,4-»o++~~ . A strong sale with the market ,.‘hO\Vlll§ a trend towards advanc- mg prices was held last week by .5<,,,<lack Fur Auction Sales Co. ma, Winnipeg. The company re- port indicated that the market on muslrrat, beaver. mink, both wild and ranch. was strong. These were pmtn at") all sold. bong-haired furs, uoif and red and silver fox “are steady and somewhat lower than previous sales prices. In a statement issued after the sale George Soudack said, "There is a general feeling of big buying in the United States. Prices on fur mats should be high this coming

winter "

American government administer- ¢d sealing operations on Alaska's prtbilnf istanils during the 1947

.season netted a total of 61.447 fur seal skins. The season closed July 315p The catch is 3,276 skins less .thaii i946. The take of seals is eon- 4mm to young males which early

.-in the season are segregated from the rest of the herd. As soon as the voun: males begin mingling with

_ ‘family groups it. is customary to dlsrontinue sealing to avoid in- jury to females in young.

When the annual census was taken early in August Secretary Kru-u mild the seal herd numbered gfilfllirhi animals, a gain of 6.72 per- cent from the i946 census. The Pribilof herd is estimated to be worth more than $100 million. ‘The Federal Government assumed man- agement of the fur seals in the Pribiioffs in 1910 and the herd then contained only 132.000 animals. By careful conservation it has develop- ed to its present size and at the same ti-ue has produced nearly 1.- soonco skins which have been sold ‘ for government account. The North

Amerimn fur seal herd contains about 80 percent of the world's fur seals. smaller herds are found’ in the u-esfern Pacific. oi! the coast 0f Uruzuay and off the Cape of Good l-iope

Paris fall showings include a flour length coat of silver fox com- posed of eight rows of foxes laid horizontally, which unzipp to make the coat. shorter as wanted. The French rlcslimcrs are the most en- tliusiastlc about silver fox and l gentleman who visited Paris and witnessed the races at Vincennes some two months ago, stated that he saw dorens of models wearing

. silrei- for and it was quite stylish and attractive.

A new process has been invented

. for bringing hack to the almost or- iginal color and beauty faded sil- . ver and blue muskrat coats. It is . not a rhrap process but. is said to he pretty effective and will no inubt have a considerable demand.

Elwyn Ingi-ams who recently re- . turned from visiting the Hudson's Bay Company fur connections in - south Africa. has resigned as manazer of the London fur de- partmeiit of the Hudson's Bay Com- Nhy. No successor has as yet been named but W. A. Rose continues . ls acting fur manager. Mr. Ingram: held the fur manager's post for about fifteen years. succeeding Rfllhh Forbes who was afterwards Emlllllved by the Canadian govern- » mellt. Norman Bcynes is relin- quishing the vice presidency of Lsmnson. Fraser and Ruth" Inc., llllllill‘ to assume the new fur post in Winnlpcz. workinrz under P. A. Chester. managing director of the y Hudson's Bay Company. Mr. Beynes ll fi-Xflected to arrive in New York this week..W. Chester S. MeLure. M.P.. George A. Callback. Peter G. Clark and many other local parties Will be interested in the above an- nounrement.

’ Acmfdlns to fur magazines the fistest moving furs this season are

1 outon lamb. muskrnt and Persian

. 12ml» In coats the 42 inch length W‘ "mil Popular. Many stores ?l\.v‘that women are not asking ‘glzdlllllcr lengths in coats. adding H"! the. division was between rong~<luarier lencih and semi-long

cofircryiwrdinc lo Sears-Roebuck A: theb ‘gills-est mcrchandizers in m a l‘ - A-~ "if! sreatest hindrance ed “ 1Y1 medium and higher uric- lllifl is the luxury tax, Civgtom- gall": more conscious of the tax M potplrllrtil ever before and hundreds m" m “A Patrons have lridrcated chim f tiflayinsr their fur pur- - u! hwlnt l somethfnc is done a- warded AX- Some relief has been ‘M h‘; Te Ameri an merchants Y"! by th elimination oi

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_ Silver Fox and ; _ Mink Farming

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the 20 percent tax on costs trim- med with fur such as silver fox, mink, etc., but absolutely no re- lief has been given to fur farmers or merchants by the government of Canada. Although the strongest representations were made to Fi- nance Minister Ilsley and his suc- cessor, Mr. Aibbott. they disregard- . ed them and the present state of the silver fox industry is to a con- siderable extent due to their lack of Iilide-Piilun.

Something unique in mink hil- flory took place at the Richard Lindstrom Fur Farm, 5t. Paul. Minna, when one of their black‘ Yukon mothers gave birth to a six- legged kit. This freak has fouri bind legs. two tails and two diges- tive systems. The legs are all of the same size and he uses all oi them in moving about. It is now about four months old and is of. ‘ normal size.

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In a discussion of ranch fox prac- tice R. G. Stevenson states that on the basis of available data the average cost of producing a silver fox in the United States for the l year 1946 was between s35 and $40. 1 With current market prices on fox pelts that cost leaves the fur farm- er in a very unhappy position. Ranch practices which lead to ll production of 4 1-2 pups per fe-

[in the nope that she will do bat- gtut the following year. She will, ~aad on the average she will pro-

| between five and six pups per lit-

male kept can bring that cost down _

to about s25 per pelt for grown pup produced. according to Mr. Stephenson. Further he says. "I

have heard of some ranchers who ' feel that the answer to today's!

pelt prices is not more pups to feed; that it would be better to kill off the crop and carry the breeders. For them my remarks will be oi little value. I know of otheit who would advertise the industry back to prosperity and cry for more and better tariffs and quotas behind which to keep on raising a 2 1-2 or s pup average.

' It has been the habit of Anieri- can industry to pride itself on low unit cost made possible by

‘mechanization and efficiency of operation. It ls high time that the fur farmer takes stock of his po-

sitlon and fuilows practices which

will produce pups that cost him less money. Now why do most of us have relatively poor produc- tion? Two factors determine how many pups we produce for every animal retained. i1; proportion of misses, <2) size of litters, The pfOpOItiDZI of misses varies widely from ranch to ranch and is de- termined by age of breeding stock, adequacy oi diet, management

‘practices and to some extent on :he strain of animals. On a well

.1nanaged ranch misses should

Average less than 20 percent on

'young females and 10 percent on

‘ proven breeders.

i Sterility, or failure to conceive

due to a fault of the fox, ‘should

be low with most of the blanks accounted for by’ difficulty at birth or loss shortly thereafter.

One of the most. important causes

of high blanks is the practice of

polygamous inating. Theoretically the method of using fine quality prolific males polygainousiy is round and economical and in the hands of a good manager should produce results that compare ta pair mating on production with superior pelts and lower cost. A polygamous mating is still some- thing of an art. My recommenda- tions in this field are polygam- ous mating of proven breeders only. utter size in the females which no have pups is another matter.

The ability to produce large litters

is a characteristic which is in-

herited. when we fail to select for litter size in picking our breeding stock we let nature take its course.

Nature tends towards mediocrity

and whenever we try to improve

on nature by selection we c an nold that gain only by continued selection.

| The high prices received and lthe great demand for the new .color phase foxes both as breed- 'crs and pelts made us ignore or f accept the d.'op in litter size. Since 1032.1 have been keeping records on productior and our results in the selection o! my breeding stock. Briefly, young females se- lected from utters of three. four and five have averaged litters of four and five pups in their first year, while females from litters of seven. eisht and nine have aver- gagcd 5.5 pups under the same eon- Eltion. A similar picture holds for the culling of the herd of proven breeders. Don't keep a fa- male which produces only lone, two or three pups the first year

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CHOICE BLOOMS At Gui-fen, or Delivered in Charlottetown W. S. CREED, Highiiaid. Plume 1953-12

duce only four pups while females which ‘produce seven, eight or nine pups tho first year will average

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A common error in selecting breeders is either an entire neg- lect of the factor of production or more nicely the making of ex- ceptions in the case of patricular- .ly fine animals. In selecting a polygamous male it. is very impor- tant that he comes from proven hish-producing strains. The in- fluence of the male is not so ob- vlous in the size of the litter that he fathers out his prolific tenden- cies or lack of them will be pres- ent in his offspring. Outstanding foxes do occzn in small litters as well as large when they do there is often the temptation to use them as breeders. when we do we may quickly wreck the potential- ties of our nerd for high produc- tron.

I have had the privilege of go- ing over the records of the Nie- man ranches and may say that the Nleman-Stephenson company has had the following averages the past few years: 1944-4b7; 1945 —-4.9'l; 1946-4313; 194"l—4.92. This past winter we carried over 5'71 old females which produced 3.068 young. ‘illilth 7.1 percent blanks our average will show 5.82 pups for producing females and a grand average of 5.3’! for every proven female uintered. There were 21

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Some of the lmgLish truit trees and or bards are beginning to show that the soil has become deficient in manganese and iron. ‘Traces of these elements are as ncvessary to the well-being of plants as they are to that of animals. Mos: of Eng- land's "fruit counties" have had orchards for i. very long time and the soil in Fume crises had little manganrse to start with; in other cases the deficiency was caused by unwise pracmaes. such as the misuse of lime. ‘Ihe outward signs of the trouble. are that the normal green of the leaves fades to a silvery white, and in bad cases the tissue betwesr. the veirs turns brown. ‘Iihe remedy recommended, is to spray with a. solution of manganese shlphai’, fewc-us sul- phate, and a little hydrated lime. r , barrister. dces not immediately concern us, for our red scii packs more iron than ever we can use.

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roll of potatoes the young leaflets are rolled like funnels, and the older leaves are turned inwards from the edges: this virus disease may reduce the crop by as much as 75 per c.-nii And this is ozily| one of many rntato vlruz-er. I haw read of, but have never seen. a VlrLl of Black Currants that makes the leaves r-rs-um- abnormal stapes and prevents the develrprnen: of fruit There are said to oe several kinds of virus which affect the tomato, one of which causes the leaves to twist and 011:1 into bizarre shapes. I've occasionally iiad plants iikQ this in the garden, but as the yield was go<d I deeded that there was no inhction. A have grown my own tomato seed since i916. and b, keeping out other varieties. there is not much chants of infection from outside “

The Roman; 1n Scotland (i) In "he Guardian of Aug 18th, there is an article on ifte "Fiery

A5 to the manganese deficiency. our orchards are too “nevfl for that, though .1 may come in time.

Our Provincial ‘Laboratory of Plant. Pathology did good service by shoving zhat "B:oiw*iheart” of turnips was the result of a deficiency of boron-another "tracs-elesnent" -—in toe soil. 1n the Old Country boron-deficiency is shown by the rotting 4f the crown of beetrocts, and browning cf ilie "curd" of cauliflr-wcrs. Tihe remedy advised in that country. is the application of org-finite fertilizers, sucn as fish meal, "Jade presumably from iish “offai".

Potatoes an] tomatoes, grown in

percent blanks. a litter average of E31 and a. grand average for all young females retained of 4.91 pups.

While most of our herd is our own strain or pure standard sil- vers we haie about 150 pair in which either the male or the fe- male is platinum or white face. 'To summarize the points I have tried to make (l) polygamous breeding is sound practice but re- sults have often been uneconomi- cal because oi neglect of produc- tion factor; <2; Color phase fox are a fine development for the fox farmer. In breeding for them many of us have forgotten to keep up prcduction standards. Your cost depends on how high you keep your production, so se- lect breeders carefully and resist that desire to make exceptions. Buy breeding stock with produc- tion as well as quality in mind. Test your animals for proliflcness before using them freely."

Our comment. on the above ar- tlcle is that both Froinms and Niemans have gone on the high production theory for many years. At one time Fromms would not keep a fox unless it was out of a litter of at least six pups and both Fromm and Niemans usually carry a male with each female and ii is only in recent years that any amount of polygamous mating has been resorted to. On our own ranch we hewe never produced as many pups since we introduced polygamous mating but it is dif- ficult to go back again to the male and female mating through- cut a ranch mainly because we consider the cost of adding an ex- tra male to the hcrd and also its keep. but there is no doubt that it is a factor iii giving better pro- ductlon.

It is also true that males or fe- males kept from small litters do not usually givc as good breeding results although we have seen ex- ceptions. For instance one year we purchased a very beautiful fe- male pup-tue only pup in l; m. tor-from the lat.e Franklyn Bov- yer. and the next year she raised

England. are beginning t.o show signs oi magnesium deficiency. The symptoms are the appearance of ‘many prle green or yellow spots on ‘the leaves, but this condition is ‘quickly remeoird by watering in a rslight dusting of magnc-"ium sul- ,phate.

I hare. sometimes found amongst 1m tomatoes. plants with a dstinct purple tinge. ldany years ago I sent |a plant so aflecied to Ottawa and the color was attributed to some dcfizlerzcy in ihe scil. I was relieved because I suspected the appearance of the plant was die to a virus.

On Virus Diseases

Virus diseasis of plants are us- tmliy conspicuous early iz. July in this country. f‘ is ruthcr hard to say ryhot a "virus really is. for as i1 understand. scientists are still larguing the qiicstor; bi‘. I shall not be stickmg out. my neck too far in reicrrlrg to it as r. kind of poison that rarely kills ‘he plant outright but suangly interferes with its normal growth.

The urus is carried from an in- fected plant to a healthy plant by chewing c-r s*i‘-king ins: aphids and the like and by the knife of the pruner. llo cure is known but keepinz dswr, the insects is a help and all infected plants shoud be pulled and burnt as soon as nztlcod.

A v.rus crflied "tlie yellows" attacks the Fail Dardelioii. and its presence i; srown by the pale gzeen leaves. and d-siorted tic-aver- lreads. which nevcr proiizce the yellow ietals. From these diseased plants the vrus is earned to all plants hovinz composite flowers, such as dahilns, pineapple weed asters. bachelrs buttons etc. In oddillo- it liar been found attack- ‘Lng most garden MODS. I have seen carrots assume a pzillid hue and on digging them ‘the roots Wcle seen to be thickly cloinod with root-hairs and of mcst unhealthy appearance. We have a nc-w riveapon against in- fcciczi rleecls ln life 2.4.0 and it should be well and iru'y used!

But there era many other kinds of viru.. Thee is the "Rasbrrry Mosaic’ which mstilrs the leaves with y-Ytou’. CPPfkS the growiih and

eigth pups practically as flood as herself.

greatly reduces the crop. In Leaf-

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project being developed in

New industry is‘ expects

Cress," Auld South's call to war It, (the article) comes from United Kingdom Infi-rmatir-n, and is good reading except in one paragraph let me quote:-

“The Scottish custom of using a fiery cross to summon rlie clansi dates back to the earlies‘. period of’ Scottish history. First re:ord of its use was when the Roman general Agricola. tried to nus-h north into Scotland in A. D. 33. The Scottish people were able to repel the Ro- man invaders because they were summs-ied Willi the Fiery Gross by their ch.ef Galgacus." ‘

It would be interesting to know where that "iirst record" is to be found! Moreover. Galgacus did n0!‘ repel the Roman invaders, but cn the moor of Ardcch in Perthshire. he suffered a terrible defeat. in which :t is said 10,000 o-f his Cale- donian followers perished.

The events which led up to this sanguiau-y enoaunte- may be briefly related. About the veer 69. the Bri- gantes an extensiie tribe whose KCITiLOTy stretched frcm the Humber- and the Mersey to the present borders of Scctlario" this tribe. l repeat, had been L». revolt against their Roman masiere. and were ncw in the turmoil of a civil war so general that for the movement the Romans were obliged to leave them in a state of independenw.

Successive Roman commarriers, over a period m‘ years, had reduced most of the Bilgantes to c-lJEZllGnCG, when .n the year 7d, the Ordovices of Nortii Wales, rose in revolt and destroyed a I"0Cp o! cavalry which

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With m’oney in the bank you

are always in a position to seize opportunities as they come along-perhaps a bargain for cash- perhaps a business venture with a future. Even small amounts grow quickly when deposited regularly. Remember . ; . many a

success story started in a bank book.

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what; you earn

lAY ASIDE part of your earnings as a saving .

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W. R. CRUIKSHANK, Manager Branches also In Himter River, Mount Stewart, Summarsida and Tyno Volley.

was stationed in their country. The spirit nf disaffertion spread rapnlly, for ammg barbarots people there is a soontaneous "grape-vine tele- graph" that c-irrles and magnifies the news. The northern iribes, who knew nothing of the resources of Rome. began to organize for the attack.

At thz: critical mrment, the man most capable of wrestling with the dangers threatening the Province was appointed props-actor. It was in the ,tall of the yea: 7a when

to assume the government of Bri-

fore and knew something and a snail number of native troops.

whole tribe to the itils he passes over the Mona utnglesea) and bx-ugiht. it under Ihe R-man bower

island of l

proprannr went into quaxtez". there employing- in reforming and regulating govcrrtnent of the Province, and S reforming its innumerable abusesJ As the summcr of the year 79 approa-clied, Agricola again put his legions in motcn. and by 1 mixture of severity t; all vino rev-st

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Julius Agriccii returned from Rome 11111- tor weaned

taln. 1+.- had fought in entail. be- warlike We“ er-d 1k‘ “M! to "dim of the the pwsuiis and native vrarfare. In spite o! the late De season he got together ire legions in _

ions and puoiy, measures. He en- and marching into the mountains COUHBP-l