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foxes were 70 per cent disposed of with an average of '18 kroner. Blue foxes were 20 per cent sold with an average of '18 kroner. The sil- vers would average about 312 in Canadian money and tho' blues slightly less.

Hudson's Bay Company, Mont- real, opened a. special sale last Wednesday which I: o n tin u e d Thursday. We have no report but among the offerings was 6,000 white fox which included good strings of eastern and western Arctics, 6.000 wild mink. 22,000 mutation mink, which is described as a very fine new season's collec- tion featuring mutations from members of Canada. Mink Breed- ers and comprising 10,000 silver- bius, 12,000 pastels and 500 miscel- laneous mutations. On Thursday with the sale commencing at 10.00 a.m., 50,000 ranch mink, standards and half bloods, a. representative offering of fresh western and east- ern Canadian types from members of the Canada Mini. Breeders were to be on sale.

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the 32,000 ranch mink 00 per cent- were sold. Sapphire appeared for the first time on the local market and attracted bids of from 345 to 361.60 for males. some females brought 331. Breath of Spring average males and females brought from sm to 036. One bundle of males brought s-10.50. Silverblus averaged from 316 to 323 for mix- rd males and females. White mink averaged 328 to s3'l.50 for males and females. In standard mink ordinary quality males brought s14.75 to 517.50, better quality males sill to 527. Ordinary fe- males 59 to sl0.50, better quality females 311 to sl-125. There are now about 2,000 fur farms in Finland, it is reported and they had an output in 1951 of 15,000 silver fox, 500 platinum fox, 10,000 blue fox, 65,000 stand- ard mink and 3,000 other mink. Finnish exports were valued at about a million dollars. The prin- cipal customers were the United States, United Kingdom, Switzer- land, France, Italy and Sweden.

The. Persian lamb lands in South West Africa were threatened last year by a plague of rats that turned large areas of veidt into a desert. For months it looked as if the rats would win. They criss- crossed the veidt with vast war- rens or breeding pia.ces:Tliey de- voured the grass. Eventually bat- taiions of men waged battle against them and they did not win. Poisons were ineffective. Then suddenly the rats died by the thousands from a rat disease. Nat- ural vegetation has now reappear- ed in the rat-made desert.

Northwood Fur Farms, owned by Otto H. Grosse, Carey, Ili., well known to Maritime men, who buy breeding stock from him, offered Tuesday last 6,000 Northwood dark mist mink at Lampson, Fraser as I-iuth's auction in New York. The ad states:-”These mink are black as velvet, silky soft with a very deep blue under-iur....tne most glamorous collection of dark mink ever offered anywhere."

Our readers will remember that in our notes some months ago we had an item stating that the long- shoremcn in New York refused to unload Russian furs. In a probe that has been going on to find out about racketeers in the New York waterfront, evidence has been given that 570,000 was paid out to the right parties and that the furs were unloaded.

At the International Fur Animal Show held in Salt Lake City a week ago, W. S. Cox of Murray. Utah, was the Blue Ribbon win- ner taking the most show points He won first prize for a sapphire mink in the male and female me- dium shade and female light shade classifications. l-lis females were judged the best Stewart sapphires in both light and medium classes and the new blue Iris breed not yet marketed brought two more ribbons to the Cox family.

The November issue of the Black Box Magazine and Modern Mink Breeder, published in New York. is an extremely beautiful publication. It is devoted'to the Mutation Mink Breeders Association of America. On the cover is a handsome blond wearing an EMBA Royal Pastel mutation mink jacket designed by Jandei, Washington. The story of the Mutation Mink Breeders Asso- ciation is the feature article. These are a few extracts:-Twenty years ago the fur trade was re- ceiving a few thousand dark ranch mink. Ten years ago the quantity was up to around 400,000 pelts annually with considerable quality improvement. In the last decade a new segment in the fur trade has been born and today the mink ranches of the United States and Canada are producing well over 3,000,000 pelts annually. It was the sponsorship of the Mutation Mink Breeders Association that brought mutation mink into prom- inence and the men responsible for it include Herman Boch, Larry Moore, Harold Reed, Harold Landon and H. W. Woodall.

To bring the new mutations be- fore the public breeders sacrificed animals that were readily saleable from 3200 to s600 each to have first garment made up. The match- ing of the pelts presented an un- usual problem. It was met by kill- ing an animal of a medium shade then going from ranch to ranch with the pelted animal and select- ing the pelts to be taken from the live animals available. Fromm Bros. handled the promotion of

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wheat and about 135 million bush- els of cats and barley that had lain out in their fields during the winter, because of very unfavour- able fall harvesting conditions. Spring conditions were so favour- able, however, that much of this grain graded higher and ' was worth more per bushel than that which they had succeeded in bar- vesting the previous autumn.

For two successive years the harvesting and planting of cereal crops on many areas of the prair- ies were carried on simultaneously. Farm mechanization made this possible, and. the exceptional wea- ther conditions that prevailed al- lowed for the almost continuous operation of farm implements ano mammoth combines. By the mid- die of May, the spring harvesting of crops was nearing completion in the southern areas of all thiQe Prairie Provinces, and wheat seed- ing was also practically over in these areas by that time, and at the end of the month, seeding was generally completed pin the West.

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During 1952, almost ideal weath- er conditions prevailed throughout the great cereal growing areas of the west, for the seeding, growing and harvesting of Canada's record wheat crop, estimated at 688 mil- lion bushels, which exceeds the previous record. crop of 1928 by 121 million bushels. There were also record crops of both barley and soy beans, and above normal yields of most of their other crops, mak- mg 1952 one of the best growing seasons for farm crops in western Canada.

The West has also had a fav- ourable season for marketing their cereals. Before the close of navi- gation, they had exported wheat and its products (in terms of wheat) and coarse grains over 500 million bushels, which was about 100 million bushels more than the former record year of 1928-29. Sup- plies of wheat and feeds, how- ever, in 1952-53, because of a. carry-over of 213 million bushels, will amount to about 900 million bushels, a record that has only been surpassed in 1942-43. What are the marketing prospects for this enormous quantity of wheat and feeds?

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It was estimated that trade in wheat last year reached over one billion bushels, an all time high. This year's crops have been good in many of the non- exportlng areas, Western Europe in particular had crops much above average. India and Pakistan had yields, however, much below aver- age. The ifour major exporting nations: Canada. Australia, United States and Arghitina. have about 600 million bushels more than they had last year, and most of this surplus will have to be marketed outside the International Wheat Agreement, as Canada's commit- ment was within five million bu- shels of being nlled in the final year of the agreement. - Two conditions have developed that are very favourable to mark- eting Canada's wheat crop: First. the superior quality of the 1952 crop has resulted in a. very active early world demand for our wheat; second, a very severe drought in the United States winter wheat growing areas has greatly reduced their estimated yield. The Wheat Board confirms reports that future

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the sale of the garment. The coal was auctioned off at the New Year's eve party of the American Theatre Wing. The buyer was Brock Pemberton, who paid :18,- 000. The purpose of the promotion was accomplished, that was to get the fur trade to thinking in terms of fabulous prices for a new type of fur.

Throughout the issue of the Black Fox Magazine are photo- graphs of magnificent garments made from mink pelts of the Mutation Mink Breeders Associa- tion, such as Royal Pastel, EMBA Aleutian, EMBA silverblu, White Mutation, etc. Mutations Of The Future is a feature article full of scientific information on the way

West and to have it where it is available for immediate exiport. The wheat Board have been re- fusing business by way of Van- couver since early in October, as that port is ltbooked solid" until July 31st, 1953. Final shipping re- turns from the National Harbour Board elevator at Churchill set the 1952 ocean cargo total at 8,- 585,121 bushels. This is an all- time record for this port, and ex- ceeds, by approximately 1.3 mil- lions the previous high set last

year. It is transportation that is now limiting sales of Canadian wheat.

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Ontario, extending as it does, from a point farthest south in Canada to Hudson Bay, and from the Lake of Two Mountains on the Ottawa River to the Lake of the Woods, includes many climatic zones. Its growing season, how- ever, was early in southern and eastern Ontario, and most of its farm crops reached or exceeded average yields. Southwestern On- tario had a drought period in the early autumn, which reduced late crop yields, but in the north, there were many record yields per acre of potatoes. We do not have this year's returns from Lambton County, but last year it produced a three and a half million dollar crop of husked corn, and eight iniliion dollars worth of honey.

Quebec had a. backward spring seeding season, and grain crops showed a marked decrease ii.

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yield; the average yield of wheat. was down two bushels and that of cats was down 1.4 bushels Irom, the previous year. may production however, amounted to six millior tons, an increase of 185,000 tons over 1051, and the potato croi gave a yield of 149 cwt. per acre 1 or a total of 22,750,000 bushels i These were the two outstanding Quebec crops in 1952. . . . . .

time Provinces, and there was some early seeding and planting which gave excellent returns. This was followed by a period of raim weather that greatly delayed the general seeding of crops. There had been very little winter killing : and clover and hay generally gave' yields above average and of ex-1 cellent quality. Early pasture con- ditions in Prince Edward. Island were never better, and reports from other sections showed conditions above average. Farm crops gener- ally gave better than average yields. Potatoes, however, in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Is- land gave record yields. There was quite a reduction in the potato

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