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A despatch from Washington to I Women's Wear Daily has the fol- lowing: Mink is still a magic word to local customers and particular- ly if it is under the 31,000 price Iiiic. most fur buyers here agree. An estimated 10 to 60 per cent of fur business done by furriers here is in the mink catalogue with the more exclusive shops figuring mink business in the higher bracket catalogue. Those buyers catering to the low and low med-
mm groups reported mink sales "J cuitstittlte 10 to 18 per cent of their business. Dark mink con- tinues most popular at stores with the exception of the very exclu- sire salons where pastel and wild iiiink sales are strong. also in areas where the upper middle in- Quill? group buy. silverblu mink sales are very strong.
The scale of mink sales run soiiictliinc, like this: Scarfs from M20 in s200. a set of (our; full i-oat 33.000 to 54.000; jackets 28 IllL'llL'S lengths. 51,500 to 52.000; (ape stnlP5 3700 to 32,200; cape jar-kets 51.200 to 52.500; stoles 51.000 to 32,500. ” business dine at about 81,200 to SL800.
I Forty thousand mutation mink vicre 95 per cent lold at the Do- minion Fur Auction Sales. Top price for sapphires was S46 to 570. for pastels S43, Breath of Spring l)lll0 336 to .350. Breath 0f.SDI'lIlg iiliites 344.50. Average price for Aleutian males was 558 to S65 The 10,000 Majestic dark mink was so per cent sold. Average for males was 523 to 529, for females 513 to 515.50- l)E.VlAND IS STRONG At the Canadian Fur Auction Sales Co. (Quebec) Ltd. sale. Montreal. demand was very strong with the result that 90 per cent of the entire catalogue was clear- ed. United States buyers dominat- ed the sale with Canadian and European interests well repre- j rented. Majestic dark mink was so per cent sold. Better qualities advanced 10 per cent. compared with last year's opening levels, other 5 per cent. EMBA Autumn Haze 95 per cent sold. advanced 15 per cent. Unlabelled pastels 98 per cent sold. advanced 15 per cent. Cerulean 95 per cent sold. atliailced 15 per cent. sapphires f unlabelled. 100 per cent sold. no comparison. Argenia 96 per cent sold. silverblu unlabelled. 96 per cent sold. no comparison.
ci,ppnha;;en. Denmark. Dec. 12 . . . The first auction of the sea- iion opened here today with good hiiying interest from the United States. Italy. Great Britain. Ger- many and France. Pastel mink .'ii'er;-med 337 for males with a top nl s42: females averaged 321 viith a top of 325: silverblu males averaged 527 with a top of 338: fcliialcs averaged 523: silverblu males averaged 528 and females aicraged 318.
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(luiy members of the Fur Trade :li.sut'iBl.IOIl of Canada are to be pcriiiitted to take part in next it-at-'s fur fashion award show ll) be held for thoJlrst time.ln Quebec City. April W to 25 . . . . uiiicial mink quantities for Hud- son's Bay Company's sale in Lon- don last Monday were as follows: Approximately 50,000 Scandinavian standard and mutation mink to- gether with 2,500 wild mink . . . . Four of the first six federal ro- Ierve district! in the United States have reports from department
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store fur sales showing gain over 1954 figures . . . . Pastel has come to the fore as the most popular mink color in Buffalo. N. Y. This has been learned by a survey of leading mink outlets. Dark ranch holds down the sec- ond place positlon in the color picture. followed by the midway shades in pastels and sapphires.
Ed Gould, reporting in Women's Wear Daily gives some figures re- garding the Hudsonls Bay Com- pany fur sales in New York. We quote: "A total of Z).520 raw Autumn Haze pelts went to the starting gate in an obviously strong opener. The report re- vealed that 92 per cent of the collection was turned over and it stated prices were strong and attendance was cxcellent with competition good throughout. Top males brought S47. females SZi.50. The top male bundle was pur- chased by Spring Lake Mink Farm. Unofficially, most buyers estimat- ed an over all increase from last year's opener of 10 per cent with males possibly a shade stronger than females. There was also the feeling that cheaper quality mer- chandise had accounted for much of the increase. Autumn Haze females were stronger at 321 to s23 than was the case a year ago. A total of 52 of the first 117 females bundles sold from 321 to 023.
BEAVER IS HELPED
Quebec beaver quality is expect- ed to be helped by the early win- tcr. J. A. Tremblay, director of Quebec Fur Service. states. "Re- ports from our inspectors indicate that the cold weather without any let-up has helped considerably to improve pelt quality. This is evident not only in Beaver but likewise in wild mink and other in those preserves."
Approximately 96,000 mink were offered and mostly sold at the New York Auction Company sale in Minneapolis last week. There was strong bidding for all color phases and for better qual- ity ranch mink throughout the sale. Standard ranch mink sold at unchanged levels. Top and standard males brought 3-il.50. fe- males 9150 and good quality males sold from 530.50 to 536.50. females 315 to 317.50. A total of 5.100 EMBA argenta and 13.200 silverblu mink were 98 per cent sold at an advance of 15 per cent.
Top silverblu male' bu ndles reached 337.50 and top females s20.50. Stewart argenta males brought 341 top with females S21. Breath of Spring male silverblu sold to a high of 348.50 and S24 for females. A total of 44.200 pas- tels and EMBA Autumn Haze provided the most active session of the sale. Standard pastel types sold 96 per cent.
Stewarts were 84 per cent sold and Breath of Spring 74 per cent. Stewart and better Pastel 13995 showed no change from last years opening. but good and ordinary types advanced fully 10 per cent. Top price for pastel males was s54 and 328 for females. Stewart Autumn Haze reached I top of 353 for males and S30 101' females-
A total of 9.100 Iapnhirl and cerulean mink sold 94 Per Cem- Top male price was 357 and Stew- art cerulenn males reached 360. females 328.50. Top Breath of Spring eerulean males brought S71 and females 331
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THE 1955 APHID ATTACK ON GRAIN
There have been aphids in ab- undance throughout the years that have infested practically every farm and garden crop. There are hundreds of different types of ap- hids that attuck different IJIEIIIIS. In former years the most serious damage to farm crops in this prov- ince has been from the attack of aphids on turnips and potzitics. The greatest damage credited to them in the past has been that they were vectors and carried vir- us diseases from one area to sim- ilar plants in another area Flt.-so diseases caused much greater loss
feeding on the plants.
Aphids multiply at an iticrcilible rate during hot weather. They are sucking insects. so that lne application of dusts and other poisons to the surface of plants does not give any control against these sap suckers. D. D. T. and many insecticides were useless a- gainst the 1955 aphids that nttucscd the grain crops throughout Can- ada last summer.
The grain that was seeded early in this province escaped serious damage. The later sown fields of oats were quite heavily infested in many districts. The greatest dam- age, however. occurred in the later sown fields of barley; many of these were seriously damaged and some destroyed so that they were
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not worth harvesting. POTENT WEAPON
Fortunately a new potent weap- on had been discovered that is deadly to aphids, it can be applied with emergency equipment with very little danger to the persons applying it by dusters,- ground sprayers or from airplanes. The name of this material is mal- athion. g
Unfortunately the supply of inal- athion that was available was woe- fully iuadequate, not only in PE. Island but throughout Canada. In- secticide distributors had stocked only a normal simply and this was very quickly exhausted when the aphid invasion became known. The Entomological Division of Science Service said they never had any- thing like the number of long dis- tance cnlls for help as when the farmers realized that the aphids were attacking the grain in over- whelming numbers.
The Experimental Station Cer- ealists at Charlottetown, by using the emulsion form of malathion and a light spraying outfit with hose attachment, were able to save all their barley test plots. as this treatment proved quite ad- equate. We have learned that the Station at Fredericton, N.B. lost their barley test lots due to dam- age from aphids.
APIIID VARIETIES
recognized as being destructive to piles of malathion concentrate in
Two varieties of aphids that were
grain here last summer were the English grain aphid and the Corn Stalk aphid. Another insect that became very numerous and caused some alarm was the larva of the Spotted Lady Bug. These have ely one of their favorite fooils is the aphid. These larvae of the
insects, but they destroy great num- bers of aphids and helped check the ravages of the aphid.
In Bermuda. when other incniis had failed to check the destruction of their cedar trees which VHTC being killed by a scale. on III' that had arrived there on o a- mental cellar trees. the autlioritiar. imported a species of Lady But: to try and control the pest. The first importation of Lady Bugs were unfortunately blown to sea by a hurricane and most of their beautiful cedar trees were dead when we last visited the colony.
The aphids attacking grain went on the rampage in the great grain producing areas of Saskatchewan. Alberta and Manitoba early in 1955, these western farmers were con- fronted with disaster. The Agric- ultural officlals knew that the only effective known means of control was malathlon, and that the total supply then in Canada was entirely inadequate. They learned that "Warners, New Jersey" had suf- ficient stockpiles of malathion and because the time element was so important, foperation Airlift Aphid came into being, and Slick Airways who had planes available in Cal- ifornia were contacted by phone. OFFICIALS COOPERATE
Canadian Customs officials co- operated and facilitated the move- ment of malathion across the bord- er into Canada. Within hours. sup-
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STEAL YULE TOYS lals. the manufacturers of mal- athlon. transportation companies. TORONTO (CF)-Sunday school insecticide distributors and thelpupils at the Anglican Christ wheat growers of the west by which Church in suburban Scarborough Over 250.000 pounds of malathlon township. uiidismayed at the theft concentrate were used to destroy of five cartons of toys collected aphids, helped to avert a dis- started their collection campaign aster that threatened many Con- all over again Monday. Rev. A. G. adian farmers. "Airlift Aphid" Channen said the toys, to be dis- was a wonderful international de- tributed to needy children -in the monstration of cooperation and Parry Sound district, disappeared swift action to meet an agricultural from 'the church vestry. emergency. ' for distribution to needy children, T
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