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P. u. I. roraro‘ cizowans’ ASSOCIATION

CANADIAN LEGION HALE: . 2nd Floor I 57 Grafton Street-Jelow Prince Edward Theatre

THURSDAY, APRIL lst, ma zoom. and mo P.M.

The Annual. Meeting of fhe P. E. I. Potato Growers‘ Association for the transaction of general business will be held in the Canadian Legion Hall. All parties holding de- bentures or patrons of the Association should bepresent to discuss reorganization of the Association and marketing legis- lotion.

We think that youwill be interested to hear the report of the Manager, J. W. Boulter, who‘ will be present at the

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m 730 P. M. EDUCATIONAL MEETING open to the public at which time various phases of the industry will be considered including moving pictures on "Soil Erosion" and "Life of the Soil", following which there will be a discussion on Sail Eros- ion and Utilization led by R. C. Parent, Superintendent, Ex- perimental Farm. ~ _

it is in your interest to be present at both meetings.

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P. E. I. POTATO GROWERS‘ ASSOCIATION.

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COCKEREL CHICKS

We will have available, for delivery on the following dates, BABY CHICK COCKERELS, Breeds as specified be-

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THUR$DAY—MARCH Z5: 500 N.H. Red 5O N.H.R. x B. Rock

MONDAY—MARCH 29:

lOO N.H.R. X B. Rock

75 N.H. Red

I . - I00 L. Sussex x N.H. Red.

THURSDAY-APRIL l: 160 N.H. Red X B. Rock '

IOO N.H. Red.

750 N.H. Red. I00 N.H.. Red x B. Rock I00 B. Rock.

MONDAY—APRIL 5:

THURSDAY-APRIL 9:

250 B. Rock. 500 N.H. Red. 500 L. Sussex x N.H. Red

MONDAY-APRIL l2:

275 N.H. Red. ZOO L. Sussex x N.H. Red. 300 N.H. Red x_B. Rock

i—-"rrlf-interested—in--ony—of—-the aboveY-mbntlonflL-CQCKHl-i EL Chicks, please BOOK YOUR ORDER AT ONCE.

' ' I ,. Dillon 8r Spillctt CHICK HATCHERY CHARLOTTETOWN _ '

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LIllE STOOK FEEDS -I- FARMERS ATTENTION

We have on hand, and are now unloading, carloads of Western Grain, including Choice No. 4 Northern Wheat, Bar- ley Meal, Oats-whole, ground, crimped, and ground Wheat, that have arrived, almost simultaneously, on account of de- lays in transit, and at least h'alf of this must be sold within the next few days to clear our temporary storage quarters.

We cannot afford to sell this grain below cost, but will sell at a price so close to cost that there will be little or no roam for profit.

Our estimate of the grain situation is that it has struck bottom, and slight reaction is taking place. We suggest you stock up for lots Spring feeding at our prices and before roads

become’ impassable.

Livestock Feed Agency

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- - "i We have taken over the egg-grading station formerly operated by Clark Iron, at Mount Stewart, and effective im- mediately we will be receiving eggs dolly.

It will be our endeavagr to give you the best grading possible at highest market prices.

-We respectfully solicit. your patronage.

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excl-m ' - ~ Thb ed of Harry L. Kushner, 7th Ave. New York City, epearlng iii Women's Wear Daily, shows a fox at the microphone broad- casting - "What sells ss fast as silver Foxes? What. makes profits tike Silver Foxes? Only Sliver Fox capes and Jackete and scsrfs of course. They are priced right and we have a complete line." ‘Atta boy. Mr. Kushner. them's our sentiments!

The Oslo Bkinnaulcsjoner Silver and Mutation Fox Auction, Oslo, Norway, have announced an auct- loii sale for April 6th with 14,000 to 15,000 Sliver Fox; 2,000 Piet- inum Fox; 10,000 to 12,000 Blue Fox and 8,000 Mink. They report- ed that at their auction sale of February 27th the market. was very firm ivith e large attendance of buyers from many countries iri- cludiug France, Italy. England and Belgium. Silver Fox advanced somewhat. compared with January prices while Blue Fox and Mink sold at unchanged levels except the better qualities which showed some advance. Platina. Fox was unchanged from the last sale. They further reported that half and three-quarter silvers were in strongest demand but that full silvers also sold very well. The collection of Platina Fox wee of average quality.

Here and there through the dif- ferent pages advertising furs in Women's Wear we note Silver Fox featured. For instance Macy‘: New York, are showing scalloped hemline Silver Fox jackets at $199.00 and Tailored Womenfea- ture them at $196.00. 1h Brooklyn where it is a- strong seller Silver Fox in Jacket form is priced at $198.00 at Martin's and $028.00 at Loesers. Siixea‘ Fox scarfs are ad- vertised at GimbeYs and Henri Bond.

The first sale of the 1047 crop of Silver Foxes from the large ranch of Herbert A. Nieman and Company will take place Friday. March 26th. Upwards of 12,500 fresh Si ver Fox pelts will go on the bloc . It doesn't look like s particularly propitious time for having an auction but if Niemann sale is a success or partial success it will be most encouraging for us all. They have a. total of ap- proximately 35,000 pelts to dispose of from 194'! crop.

The New York Auction Company held o two-day sale of Silver Fox furs Monday and Tuesday March 15-16. consisting of 4,000 mutation fox and 9,000 silvers from various shippers. Standard Silvers were 075a solii with the strongest. bid- JILZIIE being _, in . tha..t1;t00. m “£17.00 bracket. Best demand for Piet- inum Fox was in the better iualitics, this group bringing a lop price 01 $43.00. White face iox was unchanged with oniy spotty demand. The combined Platinum and White Face offering showed 36% sold." Only a few halves and‘ three-quarter silvers were auctioned and those were 100% sold with most. of them de- signated for European consump- tion. The buyer attendance was not very large but it showed an advance from the last New York auction Silver Fox sale held in February. Demand throughout ivas consistent. with the buyers taking the goods for trimming as well as for capes and Jackets. The auction company stated that no

price percentage comparison could be made with recent sales because of the small deviation in price on most. of the goods.

It will be remembered that I, J._ Fox. the greatest iur promoter sndi merchant the ‘world has ever knovmf parsed away some months ago but his soiis are carrying on the business and using large adver, tiscmenih to feature fur bargains» Ono is p, mid-week plTlll‘ lion in. an eight column spread by a Now York evening newspaper last week. offering at $165. natural Platinum» Fox jackets which according to the ad were created to sell for $350.01 a similar promotion the week pre-i vioiis m; house offered wild endi ranch mink capes at $569. made to soil at $1.000. S. Klein in 1W0 i011 iiililald ads offer Platinum Fox jack- cts at $279 and stone marten scurfs at $50. a skin.

The Norwegians ni-c sendlnl W! pfiypzigltiflla designed to keep their [m5 iii the public eye. Their Omar ‘Brager-Larseii,‘ residing in the United States but. making contacts and establishing markets Itl "10 United Siulcs, Mexico and South America, keeps their 300d! 0" u" move all the time. Below is a write-up that iii making the rounds of the for journals of the United States . . . .

Once the world's largest Pmdllc" of farmed fox furs, Norway has re- gained its former preeminence in this field after suffering the effects of depletion caused b)‘ the VII‘- [i-i a message addressed to the world fur market. Oslo sklnnauns-i jonel‘ s/r. (Oslo mi- Auction Bales)| points out that during the wer- the- numbei- 1 breeding animals hedl to be reduced on account of scarcity, of feed. Under these circumetlices. only the best survived the wet and i according to the Oslo company. are now producing furs of outstanding quality and increasing quantity.

Sliver-Haired llise Io:

The latest creation of Norwegian furs are the silver-haired blue foxes. the Norwegian firm reports. ‘the colors run from light to desk blue.

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Thele peitl, with their soft, short and silky fur. are especially suitable for copes end Jackets. it is said. The platinum fox originated in Nor. wit’. end e sensation wee crested in the fur market in 1940 when a platinum fox skin was sold at auc- tion for 311,000, the highest price ever paid for s single fur skin.

Mink skins are being produced in steadily increasing quenities, and are ‘up on the well-known quality of all Norwegian fur skins, the Oslo fiiirii also reports.

Oslo’ Auction Center.

For years big fur auctions have taken place in Oslo, the capital of Norway. All the lllclions ere now run by the Oslo Bkinnauksjoner S/l’... Six large auctions usually take place each year-in December. Jan. uary. February, March, May and September or‘ October. Tens of thousands of skins are offered for sale at each suction, Buyers “rho cannot go to the Oslo auctions may arrange their buying through fur brokers and wholesale exporters in Norway. All brokers and exporters ere authorized by the government.

In s handsomely illustrated book~ let published for circulation abroad Oslo Sltinnsuksjoner S/L calls at- tention to the revival of the tui- ind in Norway. The booklet describes the suction procedure in Oslo. gives a brief word picture of the Norwegian capital and its hotel accommodations, lists the authorized Norwegian fur brokers "id 0300110"; and presents other detailed information which may be of interest to the world fur market.

The past winter has been an especially favorable one for fox farmers in this Province 5nd since early March litters have been wmina along and ei-y little trouble has occurred with anchors we have oiwkcn to. There has riot been any "T? ltvere cold such as caused havoc to March litters in $1375 P!“ Bo that there is a probability of us having a good turnout of foxes from females kept over, A; a matter- of fact. most o‘ us have not been. geeting either the pgr. Centers of lilies-s from foxes kept or the average per litter that we should. Fromm Bros. are said to have an average over-all from re. male! k917i of at least three and s 1181f. but here it is very unusual to have an average of three. It. may be that their syvstcm is better- for production. They n59 two houses {or the females and they are very lflrge and commodioug and u" d9“ "'9 quite Well insulated. They also use the barrel den methgd which was also used he" “me years ago by Ddiar Milllgaii.

Just. the othe; day we had a letter from an importer of P5199 mail; which is used to insulate

I088. particularly cold storage Dlants and, lie offered g, can.“ ansount to be used for experimgnta] Purposes in dens as insulation, w, explained to him that the state of the fox business did not warrant l"! iflfxe expenditures at pregent but that if it ever made a, ma] comeback his idea might be s Rood one. The trouble often with ifmalt“ hevlns Dims is that they

.not stick to their dang bu; will have their litters m the outside compartment which is of- ten very cold and insulation would

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Y"? early-litters. Up to llateoliarykll "18 earlier than March 1st, Qf course there is no benefit that we can see in having litters born

‘much before April lst. because as

we pointed out. in these notes be- fir’: "119 Delta that brought; the

l lir cos in n survey conducted by the U. B. Biological Station were Pwdllved from Apr-Ll 1st to April m“- Tl" "fir: litter foxes tend to BEL a bit ofircoioi- euwards the middle or end of November and that l‘ lust 5 mile lotLearly for PPIUHZ, so that in order to keep color one would have to pelt be. fore the fox is ptlmg,

The othe d h; _ lei frrin tile Shrike: State: Mental Station st Blrntogl Sllrinis showing the necessity for Proper calcium intake pgrgicmaryy to the female during the [Qghqtlgn period and while suckling hei- lWflB al well as to the pup] d“. 108 their period of growth, while go really definite figure; u, 1nd

W" We Wild Judge that the Proper amount of calcium would be from one to two percent of the feed. Most. of the cereal feeds con- tein some form of calcium and most of thg ranch"; “ed "sh and li1y mill: or milk powder, All these contain calcium but if you are not feeding calcium in some of these forms we would advise your 60108 I0- You should also b0 “Ml-HI cod liver oil oi- pre- Yfllbl! A and D Vitamins in con-

trsted form. flex A its D ll one of the best. These vitamins help the esrmiiation of the calcium end

if continued until early June or

peruse?! better late June, there should be no danger or rickets.

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In 1017 things were going badly in Russia. The Germans. vic- torious everywhere, hsd advanced on Riga, the most important Rus- sian Baltic port and in spite of a stubborn defence. had captured th city. This produced a crisis which the Provisional Government of Russia, headed by Premier Keren- sky, was not able to survive. Gen- eral Kornilov. Commander-in-Chiet of the Russian army first tried conclusions with the Premier but his revolt collapsed.

0n November 7th, 1917, an a-rni- ed insurrection against the Koren- aky Government was moresuccess- ful. This revolt was headed by Mon Trotsky, and Nicholas Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevlkl party. Lenin was at that time believed

to be a tool of the German Gov-l

crnment, which undoubtedly iiclp- cd.hini to return to Russia from Switzerland; but his whole career suggests that he was not a tool bu: a fanatic. He believed in the seizing o1 political power by mcaiis of violent revolution, and in es- tablishing a "proletariat? govern- ment. This was exactly what hap- pened- The garrison at Petrograd espoused the cause of the Bolshe- viks and turned the guns of the fortress upon the Winter Palace before its occupants would sur- render. That night (Nov. 7, 1917) Lenin's ‘iRevolutionary committee" announced this program:

(1) They offered the Germans an immediate peace.

i2) They proposed the immediate handing over of large proportional lands to the peasants.

(3) All authority was to be transferred to the Council of Work_ ers' and Soldiers’ Delegates.

<4) The honest t!) convocation of the Constituent Assembly.

At. this meeting Trotsky declared that "the (Ozark) government m longer existed" and introducec Lenin as an old comrade. The comrade was welcomed with pru- longed cheers. and said: "Now we have a Revolution. The workmen and peasants control the govern- ment. This is only a preliminary step towards a similar revolution everywhere” A proclamation stat- ed that M. Kerensky had taken flight and asked all military bod- ies t0 arrest him and bring him to Petrograd. All aid to hlrn was counted high treason.

With the collapse of the Karen- sky government, conditions in Russia became chaotic. Chaos is necessary for the success of Coni- munist efforts here it was, ready to hand. A Bolshevik Cabinet was formed, with Lenin as Preitnier, and Trotsky as Foreign Minister. Among the lesser lights there vrere no famous names: Stalin bad not yet come to the from. Then came the elections for the Constituent Assembly in Petra- grad, in which the Bolsheviks got 272.00lT Voté§' the Democrats 211,000, and the Social Revolu- tionaries 118,000. That was prob- ably the last free electioifheld in Russia. The Bolsheviks had failed to gain a majority, but at least all their enemies were in the open. Notwithstanding this failure the Lenin-Trotsky Gov- ernment persisted in peace nego- tiations with Germany and fin- ally a. treaty disadvantageous to Russia, was signed at Brest- Litovsk on March 3rd, 191B.

In the meantime reports show- ed that. the Bolsheviks were ex- tending their control over sii Russia, Class titles, distinctions. and privileges were abolished; the property of the nobles, merch- ants. and burgesses was to be handed over to the State, as we! as church property, lands. mane and precious stones. Religion. instruction was to cease in thi schools, for "Religion is an opiate for the people." said Lenin.

'I'l'ie Czar, who had abdicated in March-ION, was imprisoned but at first not. unkindly treat- cd. As the Bolshcvik cause tri- umphed, his Jailors ‘changed their behavior. Then, in May 1918, he and his family were transferred to Yekaterinbcrg in the Ural region. 0n July 16th the err-Czar and his wife and children were executed, "on the discovery of a plot to liberate them." This was quite in keeping with oriental fashion of getting rid of rulers and their kin who might prove "rallying points." It was not easy tr. get details of the tragedy. but it was said that the victims were

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r6644 driven down by blows into i-bfi cellar o! the house (prison) they occupied and were shot. The bodies were taken out next day and burnt. About a year after- wards a destitute woman, iviio claimed she was s fugitive doi:80- ter of the Czar, died in s Paris hospital.

It was not only members of the "blood royal" that. suffered. All who opposed the unlit-Irat- sky gang, were ruthlessly wiped out. A discolored cutting from the Paris “Gauloisfl preserved for many years, gives me almost incredible figures of the "Rins- si-an 'l‘eri'or". Since October 1017. there have been executed. says the Gaulols, 2B Bishops and 1.215 priests of the Greek Church, ii.- 775 professors and school teach- erg, 8,800 physicians, 54.560 army officers, 160,000 privutcs iii the constabulary forces, 12,960 land- owneie, 355.1150 of the "intelli- gentsia" and middle classes, 193,- 350 working men, and 815.100 peasants. The newspaper cutting is dated June 1922, so that up- wards of 1,000,000 ltirsslan antl- Bolshevlks had been extcrzninat- ed in the previous five years. Compare this holocaust with the French Revolution, in which 10,- 000 persons were "legally" oxe- cuteci, and two or lhrcc limes as many killed in other ways).

These figures, says the Gaul- ois, were taken from Soviet sour- ces and do not include the un- happy occupants of the “labor camps" in the Urals and Siberia.

The Third International organ- ization of Communist Parties was held in Moscow in 1919. and from then onward ‘Communism’ became the name of the ideology, while the term "Bolshcvism" gradually died out

Such was the beginning of Communism in Russia, and its .ncurslon into other lands has invariably been marked with the rnurder of all who opposed it in the slightest degree.

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’l‘l1is sociable and conflding bird of the sea-shore, is about the size of a house sparrow. The only bird it might be confushed with is. the Semipiilmatcd Sandpiper, iAou 240) which though almost the same size. is of rather dif-

ferent coior generally, and also!

differs iii the make-up and color of its feet, Francis Baln found the Least Sandpiper nesting heron] but with the grout increase ofi all kinds of predators this is no longer likely. l-lowevcr it farcs better to the northward of us. migrating to North Carolina and southward for the winter. It is often found in the company o!

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Feed mill and sawmill operators like Caterpillar Diesel Engines because they are easy to handle and they give plenty of dependable power.

These Engines are becoming increasingly popular in ou.

Province; it will pay you to consult uf on your power

problems.

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or dusky brawn, edged and tipped with buff or fuscous; rump and median upper tail caverts plain block or fuse- ous; neck and breast white buffy, streaked dusky; the underparts white. Legs olive- green or yellow-green, feet whol- ly unwebbcd.