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MULLLSLA iii" P. E. l.

(Concluded) The few ramaining moiluscs an:

mostly frcshwater animals, and will,

be loiziid in ponds or s ow-moiing streams . _

g5» IIeIIX hortensis Mull. Ye low “rigty _-Report, i871 This is the wn-mm Garden Snail. .

439) Limnea eludes Say“ ("The apply, fragile shells of Pond snails mqnnaa) are aburdunt on the g;;,_=_<\; borders of every mill pend"-

aiiil Elle) Llmnea humllis S‘y. (Say qitsrwnrds re-named this mollusc umnnphySil humilis and escribed l, thus: “Shell d=x‘r_al, rv"‘e ccpic, min, translucent, vo ution nearly m, terminal one very mnuie Aurrlilro about equal in length to the snire. Cclor pife reddish-white.

- "will viifte Tct>l lergth 59-9.. . cnticths of uzi inch, Atundant ”)

(ll) Limnca (or Llmnophysu) re- m.“ spy (Sayks description l5; shell dvxtral, fragile, very much elongated, narrow, (inner-yellow, tlnctiired with brownish), trans- lucent, volutions six. Spire more than one and a half times the length nf the aperture Lip with a pale margin. and dusky-red or hliickl=h sub-margin Tenth about one and a quarter inches ")

(42) Phvha heterostrocha Say flirts snail, which is very common iii our brook. has been called Physa m-ina, by visitors: however. I have nlivays very doubtful of this Now, irnn sny-‘s description. I knew that ti)» Report is cnrrcct in referring tin wivcies to P. hcierostrupha " “shell suilstral, SUDOVJlZBIii color pale, '.‘6iiOW, chestnut or blackish;

whorls four. the first large, the oth- bud

ers verv small , . . Aperture large, somewhat nvni, three-fourths of the length n’ tlie- shell or rather more

" The var‘et_\~ in the brook is blackish in color Slnktrnl means ‘ficff-hzinded." the whorls running in that direction: contra-sunwise l’. gvrina is an oblonv shell with the aperture about half the total lcnuhi)

The Report alsn mentions Ti-"lura (rstudinalls Miill., and T. alveus Conrad. (Nos 22 and 2i). concern- ing which I can gather no infor- metlon

Bain also enumerates thew gen- era. without indicutlnv their dis- tinctions or affinities: Yoldia, lironaloinx, Rirnoo. Turbinelln, Cohiinbella, Utriculus, odnstomia, Bittiiiiii, Lacuna. Planorbis. Vitrina, Ziia, Succiriea. and Melsmpus,

It is evident that. much remains to bo done among the Mollusca of P i2 island, and the first need is to dispel the hvaziness surmuiid- inc the names; especially those in the preceding paragraph. Scientists

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Pouiinv

We require a very large ‘quantity of chicken and fowl during December and Janu- ary. As some of the trucks will not be on their regular routes we suggest you send your poultry by express. Prompt returns daily at full market value.

THE Royal Packing (to.

J. D. JENKINS

Noriss -

l) AGIJGOLA

of ciiaii in th 59W yeaiiszg an; ‘éiziiliwfiitiii. eiifry Rplleur under synonyms l,“ J11 nature student, while rainbii ‘hkshltre. pick up any weii-mizngg - n Then when win“, b", hi-“W- lei him endeavor to ha“ {hem named at one of our calm? an Museums; n, g I ing easiest of songs.” Haul“ be

‘Plvere was a cnllecglm o; Br,“ ish Shells in the Newcastle Museum All ilriist u"dert"ok to pant sepl an"? Dctui-es of each shell (in two positions) on fine drawing paper ‘Aftier his death the pictures were,

n cr bequest, given to the pump; Library The Librarian had a m9. 1108mm’ show-case (or frame) made to hold a Single picture which was gilfl-ilfid every was]; d“ m“, visits

'° e Library I always stopped i0 100k at "Gibson's Conches" as they were csLed; and tn admire the delicacy of their coloring bScientiflc rames mould invnrl. n! y be followed by the (surname o the authority who first used them The ‘Say" occurring so fro. quently in the list, is that of Thym“ Bay who may justly be C; the father of American can- Q ‘to-ill’. His Description o1 the Shells of North America" appeared 1830 to 1834, in seven part3,

The"? WM a kind of suppiement attached to the 187i Report on P, E I. for the writers say: “In ad. dition to the above we collected the Sefimrchin. (Eurochinus am. bgclniensls) tihe cake urchin,

ac s )- t . He Sh", nu parma , he Brit (Ullhlopholls aculeaia); two [e5 of Acorn-shells, (Balanus porcatus and B. crenltus); ies a number of Polyma and l-‘oraminlfera!’

The Sea-urchin is common on the 5110111. the "dead" shells having drifted in among the seaweed and debris They are of semi-globular form. with s round aperture below; and are marked with radiating lines of tubercles to which when the ani- mal is alive rows of prickly spines are attached To these spines the animal owes in name, for “urchin" mt-‘BIJB hedgehog, a prickly little Enllah animal. The Cake-urchh; is viry similar but the shell is much flatter. re-‘iembling a "bun." m. color of both is a kind of grayish blue. and seldom do we find one with spines in place.

The Brittle Star is evidently s. “star-fish" but not the common kind, which is know-n as Astcrias vulgaris, and is not at all brittle!

“Radial Detection”

Our pump got out. of order dur- 1118 the summer and a well-driller was called in to make repairs, l-le proved ve expect and soon had the pump wor izig; then we had a ong talk about water divining. took s. forked willow rod trimmed it, and taking hold of the prongs —one to each hand -slowly walked across the farmyard, As he neared the pump-house. the twig which had been held in a horizontal posi- tion, began to twist and curve downward, quickly coming baa’: to its former direction. He deduced that the water was running in a narrow stream, not far down. (As a matter of fact the well is only 22 feet deep, and the water lavas never been known to fail). When I tried the “divining-rod," it. wouldn't work!

Now that doesn‘t necessarily mean that water-divining is a delusion, though I have heard and read dis- cussions of the practice that: were as rancorous as those of the old- timers on sectarian issues A‘l that however goes for not-hint? What is wanted is a. test, under the severest conditions that scientific men can think up. and carried out by say. the Royal Institute of Canada, or other responsible body when this is done we shall know whether “dowsing" (as it is caved) in some sixth sense which a. few human be- ings possess, or is merely n. cloak for some simple or shrewd geologi- cal deductions.

There is in lmgland, I believe a. Society of Dowsers, whose mem-

Prop ers meet periodically to report pm- ‘ gran. At one of the meetings a few xfiméqmm years ago, it was reported tluat a We are buying live and dressed chickens and fowl daily’ paying top market VBIUG. We also require Turkeys, Ducks and Geno. Phone or write for prices. Island Gold Storage Ltd.

Ward them to Head Office.

SUMMERSIDE

Marketing 0f Fox Pelts

Our Charlottetown Receiving Station ls, this season, It the Massey-Harris Building, 130 Kent Street, Charlotte- ittWn, under the management of Messrs. Bowness 8i Suth- erland who will be pleased to receive your furs and for-

Canadian National Silver Fox Bret ders’ Association Fur Marketing Department PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

have the habit (seldom jllStlflCdll

Ail dressed up and

201118 is Bertha. glpmor gal of a Brit- ish Ministry cf Agriculture movie. Domiing best bib and tucker she

places

heads for London, complains of short rations, learns about scrap drives.

member had gone to Spain, (then under a long-continued drought), and had found water in many io- ciiiities t0 the great b-rnefit of h purse an pratige.

In Australia, (a continent which

experiences terrible droughts at times). them has lately been pub- lished a bock on "Radial Dewzctinn" n; .~'~ v-w in p-llnd ,-.- The dete tor wdirlii Ire rlltho ad- vocates Ad about. 22 inctus 1-.., t...- sistiiig of twp light shafts 0i bam- boo. wittied down very fine, meet- ing at their points, and set in handles o.‘ stouter bamboo. 1: is not the ebectm- that matters so much, he says, as the power that motivates it; the controlling factor being tJhe body and its nerve sys- tem The dowser must keep his bod “free from the interference of con rai-y radiations from colors and metals when at: wor " Not only water, but various mineral sub- stances (it is claimed) can be lo- cated by the detector, which may also be used to detect. the approach of cyclonic depressions. Reviews of this book are not precisely scepti- cal, but, to put it diplomatically. they find it. difficult tn accept. the author at his own valuation.

OBJECT T0 BIBLE TEACHING

A couple of weeks ago, under Editorial Notes, some instances were given of teachers objecting to teach the Bible in schools One objected because she did not believe the Genesis account of the Crcation: another because the miracles "took place a long time ago fnd we could not know if they were true " Arid so on. The ti'oiib'e with these good peo ie is that they mistake the iiiten of tfhe Scriptures entire- lv. The Bible does not set up as a Textbook of Modwn Science: its aim is to record this experience 0f mankind in his daily relations with his Maker. and to present him with a chart which) will direct him to that inward and spiritual peace so consaiicuouslyi abstiit in iile Wflfid torlnv, 'l'fie Genesis Creation, tn me. appears as the inspiration of a pp-rarv master-rnlnckwhomekeshls subject so simple that even 011!‘ teacher friend may ccmnrchend ,1}. and yet; so lozicai in zts seqoer" that the scientist can find T10 fault with them. And it is doing the objectors o. good turn to re- mind them iimt Sclencc —with a capital itself for so long at conflict with religion, i; at last beginnififl t0 cast away its materialistic weavdris and to "seek those things which) are above."

The absence of 111i? TQiiBiOi-i! in‘ struction in the schools is a. danBBT to democracy. which historically is an off-shoot. of Christianity, to the Christian Churhes of ever? @8310" mination: and to the unity of our national life.

MORE ABOUT NOSTRADAMUS

The Huddensfield Dali? Eiffimin" q,- (Eng) gives some further parti- culars, taken from Nosytrndamllss q-reat hook of prophmes TheCcri- turles." France. he predicted. by 1 iis-qfcct shall be assault/ed on five sides Tunis, A1~eria shall be mov- ed " Great destruction was to be caused and Paris lost. Yet W"! 5° "Hister" (the crochet was a w"- less speller) was eventually to end in an ‘iron cage " Lookili! iifirll/"Pd a few more months, he saw a Ger- man invasion of Switzerland audit;- alv and the end ofthe wit!‘ in 1 - with an ultimate victor)’ for ilw, French by a newly 1'1"" ‘Km!’ at Poit-iers

The Anglo-Israelites, I new. ii! the date of peace as March 4th. 1946.

- TIMELY NOTES ON

CONNECTED WITH Silver Fox Farming

TOPICS

Premier Adelard Godhont told delesates to the Provincial Associa- tion of breeders of fur bearing ani- mals in Quebec City that “after the Wu’ w can only hope to obtain for- eign markets and especially that o!

qllflllily of our products."

Geortze A Callbeck, Summerside, returned last week from s trip which took him from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He met and dis- cussed problems and visited ranch- "! in mflny centres and in all cases he was warmly wclzcmed by mem- bers of the Canadian National Sil- ver Fox Breeders‘ AssociatiOn.

We are indebted to George F. McLeod, Provincial Fox Heldmsn for New Brunswick for the follow- ing particulars re the recent live fox show in our sister province.

Rwbrd Breaking Entries at the Sixth Anniul New Brunswick Fox Show

At this New Brunswick Fox Show. held November 17th to 19th, at the Colpitts Building. Salisbury, an even 450 foxes of all types were tabled before the expert eyes of the judges, J. C Molony o1 the Hudson's Bay Company, Montreal, and T. K

CW9. Rctliesay, N. B Eighty classes wen; provided in order to take care of the many color varia-

ll; Lions of the new types of foxos as

well as standard slivers Classes of all types were well filled with the exception of that for silver foxes under ‘T5 per cent silvered. Not. one entry in this colorphase was re- ceived evidence of the success of fox ranchers in this province in

‘ developing the paler types of foxes

demanded by the market. Com- petition in the paler classes of sil- vers wss particularly keen, how- ever, as was also the case in the section for white marked silvers

Exhibitors were present from all sections of the ptrovinoe and a large gallery of interested spectators fol- lowed closely the work of the judges These gentlemen deserve every commendation for their verY capable performance of a difficult task. it. was the second Ytar in suc- ession that New Briulswiok exhib- tors have been so fortunate as to isfcure their services in this capac- Y- .

Pomiiient among the exhibitors were Fred Colpitts of Calgary and Salisbury, who was exhibiting the products of his Salisbury ranches and scored many wins in both regu- lar classes and championship: Sam Colpitts, never better pleased than when he scored a win over his bro- ther, his four sons —Rus.scl:, Leigh, Lawrence and John, who with Oliver Colpitts and some of the junior members of their families, made up a very strong exhibit

The Sussex district where tlwy

have been good showman i0!‘ Yet!" was well represented with 51mm Friars. Dr, and Mrs. Tenkles, Pal-

mer Murray. Walter Murray and

Ruel Hall, who did well in silvers

and also in new t s. The Y0!!! Fur Farms, Fred ctml. WE! W‘ hand with pearl platinums and pearlatinas, and other exhibitors from this district were Reg. Mur- ray Rupert Little and L C

Young Gordon Strlght and H. S

Taylor represented S/tiemilgile and the latter, exhibiting for the first champion-

time. lcked up thrve ships including the Grand Champ- ionship in pearl piatimlms other

new exhibitors included Joe Fields. Wilfred Hubley, Arthur Steeves, Roy Beckwith and Lee Murphy-

Tho list ohwinners which u- companied the write-up covers fif- teen psges glvlns the Vimm" l“ some B0 classes AmOtiQ 141°" w!" were at the top of the table WQ

.ote:

q Standard] Siitlalsefsgfillglrliylylfli-e. C1865 QIfiEit coltgnaie, mneét Little.

1'1 to

F3551?) frail Sam column

Over 90 er cent Silver Vflfifli Types, Adut Male. Sam Colpittfi. Second George McLeod.

Adult Female. Simon Friars. 56°-

Ool itts. onlguytfemsie? Sam 0019"". l°°°114 Si. Fraiars, Female. George MOI-Nd- second Sam Colpitts. _

Extra T-ale over 90 per cent S11- vcr, Adult Male, Walter Murray. second Fred Coll-‘tml Adult Female, Ruel Hall, Sussex, fi t d seoo . '11“? M81118, Iieiigilé Colpittl, .d Russo C0D < Mal-and aqam ion Male Standard Silver. sam Co pitta Reserve Grand Champion Main.

ICO-

alte Murray. wGi-aiid champion Nmalo. l?“ O l 1N5. i

ongwrve Grand ChnmPiW “m5!”- Gonrl McLeod

Grand Champion rm N11 l8?

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Raw

Purchased and handled on consignment basis. Daily shipments for private sales. Immediate returns. Pelt- lng and Cleaning Plant now in operation.

FOR SALE

Used fox wire In excellent condition, Cedar Posts. Used Lumber, Fox Houses.

G. R- MacQUARRIE

Summer-side

any llilf, Sam Colpitts.

Furs

the United States u we better the A

iRrservo Grand Champion Fox, Walter Murray, Penobsquis.

cfii“u§i’.“"f..¥".i°l “d” . se, ucy Colpitts, Ba. , first, Regin 1d M11118)’. Fredericton, second. a Pup Male, Sam Colpitts.

Eirtra Light Adult Male, WHIIOT Murray, second, Russell C g p:

Adult Female. Fred Colp , sec- ond, Jean Colpitts.

P"? Male, George McLeod, sec- ond, Jolvn Coipitts

Full Ring-Neck Pup Male, Dr A. B Teakies, second. Fred colpitts P1111 Female. Simon Friars, sec- ond, Waiter Murray. Pup Fannie, Fred Colpitts, sec- ond, Simon Friars.

Extra Light Extra Pale Char- acter Adult Male. Oliver Colpitts. second Jean Col itts.

Adult .Fem e, Dr. A. B ‘lleakies, second. Lee Colpitts.

Pup Male. George McLeod, sec- ond. Elizabeth Colpitts.

Pun Female. Georlze McLeod, sec- ond, Elizabeth Colpltts.

Pup Female, George McLeod, second, Russel Colpltts.

Champion Standard White Mark- ed Silver, Grand Champion Male, Oliver Colpitts.

Reserve Grand Champion -Male, George McLeod.

Grand Champion Female, George McLeod

Reserve Grand Champion Fe. male Rod Colpltts.

Grand Champion Fox any age, any sex. Oliver Colpitts

Reserve Grand Champion Fox, George McLeod.

Division C‘ Platinum Silvers. Glass l, Medium Adult Male, Rus- sell Colpitts, second, Lawrence Col-

pitta.

Adult Female, Rutell Colpitfl =ev<>nd Stsn‘ev Coloitts

Pup Male. Jean Colpitts, second l-"wrence Colpitts

Pup Female, Russell Colpitts

Class 2. Light, Adult Male, Lucy Colpitts, second, Fred Colpitts

Adult Female. Fred Colpitts, sec- ond, Sum Coipitts.

Pup Male, Lawrence Col-pitta, sec- ond, Dr. A. B. Teakles.

Pup Female. Lawrence Colpitts, second. Russell Colpitts.

Extra Light, Adult Male, Fred Coipitts, second, Jean Colpltts.

Adult Female, Dr. A B Teakles, second. Mrs A. B Teakles.

Pu~| Female, Fred Colptts, second Sam Colpitts.

Championiiips Platinum Silver

igrand Champion Male, Fred Col- p s.

Reserve Grand Champion Mzfle, Lawrence Colpitts.

Grand Champion Female. Fred Colpitts.

Reserve Grand Champion Fe- male. Sam Coloitts. Grcnd Champion Fox any age, anv sex, Fred Colpitts,

Reserve Grand Champion Fox, any age, Sam Colpitts.

Platinum Foxes . . Almost all the prizes in these various classes went- to members of the Cdpitts family —-Fl\3d, Oliver, Russell. Lucv, Elizabeth. Jean, Lawrence, Leigh, Sam, John and Stanley Champion- ships for platinums were awarded as follows: Gal-and Champion Male, Jean C01-

Reserve Grand Champion Male. Jean Colpitts, Grand Champion Female, Sam wright“ d i1 pion a1 serve Gran C lam Fem c, Leigh Colpibts. Grand Champion Yb): and age, Jean Qolpitts. Reserve Grand Champion Female, Sam Coipitts '

‘The Pearl Platinum class Cham- pionships resulted es follows;

Grand Chnmnion Male, H Step- hen Taylor. Little "fiemmlue

Hrierve Gram Champion Male. H °‘"~‘ien Taylor ' “\-

F‘ 11;‘ Chnmpirn Female, York Fur lurm. Ltd. Fredericton

Rrcrve Grand Champion Female. Fwd Colpit

Grand Clltf-lfntpiflfl Iiox any age, any sex, H, Stephen Taylor, Little Qiemogue.

Reserve Grand Champion Fox, Fur Farms

‘d .- a

any 56X,

M: Taylor, owner and breeder of the Grand Champion Male Pear‘

Platinum, is a grandson of the Late Robert Ouitori, co-fnunder with the late Sir Charles Dalton, of the sil- ver fox industry Those of us who know Mr. Taylor will cerhinly be delighted to learn that he has

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/ CONSERVATION I

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II II- LUDIDW IINIINS

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emotion against smalpcx with pus obtained from csiives a method ascruelasitisdiwusng. This practice hrs undoubtedly bom the direct cause of many thousands of deaths, and of untold suffering during the last hundred years. 'I‘he evidence in support of these assertions i5 beyond the scope of this artide. Many of my readers are no dou-bt acquainted with the subject: others I would refer to what has been published by authors well quififled to investigate stat- istics Mid weigh evidence-such men as John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spen- Cef. AYred Rtilsseli Wallace; and by legislators, jurists and a formidable array of world - famous medics‘ piactictioners. Moreover, there may be connections between these practices and diseases undreampt of elkm by many of those milghtened doctors who hold that sets and vaccines are among the most pro- lific causes of the many diseases now so terrriiiy prevalent among the very nations whose scientific knowledge and general advance- ment ought, one wcud suppose, to render aliem immune from such honors-

The connections I refer to, though behind the scenes, mav neverthe- less be vcry far-reiioliing. 0n“ cannot tell to what extreme the ani‘ mals, held in tihe vicar of the vivi- Sectflfs trough, m‘ sufferinslrmg- drown agony in experimental cap-s fee‘. in their ignorance, actual hat towards their callous tormcntors: but we do know that great vibrating volumes of mad terrcr and frenzied agony must be constantly prcducsd in hundreds of laboratories for med- ical research daily, hourly, and Year after year.

These vibrations must have aheir effects upon the subtle etherlc substance from which a1‘ physical matter is derived and, considering that. the cause and. nature of in- fectious diswse is an unsolved mystery-for, even if it were proved that it is caused by Eefms trans- port/ed ilhrough the uir, the origin of the germs themselves would be still unknown, in these days when different rates of vibzvtion are held to account for all sorts of phen- omena, from the formation of solid matter to the production of sense precepti-ons. emotions and elven thoughts, it is perfectly reasonable to conjecture that these sinister ‘vibrations-often produced in the very precincts of hospitals (the re- search depurtmentw- are powerful factors in the production of many diseases and the direct camse of the neurotic ccmpuainits, irrational fear,

and more beautiful.

It mum, however, be conceded that in tiho present state of our morld it. is ilnposzibl! to avozd toiling Bitflflethfl-Wo have to protect our- selves against dansvrom animals, ill-Wilt Pvrsts, etc. Also. many Deopis must kill to support then own lives-dwellers in the Almtic zones, for inst noe. But such con- cessions by no means Justify the