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A USEFUL INSTITUTION DNTARIO 'AGRICULTURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL FARM. Great Work the College is Doing to Fit Boys and Girls for Life on the Farm. The College was established in 1874. Ils objects were twofold: First to train young men in the science and art of fiuiproved = tusbandry, and, second, to conduct ear cecal and publish the re- gulls, In 1875, the President said in his pole Friel " it is evident to the most er that Canada depends, reine will i "Abligel for many years to depend largely, if not exclusively, on her raw produce for' her national wealth. And amongst the various forms of raw niaterial none are so valuable as those included Troduce, il is Wain that the readiest: manner of increasing the national wealth is by in- creasing the quantity and qualily: of that no! s0 easily accomplished. Precedent, Projudice -and Stund in the way, vince there is a powerful minorily intelligent, enterprising and successful farmers pursuing the improved system of cullivation; vet the great majorily are depending gue a ,Imereased acreage for incrensed re! That was thirty vairs ago, and the Collove, facing {hese conditions, help, steadily In Tavor with the peor. until now farricte themselves visit Col- lege in June and December to the num- ber of neariy 40,000; and we had last year in attendance aj the various College classes : 1,004 STUDENTS. More than 1,20 teachers visited cape Col- lege and examined the workings the different departments during ihe. past two years. In the t beginning students were paid to allend the Institution, and there was Practically no revenue from the Colloge or farm. In 1905, we turned into the Provincial Treasury as revenuc from lhe ee and farm $61,568.20, The k k of the different departments is as VS Field Agriculture. -- Teaching of students and experimenting with, field crops is the work of ut is department. In Mr. Zavitz's report of last year the followi ing peragnnon appears under the head of " "The resulls show that the Rendeclisug gave decidedely | - the greate. st yield per acre of the four Meg fn gating gave -- average cf * bushels per acre per annum over the ommon six-rowed barley in the hs results for fifteen yeurs, age aren devoted to barley in Ontario from 18 194 is given as 633,290 acres per annum. An increase of nine bushels of barley per acre throughout the province, would. therefore, amount ts an increase of over five million bush- annuatly would pay the running ex ses of about -- agricultural caine Vike the one cated at Guelph. The Mandscheuri \ingay was imported from Russia by the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege in the spring of 1889, Not only hes it_ made a very excellent record at the College, but it has given high results in t erative eriments out Ontario and has a heen grown in gen- eral cullivation very successfullly during the past few years. ooking up the records of the Bureau of Industries, we] men find that the yield of barley the period of ten years from 1895 to 1904. inclusive, 1894, inclusive, was 24.85 bushels per acre. This rea an average annual in- crease of about 4, BUSHELS PER ACRE. latter, Aas compared : ad the for- of ten vears these ' Ss ik moot tppene - though the introduction of the Mandseheuri barley by the Onlario Agrieuilural Col- lege has been worth to the Province wf Ontorio within the past ten years an an nual monty value equal lo more than fifteen times the entire cost of the Col- lege?" Similar work is being done with wheat and pels and peas atid rye oud grasses and claver and root Ifusbandry. - - Heve stu- Genis are taught the comparative value of the different breeds of domestic ani- mals, and as it is said that 90 per cent, of alt the crops grown on the farms of Ontario is fed to live sfock, it will be seen at a glance how important it is to be able to tell a good feeder when one sees (3) Dairying. -- The making of better butter and beller cheese and the breed- ing and feeding of belter animals. The in Ontario gives. _ than er ve The College, by careful selection and proper feeding. has built up a grade herd which ontained sixteen cows which guve more than 6,000 pounds each. (4) Horticullure. -- Here we are some- what handicapped by severe climatic conditions. Being 900 feet above Lake Ontario, we cannot grow the more deli- cale fruits. Students are given instrue- tion in the wrowing of all kinds of frult, vegetables, and flowers, and experimenfs are conducted with the small fruits and with cover crops for the orchard. (3} Bacteriology. -- Nitrogen is one of the principal needs of a plant. It is worth en, about 20 cents 4 pound. The sir is 80 per cent, nitrogen, and yet slants aannat use it in the form in which it appears in the ig ing Certain bacteria, if gti soil, will work on the and oller leguminous plants, for the tuke the nitrogen from the atmosphere, and con-} vert if into plant food. ra bacterjo- Iegist propagates in his laboratory and |/ supplies in small bottles millions of these nitrogen forming bacteria. which may ' spread upon before it is sown, and hus introduce _ the soil roots alone about fifty pounds of nitro- Thus the plant food sup- * soil by a crop of clover fs $10 PER ACRE IN ONE YEAR. and the farmer has the clover bg every ' ce mean milfions each yeur to this Pro (6) Chemistry. It was 'aid afew yenrs ago that sugar beets -- not ke grown profitably in this Province. Our Depariment of Chemistry conduct- ed experiments in the different pare of | butter Onlario, and analyzed the beets at dif- ferent hg _ of growth. It is now snows an that y grow as go yore Se in any part 'af the world, and men are put- ting their money into the building cl! #uger bect factories. re! f unds of sugar were made in Weste Ontario last year. Chem it r Chemistry Department last year There wae a difference .of many | 'jing the farmers millions of dollars eachi 8h-) Russia there nave been °\ spended, 58 editors urrested, (ped naked and cut from shoulde _ Ty {j ion eveameries, among ane the results Loin these wifeats ibe flour and ha avi made b was not so bright in color. at very much less than they have been g. ff Physics. -- In this department are and soil drainage. All farm crops take their f food from the soil in a watery 80- lution. When the land dries up no more feod can be. for a knowledge to conserve soil- moisture. This is one of the most 45 Meal tA and experiments are being n the Department of Physics conducted all the lime 'alon ti ese lines. Botany. -- his dopartivent the subject of weeds and how to destroy them, minate them, the importance of growing grasses and clovers, and such things are laken up and discusse (") Entomology. -- Again, millions. of predation. Only by studying the life fistory and habits of an insect can it be properly combatted, These are taught io the farmers' boys and LLETINS ARE. PUBLISHED and. sent brondeast to the -- from our Entomological Departme (10) Poullry. -- Chickens oon fo sell anywhere on the market from cents S a piece. -- been properly fed, ls We have on trouble " ene of our poultry here at from 12 to 15 cents a pound dressed, ond our students are taught how to breed and feed so as to obtain these resulls, We have four dif- erent slyles of poultry houses to test the effects of heat and cold on the egg- loying proclivities; hence we find that the coldest, and therefore the cheapest house, is the ae and that fresh air, is essential to g egg production (1b acaonent Institute, things are tau omestic eutanca: manual training and cate study. in ere 360 girls 'n year, port one being obliged to learn cooking, sewing and laundry work. In a Province where over 9 per cent of the women do their Cc housework, what a blessing would be if they were all properly train- ed for their daily duties. Manual train- ing makes ae and girls handy in th use of simple tools, and nature study, which is really elementary agriculture, kelps teachers fo the extent that they may relurn and give to their pupils an education that will more nearly fit them for the earning of their T ' First, filting boys and girls for their Ife work on the far rm; second, by -- menting along different lines it is sav. year by securing from them exact data in reference to the value farm crops, farm animals, and so forth; and third, by the writing and publica- lion of bulletins and reports, the farmer is supplied in his own home with rell- able information in reference to his busi- a a Ce VENGEANCE ON REBELS Rssian Bureaucracy Celebrates Return { A London Ls ay h Lureaucracy regai suys: Since the ied the a reports © severe engeance faken on "Ns thronpticut the empire, including the shooting and barbarous flogging of wo- The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Times, summarizing these punitive measures for the month ending Feb, 7, says that 78 newspapers have been su- a state of siege proclaimed in 62 places, a minor State of siege in 32, summary executions including Moscow, 1.400: politieal -- ar- rests in St Petersburg a "16, and in the whole of | Russia 10,0¢ Teniporary prisons were opened in t towns. 'Two thousand telegraph and postal employes were dismissed. Mure than a score o cheap restaurants in St. Petersburg were closed to preveut the unemployed from obtaining relief. One correspondent asserts that 13 women and girls were oud at Kur- tenhof, near Odessa. They were strip- to ankles with knotled whips, ed from the effects of their injuries. ----_4--___ FARMERS WILL STRIKE. 200,000 Agriculturalists Will Deman! Dollar Wheat. An pry ey Ind., despateh says : A strike of the 200,000 farmers compos- ing the Ameri an Sociely of Equity, an organization a headquarters in Indina- napolis, has bee eg oar for March 1, iv was announced as Friday, Everyone who responds to this call will agree fo withhold from marketing any agricul- tural products exceptin ganization. The word is passing -- all the wheal- -growing States response that is returned is said to causing considtrable concern on ee part of the market men and speculators. The Sociely of Equity says that the pro- ducer ought to get at least $1 a bushel or wheat. no "_"" wha may be the size of the cro 1 for the strike sels forth a eink selling price on all farm pr@fucls. a a '! CREAMERIES IN THE WEST Total Productan. in Territories Was j Million and Half Pounds, An Otlawa despatch says: Yenrs ago the Dominion Government established creameries in the North-West Territor- ies which were the means of developing the dairy industry there to respectable proportions. The total production of the twelve Alberta creameri¢s Inst year was about 925.00) pounds, and the aver: aye price received was 2135 cents a pound for the whole year's output. There were 1.201 farmers 'subseribers to the Domin- of she industry were "divi s the 12 Government crenmeries operating in the new Losi there are fifteen" creameries under pri- vale management, which a up and ex- 000 > "f ee of ae province ae toa Tnillion pow f butter, peri heonghi the farmerst "ot Alberta o third of a million dollars. + iow to Wash a Corset:Remove the steels, then lay the corset on a table or board and wil -- bread" made ach of the different 'ols, it 'wax found 5 that th e fo ad Wut] Sed Sulide of a Young Woman at a Toronto. COLLEGE as lo "nN and nothing to live for, life is a bu ' ult} wro la Broo es " mie ta will pee poor people . 'ale circums' +t be: s pees the ee 'bread for their tories taught the- principles of soil See cl oor 'taken; hence the necessity | jp e from Saskatoon to Edmonton, going lo & of different} },, cf --_------ ls)PURE GOOD BILL IS LAW. _|ttentiary for robbe NOTHING TO) 'LIVE FOR. despatch sa: on Wed at 17 V Horne street. when he re' house locked from work at 6 o'clock, and forcing the' rife quantity of carbolic acid. re Dumble and ave Teen the house ead. wile came eo from Manchester, Eng., a short time Deceased was 24 years eld. Before leaving for Canale she took poison to end her life. The Chief Cor- oner decided that abecs was no necessity for an inquest. G. T. PACIFIC CONTRACTS. Sec Nearly a Thousand Miles Now Let for Col jie instruction. ; A Montreal despatch says: Frank W. , Trunk Pacific Railway, announced on Thursday that contracts for the con- paciogr of the section between Touch- ood Hills and "Edmonton, 457 miles. ioe which tenders were received up 10 Tues: , in wo part the first part, 140 miles, from Sanatiwoos Hills to Saskatoon, going to the Canadian While Com Mont- real, and the second part, 317 miles, Foley Bros., Paul. This work, together with the 'work now in hand between Fort William and Lake Superior Junction, and Portage la Prairie and Touchwood Hills, makes a total of 942 miles under contract. The coma imposed upon the contractors is that the work shall be rushed with the greatest spce es . KING TO VISIT KAISER. Friendly Meeting of the Two Monarchs ely in Near Future. A Berliri despatch says: King Edward has written @ most cordial letler to the Emperor on the occasion of his Ma- i y. and foreshadowing the friendly meeting of the {wo monarchs in the course of the cur- sent year. This news will be welcomed at Berlin with great satisfaction. where {he recent strained relations belween the Emperor and his uncle have made a most unpleasant impression, eeeanecemend entation WINNIPEG BANK ROBBERY Money Found in 'the Caretaker's Tool Chest. A Winnipeg despatch says: The mys- tery surrounding the clever robbery in the Merchants' Bank here last Bp m the teller's cnge under the very hog of the officials, curing business rs, Was partially solved on Tuesday oc when Jerry James, night watchman in the bank, discovered $2.5 nder a false = in the lop of the -- chest belonging H. Thompson. other caretaker, tian at once communicated his discov- ery to the police, h the ae that Thompson was immediately placed cer arrest. prisoner refused to , and was remanded until Friday. fruitless in locating the slightest clue. United States Senate Finally Passes the Measure. A Washington, D. C., despatch says: After 15 years of more or less serious consideration of the. subject, the United States Senalé on Wednesday passed a pure foad bill by the decisive vote of 63 . The vote was taken after a day devoted almost exclusively to debate of a desullory character on the measure. The bill makes it a misdemeanor to man- fi sell adulterated or mis- brand . drugs, medicines, or liquors in the District of Columbia, the Territories, and the insular possessions of the United States, and prohibits the shipment of such goods from one State fo another, or to a foreign country. It also prohibits the receipt of such goods. Punishment by fine of $500 or by im- prisonment for one year, or both, {s prescribed. In the case of corporations; oMcials in charge are made responsible. ----4+------. SIX YEARS FOR CHARTRAND Robhed Poor et " St. Helen's Church, real. A Montreal path says + Chartrand, aged 32, was sent to "tha penitentiary on Thursday for six years on conviction of sacrilege, he having stolen money from the poor-box of St. Helen's (Rotnan Catholic) Church on St Maurice street, The accused has already served a term of three months in jail for masquerading as priest, as well as three and five years respectively in pen- ery. a RUSSIA RAISES $200,000,000. Exploitation of Russian oe by American Syndicat despatch from Paris says: The Matin's correspondent at St. Pelersburg states the Government has decided the National Assembly po meet May Russia's want of money is so reat that = is prepared, the -- x te Russian Turkestan for forly years cn payment of $200,000,000. a A BRAVE YOUTH. Rescued Drowning Man From the Welland River. A despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont., says: Ernest E. bce 8 I-year-old boy, was the hero of a fro drowning in onal Welland River on Inirsday Snyder at tempted to cross the | river on the ice near the Michigan Central pumping station at Montrose, but broke through into deep water. Young Webb, who is the son of a pumping engineer, proc skiff and dragged it out on the ice till it broke through. He thee got in and made his way to where Snyder was struggling for his life. He was rescued in the nick of time. BOMBS FOR THBSULTAN. Turkish Police Make Important Discov- erles at Scutari. A despatch from Constantinople says: The police have made some important th a stiff tog a lather ronda le of white with cold wate "west, cents per 'bushel in the tsnaciees = of] beneath a Agog sod * allow to ee bi Benes turned home| fe: Brooks and his} w o giv Mai he United States for the exploitation ft al . Choosing fully chosen, ssin-| only in the ung estimates to the ' 600 tor the continuance of ch until the estim for 1906 passed, and f rae cpanel: | needed for the civil panes payment of members. ' | rleted As a sale of a perma BS fotent factor in lunacy. 897 s _ Calgary will $130, water-lwners seemed to forget that a sh thirty-eighth. annual report on the extension and electric lighting. could have any aliec inlaaion; writen jpn and idiot asylums. of Ontario! The sl Government have} nie, Ww. A. M'Coy. So now we find a shows that there were 6,213 patients) cabled for 500 bushels of seed wheat) man going into. the mutton he on Seplember 30, 1905,|{from Manitoba. often has uch of the wool form in crease of 632 for year, during] Members of the Quebec Legislature are his mind and "By loo ress Or which 1,136 patients were a on On _-- to be agitating for an increase of ood fleece when other Gillies are 7 nity. ents. oi 4,613. The total cost of main-}| The Manitoba- Public Works Depart- g. i flock ance for the year was $760 &/ ment will endeavor to make porlions of one ~~ Tye bys eri ain cost per patient of . Rev- the Red River navigable, short eh Laat ign bright eyes erue from paying patients amounted '0} The assessors' roll of Guelph shows I ge frame, well spr <ibs, anaes g $114,916. 'el cea the poputeien to be 12,744, and aD | pienty of hei om, and..pot hollow Dr. Forbes Winslow is quoted as say-| assessment of °85,063,000, just back of the shoulders. Aiso allow An unknown friend paid a $400 note ing that "alcohol must be given the first place as a cause of i = insanity, i with ~ , especially cigare in 'ing, as Boe die es In the British esylums intemperance is seienes as the handy in. held by the Bank of Commerce against | ¢, Port Dalhousie Presbyterian Church. The Government have hased $25,- 000, worth of flour to send to the famine plenty of space where a large amount of food can be converted into mutton, or milk io rales a good pair of lambs. The tse 3g ewe wt raising a strong, fat H wedga- bond ad no stoc! : pleted, it was deemed not inf? sible parties which would 8 province a higher net rate rovince being j The matter was --, one is had to remember that while were going on it was advisab thing to injure the credit of GOVERNMENT TELEP! De Dr. Lewis (Dufferin) present@iga _peti- fion from Dufferin County aft that ae question of establishing @ provi telephone service receive the-garly a tention of the Government of 8 hes and the Legislative Assembly. : ' petition recites that the telephone service is a monopoly, that it is doubtful whe- ther the Government of Canada Will take any action towards the taking Gver and operation of the telephone service or the !ong distance and trunk lines; that the Government of Manitoba has &firiounc- eu its intention of establishing a Govern- ment service, that the conditions in On- operation of a provincial telephone ser- vice, and that the lack of such a service is felt by farmers and others_aiike. BILLS GIVEN FIRST RE The folowing, bills were 4 s and < a first time:-- Hoyle--To amend the Asslsement a Municipal Act REDUCING BUSINESS TAX, Mr. Hoyle's bill to amend the Assess- ment Act to eliminate the "trade" from the or commercial business" v of section 10. The heen diversely interpreted as smiéaning "barler an "or "calling." The words "commercial business" are con- sidered sufficient for the proper mean: o: barter and sale. Clause two bill proposes to reduce the mivhin business tax on small offices -heigipy person, from $2: lo $I SUPERANUATION Hon. J. S. Hendrte's bi Jsection 492 Me ing a TY empowering Municl al Counolie to ralse 2 sum annually sufficient to provide for superannuation or retiring allowances | for members of the police force of not less than 25 years' continuous Service in cilles and towns. The allowance is to be one-half the nical received 12 months previous to retirem NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Mr. May -- Question -- Has_ the Gov- ernment made any changes in the teaching staff of the Normal schools? I! so, when did they occur, and what were the names of -- and the cir- cumstances of the Mr. May -- Question -- What action does the "Goverament intend to take in um Mr. Caress (Hamilton) -- Bill to amend an Act respecting stationary en- gincers. ----_j-----_ THE HOPE OF CANANA! A ------ be ena in the Great A Dauphin de: Neneh suys; The Gall- cians in the settlements north of this place are establishing marriage records these days. At Siflon one day last week iwenly couples were joined in the holy bonds of wedlock, at Fort River sixteen couples and at Valley River cight. tales DIED AFTER igal OPERATIONS. Case of a Massnchussils Woman--One of the Strangest on Record, a de se from Springfield, Mass., Mrs. Hattie Cronin, wiferol Alex- pak 'rE. Cronin, of No. 90 Union Street, died on Wednesday matter, after hav- ing submilted to 107 operations. Physi- cians say her case is --_ ot the strangest on record, Mrs. Cronin was 28 years old. ha# na outerer "trom dropsy of the liver #ce three years. Durirg the last year operations were necessary almost every week. --_--_4>---- COMPANION ruil LIVINGSTONE. n Who Accompanied Remains of Pigg see! Home Dead in Hawaii, atch -from Honolulu says: -- Arthur Laing died on Tuesday at Queen's Hospital. -- |; was a Scolch- man, 62 years old, and had been em- ines a several years as @ searcher of records. He is said to have been a Fellow of the Royal Geographical So- ciety, and to have conveyed the remains of Explorer Livingstone from Zanzibar to London, and is also said to have been a eae of Henry Stanley's Niger ex- pedition ----4-------_ HOUSEHOLD HINTS. ae anything the oven gets too ot oF "the door open. This cools the oven, and the steam rising from water a. ny contents burning. When cooked in a gas-oven a basin or tin of water ould always be kept in the ove A floor should never be swept in a room where there is a conta cme oree the patient. et no clouds of erms are' flung up in the air to drift out of the window. Eges.--Eggs should be care- for bag bea 3 spate not inside, bu con ee outsida den Fo as dull ones as d brown ones The} ty tario are exceptionally favorable for the]; tien n 8 Several 1 the oven.--If when you be h a basin of cold water fnatead el of the | ja and Been: Hex largest | bbed ~Tecnusse or ru sanily, while 'in Ontario only 6k "per cent. of the cases~ are attributed to kK. Uniformity in the manual of service 12 recommended for the different. insli- ,|tulions which have shown a disposition tu live apart instead of working in sym-] Sn pathy. 'The itinerant system among .f- ficials is considered a helpful one. The appointment of a Provincial pathologist is omnes. strong protest is once more regis- sins against the commitment of insane persons to jail. It is pointed out that] the word "asylum" in connection with the ne is becoming obsolete. Hospi- fal is the proper ae for institutions devoted to their c Next to York County; which furnished | go: 250 lunatics last year, comes Middlesex with 63; Wentworth and Frontenac had Ao each; Carleton, 46; L ren- ville, 45; Sincoe, 41, and Norlhumber- f total number of patients 1,097 hail from York county, 351 from Middlesex, 280 from Wentworth, ag from Sincoe, and from Carleto As many "7 643 patients have been in residence twe ently years and upwards, There were 315 discharged cured during e@ these alter twenty The number of deaths for the Sen- ile decay and epilepsy were the next chief causes. the occupalions of insane persons _ great bulk of them come from four Housekeepers head the list for Mr. tho period under survey with 5.48% cas- Ri s; laborers follow with 4,680; farmers, Mr. la amend the Public with 4,368, and domestic servants, with schools : The enormous difference is ap- lon. a Hendrie--To amend the|Farent when it is not at the next {wo classes are wives, with 650 cases, and carpenters, with 471. Patients are given een inthe esylum to the number of 4,431, with an avenue uumber of 298 days for Pos pa- a Snen INVASION OF CAPITAL. New England Corps to Visit Otfawa This Summer. An Otlawa despatch says: Several New Fngland regiinents are planning a joint visit to Ottawa on d t is estimated {hat tthe number of troops owe ti TSio hid ma 1,500. 'The corps that up to the present have signified their intention of paying a visit to the capital are the 5th Regi- ment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Koston, 600; British Naval ys Pai litary Veterans' Association, 300; vernor's Foot Guards, of Hartford, vw Amosktag Velerans, New Hampshi dence Light. Sanity, es = 7 - number not knov --_}----------_ SIX MONTHS' EXPORTS. Total of Canadinn Produce Was $133,180,729--Britain Took Bulk, An Ottawa despatch says: -- to the aot relurns | issued b e Cus- the Uniled States' From Great Britain during the sam eriod the imports totalled $33,416,825, while from the States the importations were valued rt $81,928,315. ----_--_+------- ATTEMPTED | MURDER, Farmer Shot Thrice While Metoraing Home From Owen Soun A despatch from Owen Sind says 'm. Morrison, a prosperous farmer living near Leith, six miles from here, was shot tvice Rein A the head and robbed of 8 while returning from Owen Sound on " Wednesday night. He was found in an unconscious condition some lime after. So far no trace has been found of the highwaymen. Morrison came to town on Wednesday with a load of hogs, which he disposed of for about $145. He left for home about dusk, and took the shore road. ee 2 spot, where trees shelter the road es, he was attacked, _ iwics through the head, and rob When found he was taken to his nied in Leith, and doctors were summoned from Owen Soun Morrison's atal unless inpurica will not ve blood-poisoning sets = ro will, tomers lose the sight of on event has stirred up the weal Eeighborhood, and is the first to have occurred in that section. AN ARREST MADE. The sensation arising out of the mur- derous attempt upon the 'life of James Morrison, the Sydenham farmer who was shot at by a young desperado to whom he was giving a ride on Wednes- ef night, eg increased on Friday by Alfred Stewart, a youn ced about "eighteen years of ae. yo the person described as rt is an old country who bes 'raised by a farmer 'n Sullivan township. At the death a few -| years ago of the latter, the young fcilow drifled into town, where a friend se- He had not cecned sufferers BE Oe MUPrtiierit Pare uf Japan; In'St. Thomas there are 14,555 people, beti 9,329 ey Lge church and 3,179 attending Sunday mand a ratoematory at some ppoint in the Province north of Lake Super ior is recommended by Inspector nit Mackenzie: . Mann have made an xtend a spur of the James fay Railway "no the Moose Mountain iron mine, in the "be -- of Hutfon, and to bring out the undary line 1 between Saskat- chewan and Alberta runs down the main street of Lloydminster, and the town wants a declaration to decide which pro- vince it is in. Receipts om the incorporation of Mpa: the Department of Pet Secrotake of "State totalled $120,000 | year Ther is paid the expenses oe GREAT BRITAIN. The Brilish export tax _ coal is be- lieved to be slated for rem General Booth at Landon "plata that the Salvation Army ra ae send 10,006 emigrants to Cancda this y Irish Unionists will ie the British Government out on the home rule ques: tion, The'Government will go on record against protection. 'A measure was introduced in the Bri- tish House of Commons for the removal of the embargo on Canadian cattle. The second reading was set for April 6. UNITED STATES. A Nebraska men was released from after serving twelve years for nolorious wife murderer, was hanged in Chicago at 1.34 on Fri iday afternoon, "I dic an innocent men," he said. While Patrolman Al. Suff, of a Mich., was biting off the end of a cig he accidently swallowed $2 wor th "ud gold which, had been placed in a cavity in his Fearing that there will be an anthra- cile strike, resulling in long idleness. many parents at Wilkesbarre, Pa., are taking their boys from the mines, and boys and giris from the schools, and fin nding gia for them in factories and sto Jo ea Ehrhart is lying at = paint of death at his home, at York, Pa., sul- fering from Jockjaw, caused by ° small = -bey splinter, 'which he ran under his pnger Tena, un- : Staund. noliced. Later the w , be affected with blood-poison A "Jack-the-Clipper™ oe chased through the streets of Chicago after he cul the braided tresses from the head of a i3-year-old school girl, but gol away. He is believed to be the "clipper" who vi-| has, within the last few weeks, slashed i -ore of young = the hair of nearly o he occupants at me of C - Nathan Hartford, Conn., ..cre awakened the ringing of a : arm. The colonel "called up the police and had a man watch the house, but no burglar put in an appearance. It came out Ey the day that the alarm had set off by @ mousg. GENERAL. The French Government will be asked on battleships The Hungarian Partiament was, S- solved with the aid of the militia and olice ee Durnova, heaps Minister of bt Interior, says it is necessary to every sev actly. to check onee for all the spread of r Spain is olfended because Germany has not taken kindly to. the -- that she be a pariner with Fran the re- organization of Moroce Sixty to seventy millions soning are required this rear by the Russian Gov- pean I y be necessary to mort- gage the State 'vail ays or monopolies. the Russian revolt property valued at £6,000,000 was destroy a people imprisoned, and 1,400 s marily exec porary iene were opened in seventeen towns and 78 newspapcrs were suppressed, MOTHER OF. TWENTY-FIVE. Had Six Pairs of Twins and Was Sister to Twenty-six. A despatch from Denver says: Mrs. Elizabeth Conway, the mother of twen- ty-five children, nineteen boys and ge irls, of whom there were pairs o twins, died on Friday @ age ae fifty-nine years from Sark disease. Mes. Conway was the youngest of a family of twenty-seven children. She was mar- ricd at the age of fourteen, and her hus- band was the youngest of a family of was the grandmother of Her mother be ninely-nine years old, and her a kaso mother and father atsined one fun and one hund and two er. Of the twenty-five children three daugh- terse and five sons 'survive Mrs, Con- why. --_+----------- CURE FOR CONSUMPTION. culosis Serum. A despatch from Paris says: Professor Bouchard has informed a correspondent ef the Matin that a new method of ected has its powers of resistance -in- , and Pg a ge a pepemcl the t been ated, fact, claims to have discovered an anti- tuberculous serum, which has- on men with satisfactory ulls, fessor Bouchard himself has ex) en the serum. ae : manner was completely cured by ut la tests were less conclusive. Rates RAEN OO Ian ce SE Melb ie anaenn ane eee set ena To Saree eens a the depariment and left a surplus of str $60,000. m natpareiie burglar | that Halian Physician 'Discovers Anti- 'Tuber- $y 8B haped form as the model dairy cow. I ive never a a Ke that, at a rear view, é hind-quarter, tapering aeataaliy to th "tore: end and joe ag raised a thick flesh Have the ewes as near alike as nosaiise, so that being bred to one ram they will drop lambs of . uniform type. ewes are of the Downs, ram should be a Shropshire, Sharpening Ox- Leicester or Cotswold. approach the pure-bred type, by line breeding, the more perfect will the off- spring be. He should be a thick, re fellow but, unlike the ewes, s' heaviest in front with thick Bo "broad belween tt yes, a short n and heavy shoulders. The shorter the dis- tance from hi '0 fo the slomach the better. His back should be perfectly like the blade of a knife : if there is @ "9 se all along his back and more meal, lambs that will be easily fed and thick fleshe As soon as the ewes are bred the ram ren be {taken awa Then when ormy weather commences in winter the ewes should have a dry shed to rum in at nights and out of storms. But (hey should not be shut in unless there is danger from dogs or from some other cause hey are liable to be overs heated in too close a place. At this tlmd if there is good clover hay a@ very little grain will do, but if the hay {3 not go a mixture of bran, cals and corn, equat parts by weight, o--_ be fed about one or two pounds ead each day, _ pending on the caemian of the ewes. A good thing to feed at this lime is roots or silage to keep the syste: loose and 1. We never -- Bh sheep barn light until it gets 0 degrees below zero or very se oralil lambing time. ---- WINTERING BROOD SOWS, It is not a good plan to ever get dis- couraged and neglect to properly feed and caro for the brood sow. eis the machine that is capable, if Fs focP and vegetables, skim milk and o waste material into palatable and salc- able meat. the pig business. The broo returns twice per year, and although 'the margin of the profits are a litle closer at some times than we really enjoy, when the advance in price comes. and it is sure to, there is another crop of pigs o on hand to enable you to reap ths 'nefils which the sfockman richly de- at is a matter of smporiatic® that the feed - in a palatable a and great variely > ehonle not be given in es liberal uan- tilies for it is not the material of which good ne and muscle can be made if fed alone. It is far better to ive some June clover or alfalfa each day, together with some corn stalks 'o chew on. If the corn stalks are not fed in too large quantities, and are sprinkled with a ao brine they will or the leaves and a large portion of the sta For sloppy feed oats oan with the corn, cob- and all, mixed with wheat middlings, make a good ration. As the approaches, rools in not made excessively fat, a co disposition will be cullivated and this is beneficial to both sow and the coming igs. Make the sow comfortable by giving her a warm ry place, in which to sleep, and at samme time furnish bed- ding. Take out the soiled portions of the -- often and replace it with new. not confine the brood sows to loes quarters. They need pure air, and an abundance of exercise, to mako them sapelge op bone, muscle, ee and a vigor- s conslilution. This makes them capna- ble of transmilling to the progeny the im and constitutional vigor necessa to make thrifly and profitable animais. = DEHORNING CALVES. a is most-rapidly done while calves @ young, and two gencral methods phd employed. The first is to vFemore the horn when it ars means of the caustic potash treatmen t but for mature animals dehorning with the knife is better. In the first method it is only necessary be no further appearance of the horn. In some cases, however, it is necessary to 'yoanss more than one appli- cation Older cattle my be dehorned with rn clippers, with but ate. Suny if "facilities 'ice wolaing: are at i { sary 3 oe narrow chute, with two heavy saucer at the between which the head of the mang ie allention. plan to cover the woun ee of coal lar or some olher dis ies tant which will prevert undue bleeding and assist in the healin At the present price for