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Inst Illlfll’! was unused st some They would fomgather at night and ar- range for a. campaign next mom-

‘ $1118. thfl object being to have roast

duck foi- dinner. Alas, how often "the highest hopes we cherish here N‘? doomed to failure! The ardent duck-hunters never had snythinl to show for their trouble. The game was not worth the candle, as the Saying goes. This winter they wise- ly stayed at home.

The scarcity of wild fowl over the northern part of this continent ‘is due to three causes: the drought for the last three years. which has seriously reduced the feeding and nesting grounds. especially in the centre and West; the failure of wild fowl Iced such as eelgrass and the seven million hunters in the country

'to the South. These last do riot always "play the game"; great num- bers of them belong to clubs who own or rent private ponds where 00m and other grain is fed to the wild fowl till they become used to the presence of man, and are then shot in great numbers. There has been a strong agitation against this unsportsmanlike “baiting" oi‘ wild fowl, and action is likely to follow.

Here is the official report of the

‘State or Washington for 1933', the last availhble statistics for one State only:

“No. of clubs licensed 24:7; No. of clubs reporting 202: N0. of mem- bers 131B; bushels of grain fed 2i.- 434: cost. of grain $12,234; No. of keepers employed 137; amount of wages paid keepers $18,431.60.

“Ducks killed: ltfallards 27.604; Blue Wing Teal 2223; Green Wing Teal 12.782; Cinnamon Teal 263; Plntail 13.280: Spoonbills or shov- ellers 9'13; scaup 3.512; Redheads 2'14; Golcieneye 155: Canvasback 623; Sccters 33: Miscellaneous spec- ies 1.183; making a total of 72.023 ducks to which must be added 35B geese. The total annual bag for all the States must be tremendous.

in that if my tail endures and if the stones are able to hold fast B-Iflinst me in my strength. Ask whet is my name." This is a round- about descriptlon of an “Anchor?

The longer riddles often show chfllnilll fancy. vivid descriptions of nature, sympathy for animals, and Bbovo Ill. intimate pictures of English rural life before the Nor-

man Conquest. We come to the fourth (and last) collection of Anglo-Sump

MSS. known as the "Vei-celli Book." It is now preserved in the cathedral library at, Vercelli, in the Province of Piedmont, North.‘ ern Italy. It may hs been left there by Anglo-Saxon pilgrims on their Way to Home, but another theory is that the book was taken from England by, Cardinal Guale. W110 W“ Ifisate in limzland from 1216 to i218. He was the founder of the Church of at. Andi-cw at Vercelli and this in some sort sup- ports the theory. for the M.S.S. contains s, lengthy poem on "And. peas" (Andrew) Like the Elxeter Book. it also contains "The Addmso of tile Soul to the Body." but the "Dream of the Rood." “Elene.” and "The Fates of the Apostles" are only to be found in this collection. “Elcne" is a dramatic account of the discovery o.‘ the Cross by St. Helena, two hundred and thirty- three years after it was buried fol- lowing the Crucifixion.

“The Dream of the Rood" (Cross) is the most beautiful of all the old English religious poems. “The rad- iant vision, the simple devout won-

der of the dreamer, the pathos of the Crucifixion, as told by the Cross are unmarred by the set lifeless phrases" so common in religious poetry of that period. In connec- tion with this poem the following incident is very interesting. Before the discovery of the Vercelli Book some lines were found and deciph- cred on an old stone cross at Dum- fries in Scotland. These lines were at once attributed to Cacdmon, as the fashion was‘. but eventually

Notice that one-fifth of the Clubs. made no returns. -

Already it is said, the following]; birds are in danger of extcrmine-l tion: Snow Goose. Canvasbacinl Redhead, Ririgneck. Greater andl us“; geaupg, Bluewing. Gieeriwing and Cinnamon Teals, Scoter and. Black Duck. '

The following birds. once precept in great numbers, have totally dis- appeared from our fauna: Heath Hen, mbrador Duck, Passenllel‘ Pigeon, Carolina Parakeet, Pallas Cormorant and Great Auk.

In the meantime the slaughter gom merrily on: just another, in- stance of the short-sighted selfish- ness that is mining the world to-

day. ANGLO-SAXON POETRY (a)

In taking leave of the "meter Book" I forgot to mention that there are about one hundred rid- dies. supposed to date from the 91Gb“! WHY-lily. among the use. They were pooelbly composed by wandering minstrels who sang them. ‘to the music of the harp, for the entertainment and mystification of the audience in the banquet hall. Here are two of the shorter ones:

"The sea fed me, the water-cov- ering enveloped me, and the waves covered me, footless, close to earth. Often I open my mouth to the flood; now some man will eat my flesh: he cares not for my cover- ing. when with the point of a knife he tears off the skin from my side! and afterwards quidrly eats me uncooked also." . . . The anwser t0 this is "An 095W?!"

"Often I must war against the fvnve and fight against the wind; I contend against them combined. when. buried by the billows. I IO to seek the earth; my native land ‘is strange to me. If I KWW mimim‘ hes I am mighty in the conflictl if I succeed not in that (acTlonl they are stronger than I. an straightway with fending they Pl"

d King's death;

they were found Lo be from “The Dream of the Rood." and. the Caedmon theory was at once dis- credited. The author of this poem may be a writer called Cynew lf about whom nothing is known ex- cept, that his name appears in other poems very similar in style to this. "The Dream" is toc long w quote more than the first pm- graph. . "Lo! I will declare the best 0! dreams which I dreamt in the mid- dle of the night, when hum!!! creatures lay at. rest. It seemed to me that I saw a. wondrous tree rising aloft. encompassed with light, the brightest of crosses. All that; sign was overlaid with gold: fair jewels were set at the surface 0g the earth; there were also five upon the cross-beam. All the anflelfi of God. feli- by creation. looked on there; verily that was no male- factorb cross. but holy spirits girl!!! On Him there. men upon earth and all this glorious universe." . “Yet I. lying there e. 1on8 space, beheld in sorrow the Saviours cross, till I heard it speak. Then the most excellent tree began to utter words: "Long 0B0 W85 ‘if-I still remember lt-that I was cut down at the edge of the forest, moved from my trunk. Strong foes took me there, fashioned me to be a spectacle for them. bade me raise up their felons. Men bore me on their shoulders there. till they wt me on a. hill; many foes‘ mlide me fast there. I saw then the 10rd 01 mankind hasten with BN6! m!‘ that He might be raised n90“ m"- Thqn 1 dursf. notthere bowor break against the Lord's behest. who“ I saw the surface of the earth shake‘. I could have felled all the foes. yet Istood firm" . . . The poem takes us throulh l“ the scene of the Crucifixion till "darkness with its clouds had cov- cred the lord's corpse: I shad“ went forth, dark beneath the clouds. All creation wept, lamented the Christ was on the And it, cbficludea.

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with this brief sketch I bring the review of the Anflg.gg;gn manuscriptrtc a close. merely in. - dlclflnl the very unfevorsbls m“. ium in which our ancient poets ex.

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Which is translated "Befoie- the inevitable journey (“nggdqu-mgu) No-one becomes more thought. Drudent than he has need." The Bullish language has travelled far since Blade's day.

VALUE 0F WIND-BREAKS iii .

("*9 "1 the epoeclies in the m:- mfl“ Plflliflwnt. which did not lot all the attention it dun-rm; contained a plea for "s, gyglgm 5! "may 1n the wand m order w sllvlfly trees to farmers." "At pm. Bhll. says the summgyy 1n The Maritime Farmer, "it is rather dif- ficllll- l0 Iet ellltlllle trecss for wind- breaks and other purposes at l. recs. cnably cheap rate."

Now, we werereoently told that, we are a conservative pwnle and do not adept any course till it has been tried out in other plgggg; mg I have been wondering ever 51mg whether I em to take that as a compliment or not. (sometime; it seems to me that it is a very prac- tical way of looking at things, and then again 1 recall the policeman_. who. I feel sure. was a native of Erin-who barked “Move on there! If everybody stood about like that, how would the rest get pastl") and so, being "conservative," I see little 31°90 in the immediate future for a YOIBl-ry service for the Island.

Yet the speaker touched upon a most important. nay, most sqflqug, subject for the farmer. Wind is necessary to preserve the proper balance of the gases in the air, and for several other purposes. But, like fine, it is a bad master, and in some ways requires controlling. The raw winds of our Springtime carry off the surface heat of the human body faster than the infernal mech- lllfily QB-ll- supply it, and aches, Pains. and lnflammatlons result. Something of the same sort hgp. pens to plant life. Piece a house- plat outside in an exposed p051. tion and notice what happens. The wind carries off the water from the leaves faster than the rpots can supply it, and the edgu wilt and blacken. If there is sun the drying out is ‘speedier. The wind. aided by the sun. dries out both the land and the grass and our hay (and other crops) are all the acantier for the want of windbreaks. ‘

As I look out while writing this, I see the snow covered with a de- a posit of 6011 from my neighbor's field to the North-west: he has no windbieak.

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shelter-belt. Every Spring I dug and planted spruce among m: stumps (a. tough job) and now the “Alps? instead of being in the barnyard. are clustered round the wlndbreak.

Once I took l/short cut to visit a friend who lived about a mile and a half away. It was early Bum- mer. Passlng up a. long narrow field I noticed that the western half of the field had of young clover while the eastern

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had trapped the snow the young clover. The clover on the Eastern half. exposed to frost, wind and sun. had died out.

Yes. windbreaks are anecessity on this Island. and the above will

help us to recline their importance.

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Paris lut laturdey to Indy Sylvia Ashley. The bride won I rose mauve coat with l. very beautiful silver fox collar, a black satin hut with mesh veiling and a pair cf enormous rose-pink orchids were pinned to her coat. ' ~

days ago advertised a special sale of silver foxes. These are ad ex- tracts: "Morgan's silver foxes. Do not wait. for spring to lee them. It will brighten the Imyeut and dull- est day just to two looking over nificent spring collection. We have never been so thrilled and proud ofthennllveryakinilewileto be treesurod. Most of them are from Prince Edward Island."

marked with two-thirds silver. clear black at neck. full. long with clear tips, $61.50.

70% to 00% silver. large brushes with clear white tips, 881.50.

nificent in quality and appearance. 80% to 95% clear silver. Every skin perfection, ed pairs in each price range. into capes $10 extra.

were imposed by Magistrate Kers-

Monday, Montreal, who pleaded guilty to i"! having illegal possession of beaver and i0 muskrat pelts attempting to export Brunswick skins or furs on which royalties hlfl not

the seizure the largest on record in New Brunswick, the contents the boxes seized, including 101 red fox, 34 silver black fox, 22

two otter, twq raccoon, 1'! mink. 10 muskrat and six beaver skins. The

$4,000 and.‘ $5.000 were ordered con- fiscated to the Provincial Depart- ment of Lends and Mines.

had paid royalties levied on raw

part of the shipment. It was stated

rat does not begin until April 1st. It is illegal to kill beavers or ship beaver pelts at any time, there be- ing a continuous this animal in

Beavers, however. may be caught and used for l nehing purpooee.

w ference to the conclusions of the a sturdy gm m conference of nutrition expats held and in London last November, was published in this column last Saturday. These, of course, w bungee reference to humans, not foxes. This

How are potatoes fed, raw or: boiled and how much per fox?"

quite Plain Th’ milk was for southern portion of the mule of m‘ ‘ ““"“" 3"“, articul- Zllfitti‘. all: lll=‘~°=‘-‘%"°-»-=~=‘.,. . .. miles in area, and on the lhap loohi g aifldmd m t ‘ox m m on

wo id ulre °' WW" h" “m” m‘ m‘ fr: n33. would not be dileltiblo- Th0 mat?! 0! into the 10f. i! up “w” wm‘ lfoxru-icbenbut ‘m’ u w‘ xminend that if used they do constitute more - of the total feed; that is the feed is 1N

YD ‘ODOR lb lfld British statistician. one %§_° “u”

u. the scum all 1'" W rut fell with benefit.

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Group l-Micdiurn large skins Group a-Speoiinen skins, msg-

$117.50. Several match- Made

Fines and costs totalling $610

on at. Grand Falls, N. 8.. on Bernard Abner

six from New been paid and to

the some container royalties had

those on which to Harry Rabin,

The fines were the heaviest and wildcat,

2 skunk, 68f weasel. one filhet‘,

elts with a. retail value of between

Evidence disclosed that Abner

lso that the open seuon for musk-

clooed season on cw Brunswick.

A correspondent writes with re-

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The writer did not make matters enough. The quart of a nursing mother.

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our ranch we fed skim milk lut summer and Thu re- tluue u.- four ounces daily, mixed in with the meat and cereals. We fed two per cent milk, that, is to any half skim and half whole milk mined. to the pups with 00ml in the illnmlngs until Oc- te .Afiortlutvnmixoditwith the This season

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_ and breed. The climate is, much milder than in Canada. but the systems of feed- in! Dawson says in Canada it is strange not in m so muolrsncw about. Great 10W!‘- est is being taken in the fox in- duetry in GNlt Britain and mlny lime fox ranches have been start- e . »

It is unfortunate that u. European crisis seems to loom up lust about the time thet the silver fox nuc- one girl 16th is the opening date for the March Company leading speculate as in w hence and Germany are ready to throats and any little incident may cause war to burst‘ out at any min- ute_ With opeen capi much to expect purveyors of silver fox to be very enthusiastic about stocking up for the quiremcnta. "

Bombing will be so utilized .ln the coming find considerable difficulty in car-

air-power, which may shift‘ 5mg and forth as it did in the lut war.

The writer was on leave in Inn- don when the biggest zeppelin raid having furs on which royalties had Wis pulled off. 811d tOIBY-llfl‘ Wll-h been paid, in as not been paid. Abner is a buyer from Montreal and the shipment was consigned Montreal, and was seized by the R.C.M.P.

other officers “Canadians Palace Hotel, felt very comfortable with the protectioi several stories of that hostelry. Strange to lay the only ccnsider- m able damage done apart from populace, was the blowing in of the front of Dunn the batters 9g store, a few

ineligible for war service. seemed as though the Powers above were taking vengeance on them for their unpatriotic attitude.

i In conversation with w. Chester S. MoLure yesterday. in an effort in arrive at some idea. as to what would happen in the funmarkets if a wI-r actually did break out. crprovidcd

that. perhaps there might be a dis- position on the part of the dealers to stock up. partly due tc antici- pation of difficulty in securing further supplies through monetary restrictions or perhaps through the belief that furs would be a better investment than a depreciated cur- rcrwy.

During the last war when the armalnent factories got busy and men and women. old and young. were pressed into service for public worle at good wages, money was made and spent freely and furs is'our King's County friend's ‘mxmmwnmgngtgia “gthaetanm” twaum; letter: "Please give us something m.“ n Wm be numb?“ more definite. Are we to under- ‘ ‘

and m“ we can med a in the fall of lill many Prince

“m °‘ mwsi-a mule pelts ‘were bringing

BREEDING mirror:

not meats, than two no‘ at?!‘ Ofhl 1/2, and increase chi "° “l” to 2/8 and reduce red mute to 1/8 by one week before first. vixen is due to whelp.

1/3 Ration; 2/3 Meatl

w» Tfii3~“2l‘l‘"wii'i£'t.%¥§t RATION 1/3; meats 2/8. 0f

A second feed l. day of fish is good, feeding a light feed of 2 or 3 on,

International Fox 8i Animal Footie Ltd.

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l-ie is nicely settled Kirkland Silver Io! bmcen of peels-mo Iilwr

Cumberland, England. consists of 1b pairs of of the foulnldaticn stock

are practically the um. Mr- that after nine years cmadiui metributen: CANADIAN OO-OIBILATIVU

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y or auction. The Bell pany sold one of their London at auction for

are duo in London. Monday mun‘ *-

seles with Hudson's Bay f. We can only at will happen. all set. at each other!

tion sale in Le day, the Soviets offered for sale large collection and approximately silver fox Pelt-e produced on farms. This ably quantity of silvers ever offered for sale trade is very mud‘ learn particulars as color and fur silvers.