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LOCAL REPORT. Mr M. Cadwaliadr, Welshpool, writes We have had a fairly profitable corn harvest, and the corn is yielding well. M angels a high crop, and swedes fair on some land. Grass keep plentiful. Store cattle in good demand. Beef is plentiful, and reaching a high figure. There i3 not such a demand for'sheep this time as last year. Bacon pigs are 9s per score."

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A WELL-KNOWN FIGURE REMOVED. I We regret to announce the death, at the age of sixty years, of Mr Joe Beale, the much-, respected representative of Messrs Bamford and Sons, Uttoxeter, and who so recently as a week ago occupied his customary position at the stand of his firm at the Smithfield Show, where his old friends found him in good health Deceased, who leaves a wife and a family of three sons and threedaughters to mourn his loss, was very well-known in the agricultural imple- ment world, having been connected with that industry practically the whole of his life, going to Messrs Bamford's some eighteen years ago. The funeral took place at Uttoxeter on Tues- day.

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THE AMERICAN FARM LABOURER. An American writer shows how much is required of a farm labourer in the United States in return for such wages asaboutR4 per month, with board and lodging:—" He must be down by 4 a.m. and work until 6 a.m., when he has twenty minutes for breakfast; then work until noon thirty-five to forty minutes for dinner, then work until six or seven. What does he get in return? The wages of 20 dollars a month and his board,

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On the whole, therefore, it has only been a moderate year for the British stock-owner. To use the words of the president of an agricul- tural show at a speech in September, Nothing to cry over or to crow over," and the best plan to follow is to study the markets and become acquainted with the most saleable classes of stock, then aiming at producing them. Thanks to precautionary measures, the herds and flocks of this country have been generally healthy through the year, although disease has raged elsewhere.

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FEEDING THE TEAM HORSES IN WINTER. To maintain them in the most efficient condition for their work should constitute the guidibg principle observed in the feeding of the team horses on farms. Considerations of

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HATCHING AND REARING WINTER DUCKLINGS. The developments that have taken place during the last few years in the early duckling trade are very striking indeed, and many farmers are, with great advantage to them- selves, devoting their energies to having a good supply of ducklings ready during the early spring months. This development is not at all surprising, however, when one carefully considers the question, for provided the con- ditions are favourable there is no more profit- able branch of industrial poultry keeping. Ducklings are comparatively easy to rear. They grow rapidly, soon turning into money, the percentage of mortality is small, and prices during the early part of the spring are extremely high. There is plenty of room in I this particular branch, and there is no fear of the supply exceeding the demand so long as the birds are ready early in the season. HATCHING DUCK EGGS. When hens are available they should always be employed for hatching duck eggs, as they generally prove rather more satisfactory than do incubators. At the same time it must not be thought that machines are unsuitable for they answer quite well, but as a rule hens bring out rather a higher average of strong ducklings. When using an incubator it should be worked at 103 degrees, and not at 104 as with hen's eggs. The eggs should be occasion- ally damped with a wet cloth immediately before the drawer is closed after cooling. Duck eggs require a large amount of moisture, otherwise the inner and outer membranes, the two thin skins enclosing the white, become thick and tough, causing the ducklings great difficulty to pierce, particularly as their beaks are soft and blunt. When under a hen there !s generally sufficient moisture, but if within a shed or if the weather is very dry they should be moistened every few days. Duck eggs take twenty-eight days to incubate, but the exact time depends to some extent on the age of the eggs. The fresher they are when first placed into the machine the sooner do they hatch. If they are put in the egg-drawer within twenty-four hours of being laid the ducklings should make their appearance about the twenty-sixth day if, on the contrary, the eggs are a week or more old they will probably not hatch until quite the thirtieth day.

+ A Russian Terror. For a whole night and until noon the following day, a Moscow Terrorist, having barricaded his villa, resisted with a revolver the successive assaults of a considerable body of police despatched to arrest him. A superintendent was shot dead on the staircase, and several other officers, in- cluding the chief of the detective department, were wounded. Finally the desperado put a bullet through his head just before the police succeeded in forcing an entrance. A Difference. A curious case came before the Old-street magistrate, arising out of a street row in Spital- fields on Christmas Eve. Two constables charged Leonard Morris, son of a Brick-lane butcher, with a severe assault, one of them asserting that the accused attacked him while he was arresting another man. Morris, on the other hand, denied the offence, and alleged that he was unlawfully arrested, and that the two officers were drunk. The latter statement was contradicted by the divisional surgeon and a sergeant, but a con- stable who assisted his comrades could not answer the question. A remand was granted on the application of the solicitor for the defence.

O'K T WR. Y LLWYBRAU CEIMION. 'Roedd eira'n drwch ar fryn a dol ('Rwy'n methu cofio'r flwyddjn). I mi peth hynod iawn yw hyn— Set nad yw'r eira'n awr mor wyn A phan o'n i yn hogyn. 'Roedd gwel'd y ddol mewn mantell wen, Mor hardd a dim a weiswn. Ac oddi draw dewisais nod, A cherddaia drwy y ciaerwyn od Mor union ag y medrwn. Ond pan gyrhaeddais ben y daith, Cos loes a siom nid bychan. 'Roedd ol ty nghamrau hyd y ddol, Fol llawer ereill ar eu hoi, Yn hynod o d'diamcan. A gofld fcarai'r llwybr i'm, Bob tro'r edrychwn arno, Nes gwenodd baut o awyr las, Gan lwyr ddilwn y llwybr cas, Na welwyd byth mo heno. Upper Brighton. R. H. JONES. Y cwestiwn i ddyn i'w ofyn iddo ei hun wrth ganu ffarwbl a'r hen flwyddyn yw, faint o les alles i ei wneyd yn y flwyddyn sydd wedi ymada.ei. Nid y penat peth yw faint enilles i, eithr faint enillwyd trwof i. Fel ar dertyn blwyddyn felly ar derfyn oes, yr hyn ddyru gysur i ddyn wrth edrych yn ol yw y cof am y caredigrwydd ddangosodd a'r dawni wnaetb. Ni roddes yr Athraw Mawr groesaw i'r cwestiwn ofynwyd gan Simon, Both gan hyny fydd i ni. Nid yw cwesti wn fel hwna yn gydweddol a dysgeidiaeth ei ysgol Ef. Yr eedd gan y gwr ieuanc o Tarsus amgenach cwestiwn i'w ofyn, Bbth fyni Di i mi ei wnouthur. Cwestiwn da yw hwna i ddechreu blwyddyil newydd gydag et. Ond ei ofyn daw ateb iddo, ac ond gweithio alian yr ateb yn y bywyd, bydd y diwedd yn well na'r dechreu. Diolchaf i Miss Hannah Morgan, Aelybryn, am gyfrol werthfawr yn rhodd i'r Llyfrgell Rydd. Cyfrol yn cynwys tri llyfr wedi ei cydrwymo a'u dynodi fel Amrai" yn ol yr hen arter. Y llyfr cyntaf yw Y Pregethwr a'r Gwrandawr," gan y Parch Richard Williams, Liverpool, uu o feibion Llanbrynmair a duwinyddiaeth yn y gwaed. Hwn yw y trydydd o'r llytr hwn sydd y llyfrgell a chroesaw iddo, gan y daw galw am dano ryw ddydd pan ddelo y dusbarth Feiblaidd i fwy o nerth ac i ofyn am lyfr da rydd dduwinyddiaeth iachus mewn ffurf syml. Dyma y llyfr i ddyn ieuaac i'w ddarllen i gael syniad clir ar yr athrawiaoth agredir genym felcyfundebcrefyddol. Cofus genyf i mi ddarllen llawer arno gyda bias ac er budd pan oeddwn yn llanc. Yr ail lyfr ydyw Cofiant Daniel Rowlands, Llangeitho," gan John Owen, Thrussington. Nid oedd hwn yn y Llyfrgell, ac y mae yn dda genyf ei gaol erbyn y dydd y bydd holi am banes y gwr y mae Cymru mor ddyledua iddo. Yroedd y cofiant gan John Owen genym yn Saesneg. Hefyd yr hanes am Rowlands yn Methodistiaeth Cymru, a'r Tadau Methodistaidd. Ychwanegir hefyd y dwthwn hwn, "Christian Leaders of the Last Century," gan yr Esgob Ryle, yn mha un y ceir byr hanes rhagorol am Rowlands. Fel rhwng yr oil y gallwn yn hyderus wahodd yr ymchwiliwri hanes bywyd y diwygiwr o Langeitho i ymorol llyfr. Ni feddem o'r blaen y trydydd llyfr yn y gyfrol, sef, Cofiant Ann Griffiths, Dolwar Fechan," gan John Hughes, Pontrobert. Yr oedd genym y cofiant gan Edward Griffiths, a'r un gan Elfed, ac yr wyf yn falch o gael cyflawni y triawd trwy gael yr hynaf ohonynt gwaitb. y gwr adwaenai Ann Griffiths oreu. Dymunol a phriodol iawn fyddai i'r cymdeithasau gael noswaith gyda'r emyneddes o Dolwar Fechan. Gallai chwaer ieuane roddi hanes yr oes fer, acun arall ddyweud am yr emynati, eu tlysni, eu duwinyddiaeth a'u duwiolfrydedd. Gellid canu rhai o'r emynau a dilys genyf y ceid cyfarfod a'r dysgu ynddo yn troi yn addoli. Wele y defnyddiau at eich gwas- anaeth yn rhif 6,563, 6,670, a 6,752. Bore Sadwrn ynte Llun, yr oedd yn debycach i Lun ond Sadwrn ar ol Nadolig ydoedd, gellid canfod pump o genhadon hedd ynghyd yn y tren o Lanfair, dau bob un o'r ddau fath o Fethodist- iaid, ac un Annibynwr. Wedi bod yr oeddynt yn gwneyd Sabboth o Ddydd Nadolig mewn tri neu bed war 0 gapeli hwnt i Lanfair yn ol hen arfer dda y Cymry. Deallaf fod cynulliadau da o bobl iddynt oil, a llawer wedi dod filldiroedd o ffordd i wrando yr Efeugyl. Am rai o'r prif bregethwyr yr oedd yr ymddiddan, rhai ar y maes heddyw ac eraill wedi gorphwys. Bu son am Gwilym Hiraethog, Owen Thomas, Kilsby, Cynfaen, Herber Evans, Evans Eglwysbach, Dr John Thomas, ae eraill. Yn fwyaf arbeDig cydmaru pob un yr oeddid ag ef ei nun fel pregethwr ac fel darlithydd. Dyddorol ddigon oedd yr ymgom nes gorfod ymwabanu yn y Trallwm. Gwrthodedd hen wraig dlawd yn Exeter hawlio blwydd-dal am fod cynifer yn gofyn am un ac na fydd gan y Brenhin ddigon o arian i dalu i bawb. Chwareu teg iddi! Edmygaf ei byspryd-yspryd brenhines. Gcbeithiaf hefyd fod rhywun wedi ei goleuo mai o logell ddyfnach na llogell y Brenhin y daw yr arian,—o bWfR gwlad o bobl sydd yn llawenhau mwy wrth feddwl am dalu blwydd-daliadau yn awr nac y buont erioed o'r blaen tra yn talu miloedd i rai nad oedd nemawr anghen arnynt. Cefais lygedyn goleu disglaer wrth glywed gwr yn erchi deg ar hugain o gadachau bychain i'w rboddi i r plant yn ei ddosbarth Sul gyda dechreu blwyddyn. Mewn dychymyg gwelwn lawenydd y rhai bychain ar balchder o gael cadach newydd. Ryfeddwn i ddim na bydd rhai ohonynt ar gael a chadw wedi i'r rhoddwr hynaws fyned i dderbyn diolch y Gwr sydd yn cadw oyfrif o'r hyn wneir i'r lleiaf o'r rhai bychain byn ac yn rhoddi i lawr weithredoedd fel hyn yn y Llyfr Mawr dan y penawd, I Mi y gwnaethoch. Siriolodd clywed yr archeb yspryd un nad oedd i dderbyn yr un gyfran o'r rhodd. Gymaint sydd yn cael ei wneuthur yn y byd mewn canlyniad i'r hyn elw Dickens yn yspryd Christmas ond mwy priodol yw ei enwi yn yspryd Crist. Byd gwyn fydd yr hen fyd yma pan ei llanwer ag yspryd Crist. Yn ystod y flwyddyn gwmaed 70 0 ddeddfau newyddion, a 50 ohonynt wedi eu dwyn ymlaen gan y Llywodraeth. O'r rhai hyn gellir enwi saith fel rhai o gryn bwysigrwydd: Deddf y Blwydd-dal i'r hen, Deddf y Prifysgolion Gwyddelig, Deddf y Glofeydd (wyth awr), Deddf Porthladd Llundain, Deddf y Plant, Deddf i atal troseddau, a Deddf Addysg yn Ysgotland. Gellir cyfrif fod Senedd 1908 wedi gwneyd gwaith gwerthfawr i'r deyrnas yn yr hyn a baeiwyd. Yn ychwanegol Ilafuriwyd yn ddygn ar fesurau eraill na lwyddwyd i'w dwyn yn ddeddfau, rbai o ddiffyg amser ac eraill oherwydd gwrthwynebiad y Ceidwadwyr a'r Arglwyddi. Ail-gynygir rhai o'r mesurau hyn yn y Senedd dymor nesaf a cheisir cael rhyw lwybr i reoli y fasnach feddwol, ac hefyd i benderfynu y dadleuon gyda golwg ar addysg. Gall pob Rhyddfrydwr fod yn dawel fod y Llywodraeth wedi gwneyd y goreu ellid i ddwyn ymlaen lywodraetbiad y wlad yn y modd goreu. Gall hefyd fod yn ddiolchgar ei fod wedi helpu i roddi y Weinyddiaeth bresenol mewn awdnrdod. Gwnaed eto ei oreu yn ei fan i ddal i fyny freichiau y rhai sydd yn gwasan&ethu y deyrnas mor ragorol. Dal i grio am y lleuad mae rhai o arweinwyr Cymru. Cytuna pawb na cheir Dadgysylltiad yr Eglwys yn Nghymru y flwyddyn hon. Gellir trwy ddirfawr drafferth gael mesur trwy Dy y Cyffredin, ond fe wna yr Arglwyddi ei fwrw allan yn ddiymdroi. Yr oedd gobaith cryf y gollyngent y mesur trwyddedol trwodd, ond nid wyf yn digwydd gwybod am un yn gobeithio y cytunent a mesur y Dadgysylltiad. I beth yntau, y gwastraffir amser arno? Byddai yn fil gwell roddi yr amser yn y tymhorau dilynol i fesurau y gellir eu pasio a chael cymaint ag sydd bosibl o welliantau mewn deddfwriaeth. Gallai y Llywedraeth felly ddod allan i'r wlad pan ddaw yr amser i hyny gyda baich o ysgubau-cyfoethog wedi eu cynhauafu. Gwell o lawer hyny na dangos rhyw gnwd o geisiadau wedi methu. Y llwybr anrhydeddus i Gymru yn awr yw rhyddhau y llywodraeth o bob addewid iddi hi a gadael i'r Prif Weinidog a'i gydgyngorwyr wneyd a welont oren er Ilea y deyrnas. Dyma dystiolaeth y Parch Hugh Price Hughes am farddoniaeth Browning, Nis gwn am ddim mewn llenyddiaeth ddiweddar sydd yn cyflwyno i'n sylw mor fyw ac mor brydferth gymeriad lesu Grist fel y ceisir ei bregethu gan fy mrodyr a minnau." GWYWWB.

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which equals three dollars per week, a bare room, with an old bed, one chair, perhaps a bureau, and no heat. He washes down in the kitchen. His breakfast consists of boiled or fried potatoes, tough steak, bread, poor butter, and worse coffee. The dinner is the same, except that the kind of meat may vary another vegetable is added and a pie. A rest of fifteen minutes is the rule. Supper is reakfast, with the possible addition of cake and stewed fruit." The employment in many cases is only for the busy periods of the year, and the majority of f.!rm labourers have to get work, if they can, apart from the farm during the winter. THE BEST TIME TO WATER HORSES. A horse should be watered -before feeding, and never given a large quantity of water after a meal, for the simple reason that the water will wash the food out of the stomach before stomach digestion has taken place, and the food will not be well prepared for absorption and besides it is sometimes the cause of colic. There is a popular idea that a warm horse should not be allowed to drink, and, unlike a great many other popular ideas, there is a little truth in it. If you water a warm horse in the ordinary way, letting him drink all that be will, you are likely to have a sick horse on your hands. This is especially so if at the time the horse is fatigued. Nevertheless, it is always sate to allow him from six to ten swallows, no matter how warm he is. If this be given ou going into thQ stable, and he be allowed to stand and eat hay for an hour, and is then offered water, he will not drink nearly so much as he would had none been given before. The danger is not in the first swallow, as we often hear it asserted, but in the excessive • quantities, if not restrained. The most dan- gerous time to give a horse a full draft is when he has cooled down from fatiguing work and has partaken of a meal. long, continuous exertion the system is greatly depleted of fluid. Nature calls for a replacement, and this is the cause of a thirst which is so intense that, if the animal is not re- strained at the time, he may drink much more than he needs. The general custom, almost universally followed, of giving the morning meal before water, is not very objectionable, either theor- etically or practically. At this time there is no depletion of fluid, conseq uell tly the horse is not very thirsty and does not drink rapidly or excessively, and apparently very little evil results from this method. THE STOCK YEAR. Sheep have been disappointing all through the year, probably owing to the tact that the number in the country has increased of late, while the demand for home-fed mutton has not. Many tegs bought in March were sold in August and September at th same or less money, as the outlook for keep was not promis- ing just then, and the fleece did not add. much to the credit side. Butchers seek for handy weights of from 8st. to 9»t., and many farmers have found the Cheviot or Clun breeds or crosses more profitable this year than the breeds usually found on Midland farms. At the Christmas markets heavy wether sheep have realised very low prices therefore flock- masters are certain to pay more attention to tegs or small sheep. Of coarse, the slump was felt by the sellers of pedigree breeding sheep, and the averages at the sales during August and September were down considerably from last year. There is no doubt that the breeding flocks are above the average in number owing to the exceedingly low price obtainable for meaty ewes, so that a heavy crop of lambs may be expected should the winter continue favour- able for in-lamb ewes. Pigs have not been the financial help during the year that they might have been and usually are. Thousands of pigs have been sold from the teat at from 5s to 8s each, and when it is remembered that they often make from 16s to £1 the difference is certainly a wide one. From 8s to 9s per score has been the ruling price for prime pork, while sows and rough descriptions have sold much below those figures. The result is that many pig-breeders have reduced their stocks, which will bring a reaction before very long.

economy undoubtedly also calls for serious attention, but however important these may be deemed, they should never be allowed to prevail at the expense of efficiency. To keep the horses poorly, in order to effect a saving, is false economy, as that only results in impair- ing their powers of work. An efficient working condition of the teams is mainly dependent upon their being given an adequate supply of corn, which is the chief source of muscular power and energy. The quantity of corn which it is desirable to provide depends upon circumstances. The daily allowance should be proportionate to the amount and severity of the work which the hordes are called upon to perform. On heavy classes of soil, where their powers are very severely taxed, the teams naturally require more corn than is the case on farms where the land is of a lighter nature. Again, in billy parts-even although the soil may be light and need only shallow cultivation —the tillage work proves pretty exacting for the team horses, and a comparatively liberal allowance of corn is required. Further, another point which bears on this question is the size and type of the farm-horses. Very big and heavy art horses, having such a large carcase to sustain, naturally stand in need of more corn than a lighter and I smaller stamp ol horse. In view of these varying conditions, it would manifestly be futile to attempt to lay I down any hard and fast rule as to what quantity constitutes the proper corn-allowance for a tp.:1.m horqp- THE ONLY SOUND RULE to follow is that the ration should be large enough to keepthe horses in good bodily con# dition, with plenty of firm flesh on their ribs. Oats are admittedly the best kind of horse- corn, but the usefulness of maize is fully recognised in modern farm practice, and the plan of feeding the teams on this imported cereal has been extensively adopted by farmers. The attraction in maize which led to its coming into vogue as a substitute for oats was, of course, its comparative cheapness. At the present time, it is true, the price is unusually high, and in these circumstances but little, if any, saving can be effected by using it and selling the home-grown oats off the farm. When it is at its normal price, maize, however, makes a decidedly cheaper feed than oats of average quality, for which a fair price can be obtained in the market. As things starfd at preseut it must largely depend upon what the oats will make if sold whether or not there is anything to be gained by making use of maize as horse corn. Concerning beans, which on some farms form an adjunct of the corn ration, it may be said that they prove of any real advantage only when the work which the teams are called upon to undergo is of a very exacting nature. Then beans help greatly in maintaining their strength, and are indisput- ably of much service in keeping up the con- dition. In these circumstances it may be reckoned that the addition of a given quantity of beans to the corn allowance will go twice as far as a similar extra amount of oats, or even further; that is to say, beans then prove doubly as effective. But under average con- ditions, when the team horses are not worked beyond normal limits, there is no need whatso- ever to provide any beans. In any case, one must use much discretion in feeding them, as too liberal a use of this food-stuff is very often the cause of attacks of colic, of weed, and of a humoury state of the blood, owing to the heavy, rich, highly nitrogenous and heating character of beans.