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In the Town of Durham, County " Grey. Including uhnblo Water Power Brick Dwelling. and many eligiblo building iota. will be Bold in one or morn bu. AlsolotNo. 0.90mi W. a. B., township of Bontinck. 100 acres ndjomr he Town plot Durham. . won an! IIB' EDGE PROPERTY. ALLAN lllfdljillulill. Hand-man Horse Shoeing Show. In the old stand. All hand. made shoes. Also WOODWORK Loan and Insurance Agent, Con- veyanoor. Commissioner ace. In“. T2hltt without delay. Concomi- pnmpt y made. [nut-nu “not“. '05.! To LOAN "love“ at“ ot - I” no door north at B. In“ ”on Duh-n “Con-I1 " any. "tee attended to group III u mean]. at... BUSINESS DIRECTORY. S o. RIGHT!!! OFFICE. Thom.» I Leehr,%rgutrnr. John A. Munro Deputy-Region". one. hour. trom ll " In. to 4 p. a. JAMES LOCKIE, " Paid 111; 1,000.00 “SERVE PON 600.00 I. P. Conn. 000. P_._Nid, OAPITAL. Authorised $8,000.00. StandardBank of Canada um; I - ll mm annual “In?!“ mm omen. um THE (glllTtlgTlllIllll Han opened out o firtsh-oltttu, W. L. MCKENZIE, . “on." for Con-tic; of Brno. and any. lhrelsunoo-Eiq 80.. Know». - PUV"'r"rorno-r-,eee., HONEY TO LOAN. Fir. Insurance wound. ”MOI. mg 9549015 no". Lom- Tm 380389! Murine If-. Ano- Thursday Morning. J. P. TELFORD mmm summon a 3mm aim ‘(OENSID AUCTIONRIB, for qulgiqg mu kinda promptly ALLAN MtilrA1khA1ttJt, GENTS In att M91! bl 11f,l'JittUdpltt uttt.2 DURHAM AGENCY. Hoad Office. Toronto. HUGH McKAY. ”CELLANEOUS. a» to sums EDOB, up Mitt, om. in connection. A {Int-01m lot of " sale cheap. Pnid u] taken for POTATO CUL'I'I'RE. The Cornell experiment station made 'one studien on potato rullum last Ae,'tMttn and .1 recent bulletin says: To expllin the uniformly high yield we must then nuke a study of the Heat- menl which all plan; have received. It is probable that frequent and deep plowing has done mueh to bring and Reap the land productive. The land has been turned from two to three times each year, and the pulverizing which has resullad Ihnretrom has lib- erated sufficient plant food to mature large crops. In addition to the plow- ing thr, land has been frequently har- rowed and cultivated. and the inten- sive culture which has been given has liberated alt the plant food that muld be used by the growing crops with the amount of moisture that was pre- sent. Seeds should not be out for any considerable time before pianijntr, If On our steeper lands. experience has shown us that winter spreading man- ure is not advisable, and this is espe- cially true. as the bushings run into ditches that open into a river, so that sums of the soluble parts of the man- ure would he lost. On and lands one may safely spread manuro in the win- ter, when, if not in sod, muvh would be lost. So on full plowing. manure may be spread with little or no less; when on smooth land without sod, though otherwnse the Same. much would flow away in the drainage water. The above are a few of the bots that our exporinnca bears out. Let us hear the axperience of others, keaping in view the :4an questions, and suggesting any others that may have a. bearing on “inter mauuring of frozen ground. It is of much interest just now. it becomes nvcessary to delay planting for some considerable time after po- tatoes are cut the cut pieces should be dusted with plaster and spread out in a moderately moist, cool place. At least they should not be allowed to be!!!” dry. . If planting is done very early in the spring the ridges may be permitted to remain ten days or two weeks be- fore harrowing down. If planting Is done somewhat late the ridges should be herrowod within a week after planting. In the case of the early planting there is usually enough nuis- ture present so that the ridging may temporarily prove a benefit by enab- ling tho soil to become warm. In the One tract of our sandy soil has n gruvelly sand for a subsoil. from five to eight feet deep. Below this is a sheet of clay and flowing along this Layer of clay is a constant sheet of water several int-hes deep. Where this water tlowes within tour or five feet of the surface we would not spread manure in the winter, on frozen ground, as we should expect that, when the ground thawed in the spring some of the strength of the manure would settle in the low places, and being there so concentrated, would leach to the underground water and he lost. Our observation indicates that, in our soil at least. it would not leach through eight feet of soil. Before It hail gone through so much, the soil would have altsorlotd practieally all of the fertility from the surfaoe water. Some or all of the facts and condi- tions called out in the answers to the above questions may furnish reason for the opinion of the farmer tn each case. whereas another farmer sur- rounded by different conditions might be justified by experience in adopting a different course. Our own farm con- tains a great variety of soils. ranging from sticky clay to light sand. mixed with gravel. and also has several beds of muck. Parts of it, too, are quite steep, others gently rolling, while oth- or parts are quite level. On the sticky clay and muck we would not spread manure in winter. because it greatly impedes the drying out of the soil in spring, and also forms a mulch which keeps the frost in the ground far later than it would otherwise remain. Nor would we spread a thick coat of manure in the winter on any soil which we desired to work early in the spring for the same reason. And this is spe- cially true of coarse manure. We have often known it to make two weeks’ difference in tho time of working lands in the spring. in sod or nott It the soluble parts of your manure weaned out, would it wash beyond the limits of your own farm? What kind of manure did you spread upon frozen trround--ooart" or line! How deep was your ground tron- ont Was there now blanket enough on during that winter to permit the ground to thaw out first trom below? What did you intend to use your lend for in the spring! t . WHEN SHALL MANURE BE SPREAD! On the (mention of the advisability of spreading inning in winter on frozen ground, pinion: expreeeed dif- f'eren? rutuitrr that it seems no if the experience of me qt our manure epeeidintb might be .0! interest. writes B. M. thghn. Or perhaps it would be still better to have the opinions ot Pmetioel tuners on the subject. end have each one. in addition to his opinion, answer the following queetlone about the land on which his manure wat' Spread and give other attendant circumstances, upon which his opinion is based: Upon what kind of, soil did you spread your mnure in winter; was it on]. and, granny or black prairie loan! What wu the chlracter of the subsoil and. how far down from the aurhco in the water level in this soil , Win the land steep, gently slop- ing or nearly level? Was your land @005 The report comprises selected papers and addresses (inlivered before the In- stitues, all of practical value in their bearing upon farm industry. The Irv. stilulns have secured the services of a large number of experts and lead- ing men throughout Ihe country who have freely placed their special know- ledge at the disposal of the members. The topics treated of cover an exceed- ingly wide range, including every phase of farming industry and many scien- tific, or economic questions which have an important bearing upon the con- dition of the farmer. A paper by Charles W. Nash, on the birds of On-. tario in their relation to agriculture», is a special feature of much interest, as it comprises 32 fine illustrations. of Canadian birds with information concerning them, which shows the use- ful part they play in connection with farm economy. -- _ __ . In another appendix to the volume the results of recent scientific experi- ments in Europe and the Units-d States in the leading brunt-hes of agriculture are given with mui-h fullness of de- tail. This will he found particularly useful and instructive to the progres- sive farmer who desires to keep in touch with the late-st diseoveriem and avail himself of the results of the re- searches of experts in a practical way by adopting new erotmmic processes and intentions. Such investigations have in the past done much to im- prove the condition of the farmer. By bringing the knowledge thus acquir- ed in distant countries in an accessible form before the farmers of Ontario, the Farmers institutes are doing a. useful and much needed work and fully justifying the encouragement judic- iously afforded them by the Ontario administration. The volume before us is an extremely creditable and grati- fying evidence of the advanced con- dition of agriculture in this Province and the intelligence and enterprise of the farming community, no less than of the dingy and progretmivtsnetstr shown by Hm Depnrlme-nt of Agricul- ture in eduvaiional work. A look of no rues. rental-In. Detailed Infomtlen Upon - Subject “I- ace-ted With the Pure-It of Iran-ulna. The Ontario Government has never iaaued a more instructive and useful document than the report of the Sup- erintendent of Farmers' Institutes tor the year 1897-8 just received. It is a book of about 500 pages containing numerous illustrations and embracing the latest and most detailed informa- tion upon every subject connected with the pursuit of farming. The ifarmera' institutes are in a flourishing condi- tion, their total membership having increased from 115,707 in December 1897 to 16,351 on July Met, 1898. During the year 658 Institute meetings were held, attended by on aggregate of PM,- 094 persons and 3.270 addressee deliv- ered. Some 30,000 excursionists aloe visited the Guelph College Farm un- der the auspices of the Farmers' Insti- tutes. A Women's Institute has been organized in Saitfleet Township, Went- worth County. with 86 members, which it is hoped may be the pioneer of a new movement for organizing women in the country districts as the men are now organized in the Institutes. for the discussion of a large ones or domestic. social and euonoiuicul prob- lems in which (urmers' win-u are in- terested. Willie, having taken a bite of a fair, but very bitter apple-Gracious.' what an awfully mce bad apple that The railroad engineer, said the smart boarder. must be at happy man. He whistles at his work. Begging your pardon, said "ttt oheerfttl Idiot. prompt to crush all pomihlu rivalry, he works at his whistle. The garden should contain all the small fruits. such as berries, currents, etc. Plant these in single rows. and far enough apart so that they can be easily cultivated. The space between can be devoted to some vegetable, which will compel working around the shrub. It the market gardener, upon lands ranging in price from .300 to 81,000 per acre, can upon a hell dozen acres sell more dollars' worth of pro- duce than are sold off many large farms why my not the farmer grow in his own garden articles for food that will take the place ot much of the more expensive commodities bought in town' The garden cannot be hue with- out labor, but with less. considering the amount produced, than is required for general farm crops. Two and some- times three crops can be grown upon the some ground in the season With the addition of a few hotbed sash the garden can be made to produce fresh vegetables for the table all the year round. IS. The. garden should never contain less than half an acre, and better be two acres. A garden of this size con eu- ily be worked with a horse, sovmg much 'hnnd labor. which is required in smaller plots. If more is grown than required a home use it can usually be disposed of at some nearby market or to some neighbor who will not have a gnrden. Ort the area can be devot- ed to potatoes. or roots for stock can be increased. Being near the house, it is of easy access. and the farmer can spend many half hours working his garden, when he would not think of going to the field for that length of time. can of lete planting ell the moisture should be conserved, and this is beat done by leveling the ridges. Where the soil is naturally too wet the ridges may be beneficial in that they hasten evaporation and the consequent dry- ing of the, soil. REPORT OF FARMERS' INSTITUTES. WHAT THE FA RM GARDEN SHOULD OUTSIDE AND IN ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO was»: _ :4 rrr'/-'rsdr"r -- 'u "It is interesting to rompure the visual Mun-aces oi 'he riorutal rye he- tor" and after the efth of some purely physicnl cause that may be within the reuim of either nature or eivilisaitou. Taking " few instances of each for i',iustratiou, 1 will cue from nalure first. It. 15 well known that severe siukm-ss greatly impairs the (10111611988 of vision ot an otherwise strung ere. -- . . "Again, it the strong constitution of a buy cannot. saw; his eyes from their thousand and can uses. how can frail woman escape! The ever-increasing army of women workers in shops and offices and the new avenues of employ- ment upenlug to than swell the num- ber of apt-rude wwu‘ars. "Almost the first thing " convales- 13t'ttt will do is to cull [or a hook or newspaper to while. away the tedium of Ibo siek-roora. Unless warned not co try his eyes loo mud). he his apt. through lorgetfuluess. lo overlauk his accaruuuodative power of injure the al- ready weakened ciliary muscle. When the rest of the lady recovers its nor- mal strength the eye remains weak. "Altar straining the Pym! more in lha vain hope that they will immova. the person, if he is wise, will consult experieneed help: if otherwise. he “ill pick up the first puir of spectacles available, regardless of thther they shnuld he too strong or too weak for his "yen. Shuuld he finally go lo an opticiatt the latter will often find it dittieult to fit glasses tsatisfactorily. This In the Age When Even the Ion-gent Children Wear Spot-melon. Various excellent reasons are given for the prevalence of "glasses" among children and young people, says the Londop Daily Mail, but perhaps the best om, ts contained in the faet that ovulista prescribe them fur often” than ttutr used ta do. as a prevent!" mewisurtr--tttat is to say. in order to Indy the sight uver u trying period of pbor health. especially in the. can of dam-Me children. "Its " u Wonder." he. asks. "that the children of this generation are wearing glasses with their grandaireat Old age is no longer the reason for meat- ing glasses. 1n nine cases out of ten the young man needs a convex glam: to assist his overt-axed eyes in follow.. ing their duties. 'Olher natural causes that effect the. eyes are wind, dust, light and heat. when excessive. Eyes otherwise good enough heron)? went under such con- ditionn. The weakness may In due to 'ttt orrnr of refraction, and under most vondit ions the accororodative power of the eye is strung enough to overrome the errnr. Hui undur surh :Iimogphuric or Mimuiu nonditiuns as I have men- tioned the, acroatruodut ion is lessoned, tinned Lhe accommodation is lessPMd." Una great oculist puts the inferior sight of present day children down to tite severity with which it is taxed. a feat almost equal to traversing with the eyes the whole of Europe, from Cape St. Vincent to the Ural mountains, and again from North Cape to Cape Muuspan--a combined Journey of 5,900 miles, or nearly a quarter of the way around the earth at the equator. Thurs are, of course, many writers who, in a long and industrious life, far outstrip this record. but probably no man who has ever lived and written has driven his pen as far as from Lizard point to the Grampians. A comparatively slow reader will scan 800 words, a minute; that is, he reads asout twice as fast as he talks. and ten times an fast as he writes. At this rate of progression, allowing for diversity of type, a man may be said to read ninety-two yards of type in half This is an exceedingly low iviri/rd and there are probably many men who cover at least six times this distance; A statistician calculates that in reading Zola“: works the eyes travel a distance of thirty miles, and that the ordinary yellow-backed novel con- tains from a mile to a mile and a half of type, while according to his eati- mate the average reader covers a dis- tance during his lifetime of 2,500 miles, or nearly six times the distance from Land's end to Berwick-on-Tweed. an hour. As even the busiest 'man probably averages half an hour's read- ing a day, it is clear that every year he must cover a distance of nineteen miles in reading. or the very respect- able journey of 960 miles in fifty years. The professional writer naturally ao- complishes a much bigger task than this. If he is fairly industrious he may produce for the press 800,000 words a year, which would mean a lineal jour- ney tor his pen 1t6 three miles. If he can maintain this rate of production for forty working years his pen will have ancmnplished a journey of 120 miles, or a few miles more than the distance from Charing Cross to Birm- ingham, while his remuneration mar he anything from 100 guineas a mile upward. lender In the Avenue I... The average busy men who declares that he has "no time for reading" will be incredulous if he is told that in read. ing alone his eyes travel, during his lifetime, 9. distance of . 1,000 miles; which is equivalent to ‘makiug an "ocular trip" from London to Naples. says Tit-Bits. Cumisared with such wonderful teats the journeys even ot the busiest pen seem trim! and poor. Incredible. as it may appear, there are many people who can was a pen with average skill and fluency whose writing during a. lifetime does not exceed one or two miles. A good average rword for one wlm does not earn his living by his pen would be ten miles for u lite journey. nu rile-mg.- " In for the Per-Ille- READ A THOUSAND IILES. MAN'S WANING SIGHT. , y :{VV'XF Ci'dbf _ h “A ,J- a . Eg . g. ' _ _ My ", .w, _ _ , a. 1 Beyond Doubt the Greatest Medical Discovery I of the Age. I. An, pouch who at“ u pupa: from the put MUe, whether diqu to hi. all. or until". or whether he ha mrb udbod or not in ruponslblo for “no pay. I. If “about" onion bin plpor to In "ored at a 00min time. and the publish“ continuo- to “ammo subscriber“ bound b ply foritif ho uh. " out of the poo! aloe. This mend! upon he ground hat . man. and 9.710: what he um. 1. lf My pom- ”do" ”In," “no: - 2tth ho all“ pay nil 1iTf/l, ' , an! u rm I pa or any cola-no to u: ' anti ' . l month madman! ttertleerttt" whole “an! Of the Best Quaht whom” " " tutu from the om” or not THAN lVli Them on be no lel (“nominal-u until pnmontlundo. h. We all “so amid. “with. " Pen :3qu “d which"... tho following I) and. of tho nowlpapuluvu t Sash and Door Factory. tgav1ng Completed our New Futon-y we no now prepared Lumber, Shingles and Lath alway: In Stock. N. G. &J. McKECHNIE to FILL ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY. We keep in Stock tlt large quantity of Sash, Doors, Mouldings, Flooring and the difrhr: - ant Kinds of Dressed Lumber for outside sheeting. Our Stock of DRY LUMRE is very Large so tint all orders can be filled. " the matter at good health tempor- mm» m' puree, while poulbly "(new tut for the moment. cen never be het- 1ng. Tron In poor heath soon know whether the remedy they ere nun; 1e simply e peeling tnaiaHt In tuck ex- parlance. brmlnLthen m for the dar. or something t t to [dung at the mt of the din-ea “a I. lurely end permanently teetering. occupy"? exactly the “(in "ii: mint 2,t,t'aa"" If..." by- mun mu (on: m. Everyone how. a Pf (1.9an or 191m? "rort “I - The 93m of the world u'e literally 1txed on South American Ravine. They ur- not viewing " u a nine-dun' won- der, but arttteal and “panama men have hem studying this medicine tot mm. with the one reeutt-thar hum found tint its claim of polite: can. iivo qustntttrttnnot " “innit tru. and “7‘4 if“ WiaG7 Here I. tao Int prim no tn.- The great dircovmr of thin medulla was massed of the knowhdco that tho use at all about. II the no". contra. attuned u tho bane of the Mun. In (M. belief he had the total-chann- 1nd medial 'pee " . world 'sertxtn. [Miro tho In tho medium ot lot 61.:an or Injury an N. - Ute. hymn! ("1.3 - - 19.“ WHEN EVERY OTHER HELPER HA8 FAILED lt BURKS A Discovery. Based on Scientific Prlnolplu. Render: Failure lmpoulblo. Are. Fixed Upon South Ameri- . can Nervine. THE EYES FfE 1gllllj] Newman» bun. For “I. by total... t (b. ye, a}, " i':,7;:iti'r'i [bk m mama! vacuum In- any, and with - all meant-u. " xthu they um umply to treat an out a junk my be dismal. South Aegtertr'aa tNervho mam " the an”, and in;. gnodhtoly app“- It. ounuvo now"! 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I d “im 1 am told um also ohtwrye Vernal PAT'rr'S ‘0' The birth oerutl Nttt, mull, tount than of birth oft, [and at twilighl or M In”, nine how It. I eat lisnrt, ma help my eyen tree " tired. That in all." Healthy. 0m BECOME L, APPAREN mtore henltl grun- is only The benefit Dr. William! Vit this kind is amp} [allowing U-ulinn Bookmnn, " M Bookman any: ' than"! luucknm ave derived fron hunt Pink Pill, While” luoken weak I could sum mom. I was very the and gradually merely a lkvlelun. motion of tue hues theaducln-s. I from two doctors, to benefit me am way tor about 5m leaded I delennin More I finished ttw to improve and by I eight boxed Iwus .13 been. and had gal weight. I am gum Avil Aams' Pink Pills nnd freely give th hops-that it may be girl gulf-wing as I v More pak rn.l blt b ea made II 5:31. _ Dr. Willi hr Dr. uiiiutus ' any oth'r mennq. I thut their daughtcrd tral ar' amen; I m by 'h' u o ofitr, ttl tonic. Sold by an! I add at 50cqu or I y “area-inc tho $ an: C... 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