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ill-Implied. Frasert Ruth's Julie mutation mink auction was a suc- css. The offering of saber-bi,” consisted of 22,798 pelts: ‘I0 p. q. Iold with a. top price of s10, Mg’- dlum and light clear colors ad- vanced 15 p. c., dork and off-col. cred goods were firm. The conce- tion contained a large percentage of old peltries and off-colored goods. 86 Breath of Spring darks averaged 855813.40 medium dark: flvefflfled $43-44: 36 light mediums averaged-Mobil; 2431 darks averag- ed $36.96: 2333 dark slightly cff- colored averaged $35.38; 3122 men. ium slightly off-colored averaged. $38.15; 2M8 medium off-colored averaged $34.72; 2689 ail-color. plia- ses badly off-color averaged $27.59. An offerios or 594 Steel blue nliak was ‘I5 p. c. sold and realized a top price of $86. Royal Pastel mink '- 4797 polts _-were offered. 88 9.0. lold. to’ Mo! O60. Bent coins ad- vanced i5 p. c.; ‘I46 dark: averaged $38.60: 1164 mediums averaged $44.88; 365 lights averaged $51.25; 3'72 all color phases badly off-razor

averaged $24.97. White Mink-The P

offering,was 8057 pelts; 40 p. c. sold, top price $38.

Blue Royal Koh-I-Nur-Bill pelts were offered; 65 p. c. sold with a top price of $20. for a lot of we‘-l marked medium colored goons. Royal Koh-I-N- - 21,374 pelts were offered; 50 p. c. sold, top price $19.50 for light colored males. Dark and poorer qualities including spot- ted and off-colored were in very Iittlo demand. Blu Frost Mink - The offering-consisted of 12,037 pelts. A top price oi $16.25 was realized where sold, as most. oi thr goods were withdrawn due to lack of demand. Lampsonb next muta tion sale of mink will be held u‘. August. Ranchers having any Sii verblu or Royal Pastel mink to sell should send them in early so that they can be processed in time for the sale.

A.t the Canadian Fur Auction Sales Company Ltd. vendue this week 108i White 11px were 50 p. c. sold with a top price of $30.50. Lower grades ranged from $14. to $16.50: 8.030 Red Fox was 31 p. c. sold with Labrador skins bringing a. top price of $650; Blue Fox and Cross Fox were mostly withdrawn; Platlnums. good and ordinary ave- ragnl $19.26; Pearl Piatinums good quality, $13.54; White Marked Sil- vers $8.53. Half to three-quarter silvers $8.77; regular full silver!"- 51153; inferior types $7.34; Blue Fox and Cross Fox were mostly withdrawn.

The Canadian Fur Auction Sales Company sale of wild mink show- ed some lots reaching the highest prices that have been ruling for the past two years. On the average the auction company reported an advance of 10 p. c. over April, '10 o. c. oi the catalogue oi 10,610 wild mink was sold. The top price of I75. was paid for a lot oi 87 Labra- iiors, extra darks. The ranch mink offering consisted of 28.708 skins w=hich was strongly bought and ap- peared to observers to be around B0 p. c. sold at an advance of near-

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1y i5 P. c. over the April sale. Top Price of $3M was paid for Clair- val strain. The catalogue was can- sidercd of only average quality with. the best lots Olairvnl strain and Yukon type. New York deal- ‘ers were the principal bidders.

The annual meeting of the American National Fur Breedrs‘ Association was held at Milwaukee, ‘Wisconsin, June 22nd. Over 200 fur ranchersattended; ‘The principal speaker was President Dr. L. J. 0'1 Reilley. Dr. OTteilley stressed in urging breeders of both foxes and mink to pay more attention to quality than ever before and tc utilize their ranches for the sound‘- est breeding principles commen- surate with higher quality pelt pro- duction. He said there has beer. a great expansion of color phases in foxes almost to the exclusion cf thought and attention to the standard Silver Fox. With this ex- pansion there has been an even more rapid deterioration in quality.

Many fail to follow sound rules

of breeding in the rush to produce the newer color phases. This un- doubtedly is one of the many rea- sons why so many people do not look upon Silver Fox with the same favor they did years ago. In an effort to relnstitute the high grade furs of the past Dr. UReiliey urg- ed immed-iate action to "institute registration of fur-bearing animals and study oi ranch herd books in so far as possible. He urged ranch- ers to support bills before Con- gress for the removal of fur taxes on ranch bred furs. He said that although Silver Foxes have suifcr- ed from what he termed “assemb- ly-line" mass production which re- sulted in the‘ quality of the pelt that was today carrying the label of Silver Fox, WIIIICII is actually a very different type than the article of shimmering art and beauty that bore that identification of Silver Flox in its early days. He expressed the belief that Silver Fox will ev- entually find a return to popular- ity and that it will definitely be In quality offerings and in the darker color phases which is the rarity in our production today. We have received from Dr. Char- lec F. Bassett of the United States Fur Animal Experiment Station. Soratoga Springs. N. Y.. a copy of his latest bulletin entitled, “Sonic Common Fallacies In Our Present Mink Feeding Practices." We would like to be able to publish this verl’ valuable article in full but space does not permit. Later we intend to refer to it again. Summarized briefly the bulletin states that af- ter experiments which have been conducted for thirteen years with mink, four common fallacies in our present mink feeding practices have been demonstrated. (1) Diets are being fed that are for higher in protein contentwthan is neces- sary for normal growth - a prac- tice that is very uneconomical and, in some cases. may be definitely harmful. (2) In the fact of a dwindling supply of horses, ground horse meat still constitutes the main ingredient in the mink diet. although there arc many subs..- tutes available at somewhat lower coat. The continual use of large amounts oi horse meats means a further continuance of fallacy number 1.

(5) vitamin smaplesnente of many and assorted kinds are added to most mink diets-a practice that not only is unncoessary but IXDB-‘l- sive. Five percent fresh or fresh frozen liver, plus 5 p. c. fresh vege tables or leaf! greens, and 1 to 1 l-2 percent of dried yeatc will ade- quately meet the growing kit's vitamin‘ requirements, on the basis of present knowledge. The liver. vegetables and yeast ordinarily are included in the diet fed. (4) Trim- ming external fat from horse meat and tripe is the most foolish and expensive of the four fallacies mentioned. The inclusion of 5 to 10 p. c. fat in the diet can resuJ: in savings of up to 35 p. o. oi trio total feed consumed, with no ap- parent difference of significance in weight gain, general health. or pelt value.

Dr._Bas-sett concludes as fol- is 899d that @ i which have been presented w.ll result in a. closer and more careful examination of present-day iced- iug practices by the progresslvc mink rancher. This in turn should load to a ‘ _ 0f ' lowered production costs, healthier mink and finer pelts." Our com- ment on the above is that wnat the Doctor has stated in regard to mink is‘ prcbnblly quite as true in regard to foxes. No doubt moat of us have been_ feeding more hurao meat than was necessary. It had been our practice tn do so (or no many years that i‘ a“: "l hard matter to give it up. No dQuIII: as horse meat becomes scartcr other food formulas will be adolit-

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Britain's Prices 0i Fann Products Double '38 Level

By JAMES MeOOOK

LONDON. July l — (OP) — Britain's drive for greater self- sufficiency in food production has doubled the price of mom farm products compared with pro-war years.

Taking the years 1921-29 as a base and setting the prices then prevailing at the index level of 100, the agriculture ministry said that in 1938 the index price for wheat was 94 and 191 in 1947.

Other gains were as follows with i938 prices in brackets:

Barley 219 (84), oats i9’! ('19). potatoes 181 (87), sugar beet 196 (86), iat cattle 183 (95), fat sheep 180 (69), fat lambs 166 (69), bacon hogs 209 (84), milk 221 (102), eggs 234 (85). .

These indexes are for fanm prices fixed years ahead under the now agriculture policy. Prices will not fall below the following for the crop years to 1061-52:

Milk B 2d. (44 cents) a. gallon: cattle 92s. a. live hlmdndwflghl; sheep 1s 10d. a pound dead weight; pigs 30s. per ‘.10 pounds and eggs 3s 2d. a dozen.

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Plus Acreage Payment

Millable wheat harvested in 1948 and 104.9 will be paid for at an average rate of 23s. a hund- leclweight pIllS an acreage pay- ment of 60s. on the first i0 acres sown to this crop.

The milling oats average. price will be 20s 6d. a, hundredwelght and feeding oats will range from a minimum of 18s ‘Id. to 20s 3d. The higher price of farm pro- ducts was offset to a degree by higher wage rates -- up 157 per cent compared with an average increase of 65 per cent in all the industries for which data were collected.

"I‘he value of output per work- ers is already hlgiher In Britain than in any other country in Ehirope and both pay and the standard of living are. higher,” said a government statement. "Output per man has probably risen by so per cent in the last 10 years. Ifrom 1925 to 1909 the increase was very rapid and dur- ing the war output-per man- Year rose by 10 to 15 per cent. This increase is mainly attribut- able to the mocha. ‘ “ of farming which was encouraged by the high proportion of wages in agricultural costs."

Young Mallard For N. B.

(Telegraph Journal}

JUNE 30 - One hundred little ducks have just flow-n from New Jersey to New Brunswick faster than any ducks ever covered the distance before.

They were passengers on a Trans-Canada Air Lines plane, which set them down at Blisavllle Monday evening. Yesterday they were relaxing after the trip at the farm of J. M. Colwell at Jemaeg.

lliight-week-old blue mallards, they were raised on the New Jersey; State Game Farm, and sent to New Brunswick by Ducks Un- limited, an organisation backed by vwealthysportsnen who are interested in the conservation of wild ducks.

Within the next fQw days the mallards, altar they have been banded for indenttflcation, will be llbcr-ated in the St. John River valley by Bruce S. Wright, of Redericfon, director of the North-

Wildlife Management Institute. Mr Wright hopes it will be pos- sible to establish the species in the St. John River section, to take some of the hunting Pressure off the heavily shot native black duck. . The mallards traveled in cartons, each containing 1o blrdsp‘; _, They had to be stripped" by piano because a slower form of transportation would have kept them away from water too long. They arrived In good condition, ilfr. Wright said. By the time they we freed. they will have cost Ducks Unlimited approximately t8) apiece Mr. Wright asked that all hunters report any of the banded mallards that are shot in the g season, in order to provide data. on whether the effort to establish than succeeds. If it does, the experiment will be re- peated on a larger scale next year.

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Readers are, perhaps. tired of reading about the ancient Romans, cut it must be admitted that had it not been for them, there might have been no reading at all! Near- ly two thousand years ago they took their alphabet to Britain and left it for posterity in in- , iptlons on stones. Our “capitallr” today, are exactly the same as the Romans used, but the-y had no “W" nor "Y" which were after- wards supplied by the Welsh and English. Our "lower case" (small) letters come from the Romans through the Old Ge-Jnan and Old English characters, but this may form the theme of a future Note.

In all tihe Romance languages the "I" had two simple sounds. When long it sounded like “ee" in seen, and when" short ‘like "i" in sin. In the l6th century, in Eng- land, the long "I" became a diphthong pronounced “ah-ee," but it is not known what caused the change, unless it was cam- lessness in not raising the tongue sufficiently, when first beginning the sound. And by the way this rliphthong gave a lot of trouble to our Northumbrlun school- master, ior we boys, I recall, pro- nounced it as "e-ee," the first "e" short as in met. It was amusing to hear ,us trying to say “tah- eeger" (tiger), when we could only manage “te-eegerl"

It is not at all certain when the letter "J" took its present form. In old Roman inscriptions there is nothing to distinguish it from the letter "I." Arid it had the some sound -— the long "ee." to judge from the dictionary. Later, in medieval times, it was used In writing Roman numerals, thus: one was 1, two was 1J, three was II-l, and so on: J was used to close the nixnber where possible. Another theory is that the monk- ish chroniclers, who illuminated their manuscripts, were the first to turn the capital I into J by giving it a tall turned to the left! In the course of time it lost the I sound, and in England became "dzh," as in John; in Spain "hw," as in Juan, and so on. It is an Interesting study to trace the name "John" from Portugal to Russia, noting all the variations. Here are two: In Scotland it is Ian, pronounced Eli-an: in Hol- land it is Jan. pronounced ee-AN. All the difference is in the stress. Island Surnames: Forbes

Some thirty years ago i was acquainted with a Mr. libs-hes, and being interested In the name I elicited the following inform- ation -- which I transferred to my scrap-book at the time. The name occurs in early charters as Forbes, 12b5, Forbes, 142i, Forbeys, lfll, and Ibrbees 1206. It is mpposad to‘ be Plctish; as are all place-names beginning with "For," sum as Foriar. There is a district of IPorbes in Aberdeen- shirc about which this story is told: King Oonel (probably a local chieftain) was hunting when he was attacked by a savage bear. One ccnachar came to his assist- ance and killed the bear; for which he was nick-named ‘Torboaach" that is the man “ForbasacIi'i' that is, the prion‘ wit); the bold forehead. A round stone carved Into the semblance of a bear’a head, marked the spot, till it was taken to Forbes Oaatel in the year 1700. The owners of Forbes Oaatel were raised to the Peerage as Barons. One of the family, Peter Forbes. Married a French lady, and at the time when these notes were made, one of his descendants was the Marquis dc Forbes pies Issarts. The family of Forbes has its own particular tartan.

Farm Whitewash

I had an enquiry, the other day, for details of making tallow whitewash. Now, most farms have mm; use fnr whitewash: the cheapest of all paints, and for certain purposes the best. It makes a sanitary coating for the inside of buildings housing stock, and while not so lasting on out- side work, it has a protective action, and adds greatly to the appearan of outbuildings. Farmers are as a rule short- handed, and are further handi- hpped by a short season, hence they do not use whItIuh al niudh as they should. There is no excuse now for this neglect, since a well-known firm is now

gs by machinery. Tallow ab, however, is not as well known in Canada al it ll in Britain, where it is esteemed for its longlasting qualities, and fine, glossy appearance.

Lime is the basis of all white- wash proper effect it must be "alseked"

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water. 11 toe much water 1| used the slacking it retarded by lower-

too little water will allow the lime to scorch, making the wash transparent and lumpy. are sixty-two pounds of limo in a bushel and this quantity re- quires fifteen gallons of water to aloha it. Place the lime in a cask,

mam cams to rise: tho limo ll ion liable to scorch ii stirred occasionally. if too thick. the solution should be brought to a cream-like consistency by the addition of bot wam; in fact uhitewam 1s battal- applied hot, if It can be managed.

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80mg operators mix in a little laundry blue, ("stone blue" to the

Northumbrian), to the lime- wash to event a yellow tinge. Certain e the, such as umber,

sienna, and ochre, purchased as powder, may be mixed with the whitewash. The mixture will, of course, not be as intense in color, ici llmewash is a .p0'WEl‘i1lI bleacher.

What On Earth-f

There have been two prizes lately awarded to students at Cambridge University. One of the Smith's Prizes went to the author of an ess on “The Topology oi Lattices.” The Raleigh Prize was awarded for “The Frcdholm The- olry lof Integlrai Equations for Operators belonging to the Trace Class of a general Banach Space." The authority for tlhls statement is “Janus" oi the London "Spectator." He does not say what these por- tentous titles mean; and I con- iess I cannot tell you.

Dandelion Greens

In the good old times dandelion greens were in great request in spring. They were to be had long before anything came from the garden and the children of rich and poor alike, turned out ti

gather the fresh green leaves. Tlhese are naturalliy bitter, but not excessively so , and their

other medicinal properties make them ci greet value as an article 0i food. First, they are " ‘ sources oi vitamins A, Bi, C. and G whose qualities I need not parti- cularize nowadays. They most certainly had tonic properities, for grooms fed them to their horses to "sleek" their coats! They also had some influence on the liver and the kidneys and were known to prevent the formation of stone and gravel . Curious that such valuable greens should go out of usel

How were the greens prepared for table? I found a dozen books that praised them and but two that gave recipes. My memory re- called that as a small boy I used to cover a slice of bread and butter with dandelion leaves, add a pinch of salt and consume the lot. However in my search for knowledge I determined to cook a batch in accordance with the recipe in the old cook-book. Having procured a zuantity of fresh leaves I trimmed off their red stem-ends, (where much of the bitterness is concentrated) and discarded any that seemed too old. They were placed in a sauce- pan witm enough boiling water to cover them, and allowed to "stew" tell nearly tender; then a quan- tity of sorrel leaves were added and the simmering continued "until the water has evaporated and the whole is soft." Mash with a wooden spoon, says the recipe, stir in a Iumb of butter, flavor with pepper and salt and serve like spinach. The sorrel is what some call “sour-sab" (or “scur-

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