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 Hv. • ' 'X m\ J. F. HALSTED, M. D. PHTSICIaK, suboeon, c., Holland CJentre* Will be at Berkeley eveiy Tuesday and Friday afternoon from one to four o'clock. 390-ly. r"r. Sproule, ^PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEON, ]Vf A. R. k: I .^ 1^ E- UfficSe â€" Manley's Drug Store. cTa McBRIDE, m. d., L. R. C. p. S. EDINBURGH, 4Wf/ce at Stephen's Drug Store, Iiate of the Liondoa Hospital, England. I*. McCiiUoiagrli, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, Ac OFFICEâ€" OVER McFARLAHO'S STORE, MAEKDALiE. iWConey to ILioa,ii. ]VIASSOIW mASSON, BABBISTERS, SOLICITORS, a. Offices â€" Owen Sound, in Viaker's Block, Poulett St. Bianeh oflace in Mai-kdale, over McFarland's Store, on Friday and Saturday, emeiy week. J. Masson, Q. C. S. Masson. W. Massok. N. B.â€" Private and CompanT's funds to invest at from 6 to 8 per cent. GOME BBOWV. DIVISION COURT CLERK. Issaer of Marriage Licenses, c, Commissiooerj in B. R. fcc. Conveyancing in all its branches promptly attended to and carefully executed. N. B. â€" Money to Lend on Real Estate se- curity. SEE WILLIAM STUART, K1M13ERLEY, Issuer of Marriage Licenses. Money to tiOan on Real Estate at low rates. A few Jarms for sale. Terms easy. J. P. MARSHALL, L.D.S. DENTIST?, GBADUATE OF TORONTO SCHOOL of Dentistry, will be at the Markdale House, Markdale, on the Ist and third Wednesday of each month and also at Munshaw's Hotel Flesher- ton, the day following the third Wednesday in each month for the practice of his profession. Commeucing on the 7th September. b o o o o ob o o 6"o o o o o ooooooooooooo m DISPLAY MOM TO LOAN. ON real estate security, at low rate of interest, no commission charged. Busi- ness Strictly Confidential, J. S. BLACK, 190 Pomona, P.O, FARM FOR SALE. LOT No. 24, con. 4, N. D. R. Glenelg, 100 acres, will be sold cneap and on easy terms of payment, for further particulars apply on the premises, or by letter to J. S. BLACK, i90.Ji. Pomona P. MARKDALE HOUSE, MARKDALE. ONT. J. £ Marsh, Prop. ooooooooooooo o o ooooooooooooo â€" OF- Christmas W. G. RICHARDS, BUILDER, CONTRACTOR, ARCHI- TECT, Markdale. R. J. SPROULE, FLESHERTON. Conveyancer, Apprtiser, Valuator and Money Lender. Deeds, Mortgages, Leases and Wills drawn up andValuations madeon shortest notice. Charges very low. Apply to K. J. SPROULE, Money Lender Postmaster. Flesherton. T7:7"iii stoa-d.3ixt THE TAILOR, is prepared to make your clothes neat and trim. The latest Fashion Plates always on hand to choose from. Bemember, over McFarland's Store, Afarkdale. 6 PERCENT. Money loaned on Farm or Town Property at lowest rates of interest. Apply to B. J. SPBOULE, Conveyancer Postmaster. Flesherton. TWIOTVETT to LOAIV. Private and Company's funds to invest in Beal Estate at current rates of interest. r ABKS TOB 8A£E AITS TO "KBKT. All business private and confidential. Apprais- er for Canada Permanent Loan and SavingB Company, Toronto. 406-34 JOHN WHITBY, Markdale. lasterer and stone mason MARKDALE. Ispreparerl to take contracts in town or country. Calcimining and Whitewashing a specialty. Goods -AT THEâ€" Popular Drug STORE, It w^ill do you goodF EXCELSIOR WAREROOMS! I have now ou haod » fall and varied atock of all kinds and grades of FcBNiTUBK, bought foF oftsh from the most reliable firms in Canada, audi purpose doing IxusineBS on a r exports" will j:reatly modify sny strictiv cash basis which will put me â€"â€"-•-- â- Â«""" '•• â€" ' in a position t«i sell at ft small Advance on cost and thereby give my custom- ers the benefit. I shall esteem it a favor tohaveyou call «ud look through MY ESTABLISIIfllEJI'r/ whether you require an j thing in my line or not, and I feel confident that you will be delighted with and surpris- ed at tlie quality and cheapness of my goods. â€" Upholstered goods a specialty. U ndertakin g 111* In this department I have a com- plete stock of all kinds of funeral furnishings and all orders will have my prompt and careful attention. A first class hearse in connection. Musical Instruments I also handle the celebrated Bell Organs -and tiie famous Wanzer Sewing Machines wliich may bn seen on I'jxhibition at my wareruoms, prices and grades tosuit all purchasers. Picture Framing. I shall keep in stock an assorted line of frames, and your esteemed orders will be attended to with neat- ness and despatch at rock bottom prices. With many thanks lor the present patronage which I liave re- ceived and hoping by fair prices and square dealing to merit an inwrease of the same. I am, your's respeet^p; J .W. Sproule, MARKDALE. (COPTWBIOHTED.) Canada a Dalryinir Oenatry. (Published by permission of the Author.) In (Canada's resources, developed and un- developed, tlie field, the forest, the fishery, the mine, manufactures and commerce, all occupy no mean place. It is, however, no depreciation of the other resourced to pay that hoth in actual results sad in future promise, the first named stands highest m importance. Our exports are an illustration of this fact. In 1897 our agricultural exports amounted to more than half of the total exports. The industry which, bj virtue of exports, is second in importance is tJiat of the forest, and the exports of the latter were less than half those of the field. In round millions of dollars, oar total exports, in 1887, were as follows: â€" The field •41,000,000 The forest.. 30,000,000 Fisheries ..'....... 7,000,000 Mines 4,000,000 Manufactures 3,000,00(J Furs 2.000,000 Miscellaneous 1,000,000 glcncus Western Leritaee rt, there ma, be some p,irt^'7^ PHin^ abundance of pure water J " "tii^ duction of finest butw S^'-tSi only a Email p..oportioa'ofe*'^P..2: wl«re there 18 water- tbpm '"'"le.Z adtUutBKes of superb daivlur ^^"Z- prair.e grasses, natu.e'g pur^;7'"«l.wll.' mer nigbt*, una. let it Sir:"**" enterprise and \uteliit-«nce tl, '•*'»|4;- where. If Canada doerw^^^ofT*' I.S a dairy country, it wui r** fif«t 18 not favored.by nature within .k^' conditions of grasses, """»* Doubtless there are aistrint because of natural coBditionl l* "" ^^ ces not so well adaptetl for L^"" cheese productiou. 'fliis 1, " it some of our wheat growmn J. ** ""M lano counties, or some of our ruKT"" ' lauds of our Quebec parishes • tift ' iricts will conUue tbemseWe, laZ^'1^ cheese production, as a Dr-.fitabl! "'"» makiuK butter only iu a »uui.l» "" i^r-" '"""••'*»' s-Ji 8econd.-The genius of the peopfe „,,, ada IS equal to tne s,.ecial uej. !f "' f ul dairj in«. Here I have im^^'^^ important factor of success. ZtS " ventures, though uectssarv to Vr,*^* success, are almost less thau half the t more -aua more h,j„"«* 'â- '"'â- I'luteliig.ue^^ ta. monthly Faurs. Qtangeyilleâ€" "Hie second Thvaaday In month IHmdalk â€" ^Tnesday befwe ontncevile. Vleshertonr-Moaday befora OiugtriUfi Markdale â€" Satorday hatan OMogarille. Dorhmaâ€" Third Tuesday in enC aioiitai. Ghatowoiihâ€" Monday befton BmIw. Yours respectfully, E. L. STEPHEN Total..;..... 978,000,000 In this classification I have made a de- parture from thst of the trade and naviga- tion tables. In the "field" (agriculture) I have included "animals and their products," except -furs," whicn I have classified separ- ately. These figures, striking as they are, do not fully express the relative importance of agri- culture. Among the considerations which emphasize that expression are the following â€" 1. The forest products exported are more nearly in a raw state, hke deals, planks, etc., and do not represent the employment odDTord- ed that field products do, the latter including such products as cattle, cheese, butter, grain, etc. (2.) Forest products beleng only to the new phase of theeountry, and mast wane wiA its development, while the field is the presettt backbone and the fatore piomise of the country and oar highest prosperity in the fatore will be contingent npim its best and eontinuoos expansion and improvement, i^ieh both are possible. Xcm, an analysis of the exports of our moct important and vahiable agrioaltnral reeooroes will show there is one special braooh of the indastry which overtops the otner bronehes, eve» as agrieoltora Iteelf stpibd* higher than ov othor reaonroes. We expOTted in 1887 in immd million dollars :â€" Chees^an4 batter ..,. « 8,000.000 Honifldgattle 6.000,000 • • •••••« JRriwvBleâ€" Moaday bilbn ii'l i*:i)j laX i'iso: Barky Wheat .. P«se.... Flour..;. Hcnses .. Kggs...., Snnflries ' "^M ,.,..,.,.,.. ^_., .^daiqr a^atU h«i«t»ni'j^wit3 .(ne^ly) ••••^t • v» ♦.*" •r'f" S.OOOjQOG 4,000.050 S.600.000 ».000,-OQO ii.odo.ooo KafloofiQo Is of abat^:6mi ^potato«i«ii£wo^t They no other. It is saci^a factor in a seuse not indicated by figares. • for milk production rather than being undniy exhaustive to the soil is lavorable to a system of cultivation which will help to renew the fe-tilitj of soil already impoveribhed by grain cropping. It is the Canadian experience that the inteUi- gent production of milk and the skilful mauu facture Of its prodacts, brings prosperity to the agriculturist. The manifest adyantages of dairying, and the large place it has in our indusiiial economy, bespeak a condition of things fa- vorable to the future prosperity and progress of the country. Unhappily, a further analysis of oar dairy seli-con- gratulatious. While iu a general splendid expansion and rapid growth of our exports, our dairy products, as u whole, have kept pace with the moat important of our other eiports, f ne Of these dairy products has been steadily fallius behind in a most marked de gree. -The years 187*2 to 1887, which in crensed our total exports from 61 to 78 mil- lion dollars, or 22 per cent., iuci eased our cheese and butter exports frum S.5.5(K)'00U to 98,000,(H.)0. or 46 per cent. -, while our batter exports, instead of showing their share of iu crease, have actually fallen off from three and a half millions to one million dollars, or no less than 73 per cent. It, of courpe, follows that the exports ef cheese must liave had an almoiit phenomenal expansion, in order to have ^iven the combined exports so Rood a showing an they have made. And the actual increase of 'Ur cheose exports have, indeed, been something striking. From less thau two million dollars in 1872, they have grown to ovor Seven million dollar" in 1887, an ex- J!!lVi" pansicn of about 286 per cent. 1 push in enterprise The actual reputation abroad of Canadiaii cheese, compared with what it wax before the trade began to assume noticeable propoi tions, is a flattering coufirmati( n of the conclusions which naturally follow from a study of the above figures. At one time Canadian chees^e was exported nndei 'an American brand, to give it a better hold upon the English market; to-day it is to be feared that shrewd Ameri- cans know too well that American cheese will sell better in England if put upon the market as Canadian. The reputation ot Canadian cheese is now second to none, and the suc- cess of the Dominionin cheese produciiou has already awakened considerable enquiry as to our methods among our competitors. Both in Denmark, the present butter country par excellence, and in Holland, the premier country for milk production and dairy ex- ports, I saw indications of a disposition to study the reasons of Canada's success. In- cidentally I might remark that for four years the southwestern counties of Scotland haye been steadily improving the quality of their cheese under the pcrsopal instruction of Can- adian cheese-makers, who are iutrouucing the Canadian system. The first season the canny Scots were content with the importa- tion of one instructor but now they are not satisfied with. leas than two of our best men, whom they secure in the most practical, busi- ness-hbe way, by Uberal remuneration lor what they find to be exceedingly valuable service. On the other hand, the actual reputation abroad of Canadian butter to-day, compared to what it was at one time, is of a less flatter- ing character. Indeed, it is a question which has fallen off the most, oar exportd of butter (which we have seen has gone down 73 per cent.), or our reputation for making it 1 So much for the past of our dairy industry. What is its possible and probable future? To myself, in spite of the discouraging as- pects of one branch of oar enquiry, the out- look is hopeful. First â€" The country is remarkably well adapted for dairying. The success of the cheeso industry is abundant proof of adapta- tion for the production of milk, and of one at least of the milk products. Our failure in butter exportation is not necessarily proof that the country is not adapted for butter _„ production. The quality of butter which we i for improvement of dairying in Canada are, export is small in proportion to what we con- j mainly, as follows :â€" sume at home. The Canadian people are J The Western and Eastern Dairymen's »!• Ught consumers ot cheese, but heavy con- r gociatons of Ontario, and the DairymeB'i ai- sumers of batter. Our butter consumption " """ IS to a very considerable extent of an exact- ing character, and it absorbs a larger propor- tion, if not nearly all, of the very best por- tion of our whole make. Local prices for the best of our butter are usually auffieiently high *to force the exporter to handle quanti- ties of cheaper and inferior butter. One batter maker within a mile of my writing has sold no butter for years at less than 20 cents per pound. He always has "his price," and a few years ago his price was 25 cents per pound. This batter has usually been sold directly to some of the many consumers always on the lookout for good butter at any reasonable price. Doubtless not a single tub of it ever found its way into the exports, for the reason that it was always spoken for, and usually at figures which forbid its export. The person referred to has just sent one tub to a Montreal family, whose head writes that it is "very fine butter.' One tub has gone to Kingston, Ont.; one goes o Ottawa, ana the be'mide to'do a mosflfcp'ortant MiO w' balance is spoken for by a Montreal retailer. needed service in the line of e^l*â„¢^ There is nothing exceptional in this instance. it is merely illustrative of a condition of things which bears upon the question of the grade of our whole butter production. Again, the fatilty condition of butter in a foreign market is not always a proof that the butter was devoid of quality when first made. It may not have been paoked to provide for the trying conditions of its subsequent hand- ling. It may have beeii unfairly tested in its transportation or by speoolative 'hold- ing." As a matter of fact, in every piovinoe of the Dominion, and very likely in every ooaatry. more or leas batter has been and is being made, which would be oonsidered fine inanyaarket. It is tmlikely that in Ireland itself bettor batter can be nude than in oar own Prince Edward Island â€" equally green and baaotifaL "GUt-edged** batter may be nade almost anywhere in maiitinm Nova fiootiaaad New Bnuuwiok. with tfaeir rioh marahea and ffawy skypee, kissed by Atkatie â- eabneses. Qoebq* has its JSasten Town- â- bipst the very name of.wluoh is ^ynooymoaa witti this best batter of tbeoonntiy. Itlias, too.jtsXanuHUvska dlatariot, whioh thoogh tt .ha* diiived saon^ bad bnttar to spoil tha btst asRBt^tipa, did it m siatQ of oattfe. frt ws* aa i ite»dn|isw» mbifOx hftVejicodiwMl y*% f â-  jBfehl li»T^Modiiwed non, of th* " Vtmntwr^^viM^. We are coming of stiff competition, iu wl terprise and skill will pky the '£^7'^^ Scientific investigation, to di.covrlf secrets experimental ^vork, leavin.r?' fectiou of method inf...mous invioj u perloct necessary appUunce.;.orKiu»liw la â€" h in enterpnse-all are n.c^l J cess 111 the strong competition already Z. us. In pushing to the front in cli^Je 5 lug, Canada has shown herself peopled .kl a race possessed of tlie n-jcossary quaiifia tions for sncces.' The growth of tUe ciZ industry, if caremlly studied, wiilbeseeull oe not an accident nor a spart, but a real growth, due to the intelligent enterpri'^e o! the people most intimately connectej vitk that growth. It is the united actiou ol tli» pioneers of the industry iu Onterio, in u. sociation. assisteil, ma moderate degree onlj by Government, wlikh tjave the first inaetM to what is now our great fuctcry svst^ of cheese-making. Qaebec followed" closely upon Ontario, and now other prnyinces ato ou the move. Tlie cheese industry is now so well in hand that there can be little doubt of such steady progress that the Dominioi will lead all competitions lu the raoe. The good jndgemeut of the Caualian cheese makers is well indicated by their temper, on the question of the adulteration of cheese, Ail the plausible arguments to greedily re- sort to the tempting profits of robbing the milk of its eream, and substituting some- thing cheaper, are always m^ by an anan- imoua, even impatient opposition by our as- sociated cbeese-makeirs, The wisdom of this disposition becomes more and more apparent iu the ever-improving repittatiott oL oar cheese in Great Britain. Iu a recent official examination of, I think, nearly 309 sampte of Canadian cheese in England, not one m found to be aJraiiterated. Iu butter pioductiou, while tliere are n.\ evidence of marked success, while tliere an- rather evidence of failure, the geoios of oat people must ber eqiial to the needs of the situation, even as it was in the case of ikm production. But the people should set them- selyes at once Jand heartily to the task. What has been done aheady in this co ' nection will show that the temper of our people is for improvement and progress bnt not enough has been done and not enough attempted. I do not claiu; that the task is « light one I claim, only, that the.genitis ol the people is equal to the need, if it will as- pert itself heie as it has done elswhere. What action must needs be taken, it is not within the scope of the present writing to discass, Thp agencies which are already workmj sociations of Quebec, have been more thin all else instrumental in building up our great cheese industry, and maMng it what i| i*- The Ontario OreamM-ies association, of » cent organizauon, is promising of mayhap to the butter industr.v. The Noya »» Dairymen's assodatioo is a live orgMuzaora and for about fiveyearshasdonegoodpioneer worx. There is au association m Mmm, of whose practical w»k I »niio' ^f*? ' "T personal knowledge. The Ontaro Agncm- tural coUege, at Guelph, has made a beginning with its working creameiy. b doubtless has its best work y^'^^°'^L. now doing good expenmental wort^l^ haps better lecture work outside *°"°*^^ farmers, and the head of tbs dejww"^, has abihties of the highest order, him well to do a great work fiat i adian dairying. The Dominion ei[ al farm at Ottawa has not ye* P°' " ^niaT the record of things iu^mplishal, w^^ IS â- â€¢ 1 fit Can- education. Canada has an e^'^.f '^-,. tural press, which has done, ' " jhe grand work educating its r«!r^„ to ordinary newspaper itself is ke^°V^^ its own power to reach and ""P"^^ " The es m the direction of •i°P«'Sw««- Dommion and some of ^^.""'"fS^ ments haye made a beginning Dyw» ^^ dairy literature especiiUy FJ"^^,^. J m writer of some of the P^^f '^St b*' gi$A ta have substantial evidence tna done good work. ^^ In view of our natmal «wv»n«^-j^ genioa of our people, what aaa jjj^ion attended, and an »"'f f. greaW Pf tbrooghoat tiie eountiy to msM « ^^ ji,e gre88?l^ere.iB surely reason to hope diury industry in Canada -fcS^^Sr *a^^***?*«»l*»ww!^'«™- Ontario JMtttewiitaJS^^ W. II- Danvilte, P.Q. N«v. 24, 1888. %S.- :: Ji-::ra?.^"^Ji .v^'iir/. ,wj-s:- â- ..-vV.-ff' â-  J. McKinnoiS id heavy ?f^^,^lm^: 2to. Whips, bng^ •ombTfto., to smt the tiK»- J. =i*l BiU'i '£«£ M. riKTH YEAR.-1 JOOKl REi IDYOUWlLLBECONVii litab/e for Pra ipcr than from an\' otlier reel! Oracgeville and Owen fe hhve just opened up fl tllJMAS 61 larkdale iu F^AIVCI ISES, CHILDREN'S CU lUOERS, MOUSTACHE JD SAUCEEts Cliina Te ee stock to choose, from, kts. Toilet Setts, jrlatsware will teli cheaper than an irlcdale. the Grocery Line we ha- Orange and Citron Peeh mes. new Dates, new Fi sias, all kiudfi new Essenc |fe the largest stoek of Confe ^ught into Markdale. Nuti lea, Digby Chicken, 3die .Fresh Oysters re( kes a week. IhoFe reqtiiringf a "Drop tter" can depend upon g bd and pure at BENSON'S Bottled Gin, Brandy, Kum ch and Irish "Whisky chet ^ap" for Xmas and New 3e. Good Ales and Portei Compliments of the season [LOCKS, JEWELLEI SPECTAC IILVEEWAEE PLUSH CASI FANCY GC most complete aod beau of the above Imes for ' prices that will astonish *0d see oar stock, it will W«tdi^ Clock and Jewel '8 j^^eotly done and "****fiteett every time at