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Experiments Made with Farm Ime plements in Czar's Kingdom. 4 despatcli from Bt: Petersburg | [| was carried out by the Rte De- | Hi partment of Agriculture. during the 'of 1012, with & view to put-| end to the dependence of | on. American manutactur- ver 100, reapers, mowers, _ other implements n in countries were put to' der 'the ' supervision of 'of | Hoials 'of bie gig ol A con- ak d were Sound 1 apts "conditions," an pia ae al hon be AA equally Five "Russia. "The Department of | Agriculture" is 'sending out copies of 'the report to co-operative socie- ties and Government Boards all over the country, as the Russi- "| an farmers -are; largely. supplied . | ists 'to substitute other implements . | for the American machines genor- > {ally in nse, ~Seventy-two per cent. | of the business in this kind of ma- [chinery is now. in the hands of anslasturert | in the United Btates. 5 fan and Bankor..: ; ; 'dospatel from Toronto says: At 3.80 on Friday afternoon, Dr. Beattie: Nesbit President of defunct aumbed ta & sie nthe' illness. He {ied home, "71° Grosvenor it, -- Dr. hm. Chambers and Dr. Walter = McKeown, Mrs. '| Nesbitt, and her daughter at the bedside, Dr. Nesbitt was 46 years fod His death has. hesn expected y | dai r the past week, owing to the malevolence of the heart dis- ht's disease, which b genial doctor to a shadow of himself. At noon brick he became unconscious, and at thre thirty he passed quietly away. noon Emp BNOCOTP 3; drone bakes Ua tn Jose' : Flour--Winter wheat flour, po oot patents, is quoted at $4.00 to Country Produce, Wholesale. Eges-Loldsiomage , 20c to 230 in onse lots; fresh hid ory, Bo to 260; strictly new-laid, Chee: to 160, and large, new at 14120; old cheese, twins, 151-40 to 181-303 large, '150. Butler Latest butter quotations are:-- fuary prints, 310 lo 3%; do., solids, 2% i, i; to 300; Ja Airy (Drinte, Zo to 20; inferior Hoey. _Buckwbent, 9% pound in tins and in barrels; strained clover honey, a pound in 60-pound tins, 12340 in 10pound tins; Bo in 6-pound tins; comb honey, No. L. $2.60 per domen; extra, 83 per dosen; No, 2, $2.40 per dozen. oBouliry--Live icp om. wholesale, 10c to r pound fowl to iio § live turkeys, 150 to 1} c; agin. 9%. to 1. DB rensed Joultn try, 20 ve live iotations, excepting dressed turkeys, at to fonags-- Primes; 8.60 and $2.60 for hand- P Potatoes--Ontario potatoes, 850 per bag; oar; lots, '760; New Brunswioks, 8 per bag, out of store; oc. in car Spanish Onions--Per oase, o 82.5 to $240. Baled Hay ar and Straw. Baled hay, No. 1, $1350 to $14.00; No. 2, at 280 Ping, new, "143-40 dificulties with which the av- age alt n finde it hard -to grasp, though he can undérstand the fou that no matter what happens. there is going be a bill of sever: million dollare for Str 10° DAY. ain, there ia trouble over a section now well on to- of the sewer > :wards complet: One of th the outlets into the Ia Lake Which was _taken oft the hands ntractors some Jorithe ago, and Which hae never been used, is said to have "hee: lng 2 pleces and is, already Pa The fact is that at Toronto has such a sta. pendous - amount of olvic improvements under way that 'the resources of public ownership are being taxed ta the limit. circumstances it would not seem to be surprising if certain. errore of judgment and o i cution should oreep in, though the friends of good go oF ernment: are hoping they will be as fe as possible. ------ BANKER'S 80N SUICIDES. Cut. His Throat With a Razor in a Winnipeg Hotel. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Twenty-four hours after he had cut his throat with a razor, the body of Eugene Delano, a member of a prominent New York family, residing at 12 Washington &quare north, was found Thursday night lying "unolothed on the floor of 'his bedroom in the Royal Alexandra Hotel: A cm eee .SHOT MAN IN MISTAKE. Winnipeg Constable Tried to Frigh- * ten a Milk Thief. A despatch from Winnipeg says: two | John Zcopik, Ruthenian, is lying in the General Hospital with a bullet in his right temple, as the result of a revolver shot fired on Thursday morning by William Andrew Wise- ly, police constable, at another man who stole two bottles of milk from a delivery wagon. Minneapolis, Feb. A--Wheat, ly, 893-80 to 891-20; No. 1 86 87 tdo Duluth, Feb. 87140; No. fg ern, Bide; Jt May. 9% Live Stock Markets. Montreal, Feb. 4.--Choive steers, $6.50 to $6.75; good at 86 to $625, and the lower rades from that down to 84, hile. choloe utchers' cows brought $5.50, and $5 to $5.25, with common sellin] $4 per 100 Je: Bulls ranged $5 per: 100 La culls. Calves ranged from $3 to $12 each, as to size and quantity. elsoted lots 3 hogs were made at $9 to he bei, weighed off gars and in > stances as high $9.50 "wi Toronto, Feb. attle--Brport, sn to $7.10. Cattle--Choice-butcher, $6.25 to $6.. go dium, of i LOTimon, 10 i COWS, ulls, $3 to $5.25; canners, $2 to a Good veal, $8 to $9; Common, | Stockers and Feeders--Bteers, pounds, $3.25 to $5.25; 2 Je pounds, $2.75 to $4.85 1 , From $50 to $72: ewes, $4.75 to $525; heavy @ lambs, $6 to $8.50. Hogo--88 watered, and $8.40, Lob. MURDER 4ND SUICIDE. Ottawa Laborer r Kills Wite and Poisons: Himself £ A despatch from Ottawa says: Cyrille Lepage, aged 45, a laborer at the Booth mills, who came here from, Quebec a few years ago, shot and killed his wife, aged forty, and committed suicide by taking Paris green, at their rooms, 87 Broad street, shortly before moon on Fri- day. Acoording tq the woman's mother, Lepage came home Friday morning and said he was going 'to kill his wife and himself. The mo- ther rushed out to summon: the po- lice, but when assistance arrived Mrs. Lepage was found with. two bullet wounds in the head, and the man had taken poison. Mys. Le- page died en route to a& hospital, and Lepage sucoumbed, about halt an hour later. -- SMALLPOX IN BERLIN. Viotim vontracted Disease, It Is Thought, In Waterloo. A despatch from Berlin, Ont., says: A serious case of smallpox was discovered on Samuel Street on Thursday morning. The victim is believed to have contracted the dis- ease in Waterloo, where his bro- ther and family are afflicted and are in the Isolation Hospital. The patient. was removed to the local Isolation Hospital, and his house is quarantined. Suddaby school, which was attended by the children of the victim, has been closed, and the pupils have been ordered to be vaccinated. TRADE DOUBLED IN 10 YEARS The Dominign's Record for 1912 Is the Largest in Her History despa trom Ottavia says: fact that $ obwithatand res for 1912 Fo rer orp rer in the history crease over the year'1911L of $105, - 193,889, or-13,6 per 'oéut. \ If may beviof 'interest $0 observe Ith total trade of Canada for Task fiscal year was more than double | the 'trade of" only' fen years ago. the increase; in Shas time Amoi