THE NORTHWESTERN'. BKNSC’IIOTKIt * UIllSOM. K<1* »nd 1'ob*. LOUP CITY, • - NEB. «l_. —. _ _ U..--!-*-a The cotton exported from the Unit ed States during the past year amount ed to 3,330,890,448 pounds. If you wish success in life, make per severance your bosom friend, experi ence your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. The close of the tourist ticket season has brought out the fact that at least 2,000 persons have taken up perma nent residence in Colorado, as a result of mid-summer excursions. Friends, thought absent, are still present; though in poverty they are rich; though weak yet in the enjoy ment of health; and what is still more difficult to assert, though dead they are alive. A man in Alpine, Col., is at least willing to sell his body for money. His name is W. S. Coburn, a prospec tor. He owns a lot of mining property that is valuable, but his credit is ex hausted and he cannot get money to further work it. Hence he thus ad vertises in a local paper: "If I have a right to sell my body when it becomes a corpse I am in the market for any body desiring such investment. My body will make a good skeleton." A fault in the New Zealand submar ine cable, which recently caused much trouble to find and repair, is stated to have been caused by the bite of a fish. It was almost bitten through, a broken tooth, half an inch long and apparent ly belonging to a fish of lare size, be ing found embedded in the strands, which rested 330 fathoms below the surface. The accident is of a very un usual nature, as large fish do not usu ally descend to such great depths. An effort will be made at the coming session of congress to have the census office made a permanent bureau of the government. The proposal has the support of common sense. To assem ble all the experts necessary to carry on this great undertaking, as well as to train the thousands of clerks, is too large a task to undertake "from the ground up" on each decennial year. Much statistical work, moreover, might be distributed to advantage through the decade. Before the Deputy Magistrate of All pore (Bengal), one Shalk Ozer, of Bas latolla, was recently charged with hav ing brutally branded his girl wife. The girl used to run away from her hus band's house to her father’s, and on the last occasion she was brought by the accused, who, after subjecting her to various tortures, branded her with a pair of red-hot tongs, and thereby dis figured her permanently. The accused was sentenced to one year's rigorous imprisonment. A portion of a hatpin, about three Inches long, was found in the intes tines of Alfred Phillips, a four-year-old boy of No. 733 Wythe avenue, Brook lyn, who was operated on for appendi citis. The pin was badly rusted, and evidently had been in the boy’s body for some time. The child had suffered from severe pains for several months, but it was not until recently that an operation was decided upon. It is feared that the boy cannot live, as the intestines were perforated several times by the pin. The common notion that Germans are the heaviest beer drinkers is refut ed by statistics published by the Britisn Board of Trade. Last year every Ger man, on the average, drank twenty seven gallons, while the average Eng lishman drank thirty-two gallons. The consumption in the United States was less than half as much, per capita, as in Germany. With the exceptions of the Belgians, the British are the larg est beer-drinkers in the world, and the consumption has grown rapidly during the last fifteen years. A sharp change toward total abstinence would compel a recasting of budgets, for last year 36 per cent of the net revenue of Great Britain was derived from the taxation of beer, wine and spirits. Ten thousand dollars Is the price which Andrew Foy, a stonemason, thinks the city of New York should pay him for three of his front teeth. On the night of Sept. 17 Foy stepped off a new cement sidewalk in the vicinity of Kedzie avenue and West Taylor street, and, losing his balance, fell against an upright piece of scant ling. Three of his front teeth were driven far into the scantling by the force of the fall, and Foy could not re lease them. He took the scantling along and sought a dentist, but the teeth came out when the dentist tried to pull the scantling oit. The scant ling, with the three teeth sticking in it, will be exhibited when ihe damage suit comes to trial. From New Zealand comes an an nouncement of the death of Mr. T. J. Purns, one of the leading citizens of Dunedin, and a direct descendant of Scotland’s national poet. The extreme south of New Zealand was colonized under the auspices of the Free Church of Scotland, and a grandson of the poet, the Rev. Peter Purus, accompa nied the first ship load of settlers. They have developed Into a large and flourishing community, and their chief city, Dunedin, is frequently referred to as the ’‘commercial capital of New Zealand.” TALM AGE’S SERMON. LAST SUNDAYS DISCOURSE ON SIGNIFICANCE OF DREAMS. Texts Joet II., 3t»— Revelation* of the Scripture* All - Sufficient llaklng Thoughts Have Their Kcho In Sleeping Thoughts—Some NotaLle Conversions. (Copyright. 1901, by I.ouls Klopsrii, N. Y.) Washington, Dec. 1.—lh this dis course Dr. Talmage discusses a much talked of subject, and one in which all are interested. The text is Joel ii., 28. "I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions." In this photograph of the millen nium the dream is lifted into great conspicuity. We all admit tuat God in ancient times and under Blbk dispen sation addressed the people tint.ugh dreams. The question now is. does God appear in our day and reveal him self through dreams? You ask me if 1 believe in dreams. >ly answer is, 1 do, but all I have to say will be under live heads. Remark the r irst.—The Scriptures are so full of revelations from God that if we get no communication from him in dreams we ought, nevertheless, to be satisfied. With twenty guidebooks to tell you how to get to New York or Pittsburg or London or Glasgow or Manchester, do you want a night vision to tell you how to make the Journey? We have in this Scripture full direction in regard to the journey of this life and how to get to the celestial city, and with this grand guidebook, this magnificent di rectory, we ought to be satisfied. I have more faith in a decision to which I come when I am wide awake than when I am sound asleep. I have no ticed that those who give a great deal of their time to studying dreams get their brains addled. They are very anxious to remember what they dreamed about the first night they slept in a new house, if in their dream they take the hand of a corpse, they are going to die. If they dream of a garden, it means a sepuicner. 11 some thing turns out according to a night vision they say: ‘‘Well, I am not sur prised. I dreamed it.” If it turns out different from the night vision, they say, "Well, dreams go by contraries.” In their efforts to put their drams into rhythm they put their waking thoughts into discord. Now the Bible is so full of revelation that we ought to be satis fied if we get no further revelation. Sound sleep received great honor when Adam slept so extraordinarily that the surgical incision which gave him Eve did not wake him, but there is no such need for extraordinary slumber now. No need of a dream like that which encouraged Gideon, for all through Christendom it is announced and acknowledged and demonstrated that righteousness, sooner or later, will get the victory. If there should come about a crisis in your life upon which the Bible does not seem to be sufficiently specific, go to God in prayer and you will get es pecial direction. I have more faith, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, in directions given you with the Bible in your lap and your thoughts uplifted in prayer to God, than in all the informa tion you will get unconscious on your pillow. Remark the Second.—All dreams have an important meaning. They prove that the soul is comparatively independent of the body. Every dream, whether agreeable cr harassing, wheth er sunshiny or tempestuous, means so much that, rising from your couch, you ought to kneel down and say: "O God, am I immortal? Whence? Whither? Two natures. My soul caged now—what when the door of the cage is opened? If my soul can fly so far in the few hours in which my body is asleep in the night, how far can it fly when my body sleeps the long sleep of the grave?” Oh, this power to dream, how startling, how overwhelming! im mortal, immortal! Remark the Third.—The vast major ity of dreams are merely the result of disturbed physical condition and are not a supernatural message. Anything that you see while under the influence of chloral or brandy or hasheesh or laudanum is not * revelation from God. The learned Do Quinoey did not ascribe to divine communication what he saw in sleep, opium saturated. Do not mistake narcotic disturbance for divine revelation. But I have to tell you that the majority of the dreams are merely the penalty of outraged di gestive organs, and you have no right to mistake the nightmare for heavenly revelation. Late suppers are a war ranty deed for bad dreams. The world will not be evangelized until we get rid of a dyspeptic Christianity. Healthy people want a religion that lives regularly by day and sleeps soundly by night. If through trouble or coming on of oid age or exhaustion of Christian service you cannot sleep well, then you may expect from God "songs in the night,” but there are no blessed communications to those who willingly surrender to indigestibios. Another remark I make is that our dreams are apt to bo merely the echo of our daytime thoughts. I will give you a recipe for pleasant dreams. Fill your days with elevated thought and unselfish action, and your dreams will be set to music, if all day you are gouging and grasping and avaricious in your dreams you will see gold that you cannot clutch and bargains in which you were out-Shylockcd. If during the day you are Irascible and pugnacious and gunpowdery of dis position. you will at night have battle with enemies in which they will gel the best of you. If you are all clay long in a hurry, at night you will dream of rail trains that you want to catch, while you cannot move one inch toward the depot. If you are always oversusplcious and expectant of assault, you will have at night hal lucinations of assassins with daggers drawn. The scholar's dream is a philosophic echo. The poet's dream is a rhythmic echo. Coleridge composed his "Kubla Khan" asleep in a narcotic dream and, waking up, wrote down 300 lines of it. Tartinia, the violin player, composed his most wonderful sonata while asleep In a dream so vivid that, wak ing, he easily transferred it to paper. Waking thoughts have their echo in sleeping thoughts. If a man spend his life in trying to make others happy and is heavily minded, around his pil low he will see cripples who have got over their crutch and processions of celestial imperials and hear the grand march roll down from drums of heav en over jasper parapets. You are very apt to hear in dreams what you hear when you are wide awake. Now, having shown you that, having a Bible, we ought to be satisfied not getting any further communication from God, and having shown you that all dreams have an important mission since they show the comparative inde pendence of the soul from the body, and having shown you that a majority of dreams are the result of disturbed physical conditions, and having shown you that our sleeping thoughts are apt to be an echo of our waking thoughts, I come now to my fifth and most Important remark, and that is to say that it is capable of proof that God does sometimes in our day and has often since the close of the Bible dispensation appeared to people in dreams. All dreams that make you better are from God. How do T know it? Is not God the source of all good? It does not take a very logical mind to argue that out. Tertullian and Martin Luther believed in dreams. The dreams of John Huss are immortal. St. Augustine, the Christian father, gives us the fact that a Carthaginian physician was persuaded of the Immor tality of the soul by an argument which he heard in a dream. The night before his assassination the wife of Julius Caesar dreamed that her hus band fell dead across her lap. It is possib ' to prove that God does appear in dreams to warn, to convert and to save men. My friend, a retired sea captain and a Christian, tells me that one night while on the sea he dreamed that a ship's crew were in great suffering. Waking from his dream, he put about the ship, tacked in different directions, surprised everybody on his vessel—they thought he was going crazy—sailed on in an other direction hour after hour and for many hours until he came to the perishing crew and rescued them and brought them to New York. Who con ducted that dream? The God of the sea. The Rev. Dr. Bushnell in his mar velous book entitled "Nature and the Supernatural” gives the following fact that he got from Captain Yount in California, a fact confirmed by many families: Captain Yount dreamed twice one night that 150 miles away there was a company of travelers fast in the snow. He also saw in the dream rocks of a peculiar formation, ! and, telling this dream to an old hunt er. the hunter said: “Why, I remem ber those rocks. Those rocks are in the Carson valley pass, 150 miles away. Captain Yount, impelled by this dream, although laughed at by his neighbors, gathered men together took mules and blankets and started out on the expedition, traveled 150 miles, saw those very rocks which he had described in his dream, found the suffering ones at the foot of those rocks and brought them back to con firm the story of Captain Yount. Who conducted that dream? The God of the snow, the God of the Sierra Nevadas. I God has often appeared in resource and comfort. You have known people —perhaps ft is something I state in your own experience—you have seen people go to sleep with bereavements inconsolable, and they awakened in perfect resignation because of what they had seen in slumber. Dr. Cran age, one of the most remarkable men I ever met—remarkable for benevo lence and great philanthropies—at Wellington, England, showed me a house where the Lord had appeared in a wonderful dream to a poor wo man. The woman was rheumatic, sick, poor to the last point of destitution. She was waited on and cared for by another poor woman, her only at tendant. Word came to her one day i that this poor woman had died, and tne invalid oi whom 1 am speaking 1 lay helpless upon the conch, wonder j ing what would become of her. In ; that mood she fell asleep. In her j dreams she said the angel of the Lord appeared and took her into the open j air and pointed in one direction, and I there were mountains of bread, and j pointed In another direction, and there i ‘>ere mountains of butter, and pointed ! in another direction, and there were mountains of all kinds of worldly | supply. The angel of the Lord said to ; her, “Woman, all these mountains be j long to your Father, and do you think | lie will let you, his child, hunger and I die?" Dr. Cranage told me by some | divine impulse he went into that destt j lute home, and saw the suffering there j end administered unto it, caring for j her all the way through. Do you tell me that that dream was woven out of j earthly anodynes? Was that the phan tasmagoria of a diseased brain? No. It was an all sympathetic God address ing a poor woman through a dream. Furthermore 1 have to say that there are people who were converted to God through a dream. The Kev. John New ton, the fame of whose piety fills all Christendom, while n profligate sailor on shipboard In his dream thought that a being approached him and gave him a very beautiful ring and put it upon Ills finger and said to him: "As Ion*; as you wear that ring you will be pros pered; If you lose that right, you will be ruined.” In the same dream an other personage appeared and by a strange infatuation persuaded John Newton to throw overboard that ring, and it sank into the sea. Then the mountains in sight were full of fire, and tha air was lurid with consuming wrath. While John Newton was re penting of his folly of having thrown overboard the treasure another person age came through the dream and told John Newton he would plunge Into the sea and bring that ring up if he de sired It He plunged into the sea and brought it up and said to John New ton, ‘‘Here is that gem, but I think I will keep It for you lest you lose It again.” And John Newton consented, and all the fire went cut from the mountains, and all the signs of lurid wrath disappeared from the air, and John Newton said that he saw in his dream that that valuable gem was his soul and that the being who per suaded him to throw it overboard was Satan and that the one who plunged in and restored that gem, keeping it for him, was Christ. And that dream 1 makes one of the most wonderful chap ; ters in the life of that most wonderful man. A German was crossing the Atlantic ocean, and in his dream he saw a man with a handful of white; flow’ers, and he was told to follow the man who had that handful of white flowers. The German, arriving in New Y'ork, wan dered into the Fulton street prayer meeting, and Mr. Lamphler, the great apostle of prayer meetings, that day had given to him a bunch of tube roses. They stood on his desk, and at the close of the religious service lie took the tuberoses and started home ward, and the German followed him, and through an interpreter told Mr. l^amphier that on the sea he had dreamed of a man with a handful of white powers and was told to follow him. Suffice it to say that through that interview and following inter views he became a Christian and is a city missionary preaching the gospel to his own countrymen. God in a dream! John Hardonk while on shipboard dreamed one night that the day of judgment had come and that the roll of the ship's crew was called except his own name, and that these people, this crew, were all banished, and in his dream he asked the reader why his own name was omitted, and he was told it was to give him more oppor tunity for repentance. He woke up a different man. He became illustrious for Christian attainment. If you do not believe these things, then you must discard all testimony and refuse to accept any kind of authoritative witness. God in a dream! Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted to God through a dream of the last judgment, and many of us have had some dream of that great day of judg ment which shall be the winding up of the w'orld's history. If you have not dreamed of it, perhaps tonight you may dream of that day. There are enough materials to make a dream— enough voices, for there shall be the roaring of the elements and the great earthquake; enough light for the dream, for the world shall blaze; enough excitement, for the mountains shall fall; enough water, for the ocean shall rear; enough astronomical phe nomena, for the stars shall go out; enough populations, for all the races of all ages will fall into line of one of two processions, the one ascending and the other descending, the one led by the rider on the white horse of eternal victory, the other led on by Apollyon on the black charger of eternal defeat. The dream comes on me now, and I see the lightnings from above answer ing the volcanic disturbances from be neath, and I hear the long reverberat ing thunders that shall wake up the dead, and all the seas, lifting up their crystal voices, cry, “Come to judg ment!” and all the voices of heaven cry, “Come to judgment!” and crumbling mausoleum and West minster abbeys and pyramids of the dead with marble voices cry, "Come to judgment!” And the archangel seizes an instrument of music which has never yet been sounded—an instru ment of music that was made only for one sound, and, thrusting that mighty trumpet through the clouds and turn ing it thi3 way, he shall put it to his lip and blow the long, loud blast that shall make the solid earth quiver, cry ing, “Come to judgment!” “Then from this earthly grossness quit. Attired in stars, we shall forever sit.” r«v«rty of HuglUh Clergy. While the bishop of London said a good (leal the other day about, the pov erty of the clergy—pointing out among other things, that 4,;>GG livings averaged C 150 a year, and no fewer than 1,341 benefices were worth only £65 per annum—he did not touch on ! an aspect of clerical poverty which is well illustrated by the reasons just I given by the rector of Seale for re I signing liis living. This benefice is | not worth more than £120 per annum, yet the rector has spent during his I tenure as much as £1,500 on the par ; lsh and 42000 on the rectory house ! out of his own private means. Much ! the same story might he told of many a country clergyman who has brought | himself near poverty by self-sacrificing | expenditure on his "cure.”—I.«ondou j Mail. T1IE SUNDAY SCHOOL, — LESSON XI., DECEMBER 15, EXODUS XII 1-17. Golden Text—Christ Our rnuorer Is Sacrificed for I's—I. Cor, 5: 7—The National Illrt Inlay Anniversary—The I .and. for Sacrifice "The National Birthday Anniversary."— Vs. 1, 3. Moses had announced to Pharaoh the lust (treat plague, which would com pel him th let the people go. W hen the stroke would full he did not know, but the threat hung over him like the sword or Ilamoclos. In the mean time, defended by the effects of the previous plagues, the Israelites were to make preparations for their sudden departure. Now began a new era and epoch In the history of Israel, It was like the motto on the reverse of the United States seat, "a new order of the ages.” It was the birthday of the nation, and needed a special commemoration. It was first commemorated by making this date to he the beginning of their year. It was their New Year's Day. I. "The Name."—The Hebrew Pesach (Greek, Paschal and the English Pass over have exactly the same meaning,—to "pass over" or spare.—and they are de rived from the fact, mentioned tn v. 13, that the destroying angel would pass over all houses whereon was the blood of^ the Paschal lamb, and not destroy the first born there. There Is perhaps also the idea expressed by the phrase "under the shad ow of his wings," the angel spreading his protective wings over the house to ho saved from destruction, as hi Isa. 31:5. II. "The Lamb for Sacrifice.’ —V. 3. "Speak . . . unto all the congregation of Israel,’’—through their ciders. See v. 31. Upon retiring from Pharaoh's presence, Moses had undoubtedly withdrawn to the land of Goshen, to make arrangements for the departure of his people, which tie now saw to be close at hand. 5. "Your lamb shall be without blemish.” That Is, en tire. whole, sound, having neither defect nor redundancy of parts, nnsoundness of members, nor deformity of aspect.—Bush. If It bore the murk of the slightest de formity, or even deficiency. It would have been unlit to represent him of whom It Is snld, “We are redeemed by the precious blood of Christ, as of n lamb without blemish and without spot."— Kltto. "A male.” As taking tin' place of the main firstborn of Israel.—Delltzsch. "Of the first year." A year old; literally, the son of a year; "because it was not till then that It reached the full, fresh vigor of its III. “A Family Service."—V. 3. "Every man a lamb, ... a lamb for a house, so that only the members of one family or family circle should unite, and not an indiscriminate company.—Kell. 1. "If the household be too little." That Is. if there are not enough persons in the family to eat a whole lamb. "Him and his neigh bor." Josephus assigns ten as the least number for a Paschal company, and twen ty as not uncommon. IV. ‘‘The Blood of the Covenant."—V. 6. "Ye shall keep It up (the lamb, from the tenth day) until the fourteenth day.” Keep it apurt from the fields or the Hock with great care. "Kill it In the evening Literally, between the evenings; 1. e.. from the time the sun begins to decline to that of its full setting, say boween three and six o’clock.—Kdersheim. So as to be ready for the feast on the Passover day which began after sunset of the four teenth. V. "Eating the Passover."—V. S. "And they shall eat the flesh." (1| I'ndoubtrd ly this feast had a physical purpose. The Israelites were to start in the middle of the night on a long and wearisome jour ney; and it was Important that they should not start fasting.—Todd. (2) It was a test of their filth nnd obedience. (3) It was a symbol of the fact that they must receive anil appropriate what God did for their salvation. It was an enter ing into a solemn covenant with God. (4) The eating together was also a covenant of unity among themselves. "in thut night.” Which followed the evening on which the Iamb was slain. “Roast with fire." It was thus representative of the su fieri rigs of the Israelites in Egypt, anil typical of the sufferings of the Redeemer. VI. "With Repentance.”—V. 8. "Un leavened bread." Leaven was a natural symbol of moral corruption, and was ex cluded from the sacrifices as defiling.— Delitzsch. It was Intended to show the Israelites that they were to leave behind them in Egypt all the Idolatrous and wicked practices with which they had been implicated, and to begin a new na tional life as God's people.—Millington. "Bitter herbs.” The Mishna enumerates endive, chicory, wild lettuce, and nettles among the herbs that might be eaten.— Rawlinson. They were to rail to mind the bitterness of life experienced by Is rael in Egypt.—Delitzsch. And to teach them the bitterness of sin, and lead to repentance, VII. "Readiness for Service."—V. 11. “With your loins girded." Each of the directions marks preparation for a jour ney; the long, flowing robes were girded round the loins; shoes, or sandals, not worn in the house or at meals, were fas tened on the feet; and the traveler's staff was taken In hand. These Instructions are understood by the Jews to apply only to the first Passover.—Cook. So are wo to eat our Lord's Passover, as ready for his service, as pilgrims to his promised land. "It is the Lord's pussover." It Is the type and symbol of the Lord's passing over the houses of the Israelites, and pre serving them while destroying the Egyp tians. .. Viii. "The Great Salvation. —V. 12. "This night.” The night when the Pass over was eaten. "Smite all the liistborn. "From the first horn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive that was In the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle" e" "A feast by an ordinance for ever." it continued t il UurM tin- Pissover was slain for us. and remains si’ll In the Lord's Supper, cur memorial ol the Lamb of God forever. Ch:nigt?ti ***** Wind. “No," said Mr. Fosdl.-k, decidedly, I toll you once for all, my daughter, that 1 cannot think of let.ins you mar ; y that young man. Why. he’s notli ,ng but a poor fa: in or." "Poor farmer, papa?” r peutecl Miss Fosdlck. "I guess you don't knew that Reuben has ten ac.es of fine potatoes ready for the market.” "Hear-ns! You don't say! I withdraw my obj etions. My dear child, ycu w!ll ba rich beyond the lreams tf avaric a.”— D-trcit Free Press. WHAT A LEADING AGRICULTURIST SAYS OF WESTERN CANADA. Prof. Thomiu Shaw of Mlnne.ota Uni versity Gives an Unbiased Opinion. In a letter to "The Farmer," St. Paul, dated Sept. 1st, 1901, Prof. Thomas Shaw of the Minnesota State Univer sity has the following to say. after having made a trip through Western Canada: "The capabilities of the Immense area known as Western Canada are but little understood on this side of the line. Our people are apt to look upon It as a region of frost and snow, a country in which but a small portion of the land iclatively will ever be till able, because of the rigors of the cli mate. True, the climate is cold in win ter, but Western Canada has, neverthe less, Just that sort of climate which makes it the most reliable wheat pro ducing country in all the continent. An Immense Area. Western Canada is not only an im mense area, but the same description will apply to those portions of the country that are capable of being suc cessfully tilled or grazed. Nearly all of the prairie Province of Manitoba can be brought under cultivation, al though probably not one-third of its surface has been laid open by the plow. Assiniboia to the west is a grain and stock country. Saskatchewan to the north of Assiniboia has high adapta tion for the same. This also may be said of Alberta to the west. Here lies what may be termed a grain-giowing and stock producing empire, the re-, sources of which have been but little drawn upon comparatively, viewed from the standpoint of the agricultur alist. When it is called to mtnd that even in the Peace River country in Athabasca, and several hundreds of miles north of the Canadian boundary, wheat was grown which won a pre mium at the World's Fair in 1893, the capabilities of this country in wheat production lo. m up more brightly than even the brilliant northern lights of the land that lies toward the pole. Adapted to Stork and Grain Production. The region under consideration Is, however, mainly adapted to growing grain and grazing stock. Much of It Is adapted to growing both grain and stock, but certain areas, especially to wards the mountains, are only adapted to ranching, except where irrigation will yet be Introduced. This, of CQiirse, can be done successfully along the many streams that flow down from the Rockies and water the eountry towards the east and north. The adaptation of the country for wheat production Is of a high character. The cool nights that usually characterize the ripening season are eminently favorable to the filling of the grain, and to the secur ing of a plump berry, and consequently large yields. The crop this year la a magnificent one. In Manitoba and the territories it should certainly give an average of more than 20 bushels per acre. But should the yield be not more than 20 bushels, the crop will be a most handsome one, owing to the largo area sown to wheat. Many farmers only grow grain. But those who do succeed as well in growing oats and barley as In growing wheat, hence these foods for stock should always be ^ abundant. Some grow cattle mainly, and others combine the two. The last named, of course, is doubtless the saf est of the three during a long course of years, that Is to say, where much farming Is practicable. Quality of the I.lve Stork. It was a p'easurable surprise to note the high quality of the stock. The average of quality in cattle is higher than the average of cattle in our state, unless in the dairy desses. This opinion is not reached rashly or with out ample opportunity for investiga tion. I spent three long days in the show ring at Winnipeg making the awards In the beef classes. I question if any of our states, single handed, could make such a showing in cattle. It was my privilege to make the awards at several shows and at all of their fairs were evidences that much attention is given to the improvement of the stock. I noted carefully the character of the herds that grazed along the railroad and everywhere the high average of the quality of the stock was in evidence. ltea*nnn for Quality In Stork. The quality of the grass is good. Many of the settlers came from On tario and had been schooled as to the value of good stock before going west. The railroads and the government have taken a deep interest in making it less difficult and costly to the farm ers to secure good males. 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