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JANUARY 14, 1898

Messrs. Wittiam Davies & Co., Lrp.

the leading pork pa kers of Canada,w hom

i | THE PORK BUSINESS. }

some persons seem to bave tried to induce ’

to evtablish a packing house in St, John, bave written the following letter to one of

those gentlemen. From what they say |

our tarmers may take some usefal practix ;

cal jessons applicable to the business

which hae already been established here by the enterprize of Messrs B. & M. Ratieobury. We quote the letter as pub lished in the St. Joho San:

Replying to ) our several questions : —

lst. We would require to feel assured of ut least 25,000 hogs tor the first season before we would fee] warranted in spending money On a packiog~house ia your pro- vince.

2ad. No business bouse can make any guarantee as to what they will, or will pot, de in the purchase of raw products to be gopyerted intO an exportable article. A guarantee, however, which will satisty all reasonabie people is the putting of oar money intoa# house for the purpuse of operating it. Unless some extraordinary conditions setup in the trade hitherto unknown, we would very much prefer having 50,000, 75,000 or 100,000 hogs to 25,000. bed. The genius ot a successful export business is regularity. {t is positively fatal to run for one portion of the year and then stop, or nearly stop, for the balance. Customers in England require a regular supply. Wheto they commence to use a brand of bacon, they look for it every week Theseason ofthe year when we are pleased to have our largest receipis is from the lst of June to the lst of Septem- ber.

4th. All weights given ere for Logs weighed alive. Our present grades in Ontario are as follows: Best lean hogs, 150 and 220 ibs; good quality light hogs, between 125 and 150 Ibs; fat hogs, between 150 and 220 Ibe; overweighis, which take in al) straight hogs over 220 Ibe. Outside of theee ordinary classifica- tions come sows, stags and very rough hogs. Now the hogs we are desirous chiefly of buy‘ng is the first class, viz.: lean hogs, 150 to 220 lbs. For these we are paying today $5.12} per 100 Ibe. delivered at our fuctery, Toronto; for choice underweights, $4.624; for fat hogs, 150 te 220 |bs., $4624; for overweights, $41.59. All these prices are per 100 Ibs, uve weight. In determining what is a fat or lean hog between 150 and 220 lbs, we have to be governed by our experience and judgment. A hog that is sufficiently fat to make what we call a No. 2 side of bacou, is put into the rejected class, for which we are today paying $4.50. This No. 2 bacon is classitied as such simply because it is too fat—the English trade is very par- ticular on this point.

Sth, The average price which we paid fur our hogs delivered in Toronto during the year ending March 3ist, 1896, was $4.24) per 100 lbs; for the year ending March 3ist, 1897, $4.07 per 100 lbs.; for the present year from April Ist, 1897 to date, the average price have been $5.35 per 100 lbs, This average represents the prise for all grades of hogs. Strictly speaking, the select lean hogs would re-~ present a considerabiy higher price.

6th. All the hogs we purchase in Ontario are bought at a price delivered at our factory. ‘The prices which we have given you above represent a delivered price. We send po agents through the country. Drovers go though the country baying from farmers mekiny up a car-load at some central point when they ship them to our packing house.

7th. The answer to this question you will already find in our reply to number four.

8to, Our retail price for sausase in Toronto during the past year has been for mest of the time 6c. per lb., usually sold as four lbs. for 25 cents. At preeent the price is three pounds for 25 cents.

In considering the price per 100 ]bs. paid for hogs to farmers, it will be necessary to deduct about 374 cents per 100 Ibs. from the average given you, to allow for freight shrinkage in transit, snd drovers’ profit; for instance, we think that drovers at present are paying about $4.70 to $4.75 per 100 Ibs., to farmers for best selection and receiving $5.124 from us. As your

favmera are probably more familiar with the value of a hog dead than alive a simple rule can be

given which will enable them to fix the re- lative value between live and dead weight. Our average yield during the past year of dead weight as compared to live was ahout 75} percent. i. e., forevery 100 pounds of hogs live weight we receive 75} |bs

dead weight. The best selections will kili out a little worse than thie, as they always shrink badly in killing, aud will average about 75 per cent; therefore, if -you take our present price in Toronto at $5,124 and

fHE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, JANUARY 14, 1898

divide it by 75 dressed. This to

immediately

, you have the relative value rnie will enable anv farmer ascertain the relative vaiue Che question of feeding is all important. Unfortunately the farmer’s opinion ou this matter is yot valuable. The real teat of the quality is when the hog is manufacs tured into bacon, and put upon the mar- ket. This particular cut known as “Wilt shire Bucon” is served tothe most fasti- lious tralde ia England, and the difference in price between a prime No.1 side and a fauly one is e0 great that any considerable number of faulty sides would be ruinous. Green feed is all right for growing bogs ; wrong for hogs which are being marketed. Wedo not know what is the character of buckwheatin your province. [be buckwheat here, if fed to hogs, would stop the business; it pro luces a soft and very undesirable class of pork. Hogs fed on fish would also be ruinous to the business. In some sections of our province we have feeding of this character. and we will not buy hogs from those localities at any price.

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DUNDAS NOTES.

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Mr. Samuel Macdonald, J. P., is slowly recovering from a severe stroke of paralysis which he received while attending covrt on December 1&8:h.

Our ‘tchoo! is progressing favorably

| under the efficient care of Mr. Timi Mac~

donald.

Our P. W. C. students have returned to the city to resume their studies.

Messrs. Cantelo and Nicholson left on 13th Dee., for Hanover, N. H., where they intend to study medicine. May success attend thew.

The McKay Bros. are busily engaged in preparing their winter sleighs,

The Dominion bovse kept by Mr. Dan Martin is ever ready to accomodate the weary traveller.

The many friends of Dr. Gillis are sorry to hear of his sudden demise.

The social held in the Manse, Cumber- land Hill, by the Ladies Aid Society was a decided success, Mr. Andrew McMillan auctioned the baskets in his usual good style.

The entertamment gottoh up by Miss Annie [Macdonald was carried out ou successfully, Vocal solos were given by Misses Laura Miller, Ada McDonald, Bessie McKav, Tillie Habley, W. J. Nicholson and Barbara Westaway.

Mr.B. Burdett is doing a flourishing bueiness at Bridgetown.

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NEW SOUTH WALES METAL TRADE

The irov trade should in time form one of the great staple industries of New South Wales. Every natural advantage pos- eeesed by the great iron and machinery producing countries of the world—such as England and Belgium--is also present in the colony. Notonly sreiron and coal deposited in abundance, and in positions easily accessible ard readily worked, but the local iron ore*is exceedingly rich. Scarcely any progrese, however, bas been made in iron smelting, and nearly the whole stuck of pig and wrought iron required for the local manufactories is imported. The other descriptions of metal worke, both for smelting and manufacturing, are in ae more forward state. In 1885-6, the works for the treatment of metals numbered 270, em- ploying 6,891 persoves; in 1895 the number of works was less, but the bands employed had increased to 7,745. In 1885-6 there were 783 hande employed in 25 smelting works; the works now number 22, and the hands engaged, 1,625. There has been a large increase in the Lands employed in making or repairing railway motors, carriages, aud other appliances, the em. ployes in 1885-6, numbering 822, and in 1895, 2,737. Ofthe latter, 2,300 were employed in the workshops connected with the State railways.

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§. Haynes, M. D., Saranac, N. Y., says :— * “T have used Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral in my practice since 1853, and kave always found it reliable for the cure of colds, coughs, and qll‘lang diseases.” ~_ = = =—=—CS:

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ENGLAND DIViNELY ISOLATED. Divine was the hand,

_ Divine the command,

That made ‘isolation’ thy fate ; Divine is the power, That girds thee this hour,

And guards thee both early and late.

Tn iutelar seas, Thou sittest at ease,

The envy aad pride of the world; Thy fleets plough the deep, Thy watchmen ne’er sleep,

Thy flag in all winds is uofurled.

All zones of the earth, To children give birth, Who render to Empress and Queen, A loyalty true, As stars of the blue, And courage as great us e’er seen.

Beware, O beware, Of Crescent and Bear,-- Of Teuton and Gaul, and Allies; In secret they plot, To bring thee to naught,— With wisdom supreme be thou wise.

The dark Eastern cloud, The sky doth en&shroud, Ere long the dread storm will begin, And great Her Magedon, The landscape will redden, And battle’s loud trump sound ite din.

Thy strength will be tried, ; O’er earth, far and wide,

And woe-billows round thee will roll; The sea’s awful roar, The cloud’s drenching pour,

Will terror strike into thy soul,

For this dreadful hour, God gives thee thy power; And * isolates’ thee for his own; Thy strength sball not fail, Thy foes shall all quail ; Thy refuge is God aud bis throne.

Then Gog and his horde, Shall fall by thy sword ; Their greatness shall perish in gore ; Thy God shall thee save, Thy banner then wave, O’er earth—over sea—evermore.

Nov. 1, 1897. L. G.

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Although a very busy man, Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., bas found time in which to write a great book of overa thousand pages, entitled The People’s Common Sense Medica] Adviser, in Plain English, or Medicine Simplified. Few books printed inthe English language bave reached so greata sale as has this popular work, over 680,000 copies having been solu at $1.50 each. The profits on this enormous sale having repaid its author for the great amount of labor aud money expended on its production, he has now decided to give away, absolutelo free, 500,000 copies of this valuable book, the recipient only being required to mail to the World’s Dispensary Medical Associa- tion, of Buffalo, N. Y , of which company heis president, 3l one cent stamps, to cover cost of mailing only, and the book will be sent postpaid. It is @ veritable medical librarv, complete in one volume. It contains 1008 large pages, and over 300 illustrations, some of them in colors. The Free Edition is precisely the same as that sold at $1.50, except only that the books are bound in strong manilla paper covers, instead of cloth. It is not often that our readers have an opportunity tc obtain a valuable book on such g+nerous terms, and we predict that few will miss availing themselves of the unusual avd liberal offer to which we bave called their a’- tention,

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CANADA'S MINERAL WHALTE.

The detailed report of the Geological Survey upen statistics of mines and minerals tor the year 1896, compiled by Mr. E. D. Ingall, M. E., gives Canada’s total mineral production for the year as twenty-two and a half million dollars, ao increase of 125 percent. in ten years, the production in 1886 having been ten mil tion dollars. The iucrease of mineral production in the United States for the same decade was 40 per cent, although the annual production per capita is $8 10 the United States agaiust $4 50 in Canada.

Coa! contributes nearly 32 per cent. of the total valuecf our minerals, gold but 12 per cent., and silver 9 per cent. Iron contributes Jesa than one per cent. In the ten years the production of coal has in- creased from $3,739,840 to $7,226,462; gold frow $1,365,496 to $2,780,086; silver, t:om $209,090 to $2,149,503.

In the production of gold British Col ambia stands credited with over 64 per., cent and Nova Scotia with over 19 per. cent The Northwest Territories, including the Yukon dis rict, come third, with about 13 per cent.and Ontario fourth with about 5 per cent. whilst Quebec contributes much under one per cent.

“Duri:g the year 1897,” says Mr. Io- gell’s report, “tbe production of iron ore shows a fajling off of about 10 per cent. in the quantity and nearly 20 per cent. in the value, the output for 1895 being 102,797 tons, valued at $238,070, as com- pared with 91,906 tone, valued at $.91,557, in 1896. The total outputor pig iron, however, shows an increase of 14,814 tone, which is due tothe opening of a biast furs nace at Hamilton, Ont. The output of this furnace is much greater than the total increase for the year, sOthat the

combined output of the older furnaces has decreased.”

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Montreal Star: “There is something pathetic about Mr. Tarte’s zeal for senate reform just now. Does he imagine that thatthe senate will be deterred from investigating the Drammond County Railway dea! by his threats to alter its character? We are by no means averse to avy scheme of senate reform that will really elevate the tone or increase the usefulness ot the senate; but it has demon- structed its usefulness in its present condition too frequently and too well for the country to consent to its eonstruction being recklessly changed simply as a punishment for having refused to conn‘ve at a suspected fraud upon the treasury.

The sole value of a __ second chamber is in its independence of party and independence of the Government. Any scheme of senate

reform that would place the upper bouse at the wercy of a party caucus or at the dic- tation of the Government of the day would be highly objectionable. The Government is just cs independent of the Senate as the Senate is of the Government. No govern- ment is in danger of falling through the direct vote of the Senate. The upper house may influence public opinion, it may bring rascality to light as it did in the Baie des Chaleurs case. If these functions are in- appropriate to an upper house, surely the country could get along just as wei) with- out an upper house. ‘The Senate would vot be justified in systematically opposing the genera! policy approved by the popular chamber; but when there are suspicions of corrupt practices, the Senate would be faithless indeed tO its trast were it to ignore them eimply because a subservient majority in the House of Commons, at the dictation of the Government of the day, chose to wink at them.” aint

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