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Show LAYS OF THE LAST RECIPROCITY. These are days when we can imagine that the hena on both aides of the boundary line between the United States and the dominion may be holding hold-ing eonventiona and disraaaing the terma of the reciprocity re-ciprocity treaty whteh the two governments hsve agreed -npon nd --hlchTioswaUr ratification. The Times of New Tork says the trade bargain proposed pro-posed would remove a 3 cent duty on a million doxen egga a year, which we now aend to Canada and in exchange it would take off a 5-eent duty from the leas thsn 40,000 doxen which come this way from Canada. , Now ws can imagine tha Canadian hens putting up the plsusibld argument that the present ratea are only fair, explaining how much longer the winters win-ters sre on their side; how much more food is ne-ceaaary; ne-ceaaary; how much more exposure baa to be borne on their aide and how much more the hardahlp of raining a family beyond tha lakes. With occasional hints of the superior pure English stock of the pullets pul-lets beyond the Ifne over the nondescript on this side, while the timid ones will see in this arrangement arrange-ment an insidioua first atep toward an intended annexation. On thia aide the argument will bs that the poor devils on the other aide must be fed and thst common com-mon humsnity must prompt the toilers to make sacrificee. The Timea givea aome egg statistic. "In January 1911 egga in Vermont (wholesale) were 27 centa a doxen i in Montreal, 33 cents ; in Buffalo, 36 cents; in Toronto, 40 cents; in Maine from 26 to 30 cent,' while across the line in Nets) Brunswick, 38 cents. - The Times says thst Canada ia now import-is import-is ga eggs from Manchuria and China. Our Red Cross is sending bread and paying the freight to the starving in China,. China ia sending send-ing egga aa mechandiae to British Columbia. |