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DECEMBER 2_8_,__1940

'- l. ISSUES AFFECTING THE UsEs Arm Aausas or RESOURCES n! am. Lonww JENKINS

PRACTICAL OPINIONS 0F l‘!!!

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t inns car was kept

up all trouble or respoasibili

an embarrassment

in another

‘LJP wail! S0 p0lntledly, "old the place as

with a broom

v. ‘vrcci if he could not bear the of that. shining gulf across u i he could not fly, or whether lit‘ merely wanted to be rude. Was “w his grand- mother's view —of showing her that rut» and all her works were beneath

it Cbkos way of sin"

crnu mpi of a crow

in painting the portrait 0f Coke iu surtii drab colors one does not, 0!‘. though he was sulky and moody anti aelf-pit-yling, his life was motl- vc‘rd -~:tnd let us hope cheered - inierest -food-_ glutton

a safe crow in def-loin bread, and Not only this. but they must "mod to a certain tempieira-

m.

lio".vc\'cr, get. the entire bird,

iv." one flaming iv-as not only a ragln l ‘in epicure as well. 1 to sav that. he ls the onl the world who lives 0n ' whose-wheat

ii lull.

Wiirn Coke was first presented to his master the only clue given as to ltcs in food was the remark

ic could "make way with

for Coke's meals, and. as

f; for Coke to eat was tenderloi

lump-rd out 0f i inc 2i‘..§—~fli'id they wou

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v lwnld he sluflicli for "F “'1' floor hrn he l'f‘<(‘ll“lli)l€(i.

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iAiFIlPSS in prcfixing l iiiflli» ordcv.

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h it u-rappcd up, pay

l to lhc huiciwrt

' ‘ to undergo stir-h I as this,

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been OiLCi to lilm for sleep- distance use, and its doors open- iiie porch on which o . eyes it must have

jlfii. miothei- building .9 one before him. Yet there and '5 cage, placed on a ll‘ the ground, reach- jump that would have

l iii the same mysterious lite iviiole state of New it. a case of reasoning

uni that a garage was the o"; two houses? Or was it .» of a homo smell sniffed

Jllce <

of putting himself to bed summer. Never was -.y. l t sertion of the back stoop nq place was, however,

. The family had climbing, leaving a thousand directions

plnliziivcly discussed with l .i=n inittcrs that had to do ‘fm rcsn door mat. Yet that -_ inexplic- oi Coke's behavior; for ill would he perch on the

icions that, in his c, he had been swept,

n niiandlcd. Indeed, one the facts could only t Coke had been ter- ‘he two alternatives, name- hc loll conscience stricken mtntrr of the mat, or that ntvly rcvcnged himself on ldlnozlicr by putting her in onilsitig position, were not the family

at. one gulp?’ so "a mouse" km as the standard measure-

‘lflllffl that a mouse must be . iriwlrlvlr than a cow, the only \.-.' of the latter that was deemed

r a day a "liOllFC-Slwfli" ration loin was added to what . nf pvoirin lic could catch his way

l . m be ailing for clumsy old ("Kc lo overtake them. He was no springtliness of crickets,

tidbits

~\ “mnusc-sizod" ratimis were c of much family discussion. - y Coke arrived his grand-- error of ' ll-n rents’ worth of “crow On opening the ' vc its contents were found to '11 and of n. debatable vint-

irntc. no doubt. 'I‘he butcher d blameless. It was Coke's 1uol‘:(i~ who was pronounced "crow" In the future » intuit. inuvt. int-rely be desig- ccnis‘ worth of your ." It must be ord- l ll ~n cvcry day and not ex- Fhis at. once divided the lo two ramps; those who "0 larond to go into a butchers ink frr lcn cents‘ worth tznlkvinin: watch it cut

ll"]‘."l'i leaving the matter and c splrih lvrrc independ- an

oven i the case of Car- different. that out. of cxvfcncc c o-vilci‘.

on" loivrl oi passion ‘l"'"'f\"I"T1l(‘. icwci. ilial. ari- . Coke. br s zuamnle n? into terms of

thing that

ll 7119i’. themselves. belonged to the human race. It must be that these instinctive channels of conduct which we are told have carved out therminds of birds and animals, do riot cut as deeply 1n n; supposed; and that the panic fear of human beings which sends the wild CF83... tures scuttling at the approach or man i5 a case of parent training "id 0x51111916. rather than any fear passed down by the sorrowful ex- Perlences of animals at the hands of man. While Coke, the wild crow, was not in the least afraid of ‘nu- mlln 0911185 he was on the other hand, mortally afraid of -crows! He was not a. noisy bird; his con- versation was of a snarling, grumb- ling nature, carried on almost beneath his breath, and 1f no did suddenly emit a loud squawklng, one could be sure he had spied either a crow or a hawk. He did not seem to distinguish between the two when it came to rating his enemies. Let a crow come into the Yard, this summer, and his distress WM Dflthetic. One day he spent hours behind some boxes in the garage because a flock of his pass- ing brothers had settled in a tree’ near the house.

This fear of crows opens up a. host of speculations, fanciful and otherwise, concerning the mentality of Coke and his apparent realiza- tion that he was an outraged thing. Sambo was chummv with other crows; Jakey was in his element boasting and strutting among the timid wild jays of his acquaintance, even inviting them to tea in his feed box: Grunts would have liked his kind if his kind had liked him, and lie gave every evidence of mortification when the wild squir- ‘reis snubbed him. Was it then that poor little Coke felt self-conscious over the fact that he could not fly and that he had no_ tail Did he realize that e resembled nothing so much as a ragged black chicken Or was it a knowledge of the rude barbarliy of crow manners; a feel- ing that they would torment him by eers and peckings because he was what might be called “afflict- ed" Or still again, was Coke a radical —a creature embittered by gnawing envy of all who did possess wings and a tail Who can say! One only knows that he was a crow who did not feel strange in the company of crows‘

As the summer went on no one seemed to grow amy fonder or Coke except liis master-males must of necessity cling together in a house full_of females. And it was truly a difficult thing to get up any senti- ment towards the bird. He appeared to have none himself, and he grew daily more misanthropic. He did not like to be petted, and furiously resented being picked up. He would go anywhere he was driven or orib- ed, but he considered i! a gross in- sult if he was carried. Both Sambo and Jakey loved to have their fea- thers stroked, but there was noth- ing Sybaritic about Coke. “Take your hands off me!" was what one felt were his reactions to endear- ment. Neither was he playful. A dig with his sharp bill in search of secreted cookies was all one nught expect of him. Once. on retrieving a IollYPOlJ. he rushed off in great excitement to crack it open, first by hitting it with his bill against a. log, later by battering it on a stone. But when he found it har- bored neither snail, worn nor ker- nel, he at once lost interest in it. Like other pet birds Coke was in- trigued by shoelnces. To untie ones shoes is a never-ending amusement for such birds. Once a meiil-I-r of the family. seated on the grars with her sewing, offered Coke a wisp of colored ravelings to play with. He scorned it, and turning his back walked. off. But it was merely a piece of gauclierie, a sulky refusal to be beguiled that. one sometimes finds in ili bred children, for later he was discovered with his claws tangled in the red threads, which he bad picked out from the other colors. He was genuinely interested in money. and selected the copper coins, hurrying off to bury them. Large sums like dimes and nickels made no appeal to him.

To hide anything he valued was an instinct with Coke. and he was very fussy concerning the best spots for iris caches: looking nervously about him as he scurried away with bits of surplus food in his mouth, apparently afraid we might dig them up and eat them when his back was turned. But on the whole there is little to record of Coke's mentality except the inexplicable fact of his refusal to go anywhere except those places his grandmother had told him he could 80. and his apparent pessimism over the situa-

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B, on. While Carbon Coke was an out- cast from the family living room and the family dinner table, un- loved and uniovely, nevertheless there was something in Coke's character that commanded respect. One felt that under happier cir- cumstances Carbon Coke might have been a leader of crows, for even as it was he had made the best of a. very bad bargain. Born to soar in the unhamperlng blue; to ieetcr on the tips of pine trees; to flock in jolly gregaricusness with a band of companions; Coke had finally adjusted himself 1o the life of a mere hcn. To him the sky was an unexplored mystery trial; held nothing but incnacc, whether it was a jeerlng caw dropped down upon his startled ear, or the shadow of a hawk swinging above him. He came in contact with none of Na- ture's children except. sick zrers- hcppcrs and the cross chipnnml: w“ose woodpilc he had npnropriat- ed. and whose rare convcrsnf-irvus with him vvcrc hot rarvicd 1m l" any spirit of ccniradrry. A good rlral of the tune Coke must lnvc <1 bccn lonciv. Tiiat he was unlmapi‘. lnicr events proved. This, the“ is the faithful portrait of Cirbon Coke as re sncnt the summer un- 4 dcr the bnlcfui influence of being iglornhri, lusiead cf loved, by his landlady

Ard ‘cow comes the haDDY WW0‘ which gives evidence that. ou: in-

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FARMING IN ONTARIO

R. J. Scott, President of the Un- lied Farmers‘ Co-operatlon Com- pany. at the 26th annual meeting of that association. drew a. picture of the state of agriculture in On- ifl-YIO. as gloomy as that of P. E. Island. Said he:

“The consequences of war have left agriculture, thus far. in a still worse position; farm labor short- age is growing weekly more acute, and economic conditions are dict-- ingpeopie from the land. Canadian agricultural policies are not good enough for Canadian agriculture. Rural culture is declining; rural

communities are finding it 1n- creasingiy difficult to maintain their schools and churches. No

provision is made for the after-the- war crash, whether that crash takes the form of still lower prices or whether it takes the form of goods that cannot be sold at any price, because, remember, we will be geared to all-time high on agri- cultural products throughout ‘he

war.

"Apparently our national policy permits the underwriting of muni- tion plants, the bonusing of indus- try and the assuring of profits to it, while with agriculture there will be more farms for sale next year, and at lower prices, than there were

last year. The road seems to be quite clearly defined -Agrlcu1tural Bankruptcy and then Peasantry.

“Never have I felt so deeply angry at. the plight of an indus- try as l’. do on behalf of agricul- ture those days . . For most young men the fann is now the least. desired occupation; it. is a little better than the internment camp. Economic barriers surround his operations where the barbed wire is surrounding the intern- ment camps."

Such a recital, as may be sup- posed, brought some exceedingly tart comments, even in farm maga- lnes. One writer drew a glittering picture of rural gatherings where well-dressed young men some with not fanciful, but rather a true spiritual tit-oneness with all life; for when he had returned to his old home in New Jersey, surround- ed by a sympathetic atmosphere and free to roam as he pleased with no reminder that he was, after all. nothing but a dirty crow, there came over Carbon Coke an ex- traordinary change. His ugly tem- per and his unsociability dropped from him. He followed his master and mistress about as lovingly as a puppy, with no refrigerator motif in his voice that had now become a sort of happy chuckle; and no has survived the nervous shock of am encounter with a c-it that rc- duoed his tall feathers still furtlvz. and a rescue from the very jaws of a. dog without losing his new equanimiiy. Coke's grandmother had been informed that his un- .loveiy conduct of the summer was only because “he knew he wasn't. liked and that made him hard and bitter." Now Coke is "sweet." Now Coke is “meek? Now he ‘tries all day to make himself agreeable and attractive"; hourly growing in grace and charm. So it would seen: that this little crow soul could blossom only in the sunshine of Love-Love, that is as real apower as gravity or gasoline.

One looks with skepticism on the words of a lover —even if it is only the lover of a crow -—s0 u. was not until Coke's grandmother had seen him again with her own judicial eyes that she believed the half of his conversion. But she knows now, on firsthand evidence, that it is true. When she was re-introduced to Coke last October. she would not have‘ known him except for me rear view which continued in out- line, stubby and lagged. The front of Coke —t.hat is to say the art of his feathers that he himsel is responsible for --ts preened to such blue-black glossiness as to suggest that he is a tznfeta-silk crow; for he batiies as many times a dav as an old Roman lady, first carefully taking out the dead leaves which blow into the bird-bath. And all this is in keeping with the change in his emotional ratiue which has mellowed to such a. delicate sensuousness that lie will stand by i-lie hour and have his buck stroked, bemused and blissful, his eyelids fiickeriri drcamily over his eyes in slow an milky winks. Nor is this the only change. l-Iis intellect seems to have waked up as well.

Since his narrow (‘scape from the cat and dog. when the family are not in the garden with him, Coke

is kept in a roomy wire enclousure. To hold his drinking water he aas a medium sized wooden chopping bowl. It is almost impossible to keep this filled, for Coke perciiing on its rim, begins to rock it until finally all the water is soshed out on the side opposite him. When this happens he runs over and stands with his head cocked, list- ening, listening, for what For the microscopic rustle of an earth- worm, which he draws out -horrid pinkish unwinding —from the wet soil. And this is not all, for on dry days when he has used up his drinking water and the family are to busy to wait on him, Coke, the incredible crow, drags his bowl away and begins to hunt womis in the daorgp circle of earth where it has at

The use of speculative imagina- tion ls not. encouraged in scientific quarters, yet it is through this faculty that a Galileo glicnpsed the earth swinging by its invisible tether to the sun, and an Einstein dared to split open out tight little theories of time and space. And so it. is through the use of speculative imagination that we must look at. Carbon Coke the crow: for a crow is more. mysicrious than a planet. A planet travels in its foreordain- rd orbit. A crow ovdains its own orbit. And do we but visualize all liic as sparks struck from the same great firc, we see that despite intellectual abysses that separate us, on planes of primitive passion we are brothers, whether it be a tick or a ilgor. n mouse of a Mussolini flocked at, thcn. in this compre- hensive manner. “'0 may find in the behavior of Carbon Coke- more — much more —than the mere story

lterpretation of Coke's feelings W85‘ o! n‘ ‘rounded m‘, “ma. m,“ I

dimmer coats! —danoed with girls in evening towns. to the mulls of good orohes u. "If than are ec- onomic barb-wire entanglements they are quite unconscious of it." This may be a true picture in some districts, but the “fine ralment" is more likely to be paid for by na- tional word on roads and parks

speech, one is glad to hear of the continued success of the Company. Last year about 50 co-operanve as. sociations and clubs affiliated with the United Farmers. and among them they made $9,755,000 worth of sales, of which live stock oom- prised two-thirds. There was a net fit for the twelve months of 54,961, after distributing $4,401 to the affliated groups, and providing for general depreciation and a re- serve account. Most of the associa- tions which joined the Company used their profit t"; buy capital stock in it. Many complimentary speeches were made in apprecia- tion of the Company's progregglvg

policy A visitor, Mr. c. w. slum, of Ithaca, N. Y., told of the Grange

Lewuc Fedora on, which was started in 1920 with 95,000 farmer members. This year 150,000 farmers received a. patronage dividend of $1,750,000. The speaker salu that the aim of the Federation is "to be l1 pace setter." And it. certainly

THE NORTH COUNTRY (i) General History of the North of

England. From the year A. D. 80, till the union of the Crowns of

England and Scotland in i603, the three northern Counties had been a battle-ground where Romans, Britans, Picts, Saxons. Danes, Nor. mans, English and Scots, had in succession fought furiously for the possession of the soil. It is no wonder that the inhabitants of Cumberland, Northumberland and Durham, welcomed the "New Order" which promised relief from a very wihamw state of cum. and the st. mressim of raiding and "mQgg- trooping’ which followed the Un. ion must have been a matter of rejoicing through the whole Border particular period the Palatlnate (or principality) of Durham was still suffering from the evil effects of the rebellion of 1509, when the Earls of Westmor- land and Northumberland had tak- en up arms against Queen Eliza- beth. The feeling for the old faith had remained stro the North and the Queen's “siastical policy W88 Very unpopular: but the re- bellion was speedily and relentless- ly put down by the royal forces. In its wake it left considerable imrest. among the people whose social con- ditimis were deplorable. The "Mc- rnorials of Old Durham" tells us that pestilence frequently broke out in the insanltuy dwellln s, the Villages were often unnopula ed and the tillage decayed, while the starv- ing families wandered into the neighboring towns in search of food. The transition to haviller conditions in religion and society was not yet complete. The alienation foreseen by the monastic lands to lay pro- pruprieiors had brought about con- ditions not foreseen by the reform- ers, for the claims of the m part. of tiieuproduoe of such lands. were gener y disregarded by the new owners. This ed to a great 1110mm in vr-zrancy. so that. the whole Border was, towards the end of Elizabeth's reign, "a. resort of outlaws. vagabcmds and rovers from all parts of the Kingdom," who were hamboiuod and oountenanoed by the inhabitants and lived by plunder and the exaction of black- mail. So says the celebrated Ezlizabeiham Poor Law. which was designed to remedy this tgrrible condition of the North. The effective administration of the new Poor Law. together with private benefuctioais and the rearr- ganizaiion of existing charities did something to ameliorate the lot of the indigent poor. but the state of the Pala tinate, throughout the great- er part of the seventeenth century. remained very bad. and only at the beglnnlr of the eighteen century {lidnanyiz ing like prosperity return 0

In the struggle between Charles I and the Puritans. which ended in the Civil War and the Common- wealth, the nobility and gentry were for the most part “King's Men,” while the lower clases in the North at the beginning of the struggle at least. supported the efforts of the Parliamentarians. It is not sur- prising to find that taxes, such as

not be collected. Feeling, too, was strongly against the doctrine of Di- vine Right and non-resistance to the Royal authority, which was be- ing forced upon the Anglican Church by Archbishop Laud. Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham. who ieslsterd, Laud, was committed to the Tower of London, and de- prived of his diocese.

Land's next adventure was an attempt to force Episcopacy upon the Scottish Church: and this led to the "Bishope’s Wars" of i639 and 1640. An arrrng of 30,000 Scots in- vaded Engla in August, 1840, led by General Leslie: they forced the passage of the Tyne about seven miles ubovve Newcastle. vthe de- fenders under Lord Conway fleeing to that city and thence to Dur- ham. It is some consolation to Northerners to loam that lord Conway alludes to his troops as “the meanest sort of men about inndon." and therefore presumably, no local troo were with him. The English deci ed to evacuate the im- poi-tent towns and retired to York- shire. while from the 2nd of Sept- ember for nearly a year, a Scott- ish force remained in occupation of Northern England at a cost of {B50 a day, made by weekly y- menis from the Counties of r- ham and Northumberland. and the town of Newcastle. How this invas- ion affected the feelings of the common people, will be told irn an- other article.

CHRISTMAS MUMMERS

Christmas has niwws been a jolly, noisy festival in the North, though

shlpmoney and coal-working could‘-

Luie fashion of celebrating it will‘

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Market Review

OTTAWA, Canada-December 19, i940. UMMABY The usual holiday atmosphere with its attendant restricted d0- mand for live cattle was noticeable in the cattle market during the past week. Shippers. however, wise- ly kept offerings to a. moderate volume and the result was a. 59n- eraly steam: marketalth ii trad- ing was slow througoout w in buy- ers showing little inieralt- _ Only light supplies are likely to be re- quired for the next week 0r two. Caves and lambs proved the fea- ture of the week's trading selling gtrongver at most market. Hogs also sold. a shade higher ki the East but were unchanged in We-item Canada.

Eastern Cattle Markets

m: light. run of cattle resolved at ‘I'm-onto was sufficient to take care of market requirements and prices held steady, with a ‘good clearance effected. Choice weighty steers sold at $9 to $9 25 and butch- ers up to $8, with a few light steer; at $8.50. Only a small vol- ume of smokers was offered and moved out at $5 to $7. Early VX1095 were strong at Montreal but buy- ers seemingly lost interest later and some cattle went unsold. Good steers were quoted at $8 to _ butcher cows up to $5.75. “'11?! l1

lwaaklyuvestuckl TIMELY sores on romcs

CONNECTED WITH $i|ver Fox Farming '

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province."

top of $6. The Maritimes showed an advance of 50c. due to small receipts a result of poor road con- ditioms. The best of the steers were quoted at $7.50 t0 $53-35-

Westcrn Cattle Markets

Cattle trade was very spotty ai Winnipeg with buyers apparcnily not in need of liberal supplies All killing classes were under pres- sure and there was a definitely easier feeling in evidence although prices showed no material change. The best of the steers were sorted our, m, $3 to 5a 25 and a good share of the slaughter material cashed from $7.50 down. Stockers trade was limited with the better grades moving out at $5.50 to $0 50 ilf-d- monton was active and firm with good to choice butcher steers scal- ing around $7.50. Elsewhere, there was little change in values. Re- ceipts were light and well cleaned. Prince Albert had good steers most- ly up to $7, while Moose Jaw paid $6.50 to $6.75 for good killers with an odd sale as high as $7. and Re- gina had some handyweight steers at $7. There was some advance recorded in Saskatoon where qual- ity showed improvement and a few choice steers and heifers sold from $7 to $7.75. Vancouver was active and steady from 75c higher on steers, good butchers making $7.50 higher on steers. good butchers making $7.50 to $8

United States Market.

American markets were also in- cllned to be slow and in some cases lower during the week There were vno Canadians sold at Buffalo but St. Paul quoted good Canadian steers up to $10 and medium to good bulls from $6 to $7.

Exports to the United States were again lower. beef cattle totalling 1,314 head, dairy Z32 and calves only 173. Exports to dale this year amount to 126,891, beef, 14.610

airy and 73.202 calves. compared with 177,635 beef, 12190 dairy and 79,904 calves in the corresponding period of 1939. Exports from Oct- ober lst to December 19th, under tl-ie fourth quarterly quota this year were 38,135 and last year 36,-

834.

A release by the United States Treasury Department covering the period from January 1st to Nov- ember 30th shows that the annual quota. on calves entering the United States from all countries was filled at the latter date. Shipments, how- ever, are continuing on a smaller scale at the higher tariff rate.

Calf Market Show: Advance

Calf prices, as a rule, were fir- mer and the major markets showed some advance in prices. Toronto paid $10.50 to $11.50 for good and choice veals and had a few tops at $12. while Montreal was strong on veals up to $11.50 and an odd $12.50, but grassers were a little weaker. Winnipeg was firm with top veais at $10 to $10.50. The high point at Calgary and lifoose Jaw was $8. Edmonton $9, Prince Albert $7.25, Qaskatoon $9.50, Regina $7.50 and Vancouver $7.

Hogs Unchanged to Slightly Higher

Hog prices strengthened in East- ern Canada with Toronto paying $10.90 to $11 for grade B-l dressed under the influence of buying for shiprment to Montreal. Live sales were up 10c at $3.25 for the basic grade. Montreal was firm at $11.35 for grade B-l dressed and $8.50 alive fed and watered. Winnipeg remained unchanged at $10.10 for the basic grade with premiums paid on certain shipments. Edmonton was firm at $9.70, while Prinoe Albert was on a basLs of $9.75, Moose Jaw also $9.75, Regina $9.75. Regina $9 75 to $9.90, Saskatoon $9.75 and Vancouver $10< 55 to $10.75.

Lambs Show Further Strength

A gain of 25c to 50c was recozd- ed in the Toronto lamb market. good ewes and wethers closing at $10 50 to $11. Montreal was most- ly on a basis of $10 with a top of $10.50, while Winnipeg paid $9 50 for good lambs. High prices at Cal- gary were $8.75. Edmonton $8.50 Prince Albert and Saskatocn $8 and Moose Jaw and Rmginn $8.25. Choice lambs in the Maritixnes rlgie so.

changing. even in the times of my own memory. There was a good deal of horse-play. of a harmless sort. at the Christmas season about. the middle of the imt. century hut. this petered out in favor of more cultivated amusement. The children in the mining vil- lages were least affected by the change and for long carried out the traditional customs of their ancestors. Anciently. groups of men called Mummers. or Glliscvs, went from house to house at this sca- son. performing crude dramas,

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information which ‘has just come through from Nor- way is that the Norwegian crop of sliver fox pelts will consist. of be- tween TZWDDO and ainst 400.000 last year. There has also been a considerable the Swedish crop of pelts. There is infonnation piatlna fox crop bi mated at about 10.00 recent Oslo. Norway, auction 40 of tho M0 platina skins offered were sold at an average of $180 with the price about $300. Concerning the recent rise in prices of Nor- wegian silver fox pelts a Norwegian authority states Norway and Germany have ccuted a treaty bv which certain German articles of trade are ex- changed or sold at prices remun- erative enough to buy Norwegian ieturn at 4 prices. Thcre is also the possibility large numbers of

soldiers

Chester

Messrs. Harry Rich and Stephen Taylor, President a spectlvely of the Maritim Ltd.. Moncion spent Thursday here and renewed many acquaintances. ‘They were visiting their local rep- resentative W. Mr. Rich told us that he believed there would not be more than 100,- 000 silver fox pelts taken off in all Canada this year. That, said he, is about two-fifths of last year's quan- tity. The enlarging of means iihat a great part of our pro- duction will be shipped to the Unit- ed States providing of ooume that it can pass the graders’ merits. However, he said, furs seem to be better, probably because of the weedirm out of the lens desir- able foxes the past two or three sea.-

nd Secretary re- e Filr Pool.

"f believe, too, that this falll has been favorable for ifiie development of fur because our furs Brunswick are very good and I have seen some very fine furs from this He was hopeful of the market trend, believing that if no untoward event occurs it will show an advance of at least 15 percent before the season concluded. 'I‘here has been considerable dealers around Moncton and Sails- bury. Some drove their trucks rigli: to the ranches. had the knocked on the head and put right. in the trucks. pelt-lug later. Some of the farmers sold pretty cheap bccauso it ivas ERliV and they ‘wow.- unaware that the market ivns ad-

225000 as aq-

concerning the possible it it in esti- ll DPllS. Al £11!‘ As a matter of fact we have

these

Norway mav have bluyiéig pclts to send home iotie r fr en s. , . These factors explain the very toga‘? rgvrfcexferxgiefie ghvgeezdwfi

great, rise in pelt prices at recent Norwegian auctions.

The Maritime Fur Pool had a good season last year, paying their consignors very satisfactory prices Iconsidering that it was a depressed through practically whole year. We have. said Mr. Rich, a very desirable clientele for whom we provide a selection of pelts. This gives us an opportunity to market many pelts to better advantage than if we depended upon the auctions

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Stephen Taylor is a grandson of the late Robert Oul er with Charles Dalton of the silver fox industry. We mentioned to Mr. Taylor that his is an enviable heri- tage-to be a grandson of a man of such high repute as Mr. was. His name was synonymous with probity, intelligence. patience and perseverence. Mr. great. friend he was. always spoke in the highest terms of tiicn and his judgment of breeding and care of foxes. It was their custom in lute December days when the sun was shining brightest and the groutrlild

e young foxes out to make selections where there could be no possibility of keeping an off-color fox.

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We ourselves can remember the wonderful bluish black colorings of the Dalton and Oulton strains. Thr- Oultonfis continued breeding darker types after Sir Charles had gone in more for the silvers and Russfll Oulton, son of Rcbcri. Oulton. had without doubt the finest dark sli- vers this country ever saw. After an amicable dissolution of partner'- ship around the year 1910 Ruler! Ouiton moved to Little and continued raisin", foxes. Stephen Taylor and his father J. R. Taylor reside at the old home-

Steplien Taylor will be remem- bered by many ranchers here in his capacity as judge at the Pro- Ciiarloi i.ct,o"'n. 1929-30. He is a man with few equals as a judge of foxes or pelts and is a breeder as well. Latierlv he has been turning his attention to pearl piaiinums. which have bt-en very sucrmsftily raised by iris broth- er. He. believes that iiicre is great future for them. Al there are only a few ranches de- vcloplrg this type, while as hc says. a. great many have gone in for nlai- white freaks. The fact. that pearl nint- inums have sold for over sweason is another in i-hcir favor. Brecrlinq stock has been in fair dcxnnnd at. priccs run- ning as high as $350 per animal.

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Asked as to inc nmrkct- for cross foxes this season both Mr. Rich and" ‘Mr. Taylor were of frat. they would rot advance very much in price but ore-flirted tliai there was a. no==ibllltv' nf uric-rs nevi mama became hrolvns wctild he more the vogli" and crw- res are be=t worn ivltll b“"\\'n color- snid ‘Mr. Taylor. somelhlng that ranchers overlook- "d ion tong. Tn certain section: n’ Ncw Ffl‘"=l"l"lf such n: the Jacket Rlvcr 9nd Fwnursi. tbs-o ranches

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producing mnnv hundreds of mink nelt= annuallv and they make a good profit. ilvcm ion. "ou know li mvg lam-v" "inch PM in rots» n mink and r‘ of iodav anvrvne with good stock can make

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Tho past week has wltn marketing of several ver fox pelts in Sinnmerside and Charlottetown. Buyers were most

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titiu that ol-ianaod hands at from $22. to $28 average. One particularly fine lot averaged $36. and several one, and two akin pieces sold as high as $00. each. Specimen pol/as

not/iced for many you: general aver quality you, very m better. W401i

color or fairly good color predom- inating. I

Active bwers at Charlottetown were Fritz Weimlor, Rug Justina, J. D. Jenkins, I. Weinnlger and Har- ry Kirsi". divided his time between Charlottetown and Stunner-side. The fur consignment houses such as the Canadian National, P. E. Fur Pool, Ltd., Dominion For Sales. Ltd, and Maritime Fur Pool were all busy receiving shipments. But quantities are down, which is the reason why prices are up. 1t k to be hoped that. they will continue

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down until the end of the war. An editorial published in Fur of Can- ada, Winnipeg, anent that thought says: "Looking forward wdihhin the confines of our own field we find the situation encouraging. The fur market outlook is definitely strong. Indeed there is actually a fear that. ‘ cs may reacli abnormal levels ior sonic articles. Sucli a situation "would be bad for the industry as