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QM, hh interesting discussion wk plane at the last meeting of .,F..,, Club held in Charlotte- uw 'with reference to the best ‘°'"‘,,; puung board. rt has been Und,/ed out by Major A. B. Rob- wl” 0,, his return from the old °""°'2,.y his; spring that consign- houses wgrg Of tI`I€ ODIXIIUII mel; B umform gype of pelting W d would be preferable to the W nineties now u.I:d. Some wg, have a tendency to broad- bwthe pep, ht the neck. others ,T , 1; too much and some stretch

,hfnwk wo long.

ether or no it is feasible to

,ilgardizc a type of pelting board

cannot hny_‘ It would mean the

ve mm Cf thousands oi' boards mranchers in this province and 2,7", the low prices that prevail mm. might be indifferent to mak- ,,,g'9, chance. There ‘ls no 111163' mn hui that a pelt taken off. ,Etched and prepared according to me best scientific skill will real- Mmcrc iimn one that is done in B .linchod manner.

lorry lu'-low as secretary Of

Club has written to the

“Remember your fur bearers suffer enough from the heat in their wire enclosures without adding the nec- essity of scratching t.o their mis- ery. ‘Spare the iles. p;wder-the iiuld-and spoil the fox' might eas- ily be a fur farmers slogan."

Mr. G. H. Mayer, sub-Manager

of Frederick I-Iuth ds Company, New York City, addressing a meet- ing of the Ontario Fur Farmers' Association. said in part: "Mink breeding is a coming industry and I marvel at the rapid progress made by mink breeders-in the last few years. Color and quality have improved to the point where the average ranch raised mink over- shadows the wild mink.

Manufacturers ci mink coats now

show a decided preference for the former because they say the pelts are lighter and the color more uni- form. While they demand a fair sized mink pelt they place far greater emphasis on texture and color.

The short nap mink is the sort

most in demand. This is an ani- mal with not too lang guard fur

Ar the writer gazed on him very pany. gave some interestin views only an approximate figure of a Of

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M gone iiooey--registered in our uunscollsncss. However. _Mme Glght The Black Fox M8SBZlne in "D0 ni nina hundred had D*!`€V\:\1SIY You Know Thati’ says: "The weal- llem dosed with no ill results B0 thy native women of Tibet are al- re mu to plnlosophlze and GH-U" w to the conclusion that as long 93 fur

the percentage is kept d0W¥\ I0 535' PN Y eaven about one-tenth or one-fifteenth of Many historians claim that the fur- onc per cont we arc doing O. K-

By the why our method is a sort 5

of a tim-e bnrrellecl one. Ono chap ning and weaving by thousands of lsstntloncd in command of a buck- years-'In Turkey most of the

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each ml and Formalin mixed in ound their head based on an old mm water .Another has charge ni the pulp Dalmatian insect pow- the wearer and. prevents sunstroke.

der; the ill

ion t a i n i n g carbon-tetrachloride mixed in cllw oil in the pr0D0rti0n hlbitors' Associat‘on was held last ll “lilly DCI' Cent C8i'50l1-t0f»!`8' evening at which matters connect

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The idea

byllsing the Dalmatian insect pow- cessful one held lest year. Evid- del and lastly to dlp the fcX's tip ently the Silver Fox Exhibitfon has inthe Izal and Formalln to get =c

:lin of any possible mites and al- continue to grow with the years.

it to keep

when his stomach gets hot from lllevwrkingsof the Nema capsules. cleaned oil' by now, of course t

. is a matte, of fact we have to

lliund earm

nice among the pups, and no lieas. llrobahlv bccallso we use good g _ 5 - “mug d‘sini<-ctant every two weeks atlvs diet with milk. V

ill cleaning

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consignment houses to see possible for them to agree

(hc standard Pemnlf Ward "ld lo forward a diagram of same

ranchers can Bet boards

up in accordance with the

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onth and discuss this am-

meetings have been held once a. month ever since.

It is mooted that the houses may meet GM'

things.

Fox Club referred to above fo y out-come of a 5\l8E€SlSi0¥1'Ca'e should be taken in scraping hy Claude Smith. Charlotw- that none cf the grease gets on the not it would be a sood idea

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ers in the vicinity of

and others if they

get together once a ialk over their various The suggestion bore

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week we spoke about dosing a

Nemo Capsules for worms. e

\ve had our first fatality Labrador mink at $5,000 each. A

season when using the cap- Mg Through a little inadvert- lg coats from $1.750 to $3,000 or mlsludgement one oupsule each.

have gone the wrong Woy

got into thc larynx. for a nice

sized. well silvered fox PUD the summer school of the Iowa Fox his earthly Carver. and Fur Breeders' Association. Mr.

at maturi rose uP-

contains a one per cent

irrl presides over the can

of these three processes

him from biting his tip

libs very little in evid-

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our sheds

, the same day it is pelted. The pelt

and very soft, silky fur with a blue foundation. Rancher-s should use the same care in Deltlng mink as in pelting foxes. The mink should be just about prime and the paws. especially the rear ones, should still be slightly blue.

'rue mink pen should be scrapes'

cannot be scraped as clean later n if the grease és allowed to dr .

fur

. In stretching the pelt do not

pull the belly of the skin down quite as far as the rump so that a buyer can examine the rump fur without damaging the pelt."

The New York Herald-Tribune

and other New York newspapers arried advertisements recently from Fifth Avenue store featuring costs

mad to order from selected dark

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ntreal firm last saturday had

At a banquet in connection with

A. H. Ieohard of the Purina Com-

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fox ranchers from Prince Ed-

ard Island to the Pacific Coast.

ays buried with all their nnest s so they will make a good im- ssl0n when the enter H -

rier's trade is the oldest in_ the world and that the wearing `of kins out-dates the arts of spin-

workers wear a small fur iece ar-

be

lief that it imparts strength to

A meeting of the Bllver Fox Ex-

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with the coming fox show were

disclmed. Indications are that the Exhibition of 1935 will be as large

not larger. than the very suc-

ome an institution that will

Your adult foxes should have

here may be some old fur clinging

them. but a fox that has his old at intact requires treatment such

worm capsules followed bv a

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dose of castor oil then lax

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Distinctive Name

“Silver Tip” seems to be a. most

appropriate trade name for silver fox foods, for as everyone knows the silver tip is a distinctive fea- ture of every well bred and pro- perly reared `silver. black fox. Ear‘y in the history of the fur farming industry, everyone had a different way of feeding his animals; there was no standardiza- tion, no food charts. As experience was gained, the way of the fox farmer became smoother, until to- day the raising of silver foxes and other fur bearers is easier than it has been before. In the work of helping the flu- farmer very few have done more than Mr. James Walton, who came to Moncton about twentyfour years ago from South Wales, where he manu- factur nl hard tack for the British Army, Navy and Merchant Marine. At first he conducted Walton’s Model Bakery in Moncton mak- ing fox biscuits as a. side line. Later the side line became the main line; bread and pastry for humans were discontinued and The Silver Tip Biscuit Company. Limited as' manufacturers of fox and other animal foods came into being,

This company was the firs. to

mlsiufacture fox cubes, IN CAN- ADA which have proven so popular with fox farmers. -

On October 3, 1984. a. bad fire

caused a loss of $40,000 to the Silver 'Pip plant but it was not long before work was resumed and on a much larger scale. This Com- Duny is now located on Albert 3t1'0€t. 0CC11Pying a property which was purchased from the City of Moncton: conveniently situated be- tween the C. N. Railway and Petitcodiac River, and on the main road to Albert County. Amon; the latest additions to the already modern plant is a 10 pan reel oven and an up to date electric cereal cooker. The Bll- V91” TIP C0111-DS-ny has a large capa- city. which is taxed. almost to the limit, in producing fox and animal

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_ °uud thoroughly satisfactory. both in quality and price. Attention is directed to the ad-

vertisement of The silver Tip U0mPBny in today-'s newspaper. The Silver Tip ad. will be 5 weekly feature. T- __ _

fur. In that case it is a. good idea fOr the rancher to comb it off so as to give the new coat a chance to d°V€10l1- From now on the care you take cf your foxes may reflect in the kind and quality of peltg you have to offer for sale later on.

Each adult fox should be care-

fully looked over and considered and a decision .made as to whether it is to be retained or pelted and if pelted the apprzxlmate date de- tennined on. Then a check-up 0V¢1'y now and then will show you how the pelt is developing. .

It mud’ be Ihilt the fur will cqmg

faster than you expected and that instead of pelting in December it will be necessary in order to retain Color and lustre to take on in mid- November. It is these things that have to be attended tg today, for a little inattention may mean any- where from five to twenty-five dol- lars or more loss on a sk’n,

Stake Good Potato ,

(Experimental Farms Note) Potato tubers do not cross. They

reproduce true to type. The only way to obtain a potato crow is through the seed balls, which sometimes form on the vines, and that method of propagation is practically never resorted to unless by someone interested in originat- ing a new variety. Tubers are not really seed, although commonly so- called. but are a vegetative part of the plant. If, therefore, the tubers are not mixed during the opera- tions of digging, handling, storage and planting, the variety will not become impure (unless by the rare chance of a sport) no matter how closely to another kind it may be grown. Thus one may confidently select seed tubers in the expectancy that like will produce like.

There is a difference in the vig-

our of strains, stocks and hills. Whether this difference is wholly due to the influence of disease, or is to some extent inherent, may be left to the plant pathologists and the geneticlsts to decide The prac- tical fact is that some potato plants are more vigorous and pro- ductive than others, and that in reproducing from these lie pos- sibilities of profit. If one will, dur- ing the summer, stake a number of the best hills (being careful to avoid. not only dwarfed or un- healthy plants. but also those ex- hibiting the abnormally large top growth known as giant hill) and will ses that any neighbouring plants sumecied of harbouring virus diseases are promptly pulled lud dwruyed and lr he wul then follow up this effort by A further rlloruul inlpection of the tubers WMU 4\¥ he may improve his seed .stocker at all oventrmly arrest the runnin!-out process which oc- curs when diseus is allowed to creep in unchecked. At the Domin- ion nrperimsntsl Sub-Station. Beaverlodgo, Alberts, lslection has been carried further by thc gp. proved system of propagating in

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ADDITIONS 'I0 OUR FLOBA

| I have often suspected that a ‘ careful examination of our lime- l stone districts. would add new ; plants to our Island iiora, and the , following interesting letter from l Dr. _W. L. Holman, Summerside. ' fully bears out this supposition. Dr. ' Holman writes: “I had been plan- ning to drive down to have a talk | with you about the Island flowers, after Mr. R.. R. Hurst had given me s copy of your most welcome compilation. I am not a botanist ibut enloy trying to identify wild flowers as a summer hobby. -Your list has added a great deal to the . fun of the game and makes it eas- I ler for us.

“I have found a. few plants which

9-fe D05 in y0ur list and am mail- ing you some specimens. The Sua- eda is not fully identified. The Water Pennywort is common about the Dunk River and in the swamp near the Sumrnerslde golf com-g¢_ “The Lamium purpureum is, and

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in the garden here. The Aqulleg-la (Columbine) is established about the woods below the golf com-ge, . The Geum was not in bloom when I found it. but the leaves and the dried-out flowers suggest rivale? The kidney-shaped leaves, from a wet swampy place gave no bloom, and are different in appearance from the Water Pennywort.

"The Plantago decipiens from a

salt mann near Malpeque had some small plants (enclosed) all about it. What are they? The 101115 (CYYDfD€l'amma stelleri and Woodsia alplna? were both on dry (not m0SSy) rocks overhanging Dunk River: the other fern, W. glabella. was growing on very heavily-mossy rocks.

I have been unable to visit you,

and expect to retum to Toronto in about a week. Would be glad to have your comments on the speci- mens sometime. Sincerely, W. L. Holman."

First, I must say that I was very

pleased with the manner in which the Specimens had been prepared; in' contrast with other consign. ments of plants that I sometimes get, Dr. Holman had spread some or all of the leaves out fiat, be- tween sheets of newspaper, and had written on the margin the date and exact locality of the find. In the most of cases he had added the scientific name of the plant. Too often enquirers send plants that have been allowed to dry “at their own sweet will," (if I may express a crude fact poetically) and con- sequently the trouble of naming

them is doubled.

The Suaeda or Sea Bllte is one

of the plants my correspondent has doubts about, specifically. so have I, for the "Manuals" describe the species in a. rather uncertain fash- ion. Britton lists three species in the North Atlantic regions while Gray splits them into four. In the “key” to the species Britton says S. americana is a dark green plant. but in the description he gives it as pale green, or nearly white. There are also other contradictions in the text-books, so that at last I laid aside the S. iinearis of Mac- Swain's list as requiring confirm-

ation.

The Water Pennywort (Hydro-

cotyle americana L.) is a welcome addition to the Umbellifers of our Island, which is rather scantfly supplied with members of this fa- mily. The Lamium purpureum L., Red Dead Nettle, is new also. but is probably commoner than we suppose: it does not however seem to be so aggressive a weed as the "Hemp Nettle” (Ga1eopsls) which ranges over most of the Northam continent. The Aquilegia canaden- sis? and the Geum rlvale? appear to be authentic, and if so, new to the district; but as no bloom was to be had. I have forwarded them to t.he Dominion Botanist for his "lmprimatul-." The little plant with renlform leaves from the wet swampy place was Mitella nuda. which will be found in MacSwaln's list. The other little plants from near Malpeque were in fruit only, and have gone up "for trial” to the Botanist at Ottawa. We shall hear of them again.

The fems Cl-yptogramma and

Woodsia are also new to the Island and when I have heard the verdict on Aquilegia and Geum, this col- umn will be furnished with a list of all plants_ "discovered" since the "Flowering Plants and Ferns 01

has been for years, a common weed~

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lished in 1033. It will run to about a score of species. Dr. Hol- , man's finds should encourage the

study of Botany in the capital of

_ Prince County.

*I THE DOLE

4 071 AUS- 2501. Gordon S. Har- g ylnston announced that organizat-

ion work on Canada's employment and social insurance scheme was _'~'0mPleted, so we will eventually

, .lava what the British (with mis- , Dlwed humor) call the dole, on l this side of the water. One of our

Canadian humorists. with an utter misunderstanding of the matter, once wrote a scathing article de- mi-YWU-UZ Why the British Govem- ment. in lieu of anything better, did not set the unemployed to WEHUDB r0und in circles, insteadof Paying out money for nothing! And now .we're to have “the dole" here! That veteran Trade Union Lead-

or and ex-Minister of Mines, sir Ben Turner, M. P., has recently come out with a. rather explosive ertiulefentltled “D-_chat word Dole." in which he says “When I hear men and women saying they are on the dole I want togive them a clout on the head. I remember beink out of work myself away back in the last century. I drew seven or nine weeks' unemployment pay -I forget which-from my Trade Union, the Old Weavers’ Associa- tion at Huddersfield. I dldn't look upon it as a dole, much as I dis- liked the need to draw it. It was a benefit I had paid for."

Sir Ben supports our humorlst by

supposing that the word "dole" means getting something for noth- U18- Why Emily this damnable epi- thet, he says, to the three-party arrangement for raising a fund to pay out unemployment benefit to those who pay in? Why grumble if the people are kept in a state of Physical and moral decency by the arrangement? Before the Act came info force the only help an out-of- work could get was a soup kitchen meal, a cast-of! ragged suit or dress, or B. workhouse outlook. It has been salvation to tradespeople for most of the unemployment pay goes into their tllls; and only han- dicaps the undertakers for it pre- vents starvation! “It is a barrier against wild, wicked, dangerous re- volution. Nobody wants , revolution who is at all right in his mind. But distress breeds revolution or death." The "dole" means less crime too. and is a blessing to policemen,jus- tlces, and judges. .

NATURE NOTES

As I write, (Aug. 31) the planet

Mars is plainly visible through the westem window; it is one-and-a- , half degrees _S.E. of Jupiter. On the 27th it was two degrees S. of that planet; a month ago Mars was well to the W. of Jupiter. Now it will be understood that the two` have changed places, and that the change took place on the 27th when the two were "in conjunc- tion." As they drew near each other the portents increased. In my diary appears the following under heading Aug. 25th: “Phen- omenal rain here: 3.42 inches in the night, Quake in Montserrat at 9.30 a.m., after light shocks for three days previous. Howling gale on Newfdland. coast with loss of life. Storm at Bermudas." Around this period the long drought was broken with heavy rains that en- abled wide-awake farmers to com- mence their ploughing. lt was not however ideal weather for cutting the grain.

Are we to have a plague of

grasshoppers, as Western Canada has? These destructive insects are present in consderable force this fall, and I have heard some farm- ers blame them for interfering with the f‘llling out of the oats. Cer- tslnly my hulless oats showed a considerable quantity of empty “chaff” but whether this was due to grasshoppers or drought I am not prepared to say.

The soybeans in the garden are

not going to bs a heavy crop this year, owing to lack of moisture They are in a plastic state, biolog- ically, which I attribute to the fact that they are "unsophisticaiod,” and have not yet been tinkered with by plant-breeders-at least not to any great extent. They are U18 Mnndgrih variety, and like other soybeans, have one to three seeds in the pod, and very, very occas-

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(Experimental Farms Note) The rules and regulations of the

Canadian Seed Growers Association make it necessary for growers of ,Elite Stock to have their seed stocks verified for purity every four years, or more frequently if necessary. Each spring, the secretary of the Association gathers in the seed stocks of the various growers who ‘have Elite seed and half of each lsample ts given a number ond sub- lmitted to the Cereal Division, Cen- 'tral Experimental Farm , Ottawa, for a growing test . At the Central Farm, thm ,samples are sown in five rod-row plots which provide on the average »l20o to 1500 plants for testing As ‘soon as the plants are 6 to 8 inches high. the assistant in charge of the particular crop lnvclved, wheat, oats or barley, as the case may be, inspects the plots and notes any characters in the plot which may . be abnormal for the variety con- cerned. Then, at one week intervals until harvest time, and particularly just after heading, close watch is kept on the plots and oi’ any "off- type” or suspicizus .heads are tagged with small labels. These so- called "off-types" may not really be off type but. from experience, it has been found that suspicious heads are often 'the start of a hneak-up in “the s*traln.Then, at ‘harvest time, any heads marked caller in the season are pulled and put away for close. critical exam- lnnti-n in the laboratory. The centre row of each plot is pulled and the heads kept for reference, should any question with regard to the plot arise.

The marked heads are then

critically exarnined and a detailed report submitted on each test to the executive of the association. As a further test, not only of the grower's seed stock, but also of the one responsible for verifying the seed. the seed from the suspicious. marked heads is sown and a check made on the resulting progeny. This test is very interesting in that suspicions are frequently justified and one finds a diversity of types

result from this test.

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earliest for seed. and hand-picked those pods containing three seeds. These were sown this spring 'and the plants are producing more than 50 per cent of three-seeded pods. The almost instant response is in- teresting. '

The heavy rains have produceda

great crop of mushrooms round here, and from now on the mycol- ogist will find much to study in the way of fungi. A very handy book to have is Dr. Gus.sow’s “Mushrooms and Toadstools." which is sold by the Division of Botany, Ottawa, at the extremely low price of one dollar. It is copicusly il- lustrated, and contains exact des- criptions of some hundreds of com- mon fungi. We negiect the fungi, all except the common mushroom, but there are scores of edible “toadstools"-all with different fia- vors-which with a little know- ledge, might safely be used.

Scientists, as a. rule. are not po-

etically minded: in the detail of classification, description, andprac- tical utilization of their dailywork, there is little room for the imag- inative flight of words. The late Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, of Aber- deen, was a notable and brilliant exception: hear him on the subject of toadstools, and perceive the beauty of these humble vegetab- les." When wc walk through a damp wood we see that one factor in the fascination of fungi isthelr beauty of form- Not only does one see "fair umbrellas, furl'd or spread a Grecian shield and a prelate's crown, a Freedoms cap and a friar's cowl," one finds goblets and chalices, corals and sponges, a flmsy cage for leap-o’-my thumb. and. a bird's nest filled with eggs. Wore the big dryads saddle projecting from the doom- cd tree has its beauty. espe- cially when one gets a glimpse of the dryad mounted, but it is among the small fungi that one finds the most exquisite architect- ures. Add to that the wonderful coloring-from crimson and scar- let to golden yellow and ivory white. There is a. charm, too. in the rapid transient growth--how soon they strike their tents and are gone! What delicacy of build in many cases; they are like little

The rainy period has started the

trees growing again-at the wrong time. The sap should be descend- ing now, not ascending. This, it would seem, is not good for the fruiting spurs next spring, but I hesitate to prophesy!

NEW PART-SUNG

In the "Musical Times" for the

month oi' August Messrs. Novelio and Co., of London, Eng., are of- fering a new part-song, or it might be more correct to say, 0. newly harmonized version of mold patriotic ballad. ‘The Arcthusa". This robust tune was originally composed, as to the music, as a solo, by William Shield, whose well known songs, "Old 'Ilowler,” “The Wolf.“ "The 'I‘horn,' are included in most collections of English folk- songs. shield was a Tyneside msn who migrated in search of fortune. to London, and ended up by being a persona gr-ata with Royalty. I-le bequeathed his valuable violin to the then Prince of Wales “The Ar- cthusa" was the name of an Eng- lish man-of-war in the Napoleonic era, and the ballad commemorates one of her exploits. Shields’ music is always tuneful, Sometimes dra- matic, and generally requires voices of a good range. The present part- song is for three voices,`of a mixed choir, and may bs classed as mod- erately easy. It can be procured through your local music-dealer.

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BELOW IN MAKING A NIW LAWN, AND YOU WILL HAVE ‘ A BEAUTIFUL CARPET OF GREEN NEXT SUMMER.

I1 you‘re planning on making 8.

'ew lawn, make it this fall. You will agree, I'm sure. that this is the ideal lawn-making time ,OMG you know ‘.I.e facts. During this season moisture ls more uniform; weeds less troublesome; grass grows best. All these help the fall-made la-rm become well est- ablished and strong enough to go through extremely hot weather which so often kills tender, spring- sown lawns, _

The following simplified method of lawn making is the result of years of study in the lawn-making problems of the home gardener. six steps. each carefully exercised. lead to a beautiful, successful lawn.

l. Lawn making starts with the

cr ~eful reparation of the soil. Spade to a. depth cf six inches and pulverizle thoroughly. If the soil available is inclined to be stiff and clayey, incorporate some sand in the two few inches. If naturally sandy, use clay and peat moss to give it better re- tentive power. _

2. Apply a complete balanced

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3. Wait one day after applying

plant. food and then seed with good grass seed. It's always the most economical. Use four to lil/0 pounds per 1.000 square feet. If you sow by hand put half on crosswlse and the other half on lengthwise.

4. Roll to_imbed and to insure

perfect contact between seed and soil. A tamper or wide board can be used on small areas if a roller is not available. This step is es- sential and should not be over- looked. 5. Water thoroughly, using a

very fine spray. Continue daily (or twice daily, if necessary to keen soil moist) until seed germination is -cmplete--thzee to four weeks. Thereafter soak lnvm to a depth of five or six il.ches, once or twice a week.

6. Mow the lawn when the srBSS

has reached a height of three to three and one-half inches. Be sure to have the mower newly sllarpened \ that it will not pull up the young grass. Set the mower as high as it will cut. Continue regular cutting until frost stops growth.

tury, must have been an exciting place to live in, according to the old stories. Last week we read of the County Keeper-(something like a. Sheriff but with more ex- tenslve powers) being taken pris- oner and chained to his enemy's fireplace, until rescued by Frank stokoe, a Borderer of great stat- ure, and bold character. Many stories are told of this -worthy, but one. illustrative of those stirring times, must suffice. Btokoe lived in a fortified house, locally called a pele-tower, at Chesterwood, a small village near Haydon Bridge, on the South Tyne. 'I1-less P618- towers had stables on the ground level in which the cattle and hors- es were housed at night for safety against Scottish "reivers." The fa- mily llved in .the story above. to which access was gained by means of stairs on the outer side of the walls. The bedrooms of these peles opened one into the other all along the line, without any corridor.

One winter night Stokoe was

awakened by a noise 'which roused his suspicions. He slipped cautious- ly along to the "front door." and found that somebody was trying to draw back the bolt by means of a lmife thrust between the door and the jamb. Gliding back, he walk- ened his daughter, whom he in- structed to stand behind the door. and in the event of the bolt being drawn, to push it back again with- out alarming the party. He then took his musket, and loading it with slugs, descended through a. trap in his-bedroom to the cow~house be- low. Peering through the door, he saw at the top of the heavy stone stairs leading to the dwelli.ng ap- artments, five or six men with a dark lantem. Our hero, after sur- veying them carefully for a few minutes in order to satisfy himself

as to why they wore, suddenly broke the silence in a thundering voice--“You d~d rascals, I'll make the starlight shine through some of you!" and discharged his weap- on at the same moment.. The bear- er of the lantern staggered across the stair-head and plunged head- long down the steps, shot through the heart; while his terrified com- panions Jumped the guard-wall and i‘led`in all directions. Btokoe hast- ily entered the housn, closcdsnd bolted the door, and retired to bod as if nothing unusual had happen- ed. The Good Old Times!

Another story is told of this man

and the rebellion of 1715. He "went out" with the Earl of Derwentwa- ter, and was besieged in Preston, but escaped the Govemment forces by clearing a high wall on horse- back. The Earl was taken and ex- ecuted, and Btokoe had the MYV9 to go una claim his body for trous- port to its northern burial-place, and got away with it, literally as well as figuratively.

Spinning and Weaving

Send me your wool to be spun llitd

Yarn and wove into Blankets. Tha charges are: sin§le yarn 23 c0nlS» doubled 26 cents per pound. Blank- cfs $2.00 and if unlaundered $1-353 it takes live lbs. of wool per Blanket. Wool must be well washed and all dirt and burrs picked out. The size of single yarn is medium, and .inun- led yum fine. medium. coarse and hooking yam. Put shrppers name on all parcels and owner’s name, address and instructions 'Inside- Send by mail or' freight. Special price for washed wool with dirt and burrs picked out. Freight will bs paid on 100 lb. lots.

WILLIAM CONDON,

65 Queen Street, Charloittowm

I..-8122-6-S-W-tl-Nov. 22.

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Marmlll Fox Cubes.

lulting lin food poisoning.

IIUW IIIII ‘THEY GKUW in August

D0 YOU BEALIZE that you are now one month near-cr

_ polling time than you were when we placed our August

advertisement before you?

One month more of that valuable growing and develop-

l ill! Period has passed and cannot be recalled. Did you uct

a good 30 days' development on your pups? Feeders of

Do noi, rlslr the possibilities of "lower than necessary”

MAIIMILI. FOX CUBES

WILL GIVE YOU SIZE AND THAT LONG LUSTROUS FUR. WHICH COMES FROM A FULLY HEALTHY FOX STEADY. natural growth of thc pup's body rcsulfs in a

good healthy coat. Good growth depends on good feed.

MARMILL FOX FOODS provide the complete diet. and are supplied in special ratlom for each season. They como in two convenient forms, Cubes for dry feeding and Meal for mixing. Meat may also be _fed if desired.

MARMILL CUBE! Irs economical. Total daily average

food requirements per pup up to polling time, 424 to Gy; ur.

MAR-MILL CUBES will cut your labor coals in half -

easy to feed - no mixing required - no spoiled meat re-

llmls only ay |

REESORS MARMILL LIMITED

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P. E. I. Fllli TRADERS, Ch'f<»w» llollll, Mcliaye & Todd, Sau-

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now approved for Iodine Content by the Iodine

Educational Bureau, I New York. i

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Send for free in-

formation and prices on Mnrmill Fox Foods. Freight prepaid to your lhtion on 300 lb. lots

or more.

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