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ETOWN GUABDl-‘llfi-

once AGAIN

Au. IIoAos LEAD TO rile arm

MARITIME WINTER FAIR AMHERST, N. s_

Oct. 30 - Nov. 5

* The greatest display at livestock in the Maritime Provinces.

ever assembled

* F i n e s t Entertainment

available. Horse shows, Midway and Vaudeville,

Tug-o-Wor, etc.

D0n’t Miss This Big Event

Come To The "VICTORY FAIR"

LLAAAA ‘a A

The entry liet released for the Meritkne Winter Fair which ‘will be held at Amherst October 30th to Novcnber 5th shows 150 foxes from this Province. This is highly credit- ebie end ii New Brunswick end Nova Scotie do theirshare it will be e fine emihition. In the pest P. E. 1. foxes have always had a good record and we have no reason to anticipate anything otherwise at the coming exhibition. We do not know the names of all the breeders who have entered but we do know several and we feel sure that they would not exhibit unless their IoXQ were in prime order and quite cap- able of taking a share of the prises. The Maritime Winter Fair is e Roy- al Winter Fair on a small scale but equally praiseworthy in theworkit is doing towards improving the

‘ ‘ ‘ of live stock exhibits and furnishing an opportunity for lead.- irfl ‘ s to c e against each other. ‘Ilhose at the head of it deserve every praise end encourage- ment and we have no doubt thq will have one of the largest attend- ances of all thnes. that at least is | the way it looks now.

With fox shows at Antherst. Fredericton, Quebec. Ontario and all through the west and an inter- national show at. Michigan as well as the Prince Edward Island show at Charlottetown opening the week of November 18th, this unique in- dustry will be holding its own and capturing its share of tha limelight. These exhibitions apart from the showing of the foxes will give an opportunity at the banquets for a great many far-sighted. individuals to express their views an the future of silver fox fanning. Almost toa late we have learned that we have been remiss in keeping our product} to the fore and isnpressing on the Brest women's market of_the world tho beauty and advantages of silver fox es a means o! adornment.‘ While we tarried by the wayside the moreastuts mink breeders delved into their pockets and put up the coin to have their natural mink

I snzrnlvn IIIIIII FOR SALE

HIGHEST QUALITY STOCK

The foundation stock in this ranch is from one at the best

ranches in Quebec. Hundreds to select from. 29 years ex-

perience in breeding mink. ROY DUGGAN, Sea View

Poultry-Poultry

Buying daily Live and Dressed Fowl and Chicken. Crates supplied. Railway rates, tracking equal to railway rates paid.

EASTERN PACKING C0. Sour-is -‘

teveaaew. Thanh" | g fitmmsoinsbm r "Emil Get aeeee M“. 87.‘.-..'.‘.'.'i".'.e“r"-i "Wlltevevreetiefeeeiea.

Ladeeer

O I17 REIT STREET

an invaluable and

and its mutations popularized as the most beautiful fur and most 001111101118 for my lady beautiful. The fact of the matter was our sales came easily and we always fisured that the fur trade would look after the publicity end. As we Pointed out in our last issue. lead- ing women's magazines for Septem- ber contained only two fox ads out at 72 for other types of furs. At Present there is an agitation under way to have an advertising fund built. up-csintributed to by every fox farmer-and the money spent in a judicious way to bring to the attention of the women of America the desirability of owning some type of fox apparel. This may be extend.- ed to South America countries too if resources are etifficierit. It is of course. South American countries end Mexico that we have to look largely to for our market for mutations. But we Inleretand that there has been a bit fl recession in those countries and money is not flowing so freely as it did during the war and the year after, so time mey be difficulty in Inn'- mmmtiru trade restriction barriers although vwe hope not.

The pest week has been a. glor- ious one so far as the weather is concerned and it has been taken advantage of by many to go over their foxes end make selectiane fcr hreerlng operations for 1947; It is better to make these selections while the light is good and natural then to wait until there is a lot of snow on the ground. We have a1- wsyl found it much more difficult to Judge e fox under such condit- ions, but now if the fox is taken into e diedy place out of the rays of the sun and gets e careful going aver there should be no dfficulty in arriving et its qualifications as a breeder. Careful selection of breld- ingstockneuetbebesedon more than appearance however. There is the inheritance or heredity factor that mint be taken into account. otherwise one is iieble to have coir eidernble dbeppointenent in the future when looking at litters and seeing progeny very much unlike the sine or dam.

Good strains o! foxes in a ranch

Bums-i Poo...

TM Ihtemlee Policy ‘aft. Isa? r. r. l. ti?" “Pb “t” . 3'. .

r. be: estrous ‘r _ “ ' I.e.cA_lR.

. Policy

essecriijnon

1m a fox pelt. In the old days when the foxes were in the ground really did not appreciate color as we do now. The first time that our attention was color was at: the Royal Winter Fair in 1926 when Bob Humphrey ex- hibited some foxes raised on board floors in darkened sheds. The floors had a thick bedding of straw and the foxes when placed on thei p judging table were absolutely clear in color. Other exhibitors who had kept theirs in pens earth thought their foxes were 0K. until they pill. them alongside 1303's. That is what started boom tn building sheds and every- one went right to it.

placing foxes in sheds there was a considerable curtailment of hook- wcrm and iungwonm, if the sheds were cleaned out regu- larly. Bookworm been cause oi’ e lot of our off-color be- came it led w e disturbance of the digestive Omens and malnutrition while lungworm was evidenced by a. pelt with short fur or almost de- nuded of fur. We never hear of lung-worm now and until the intro- duction of sheds and’ particularly wire bottom sheds, it was menace and proportion o! the poor pelts mer- keted.

. mrtv sores on TOPICS coumzcreo WlTtl

Silver Fox

Farming

In going over our foxes thieweek we noticed quite a member of lit- ten meted in accordance with the above that turned out rather good. They were well fun-ed with good sides with fairly narrow belly stripe of black and the silver was whitish wilth a nice ‘black neck or part black neck. A few were full silvers, practically no dark on them. bu-twe would not care to mate them up with similar types for the reason that our good friend mentioned- we would expect off-color aides in the nwsenv.

We were particularly careful to note the effects of third generat- ion platinum matings with silvers and we found that in those matings where good silvers had been used, the silver part of the litter was pretty satisfactory. We also found the same results with white faces, although we did not see any very outstanding silvers from such mat- ings. There is no doubt about it we will all have to keep e certain proportion of our very best silvers and keep their blood pure, that is away from any acknlxture of plat- inum or white faces and these will he our reserve fund to drew on for the future whether in the product- ion of silvers. White faces or plat- inurns.

We were glad to see that all the foxes this year seem to have furred up quite well. showing that it has been a favorable year in that re- spect and the color was good while growth was very satisfactory. This matter of growth we believe was helped by the use of fish bloc to the adults during the breeding sea- son and the pu-ps right through, lmreflslnz of course as they got older. In this Province we do not as a rule use bone gninders and it may be that. sometimes we don’t. get as much calcium as the growing foxes require. If fish bloc is used or fish in some form, then the calcium requirements are taken care of quite well.

Color is good this year, that is the report from eii over the coun~ try and of course color is one of the most important things in judg-

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really focused on

on mother

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There was also the fact that by

particularly

had the

a rear ted far a large

run, cnenwrr

The lint Charlottetown. Saint

Brendan's Basilica

In beeping “Keeping tlhe the First. Ohnrlottdown,

Troop

81in

day. ten o'clock. LAB ‘Proop

two parties

the

adiarthilketo

Scouts cooked mapper and men ashortsingsortg ahoutthefire

n.

All arrived in E-JWII shortly after

seven deiock. Presentation of Badges ~

An event which will long be re- membered by the "MR-ST" an which will go down in the Troop Log as a very momentous occasion. tnokplnceinthcI-IulyNameHnli during a. meeting of the “FIRST" on Friday evening October 18th when Patrol leader Frank hlnem 0d the Owl Patrol was awarded the first “FIRST CLASS BADGE" to be earned l.n the Troop since it was reorganized ‘Ir. January i944. The presentaltion was made by Very Rev. Rather Mnl" ‘- , Chairman otf the GTOUp Oommlttco who also preseinted Tenderfuot Badges to Ed. Kaye, Gerald Batchilder and Elrwoo Dona-telly. Later in the even‘- ing Group Ocmunitteemsn John Connolly presented Tfioop Leader

Badge, which is one of those re-

quired lbs- the King Scout Badge. Other Oomlnitteotncn t were

precen Mesa-s. Alien Zakem and Wendell ltdliiilims. Oonaratuiations to these Scouts are in order.

Going-up Ceremony

simple out invpressive "Going- Ceremony rook place at the (Xrtober 11th meeting of the FIRST WN ‘Hoop when Willoughby, John Walsh and John Hughes‘ wok pert in the "GR-ANY: IIOWL" for the last. time and were elcomad into the "FIZRSI" before a gathering o! Basilica Dubs and Smut-a. Mm‘

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tine from aibbing into Scouting and were met by the Swirtimasier ‘and the Petrol Least-ere of the ‘Provo who received them warmly and as- sumd them of a 800d time l" Snowing. Best wishes 00 W‘- l0 these Recruits, and may they mike good progress in their Scout work.

Girl Guide News

with its policy of Out he BoOUTi-ng"

Dunstan‘; Basilica. Troop were out in the open all dining ‘fllflhksgivllng Icarving town mostly alter hiked over I-lillehrrro Bridge, than divided into and proceeded cross

and along the sthome to Hatcheries wiles-e dinner was cooked and thoroughly enjoyed by all. 'Ilhc aternoon Dllflflwmrne consisted of stalking practice and . On ne- lwlchmes ti: the writer becaane acquainted in

d name MoOcnnacx ecrrecrtiiy.

Abraham Zezem with the Cyclist ‘

Curiously enough there lungwoim in western Canada sprobebiy toihediry air wiluclfis said also to prevent asthma. Foxes ahip- ped from the east with lungworen . in a mild form were curved. in the west. Just. how lungworm got hers is not known. The early had no trouble with it and it was claimed that foxes brought in from Quebec or Newfoundland introduc- ed‘ the disease to our Province.

In looking

of not so long ago the writer thinks that we have it much easier became of having changed technique to wire bottoms. No more do we have to use swabs with oil of eucalyptus tctryend kill the lung worms in the throat or do we have these runty looking rune iungwaam hut somehow we find it. difficult to grow as menygoodfox- es as we would like.

In reference to the three yeertex plan for farmers Hon. Mr. Abbott, Acting Minister of Flume. our representative Mr-

metter the three ycer plen as ex-

nrovinl. three-year went into thie at some leltih when

ie

back over- those days

HOW Olll‘

full of

introduced by

average. We

I10 (ill!

pioneers .

ATTENTION Brown Owls end Tewnye

‘fliseewtilbeemeetmgofaii Brown Owls and Tammi/s on Mon- thly, Ootcbc 27th 7.00 p.m. at the home 0d’ Mrs. K. M. Martin. 2i Ambrose Street.

to a set. af figures to see if I could get an explanation. In 1946 a farm! er has e loss of $4.000: In 1947 be breaks even: in 194a he has $2,000 tenable income. Tlhen he Pflys no taxes for those three W615? Mr. Abbott: That is correct. Mr. MoLIn-e: Then we go to the next year. In 104'! he breaks even. Mr. Abbott: That is right. Mr. McLure: In 1948 he has

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Island Faun]; Naneee

Iitiswellknownthacl’. E. Island was divided up among a number cf mantras in the ycei i767 Poe. vious to that the mtIIa/bitams were about thirty farnitlm oi Atrediens, and a detachment of saldiees. ‘Ilhe grunt-am hrwsht some settlers to the Island, so that, thirty-one years later (1798) vvhun e census was taken Imder order. from Governor Fanning, the population was as- certained to be 4372 persons (in. eluding the Acrdians.) The carn- nlete list is elven in ciernpbelrs History and one notes with pleas- ure that. a. great: many cf the fem. lily names lnvve come down to the ‘mesem day. Before quoting from the Census, one must again oaiil fltlflmbn to the fact tinait the en- tmnerattorwasnrnsinersthisqacll-

In Int 34, JOJII and Robert Auld are heads od families. Qa-neiius “I-liggans" (so spelt.) had six sons and two danigilutera: 112,01" his father, woes one of the grantees atonement. imed. Wall on to 100 years latter (i880) [another Comnebus Higins lived in the old homestead, and there are representatives oif iihe family in the district today. Dun- cam Shaw (cit 1708) was represent- ed by DLIIiIZQIII Shaw with whom

i912. and wiho ha: deascendasets still living Stephen Bovyer had five sons and thr-ee daughters; none re. mained in Lot 34 in 1880 The cen- sus-taker recorded one man who evidently lived alone as "Old Mo. Oormic "-othervlhere he spells the

Iin -I.ot 20 lived John Barefoot “by himself" like 01d McOortnick. Perhaps he was an Indian. Iot 21 was the starting podlnt 00' the An- derson family, whose progenitor hailed from the Lowlands or! Scot- land, and whose ate still with us The Adams families sire strongly represented in Lots 2i, 22am iltinfactThorreasAdnehs had Int 22 all to himself-he was the only resident iii 1798. John Poor lived in mt 20; nowadays he would be John Power ‘me name comes from Ireland but l5 of Norman ex. traction; it was ainciently spelt Poor. '

The first name in Lot 1B is James McNutt. End. The census-taker was my sparing of titles. Only Mien an individual was extremely well- tes-do, did he add Esq. to his name. In the same Lo: appears “Baldy Maittfliiews" which might be a. non- iraiotimi for Badwui, but. looks sus- piciously like a nicknaanc. lots 16. 1'1 and l9 were principally occupied by Acadlam families whose names floored the census man. He did the best he could phonetlcely, with interesting results. There were l5 families of Arsenerulis, which means that they had mini on the Island long anterior h. i790. The flensnrs spells the family name Arsnoe, and some of its Christian names are Lewi, Joe, Cyprian, Placid and Babtist. 'Ilhe Gallunts — which he spelt Gaiiong A- Were mentioned in a. tonne: note The Berna-Iris were omctitier importer-i: family, tihmgh rm as numerous as the above. leer. stung and Gregwar Bernamd had 4. and 2 children, Iespectivew. (To

Too Many Crows

‘Iihere is e crow roast on the North Shore here that is akmractii18 some eittenitian. A neighbor says that " Iisands" o! crows are to be seem foraging in the fields and

notes thait great numbers of crows Itrarvei every night to the woods north qt his iwelilng. As yet there has been no attempt to deal with a situation that will ultimately have a serious direct on our mig- ratory and game birds.

‘Ilhe crow is a bird of varied diet, partial t0 Grubs, cutworms and other insects, no doubt: but just as partial to the eggs and young of other birds. Every farmer can tell of crows swooping now-n and mnalrlmtl off with his small chickens 'I‘o some extent this habit accounts for the scarciny of Game biflls in U118 locality. though wandering skunks, mimics, and even foxes must bealr part of the blame.

In mrtihent Scaniand when the crows began to increase unduly, the canny Boots hit. upon a plan "to stay mo plague“ Men with guns were stationed in the wooit where the crows were ocsline. Mg: t:- Qmsgirig their weapons, a old birds from the neat till the eggs was chilled, ‘I11: Scottish

are a pee-severing race, and will keep

this 1g: till the crows are in proper

limits e5 Io numbers. Halli a doaen

shown “N0. In 1949 he shows fl- 500. ‘men hie taxable income is 81- 5W?

Mr. Alitott: Thet is correct.

1940. Can he teke that lose of the other 82,000, lo that his taxable

Mr. MeLure: You cannot carry t iaee? Mr. Abbott: No: it le a

avenger would have been

halve been unrteste In crowmhoot- ed

. will gIowtluendttIcaet/woqlllllllllwl!

iifte seed-bearers and whet ml-INI

times in the last forty years there

in‘ hgrc, but little was accomplish- beawe there was no concerted

Muslim: 1h otfiiwedeflceeerui persevere rrsmmahipwasue-ievedtobee lléniiligliiiresieemiishlitrioilillbarlitl; the ‘income Ellllfdl-lven o o year to yeeecno me_ "eenoteoh" 0f P 51X“! 1&1: ‘i? ished at sea e e farmers were included as farmers M“ Md-‘m’ H“ “Mme m’ h“ p“ end to make no doubt about the m” ‘hm "l" ll 34-5007 The Crnciteree (I) yea-r 800 A-D-

known other direction - that of color — ‘the fruit has varied to orange, in

be Qomimm ) they resemble minute human are,

an the shore. The present writer boll-Pd. l0 "WWW We

changed, so that the ship was drawn

NOTES - .

identification, hailed from “rvew" hayfieisk, evid-

ers were quite aware: of their dang- er, and meniy a batch of orucifers was gathered Iran the fields and laid on the higii-Ivsy to perish! But. evemy generation is inclined to be- liuile the work of its pufecesor. and the sons 01' those famiers tilwiuhtita wasteoftimctowatch fbr the weeds. Now their descend. aims are paying for the neglect.

The previous paragraphs speak oi the Onuiciferae as weeds but there are others we would not. like to be without: turnips, oabbages, muii- flower, Bmrsseis spnxuts kaile, Kohl- raibi and a few others are well. known members oi the group.

Ravine notes viii; give descript- inns of the Mustards, Wild Tumips, etc. than. ha/ve been found in the Island

High Bush Cranberry

A lady residing in Charlottetown sends harried twigs [or naming. The sender rtniarks timt she thought the hush was a "Srmvilhali tree" till she scnv the fruit Now this was a good specimen of the High-bush Cranberry, Viburnum Opulue, variety asnerlcanum. a si-Irub found also l-HVEUIIMDQ and Asia. In liingland it is cailled the Guadal- Rose, (from a district in Holland) tine Vvhitten tree and the Snowball tree, but the latter name is properly appied to the double. flowered sterile form of the shrub —so my corvmapondent made a very good guess. It. is called the Pim- biina in some ports of North Am- erica: this is the white man's cor. ruptiori of nhe Chippewa words "Nepin-ariinari" meaning Summa- beIm-y. ‘liter-e are many references to this berry but I quote two otnhr. “The Inuit is a poor substitute for cranberries" says Asa Gray in his Mflfniilfll of Botany, 1808. "Tlhe fruit when ripe, is of a. pleasant acid taste and is sometimes substituted for cranberries" -Em.e.rsons's "Trees and Shrubs qt hrluszndhirsetits, 1815" This which seems contradictory, mans that there are varietal forms with Illnliiee flavors, a very com. mon trait. among foul: and well among the amiss. In ain-

some localities cn the Winnipeg River, and is qt an agrceeible taste. ‘Ilhe herbalists claim that the bark is very effectual in curing "cramp of the stomach" and is a good tonic Nickculs "Botanical Ready Reference" states that the bank is antisipasnuiciic, expectcrant, alternative and tonic.

A point, missed by neat text- books is that each leaf marries" at the Junction 0f the stalk and the bladie. a. pair of smell green ex. creeoences. In the British planets

bultiximirplmtstheyamnbtso shapely. I have not found them on other Plants and have wonder- ed at, uieir function. -

The Sutton lloe Ship It was the custom amongst the mhiona oif the Scandinavian sen-