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though all '| in the birth rate: the bells are ringing and ags wave. The children are und , pale and wan, owers. The : tion of the Government was shown at the meeting of the ple's Wel®are -| Association at eas that occa- "increasing pinch" caused by the Bri- tisk blockade, The Berliner Zeitung * 4% is difficult to imagine that things could 'grow worse just now without some crowning disaster. The masses of the people are hungry all day long, many articles of food having reached a price wholly beyond the reach of the families of the working class. 'Hun- ger renders the people sullen and de-~ prives them of all joy in victories, 3 MEETING OF THE EX- PERIMENTAL UNION ~" HONEY IS' A VALUABLE NA- TURAL RESOURCE. 3 Farmers Saved the Country--Triumph of thé "0. A. C. No. 72" Oat. Two cases illustrating the unusual . profits that may be made from the keeping of bees were cited by Mr. Morley Pettit, Provincial Apiarist, in an address delivered at the Experi- mental Union meeting at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. One was that of a young undergraduate of "the 0.A.C. whose bees during the sum- sion a representative of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior stated that the Government was fully aware of the importance of the question in its Bearing on the future of the German nation, especially in view of the fact that hundreds of thousands of young men are being eut off in'the flower of their youth. In the meantime we are informed that the military authorities have forbidden meetings convened to discuss the dearness of living." Potato Loses Through Rot. Professor. J. E. Howitt gave a few startling statistics regarding the énormous losses to potatoes caused by rot. "Despite the last year's increase in the acreage of the potato crop," he stated, "there was a shortage of more than five million bushels, or on the average of forty bushels pér acre." While this loss might be partly attri- buted to climatic conditions, he point- ed out, the main cause was the dam- age done by an epidemic of late blight and rot. Beth these diseases may be controlled by selecting the best disease-resisting varieties of tu- bers, of good quality and heavy yield- ers, and by spraying the plants con- stantly, from the time they appear above the ground till the tops die down, with the Bordeaux mixture, adding a poison to combat the ravages of the potato beetle." Sweet Clover--Pro and Con. the atten-' dlc; comm cording to car Tob $1.00 50 ¥ r Tot, $1. ly sprouted, sprouted, smu according to to 86¢, accord ' Barley--Malting barley, 51 to fecd barley, 63 to be, according sreights outside, ee . Buekwheat--Car lots, 76 to 78¢c, ac- i cording to freights' outside. Rye--No. 1 commercial, 88 to 90c; rejected, 70 to 80¢c, according sample. : Manitoba flour--First patents, foie 6.80; second patents, bags, $6.30; strong rs', jute bags, $6.10, Toronto, Ontario flour--Winter, $4.60 to $4.80, according to sample, seaboard or Toronto freights in bags, prompt shipment. Millfeed--Car lots, delivered Mont- real freichts, Bran, $24 per ton shorts, $25 per ton; middlings, $26 r fon; g 2. Country Produce. = Butter--Fresh dairy, 28 to 31c¢; in- ferior, 24 to 25c; creamery prints, 36 to 87c¢; solids, 32 to 34c. gL Fggs--Storage, 30 to 31c per dozen; selects, 85 to 86¢; new-laid, 40 to 45¢, case lots, y Honey--Prices, in 10 to 60 lb. tins, os bo 12%¢; combs, No. 1, $3; No. 2, Beans--$4,20 to $4.40. Poultry--Spring chickens, 17 to 18¢; fowls, 18 to 14c; ducks, 17 to. 18¢ ood feed flour, $1.60 per| A despatch from London says: On the Russian front, the Austrian offi- cial communication records renewed desperate attacks by the Russians on the Bessarabian frontier, but claims that the attacks everywhere were re- pulsed. The Petrograd communica ; [tion is silent on the subject, but the Desperate Attacks Against the Teuton i 7 Renewed at Various Points Defences of a » 'who furnish' the largest quantity milk per cow from herds of not less than eight. The first prize winners, James Burton & Son of Sarnia, fu from their herd of eighteen, betw May and November, ss pins of London Daily Mail telegraphs: It is per cow; J. Le s"' (Listow- reported that the Russians are ener-|el) herd of ten gave 7 071 pounds getically pushing towards Czerno- OW; and the herd of sixteen o wits, They have occupied Sadagora. by S. H. Coneybeare, Listowel, gave, Office reported on Wednesday after- noon that the Russian attacks failed, with heavy losses to the attackers. The Petrograd correspondent of the 'mer vacation produced $1,000 worth! Sweet clover came in for some dis- geese, 15 to 19¢; turkeys, 28 to 26c. [Russians usually withhold mention of {It is reported that 10,000 Austrian of honey, and the other of a woman' cussion. While some people regarded whose bees produced more than $2,000 it as little better than a weed, others worth of honey during the season of 1916. 8 The speaker also pointed out the other side of this business--namely, failures due to to poor crop, diseases, and winter injuries, in most cases the result of careless handling. Tons of Food Wasted. "A valuable natural resource," con- tinued Mr. Pettit, "is the honey which is produced every summer by the mil- lions of flowers blooming oh the farms of Ontario. This honey not only satis- fies the human craving for sweets, but it has real food value, so it cannot in any way be considered a luxury. At present many tons are wasted for want of bees, and many bees are kept under unprofitable conditions for lack of gkillful management. Need of Capital. Dr. Geo. C. Creelmun, in a few words, showed the necessity of capital for the graduates in agriculture. "These men," he said, "have to start in where their fathers did fifty years ego--on an unimproved farm, with poor stock and machinery. If they were allowed eapital to put a farm in shape the first year they would be able to make use of their education, instead of wasting it on scrub cattle and' run-down soil." Dr. Creelman also favored the idea of B.S.A. men - going out to manage one-thousand- acre farms as a business proposition. Farmers Saved the Country. Farmers by producing a record crop last year saved this country from a 'gevere financial depression, said the President of the union, Mr: Herbert "Groh, amid applause. In his opinion the farmers of Ontario were a little slack this year in their interest in the welfare of * the Empire, and should pear in mind the fact that Providence favored the German and Briton agri- culturist alike. Triumph of 0.A.C. No. 72. "It is interesting to note that at - 'the college in 1915 the '0.A.C. No. 72' * oat, gave a yield at the rate of 103.6 Fi bushels per acre, its nearest competi- © tor, 'American Banner, yielding 92.8 "bushels," said Professor Zavitz, in re- . Viewing the results of co-operative ex- \ periments in agriculture carried on at ollege 'and on more than 4,000 throughout Ontario. welcomed it as a valuable addition to our leguminous crops, The chemical i department at the college, after a thorough test, considered it almost {equal to any other clover in the {amount of its digestible proteins. Prof. Harcourt advised using it on poorer lands, or practically any place where other clovers had been found to fail. Some men from actual experi- ence favored it for pasturing and weed smothering. On a farm in West~ ern Ontario, according to one of these men, two bullocks to the acre could be run on a field of it all season after it once got a start of cighteen inches. Talk on Farm Management. Paul Angle, a successful manager of a fifteen-hundred-acre farm at Sim- coe, gave a brief talk on farm man- agement. "Business methods are noth- ing more than methods which assist you to obtain greater profits," he said. "The business end of farming -has changed from simple teaching in our grandfather's time to complex prob- lems of buying and selling and the hiring of labor. Concentrate your business and study how you can turn waste time into valuable labor," was the pith of his address. Ae. PROTESTS AGAINST - GERMAN BRIGANDAGE A despatch from Paris says: The Havre correspondent of 'the Petit Journal telegraphs that the Belgian Government is about to lodge a pro- test with neutral Governments against { the new German war levy of 40,000, 000 francs monthly, in addition to last ! year's Aax of 480,000,000 francs. The i Belgian protest, the eorpespondent says, will point out that under the provisions of The Hague Convention | war taxes levied in occupied territory are limited to amounts necessary to meet needs of the army of -occupa- tion or to pay for the administration of the territory in question. The new Belgian tax is said to be far in excess of the amount needed for these pur- poses. i PRIBGNSRESA Se FRENCH OCCUPY CORFU. Are Preparing for the Arrival There . of Serbian Troops, 3 A despatch from London says: A French detachment has been landed on the Greek Island of Corfu for pro- visional occupation, according to an Athens despatch to Reuter's Telegram i .- Foupteen ships of un- Cheese--Large, 19¢; twins, 19%e¢. Potatoes--Car lots of Ontario quot- ed at $1.50, and New Brunswicks at $1.75 per bag, on track. Provisions, Thy Bacon, long clear, 16% to 16%c per lb, in case lots. - Hams---Medium, 17% to 18%c; do., heavy, 14% to 16¢; rolls, 16 to 16%¢; breakfast bacon, 21 to 28¢; backs, plain, 24 to 25¢; bone- less backs, 27¢. tard ard, their movements until they are well on the road to.completion. i For the first time in several weeks the Russians displayed activity on the north-western part of the battle line, launching an attack on Field Mar- {shal von Hindenburg's forces around Dyinsk, south-east of Hluxt, which is in German hands. - Tlluxt is only eight miles west from the great railroad city of Dwinsk. The German War Lard--Pure 14 to 14%ec; prisoners have been taken in the re- cent battles in the Bukowina and on the Stripa, Besides a great number of killed were abandoned .on the bat- 'tlefield. h : 5 "Austrian and German wounded and prisoners say the Russian artillery is devastating and caused losses aggre- gating 70,000 to the armies of Gener- als von Pflanzer and Count von Both- mer. 4 y 4 pounds. da Following - the announcement of these results, Mr. C. F. Whitley, who 'has charge of dairy rec "at Otta | wa, gave an illuminating address out- lining some dairy herd records, In one month the Dairy Division had 22,000. records of individual cows come into the office, and from a few of these he illustrated the advantages of individual records. He compared records of 69 good cows with those 78 poor cows. The latter produ ors 132.40; Jaly, $2 compound, 12 to 123%c. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Jan. '18.--Corn, Ameri- can No. 2 yellow, 83% to 84¢. Oats, Canadian Western, No. 2, 50%e¢c; No. 18, 49%; extra No. 1 feed, 48%c; No, 2 local white, 46% to 47¢; No. 8 local iwhite, 463% to 46c; No. 4 local white, 44% to 4bc. Barley, Man. feed, 60c; malting, 67 to 68c., Buckwheat, No. 2, 82¢. Flour, Man. Spring wheat pat- ents, firsts, $6.90; seconds, $6.40; strong bakers', $6.20; Winter patents, choice, $6.50; straight' rollers, $5.80 to $5.90; do., bags, $2.75 to $2.85. Rolled oats, barrels, $56.20 to $5.25; bags, 90 lbs., $2.45 to $2.50. Bran, $24. Shorts, $26. Middlings, $28 to $30. Mouillie, $31 to $33. Hay, No. 2, per ton, cer lots, to $20.50. Cheese, finest westerns, 18% to 18%¢; finest easterns, 18 to 18%c. _ Butter, choicest creamery, 84% to 85%c; seconds, 32% to 83c. Eggs, fresh, 456 to 48c; selected, 38c; No. 1 stock, 80c; No. 2 stock, 28¢c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, $1.76 to $1.80. Winnipeg Grain. ; Winnipeg, Jan: 18.--Cash. quota- tions:--No, 1 Northern, $1.19%; No. 2 Northern, $1.16%; No. 3 No! $1.13%; No. 4, $1.09%; No. 5, $1.01%; No. 6, 91%¢c; feed, Bl%ec. Oats--No. 2 C.W., 43%e¢; No. 3 C.W,, 40%¢; extra No. 1 feed, 40%c; No. 1 eed, 38%c;: No. 2 feed, 38%c, Bar- ey--No. 8, 62¢; No. 4, 57¢; feed, 50c. Flax--No. 1 NW.C., $2.12%; No. 2 C.W., $2.09%. i wh United States Markets. Minneapolis, Jan. 18.--Wheat--May, $1.26%; July, $1.25; No. 1 d, 1.80%; No. 1 Northern, $1i26% to . 3; No.2 Northern, to 1.25%. Cern--No. 3 yellow, 75%c,. Oats--No, 3 white, 44%c. Flour and bran unc Duluth, Jan. 18.---~Whea hard, $1.26%; No. 1 'N $1.26% ; No. 2 Northern, $1.21 $1.22% ; No. 2 Montana hard, $1. May, $1.26%; July, ey Cath $2.86 to » rthern, | rd, | the Chamber as to what would be and bulls at $4 to $4.50 per ewt. On- tario lambs sold at $10, and Quebec' stock at $9.50 to - $0.75, ~ while ewe: sheep brought $6.75, and bucks and culls at $6.25 per cwt. Milk-fed calves gold at 9% to 10c, and grass-fed at b to 6%ec per 1b.. Selected lots of hogs sold at $10.26 to $10.35 per cwt, weighed off cars. SOCIALIST OPPOSITION INCREASING DAILY A despatch from London says: The Rotterdam correspondent of the Daily: Mail says he had reliable information to the effect that the Socialist opposi- | tion to the German Government is in- | creasing daily. ¥ A conference of Socialists of Greater Berlin adopted a resolution expressing regret that only twenty | Socialists in the Reichstag supported Dr. Karl Liebknecht in the opposition against the war credits, Similar reso- Intions were adopted at Socialist meet- ings in Liepzig, Weimar and in the. Rhine Province, = nan ; Jo SINGLENESS OF DIRECTION. France Not to Replace Joffre as Com: mander. | 2 Premier Briand is'authority for the. statement that the Government has no intention of appointing a successor to General Joffre, in command of the armies on the French front, according to the Journal. In reply to an in- quiry from the Army Committee of the effect of the creation of the mew post all 'the said: { pointed, M. Briand is quoted as having "extended ip milk valued at $4,310, the | product = being 'worth herd of sixteen cows sho of $44.70, as against $3.84 a poorer herd within ten miles of TO GERMAN ONE first herd, showing that one cow in'a fl' good herd would make as much profit 3 as eleven cows in a poorer herd. The Spirit of Optimism on Both British lesson he pressed home was that of individual cow responsibility. Because there is a prejudice on the London, Jan. 12.--There is a great! part of the factories against the use spirit of optimism in both British and of milking machines, and becaise the and 'French Fronts. ! French despatches from the west trouble is in the handling of the front, the correspondants | expressing machines, the subject of "How to get the firm conviction of the allied Gen-|clean milk with a milking machine" erals that there is no possibility of was introduced. The paper was pre any successful German offensive any- pared by Prof. T. H. Lund, and ' was where in the west lines. The corre- read by the Secretary, Frank Herns, spondent of 'Reuter's Telegram Com- The solutions .in which many dairy- pany sends from British Headquarters/ men kept their machine parts were an interview with an unnamed pro- insanitary. In one case the solution minent staff officer, who was quoted [was found to be teeming with bac as saying: "We now . have full 'in-jteria. Prof. Lund's recommendation formation about the 'German forces was to use a solution of one pound of facing us. We know their exact dis- chloride of lime to ten gallons. of Posidons and strength We every-! water. ; i x where outnumber the Germans, and" yo Lg LS Gf also outnumber them in both field and| Importance of Lime to the Soil, 3 heavy artillery, and our weapons are The importance of lime to- the soil better. than theirs. We: can fire five|was set forth by Prof. Harcourt shells to their one without depleting | Guelph, and the deep inte our munitions. "We can 'take their [convention was revealed. 'first line of trenches whenever. we usually large number of que "wish. To say that we have got. them | the-close. He explained the sci beaten is' dangerous rubbish, but the reasons why it was necessary to truth is we have got them ready for|ply lime to the soil, especially to 80 a beating." , © iz... ithat was sour. In the latter case. : *Iadvised the use of flaked lime, o gee ~ {ton SF Which was tual to two tous ITISH WASTA 7|ground limestone, w was m BR 15 ASTauE MONTHLY | suitable for ligher cok ime : HE hn Se aphoi | one . y i als