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1 Silver FoxFarming in E v E N u E 1-,...- w... ma, m, ' ‘ A ' rlwocoms can moaslssa mm. will h‘: tion any it: iolzuklrtutll: but?!“ ma“ M n“ m“ “m” “Y wwfillvfirékbiléllzliibltlon at Obar- Oboe 15% . m“ ‘Armma 99'“ n imllllds. It will 17% Only 3.93 p6 cent of the chickens

be the nitn saw staged by m. s...

Vef‘ -rbr Exhibitors Assccist m7‘ “WM 1“ °'““d“ “m”; "l" mm m,“ 1mm m ngfwgi Blflvln fir. fiscal year, 1938-34, qualified IOI‘ a m the fell of 1m followed by a..- m,“ _ u,’ hlbitions in 1930-82-88. None was ,I__,j _ 13.7,

heldinliiilduefofena-er whichwssthe

‘rile first. day will bedevgtaq u, classification of foxes which or; dug toarrlveoncraboutlllum. By evening everything mould be squar- ed away and ready for the 1n which will take place at nine dfiock on ‘mwlfliv 810M198. November 6th. Thenrizt-is every evidence bf a, big m. try

l n . deinlo , , ,

An approximate waist. 15.7%. One pound of raw beef averag bout four ounces of solids and twelve Jgtgened m4 fleshed to quglfly for

meat protein nutrltlves.

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Why such heenneea to exhibit out m’ seer. you W111 serum ask? Well, because forms thing foxes are par. ticulsrlv seed this rm. at leesttbat lstllestoryfromallpartsofma Wilvlllw- Then again those who ex- hibited last year and the year pl-svl. ously did some nice business in live

10 percent or liven

itomorefindingthattheyoencom. Pete quite successfully wtlh the large

. 1B 14% %

0111128 0f W806! 811d hi5 8170113 13%

flpctcenltofwheatgermandcto

We do not know whether our saleqlndsgainbtsgfgmguqghgb. fellow ranches read audtook as

Chickens must be well

grade A, and there lea much higher percentage of birds degraded on

Him you Jiwught about addinif account of not having sufficient fat I "W9 W598i 89ml and liver i0 than on account of not having of the sutficlentflesl-l. it is useless, says

LA.

the Chief f0 ex-

. Iii-SIREN!‘- prlncl of Vltamlnell. a lpeet range fed birds or short period faotordn obtaining

crate fattensd birds to have the fat required for the top grades. It just does not happen. The matter of fat- tening the birds and thus increasing the producers‘ revenue is entirely in lthe hands of the-producers them- selves. Wlth the marketing of the poultry crops close at hand. now is the time for action.

By a simple method of crate fet- tening on. a mixture of finely

ranchemthatistosa the canen- Gruardlmsswedld. Itintriguedus ‘mum “w” mmbthe” ‘s M teralimlted numbergf’ aniylnsls and very much. Ill by any chance you "m" wluxw" ‘my ' "Vkhlg: wlnprlses. Onecfthssmallestex- pesseditoverwewouldadvlseyourw “m” “m” wmmm” m‘ blbltaaa won the Grand champion.- looking up the benea- and reading "mud m" b” “M” "'° “will 1°’ ehiPiWmfl-lflwoyeamiostlcoes- flavervcrycesefully- an“ special was“??? slon. Sodobxuse you are a small zwevmwslnfggfi mt mtl eywhwm Iuuqatmmwm "Mtomakeuseofthsfeedproduced chmanm momgmumm au°oiotnldmnal ‘$1 ma“: d and available on the farm. Good

We had an interesting tall: with Ramsey Auld, Covehead. a few days ago on foxes and methods of feeding, etc. Ramsey has clone quits well by feedingasonepertof hlsdleta boiled consisting crf vege- tables, turnips, potatoes, parsnips cooked with meat and rice. He says his fomes are in good condition and as slick es mice. ‘We have had very lttle silccess ourselves with boiling, . but we know other ranchers who have been very successful with it, notably Robert Humphrey. Kenslng- ton.

meeting held in the West.

What h one man's meat is an- other man's poison, and what is one fox‘s meat ls another fox's poison we presume is equally true of the vul- pine family as of the human family. One rancher will make agreat suc- cess on a certain diet but another brother rancher will try it and make a failure of it. However, there are certain general principles of feeding {which govern the nIIOritY 0f “N! snditisawelllmownfactthats for requires s. good deal of meat to keep it healthy and a success! breeding proposition. .

h the pemphle

United States Silver Ixxbfiers’ Associates, Ine., " y 1'89

Bcackett, which advertlsesPur a “m” "*4 3"" W‘ ‘W’ For: Ibod, e. concentrated meat ra- tion. we find the following: 1'01 course foxes fed on a 60% raw meat

his ranch. confides-ably.

thatArthurMillerhasaneslcept

Artbutfromavery

Brovfs office. .

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andthelr W- “

onmeatgwhichlsridiculous. Inour m“, m, o,

u; will scmncurfeedtothaedultllu testook

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p, ... pattern l. M ' rux nutmeg run , -

theProvirlcesofthegreatDcnlln- ionwillbethenellt wearecor- rectlylnfornled itwillbeflsefirst

Willard Jordan, well known fox-

was some half mile away, on to it.

muJsokRoopi-las movedlliswfllle fox mnohfrom Upper Saint Peters Roadtohispropertyonmellower Saint Peters Road. Mr. Rloopiw afineblulohoipupstbisyearand tskesaglleatlntereotinfllelmwe underetendheiswingfo extend

wewenevefyvlfi-led W he"

ionally fine bunch of pups year, and that new is hm from

Notonlytbetlvutllessrlsulller sndBrow some oftbe flneetsllvmthatwerebretlinllhis

province namesficurelntllepedlsreebcoks ofaiotoffoundatitmstookwhen the writer was on the lookout for acimaktomrtaranchwlthtbev had separated, very lmbflbl! 01 cotlrsmandeachmdaverybefl-u- pups. ‘rilatwesin 1010. We bought several nice pairs from

therewas

Mr. Bovyer was very fond ‘of chow- illg to visitors in the late felL Pup! were usually es black as coal blue-black attribute these was taken to the t . Fair in the fall or pa,“ l o 1922 rand woo/the dark silver class.

an results will be obtained if the birds

are p t in disinfected, warm, ‘draught ess crates from four to five

weeks bcfom marketing. The birds 1 should be fed twice e day. morning and evening, on s. ration of finely ground home-grown grains as fol- 1ows;- equal parts, oats wheat, bar- ley or buckwheat. Add potatoes at ‘the rate of one-third of the total weight cf the meal mixture. Mix with sour milk so that the mix- hlre will pour easily. Further detail- ed information on crate fattenllg may be secured by writing the Do- minion Department of Agriculture. Mtawa. for inllletin No. 126 on pre- poultry for market, or in- formation may be obtained from the various provincial , Depertlnents of Ailflculture.

A large proportion of the poultry crop is bought or sold moraine to the Government grades of the 08n- adian Dressed Poultry Standards, and current ‘ ‘ demand has established grade price differentials. These grade price differences are not established by the Dominion De-

ent of Agriculture but by the consumer demand for quality, and

u” .th t demand may change the g 15mg w, m; “ab” oufi“! Nufifilgspréeed in price betwen grades. Since who saw them recently. Yam ago

poultry have been sold on official grades, the differentials have been approximately as fcllowm-Selected

1103519 "m" m" u“ m‘ ""1533, thr t four cents over Selected 014 timers willrecallthat ma: °° °

Dsltonfoxowned by dhsnudir mlarlqssbleokasacoalwith lcnlpluela-ousguasdnnh-etrulv

graphstllladomutbewalloflllr.

C: selected A. two cents over B; Selected Special. one cent over A, and two cents more for the the class llvfllkfed over selected. This means that Mlllkfed Special chickens are worth five cents per pound over selected B. and in the case of Milk- fed A four cents per pound. It is up u. producers to increase their revenue from market Poultry by crate feeding.

He was such a. large pup that many was an adult, but

ity on the tucks of foxes, pronounc- pulp which he really was, the doubters were con-

par-ty who was exhibiting him was gazing admlrmslv 111w the cageafterhelladwcnther n. when an elderly gentlemen til a very quiet, unobtrusive manner gently inquired if the animal W8! for sale. "Yes. he is for sale." The owner thought to himself, ,now I will give him a shock. "the wise is aloe." "1 will take said the genglungn, tmo rned out to be George Hume, formerly of Murray R-iver. but then located at Muslifii-

on, Michigan

A couple of years afterwards the writer was at decree Him" ranch, He was away but Mrs. Hume vac-y kindly entertained us and told us that the buy made that day w” 5 mighty lucky one. We have not heard tell of Mr. Hume for several years but are confident that ‘with his intelligence and know- ilefle of Silver Foxes and the very

fins belpmate which he h,”- 51"‘ ces must have been his.

Inspectors of the Oifllldlllll Na- tlonel Sliver m: Breeders Mm‘ _eiatlcn start out ‘Monday on the _snnual marking tour. The writers ranch has been all cleaned up and.

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.412 SMTAOCK BREEDERS

Horse AMemoirs

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PIIO§TOI ‘

(O. H. Nlaclfsluis)

When Messrs C. C. Gardiner and Benjamin Hearts imported the subject of my sketch it was con- sidered that this horse was possibly the best standard bred horse ever lmwrted to Canada and, as they

sires and

. I-mnrlbiewnisn, Membriuo, Potoh Junior and Suley’s American

Preceptor was not only standard bred under rule 6. the highest in

dam had the same distinction while his third dam wasnotonlyslrod by a standard bred horse but had been made standard by producing Orange Girl 220 and Walkill Chief,

Swlveller 2.18. This was a showing that few horses at that time had in breeding. The then noted Nut- wood 2.18 8-4. the sire of Preceptcr, was a. chestnut horse l5 3-4 hands and weighed about 1l9l) pounds. He was sold at Glenview dlsperslon sale when sixteen years old for $22,000 to H. L. and F. A. Stout of Iowa end in describing him I cannot do better than quote remarks made by the press and other eminent auth- orities concerning him. '

The Kentucky Stock Form Jour- nal of September 1886 says-Jrhe Stallion Nutwood. Qcmblnes all the qualifications that could be desired in a very high degree. Not only was he a superbly bred horse and grand in his individual characteristics, but in addition imparted to his Bet Speed. high finish, size, easy frictionless action, gameness and level heads with s. uniformity that was remarkable.

Within a remarkable short time

there were sold flve suckling colts and fillies from six days to six months old for $4,400 an average of $880 each, twenty colts and fillies one year old for $25,100. an aver- Bse of $1.255. each twenty six colts and fillies two years old for $37,170, an avenge of 01.421150. a gland

two years and under, nineteen hav-

$56.6'l0. an average of $1,307.55. Wlmwlnk this I find at another batch of Nutwood youn an overuse of $1,729.26. These were wonderful prices even in the balmy days of horse breeding and gives added proof cf the qualities of this horse. One can see by looking care- fully into Preceptors inheritance

any trotting bred stallion anywhere. His first dam Precept was sired by th_e great Pancoash 2.21 3-4, sire of Patron, three year old record 2.19,

breeding. but his dam and grsnd-|

sire of oleat EB-sborll 2.1a end malt’

ing been sold under the hammer for

ers sold at

and five year oldrecord 2.14. 1-4. Pa-nocssh was sold at auction for |eoa,ooo, the greatest price that had ever been paid for g trotting stal- lion by auction to that date; He ‘had d. greater number of 2.30 per- ,formers than. any other horse of ,his age and his colts brought higher prices than those of any other horse

% grade. ‘filers is no mystery about my 1n their card. "an breedlriZ imelwellt Nut-wood- the affair, nor is it difficult to Isome instances may be equalledl 90mg out; the mason why the chick- but cannot be surpassed, as his less own sister tn Orange Girl, and ens did not grade higher. It was lmw-flry 0n both .his

because they were not guf- dam's side have the choicest strains bletonlan. His third

flclently fattened before they were of the four best trotting families, Mills, was s. daughter of Buly's Am- " l‘ marketed. '

Precepwrs second dam was Art-

iwas a daughter of Rysdyks Ham- dam, Dolly

erican star. l, Both Preceptors sire and the sire of his dam stood at high "fig- ures. the 1888 fee of Nutwood was $500 and that of Pancoash $300, and at that figure their books were full before the opening of that season. - The following description of Ple- CQDW!‘ is given: Chestnut colt, stripe in face. left front and hind ankles white. fouled ln i885, bred by J. c. MscFzal-ran at Glenvlew breeding farm. Kentucky, and sold to his Charlottetown owners in October, 1886. At this sanle sale his dam ‘sold for $2,500 and her two colts, s. yearling and a foal for $4,160. This horse gave every promise of speed, but on account of an ac- cident to his leg never was trained and was used in the stud here. ‘Among his most noted sons were Provider, from s. Dean Swift mare Kickapoo, from an Administrator mother. Both these horses were bred by Mr. Alden Block, Bedeque. The former was sold to our hon- ored friend Mr. W. S. MacKee, who campaigned him on Maritime tracks, giving him a record of 2.18. Another son Fleetwood was at one time owned by the late Barrett Henderson, then cf North River. still another son, a full brother of Fleetwood named Chestnut,

MsoKinley of York Point. While Receptor did not live to

after Nutwood went to Kentuckyfbe an old horse he sired a splendid

class or horses especially brood mares, as they were of large size and in color many of them were of that rich chestnut so much desired in the carriage horse.

is but an added proof of the quai- ities of our foundation stock. This

wt“ 0f 113W one colts and fillies {should be an incentive to our pres-

ent day breeders to go forward with confidence and here let me

season has awakened a deep inter-

us hope that our horsemen and track managements may fully co- operate and that of the 1935 slate will be better and bigger than in

by the horsemen of bygone days

through his first, second and third and the richly bred horses available dams that it was almost unique and there is no reason why our colt ilnapprosched by the breeding off-aces will not be a success. It only

means patience and courage to put llittle Prince Edward Island in the forefront in the trotting horse in- dustry.

Art Shades

Modern late flowering tilllps, con- pemlng the origin of which there is much mystery, are chiefly select- ed-strains of the general class cf late tulips known as Breeders, so mlled because the striped tulips, the medium of the gambling craze during Holland's tulllpolnania, de- velop from these self-colored tulips by breaking out in stripes from time to tlmc, for no well understood reason, although there are num- erous theories.

The Darwlns are honored by be- ing given a s eparate class from the Breeders. but the latter are new sharing the popularity of the Der- wlns because of their soft and un- usual colorings, notably the buffs,

mingled with purples and dark reds. These subtle art shades are cominz to ‘be more and more appreciated and offer some of the finest tulips there are. The Breeders require the same treatment as the Darwins.

They have yellow in their color range, there being no true yellow in the Darwin class. Some of these handsome tuli should be included in every orde . One of the finest is the bronze and purple giant, Ilouis XIV, one of the finest of all tulips end now at a price which puts it within reach. A few years ago it was one of the very expensive beauties.

The brown tones of the Breeders combine beautifully with the pink and rose tones of the Darwlns. They have the some great height of stem arm else of bloom.

Another late blooming race of tulips comes all in stripes and of- fers a mosc interesting variety in planting that always attracts in- terest. They are best planted in groups by themselves, as the stripes cf varying colors do not harmonise with other tulips. The striped tulips are divided into three classes. biz- arres, byblocms and Rembrandt tulips. The first are yellow and brown. red. or purple striped. The second class is subdivided into rose

land violet bybloonls, one being in I

Ask Your

browns and bronzes, often inter- _

Found

In Breederv Tulips

tones of red and white, and the other in lavender, purple and white. lThe Renlbrandts are striped Dar- lwln mllpa having the some soft colorlngs striped with white. A bed of these striped tulips is a.

an, m t he gal-sen and some of tirm yshould be included in in: bulb order. They m fine l° P1“ m small groups over a border. 8W1!!! it an unusual characted. The var- legations, ere sometimes in regular patty-m and metimes over ell. The oils-rector of the strlolns 1B sometimes in the way of flames up the nlldrib of the petal. and in other; a pattern about the edges cf flap petals, feathered.

If you never Brew hyacinth! in the garden. put out at least a dozen and see how well they grow out- doors.

Setoutafewhillsorrhubesb this. fall for spring pies. It is the first fresh-pie material in the gar-

en. .

"Poznan Sl-IINGLES‘

Look For and. Buy the Most Economical Slllngleon the, Market

Dealer for

. rnlcl: BROTHERS

if I mistake not, was bred by Mr. D. C.

A perusal of Preceptors breeding

say that the colt racing of this past est in the King of Sports and let

1934. With the foundation given us

CANADIAN llNHlNS

A new challenger in the onion

gauntlet. For a number of years

the British West Indies has been supplied by Holland, Portugal, and Argentina Recently, however, Can sdlan onion growers have had a surplus available XOIWIEHSDOIT. tn the West Indies territory and their products have been well received In fact, writes the Canadian ‘Trade Commissioner, due to the satis- factory and soundness of Canadian onions upon arrival, the demand is increasing. Ontario and the Marl- tlme provincm have been the chief- contrlbuun-s. Canadian onion: arrive in the West Indies market late in October and continue until the end of January. This export- ing period coincides roughly with that for Dutch supplies, so it is all the more to the credit of the quality of the Canadian onion that it can. break through such severe competition.

Federal Boar ’ Premium Policy.

In order to assist the swine breed- ers to nlaintain and improve their herds the Dominion Live Stock Branch, in co-operetlon with the Provincial Department of Agricul- ture ls offering financial aid in the purchase of high class bacon type boars.

Any farmers‘ club, institute, or any agricultural organization in a definite area, where ten or more of its members keep at least one brood sow each, may make application for assistance under this policy.

The club may purchase the boar

or may instruct the local official of the Dominion Live Stock Branch to make the selection. Only boars grading XXX are ‘eligible under this policy. This assistance consists of a Brant of $10.00 on such XXX boars. If the boar purchased is out of a dam. qualified in Advanced Registry, the grant ls $15.00. In either case the Federal Department will pay the express charges to destination.

At the 8th Annual Swine Shows: Sale, in Charlottetown, Tuesday, Oct. 16th. there will be offered at least twenty boars. all out of dams qualified in Advanced Registry. Every boar at this sale is eligible fcr a grant of $15.00 if purchased by a farmers’ club or institute. 'I‘hls should prove an inducement to our formers to make their selection at this event.

Applications to benefit under this policy should be made to the Dominion Live Stock Branch Char- lottetown, before or at this Sale.

The Federal Ram Club Policy

In order that sheep breeders in general msy be aware of the assis- tance offered by the Dominion Live Stock Branch towards the pur- chase of pure bred rams: an out- line of the Ram Club Policy follows:

This policy is available to districts in which there are ten or more sheep growers who each keep ten or more ewes. Two farmers each with less than ten ewes may com- bine to purchase a. ram jointly and