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HS! Pi ice Grain. Cattle, iade Centres. ; embargo has can bo shipped Everything : there were high frei; 1 quoted Bar lev motable at . $4.40 to >rinklir.g COAL IN NEW ONTARIO, A Toronto despatch says :--A letter was received at the Crown Lands Department on Thursday from J. M. Bell, the Government official in charge of the party exploring for coal in Northern Ontario. MrT Bell states that the party discovered largo deposits ol bituminous coal in the Abittibi. His letter, in part, LAYING- CUT OF DR1IHS 63c o Corn--The market steady. No. 8 An quoted at 58 Jc on and No. 8 mixed at Canadian corn nonsit Flour--Ninety per c quoted at $3.05, middle buyers' sacks, for expon rollers, of special brand: •17 ie, in bbls. Ma litoba fiou !, $4.75 tc $4.45 ti s\ $4.30 1 ;ady at $1(5, and ] points bran is quoted at § Shorts at $17. Manitoba saAks, SI 7, a/nd shorts at i COTTNTRY PROIHJC Apples--The market is i Beans--Tra do quiet, with prices firm. Unpicked $1.75 to SI .80, and . picked $1.00 to $2 per bush. "At three distinct points boring operations were carried on, but at no place were these successful save at Blacksmith Rapids* and even there not comparable with the Bom- "The deposit occurring at this point is too extraordinary to be discussed within tbe compass of this , letter, but, in-brief, it may be said attle was light. th|at coal of excenont quality occurs n good demand, on both sides Q, the Abittibi River, i had a firmer amj sometimes a swever, a fairly At several points it was a4 feet the others, and thick, and if I remember rightly, it s sold at prices appears continuously, as shown by lose of Tuesday. OUr test pits, for some 350 feet on 54.40 to $4.50, the west side, and again higher up $4.25, fair tc | on the same shore for about as , rough to com- | much again. The outcrop on tho 10 and cows at i opposite bank is much smaller. Unfortunately no boring operations r8.--There was a | could bo conducted In the interior in stockers, ow-!owing to the thick coating of bould-plv on the mar- I ers' overlying. ome demand for "Though not a continuous deposit vere well main-! as on the Someska, still, nevorthe-expressed them- j leas, there is a great deal of fine coal y 2,000 head of ' in sight, and if not fit or in largo l 950 ! enough deposits for export--'I do not from 1 "ay that it is not--it will certainly ■eders Ibe of value for local consumption when the' north country is opened up. The coal on the Blacksmith Rapids, as that on the Someska, burns freely in the open air. "From the Abittibi a trip Was made on foot by myself across the Orand Rapids of the Mattagarrtd, and the iron deposits there occurring were carefully examined. This spfen-did deposit, which consists of lim-onite, or brown hemotite, of good quaiity, occurs on both sides of the river; on the west side for 1,160 feet, an the east side for 325 feet At low water the Hmonite also ap- a, pears in the river bottom." Depth and Distance Apart--Dig. ging the Drain-- Grading. In a previous article of the advantages of under-draining were pointed out; in this case an outline of the method of draining practised by our best farmers will be given. To secure satisfacory results careful stmly should first of all be given to the best irianner of laying out a system of drains; the aim being to secure the greatest fall, tho least outlay for tile, the least, amount of digging, and the most perfect drainage. Tile.--For unrlerdrain.'ng there is nothing better than tho ordinary round tile. The size to be used can . only be decided by a study of the great thickness, conditions under which the drain is to work. They should be large enough to carry off in twenty-four to forty-eight hours the surplus water from the heapiest rains, but it is important that they " ranging f md prices The range of prices to $50 each. at! were sold. Quo-hanged at 4c to 5Jc Hone, -The la.i-kol to 6ic $1.50 f Hay--Demand fair, moderate. No. 1 nr to $9.50 on track, r Straw--The tnarke $5.25 to $5.50 per 1 Hops--' ! $9 , tood and everything was .Sheep are quoted un-$2.50 to $3.50 per cwt. 8 and $2 to $3 for culls. > $3.50 • to cwt. , and t lar the : of i ng is governed largely by the sizo of the tile used. It may be mentioned that the capacity of round water pipes is in proportion to the squares of their diameters. That is, under the same conditions, a two-inch pipe will carry four times as much water, and a thi-ee inch pipe inch pipe. In fact, tho larger pipe will carry even more than this proportion, because of the greater fric-pipe. In ordinary KING AS CABINET MAKER. A London despatch says: The King is exercising hia prerogatives to an extent unheard of in tho Victorian era. His Majesty is said to oppose the formation of a new Cabinet until thoroughly satisfied with its per- ed presenca at Balmoral lends color to this impression. In such a degree is King Edward holding his power of veto In reservo that now ho is almost regaided by the inner circles as more the Cabinet maker than Mr. Balfour himself. With his usual tact, the King has expressed his genuine desire, amounting almost to a command, that steps be taken to remedy the scandals in tho army administration rovealed by the report of the South Africa! War Cammis-sicoi, and insisting that the new Cabinet shall be ono adapted to deal with that question. cases, five or six inch tile commended for the lower part a main drain and four inch for the upper portion; for the branches twi and a half to three inch aro pefer Depth and Distance Apart.--It is seldom necessary to lay drain than four feet below the surface, and in most cases two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half feet will be found sufficient. The proper dif tween branch drains depen quantity of water to be carried off -- of the subsoil, general practice the li | usually placed froi npai Shot Down in the Streets by Ku: sian Soldiers, and S5.fi es--The offeri Car lot choice stock quoted and small lots selling Poultry--The market is steady. Chickens, 60 to 75c per pair. Ducks 70 to 90c per pair. Turkeys, 12 to 18c per lb. A London despatch says :--According to a despatch to the Times, the trouble at Gomel on September 12th was almost as bad as Kishineff. The ■ic. a s' Dea"'rs sav the prospects jews attempted to get together to fair aro for lower Prices. protect themselves and were forced of----- back by the soldiers from the streets bag, ! NORTHWEST GRAIN CROP. «'h*re the Plundering was going on. The soldiers beat and arrested those :i not obeying forthwith. | The soldiers stood by While the j mob was plundering and committing far j all sorts of excesses. One could Possibilities of a Blockade o ways This Fall. A Winnipeg despatch says :- Eail- , be 1 .fifty to one hun-In a tenacious thirty feet would Butter--Receipts of butter an with quite a good demand for grades. Large rolls are in good demand. We quote :--Finest 1-lb. rolls, 17 to 18c; selected dairy tubs, 15c; secondary grades, 12$ to 13£c; creamery prints, 20 to 21c; solids "(;<;') as can be learned the total grain i hear the shrieks of the croo of the N'orth-u c?<, -"*--"«•"-'children from tte street Da will be m trie neignborhood of ! oatrols blocked1 against . 110,000,000 bushels, divided as foi- | fit Jews outside. £ ? of* the her of £ I'.c.-.S larket is firm for fres gathered stock. We quote-.--Strict ly new laid, 18c; fresh gathered, 17c seconds and checks, 11 to 12c. Cheese-rMarket is firm. We quote --Finest, 12c; seconds, ll$c. HOG PRODUCTS. I "5* i hogs are unchanged. Glared Qat of the gra oats, 1,101,3 flax, 64,639. The actual value values between 1902 and 1903, v be something like this : 194)2-- Wheat, 65,000,000 bushels at , Jews tried to force th< >,461; flax, ; 0ne D{ the side streets, and the soldier crop this . iers shot six of them dead. Gomel last. The nas 26,000 Jews out of a- total population of 40,000. FRANK AGAIN SCARED. Another Immense Slide Fr tie Mountain. with i good de- 46,500,000 bushels t 40c . A Wi other ii sltde is re- ! Barlev, 12,500,000 bushels | at 30c ................. jFlax, 500,000 bushels mand. We quote :--Bac clear, 10 to 10|c, in ton and ca« lots. Pork, mess, $18.50 to $19.50; do. short cut, $21.50. Smokod meats--Hams, light to I medium, 14$ to 15c; do heavy, 13$ Total to 14c; rolls, 11 to ll£c; shoulders,! i903_ lOJc; backs, 15 to 15 Jc; breakfast: wheat 60,0OO,0<: bacon, 14$ to 15c. at 7oc Lard--Tho market is unchanged, i 0ats> 40,50o',bo with fair demand. Tierces, 9Jc; | at gic. tubs, 9fc; pails, 10c; 13,950,0001 J?8*1* ■50,000 175,000; ( lost i' .00 lives were April last. As far as known lives were lost, but all the people Frank have deserted the town _ again, and are being hurried to .....$53,925,0001 othcr towns nearby. The slide occurred just as a passenger tram was lhels nearing Frank, and as quickly as. .....$4-2,000,000 I possible the brakes wero applied ar--1 backed for Digging the Drain.--The drain may be opened in the first place by passing three or four times along tha same track with an ordinary plow. Then tho subsoil may be broken up with a good strong subsoil plow. In this way the earth may be loosened to a depth of two feet or more and thrown out with narrow shovels. The bottom of the drain should be dug with narrow draining spades, made for the purpose. The ditch should bo kept straight by means of a lino stretched tightly near the ground and about four inches back from the edge. Jn ordinary cases, the ditch n't tho top and four to six indies at the bottom, the width of course in-cresing in proportion to the depth of the drain and the size of the tile. Grading.--As a rule drains should be given as much fall as possible, and tire gradient should not be less than two inches in one hundred feet, if this can be secured. Careful leveling is necessary to ensure a uniform fall throughout the course of a drain. As a simfpUi method for this purpose, one of our leading authorities recommends the ditcher to use several cross-heads made from strips of one-inch boards, three or ■dards varies according to CATTLE SHIPPERS. A London despatch says: A Calgary cattle-owner told the correspondent of the Morning Post that Canadian cattlemen in tbe British market, as compared with America, were heavily handicapped. American freights are lower, and cattle can be shipped a shilling a head cheaper from Boston than from Montreal. The American service is* more regular, as tho boats trading from Boston aro stire of cargoes both ways, while when they come to Montreal they not seldom come in ballast, and tho exporter must pay tha double journey. A Canadian salesman is tickled to death to get within half a penny a pound of the Americans for the same quality of meat. PROPERTIES. OF BEET SUGAR, The Ontario Sugar Co. fully realizing the value of direction and practical demonstration for the production of a crop of sugar beets profitable to bath grower and manufacturer, have always endeavored to work hand in hand with the farmer, the producer of the raw material, in learning the best methods of cultivation, manuring, handling, etc., and in putting these methods into prac- Our farmers, -he growers, have responded to these attempts to help them and have themselves been students of general methods under particular conditions. These united efforts, this harmony of action, and the singleness oS purpose endeavoring to establish the permanence of the beet sugar industry in Ontario, are now being rewarded with a bright prospect for the future of the grower -and the manufacturer. Our sugar beet circular contains what should be regarded as significant, viz., correspondence with beet growers, giving what farmers who are growing beets say about tho crop and its effect in cleaning and improving soil as shown by the succeeding crops t»f grain. This information the newspapers, many of whoFe readers we farmers, will appreciate. i is, however, a fact made icnt by the growth of the beet sugar industry which every newspa-'^anada should NEWSJTEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From Al Over the Globe. CANADA. Chief Smith, of Hamilton, wil make an ofiort to suppress gamblini dives. Tho Toronto Railway Co. wil spend $750,000 in improving th power plant. Premier Ross, in an interview, ex pressed confidence in the ultimat success of the Soo industries. Fanny Capes, a Hamilton girl, wai struck by a stone thrown by Johi Mulholland, on Saturday, and verj seriously, if not fatally, injured. Cala Paolina lost a leg on thi Grand Trunk railway at Hamilton and is now suing tho company fo: damages. Three hundred men have applied t< be taken into the new Kiltie regi ment at Hamilton, but only twi hundred are required. Lieut. Allan Zouch Palmer, o Hamilton, has been awaided a meda for conspicuous courage in saving Amy Maud Ritchie and Muriel F. L Burrows from drowning in the St Lawrence on July 28, 1903. Misi Ritchie received a parchment foi heroic efforts in trying to save Mist Burrows. the r appointments tt Regiment of Highlanders, Hamilton, are:-- Wm. Munro, provisional pipe-major; Wm. Hunter or derly room clerk; D. Brown, paymaster's clerk. The Government wil! erect a temporary structure for tin use of the regiment, at a cost oi about $1,000. GREAT BRITAIN. The King i ial :ule. , tbe lurkin of the i ; long is nailed top of the standard. These1 »ads are then placed along | that 1 marie i the lany c BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Sept. 29.--Wheat--Manitoba No. 1 hard is quoted at 87c in store. Fort William; No. 1 Northern 85Jc; No. 2 Northern 82$c; Eggs are fractionally higher, and the firm feeling in butter- and cheese continues. Grain--Peas, 61c high freights, 73$c afloat here; rye, 53c east, 58Jc afloat here; buckwheat, 48 to 49c; No. 2 old oats, 37fc in store here, new 35c afloat here, September delivery; flaxseed, $1,15 on traok here; feed barley, 50c; No. 3 barley, 52£c. Flour--Manitoba patents, $4.80; seconds, $4.50; strong bakers', $4.2; Barley, 10,900.000 bushels Flax, 750,000 bushel 8,500.000 iAfter waiting E i the tra 600,000 Total . .................$54,950,000 The one problem that confronts farmers is how to get their grain shipj-ing ports. The C.P.R. and the Canadian Northern is handling 1 tie of the immense yield as yet. La year at this time the officials say great deal of grain was on its wi md tho condition .i aiTiviv .■Him i grain blockade. Up to the present the railway officials say that, practically no wheat has been delivered at the primary elevators. The rail $4.50; Ontario straight rollers, facilities for handling the crops i $3.90 to $4; in bags, $1.90 to $1.95; patents, $4.15 to $4.40; $1.70 to $1.75. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Sept. 29.--Flour--Steady. Wheat--Spring dull; No. 1 Northern c.i.f., September, 88Jc winter dull; No. 2 red, 82c. Corn--Eas dull; No. 2 yellow, 55c; No. 53 to 58he. Oats--Firm; No. '. mixed, 38 Jc. Barley--58 to 66c c.i f. Canal freights--Easier; wheat 3£ > New York, l better than i STEAMERS TO ANTWERP. i a Fort- CP.R. Has Decided to Rxi nightly Service. A Montreal despatch says :--The C, P. R. Steamship Company has de-and cided to run its own ' orn, tween Canada and An1 3. 21 will be a fortnightly sc c.i. and of October next. ntonded for tbe trade are the Mon-Milwau'kee, Mount Royal, ? from the Milwaukee, Sept. 29.--Wheat-- and Mont re Steady; No. 1 Northern, 78 to 79c; j about 11,000 tons. each. These boa No. 2 Northern, 75 to 78c; new De- j Comprise the Looidon service, and t cember, 77fc. Rye--Dull; No. 1, I their outward trips will call at An 57£c. Barley--Steady; No. 2, 65Jc, werp for cargo, which will be di i 62c. Corn-- December, 471c Duluth, Sept. 29.--Wheat--To rive, No. 1 hard, 79{c; No. 1 Northern, 78Jc; No. 2 Northern, 75fc; September, 78£c; December, 75J,c; May, 78fc. St. Louis, Sept. 29..-- Wheat--Cairn, 80c; September, 80c; December, 81c; May, 82fc. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Sept. 29.--The run of cattls at the Western Cattle Market this morning was fairly large, but it was mostly composed of butcher*' cattle. In this line trado was good, and, despite the many offering, pric ; well i charged ; the v ' BOLD MEN IN OREGON. Hold up Train, but Get an Unexpected Reception. A Portland, Oregon, despatch says: --The Atlantic Express on the Oregon railroad, was held up by four mtadked men near Corbett Stage, on Wednesday night. One of the robbers was shot and killed, and another seriously wounded, while the engineer was wounded by a bullet from the express messenger's gun, after passing through the heart of a highwayman. The two other band- Untained. There is a! its escaped without any booty. terrified people, 'who were huddled together at the station, were talren BACK TO IRELAND. Evicted Tenants Would Reacquire Former Holdings. A London despatch says :--Interest has been evoked here by a letter from Secretary O'Callahan of the United Irish League of America to Mr. Condon, M.P., saying that since the passage of the Irish Land Act many evicted tenants now residing in the United States have been making anxious enquiries regarding the possibility of reacquiring their former holdings. Mr. O'Callahan expressed the belief that should a large proportion of the enquirers be able to do so it would go far :, , to lay the 'lits' be set at thi and marked in 1 el. When standard 6 Dm of the Austria, which is imported ined in Canada. It is also h far. How rifliculous that a na mid change the properties of mical substance. Sere ty-fire i is beet sugar the late Queen Vict church of Crathie, near Balmoral, oe Sunday. Prof. Alexander Bain, formerly Lord Rector of the University o! Aberdeen, and for twenty years professor of Logic and English liter-Replying to an invitation to address the annual meeting of thi Manufacturers' Association at Illav ois, Hon. Mr. Chamberlain, on Saturday, said he could not leava Eng land this year. Of 89 members of tha Birmingham Chambers of Commerce, 58 agree that a preferential tariff in favor of the products of the United King dom would enable them to sell theii goods more largely in the colonies. UNITED STATES. A former student of Toronto Unl srsity, who is a deaf mute, has en. tered Cornell University at Ithaca, N. Y. Ralph McBridc, aged 17, died from the effects of hazing when initiated High school secret society at Bluffton, Ind. V. S. Postal Inspector James W, Irwin, iiiclicteu tor alieRcU conspiracy to defraud the Government, is undci $50,000 bail until trial, at Saa Francisco. Dr. Clarence Colgrovo Perry, oni of the most prominent physicians o! Black Bay, Boston, Mass., is arrested, charged with having four wives. State Senator Green was arrested at his home, Binghamton, N. A'., oa Saturday, charged with complicity in the United States postal scandals. Joseph Leiter, of New York, who gained celebrity in an attempt t« corner tho wheat market, was ar- al 1 The Christian church at Oliver, 111. was destroyed by fire started by a pinch bug which boys had placed in a box of matches as a joke on the J- Shamrocks 1. and II., the first two boats brought across the water by Lipton in his attempt lilt the Amer Sir Thomas viii i Cup, ot sc 1 Shamroct ing the questio l the tide back t ,ra«o», *nd •eland. testing e grade for the t Laying the hcvnjd, standing n, and where e i branch lini ich should be ] n to be partly s-heads; this will, a I i md still retain wholly derived froi path's granulated i Messrs. Wm. Me lin, Ont., a grocer; during the creased to such an extent tl well as dealers hi □ usual condition i j any sugar being sold i tion and could not Laione, a prospero of Lisbon, N. Y., insane. became violently s oi Canada re-its of beet sugar, ited that in his had made an . Ogden, mayor of Key-port, N. J., postmaster, president o! the school trustees, loader of the Re-, publican party, and until ten days ago a director in the People's National Bank, is missing, and his ac- GENERAL. ! now being deiii WANTS TO GET KITCHENER _ propertiei Specially A London despatch say» :--Premier use'b or Balfour is apparently meeting with j mado b-v considerable difficulty in the task otliiU: ,v'ltn reconstructing his Cabinet. It is j the drain said that Mr. Wyndham has been j Ulcre wlH offered the choice of several portfol-;lf Pro' AMERICAN PURCHASERS. Being mid be so placed Chief Secrc cided i tain ting ' for Ireland. Rumor at Lord Kitchener i s .War Secretaryship. lg only Her Bv. KILLED SIX HUNDRED. lvg done a grant deal i public, but probab- An electric car reac - 106 4-5 miles an hou sen military road, Ge: .lands in the Balsam Lake an control of the Dominion Gov- at, but these are being en-for at the Crown Lands De- ent here. The price of the is-under the control of the On- Government is $5 per acre. EDMOND BARTON RESIGNED lwealth, Nei •r, of the Di all be re-cl