JANUARY 1s, 1931

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'I'HE_ (iIiARLU'l"l‘E'l'UWN GUARDIAN

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NEWS Y

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NOTES

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Im lop: FOXES AND ALL mg. BEARING ANIMALS

mULVEX kills instantly all flru, llrc "d licks and prevents immediutn re. Iiufontailon.

KILLS THEM OFF AND KEEPS

THEM OFF.

SUNSPOT MAXIMUM YEAR?

r "Tzled Y'all and Winter (so far) B h s one of the maximum sun-

59°‘ years zone by. In the present ‘ientllfy the first of these periods Kcaztgg 119°6- durlng which I was Y1 Ensland; and in moving

W"- the records of this year were

Order from your Fox Supply lost‘ Eleven years 5H9!’- I-hfi maxi- floulo or Drunlut. inum period was judged to Qgcuf Canadian Dlltrlbutoroi n i917 and fortunately 1 preserved CANADIAN alconsiderable number of notes CO-OPERATIVE ‘f’ m" t“ “h” Ye“ MW 1917

WOOL GRUWERS “:5 B 001d. wet, backward month;

‘l "ms 1mm Elllzland stated that

LIMITED VEBetatioR was a full month late.

The first half of June was charted 88 changeable with cold spells and rain, but on the 15th we had 80 deg. in the shade, and a, good deal o; warm weather till the 29th when there was heavy rain in the night. 428th, Britain had the heaviest rain W" recorded. viz. 9.24 inches!) duly had rain every other night. (It ""15 more frequently at night than during the day here). August and Sept. were noteworthy for northern light-i. and changeable weather, Astronomers reported a group ‘of 511115-1103 42,000 miles in diameter on —~~ ~ - - A118. 2. In Wales snow fell and lay

for 24 hours on Aug. 8. We had a most brilliant aurora on the om,

PELTING TIME is 3i Septemb-

ahlias, cucumbers and other ten- N EAR I N G

d" Diants were cut down by frost“

Great gales and rainstorms circl- Be sure that YOU get the best possible returns from

ed the world in October: from the 20th to the 23rd no less than 5 your pelts this ycnr USE

inches of rain fell in Charlotte. Royal Fox G-ihes

IAJWTI. The whiter 0f 1917-8 was They will‘ give your foxes

very severe: the courier could not

make his trip on many occasions, the finish that will top the market.

and 957W in February the train service was almost at a standstill, The St. John Milling Bompany Ltd.

the track being constantly blocked Saint John, NB.

KNEW THE SYMPTOMS.

"Has dadd finishe-d dressing?” "I don't think so, mummy.I hear him talking to his collar."

RUBBING IT IN’. Jenkins-Yes, she refused me, tut she would give me no reason, Greg0l'y—Tha.t was very thought- lui of her, old boy.

by snow. The rest of the winter was marked by abnormal weather. 0" ADI- 7l-h. 191B. an aurora WZIS so brilliant that it was remarked 1111911 by the most of the news- Pipers in Canada: previously grcut SDOts had appeared on the suu. My record says: “This must be maximum aurora year"; a suppubp tion afterwards confirmed by as- tronomers. On June 21st, a sizvcrc frost killed all the beans and tomatoes in the province and ncres 0i’ potatoes were frostod: reports said that Austria had had the some experience a fortnight before. At Buenos Ayres on JlUlE 26, snow fell for the first time in the his- toryof the town. Frost touched the pumpkins on Aug. 18. ‘There were many earthquakes. hurricanes, and record rainfalls all over the world, and an epidemic of iii- fluenza set in in October, which before its conclusion, must huvc claimed ten million lives. 1n- fluenza appears to be an accom- paniment of sunspot years almost always, but the 1918-9 epidemic came when the general health of | the nations had been undermined by four years of war, anxiety, and undernourlshment, and it claimed its victims by thousands every week.

oiiiueirs [Seed Store

(Queen Street)

HERE you will find a. fresh stock of FEEDS.

tain during the week ending Jany. 30th.‘ A curious effect of the long continued sunshine of February, 1927 was that the spruce woods burnt brown.

Now apparanetly we are in for an epidemic of influenza again. This and the extraordinary vagaries of the weather-man during the last year and this (as far as vre’ve gone) give point to the contention of the first sentence of this "note."

. Lady Strathrnore‘; Lawsuit

Not far from my former home in the beautiful Dcrwent Valley stood a fine mansion, now unhappily go- ing to ruin, belonging to the Earl of Strathmore. It is called Gibsidc Hall, and is situated about seven miles west of Newcastle upon Tyne. The great and increasing taxation in Britain is pressing hard on every body, but more especially on the great landowners; and as a. con- sequence there are more large halls and mansions in the market than there are people who are able to buy, rent, or maintain them. Gibside is one of them; and as the noble owner has his residence at Glamis Castle, and has one or two fine houses in other parts, all sub- jected to the taxation f have men- ttoned, I see little hope for Gib- sldc unless some rich American comes along!

The first mention of Gibride as an estate is in 1200; but the Hall was not built till the reign of James I, By failure of the male line of the Biakistons, the marriage of an heiress carried the estate into the Bowes family. That family was of ancient lineage for Sir William Bowes had distinguish- ed himself at the battle of Poictiers in Northern France, in 1346, and one of his descendants had held

Barnard Castle against the rebel Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland in 1530, when they

rose in arms to restore the Catholic sovereigns in England, in opposi- tion to Quccn Elizabeth. Coming to modern times we find that the Gibside estate devolved on George Bowes in 1700, his two elder broth- ers having died without issue. This George Bowcs sat as MP. for the County of Durham for 2i years. He seems to have been a man of consummate taste, for he laid out the grounds, built monuments, a‘ banquctting house, a memorial chapel and many other ornamental features. When he died he left his daughter Mary Eleanor Bowes sole heiress, with a fortune, in our

money of $5,200.000. This fortun- ate mid highly accomplished young lady 11nd a great jointure on the death of hcr mother and a. larger estate on the demise of an uncle; and so "was reputed to be the rich- crib heiress in Europe. In 1767 (seven years after the death of her father) Miss Bowes married John Lyon, Earl of Strathmore and Kiugliorn.

Sun spot years are supposed to be eleven and a fraction years apart and aurora years to coincide with them: but there is often a difference in both events. For in- stance the next maximum was in 1927-8, which was Just ten years rif- ter. We in the northern hemis- phere had an extraordinarily wet summer in 1927, while "down un- der," South Africa and Australia had a. long-continued drought in which sheep-ranchers lost about eleven million head. My records are full of the vagaries of the weather, but I need not weary you with these. The epidemic of influenza which first claims notice on Jnny. 5th, 1027, wiih 100.000 cases iu Spain and 20,000 in Germany, had doubled in numbers by the 13th and also was widespread in the United Kingdom. It was a milder visita- tion than the 1918 outbreak, even so there were 667 deaths in Bri-

BRAN, SHORTS, MID- DLINGS, OIL CAKE. SCHU- NIACKER‘ FEED. SUGAR BEET PULP, CRACKED COR-N. FEED CORNMEAL» CRACKED GRAINJILATCH- ronos can‘ MEAL and rout/ray SUPPLIES. FOX BISCUITS and other FOODS &c., all at LOWEST POS- SIBLE PRICES or in cl- changc for SEED 6t FEED oars. BARLEY. WHEAT. BUCKWIIEAT. PRESSED HAY and STRAW. m. cc-

Barter & 0o.

LIMITED.

siivER TIP wBaE/io-MEAI -Jho]iest find/- Cheapest Pup _ - pFoodu. -— -- SILVER TIP BISCUITC’. LTD. \\ , moncion us. __

FOX PELTS WANTED

We have received an order from a large Can- adian munufucturing company for 100 good coi- ored skins (Full Silvers and three Quarters). Will pay top prices for these s ins. _ ~ Also buying Rod and Cross Foxes, Mluli, Musk- rat and Raccoon, cic. '

P. E. I. FUR TRADERS 182 Queen St.

SILVER FOXES

Buylnlt all grades Silver FOX Dells dufing the b“ ance of season.

Few Silver Fox pups for salo-

G. R. MacQuarrie

Summerside

We must again retrace our steps,

for some account of the Lynn fam- ily. About thirty years after the Norman conquest. we find a foreign knight John de Lyon in high favor at the court of King David I of Scotland. That monarch was, it may be remembered by my Soot- tish readers. "a sair sztnct for the croon" seeing that he was very liberal in his grantsof crown lands to foreigners and to ecclesisatical dignitaries. On this John Lyon he bestowed extensive tracts in Porthshire and others in the coun- ty oi Abcrriccn. A lineal descen- dnnl. Sir John Lyon, was a great favorite with King Robert II of Scotland, who, in the latter part oi’ the fourteenth. centiu-y, gave him tho lands of Glamls, made him Lord High Chancellor of Scotland, and also gave him in marriage the Lady Janc Stewart, his youngest daughter. She it was who brought into the Lyon estates the Barony of Kinghorn-in-Flfe. Another lineal descendant, Earl Thomas, married a very wealthy heiress in the city of Durham, and it was his son John, ninth Earl of King- lmrn and seventh Earl of Strath- more, who. us we have seen, marri- cd our heroine, Mary Eleanor. Bowes. On his marriage with this ladys the Enrl of Strathmore amum- ed the name 0f Bowes by an Act of Parliament, and the family was always spoken of in my time as Bowcs-Lyon. This Earl John died in 1770, leaving three sons and two daughters; and one of thew sons was an ancestor oi’ our pres- ent Queen. Now when I rambled the sylvan nceiies of Glbsidc (where by the way were splendid specimens of Ocdrus Libani and Araucaria "im- briciita, trees plnlltfld by 01" heroines father) one could scarce- ly mention the name of Bowes to any of the older folk without hear- ing in reply some reference to "Stoney Bowes." This introduces another type of person into our story.

This evening Directors of the Ca- nadian National Silver Fox Breed- ers, Association from all parts of Canada will arlrve in Charlottetown and put up at the Canadian Na- tional Hotel in readiness for the As- sociation's annual mcetings which will be held next week. '

Every member of the Canadian National Silver Fox Breeders’ As- sociation should make it a point to attend the meetings and‘ show in- forest in this great organization which, established in 1920, ha. suc- cessfully survived panics and de- pressions and is still a great factor in the fox world. Charlotetown is

and will no doubt accord them a warm welcome.

Fromm Bros, Inc, of Hamburg, Wisconsin, have a two-page ad in the January American Fur Breed- er, soliciting sh‘pments of silver foxes for their February 15th auc- tion sale, which will be held at Hamburg. One week prior to the sale they will conduct a national pelt show which they claim will give valuable inbrmation on the type of sliver fox to produce. They state that the average American fox breeder has been poorly advised in past years and that the silver fox breeding industry of America in general is five years behind the style needs of the tunes.

Other claims made by the Fromms are that they have spenti $250,000, in cold cash the past ton‘ years in disease research and that

before another year pasies they

hope to have pcrfecied mehods

that will be reliable enough to con-

trol distemper us well as the deadly

disease encephalitis. It is their

intention to make available to the‘ Amoricrii fox breededs the mater- ial of these researches as so"n as it is safe to do so and as rapidly as possible.

"The $500,000 spent in national advertising by Fromm Bros. Inc.

ANIMAL iill§iiANBRY

MOTHS AND Tiusm ‘ CONTROL

When we consider the enormous amount of damage that is C0lli2ill- ually being brought about by moths it would seem that the fol- lowing information is of much eco- nomical importance.

"Clothes moths annually cause much damage in Canada to mute- rials of animal origin, such as woollens, furs, hair, feathers. etc. and their ravages to articles of clothing, upholstered furniture, piano felts, carpets, etc, are fam- iliar to everyone. Damage by clo- thes moths is caused by the fccci- ing activities of the larvae or cut- erplllars of these insects. not by the winged moths whose principal function in lifc is to mate and de- posit the eggs from which the lar- vae develop.

About the year i770 there came to Newcastle a young ensign in the "4th Regiment of Foot", w on: name was Andrew Robinson Stoney. England at this period was the paradise of fortune-hunters, and the “Irish Register", a magazine published in Dublin, gave a list of British helresses, the amount» of their fortunes and any other ill- formation which would help ilie designing rnvain. Stoncy profited by his reading and persuaded a Miss Newton, who possessed $150,- 000 to elope with him. This lady died without issue, after having endured much suffering at the hands of her husband, as common report had it. After her death the widower, now Lieutenant Sidney. began to entertain der-igiis upon the hand of the widowed Countess of Strathmore, Mary Elcnnor Bowes-Lyon.

This lady I have already called

accomplished: she was a good

lingiiistfa competent botanist, and

a poetcss also, having published o.

five-act drama culled "The Slow

of Jerusalem." Slic had also a

talent for land Icape gardening. uud

had helped her father to desigi the

lovely grounds and vistas of Gib-

side. After the Earl's death, she

attracted the attention of a gentle-

man who had just returned from

India, nnd as he held very similar

tastes to her own. silo would prob-

ably have mnrricd him, hxid not

Stoney come on the scene. How the

wily Lieutenant fnrcd must be re-

lated in another article.

TIMELY NOTES ON TOPICS CONNECTED WITH

Silver Fox Farming

honored by the Directors‘ presence‘

“ ccssity of spending money for that

w.)

: during the past ten years has help- "Vefy fox breeder in America. It hlis stimulated fashion designing, manufacturing. wholesaling, fetal]- "IB and consuming of silver zoxes. At the Fromm Bros. sa‘e your pelts are marketed wider a trade marked

, name that will be nationally ad-

‘ vcrtised. This will eventualy be of great value to you."

A5 Dfllflikd 011i; in them columns n few issues ago there is a war on between the Fromm Bros. Inc., and those who support them on the one 118110. and the American National Fox Bmcders‘ Association 1m;- 13¢. partmeht plus Herbert a. Nieman dz Co. on the other side. The Nie- l man's and Fromm?» are cousins and

between them produce Qne-quartgy

to one-third of all the pelfg raised in the United States. Their es- timated production for 1936 1g

45,000.

i | But these relatives fell out some yea-l‘! 8-80 and now go their separ- . ate ways. 'I'.he Fromm Bros. and i sane fomier members of the Amer- (loan Association are literally fight- . ing tooth and nail against their for- mer allies. Frommis have estab- lished their own connections at their headquarters in Hamburg, and bring the buyers by special trains and busses to their door. They aim now to get as many other breededs as possible to Joiin with them and in that way domin- ate the trade.

The Niemenis sell their pelts through the New Yonk Auction Company, while the American Fox Association usually dispose through Lampson, Huth 8a 00., New York. There is much to be said in favor of Fromms, because they have pi- onecred in featuring silver fox, no doubt at great expense. It was this that caused the break with Nie- man's, who could not see the ne-

purpose.

Pclt advertising-in fact the ad- vertlsuig of any productfiis a mod- em necessity. It was once, as Ralph Wa‘do Emerson has writ‘en, “that if a. man biild a better mouse-trap than his nelghwr, though‘ he live in the woods far from civilization, the public will make a beaten path to his door." Today people are not so fond of taking trouble. The shrinking violet is overlooked and the “I'1‘" personality captures the acclaim.

Time was when the halo that sur- rounded sllver fox and its exclus- lveness was sufficient to carry it along without any flair of public- ity trumpets, but not so today, be- cause we have keen competition from other furs that have strong backers, who are not only vocal but ‘appeal to the eye through the print- ed word and to the ear througih the radio. Sponsors of mink are em- phatic in their declarations that it is the fur de luxe for mflady. The trimming trade is being advised as to the merits and beauty of Persian lamb and there are a. host of other furs formerly unheard and un- sung that are now being offered as worth ivhile competition to la Rey- nard Arsenic. '

How are we to meet this condi- tion of affairs? Shall it bet with folded arms and supinely, or by action? In the words of Patrick Henry, “Why stand we idly here?" A great opportunuity now offers in the meeting next weck oi’ the Ca- nadian National Silver Fox Breed-

flcient vitamins, because liver oil for lnsiancea-it is the A and D, but the A vitamin exposed to the air, and the

Y-O products - the regu ai-

vi A, B, D, and G, B11

the reproductive, anti-sterility

With no Vitamin E at all insufficient Vitamin lack of vitality, high

roper balance

o avoid “|nlsses“ and ensure

The moot dependable source of Vitamin E

but this

Vita

ii is removed from

Wheat germ is OIL.

and

imm- FOX x58

with Vitamin

large lltte r 1 momm“

rs o s ron h lth ,

with Vitamin E your fisixesexget gnpeixgesqu with vitamins A, B, l),

Mid Blltfihforifs Fox Y-O witIlnlglelxlilllltltlIfl-Ds‘:

Do Your Foxes _Get Sufficient Vitamins

It II difficult to know whether or not your foxes are getting suf- vitamins escape from foods.

Take cud greatest known carrier of Vitamins

starts escaping as soon as the oil ls D vitamin, too, at once begins ti) weaken and lose its strength or

liver oil has immediate compi i . i. i . It h b -. c1! that cod liver oil in feed: Iogtmfillfevirarzdn vziliIes irIe: ghbI-t

potency.‘ In ordinary feeds cod

For this mason we offer you

FOXi%

in which vii-amine are SEALED by a. patented procem and protect- ed against loss of potency and strength through oxidation, 1n y.o the elusive vitamins are present and active WHEN FED. By sprink- lml Y4) W} You!’ Tffilllar feeds-only a tublcspooriful per fox pcr dam-you give your foxes a definite adequate unitage of vitanuns in correct proportions and proper balance. There are two distinct

Blaichf0rd's FOX Y-O containing

l‘ E I! vitamin

With weak offspring,

. Vitamin E changes “misses" into

In Blutchforifs Fox Y-0

ate SUPP‘! of Vitamin E in and G.

oi’ strong, healthy pups to the regular ration.

late

ESTABLISHED

ter exists, does

berry). and [x-rceiitiigc oi‘ gallon lots and

CANADA PACKERS LIMITED

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I.

fordir

Wheat Ger N0

Many fox men have used wheat Germ hiEAL, is not satisfactory because rancidiiy gulckly destroys Vitamin E. The meal can and oes s il and lose its potency (loses 90".; of ils n E content within 15 days from the time the wheat furthermore only a \'l‘l‘y small

Euro. cold pressed Wheat Germ Oil, because nI its purenesa and the fact that no fori-ign nial-

poiency rapidly. Sold in half pints, pints, quarts, gallons, fire

VITAMIN A

—promoics growth and guards against nutritional colds.

VITAMIN B

-insures good musing iixcirs and prevents nervous disorders.

VITAMIN D

— prevents rickets and iibiir. ates the hone building minerals.

VITAMIN G

—guards against paralysis, lm- proves fur, keeps appetite krrn.

VITAMIN E

--the reproduction vitamin: No Vitamin E-no reproduction.