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2 oats, 37 to 37%: in store; No. 3, 86 to 36gc. Flourâ€"Manitoba. pa.- tents, 84.75; seconds, $4.45; strong bakci's’, $3.85; one firm quotes 256 higher; Ontario straight rollers, $3.90 to $4; in bags, $1.85 to $1.90; patents, $425; extra. $1.65 in $1.70; rolled oats, $2.172} per bag, $4.75 per bbl. Feedâ€"Ontario bum, in bulk, $17; shorts, $20; Manitoba hum, in bags, $18; shorts, $20. Beansâ€"Choice primes. $1.55 to $1.60 yer bushel; $1.50 to $1.55 in car 1015. Provisionsâ€"Heavy Cana- Montreal, Feb. ilkâ€"The local mur- kets axe fairly active and steady. Grainâ€"Peas, 715 to 72c in store here; rye, 530 east, 58c here; No. Lardâ€"The market is quiet, with prices unchanged. We quote :â€" Tierces. Sc; tubs, Sic; pails, Sic; compound, 7’; to 751C. Dressed hogs are unchangefl, with ofl‘crings limited. Car lots sold at $6 $0 $6.25 delivered here. Cured meaté are steady, with a, fair de- mand. We quote : Bacon, long clear 85 to 8&0 in ton and case lots. Mess pork. $16; "Go. short cut, 819‘ Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, light to medium, 12% to 13¢; 'do. heavy, 115 to 12c; rolls, 10c; shoulders. 95c; backs, 13 to 13:}c; brcaldast bacon, 13c. Cheese-The market rules steady. We quotezâ€"Fincst September’s, 11 to Inc; seconds, 10c. EggwMarket quiet at unchanged prices; We quote :â€"Strictly new laid 83 to 35c; selects, 28 to 29c; cold storage, 26 to 27c, as to quality; limed, 24 to 250. tubs, 18 to 15k; 01:62:11)]er to 21c; §gliqm 18 to 19§c Butterâ€"The receip'ts of butter are small, while the tone continues stea- dy_. Stocks of Creamery are small- er, with demand good. We quote: â€"Finest 1â€"lb. rolls, 16 to 18¢; Chico large rolls, 16c; selected dairy tubs, 160; secondary grades, rolls and tubs, 18 to 15c; creamery prints, 2 Poultryâ€"Jl‘ho demand is fair, and prices unchanged. CJIickens, 9 to 10c per 1b. Turkeys are quoted at 12; to 14c-per lb. and geese at, 9 to 10c per 1b.; ducks, at 10c per lb., or $1 to $1.25 per pair; fowls, 4 to Sc per lb. Potatoesâ€"~The market is quiet, with the offerings fair. Choice cars are quoted at 75 to 80c per bag on track ‘here, and inferior quality at 70¢ per bag. Strawâ€"The market is quiet at $5 to $5.50 per ton for car lots on 'track. Hayâ€"The market is firm, with re- ceipts only moderate. No. 1 timâ€" othy quoted at $9 on track, Toronâ€" to, and mixed at $6.50 to $7. Honeyâ€"Tho markei to He per 11). for $1.25 to $2 for comb Dried applesâ€"The deman'd tive, with prices 32; to 413C Exaporatgg apples, 6c per 1b. Beansâ€"Trade is dull: and prices steady. Prime beans are quoted at $1.80 to $1.50 per bushel. Hopsâ€"_â€"'1‘he market is unchanged at 26 to 32c. according to quality. Honeyâ€"Tho market is firm at 6; to 75c per ID. for bulk, and at Applesâ€"Trade here is quiet, with prices steady at $2 to $.50 per bbl. [or the best stock. Milll‘ecdâ€"an steady at $16.50, and shorts at $17.50 here. At out,- sidc points bran is quoted at 8.14.â€" 50, and shorts at $17. Manitoba bran, in sacks, $18, and shorts at $20 here. Flourâ€"Ninety per cent, patents are steady at $3.15 middle heights in buyers’ sacks for export. Straight rollers of special brands for domesâ€" tic trade quoted at $3.50 to $3.65 In bbls. Manitoba flours are firm. No. 1 patents, $4.75 to $4.90; No. 2 patents, $4.45 to $4.60. and strong bakers” $4.35 to $4.50 on track, Toronto. Buckwheatâ€"J1me market is. firm. with demand good. No. 2 quoted at 48}: middle froights. No. 2 quoted at (32c west, and at 6240 must. Cornâ€"The market. is quiet, and prices unchanged. No. 3 American yellow quote'rl at file on track, Torâ€"- onto, and No. 3 mixed at 50 to 50ic. Canadian corn, 43c. on track, Toronto, and 37 to 38c west. Ryeâ€"The market, is firm, with No. 2 quoted at 53c east and west. Toronto, Feb. 2.â€"thatâ€"There is very little Ontario wheat coming out, and deliveries are hard to make. No. 2 white and red Winter are quoted at 81c high Heights, and at 82c low freights. No. 2 Spring steady at 76c east, and No. 2 goose at 75c. Manitoba wheat steady. At upper lake pox-ts No. 1 Northern is quoted at 910, and No. 2 Nothern at 886. No. 1 hard nominal at 98c lake parts. For grinding in transit quotations are 6c higher than abm’e. Oatsâ€"The market, is quiet, with prices unchanged. No. 2 while quoted at. 29§c west, and at 30 to 80“: middle Heights. No. 1 whim quoted at 32c east, and No. 2 at 81 to Bléc east. ~Barleyâ€"{Pile market is quiet, with the prices steady. No. 2 quoted at. 44c middle Insights; No. 3 extra at 42c, and No. 3 at 410 middle heights. TEE WURLD’S MARKETS REPORTS FROM: Tm LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Ptlces of Cattle, Grain, Cheese, and Other Dairy Produca at Home and Abroad. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL THE DAIRY MA RKETS lsâ€"The market, is stea'dy, with 2 quoted at (32c west, and at CO UNTRY PRODUCE HOG PRODUCTS . is inac- per lb. afloat, and will millions sterling. At the end of April according to present arrangements, the King will Visit Swansea to inaugurate the work of the grand new dock. When complete'd, in seven years' time, it will accommodate the largest vessels Swansea. Dock Inauguration and Trips Abroad. 'A London dcspatcli says 1â€"11is Majesty’s plans for his annual so- journ abroad have been entirely changed lately. It is now settled that he will leave some time in March for a cruise in the Royal yacht, but, instead of the usual stay on the Riviera, his Majesty will pay a visit to the King of Spain. It is his intention, too, to land in Russia and pay a visit to the Czar and Czarina, this last arrangement, of course, depending a great deal on the state of affairs in the Far East. The largest increase is in the value of the output of butter and cheese, which Was $10,697,879 in 1891, and $29,462,402 in 1901. The value of log products increased from $46,749,- 996 to $50,805,084; wood pulp, from $1,050,842 to $4,246,781. Census Returns Shows 1,000 More Than Ten Years Ago. An Ottawa despatch says: The ‘Census Bureau has just issued the 1bulletin giving the statistics of man- uLacturing industries in Canada, as ascertained by the census of 1901. The statistics apply to establish- ments employing five workers or over, and show that in 1891 there were 13,679 establishments, with an annual output of $363,156,797. In 1901 there were 14,650 establish- ments, with an output in the census year of $481,053,875. do 900 lbs Butchers' c: choice ..... do medium .. do picked do bulls . do rough Light stock cwt. Milch cows Hogs, l‘est. do light Shrep, exp. Lambs . Bucks . . . . . Culls, each Calves, oac Hogsâ€"The run was {my light prices unchanged. Export, heavy .. $4 80 to $4 iExport, light 4 00 4 Bulls, export, heavy, cwt. .. 3 75 4 do light, . 3 00 3 Feeders, 800 ms. and upwards .. 3 00 3 Short keep, 1,100 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 00 Stockers, 400 to 800 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 50 w The sheep and lamb market. is firm, with prospects strong. Lambs toâ€"day were quoted at. $4.60 to $5, export ewes at $3.75 to $4, hutchâ€" ers’ sheep at $3.50 to $4. A few good shipping cattle were bought for the local butcher trade at $4.90, and another load of shippers fetched $4.80. Ordinary lots of butcher cattle sold at $4 to $4.25. CATTLE MARKETS. Toronto, Feb. 2.-â€"â€"With the few catâ€" tle offering holders are asking high prices, and in some instances getting them, though the wholesale butchers in most, cases say they can atl‘ord to Wait, as there is no such demand in the local market as to warrant the paying of such prices. Minneapolis, Feb. 2.â€"thutâ€"â€"May, 88% to 88%c; July, 87 to S7{C; Sepâ€" tember, 76ic; on track, No. 1 hard, 90“; No. 1 Northern, 89gc; No. 2 Northern, 864“; No. 3 do., 84 to 85¢. Milwaukee, Feb. 2.-â€"Wheatâ€"Stea- dy; No. 1 Northern, 89 to 8911c; No. 3 do. 83 to 870; May, 8930. Rye,h Firm; No.']., file to 62c. Barleyâ€" Dul]; No. 2, 63c; sample, 39 to 610. Cornâ€"Steady; N0. 8, 42 to 43c; May, 4933c. INCREASE IN INDUSTRIES. No. 1 hard, 87gc; No. 1 Northern 86c; No. 2 Northern, 835c; on track No. 1 hard, 87ic; No. 1 Northern 860; No. 2 Northern, 83;}c; May 87§c; July, 86:6. 444-0 to G5c_ asked. Wheat, Spril varloads, 93 Mg Corn 505C. Oats 17c. Cheeseâ€"Ontario, 10} to 1H0 Townships. 10.} to logo. ‘dian short cut pork, $18 to $18.50; light short cut, $17.50 to 318; 'Am- erican fat backs, 818 to $18.50; comptmd lard, 80; Canadian lar'd, 84} to De; kettle rendered, loic; hams, 119 to 13c; bacon. 14c; fresh killed abattoir hogs, $7.75; country dressed hogs, $6.75 to 87; live hogs, $5.50. Eggs~Candled selected, 30c; Montreal limed, 25c; Western limed, 22 to 230; refrigerator late Fall stock. 23 to 24c; Summer stock, 20 to 21¢. Butterâ€"Eastern, 19 to 210; according to quality; Western dairy, in tubs, 16c; Western rolls, 161} to Duluth, Feb. 2.â€"ththâ€"Tn store UNITED STATES MARKETS THE KING’S PLANS. xport Spring dull; No. 1 Northern, ;, 93§cz “inter, nothing doâ€" Cox‘nâ€"Easy; No. 2 yellow, Oatsâ€"Steady; No. 2 white, Barleyâ€"Western, in store, 55 Ryeâ€"No. 2 in store, 66c cattle, bulls, cwt cost nearly two 25 {JIM 75 60 00 00 and haven isn‘t exclusive enough for some society peopll. Let every creamery owner give this matter his earnest attention during the coming season. If he finds that with proper management the temperature of his refrigerator can- not, be kept. 'down to 36 or 88 deâ€" grees. or lower, the insulation should be improve’d until it can be. maintain a. lower temperature, I need only quote the record made at the Sherbrooke Creamery from July 20th to 28th, when a thermograph placed in the refrigerator showed a temperature varying FROM 32 T0 36 DEGREES. Now I think I have said enough to show Why our butter is irregular in quality, and why some of it deter- iorates rapidly after reaching the other side. After butter is packed in boxes the length of lime it. will keep depends almost Wholly on the temperature at. which it is held. The age of butter is more properly calculated according to the tempera- ture at which it has been stored than from the date on which it was made. Butter which would turn out well after several months stor- age at 10 degrees or under, might become quite stale and rancid in a few weeks at 40 to 50. Butter may be held at the creamery at these high toiii;-cratu1'es for a. week or so without, showing much deterioraâ€" tion, nevertheless the fermentations which produce bad flavors, rancidity, etc., have been doing their Work and shortening the life of the butter. ’llhese iermentations may be checked when the butter is placed in cold storage at Montreal or on the steamer, only to start. up again with renewed vigor when the butter is exposed to high temperatures on the other side. as high as 60. On the whole the refrigerator cars prevented the tem- perature from rising to any extent. In fact in testing some boxes it was found that, the butter was colder at the outside than it was at the cenâ€" ter of the package, showing that the temperature was even being lowered. The refrigerator car servire is Capâ€" able of being improved, but it is better now than what. the creamerâ€" ies provide for themselves. To prove that it is possible for czemncries to ‘ Mr. F. A, Knowlton, travelling in- lepcctor, who made numerous tests during the past season of the tem- perature of butter at the creameries and as delivered to the refrigerator cars. reports that the lowest tem- perature he found was 33 degrees on two occasions, one lot being from the West Shefford Creamery and the other from the Compton Model Farm Creamery. The highest temperature was 6â€"1- degrees, and the average of fifty lots was nearly 49 degrees. Is it any wonder that our butter lacks uniformity? Mr. M. B. Longeway, who is refrigerator car inspector at Montreal, examined 400 cars and contents, as they were opened in railway yards. He reports the temperature of butter as varying from 46 up to 53, and in a, few Cnes Now let us see if We can determine the cause of these defects which com- }el us to accept from one to two cents a pound less in price than some of our competitors receive. I believe it can be stated in a very few words. llt is because the butter is not kept cold enough at the creameries, is exposed to heat unnecessarily in shipping to Montreal, and is not alâ€" Wavs frozen properly when it arrives there and before being placed in the cold storage chambers of the steam- ers. a price equal only to the value of the poor lot. In this way much of our butter does not receive the standing which it deserves. The but- ter that is of known quality and that can always be depended on to ‘come up to a. certain standard will ‘bo more in demand than one which may average as good, but which is frequently of inferior grade as well as of choicest quality. Our butter is also said to deteriorate very quickly after it is landed on the other side, and that being so dealers are not enâ€" courarerl to trade in it. I want to emphasim the importance of pleasing the British merchant as well as the crstomer. The merchant is inclined to handle-and push that particular butter out of which he stands the best chance of making a profit. CAUSE OF DE ‘ERIORATION. llirst question 1 would say that, our very finest butter gives excellent satâ€" isfaction and it is doubtful if there is any better butter on the market. The trouble is that the quality is irreguâ€" lar lacks uniformity, or in other words, it is unreliable. A dealer may get one lot in excellent condition and of choice quality, but the next. one he buys is not up to his expectations, so that when he is offered Canadian butter again, he is inclined to give OUR BUTTER IN BRITAIN MR. R'UDDICK SAYS THE QUAL- ITY IS UNRELIABLE. Date for the Formal Opening of Parliament. 'An Ottawa. iiespa'tch' says :â€"It is settlea that the- formal opening of Parliament will not take place until Friday, March 11th, Thursday, the 10th, will be devoted to the election of a Speaker, and then next, day his Excellency will deliver 'the speech ll‘om the throne. A St. Petersburg despatch says: Prof. Prince Tarkhanov, the wellâ€" known scientist, lecturing recently beâ€" fore the Military Association, made some interesting statements in re- gard to the possibilities of radium. He presznted to his audience two cancer patients Who had been cured ‘oi malignant growths on the face by the use of radium and expressed the opinion that the problem of deter- mining the sex of children, which Prof. Scheneck had failed to solve, will shortly be settled by the aid of radium. The Prince added that he had prevented the development of hydrophobia in dogs, inoculated with rabies virus, by using radium. When large quantities of radium Were available, the Prince contended the whole system of modern warfare would be revolutionized, as powder magazines, Whether in forts or in the holds of vessels, would be at the mercy of radium rays, which could explode them at long distances. Those in the house, in addition to the two Women and Lawlor, were Mrs. Lawlor’s mother, Mrs. Peer, her son, Percy Peer, aged 15, and his younger sisters, Lucy and Edna. Percy admitted Lawlor at the street door about 7 o'clock, and he at once rushed through to the kitchen, exclaiming that he Wanted to see his wife and his motherâ€"in-law. His Wife had in the afternoon refused his re- quest to go back and live with him. Remarkable Assertions of a. Rus- sian Scientist. A Toronto despatch says: After shooting his Wife Edith, and his sisterâ€"in-laW, Mary Jane Kelly, Thomas Lanor, a professional golf coach, put a bullet through his brain on Wednesday night at 71 Niagara. Street, Where his wife, who had not lived with him for some months, had her home with her mother, Mrs. Mary Peer. Three shots were fired. The first was at Mrs. Lawlor, but her sis- ter intercepted it. and the bullet passed through the latter’s hand. The second shot grazed Mrs. Lawlor’s forehead, just above the right eye. The th‘rd ended the career of the Would-be murderer. First Wounded His Wife and Sis- terâ€"in-Law. Every precaution has been taken to prevent the further spread of the dis- ease. Dr. J. H. McGarry, the local health physician, has quarantined the Thornleys and has communicated with Dr. Bryce, Provincial Health Officer, in regard to quarantining all those who were exposed. LAWLOR KILLED HIMSELF 1 A Niagara. Falls, Ont., des’pateh 1says: Some consteanatlon has been caused by the announcement un Thursday morning that Mrs. Isabel Thornley, a yOung bride and leading social favorite, wife of Julian Thorn- ley, a. Civil engineer here, was ill with a fully developed case of small- pox. On Monday evening last a number of people attended a. card party at Which Mrs. Thornley, then in the early stages of the disease, was present. She also attended a. dancing assembly held in the City Hall about ten days ago, when, acâ€" cording to physicians, she had al- ready contracted the complaint. Nearâ€" ly all the prominent men in the city danced with the lady. i "On these two occasions I opened a window. The first time the patient was under six blankets and miserable for want, of air. The next time she had had four hours of distressing nausea. which vanished with the ad- vent of a. little fresh air. The public knows about open-air for tuberculos- is, and it has heard that we now treat pneumonia with open windows. Why can't it help itself to air in case of grip?" A Society Woman Contracts the Disease. influenza. [ saw the patient th times. As yet. We have no ant for influcr'uua, though we know microbe, so that. I could only and wait. nwvm'ur, I gave v; drugs, etc., that “are porhap: some little value. Ill}. paint in ing is this: that of those thirtoe its only tw0 were of direct and tain value to the nationt. SMALLPOX AT THE FALLS OPEN WINDOW FOR GRIP WONDERS 0F RADIUM MARCH ELEVENTH. 'A Crookston, Minn., 'despntch says: â€"'.[‘0 save railroad fare from Men- tor, Minn, to Buford, N.D., a. wom- an was bundled into a. box to be shipped as baggage on the ticket purchased by her husband. Unfor- tunately, however, there was a do lay of two hours, during which tlu box with the human freight lay on the platform in the bitter cold, The woman was plucky and deter mined and stood the uncomfox'tablt situation as ’long as possible. A1 last. in danger of death by freezin‘ she made her presence known. Sh: was rclease’d and the couple left. thr station. Arnold Comtoss, son of the Pros dent of Switzerland, committed su cide at Dijon, France. 1.eligious orders in Italy. have i thirty years, accumulated $200,000 000 in Government. sccuritics. SHIPPED WIFE AS BAGGAGE In Danger of Freezing Made Presence Known. At a. meeting at St. Paul, Minn., of men from Northwest Canada, Minne- sota, Wisconsin, Iowa, the Dakotas, and Illinois, for the purpose of stimulating immigration into Can- ada, it was proposed to start a pro- paganda that would bring:. the re- sources of Canada. before the homeâ€" scelxers of this country and Europe. Associations are being to Denmark to agitate against sion of _any territory belon that country. The Pope has appointed delegates to deliver his portrait. to kings and emperors. A sale of 13,000,000 feetof white pine has Just been executed by the Hines Lumber Company oLDuluth, Minn., to a. Toronto firm for shipâ€" ment t6 England. The price to be paid is about $250,000. The pilot engine of the Illinois Cer- trnl express struck a. cow, threw it. against a switch and opened it at Memphis, Tenn. The result was that the express was derailed. One per- son was killed and several injured. Because the post mistress at Indian- ola, Miss, was a. black woman, the white inhabitants refused to go near the place. A white man has now been appointed to succeed her. Thirtyâ€"three special constables have been detailed off at Lockport, N.Y., to guard eleven houses infected with smallpox. Coal 01'] in a. stove is responsible for the death of mother and daugh- ter, and injury to five other mem- bers of the Gray family, in Sewick- ley, I’n. Among the measures introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature was a resolution in favor of reciprocity with Canada. Green vegetables in New York are fetching topâ€"notch prices owing to scarcity of supplies. During the year the Washington patent department received applica- tions for 50,123 and issued 31,699 patents. During January there were 723 cas- es of fever and 23 deaths in Colum- bus, 0. Three British Warships will experi- ment with oil for fuel. More experts in have left London with the object of mills with a cotton ent of the United S About forty steamers are at pres- ent laid up idle in the Tyne owing to the dullness of trade. H. R. H. the Duchess of Connaught performed the christening at, the recent launching at 'Clydobank of the cruiser Hindustan. GREAT BRITAIN. About, 200 of Leeds unemployed are to Le set to Work in the publh parks. have left London for Sierra Leone with the object of providing British mills with a cotton supply independâ€" ent of the United States. John Murray, the London, Eng‘, publisher, says he has 1ho original manuscript Li Byron’s “Corsair,” which J. Pierpont Moran thinks he bought. the other day for $10,- 000. Winnipeg directory for 1904 con- tains 23,786 names. The estimated population is 77,304 an increase of 13,744 for the year. A decision by a. Divisional Court. declares that the Ontario workmen's compensation act has extended the employers’ liability further than in England. the Black Rod, 'died oil Saturday night at Ottawa. The chwntin Flour Mills have been imcorporatod. with a. capital stock of $2,000,000. On February 19th next Senator Wax-k, who is still halo and hearty will be one hundred years old. Dr. C. A_. IIou'getts ha pointh Dr. Bryce's succ will also continue to act. cial Heath Inspector. Telegraphic Briefs From Our Own and Other Countries of Recent Events. HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVEB Tm GLOBE. TIUKS FRUM TH Monm: UNITED STATES GENERAL CANADA :11): \Of St, John, Usher 0! . died on SaLurduy cotton growing formed E WIRE. rovinv Hex CBS- 10 ’08}