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Interesting Items About OIII’ L Great Britain. the United The C. P. R. will build a $15,000 sta- tion at \Voodstock. Hamilton City Council has thrown out a Curfew bell by-law. British Columbia salmon canners have formed a combime. Th number of patents issued at Ot- tawa ast year was 4,013. ~ Natural gas has been struck on Fen« ton’s farm, near Hamilton. Ont. A block of buildings to cost $120,000, are being erected in Winnipeg. Some Ottawa capitalists prepose to build a new music ha‘i in that city. There is abig rush of settlers from Ontaro to Maniitoba andt he North- Weat this Spring. The seven persons who were injured in the avalanche at Levis, on Febru- ary 22. are now convalescent. .The citizens of Vancouver have deâ€" cided by 1-.0pular vote against a propos- ition to open a music hall. The Toronto City Council on Monday voted down a prOposition to deprive ___nA voted down a. pr0p081mon themselves of their annual of 3300. D. De Montigny, of M0! was arrested at Vamcowver an illicit. still in his poss fined $200. Ship building for. Klondike traffic is very active in Vancouver just now, no less than‘ six boats are being built. A earload of thoroughbred stock was .hipped from Guelph 'to the Northwest by the Dominion Breeders’ Association. [Anise Nadeau. of Quebec, for entic- ing and harboring young girls,'hae been sent to the penitentiary for two The Grand Trunk Railway has decid- ed to reduce the freight rates on live stock for breeding purposes in Canada by fifty per cent. -A ru‘mdr that Hon. Robert \Vataon was to be appointed Lieutenant-Gov- ernor of the Northâ€"\Vest is denied at Winnipeg. It is sated that a. large sum will he placed in the Federal estimates for the stringing of a telegraph line to the Straits of Belle Isle. The report. of Mr. E, E. Sheppard.l Trade Commissioner to South Amer- ica, has been delivered to the Minister of Trade and Commerce. ' "Cdmmissioner” Eva Booth is ar-v ranging to send a small staff of Sal- vationists to the Klondike from Van-o couver, Victoria, and Seattle. C.P.R. is to erect between Montreal: and Vancouver is being manufactured at Lachine. It will cost $250,000. The management of the Grand Trunk has contracted with the Pullman Com- pany, Chicago, for the construction of twenty first-class passenger coaches. W. C. Macdoqnald, who has already given a million and a half dollars 'to McGill University, has given another 315.500 to the department of archi- tecture. “The Geological Survey of the United States has ordered a large number of canoes from the Peterboro’ Canoe Com- pany for the use of exploring parties in Alaska. A. Filgiano. who was sent to Kings- ton Penitentiary from Hamilton to serve a three years sentence for em- bezzling from the Grand Trunk. has been pardoned with a six weeks re- - I A. Considerable ta‘k is heard in 0t- time; of new industries_ and the. reviv- v'w v- fi-__- :1. of oldmones. J. R. Booth is at present erecting what. will be the larg- est grist mill in Canada. . There is a prospect of the wholesale Clothiers of the Dominion forming a combination for the purpose of reduc- ing the length of credits, and in oth- er ways regulating the business. The project for the construction of a chain of canals from a point on Lake Superior to the Rocky Mountains, re- cently described, has been brought be- fore Parliament, and will be pressed. vwrâ€" wwâ€"v __ , Sumrior to the Rocky Mountains, re- WWW" ‘“ . . ". .. , . . cently described, has been brought be- for th" comlaaatlog ‘3 Tho, Ameri- fore Parliament, and will be pressed. can SM and "36 OmPMIY- The London Street Railway Company GENERAL. have paid. Mrs. Kate. Pitt $1,500 and all . . costs in settlement of her claim re- The Pope 15 “1 excellent health. sulting from thfi death 0‘ her bI'Oth- Russia. will spend ninety million rou- or, \Vm. Spice, in a. trolley. accident. bleg for new warships. News comes to Quebec of the disastr- ous results of the recent snowstorm to the wild animals. A farmer near L'Ialet found twenty-eight caribou and deer stuck in the snow and cut their throats. 9 The Montreal Street Railway Com- pany has received an order from the Kingston. Jamaica, Street Railway Company to build twenty electric mot- or cars for use in that city. Private George Stewart, of the 48th Highlanders. who gained ‘the bayonet championship of the world in London last June has been appointed to the Toronto Customs House staff. Mr. J. H. Duthrie, who is promoting Union Stock Yards for Toronto, is urg- ing the Council to take immediate ac- tion as he claims the city will be the gainer of $20,000 a year from every new indium-y which springs up in connec- tion with these yards. The Ontario Government are about to take over the industrial schools of the province. The Mimioo School» will be done away with. The boys there will be laced in the provincial reformatory, w h in noon to be removed from Phenomena to Oxford County. Several otfioors of up Queen's Own CA NADA. About Our Own Country the United States. and he Globe. Condensed .Lna’ guy, of Montreal. who . Vazncowver for having in his possession. was sidered. The order of the King's Sons and Daughters. is to be started in England. It is reported that Lord George Ham- ilton win be appointed Governor-Gen- eral of Canada. A London dressmaking firm been fined for keeping women at. ‘ after the regulation hours. mi} there is a population of no less than seven hundred and twenty-five to an acre, yet the birth rate is five in one thousand above the average rate. and infant mortality is twenty-two in one thousand below the average. At this rate the poyulation will soon grow fas- ter than the profits of the trust, which were last year 8210.000. UNiT'ED STATES. The Globe shipyard strike at Cleve- land has been settled. The men lost. The Bowery Mission Lodging House in New York was burned and eleven in- mates lost their lives in the fire. The British cruiser Cordelia, of the North Atlantic squadron, has arrived at Key VVest., Fla, from Belize. Brit- ish Honduras. Am The Manchester, NIL, had adopted resolmtions. treaty for reciprocal t with Canada. ".VA. ‘7“â€" Mr. John \Vanamaker has consented to he the candidate of; the business men’s Republican League for Goverâ€" nor of Pennsylvania. The jury in the case of Sher‘ut marâ€" 1 h 1‘ tin and his deputies for shooting strik- , him eon attem , . . su stance \VlllCh wc ers at Lattimer, Pa, on September 10‘, . t ed di t of not ilt pores and still not re urn a ver c . . gu y. . the. g~‘rmlnating A large repatriation movement 18 grains. This substa taking place among French-Canadians in the market under in New England, and many are expect- alin. Formaiin is . ed to return to Canada this spring. lution of formaldel Rev. Stephen A. Northrop, at Kan- greaflnumber of 335 City, Mo., on Sunday said from his and field trials, it pulpit, “It is time Uncle Sam 0 the throat of Spain to rescue Cuba. so as to prevent Sadie Storer, aged sixteen, is in gaol , at Huntsville, :Arku together with :11?“ 39d 6V0” .11“ 'her sweetheart and mother, charged (18 grain, germrpa with the murder of her father. The ‘ef rather than 1n, girl shot her father. and was aided ti; agrggfi?;2if flikii lutched this Substance whe " W111 disinfect whea Mr. Stearns; of the firm of Stearns‘» Bros., Brooklyn, has received the ordâ€" er for machinery ordered by the Que- bec Bridge Company, to make requir- ing the bed of the river in the vicinity of the Chaudiere. A combination of the steel rod man- ufacturers of the United States has been practically consummated. The combination will represent about $50,â€" 000,000 in capital._.T‘he. name selected Forbes Robertson, the English actor. has made a. great success in Berlin. Experts estimate that a million tons of wheat .will be exported from Cawn- The floating debt of Spain was ang- mented by 13,220,681 pesetas during Februuy. Four fishing vessels belonging to WI, Prussia. were wrecked on' Sat- urday. Sixteen fishermen were drown- Zola’s new book, "Paris," is said to be selling very well in France, and its sale in England will be far in excess of that of any of his other works. Severe earthquake ,shocks were felt on Friday at Antigua. St. Kitts. Guad- eloupe and Montzerrat. of the Leeward Island. Much damage was done at Emperor William is to visit Pales- tine in October next. his object being to determine for himself the exact sites of Golgotha. the Temple of J emalemt and the place of the Crucifixion. comp latad arrangements with the West Australian Goverpmant to take â€"_LA“ “General" Booth state; he has jgst GREAT, BRITAIN. resolmtions favouring a ecmrocal trade relatlons In London_ is “SMUT” IN SMALL GRAINS. fig, Prof. Henry L. Bolley of the Dako- I: ta State Agricultural College, has ev- in olved a method for the prevention 0f m smut in grain and 68130131137 0‘ smut DC have had three 1% and as, after thrashing, all grains found in the line are otherwise nor- mal in appearance, it is quite usually: supposed by farmers ' does very little damage. Now and then, tl [ I lbewever, it becomes very much more til i n eVisdent. When the seed has once he- come badly infested by the Spores of a. in“? fungus it is a common thing to o lfiln'd that a very large percentage of all the heads in the field are completely ismutted and destroyed. In my own linvestigation of many fields I have‘ t ifound that it is not uncommon that t if” high as 20 and even 40 per cent. ofiI e the heads of the grain actually (18"!!! l veIOped turn into smut before harvest' .1 time. The result of this is a Very t there is a very much greater decrease r of the yield, due to the smut hidden t iwitliin the straw and to be seen only! C lby the most careful observer. I have; ( found in the field which shows 10 to 20 i a 'per cent. of smutted heads that the] l actual number of plants diseased in the i ‘ straw by the smut is very much great- 1 get. It is also found that such dis- ‘ leased straws, even though they eventâ€" I Eually head out, and appear to ripen [normal grains, are very considerably 1 iweakened in their growth and lessen- ed in the size of the straw and the‘ .w 'rht of grains produced. Always i there has been a difficulty in treating oats to prevent this disease. The oat smut gets ripe and the spores blow fallout in the field while the shucks' around the individual grains of other! ’ straws are still open in the blossom.g The result is that nearly every graini receives some smut spores sealed up' _ in close contact with the grain in- - ' side of the shacks, which close up at the time the grain flnishes ripening. 3 Such spores are out of the reach of any 1 treatment which is very effectual. Peo- "Ple who have been in the habit of . treating cats with copper sulphate. in-‘ ii variably have injured the yield, be-. 3 cause in order to thoroughly soak -- the grain so that these inclosed spor- es may be killed, the cOpper solution. ,t comes in contact with. the soft grainl of the oat and the germinating pow- er of the grain is injured by the pois-‘ on. Since I ascertained the cause Of ; this trouble, after a great number of! râ€" carefully conducted germination tests,‘ _ l have been attempting to find some? 3 substance which would kill the smut ' pores and still not be detrimental to . the. germinating power of the oat IS grains. This substance is a liquid sold as in. the market under the name of form- t- alin. Formaiin is a 40 per cent. so- lution of formaldehyde. By a very n- great number of germination tests [is and field trials, it is ascertained that ed this substance when properly applied L-" w111 disinfect wheat, oats and barley, l e l- a v-I‘ “-v----Vvv lea as to prevent-mine appearance bf smut and even increase t.he xleld of the grain, germination bemg unprov- wwvwvu Iv..- is as follows: Make up a solution using‘I out of prOporti'on: to the size or appar- ‘ at the rate of one pound of formalin; . . . , th tex- to fifty gallons of water, pile the} out strength of his frame, in e - . ture, form and symmetry of the bones: grain upon the barn floor and spunk; the elements of capacity {or resistance 1"? the pile thoroughly With the 301m! and endurance are contained in the. tion, shovel the grqln over thorough- blood horse many (old greater than‘ 13' and sprinkle 333"“ “9‘1 shovel 0V?“ those of a similar character found in (again and sprinkle again. :3 that m the common. cold-blooded cart horse. 3,1’1'90‘333 one may see 3' every The im ession' revails with a class 8’5““ ‘8 thorougghly. we” 1‘ Wimt ‘3 o: breedgs thatp the thoroughbred being treated, it Will be;l suflmfitlant tol‘ principal use is upon the turf’ that see that the grains are t oroug y wet . - , ’ on the outside. If cats are being treat-| a" “3 a ’3“ nor” and mum“ "1% ed enough of the solution should be putuipon the pile to insure that each, breeds of m uiticent draft coach. ' grain ‘3 quite thoroughly saturatedl road and saddllg horses of the country. so that the solution may get inside of| will disclose that this strongest. tac- th‘e Shucks- ,It W111 be better ‘f the! tor of excellence and value is trace- oats are sprinkled and shoveled quite! able to the proportion of thoroughbred thoroughly once, and then otter two‘ blood used in “yin“ m, foundation 01‘ three hours they are 3"” an- of their ancestry. and the more of it other treatment. In the meantime th - - - - at has been mtroduced in the begin- they Will have swelled some, and the nine (1 r ted to in later generat- second apnljcation of the water will ions, the better 119" .been resulta- I___I BEnESréTe‘fféJtiv'e. As to the amount of the solution that one should use to each bushel of grain, I will have to leave to the judgment of each one ap- plying the treatment, inasmuch as the success of the work depengls yery much upon the manner in which the sprink- ling and shoveling is done than up- on the amount of solution put on. It is found, however, that preperly treated oats take up about two and one-half gallons of water to the bushel; that properly treated wheat takes up about one and one-half gallons of water. This will give a rough estimate of how much formalin to use. The treat- ment will be more effective and satis- factory if it is done one day and the grain allowed to remain in the pile until the next morning, being shoveled over a. few times in the interim. One. need not wait until the grain is thor-‘ oughly dry before seeding. In the case of wheat it it is still damp and swollen, one should set the drill to sow approximately a peck or more to the some in order to get the neces- 31'! number 91 1’19““. PM the ”0904: _' __-___ __ - E1 case of (iota after treatment, it it )9 -109! .Mbit to so! “20.304 one: . - houses {61' £119 de- b? send to “130188;?! e may be obtamed .‘ . ' ‘ for about 60 m wholesae drpggwts ~. ' £23m a pound, in five-pound IOtS. [here ‘:r:.._.....+ fnrmnldfl- if grain is allowed to lie too long after _- .. - .. ‘mn‘fl tn heat ”(1 be hyde solutions so‘d under slightly dif- ferent names, but this drug may be: obtained, however, from about any- wholesa‘e drug house in the country under the name ‘formalin,’ and there' will be little doubt of its quality. Farmers who have been using the cor- rosive sublimate treatment, as recom- mended by me for the treatment of wheat, need not change the method. Formalin is not better for wheat than is the corrosive sublimate sofu- tion recommended ip bulletin No. 27, The corrosive sublimate, however,must not he used for the treatment of oats, as it is damaging to the germination of that grain.” There probably never was a time in the history of horse breeding when ~â€" the importance, yea, the absolute nec- A essity, existed of caremil selection 3 and mating of brood stock as now. 3 Times have greatly changed, touching this business within the last few years. ‘ Electricity, steam power and other modern inventions have been applied to many of; the uses formerly monop- f olized exclusively by horses. and the . demand for a certain class of these ' animals no longer prevails, says the' Indiana farmer. The time was, when. '. under fair conditions, it would pay? to raise a colt from any sort of a mare ; stinted to a cheap stallion withotut. regard to his breeding or structure.; There is now, and likely will be for ; another half century, perhaps longer. l as strong and widespread a demand i â€" for horses that are adapted to the ; various capaz-ilies for which they are! used, in city and country, as there ever : ’ was and at prices that were never r i heard of in the experience of earlier ' lhreeders, but the call is for good i horses only; little plugs and all kinds : E gof inferior stock are out of fashion, . ‘ nd it is an utter loss of time and ' money to raise them. i This being so, the importance of 'I care in selection of both sire and dam, cannot be too deeply lmmessed upon H the attention of the breeder for un- ‘ less this first step be taken With Jarlg- . ment and skill. he cannot’ hepe, ; ‘through any afte management, tat make his business encouraging or a paying one. It costs no more to raise .stock; the more valuable horses the| .1 most economical for all purposes. The 3 ' ‘ team capable of plowmg an acre in the \ {,same time that another does half an ‘ i acre, or. that can carry a load of 'pase- I ; engers ten miles while another is going _? five, independent of all considerations 1‘. of taste. amusement or what is gen- _1 erally known as fancy values; such a ; team is absolutely worth twice as .much to his owner as the other. The question will be asked, by what :means is this result to be obtained? ‘ It may be stated in reply that the l I l , i first requisite is to be looked for inl the l i i l sire of the stock intended to be raised. ,f He should have in his veins the great- 1 , est amount of pure blood. compatible ' 'withz size. weight and power. accord-' ling to the purpose; the blood horse | possesses these to a degree entirely l out of preportionl to the size or appar- lei ent strength; of his frame, in the tex- ' ture, form and symmetry of the bones: .I it the elements of capacity for resistance ‘and endurance are contained in the E11,! blood horse many fold greater than in. those of a similar character found in -y the common. cold-blooded cart horse. is '1‘th Impremion' prevails with a class of . breeders that the thoroughbred principal use is upon the turf; that he is a race horse and without value. for any other purpose. but; a casual lstudy of the origin of. the different 2| Undertaking and Embalming WV wv'vvâ€" â€"-v-â€" V _ The horse for the farmer-breeders' purpose should be of medium height. say 15 1-‘ hands, short. back well rib- bed up. short in the saddle place. long below. He should have high withers. broad loins, broad chest. e straight rump. a high muscular. but not beefy chest; a lean, bony. well set heed. clear. bright well placed eyes. well apart:’ broad nostrils and smell. ears. His fore legs _long_. well muscled shove Eh; lingoâ€"3',“ alsofhis hind. logo above the hooks. loank ahqrt and bony polo?" these joints. The bones cannot well be too flat. or too lame. and the ainewu ought to be straight. firm and hard to the touch. J. SHEW E LL BREED GOOD HORSES. Furniture ~10ww W V 7" _ _ nay heg' "to heat: 3nd be the after sho"eling is t it is not} geeded at once. â€"--L Donor In all than of a time in Mr. Stephen Wescott, Frml N.S., found (Burdock Blood 3mm 1 wonderful blood purifier and gm his experience as follows; “I m very much run down in health and [employed our local physician "ho .uttended me three months, finally my leg broke out.in running so“; with fearful burning. 1 had thi- teell running sores at one time, ’ from my knee to the mp of ml'foo-L '5 All the medicine I took did me no good, so I threw it aSIde and ma B. B. 3.; when one-half the bottle “.3 gone, I noticed a Change for the . better, and by the time I had finished RUNNING SORES. two bottles ‘my leg was Perfect}; healed and my health greatly in; proved.” alumna AND UHGPPING Dflflilom. St FLOUR, OATMEAL and FEE -' 5’- THE SAWMILL “Vania. BHINGLES mo um .IWty on hund. N. G. I. nuxucHx. TH! 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