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or competition ed and poultr; se. will. nT. ue of $2000. The specials for the poultry epartment will be published in a separate list which will 'be ready {for distribution about November The Secretary will furnish lists and entry forms free 'of 'lcharge to any intending exhibitor. '|WATCH THE SEED GRAIN "| _FOR WILD OATS. J. Lockie Wilson, superintend ent of fairs and exhibitions, desires {to call particular attention to the "| fact that a great deal of foul grain i is being 'at present 'hrought into this province from: the northwest: rritories, and is confident } saw oats at Port Arthur from that section which contained " [fully 40° per cent. of wild oats--a most dangerous field pest. He states that train loads of. such grain are now arriving at Port rthur, and the danger of' the spread of noxious weeds in the agricultural portions of the pro- vince is greatly. increased, owing ive | tO the fact that our farmers are ju to very many instances short of feed Mr. Wilson called the attention Mr. T. G: Rayner, the Ontario entative of the seed branch department of agriculture at a, to two large: s : hich he brought down from samples of, ~while there gs marketed ammer, even larger! on, the demand is still e supply." Onnear- e found an am- p "Ducks are and chickens at' §oc air: . The market for geese and urkeys has not 'yet opened, but about November 1 it is quite com- mon at the important centres to see a turkey fair. By this'is meant that Messrs, Flavelle Bros; of Lin- say visit these points 'at stated dates and accept and ship several 'carloads. "a +The. Hog: Market--With the low level of hogs, $5.02 per cwt, ad th¥ extreme prices of feed, he farmers are carefully thinking over the advisability of feeding and {finishing of hogs or selling the 'grain outright. Just now there is large supply of porkers, as the prevailing high prices during the summer induced the many to "'dip in" more extensively. ~Atpresent there is an over-supply; according to. the quantity of feed, and it is a roblem hard to solve how tc 'handle them profitably. .Cattle--~The cattle market "is away off. No one is looking for any, and there are plenty to be had ite reasonably. Usually at this season of the year stockers, feeders and cows are readily picked up, but now that it is realized that feed will be scarce, and they are reluctant to fill up the empty stalls. 'While this séctiod of the Province Has been' favored with a fair 'por- tion of moisture during the sum- mer, Btill the pastures are short, and cattle will not go into the stables looking anp 'too well. At the different auction tales. which have been held so far. prices. have dropped. about one-half, and in some cases the sales are being cdiled off for the lack 'of bidding. Duyging the past few ears it would be a rare thing to call a sale and not have a large crowd of eager purchasers, but not so this Fall." Good feeders would then | bring 'about 4c per pound, and good dairy cows close to $60 each. but now 'the former are hardly asked for. at. any price, and the r can be purchased at about 0, the old, hard times.~ Hp price of horses has d [t greatly. fallen off. Those who eagerly purchased a fair stamp of a Clyde mare at $200 to $300 last spring are asking themselves what ley were thinking of got to wait little longer and have their of. the 'good instead of the culls; at declining prices. * It is e ote prices, but the ni on'is that the 'drop is | mer is The average after know! a True Story of How the Vegetable Compound : : Had Its Birth and How the "Panic of 73" Caused [it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores.' This remarkable woman, whose waiden name was Estes, was born in Mass, February Oth, 3 m ol uaker family, or became known as o woman of an alert and investigating mind, an earnest seekor edge, and above all, possessed of a wonderfully sympathetic nature. In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham a builder and real estate operator, and their early married life was marked by prosper and "happiness, - They had our children, three sons and a daughter. In those good old fashioned days it was common for mothers to make their own home medicines from roots and herbs, nature's own remedies--calling in a physician only in specially urgent cases. By tradition and experience many of them gdined a wonderful knowledge of the 'curative properties of the various roots and herbs Mrs. Pinkham took a great interest in the study of roots and herbs, their char- acteristics and power over disease. She maintained that just as nature 0 bounti- fully provides in the harvest-fields and orchards vegetable foods of all kinds; 80, if we but takethe pains to find them, the roots and herbs of the field there are remedies expressly designed to cure the various ills and neeges of the body, and it was her pleasure to search these out, and prepare simple and effec- tive medicines for her own family and friends. Chief of these was a rare combination of the choicest medicinal roots and herbs found best adapted for the cure of the ills and weaknesses liar to the female sex, and Lydia E. Pinkham'é friends and neighbors learned that her compoun relieved and cured and it became quite popular among them. All this go far was done freely, without money and without price as a labor of love. But in 1873 the financial crisis struck Lynn. Its length and severity were too much for the real estate interests of the Pinkham family, as this class of business suffered most from fearful de- pression, so when the Centennial year dawned it found their property swept away. Some other source of income h. to be found. At this on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was made known to the world. The three sons and tho daughter, with ter killed out. much of the tender roots, and left little of the mixture in the new meadows. - However, where there is any it is filling well and may turn out a fair sample, but high prices are looked for. Al- sike clover was an abundant crop. and prices opened up well at $7.50 per hushel | = Most of the farmers sold and are sorry, as $10 is being offered for what is still out. Vegetables and Sugar Beets-- Mostly all lines of yegelables are ) Potatoes are yielding el . e d prices are quite firm. 1819, com~|m fons years she taught school, and good their mother, combined forces to restore 'the family fortune. They argued that the icine which was 80 good for their woman friends and neighbors wae equally for the women of the whole world. The Pinkhams had no money, and little credit. Their first Iaboratory was She xisehom, J¥hiere ols dnd Dorks were on the Etovoe, u fh a groes of bottles. Then came the of selling it, for always before they had given it away freely. They hired a printer to.run off some pamphlets setting orth the merits of the medicine, now called Lydia I. Pinkham's Vegetable Comporing ad these wero distributed e Pinkham sons in Boston, Now Cork, and Brooklyn. : The wonderful curative properties of the medicine were, to a great extent, self-advertizing, for whoever used it res commended it to others, and the demand gradually increased. In 1877, by combined efforts the family had eaved enough money to commence' newspgper advertising and from that time the growth and success of the enter- rise were assured, until to-day Lydia E. inkham and her Vegetable Corpoand have 'become household words every~ where, and many tons of roots and he arc used annually in its manufacture. Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not live to oe (hs reat success of this work: She passed to her reward years ago, but not till she had provided means for continu- ing her work as effectively as she could have done it herself, - During her long and eventful experi- ence she was ever methodical in her work and she was always careful to pre- serve a record of overy case that came to her attention. The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice-- and" there wer thopizan ds --recelved careful study and the details, including symptoms, treatment and results were recorded for future reference, and to-day these records, together with hundreds of thousands made since, are available to sick women the world over, and repre- sent a vast collaboration of information regarding the treatment of woman's ills, which for authenticity and accuracy can hardly be equaled in any library in the world. With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her daughter-in-law, the present Mgs. Pink- ham. ~Bhe was carefully instructed im all her hard-won knowledge, and for years she assisted her in her vast corres- pondence. To her hands naturally fell the diree- d|tion of the work when its originator passed away. For nearly twenty-five years ehe haa continued it, and nothing in the work shows when the first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped her p> and the present Mrs. Pinkham, now the mother of a large family, took it u With woman asistants, gome as capable as her- self, the present Mrs. Pinkham continues this great work, and probably from the office of no other person have so many women been advised how to n health. Sick women, this advice is "Yours for Health" freely given if you ad [only write to ask for it. Such is the history of Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Com; : made from simple roots and herbs; the one t medicine for women's ailments, and the fitting monument to the noble woman whose nama it Fans. cases the apples are small, but they are of good quality. Pp. pE---- Shake in a Bottle -- Now js the time when the doetor gets busy, and the patent medic ne manufacturers reap the harvest, un, less great care is taken to 'dress warmly and keep the feet dry. his is the advice of an old. eminent/an- thority who says tbat rheumatism and kidney trsnble weather is here, and also tells what to do in case of