Note.—All sales of hogs are made subject to a shrinkage of 40 lbs for piggy sows and 80 lbs for stags. Dead hogs sell for 1½c per lb for weights of 200 and over and [Transcriber’s Note: blank in the original] for weights of less than 100 lbs.
SHEEP.—The supply was good, yesterday, and also on Sunday, there being 7,500 head, against 3,400 for the same days a week ago. The average grade was poor. Sales ranged from $3 05 to $6 for common to prime. Common lots suffered a decline.
The 1st claim of the Chicago Creamery and Rectangular Can is, that the can has from 250 to 332 more of cooling surface than any round can in use.
2d. It will cool milk to temperature of water surrounding it in ONE HOUR.
3d. It will raise ALL THE CREAM in ten hours with the water 50 to 55 degrees; no round can can do this in ten hours with ice.
4th. No round or square can containing 4½ gallons of milk, or over, will give as much cream from 100 pounds of milk as this Rectangular.
With the use of ice all the cream is raised in from one to two hours.
WE WARRANT all this, and will test the same before any chemist in Chicago, paying all expenses of the test, if any competing Creamery can show as good results.
Are reasonable. We solicit the attention of all butter-makers, confident that we can aid them in getting more profit from their cows than they are now doing.
SPERBECK & STOUT, _21 W. RANDOLPH ST., CHICAGO._
To aid animals in giving birth. Send for free circular to WM. DULIN, Avoca, Pottawattamie Co., Ia.
Ask your storekeeper for Corticelli Silk.
Do you want to change your run-out seed-wheat for something fresh and vigorous? Then try the
An improved variety of the old Scotch Fife, a spring wheat grown from seed brought down from the Saskatchawan Valley in Manitoba. It is enormously productive. Everywhere it has been exhibited it has taken the highest premium for excellence as a pure, hard milling wheat. The Hon. C. A. Pillsbury, at the head of the great Pillsbury Flouring Mills, Minneapolis, says of it:
“I consider it the best and purest Fife Wheat to-day in the Northwest. No such milling wheat has been received at our mills since we have been in the milling business.”
Originators and Proprietors, for their 16-page pamphlet, giving its history and prices.