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HOG PRODITC'TS. Dressed hogs firm. Cured meats are steady, with a good demand. Baconâ€"Long clear in good demand, with supply below requirements. We quote :â€"Bacon, long clear. 10 to 10*0, in ton and case lovts. Porkâ€" Mess, 19 to 200; do., short out, $21. Smoked meatsâ€"Hams. 18 to 140; 113115.. 11% to 12c; shoulders, 1045c; back, 15 to 153C; breakfast bacon, 1% to 714ic. Lardâ€"Market is unchanged. Tierces 990; tubs, 95¢; pails, 10c; comâ€" pound, 8 to 9'2. UNl'I'E'D STATES MARKETS . Bufiglo, Aug. 25.â€"â€"Flou1~â€"â€"Firm. Wheatâ€"Spring demand light; No. 1 Northern spot, culoads, offered 81.02 c..I.f.; winier firm for red; easy tor white: No. 2 red, 85c; No. 1 ' 'te. 810 asked. Cornâ€"Quiet and 3y; No. 2 corn, 57 to 57ft Oats -â€".Wea.k and lower; No. 2 white, 38§c Bu’tterâ€"Jl‘he receipts of butter con- ‘fimue good and prices generally un- -c}ia.nged. The demand is chiefly for ‘ nest grades. We quote :oâ€"Choire 1â€" b. 1011:, 15 to 16c; seleciod dairy bibs, uniform color, 14: to 166; secâ€" Dn'dnry grades, store packed. ‘12,} to 18c; Creamery prints. 19 to 20c; solids, 17; to 180. The strength of mammary butter is Hue to the scarci- ty of the dairy article. Eggsâ€"The .markot is quiet. We quote 21 "Strictly new lai'd, 14; to 16c; freah' (candlcd stock), seconds and checks. 10 to 11c. Cheaseâ€"Tho mérigtflis higher. We quote :â€"Fines't, 10i> to 1:0“. Poultryâ€"The market is s'temdy. -(]hic.kens. 60 to 7.50 per pair; ducks, '70 to 90¢ per pair; turkeys 12 to 'L3(: per lb. Hayâ€"The market is quiet, with fiemand slow. No. 1 old timothy is worth $11 on track. Toronto, and medium grades, 89 '60 $10. No. 1 new is nominal at $9 hero. Sflraw~The market is quiet at $5.25 to $5.50 per ton for car lots on track. Hopsâ€"Trade dull, with prices nominal at $17 'to $20. Potatoesâ€"The offerings are fair, and price are easier. Loads are -q.uo'ted at 50¢ per bushel, and small 10% a't' 55c per bushel. Flowwâ€"Ninety per cent. pafcnts quo'ter‘ toâ€"day at $2.90 to $2.95. m‘llddle freigh'ts, in buyers’ sacks, for export. Straight rollers 0! special $3.25 'to $3.45 in bbls; Manitoba brands for domestic trade quoted’ at flour steady; No. 1 parent's, $4.40; strong bak'ers’, $4.05, Toronto. Millfeedâ€"aBraxn steady, at $16, and shorts at $17.50 here. At outside points brain is quoted at $12, and shorts at' 3517. Manitoba bmm, in Backs, $17, and shorts at $17 here. Beansâ€"Trade is very quiet, with prices nominal. Prime white are quoted at $1.75 a bush. Cornâ€"Market is unchanged; No. 3 American yellow quo'tod at file on track, Toronto, and No. 3 mixed at BOfic, Toronto. Canadian com quotâ€" ‘06 int 540 outside. Ryeâ€"The market is quie't', with export value at 480 middle heights for No. 2. PeaSâ€"Trmde dull, with No. 2 whim: quoted at 610 high freigh‘t's, and at. 53c east. Barleiluâ€"fl‘ra'de is quiet: No‘ 3 ex Ira. quc't/zll at 48c middle freights {mid No. 3 at 400. ’I‘ol'onto, Aug. 25.â€"Wheat1â€"Th0 market is firm, with a fair demand for Ontario wheat. No. 2 white and red winter, old, quoted at 750; new was ofiered {0-day at 740, with 73c bid, low rates to mills. Manitoba *wheat is firm and scarce. N0. 1 hard is quoted at 98c. N0. 1 Northern, 96“, Goderich. No. 2 Northern, 93fic, grinding in trwnsit; lake and rail 6c per bushel more. Oatsâ€"The mark-at is quiet, with lair-offerings; No. 2 white quoted at 80% to Soto, high frei-ghts; No. 1 white quoted at 82¢ east. 'Pl‘iCES4 cf Grain, Cams, etc 111 Trade Centras. 'E‘EE MAKER‘S BUSINESS AT MONTREAL COUNTRY PRODUCE. ‘ u DAIRY MARKETS in the Official Gazette yesterday is as follows:â€" Revenue for the year, $4,703,296.43; expenses, ordinary and extraordinary, $4,599,584.23; surplus revenue over ordinary and extraordinary, $103,712.22; extra.â€" ordinary expenses, $65,443.77; surâ€" plus of ordinary expenses, $169 155.93. Estimated at Fiftyâ€"eight Millions of Wheat. A Winnipeg despatch says: The weaâ€" ther is favorable for filling, ripening and harvesting. The crop is esti- mated at fiftyâ€"eight millions of wheat for Manitoba. and the Terri- tories. which will be six millions shorter than last year. It. is expect- ed to sell at a. higher price, how- ever, and farmers will thus do as well as last year, as they will save in the cost of harvesting. An Ottawa despatch says: George Stone, 8. plumber's apprentice, aged 19, was killed by an electric shock on Saturday afternoon at the Col- legiate Institute. He was holding an incandescent lamp, looking for leaks in the water service, and in doing so, by some means a circuit was established. A Frenchâ€"Canadian from SL'Genevieve, named E. Bay- mond, was also killed as the result of an electric shock here on Satur- day. Raymond, who .was aged 26, and was Working as a lineman for the Bell Telephone Company. received a. shock While on a pole at the cornâ€" er of Elgin and MaeLarc-n Streets. He fell thirty feet and was picked up' dead. Will Sail for Boston on the Mayâ€" flower September 24. A Dundee deapaitcn says :â€"’I‘he Explain Post says it learns from au’tho'r 'taitive sources that the ar- rangwements for the visit. of Land and Lady Roberts to the United States have advanced so far that passages have been booked on the steamahip Mayflower. which win sail for Boston on September 24, country. mth of submerg ton wire ton gun The V$E 19 knot The de - of Crete and it i consent; Revenue For Year Near the Five Million Dollar Mark. A Montreal despatch says: The financial statement of the Province of Quebec for the year ending 30th June, 1903, which was made public QUEBEC’S BALANCE SHEET. Two Men Electrocu’ced in the Streets of Ottawa. Hogs were weak without a quota- ble decline. Selects, 160 to 2400 lbs. of good bacon quality, $6.50; fats and lights, $6.25 per cwit. each. The 't'one of the calf market was firm and business was steady, alâ€" though 'the run was large. We quote :â€"4 to 5§c per 1b., and $2 to $10 each. The arrivals of sheep were light and the market for ewes an'd lambs was strong. We quote zâ€"Expor't ewes, 88.50 'to $3.60; export bucks. Burtrhers’ cattle scl'd at $4.25 to 5.4!.550 for the best, $3.85 to $4.25 for: fair to good, $3.50 to $3.85 for medium, and $2.75 to $3.40 for common. Cows brought $3 tio $3.75. aoconding to quality and Trade in feeders and s‘t'ockers was fair. “'e quote zâ€"chders 900 to 1,150 lbs., $3.50 'to $4.25; Shockers, 4:00 to 700 lbs., $2.75 to $8.50; (mi-colors, and poor breed-1mg qualiâ€" ties, same weights, $2.26 to $2.75 per cwt. 53.7 5. Weight. 8.1 at $4.130 little higher exjra good. w T'hefe being very few exporters’ prices may be considered as nomin- The receipts amountea 1'0 71 krade, 668 cattle, 1,511 hogs, 1,154 dheep and lambs, and 50 calves‘ Twenty horses also arrived. Calves were stronger in value, and the demand being good all that warms forward were sold early in thé dav. ’l‘he feeder amd stocker si'trua'fion was steady Without much change in prices. The volume of busimess tramsac'ted in these was considerable as may be seen from the report fol- lowing. Hogs were weaker than on Tues- day, and the outlook is for lower prices should present conditions in the Old Country continue. Toronto, Aug. 25.â€"â€"Dusiness in cattle at the Western Market was mostly confined to bu'tdhers’ de- scriptions to-day by reason of the absence of offerings of exporvters'. The arrivals included about eight or nine loads of good to choice but,- chors" and the remainder were most/- ly light butchers’ and smokers. About Uhe highest price obtained for butchers' was $4.50 per cw-t. 'I‘he must of the cattle sold at lower figures than the foregoing.‘ No. 2 mixed, 350. Barley mid ry&â€" Nothing. Canal freightgâ€"Stea’dy. Minneapolis, Aug. 25.â€"â€"Close:-â€"- Wheakâ€"September, 83} to 88k; De- cember. 791~c; on track, No. 1 haru, 94“; No. 1 Norrthonn, 93c to $1.02; No. 2 Northern, 910; No. 3 North- ern, 83 to 84c. No. 2 mixed, 350 Nothing. Canal 1 Minneapolis, 1 LORD ROBERTS’ VISIT. THE WESTERN CROP. to 2€c Ad, LIVE STOCK MARKETS ELECTRIC SHOCK. per to $4.70 per cw't might be paid for lb. and $2.50 to $4 The demand for the annexation of Crete to Greece has been renewed and it-is believed that rDaisey will In the_meantime a despatch was sent to Port Dalhousie that the car was coming. The port agent opened the switch and turned the runaway into the siding that it might not crash into a. number of passenger and freight ears standing there. On went the car, until the stop-block was reached. This gave Way and al- lowed the car to run off the tracks into the marsh= Where it lay in about six feet of mud and water. As soon as possible the "pilot" had been sent after the runaway car, but the latter had gained so much start that pursuit was in vain. The aux- iliary, with several engines, managed to get the car out of the marsh about noon on Sunday, it not having sustained much damage. A London despatch says :â€"'I'he Admiralty has decided to build three new battleships of 18,000 inns, which have been designed by Philip Watts, the director of naval con- struction. These are the first ves- sels designed by Mr. Watts since his appointment 'two years ago. The most notable departure in the new ships will be in the armorâ€"plating for the sides and hull. .An armor belt of 10-inch Krupp steel, tapering away to 6 inches, will be continued the whole length of the broadside. This is the first time this has been attempted in the battleships of any country. Includéfi m the arm- ment of the new vessels are four submerged torpedo tubes, {our 50- ton wire guns, eight quickâ€"firing 27â€" ton guns, and twelve 6â€"inch guns. The vessels must attain a speed of 19 knots per hour. British Admiralty Has Decided to Build Three. Ran Seven Miles and Then Plunged Into Marsh. A St. Catharines despatch says: An accident occurred at the G.T.R. station, Merritton on Saturday night, {which caused much excitement. Pas- senger train No. 17, due at Merritâ€" ton about seven o'clock, had pulled in for the West, and the dining car was taken on' and run on the Welâ€" land division siding to await the arrival of the 11.47 train west. ‘When Baggageman Bradley undertook to bring the car to a standstill he found the brakes would not Work, and the car slowly but surely gain- ing speed. Mr. Bradley Worked heroâ€" ically until the car reached the Lin- coln Paper Mills, when he jumped, and allowed the car to go. Aboard the car were five colored waiters, and as it passed the Geneva. Street station, St. Catharines, two of them jumped off safely. The car had gained sufficient speed to carry it up the grade to the canal crossing and over the bridge. Here the remaining occupants managed to jump off The car continued its career until it reached Port Dalhousie, a distance of about seven miles from where it started. W113i; Vremzainod of the bo'dies of £110 two man presented gruesome sighfst It was several minutes before an im'estig‘aiion revealed the cxfienft of the accident, though everyone knew that 'the two men at ‘he derrick had been blown to pieces. I A pole twenâ€" ty-fi’ve feet across and about fifteen feet deep Wav torn up around the well, and the 70-foot denrick ‘was blown into pieces, some of the latter being carried over a. hundred yards. The exnrlosion was heard for miles and the concussion broke a number of win’dows in a farm blouse 40.0 feeE away. 1 Six tenâ€"gallon cans of nitroâ€"gly- cerine had been brought from Petroâ€" leo. to shoot the well, and two of the cams had been lowered solely Lo the botioni. A big crowd was Itnrusent, but they stood several hun- dred feet away, only Booth amid the man who assisted him to carry the cans of nitro working uroun'd the derrick. Kenny had not touched flzo first two cans lo-Weied, but he assisted Bombh to carry the third can to the platform of the derrick mm! the cable reel was attwdhad to lower it. Kenny then stepped of! the platform and Booth had just inserted the can into the pipe wnen the terrific detonation was heard and the air was fille'd with flying pieces of timber and iron. 'l‘hai‘ many people were not seriously in- Jurefl is marvelous. Several of the workmen wh'o stoo'd nearly a. h'un- dred feet from the derrick were knot)le down mn'd stunned, t8.000 TON BATTDESHIPS. The men killed are William Booth, of Petrolea, who was an expert shooter of oil wells and had hand- led niln‘o-glycerine for years, and Miller Kenny, a driller, who lived with his widowed mother and sister at Iiingmille, Ont. Kenncy's father was killed in a. railroajd accident in Detroit about a, year ago. Met Death Shooting Oil Well at Leamington. 'A deSpa'tch from Leaming'ton, 01ft, says :â€"\\"lnile preparing to sh'oot an 011 well sunk b the Leamingbon Oil Company, of fi'troi‘t, a ten-gal- lon can of nltro-glycehine [n'onmtureâ€" 1y exploded about 2.30 on Saturday afternoon, blowing two men to atoms and wrecking the well plant. The men killed are William Booth, of Petrolea, who was an expert shooter of oil wells and had hand- led niln‘o-glycerine for years, and Miller Kenny, a driller, who lived RUNAWAY DINING CAR. TWO MEN KILLED. wounded. The enemy Made a des- perate Izouse-to-house resistance. A London dospa'tch says :â€"Deâ€" spa't'ches receive‘ at the Colonial Oflice on Thursday from Siugura, Northern Nigeria, dated August 17, glve details of the destnuction of the Town of Burmi by a British force of hhirty whites and five hundred natives. rank and file. The enemy's 1068 was 700 killed, including the former Sultan of Soko'to and a. ma- jority of the chiefsf The British 1068 was 11 men killed, including one ofiicer, and sixty-two men A Baltimore despatch sayszâ€"A meeting of the grain exporters was held in the President’s room of the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday and the diversion of freight from the Atlantic seaboard points in the United States to the Gulf and Canadian ports was dis- cussed. Pi'esident James C. Ger- man was authorized to select a com- mittee with himself as one of its members and to bring the matter to the attention of the Baltimore transportation companies and after- ward the grain exchanges of New York, Philadelphia and other sea.- board ports. By concerted action it is hoped to have the eastern American grain carriers reduce the rates so as to enable the Atlantic cities to compete with their Canaâ€" dian and southern rivals, Enemy’s Loss Given as Seven Hundred Killed. Many curio’us stories of the effect of the explosion are being told. In one house the cooking stove was lifted from the floor, in another a hade lying sick was lifted bodily 1mm the bad. No serious damage was dome oiu'ts'ide nto powder com.- p.any's premises albhough glass was broken in several parts of ‘tLhe vilâ€" lmge, imtluidjng one plate glass in T. H. Preston's store. The shock reached as at as Nap- amce, Where 1t was quite d-istimc’tly heard and felt. Baltimore Becoming Anxious About Grain Trade. Three men, Charles Moon, Lyman Mann and Edward Tebo, who were wanking in the building were blown to frugmen‘s. Various pieces of 't-he bodies were to be seen hanging in {lie I trees which surnoun’dod fihe building. The two former men were brothers and DJI- three were manic-d When half a century ago young Lord Robert Cecil had just returned from a visit to the Australian gold fields he became a member of the House of Commons for Stamford, which was practically a pocketbor- ough of the Marquis of Exeter, him- self a Cecil. Since then Lord Salis- bury's career is part of modern his- tory. 3A Tweed despatch' says zâ€"Af ten mlimur'tes plas‘t ton on Saturday morn- ing the Ontario Powder Company's papk’hIOfllS‘e blew up. The village was quite severely shaken by 'the ex- plosion and in a few seconds the sitireets weze full of excited and alarmed people. The source 'was quickly diecovered and a general nush to 'the scene ensued. The buildâ€" ing was literally lifted from its founvla’tions and tom t'o splinlters, its location being new only marked by a black, smoking spot on 'the ground. Explosion Lord Salisbury, a. few Weeks ago, realizing that death was near, ex- pressed a wish to be buried beside his Wife at Hatfield. A proposal un- doubtedly will be made to bury him at Westminster Abbey, but this will be declined by the relatives. Lord Salisbury's death occurred at Hatfield House at, 9.30 on Saturday evening. He was unconscious for eighteen hours before he died. He had a. temporary rally at 11 o'clock Friday evening. This was followed at 3 o’clock Saturday morning by a relapse, after which the patient. did not regain consciousness. He grew weaker hourly as the morning ad- vanced, and as early as eight o‘clock Saturday morning the physicians in- formed the waiting members of the family that the end was only a question of a few hours. Oxygen was administered almost constantly. As a last resource Sir Richard Dougâ€" lassr Powell, physician-extraordinary to the King, was summoned, but his skill was unavailing. A few minutes before 9 o’clock in the evening the physicians informed the family, who had been gathered at the bedside, that the end was at hand. About half an hour after the noble marquis was dead. After a Long and Agonizing Struggle For Life. A London despatch says: On Sat- urduy. on exactly the 50th anniver- sary of his entrance into public life as a. member of Parliament for Stamford, Robert Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury, and late British Premier, passed away. II'is disappearance from the scene leaves a vacancy which men of the newer generation will find hard to fill. He was the greatest figure left on Britain's poliâ€" tical stage on which he had remained until the limit of his endurance was reached. TO CHECK CANADIAN S. LORD SALISBURY DIES. THREE MEN KILLED. BRITISH VICTORY. in Powder Works at Tweed. Two Boys Killed by an Electric Light Current. A Saginaw, Mich, despatch says: On Thursday evening two boys, James Budd and Eugene Ross, climb- ed for fun on an electric light tower 125 feet high. The boys were caught by the wire that carries the lighting current, and held by the current un- til roasted to death. The Wire car- ried a current of 22,000 volts. Po- lice and linemen released the corpses. letting them down with ropes. They were in a horrible condition. the clothing being nearly all burned ofi, Iand their bodies presented a. sickening ‘spectacle. Aygricultlmal College, August 2111, 1903 The proper size of each plot is one i‘o’d wide by two rods long. The material for either of the fusm two oxp'erimontfi. or for No. 5 export ment, will be forwarded by mail, and for each of the other two by express. Each person wishing 'to conduct one of these experiments should apply as soon as po.,tsible, men'tioning which test he desires; and the mat'ex‘ial, with ins't'ructions for tmiting and the blank fionn on which to report, will be furnished free of cos? until tne supply of ex- perimental material is exhausted. It 1migl.t be well for each applicant to make a second choice for fear the flip}, could not be granted. 1. Testing Hairy Vetches, Crim‘ son Clover, and Winter Rye as fo‘dr der crepe, 3 plots. 2. Testing three varieties of win- for Want, 3 plots. 3. Testing flve fertilizers with win‘Eer whea't, 6 plots. 4. Tes’ting autumn and spring ap< pllcations of nitrate of soda. and common salt with winter wheat, 3 plots. ter p10 Winter Rye, Hairy Vetches, and Crimson Clover as Fodder Crops.â€" An interesting co-operative experi- ment was made for the first time by sowing Winter Rye, Hairy Vetches, and Crimson Clover, in the autumn for the purpose of producing green fodder in the following summer. The reports show that the Crimson Clovâ€" or received the greatest injury from the early spring frosts. The highest individual yields were produced by the Hairy Vetches, In the average results, however, the Winter Rye, surpassed the Hairy Vetches by 420 pounds of green fodder per acre, but the quality of the feed of the latteri was superior to that of the former.! In ten out of a dozen tests, the Hairy Vetches were eaten readily by, farm animals, and seemed particul- arly suitable as a feed for hogs. A Bruce farmer reported that "the’ Hairy Vetches gave a large yield, and were relished by all classes of ani~ mals." Material for'any one of like five experiments Here mentioned will be sent free to any Ontario farmer ap- plying for it, if 120 will con-duct an experiment with great car-e and ro-f DOM. the results after harvest next year. The seed will be sent out in the order in VVhlL'h the applications are received as long as the supply last-a. Fertilizers With Winter Wheat.â€" In the co-operative experiments with difTerent manures applied in. tho spring of the year, the average re«' sults show a yield of 29.7 bushels of winter wheat from an application of one hundred and sixty pounds of ni-; trate of soda. per acre, and 35.7; bushels from a top dressing of twenfi ty tons of well rotted cow manure' per acre. The unfertilized land gave' an average yield of Wheat per acro‘ of 22.7 bushels. The yield of Wheat{ from one hundred and sixty pounds of nitrate of soda surpassed the yieldfi from four hundred pounds of com-‘ mon salt by 3.5 bushels per acreJ Nitrate of soda, when applied in the spring, gave better results than' when applied in the autumn. The usual cost of nitrate of soda. is about three and one-half cents per pound in small quantities, and three cents per pound in ton lots. Imperial Amber.â€"61.0 bushels loge), 21.4 bushels (Ontario). ‘ Buda. Pesth.-57.2 bushels (Cob loge), 24.9 bushels (Ontario. Turkey Red.~â€"-53.4 bushels (Col- logo), 20.7 bushels (Ontario). All three varieties are boarded. The chall‘ of the Imperial Amber is red. and that of the others is white. The grain of each variety is red, hard, and of good quality. All three varie- ties are rather weak in the straw. The Imperial Amber is a. close rival to the DaWson's Golden Chafl in yield of grain per acre. ‘ Results of Experiments Through out Ontario. Varieties of Winter Wheatâ€"Tina varieties of winter Wheat were dis- tributed throughout Ontario by the Experimental Union in the autumn of 1902 for coâ€"operative experiments. Good reports of successfully conduct.- ed experiments have been received this year from eighteen counties, ex- tending from Essex in the South to Haliburton in the North. The following is the average yield in weighed bushels of grain per acre for each variety for five years at the College and for 1903 throughout Ontetio: . Testing Winter Barlcy and Win- Bye for grain production, 2 ROASTED TO DEATH. DISTRIBUTION OF SE'ED WINTER CROPS. C. A. ZAVITZ, Guclpn‘, Ontario