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TIMELY NOTES ON TOPICS CONNECTED WITH

Silver Fox Farming

GUARDIAN.

rock I-? >REEDi

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‘ ' Dr. E. Rendlre Bowness, new of

the Research Defirtinent of Mes- ter Feeds, Limi , Torcmto and

breeding being

Montreal. paid our Province 3. visit this week and met quite number of ranchers and straw. r sers with whom he discussed feed problems. His concern are large ma.nufactu.r-

613.‘. .&g1:illéot.unnvel their . v 0 111311118 wheelout of’or<&lr‘l'. A 3 going » .'”....u4"’*°~—:“i..t’.‘.i‘.‘;..*‘:.‘:‘*‘i..w°....‘“'..?"‘“' ' " nu. ‘flu... ,_ fi.’§‘,; Two brilliant annuals little ' bobby“ grown but deservirz; of wide ,‘ ' mg eel. mg mg. popularity in the I&l'£..;X'i are the N-rs» '.“‘=’='”"" 1 i... . finely ‘am my my -191, ciarkias and gode , boh . .“in‘..-Anww 0, M, pang, members of the evening primrose w-........m.-..*.:»-.r«=1.....i== or or we .l:l‘"“...'3‘.: . , Z‘ 8. ' ma 5, g..,.,”,‘.,‘I,“‘§.m';',‘,° characterize so many of the plants

fare and wax gross a

clazkias have been ta

are Just as handsome

varieties are best for

splashes of color on

one of the older godetia, Rosamond. or planting narrow where or:

are best sown where the plants to stand

word for basket. must have been ital of the nnpire of‘ making it

/

Char of the Evolutionary

crops of clover seed the number of old. old maids kept cats mice the more lenioe the clever, the more clover seed

of

whom Lairielle has

a.lno.ica.nu.s.

be

which ar klnowti obeerv

as-oil's

n1Phoi’. thb

of this tribe. They prefer a poor soil and are most brilliant on skimpy

give. their.best bloom it well fed. For a patch of poor, dry soil try one or both of these annuals. The

greenhousemen and now are popu- la.r for winter cut flowers, but t.hey

and very easily grown. The double

in: from white through light and deep pink to orange scarlet.

The godetias have large blooms of more brilliant coloring, often

to make them more strikih ce. New L1ad:lolus- forms are offered which will prove fine cutting material

its brilliant satiny pink flow- a fine show. llmts

are bloom. sowing the seed thinly; thin

inches apart. They like sunfrhere ’ . dwarf forms which make very ttractlve little bushes. The go- etins come in both double and single forms.

"Bescauda." is thusd m an -3 good since the cap- claimed the credit

WILD BEES

les Darwin. the pr-omll-l$8«W by way of 3 fast. said

neighborhood. He explained that

mice; the fewer field bumble-bees to pol- and corlsequecltly

where field mice were pie nee.

When‘ we s always think of that big noisy fellow

Botnbus into have. called him Bremus an i his dignity.)

e

to all but the In the “I-IYMGHOPWPB

(Public Library) the

occupies sixty closely

afeeble bee is found on looks like a small

Norrl.s‘0N ISLAND PLANTS "rhe Berberidaceae ,

rid too lazy to

ken up by the

in the garden cutting, rang-

light grounds in ap- lowered

‘varieties of is a favozite waste s-trips

These p

they to

about eight

the Celtic article

Theory. once

that ‘good £2 n

which pi-eyed

was moduced. :1 ul they of the wild wild. bees. we

well harried (Olher scient‘;

It is to deal with

, and un- very closest 0

ofese

listof plants

scientific problems wnceming various animals which these feeds

P.E.I.. a son of George Bowness.

arable time in research work so

riized authorities in Canada ' r1ui:r‘lt‘ion of fur bearing animals.

ascer-ta‘n there are about 78.000 9.-

dults ' and pups

season. some 10,000 le" ebe3s h

gm and from what'l1e has learn-

be lvm pelts. On the other hand

8-S'8'I‘e8‘at.e have increased the number oftheir breedcin .

ber of articles by Dr. Bovmess on ventured to state

raising than raising foxes.

others are ccrliinuallv running in-

Island iirlflfi.

cater to. He was born in Eedeque.

that today he is one of the recog- on

Master Feeds make several vari- eties of seasonal diets for forces and mink and a‘so a cereal feed which the ranober can mix with meat polled Target Brand. All Master Feeds including Target Brand are extensively used in On- tario and are now intro- duced into the Maritime Provinces.

Asked about the status of the fox industry in Ontario the Doc- tor said that as far as he could

July 29th. Paris

silver fox vogue.

in Ontario this

previous year. Qu of‘! a large part of its fox popula-

in the Maritimes they have considerably curtailed. so that from a production standpoint there will as follows:

mink ranchers in the

g stock As the writer had read a num-

M 370.499: the feeding and care of mink I ' that I thought

mink was more difficult . The Doctor thought so too, stating that some ran-was. ouite lame r.-cs. seemed to have little or no difficulty while

1: at sales; Fran

to trouble. We remat we could

not have had a longer conversa- This rnaioes a lion with this brilliant young man, skins with value but other engagements prevented. f

Robert I-l_o'igs:m. Editor of the Fur Trad-3 JC"ll'l‘iB1 of Canada. in

his "J::urrlal Talk", Juiv number. nays: “The New England Fur We have Farmers‘ Amociation produces on several cru

interesting lit-tl-e ull-stint-arid it is always a p‘easur for me to read I suspect th- t I.-ome W-sdlock this bulletin as

., - her, the late J. Stanley wedlock at I purchased silver foxes Just bout twenty years ago frcin the nrle‘inal’l‘-iolin much. The last. recollection I have of the late .1‘. S}l.8.l’i1‘EV W 5 the difficulty we had in getting him to drive a car on the rirht side of the road on a trip north to a fox ranch

fox pups June and

summer of 1919. Jim seemed to have a ranch full of foxes.somarlY I could not count them. they were here. there and everywhere. alv though ‘I presume the total num- ber would not be over 120. as in those days of fairly high prices it seemed to me that Jim held 01»? wealth or an eastern potentate on his farm. He was a host and Mrs. Tuplin a splendid hostess and we were royally treated, even to a trip in Jim's Buick. in which We were placed in the back seat and struck a level piece of road Jim turned armmd and held conversation with us While the car

is down any that feed

i

our day's been

effects of a situation was calm and disinterested. but I W86 certainly quaking in mv shoes and no doubt J, Stan-ley. who had sold the car to Ji.m

in the evening Jim told {is of his early st./,-trt with foxes aridhow he had built up his strains tllrciwh ‘in-3 brezldirtg and’ other methods. He had the famous -leased Oulton female in his ranch for several years. and some of his best stock were desoendarlia from her. It was on that trip that Mr.Wed- lock «conceived the idea of buying the Black ‘.\:nks ranch ard foxes. The next, year he and W. K. Rog- e-:r.l cor.-:«ummated the deal. Event-

‘W

be an ideal cry. It is biennial and freely. Ssmetixnm it flowers on the firrt y~:ar's timwth. -

The !"u.rnito:'-Y. s.dv:§MM«iV0 from Europe, is coarser than the Gory- dolis. yet shows its relationahi . The flower is flesh-colored, tipped with crimson. The name is su ' to mean "smoke of the earth’. and Pliny the Roman naturalist. SW3 that smoke (fumua) make the 0368 water. and so does this Dill“. 111611490 ' its name Others think the comes from the

consum . to spoifid

wl

88111615.

mink.ah1n

tripstothese

tcnmlandsai

According York, the

s been considerable

aubiected

and can

iestinal troubles

Wedllock’s interest and I believahis estate still’ owns the property, fox ‘isooutinued for solne years as the ranch was too inaccessible and costs of operation gvdere too high when prices declin- . i

ersoifeeds for horses, cattle.shee. Life. 1 weekly

poultry. faxes and mink. and it M a to edit-

Dr. Bowness' job ioinvestigate ion in they will roprghduoe e as

and after attending Prince of P. A. cooper, Governor of the Wales College went to Ontario Hudson's Bay . r-Mntlv Veterinary College where he grad- completed the greatest of in- uated. and has since spent consid- speotion ever und n.

Governor of the famous company. By plane he cove:ed\ miles and inspected nine trading poets in one day. the days of Lord strathoona when ts were made by

sea.

costumers

their fall styles and they favor coats and suits trimmed with still quite the

beina

‘to’ Women's Wear, New total number of silver fox pelts imported into the United States from otilteir countries dur- ing the flrst five months of 1939 is B(?ra.nada, 16,519 skins, valued at m'mws'y, mus skins, valued at Gr'*eat'Erita.i-n, 3,415 skins, valued swede , 129 skins. valued at $3,- Newfoundland, 98 skins, valued

co, co sklina, valued at $1,-

306: Russia, 22 skins, valued at $636; l"in1a.nd, 5 skins, valued at 8111.

tgttal of 33.205 ooznopamisoin or the

months of 1938 shows 8.778 skins él"i‘t3‘DOl'lzed at a total value of 3202,-

been informed from that mortality among

arter

the early part of of them passed out quickly after being a bit staggery. and quite a few_ suflevrod from a. form rhoea. Wliatever the cause inl/portant that all pens, dens and partmenfs be thorougihl footed so as to prevent the spread of any infection. straw or refuse from pens or dens should be taken clear of the ranch and either bum- ed or placed so far away that it

hing and who has bad deal of experience, claims fatalities are very gar-siod of years and he attributes

to the fact that his diet is largely meat

There are-so many things that

trouble

if you use one. miaht be pole forms of trouble. id scolded with boiling waiter daily so that any particles of the previ-

Years ago

519i

»Both shou

A thousand in

showing

fur.

$811,583. A flmt nve

there has last weeks of July. Most of diar- lt is y disin-

when he was accustomed to driv- could not be a future cause ‘lug on the left side (and to us trouble. rust year A mmcwh the wwng side) on P. 13.1." similar ndition -prevailed, and ,._____ the writer wonders if the change Mr. I-lodgsons reference to J. 'i‘rom meat feedirlx *0 fish and 3 Stanley brings to mind a trip the larger proportion of cereals might writer tock with him to Jim 'I‘up- be the cause. A rancher with lin's ranch at. Black Banks in the whom I convcrsed the other eve-

?i...i"n“i‘§

small WOT!

among

to “SR?

lit.‘ be

one source. I would say utensils and the mixer,

mixture adhering have

the boi

you are feeding milk ingiwiih cereals and

tothe

beneficial water. If the mom- some is un-

it often has a. tendency

s3 diarrhoea, but that ccmdltion is usually associatlirfs

and

The only way to with that condition is totreat fox capsules.

mternatidnal conditions. accord-

ing to many of the keerlest ob-

are due to i

materially this fall if does

vevery

' n

im-

YOUR FOXEBI

Y o I do not what Mr-

til ou III" 3...‘; l>ur.vax. It cost: 1 I I I V" 3 n 1 In I. I.

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run so ‘:3-:u:;i|afnetion money 1'6‘

Control: eumltoa easily. chalnli. effectively. ULVBX 3" Cogpol !’rodnoto—Brltiel-i iilado

C. t (L Order from ully nornnoe Feed

and IOPEX

your Drug. Hardware. and seed Store. ‘or W!"-0 CANADIAN C0 - OPEBATIVE VVOOL UBO“/EBB LIMITED ‘Quebec and Maritime Branch, Lonnoxville. One.

'and GARDEN?

PAGE ~'l‘HlR'ral«:N “":."."

1 A Wllllol OOLUII 0' VITAL III NATUIAL

2 CONSERVATION I

PIAUHGII UII AIFIOTDIO X WI! AND A3033! 0!‘ IIBOUBCES I! II: LUDLOW IINFINS.

or-mrons. or was

SPORT CONTROL (BY S'IEP'.HiE‘N HAWKS in Nature

ntiment and superstit on. there were among the ancients individuals who were attracted to the study of the creatures and plants around them. they were al-

ways an emble minority. the ancient world

Fidings for 1938, Volume Two. This is a. most ambitious publica- tion of! a summ of the field work 0 the Association's men for 1968, production and mortality on ranches visited, feed formula and many other particulars that these man found on their visits to the different ranches in Canada. For anyone who desires to get, a. true ‘glctiue of rarlollixls through- out e Dominion we would rec- ommend a copy of this book.

Corlgratulatlons to . Callback, Manager of the Fur lviarketing ent Oariadian Notional Silver Fox

Breeders’ As- sociation, on his having owned. trained and driven another good

armor in dy 0. Guy. In her maiden appearazloe at Kensington shewonthezzeirotfromagood field and took a record of 2.15%. Her full sister. Guy Ann. last year set u the track pacins record for, Kens gton of 2.11%.

_________.._._ NORTH BEDEQUE SCHOOL

are cut the North Bedeque School for the month cf June. Grade X (a) 1 Dzris Clark. . Gimde X (it) 1 Mildred Waugh. Clark. (3) Norman

Grade Ix (1) Janet MacDonald. (2) John Lackie.

Grade V111 (1) Helen Arsenault. (2) Clara Arsenault. (3) Eve Fraser.

Grade V11 (l)Wiil Tucker azlu

. (equal)

Grade v1 (1) NC'l'l'no, England. (2) Dell Dingwell. (3) Marion Mac-

Grade v (1) Wilfred Arseriault. (2) Gan-ih Clark. (3) Billie l.efur-

A

99-5’- Grade IV (1) Silivia. Perry. (2) Beryl Clark. (3) Marion ull. Gmde III (1) Margaret Mac-

t Wa/ugh. (equal)

l|‘rcder.'ck Arssnault.

Rlayrnond Perry. (3)Ellery zwuit

ar)>n'H°“m Gagidifiiml d Murray V . an . Assistant. Helein Tucker.

NORTH RIVER '

The regular mornthiv meeting of the North River w. 1. met at the home of Mrs. Bllsdell. on Wed- nesday evening July 10th with 9 members and one visitor present. in the absence or the Presidat

the “Club by the minutes and Roll which was responded to by Flavorilte Flower". Twenty- flve dollars proceeds of concert was voted for two patients of the

oomlmxmi-by who are at present in the semi um. , Plums were completed for the

Dldtict Convention to be held l'ii'n North River Hall on Monday July

from the District Conven-

lows. sick. Mrs. Bruce McKinley

lnnro I large crop of healthy

mil FOX FEED

Baum during good meat ration In the more you secure but breeding rnulta.

[min on lloyai.

Let your dealer today or write dine! to

company Ltd.

sum John

Icviewedand

I The lot!

Murdo and Stauar

(2) Patricia Clark. (3) Lloyd Sim- mcns.

Grade Ill (1) Carolyn Clark. (2)

Grade I Sr. (1) Imlis Galldeb. (2) Arse-

Grade I Jr. (1) Bonnet Arsennit.

VVOMI-2N’S l'.NS'I'I'l'UTE

answered with “Knowledge 1: have

trained tion." New Grmmittees were as fol-

A LARGE Pup cnor

rlgoronn pupa this year by rudim-

xormar season. allows that the no of loyal with a

the my known for the rancher I

The St. John Milling

New Irluwiet

pp:-«nod Dominion I 'looat:,Ano"e’iation.

at ii: best was little concerned with animals. their lives, loves or siirferings. christian- tyhasnotmuchtosayaboutour duty towards and we may wonder why. ,for surely the docs and donkeys’ of Jerusalem were no better treated two thouband WM‘! ago than they are today. For two thousand years the simple supposi- tion that animals were created sole- ly for our use has gone almost un- challalged. Natural History hard-1)’ * e a matter of serious study until the Victorian era.

The earnest natural ‘history books reveal how little was known of the animal creation. Until Gilbert White wrote his Natural History of Selbome .and

-.

exce tions. were ha.rv.F>ooks. which told how the cow was Elven us to provide breakfast for good

because, as he said, “if animal gets his dionce never took more than one native with him. to carry an extra gun. and often enough he went entirely alone into -the bush or somaliland. It is note- worthy that most greant hunter: give “'0 sport as they grow older; itisanevidenceofaciviliaedsoul, one first has become civil through experience.

Man is a hunter born. In ancient times he killed for food and thought little about sport or its othA‘cs.'Hia preoccupation was to bring home the dinner or go hunsfy. and, in

0 . “aw.

8

the result of applying mental strlctiohs to the sciemm of lling animals. It creatu right. and wrong and should bestow some sense of dignity upon what otherwise is only the indulgence of a primitive lust. is the morality of slaughter.

I quality which men almost suc- .. in introducing to warfare lrntil the desize for efficiency made results the sole criterion of right. It may be that Time Will slowly eliminate sport as it is understood today. but however‘ much we may Wish for the conservation of wildlife. hating cruelty as men once hated heresy, we must face are tact, that Sport is held to be right and legiti-. mate in our time. Our. ambition must therefore be to increase the civilized sentiment. that there must be some quarter given to the quarry; that because some of us have in- vented irlstnunonis of wholesale death, it is no reason why they should be used for sport or even profit. True sport. keeps alive and regulates. at the same time, the

uniting

!‘0<

children, and the lion a sad example \ of how the babe should not behave —-before company at . And times have ohflhged

William Blzakabwrortq hlsmd gpga

tile/tic poem ' a 3'". 0 l were exhorted not to kill

the pretty things which their little hour in God's sunlight

so ha ilyl Now we org swat e {Eva ms. for we know. but only since Pasteur . that

these unclean places.

It took us many. many centuries to develop a Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals, and even now kindnes to is con- sldored by ma,i_ny an unlm ant by-prodilct of civilised education. What is our duty towards our neighbor on four feet? How should we regard our little brother in fur . or featl-lere? Therie afll exist human beings who are armised by the antic struggles of a med animal-— they're only animals; what does’ it matter? There are still men who feel much the same way about savages. Art the some time there is hardly an educated man in this country who would not vigorously me the ma.lizrwtment of any al he saw being mlsialeated. although the same man will cheer-