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ll. C. STEWART ' Says

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At the Hudson's Bay Company and Anning dz Cobb sales held in 101M011. May 30th, an offering of 21,810 silver fox and plstina skins was almost completely withdrawn. Hudson's Bay Company's comment stated that there were only a few buyers in the sales room. Arming d: Cobb's comment was that, gllygr fox and platinas were neglected Th9 P9550" Why this large number of silver fox and platinas’ were in the. warerooms of the above com- panies was that there had been good reason to expect a favorable reduction in the excise tax on furs levied by the British Government. However, Sir Stafford Cripps gave no relief and furs in the categories above could not be moved with the 100% sales tax.

Mink was in strong demand l1, I-flmlifion. Fraser 8s Ruth's. New York, sale last week. More than m7" 01 The 99.000 skins were dia- posed 0f with prices 15% above April on better goods. Moles in all sections were up 1551, wmie females in the other sections were unchanged, but slightly higher ma" in Allrli. Firm demand and keen bidding marked the two-day ranch mink sale and many db. servers were surprised at the con- tinued strength. Dealers, mgnu. fecturers and some EXpOrtIng buy- 6T8 participated in the auction. The wmiwnv Yfillorted as follows: Sections one and two consisting of 54314 sklns- Too Prices. $40 for males. $23.50 for females: 83% 501d, Section three, odd lots 21,356; top of $14: 70% sold. Section four, 101V 8mm» 2.090: mp or $13.75; 50% sold. Bcst collections advumed 15% over April.

In a recent issue of the Ameri- can National Fur and Mai-kg, Journal Michael M. Rich, New York fur broker, has given an analysis of the mink and S11v8;- fox business during the p35]; Sea.

son and points out what he be.

lieves are the prospects (or the mink and silver fox breedgrg 1Q;- the coming sea-son as follows: -- "Lest year I predicted that, m; 011M111! price of standard ranch mink would be about 15% lower than the year before with mink being more difficult to sell because of a large production, and because wild mink, prices were about, 35% lower, diverting ranch mi k buy- ers to wild mink. Well, that came true. However, there are still P191113! 0f buyers for ranch mink coats and one reason for that is the low price at which ranch mink is selling. Pastel mink are as I predicted. selling for about 15% higher prices than last year and V"! few ' are “available. Black Cross mink are selling more free. ly for a little better price than last year. The reason for the bet,- ter price of Black Cross is scarc- ity as most ranchers pelted dii their Black cross mink, Next, year there will be no more.

"Fine Mink Breeding-The over production of ranch mink is the cause of mink selling at. these imv prices. Europe was a larger bum- of mink this year but Eu- rope, like the United States. was using mostly fine mink and fine mink is no longer available in quantities. The good mink that is available is now bringing priccs that are as high as they were last December and January and I ex- pect an advance in prices before next September. This only proves that. lf you breed fine mink you can still operate at a profit. The man who breeds mediocre and poor mink will be compelled to pelt out soon. It is more advis- able to breed fewer mink and good quality rather than more mink of the poorer grades.

"Prospects of mutation mink - Mut-ation mink is due for the same setback as the standard mink. Already there are signs of a carry- over of silverblu mink. At re- cent auctions there was a demon- stration of Ahe weakness of silver- blu. Every mink dealer and manu- facturer now has ample stocks of this shade and the only type sell- ing is of the better quality and very light shades. The ordinary quality and medium and darker shades are neglected. It would be wiser for the rancher to breed fewer Silverblu mink in order to keep them in high favor. The reason pastel mink is in high favor is that the shade resembles s fine wild mink, but all the pas- tels are not favored. The only pastels that are wanted are the clear light shades with a blue guard hair, but it seems that Iii order to get the light colors you run into the white cotton under- fur which is not wanted. A fine pastel mink should have a light blue clear underiur and dark top hair—not red.

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of some ranchers paying high prices for Aleutian and Amber and Sapphire mink breeders. They may be Justified in doing this but the return on their investment-s is peoblematloai. A certain amount of new shade mink will always sell at a. high price but as soon as the shade becomes plentiful it meet/s with dlsfavor and it. be- comes difficult to sell. It is there- fore important to remember that the fine standard mink is the best investment.

“Importation of mink - The importation of mink from the Eu- ropean countries does not menace the mink breeders of this coun- try because the best European mink does not compaire favorably with the poorest American mink. Now this is still another lesson for the Amesican mink breeder not to breed poor mink.

“Silver Fox -— The Silver Fox market has shown signs of ro- vival in the past six months but it is like a very sick patient, i: requires convaiescence after the crises is passed. Now that large quantities are no longer available the silver fox will gain in favor with the American woman. A large number of platinum jackets have been sold this year and it BPDears certain that the cloth coat trade will use some of the darker plalinums as well as the standard silvers for collars. It 590mg may the fine standard fox will surpass the mutation fox in high favor with women, it and fine standard sll. ver brings more than a fine white face fox. I believe the white face fox will die a natural death and it will not be wanted at all; but in the platinum fox the very light shades are preferred for jac- kets and the darker plstlnums will be used for collars on cloth coats. Women who prefer a. darker jac- ket will buy n fine light standard fox. I predict the standard silver fox will sell for as high as S30. this season and with silver fox becoming scarce will gradually climb higher.

Commenting on the above analy-

sis which certainly cmnrnands at-

tention as the Writer is one of

the top fur men of the USA, we

would say that he is wrong in the

opinion that there are only small

quaritliim of silver fox available.

We are quite sure that Fromm

Bios. and Nic-man‘s have put in

cold storage a large part of the production of their fur farms in

1947 and most of the production of i948. We would say that there

must be upwards of 80,000 silver fox and mutation pelts unsold ir

the U.S.A'.' iFpYesbfit find "upward; of 60.000 unsold in Canada. Just what quantities are still unsold on the European markets is 1q~~ known but London auction housos must have upwards of 30,000 whilc no doubt there are quantities re- maining in cold storage in Norway. Don Stewart, who leaves shortly for the Intemetional Fur Confer- ence at Oslo, Norway, will no doubt bring back with him s. fair- ly complete picture of the silver fox situation over there. When he returns and gives his report we will be better able to judge what the future prospects are for a re- vival of the industry.

Yesterday afternoon we had the pleasure of a conversation with a relative of the late Sir Charles Dalton. i-le was intimate with Mr Dalton when he was starting his breedfng operations and remembers going out to the been to try and get a peep at two silver foxes Mr. Dalton had purchased and was endeavoring to have them bred That attempt was not successful but he persisted and eventually, as our friend remembers, the money floated into him in great quan- tities, but he was never carried away with prosperity, remained lust the same genial companion as he was when he had much less of the world's goods. As I balked to Mr. C. the thought went through my mind that Sir Charles could never for a moment have ente- tained the idea that the fur farm on Oultonis Island would lead to the world wide spread of fur farm- ing with an eventual production of pelts totalling nearly one million.

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, ooocwc THE EASTERN WILLET

The Wiliet is mentioned by Francis Bain in 1891, as one of the Island birds, but he acids, “it is not common with us." Shore birds were not protected In those days and. in a few years the Wil- let had come to be regarded as extinct north of the State of Virginia. By 1916 Chester E. Reed wrote that the Willet bred from the Gulf of Mexico to New Jersey, and that it later strayed to the State of Maine.

Under these circumstances the Willet was dropped from the list of Island birds published by the writer in i936. During the twenty years interval (1916-1936) the Wil- let had been quietly staging n come-back, for Mr. Wm. H. Moore, of Scotch Lake, N. B., wrote that. the Willet was “tolerably com- mon" in 1928, and it appears, though without comment, in a N. S. list of about the same date. And at last we have authentic records for the Island, since a flock of seven Willets was ob- served at Priest Pond, near Sou- ris, in August 1947, and a flock of four was seen in the same lo- cality Aug. 3,1948. I am indebted to Mr. J. Frank Sterns, of Sou- ris, for these and many other re- cords.

Readers of this column will have noted that for a considerable time past our birds have been

described serlatim. Now, it is

necessary to go back and re-iri-

state the Willet! It belongs to the

order Llrnlcolae, and shows a re-

lationship to the Yellowlegs and the Sandpipers. It. is larger than

the Greater Yellowlegs, and its

size nearly led to its extinction

by making it an “easy mark!" The

color of its legs. however, is a

ilull blue, and this together with

its grayish plumage. and rather

stocky bill. are excellent guides

to its identity. Its call is expressed

as “pilly-will-willet," thus giving

the origin of its name. "The dif-

ference of color in the Willefl

plumage (it will be observed! de-

pends, not on sex. but on season.

The Willet winters from North

Caroline to Brazil. There is a

Western Willet which, one learns,

is scarcely distinguishable from

the eastern form.

Eastern Wlllet AOU 25B. Not common -— Bain (1891). Scarce, 194D. Summer plumage, adults. Above, gray, with slightly brown- ish tinge, speckled dusky. Bill blackish, stout, fairly long. Win85 mostly black; but a wide white crossbar is shown in flying. "a flashing wing pattern" — Peter- son. Under parts whitish, sides and breast heavily barred with brown- ish gray, Legs long. dark hluelah. feet with small webs between the toes. Winter birds. plain ash-gray above. clear white beneath. Length of~adult 14 inches.-

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NOTES -

That, said Cleobulul, where the citizens fear blame more than punishment. That, laid Chiloil. where the laws are more regarded than the oratorl. Solon’! own idea was that the moat perfect govern- ment held that an injury clone to the meanest subject is an insult upon the whole community. This seems to have received the gen- eral approvai of the meeting.

(Solon was born about 839 B. C., and died, it is thought, in 55B B. C., after a most eventful life, and lamented by all the states of Greece.)

Liberty, as we know it, does not seem to be visualized by the Seven Sages. There was a large population of slaves among the Greeks, mostly captured in war. in Sparta, the Helots reduced to slavery, amounted to half the population.

Nature Notes

The "Golden Chain" Laburnurn which had three or four strings of yellow flowers last year, is going to do e little better this year I think. It is however more suitable for the climate of B. C. and visitors to the Pacific Coast. who have seen this small tree in full bloom will agree that it is a fine sight. Gardeners in Eng- land used it as a shelter-belt which in early summer was en- tirely covered with firings of yel- low flowers.

Today I picked some of the Narcissus flowers. These are N. poetical (Poet's Narcissus), with n perianth of immaculate white. and a small red-rimmed "cup“, bo- tanically the “crown? 1 have also ii double form of this species. but it appears to be temperamental. flowering freely some years, and not In others. The poeticus species have a strong but refreshing pcr- fume, reminiscent to some extent of riaphthaline.

"Uncle Joe's account settler‘: garden with white and red raspberries interested me greatlyflbecause I had not heard of white raspberries for almost three quarters of a century. My grandfather's brother had s row of these berries in his garden; they were not pure white, but. rather of the color of ivory. There was no tartness in their taste; they were very sweet. I wonder if there are any of this variety on the island?

Down by the aide of the creek. the Virgin's Bower Clematis (C. virginiana) is climbing over the

of the

aiders and other shrubs. it will soon display its panicles of small white flowers. There is an Eng-

GEORGE DREW

Mr. Drew picked Lakehead, Ont. Hon. C. D. Rowe's riding, to launch a series of charge. against Mr. Howe over the dia- poeal of Canadeir Ltd., where the North Star aircraft are made. Hon. Mr. Howe was the minister in charge of disposal of Canada's largest aircraft plant at Cartier- ville near Montreal. Mr. Howe said the Government had ‘no knowledge of the arrangement under which the original director of Canadair Ltd, Benjamin Frank- lin, and_his associates, transferred ownership of Canadair Ltd. to its DYBSBht owners. "But I can say definitely that the purchase price of the shares was a small fraction of the amount ($2,500,000) suggest-

Drevi Anii liovie’; Version 0f “Secret Deai"

C. D. HOWE 4

_Rt. Hon. C. D. Howe has de- med“ that he‘ arranged a "secret deal by which the original d1- rector of Canadair Ltd. and hi. associates allegedly received $2,. 500.000 for sale of its stock. He said George Drew's suggestion in a‘ recent speech that there were irregularities" in the ¢gnh~a¢g were‘ as senseless and complete. ly without foundation as were Mr. Drew's attacks on the North Starnaircraft and the Merlin en- gine. He denied that $3,000,000 worth of machinery. dies and pat- terns for the construction of the North Star was thrown in with- out compensation. as implied by Mr. Drew. The $3,000,000, be said. was shown as a debt to the (‘WWII Payable by Canadair Ltd,

small collection of sea shells which have been named with the help of Morris's Guide to the shells. If any of my readers come across shells this summer and want them named. send them in and I'll do my best!

We have a large bivalve shell-

fish here known as the "Cow- hawk," properly Quahog. The aforesaid Guide makes a llip

when it says that the geographic range of this species is from Maine to Florida. Ganong. writ- ing in 1889, reports the Quahog as common all round the coast of Nova Scotia, and Dawson, in his "Survey." mentions it amongst our shellfish. Ganong’: conclusion ls that it is probably to be found wherever the Oyster can live,

ed by Mr. Drew," the minister and the debt was subsequently stated. paid in full. name, called C. vltalha.

Changing the subject I have .

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Religion in the Curriculum (2)

It is a historical fact that when a large body of nationals is al- lowed to grow up without any religious belief they end by de- stroying the churchcs themselves. We ourselves have seen the churches plundered in Russia, and in Spain, and are now just waking up to the inner meaning of these acts.