Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 38, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 January 1891 — Page 7

THE SKELETON OF THE OLD ‘ YEAR. & : ALF sinking, half : swimming, he £ ’ slips from the BN ",/i"‘";:fjij;,; v § The bellrope is NG R clinched in ‘F;f Bl ; his tremulous "' ;,‘9‘]:-'\\ \“ ' hand; 2 } ‘IR ¥ »v_‘; His last sun has NS | set in the bili %\“u iIl ,// lowy tomb; ' ",&";(Jff" i f The clock of the N =277 [N Z months marks A ‘—/’;?IE{;” A, m‘h\k’.:@ the moment of : '!'! i :m, = doom, =N s s izag/ Oh! visitant, =S=T%O “ S ghostly, we 4% 2 (,7 bid thee fareA ) well, Ho 2 S ey %) But just for one Sw . moment - withS X : ~ holdthy last = knell, To tell us the fate of our last summer flowers, Our love-songs, our bird-notes, our blossoming hours. . Full many sweet hopes we've intrusted to thee; Their realization, oh! when shall we see? And will you not tell us in what diadems The fragments are set of our lost, shattered gems? . The path we've walked with thee has been 8o uneven, But, did it not slant, just a little, toward Heaven? 5 : The sheaves we have garnered to scatter abroad, i | Dost know thaf they're safe in the storehouse 5 Still mute? Oh! departing year, we: care not whether : Thy heart be as fickle and false a 8 thy weather; Go; sink with thy storms and thy floods past recall, | And let the eternal waves cover them all. ‘ The Past and the Future clasp hands overl . thee, gt : As o'er thy head surges thé turbulent sea; | Thine own nerveless fingers must ring out the | knell— | sy The clocx strikes; the bell tolls; Farewell, oh! Farewell, . : —Mary A. Benson, in Texas Siftings.

UPON THE WATERS.

Bread That Returned on a New ' Yeur's Morning. - : R fIEN the Hunt;j:’“ ers camo into "’l&s4;'”}. @/~ lillport, from- & [ "‘li‘ii'l‘fégi‘:f" nobody knows i;',,_ § where, the gene'it @"?y ral séntimentj, of ;__"\'Tf‘-‘_‘:"m:_" w==—_ the town wasone Eji,;::%%é:’;“f'z of disapprobaA~ aise=— "% tion. They had e :j«—?’—'sz? no end of boisterg sl e ous, © half-clad, T omemeee L uwneared-for chil S ——— dren, who ran wor——== er wild gver even i) the most sacred | precinets of the village. These young savages were no respecters of persons. They whooped and shouted under the very windows of Judge Jones, whose name usually inspired fear in the breast of large or small Hiliporters, Nor did they stand in awe of ministers of the Gospel or show any regard for a church. In truth, they did not know the uses of a church, beyond the fact that it was a lot of fun to throw stones at it whilp people ‘were within on Sund"iwy mornings. And as for a preacher, wasn’t he a creature whose long-tailed coat afforded glorious opportunities for decoration which made laughter for the decorators? These were the base uses to which the Hunter children put sacred beings and buildings. ‘

By and by some of the more charitable of the townfolk began to pity the foriorn condition of the young savages, particularly when it became known that their father was a shiftless soul, who loafed three days for every one he worked, and that their mother had lost whatever §pirit or energy she had once possessed and was now merely enduring existence until it ended. And as for poverty, Ilillporters had never really krnown what it was until the Hunters enlightened them. . One of the few persons who felt sorry to see the little Hunters grow up so neglected was Mrs. Raynor, whose pretty home was not far from their dreary dwelling. She made the acquaintance of all of them, but had taken a particular fancy to six-year-old Ruth, a pretty child, with much sweetness and gentleness in her face and voice. Indeed, to look at Ruth one could not realize that she had been born to neglect, poverty and all the unhappy results these two evils breed. L Mrs. Raynor helped the poor Ittle untaught soul to many an innocent pleasure and some substantial comforts. One raw auntumn day she met Ruth on the street in tears. ; . ““What’s the matter, "Ruthie?”’ asked the kind lady. “1-1-I want to go to school and h-have warm clothes like o-o-other little girls,’. sobbed Ruth, shivering in her thin and ragged gown. *I-I'm so tired of being hungry and cold.” This blunt confession smote Mrs " Raynor to the heart. “Don’t ery, child, don’t cry, I'll see.if you can’t have some warm clothes and go to school,” and she took Ruth by the hand and led her home. - : That evening Mrs. Raynor said to her husband: “‘George, 1 want to bring little Al XS 7 o - ,/ L //, ' ; s . Y/, A,. L// ‘ Ny R | | l// / A\ ‘\\,Hﬂ”!( R ad%’ V | T \“é,:/ ‘ { M‘F "\ *1 ;M'?\»: 4 I ‘ ley AN ol / 1 . o 7 o AR il R \| " fi “.P " M\\ \\x\\ e ‘ W za\we 1A NS \ l\,it'ulmy / w\“,{ | 17 ‘ ,“\1 e il.l.ilw e gl | - IRI U PRI | - e WA\ LR 4 ‘ i ﬁ ~ t‘l'% e Ty et L e 4 ’ﬁ‘( i,\ &0%/ o Woagm. = HIS LONG-TAILED COAT AFFORDED GLOo RIOUS OPPORTUNITIES. Ruth Hunter here, put some decent clothes on her and send her to school this winter with our children. My heart aches for the poor mneglected little thing.” . , : Mr. Raynor arched his eyebrows reprovingly. “You'll be sure to rue phihnthr(:}:y of that kind, my dear. It’s a ~risky thing to bring a barbarian like her among civilized beings. You don’t ‘know how she might injure our own ~ “T'll look closely after ail of them,” ~said Mrs. Raynor. “Why, the poor little thing has had no chance to be any thing but a barbarian. I believe there’s | _plenty of good in her if some one would take ihe troublo to develop it. Besides, | 800 childress orbwing tn lilke savasas

before our eyes and never lift a finger to save them. Our duty does not end with looking after our own.” *Well, well, have it your own way,” said Mr. Raynor. ‘l, too, feel sorry for the poor little waif; but I hope you will not rue it.”

Next morning Mrs. Raynor went to the Hunters to ask for Ruth. ¢What do you say, daddy?” asked the apathetic Mrs. Hunter, as she sat in hideous rags with a dirty baby on her lap, after she had heard Mrs. Raynor’s request. Do as ye like about it,” said the fond father. “Y¥Ybung uns are most too thick around here.” ;

*‘Well, ve ken take her,” said Mrs. Hunter, nodding to Mrs. Raynor, ‘“‘an’ if she don’t like it over there among your young uns she can come back any day.” This was said in the most independent and airy fashion, as though there was every possibility that Ruth might not like life in the Raynor fam‘ily at all. : Mrs. Raynor smiled as she thanked Mrs. Hunter, and then she took Ruth hqme with her. : The child wasoverjoyed. Niceclothes and kindness soon developed her selfrespect, and she loved her benefactress as only a young savage can love. She was bright and quick, and learned with surprising rapidity. The winter went by and she ‘still remained at the Raynors, The summer and anbther winter, and year after year slipped away and she was still there. 2

At last Ruth was twelve years old, and a very sweet and lovely Ruth she had grown to be. Her comfort and joy, however, were soon to end. One day her mother came over to the Raynors and told Ruth that they, the Hunters, were about to move ‘‘out West,” and she must go with them. 'Tears and entreaties were of no avail. The miserable, ignorant woman had long been jealous of Ruth’s affection for Mrs. Raynor, and she now declared that Ruth must come home and share the fortunes of the family. So the poor child went away with her unlovely family into a life that was hateful to her. For atime she wrote frequently to Mrs. Raynor, but as the years went by letters came less frequently, and at last, after the Raynors removed to another town, they ceased to hear from Ruth altogether. ' Time moved on and brought sad changes to the Raynors. One 'by one the rosy-cheeked children sickened and died, and Mr. Raynor soon followed them. Mrs. Raynor found herself alone and penniless, for hoer husband s affairs were in a bad way, and his property had been seized by his creditors. She struggled for a time, but sickness eventually overpowered her, and, as she was destitute, she was taken to the almshouse. « ! ;

Here, on New Year’s morning she lay, helpless and sick at heart. ~ She put her thin hand over her eyes to hide the tears of humiliation which trickled slowly over her. cheeks. Bilently she asked herself how she had sinned that

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“Bread upon the waters cast Shall be gathered at the last.”

‘tae words blazed before the brain of Mrs. Raynor and she repeated them doubtingly: . ' “Bread upon ‘t.he:w_atgrs_cast 5

e Shall be gathered at the last.” Ah, but it was not true—the promise in these words was not true, it was not true. Had she not cast her bread upon the waters in deeds of kindness, again and again? Yet here she was, forsaken. The tears gushed forth anew—tears of such misery as many an eye which has known sorrow is still a stranger to. - The door opened softly. Somebody entered, but Mrs. Raynor did not remove her-hand from her eyos. “Mother,” said an eager - voice, *“Mother Raynor.” ' | :

Who could call her mother? Surely,. every voice that had a right to address her by that name was hushed in death. - The next instant a pair of arms were abous her, and young lips were kissing her faded omes. ‘‘Mother, my true mother, it is I, Ruth Hunter. Speak to me.” : :

After the first shock of joy was over, Mrs. Raynor asked Ruth how she learned of her misfortune. It was easily explained. Mention of the fact that the county had taken charge of Mrs. Raynor was made in one of the newspapers. A copy of the paper con taining this paragraph was wrapped around an express package and sent to the town in Missouri where Ruth lived, and by accident fell into her hands. After reading it she started at once to find her former benefactress, and never rested until she reached the almshouse.

““And now, mother,” she said, *‘you are going with me to live, for I am married and have a happy home in which you shall be loved and cared for as long as you live. I owe every thing of good that has ever come fo me to your kindness in the past, and I am grateful for a chance to repay you.” : :

Mrs. Raynor lay quite still, too full of gratitude and joy to speak. ) ““And this is New Year’'s morning,” said Ruth: *‘Let me kiss you again for a Happy New Year.” e The words of old Nancy’s song floated in once more. How sweetly they sounded to Mrs. Raynor’s ! ears, cracked and broken as was the voice which sang them: | : ‘* Bread upon thq waters cast : Shall be gathered at the last."” “Yes, the promise is true,” she mur mured. “Itshallbegathered at the last Mine has returned to me to-day.”’-~Gew trude Garrison, in T?xu tiftings,

¥ 7 : - FARM AND GARDEN. , HOME-MADE INCUBATOR. One Thatvls Simple Enough to. Prove Efficient and Useful. ‘We herewith give a description of an incubator gotten up by J. J. Link, of Philadelphia, and described in Farm and Fireside. '~ The tank, Fig. I,isof galvanized iron, 9 inches deep. The pipe Ais }¢-inch gas pipe, while the lower pipe is %-inch gas pipe, connected at C and F with unions. The pipe at D fits together like a stovepipe so that by disconnecting the unions C and F, the boiler can be taken off without any trouble. At B there is a 4-inch T, with an 2§-inch gauge-cock to tell the height of water. At O there is a 3-inch faucet to empty tank and boiler X, when desired. The i [ 1 19 ;%S } l | l . ik |3 2 4 i g < b i I-..g1,ﬂ" e ] 21 2 - * I

pipe I is for filling the tank with water, while the pipe J carries off smoke from the lamp. The boiler, H, is made of galvanized -iron.. 'The lamp burner is round, with the long chimney (3,) and extends about 1 inch into the pipe D, which is 2 inches in'diameter and made of galvanized iron. The boiler, I, is ¢ inches high and 5 inches in diameter. - When starting up, put in hot water and then light the lamp. Kis the ventilating box, and E the egg drawer. The double-walled space is filled with sawdust. Fig. 2 shows the boiler disconnected. Run the incubator four or five days without eggs, and it can then be easily adjusted. A little practice gives complete control. - L

POULTRY PICKINGS.

ONE advantage with ducks is that that they grow almost twice as fast as chickens.

WitAT we can not help, and what are due to our own faults should r.ot call for discontentment or aggravation except with ourselves, but for more care in the future.

Ix mating up your pens, select only the best birds. = Cull mercilessly, and do not use inferior birds. Above all, let the male at the head of your yard be first-class. Remember he is half the breeding-pen. i

WHILE an incubator has one advantage in being always ready for service, yet it requires more care than hens, and unless you are willing to put in some time every day in attending to it, the better plan is to stick to hens.—St. Louis Republic. : It will be the hardest kind of a job to buy breeding stock in February or Mazrch from now, and if you should happen to secure a chance to buy, the price will be high, as birds are usually scarce after the new year sets in. So be wise now, and buy carly, and you will get better birds and at lowar cost than at any other time of the year. A Goop way to utilize brolken glass and crockery ware is to pound it up for the birds. It will cure indigestion sooner than any medicine can be givon, and the hen that is well supplied with such material will be less liable to disease. It is the sharp, cutting edges that enables the hen to grind her food. Round gravel is of no use. Don’t be afraid of glass. Pound it to the size of wheat, and the gizzard will attend to the rest. Keep the hens supplied with all they desire. - Ir some of the poultry raisers would take one good brood of fowls and carefully tend to them, and study their characteristics, instead of trying to originate new breeds, we would hear fewer complaints and growlings about ‘no money in poultry.” It ought never to be forgotten that to lkeep poultry well and economically, care and attention must be exercised in feeding. We are generally prone to overfeeding, and this should be as carefully guarded against as insufficient feeding. Fowls must never have more given thém at one time than they will pick up clean and with an appetite.—Poultry Monthly.

OVERFEEDING FOWLS.

The Cause of Many Ills in Otherwise Well-Managed Poultry Yards. : Many ills in the poultry yard come from causes least suspected, and it often happens tnat birds in what are considered well-managed yards do not thrive. They first get lame, then get droopy, then lose colorin the comb, and in two or three weeks get very wealk. They generally die. If opened their liver will be found to be affected, and some- | times it is enlarged. This is the result of overfeeding. This was the first cause which debilitated them and made them susceptible to other diseases. They take cold, {ndigestion follows, and then a diseased liver kills them. Fowls should be made to hunt for their feed during the ‘greater part of the day. "This gives them exercise and keeps them in Lealth. Of course they ‘should not be starved, but too much food, with no work to obtain it, is sure to cause leg wunlkness .and liver complaint, and make the system weak and susceptible to more malignant diseases. A variety of feed in moderate’quantities and good exercise in hunting for it during the day time, will prevent such maladies. During winter a feed of shelled corn may be given just before going to roost. This may be given to them in such a way that they can readily pick it up if they have been made to scratch through the day.—Farm, Field and Stockman. ~ ' Tumors and Skin Affections. Tumors, warts, sores and affections of the skin are as peculiar to fowls as to human individuals, and come from the same causes, being also as difficult to cure. There are those who attempt to make cures of such cases, which is wrong, as such fowls should be destrayed. Scrofula is liable to exist as a disease in the flock, and to permit such birds to exist is to incur a 'liability of | having the disease transmitted to sueceeding generations, as well as to be.come contagious. It is cheaper and better to procure other fowls, first destroying those in the yards. When - tumors appear, they indicate a diseased condition of the fowls, which places them outside of the uses of the farmer. . —Farm and Fireside, -

- . WINTER PRECAUTIONS. Don’t Forget That It Pays to Warm - Water for Farm Stock. It is not to be expected that the man whose stable lets in the light through the cracks, and whose cattle never taste grain, will concern himself to warm water for his stock, but thisis evidently what every progressive farmer is coming to. Think of a cow standing in a dark, .cold stable where the manure is frozen solid on the stable floor and plastered upon the cow’s sides; and then think gf her turned out in the wind and snow to drink ice water and go back chilled and shivering to the stable, or, what is worse, left to stand in the cold wind for hours. Winter dairying would not pay with cows treated.thus, nor does it pay in any point of view to use any kind of stock in such a way. Yet hundreds of farmers do nearly or’quite .as badly or even worse. But such methods cause a terrible waste. Probably it would not cost more than one-half or two-thirds as much to keep a cow in a warm, welllighted, . well-ventilated stable, with a supply of bedding and plenty of warm water to drink and turned out only when it is warm or else turned into a covered yard, as it would keep her in the way described above. The saving in dollars and cents would, in one winter, more than pay the extra cost of making the stable warm, and, after it was once arranged it would be permanent, while the cost of bedding and warm water would be small.

Cows would do better the whole year, young stock grow far faster, fattening animals take on flesh more rapidly, and working cattle do much more work if properly cared for. But I suppose many farmers never think of all this. They go on year after year in the same old ruts, doing their work in a mechanical way, not using their minds or learning any thing new. ' . The cost of warming water is not nearly so great as the benefit derived from it, especially if given to milch cows. Winter dairying is by far the most profitable, but warm water is indispensable, for success. In the West, where fuel is scarce and feed is plentiful, the question may bear a different aspect; but in the East or wherever else fuel can be got for any reasonable price, it would pay to warm water for stock. Western as well as many Eastern farmers should think more about the care their stock getin cold weather. The best blooded stock will degenerate if mnot cared for. Shelter and care will tell as well as blood, and common stock well cared for will be more profitable than the finest thoroughbreds which are allowed to suffer from exposure and neglect.—Cor. Rural New Yorker. -

VALUE OF COTTON SEED.

Meal and Hulls Combined Furnish a Complete Stock Food.

The seeds from the cotton crop years ago were thrown away as worthless. Afterwards they were used alone as a fertilizer on the coming crop, or in the compost heat. To a limited extent they were then fed to stock withont ci-us]g-ing. : '

The next and greatest advance wasjin separating the hull and kernel and in expressing the oil. The oil cake when ground, known as meal, came to be used as a stock food and as a fertilizer. The hulls were first used for fuel—the ash being used for a strong fertilizer—but afterwards were mused also for stock food. e

The combination of meal and hulls furnishes a complete food, and is Mcoming to be extensively used for fattening purposes. The oil is used as a component of compound lard, for cooking, for lubricating and similar purposes, and when refined is sold as ‘“‘pure” olive ooil. The lower grade is used for soap-making. The small quantity of lint is removed from the seed by improved gins. The following shows the value of the product made from one ton cottonseed by the most improved process, giving the average selling prices: Forty gallons oil, at 30 cent5..............512 00 Meal, 675 pounds, at §24 perton ........... 810 Hulls, 1.000 pounds, at $3 per t0n.......... 150 Lint, 27 pounds, at 4 cent 5....... ... ..... 108 Polll e B B Cost of one ton, 662% bushels, at 18 cents. . 12 00 Excesß eoo iaaiia e 0068 As'early as 1770 the Moravians of Bethlehem, Pa., separated the oil from the cottonseed. And in' 1783 the Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Commerce in London, recognizing the value of cottonseed oil cake as a stock food, offered gold and silver medals for the best cake and the best oil extracted from the seed. Verily, there is nothing new under the sun.—H. B. Battle, Experiment Station, Raleigh. - HANDY COW STABLE.

It Seems to. Have Many Advantages Not to Be Considered Lightly.

Here is the plan of the ground floor of my cow stable, built for 20 cows. The building is 26x60 feet and the stable 26x40 feet. The passage, 4 feet wide, running through the center, is used for a manger, the cows feeding from both sides. The hay is thrown into this fassage from the mow above. Thers is also a mow hole in the cutting room. The cows are shut out of the manger by a bar across the feeding holes, ex-

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cept when they are eating, which is a great advantage in keeping them clean. But best of all is the water trough. This runs through the center of the passage and from it all the cows can drink without leaving their stalls. The trough is V shaped, four inches wide at the bottom and twelve inches wide at the top. It has a tight-fitting cover which keeps out all the dirt and also serves for a walk, This trough is filled from a well just'outside of the barn. I have tried a contrivance for heating the water, but it doesn’t work satisfactorily yet. I have seen plans ef-a good many cow stables, but none that I think are as convenient as my o’wn.-—Vy. N. Johnson, in Farm and Home. - ! ;

Too MANY hogs should not be allowed to bed together. While some will get too cold, those in the middle will get too warm and are liable to take cold and become diseased. .

During the winter, especially, it is very important that the bed for the hogs be kept dry. The foundation for success or failure with pigs is laid before they are born. e

OATB are one of the very best materials to use in feeding young pigs, $.3 i . especially when they are just beginning to eat. : : {5

CALENDAR FOR 1891. e e — DD el - 2D » 2 B olSsiS S 8 ;ia_éégjz 2 FEERE | ROv e Y |ST OO e R B B dn 456789;10"“1” 5{ 6| 7| 8| 910111 11112{13{14|15/16:17 12/13[14/15{186{17{18 18(10120121|22{23 24 19120/21|22|23|24/25 2526127(28(29/30,31 26/27/28129(30/31| ... Ll kil Aug,, Rb R R e | Feb...| ¥ 2| 3! 4{ 5| 6] 7 2| 3| 4| 5| 6] 7| 8 8! 9{lo/11{12 13114 0110{11{12{13{14}15 15116/17{18119/20/21 16{17{18{19120/21{22 22123(24/25|26|2728)| . 323:3’»11%26272829 March! 1f 2] 3| 4| 5| 6| 7|( 8ept......|...| 1| 2/ 3| 4| 5 8| 9/10 11112113114 6| 7| 8] 9{lo{ll|l2 15/16{17/18]19/20:21 13|14]15/16{17(18/19 22#32425262728 20(21|22(23124125| 261 o [20:301811...]...1-..]..c 27128129130]...}...... April .| .[...1'1| 2| 3| 4| Qct...|...|...|...|...| 2] 2’3 5| 6/ 7| 8] 9/10{11 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|lo 12113(14/15/16{17/18 11{12{13]14|15{16{17 1@2122232425 18/19/20|21|22{23{24} | Hay 262728293012 2512627 (2812913031 34| 56 7 olf Ror..| 1{ 2{ 3| 45|6| 7 1011/1213114/15/16 8| 8{10{1112{13(14 ! 17/18(19,20(212223 - 115116117118/19]20(21 24125/26/27|28{29/30] 22123124125|26(27128 June..|" I|2 3| "4| 5| 6| De5...|...|...|'1| 2|B 4| B 71 8] 9{10111{12{13 6; 7| 8| 9/10{11{12 14/15(16/17,18{19,20 13]14/15116{17(18/19 21122123124125|26/27 20121 32{1% 24/25/28 28129]301-....... ... 27/28120/30131]... .. B e How’s This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CrExEY & Co., Props., Toledo, O. ‘We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the lastfifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. " West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and mucoussurfaces of the system. Testimonials free. Price, 75¢. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.

“Way—hello! You are the lftst person I expected to meet.”” “Well, lam the last person you have met.” — Smith, Gray & Co.’s Monthly, :

TIBBEE, Miss., Oct. 6, 1886. Mpssrs. A. T. SHALLENBERGER & Co. . Rochester, Pa. Gents:—The bottle of Shallenberger’s Pills sent me in February last I gave to W. G. Anderson of this place; a long standing case of chills and fever. He had tried everything known without any permanent gooa. In less than ten days after taking your Antidote he was sound and well, and has gone through the entire season without any return. Itseems to have effectually driven the Malarious poison from his system. Yours truly, ; V. A. ANDERSON.

. THERE are lots of people in this world who wear silks and velvets on top, with a a carefully covered garmant of sackcloth and ashes underneath,—Atchison Globe. -

IF cvery woman in this land knew for herself the actual quality of Dobbins’ Electric Soap, no other washing soap could be sold. Millions do use it, but other millions have :xrlever tried it. Have you? Ask your grocer for it.

LaADpY writes at the end of a letter to a friend: ‘“Now, I must conclude, for my feet are so cold that 1 can hardly hold my pen.””—Pick Me Up.

LirtLE Boy—‘“Papa, the papers say the mine owners are going to coalesce. What is the meaning of coalesce?’ Papa—‘‘lt means less coal, my son.”—QGrip. ,

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27. LIVE STOCK—Cattle........~. 31 7% @ 5 10

Sheen LL . 400 @b B 0 Moo oon s 390 370 FLOUR—Fair to Fancy........ 390 @& 500 Minnesota Patent 5.......... 460 @5 50 WHEAT—No. 2 Red....... .... 105%@105% NG G- Red i oo o] 99% @) 99% CORMN —No. 2 ... ... .0. 591.@ 60 Ungraded mixed............ 58 @ 61 OATS—Mixed We5tern......... 46 @ 50 RYE-—_Western ... -.. .... ..... M @ 80 ORI Mess: =0 0 ... ..., 1100 @ 1208 LARD—Western 5team........ 605 @ 6 07'% BUTI ER—Western Creamery. 20 @ 29

- CdICAGO. ‘ BEEVES—Shipping Steers.... 2 90 @ 5 25 GOWS e L 1% @B 5t,0cker5...‘................, 20 @ 250 Hoedens oLo ot 2650 @ 300 Butehers® 5teer5........... 240 @375 EEnHR 1 B 0 @3OO HEGS. Hive .o ... . 30 @3N SHMWEIE G ... 8300 @5 0) BUTTER--Creamery........... 18 @ 28 Good to Choice Dairy....... 12 @, 20 BGES—<Fresh ... . . ... 0o iienee 19 @ 20 BROOM CORN— :

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