy fashion. people think a boy or girl can SHETLAND I'ONY HOWARD B. [Wibner of first prize in stallion class at Jordy fair, member of the herd of 'Meade farm, Mussachugetis.] true, for by borseback riding every mus- cle in the body is brought into play, making it vastly superior to the me chanical exercise obtained from a gym- nasium, and in riding and driving a pony the child readily acquires self re- liance and courage, quickness of indi- vidual acton and a sense of judgment. 1 accompanying cut from the rican Cultivator shows a notable , with description as follows: Standing forty inches high, Howard I, 18 of remarkably go od conforma- tion, having an unusually Small bead, full chest, deep bedy, short back, ex- cellent hind quarters and very straight legs, with good bone. Wonderfu¥ to relate, he is as vigorous and in as good condition today as when he en tered the show ring ut the World's fair and as a perfect specimen of the Shetland is difficult to be excelled either for beauty or speed. His color is black and white. 7 A Contrast. The largest horse so far as is known was brought to Watertown, Minn., by Sylvester Dory of this city, who traded rd of Shetland ponies for him, the St. Paul Ploncer Press. The ds eighty-one incl g s close to 0 pounds. He Ww ed by II. R. Carroll, a farmer living near Doland, In this state. Staking a Hog on Pasture. A plan for tying out male hogs, a3 cows are tied out on pasture or range, is wwn in the accompanying illus tration, which 1s the idea of one of our readers A double girth of me dium sized chain is made to fit the body of the hog before and directly Ee edad day in favor of the e silage fed cattle. hey also finished out better and in any discriminating market would cer ;talnly bring a Detter price than the "Ary fed cattle. "Of the threa forms of roughage fed, the gllage was eaten with the greatest olsh, and there was absolutely no , whereas with the stover the loss amounted to 13.5 per cent and with hay 4.16 per cent. Where a large number of guimals are fed this would make a considerable difference In the cost of ration, except that the shredded Stover can be utilized to advantage for bed- ding." Silage as it is put up today is better than when the practice was first start- ed. Good siluge of corn is made when the grain has passed the mik stage and has commenced to glaze a little. Silage is made also ror Ror corn and cowpeas and pea vipes. Corn Stover. Corn stover is used both shredded and unshredded. Ordinarily the cattle | quantity | svhichever way It is fed. The shredded | will waste a considerable fodder is prepared because the cattle est a greater percentage of it and the manure is handled more easily. Fod- der is often fed on the ground in the | open pasture fleld {o save the hauling of manure. There Is a saving, bowever, ing the fodder shredded. Uspally the feed Is taken care of earlier and there '48 less exposure to leaching rains and wveathering processes. Again, more | feed can be put in a smaller space, 2 'thus requiring less storage space. Jersey Lambs. L It would be better if the farmers, fo- stead of using poor stock from fhe rest, would select their stock from thelr own lambs, and in doing this as much care and judgment Should be 8 in selecting a dairy cow. In profits, one farmer has sold at $7.85 per Read, while his obtained in hav- HOG TIED OUT. behind the shoulders. Below they are connected by a few links of chain, and the chain from the stake is also con- nected with the harness here. We are informed that this is a very satls- factory way of keeping hogs on range where it is impossible to have a spe- cial lot for their use, remarks Iowa Homestead King Edward as Stockman, The rich crop of prizes which the king's cattle and sheep won at the Bingley Hall show, Birmingham, is the latest demonstration of his majesty's success as a farmer, of which be i# so deservedly proud. When the king be- gan breed nearly forty years ago the Sandringham farm lands were in | an almost hopeless condition, barren | and barely capable of cultivation, To- | day, according to Rider Haggard, "it is a wonderful farm, for nowhere is so much high bred stock to be seen on the same are But probably no- where will you find such an array of plates and cups won at shows as that which Sandringham boasts. At a sin- | gle exhibition Lis majesty once won no fewer than fourteen first prizes. In 1903 he captured five first prizes and cups in addition to numerous seconds and thirds. In 1004 his prizes num- bered twenty. In 1905 he won a cham- plon plate, a challenge cup and eight een other prizes, including four firsts, while last year he took at the Smith- fleld show ten firsts, nine breed cups and plates, six other prizes and several "highly commendeds," and every prize winner be has bred Limself. --Westmin- ster Gazette. | More Horse Meat. In 1906 50,000 horses were slaughtered | for food in Paris, furnishing about 12,- {000 tons of meat. Formerly horse | meat was eaten by only the poorest classes, but now it is no longer regard- ed as refuse meat, and iis SensEppHon | evidence of the growin: . in carts are no longer th t {world's existence. DR SODEVDOOD pele children is magical. It makes them plump, roy It contains Cod Liver by little ALL DRUGGISTS: BOo. AND 81 PERG HOBPOHPHs 'cellently-appointed Canadian Pacific | The effect of Scott's Ema, ; and Glycerine, to make fat, and so put together ¢ that iw casily mena ach wstmen. When tne camera man was | through with him the alligator was set free, a final shot being taken at him as he walked off. Our hunter boys could never be made to comprehend our rea- sons for restoring to the creatures their freedom. They understood the photo- graphing, but when this was done why pot collect a dollar for the reptile's hide? Their manner implied that to 1his question no sane answer was pos- sible.--A. W. Dimock In Harper's Mag- azine, ECONOMY IN ITALY. 'The Roman Season the ( T al 44 i necessary--my husband's valet, one but- ler, the porter who stands at the en- trance to the palace and a general utility country boy who in the after. noon puts on a livery and acts as foot- man. The women servants are a cook, a scullery maid, a laundress and two maids besides my own personal one. This list is not as extra wat as the same would be in Americe Wages are nothing by "comparison. One can get a good lady's maid for $10 a month, a competent butler for $10, a cook for $10, a chambermaid for $6, Their fare woull seem coarse to the gpolled servant of America, consisting, as It does, chiefly of bread, soup, mac- aroni and fruit, with tea and coffee of an inferior grade and fresh meat once a week We spend nothing that we can possibly help until the Roman sea- son. Then we have enough surplus to get an additional number of maids and a long row of footmen (these for tho most part young women and men from the village of onr own estate), and both in our comntry villa and in our Roman palace we open all the rooms that for eight months have been closed and for four months live in laxury.-- An Expatriate in Everybody's Maga- BEAUTIES OF HALCYON, B.C. Scenery Has No Parallel on Face of the Globe. Mr. P. A. O'Farrell of New York, who is well-known in Toronto and citiés all across Canada, is perhaps the most intimate friend in America fT. P. O'Connor. When "Tay Pay' was in Canada last year, Mr. O - rell was his bodyguard and his in- separable companion on his American tour. In the latest issue of T Weekly appears a letter from Mr, O'Farrell deseribing the beauties cf Haleyon, B. C., and it will interest many of our readers who know--or should know--the Arrow Lake coun- try. He writes: Twenty years ago, when I first sail- | there was not a Forts whole a hunter along its 300 miles of shore- line; all was strange, weird, wild, | fascinating beauty. We did pass one canoe, in which we recognized some Kootenay Indians because of the un- canny that fell upon our ears. weird interpretation of it. But save these few wandering savages, the Arrow Lakes were as lonely twenty years ago as in the dawn of the Bome of the old voyageurs had seen them, and some infrepid hunters had climbed the | passes of the mountains above the lakes, and had looked down in a wonder, soul of Pizarro at the first sight of the Pacific, when all his men look at each other with "a wild surmise, | silent upon a peak in Darien.' And T have seen the wilderness transformed into fields of golden grain, and orchards, and flowers, and gardens, and lawns, where happy children played and sang, and have seen men and women grow young and happy, being sharers in the creation of a new world of altars and of happy homes. Only yesterday I s: over | these wonderful lakes again, but this | time it was not in a skiff, as twenty | I was in one of the ex-| years ago. steamers that ply daily between Rob- | son and Arrow Head. Already along | the shores on either side the pionter and the orchard and the garden have displaced the wood. The pear tree, tree have supplanted the pine, the fir, the tamarack, and the cedar. Girt on' every side by mighty mountains, neither the typhoons that lash fas Pacific 10 fury nor the tornadoes tl shores. Storms and tempests are' utterly unknown, and as equally uD- | f¢ has double known are the extremes of heat and cold. Picture Killarney on a peoies | wor. | ed over the lonely waters of the Arrow | ah Lior hi and most melancholy chant flame, filling the A Corsican black smoke. Life] priest lived among them and taught joy burns unp of them this chant, and this was their with depression and sadness. akin fo that which filled the | «-- has done his work, and the meadow ASDT | all Tucubatow the cherry, the apple, and the DRochy goourge the plains can touch Asin the most effect { { fh | w There is some soil,.in the 8 n ozong of these p Sietice of or ' Snide to J. A. Rodmap. foe orth Me Widiey's st gn ae n ust think of a be to escape from th bugt that prevails | It 15 y four miles from these wonderful fine softest zephyrs, and fom ing hills you can watch lake or see the dawn, rosy as when he world rE ping from to away by the advent of i glo us gon smiles upon this enchanted Canada Calls. a Halt. : Canada has put a stop to the in- discriminate emigration to the Dom- inion by charitable organizations of be suplis popiilation of Loudon and other Eng cities. During past fon weeks the Canadian Immigra! Jommissioner in Loader: give his sanction, whi i ges by the steamship companies, oT emi gration of fifty persons, whom the Church Army proposed to send over, and he has been taken to task the head of that organization for refusal. His reply was that Heald accept only these whose settlers he is assured of. 'The eon mendations of workers amongst the poor, that those they propose to emi- grate are fit and proper persons, will not be accepted. Br as in the case of ths Salvation Army emigrants, it can XN shown that each has work to go "there will be no interference s&s 2 as the emigrants 3s physically and morally fit, but otherwise somwe- thing further than an assurance that ha is worthy of assistance must be forthcoming. | ! This Iuhioy has ain athe = se y critics in E: ose believe that 7 . owes it to the { Em here, , Bling thé alr a ------------------ The hawk eats the dove, but the hawk seems to be surrounded by as many dangers as the dove.--Atchison 1obe. PF YOU WOU IN HATCHING if LREYS, ' The, GOOD LUCK HENS, DUCKS without delaof purcliuse * if featores tha jcubato pparatus ever Let uss Tistar 3 The Chat hile, #4 Fool wiig e most per ait e used. Fare thorong bly GOOD GTREULATION s Constantly growing in ADVE in this District} i- the Champioa of the Agriculturists and more conservative class of people---is hot a favorite o --it Is the _schen.eqg, boomers ard cliques ublic Favor Ty Central Lirey PORT P RY. H RARITY. thanking the pubic for the liberal Fienise received during the have kept a Livery ment is Port Perry, 1 have mach pleasure in announcing that I have remoyed MY LIVERY! to my former place of business Water Street many years Establish it Is the which Iam about to largely extend in-| crease facilities" so that the public way te! better accoaumedated with sale and desir. | ahie i | RIGS AT MODERATE CHARGES | \ K, VANSICKLELR » Pact Perry, June 21, 1800 = a Out fee returned if we fail. "Any sketch and description of any Thyenia sending ly receive our oy lie tability of \ Pat ree concerning Fey PW fo Obtaly 4 sent Ly Touuesl, Patents h for sale at our us Patents tak -- = Yd an illustrated and w io for sample copy Evens Butid out thr neolsce, thats ee in 'widely eousulted by Manufacturers and Investors. Si) pti od Rioonn FREE. Address, | VICTOR J. EVANS & CO. | (Pdtént Attorneys;) WASHINGTON, D. C. November. dud sale. J:TA Temple Building, Nov. 30, 1399 ERDERS be the undersigaicd for the purchase of ai Or any of the Parcels-- Farm Proportic ing to Mr. Juhn Adams, advertised I's to be sold by auction on the 23r¢ withdrawn at thc McGILLIVRAY, wilt He belorg Toronto peer ----ANp-- On. band and for ral M OBHA wa: i DO. EES ToL Mark 4. HEHE 2. BROUGHAM--Clark, M. Gleceon, Green ary 13, Mi ns, 5 diy ay B Ma July, 7 Heidi 8. PORT PERRY --Olerk, J W. 2 Fig Pert y -- Ja wory 1, March ; tory un, Novenrber 16, dor 5 Mut, 8 4. UXBRIDGE - poe, Jos. E. Jangary 17, March 2, sgt hai 18, Jal, 15, 8. CANNINGTON--( (Clerk, = Jauunry 16, Marsh i is i be , November ! Géuid, Tix Eh July 17, Bepte. He Geo F, Tirnce, Beavbreon-- 2. July 15, Soprem 7. UPTER GRO E--Cl To Mubvabil, Juntary 14, March 17. May 13, ber 2,;Nosember 10, Jan. 23, 160 'By order, Upter July 14, Sept J. ¥: FARV.WFLL, ci , Dated at Whithy, Nov. 160s, 19000 © 9f the Peace HARNES: N returning than patronage xten ears. I would. respectivily i ne am, as awsnal, now ready for have a Large & Assorted OF DOUBLE AND SINGLE HAR which I am determined to seth very Aw an inducement to Cant pila b Disoound of 1 pro will be allowed on all Sales fiom no Jan. lst next. All work being 8 MADE BY HANDS und ne factory work kept in stock, euper ority of my goade will at ence hie appa: ents nteuding purchasers will find thal giving we a cull before looking elsew the yean he suited in quality aud Pricey long experience in the trade being an indi putaole guarantee that perfect satisf will he given by any article pushuseds Ecerthing in my line of busin constartly on haud and repairs neatly, promptly attended to, Jony ROL PH Port Perry, Dec. 1 The sndereianed Naving i Peon inthe dhe west of Drs. Arch | Office, 18 fn to do all far more magnificent scale, from te fs and mists and you in to realize Lakes, with their beauty, pled Staiic Bor Tepe prery