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BY AGHDOI-A

INDIAN FOOD PI/ANTS at 4 pm; after a week of weather.

John MacSwain, in his “Plants of P. E. Island", give the common or Black Nightshade (Solarium nigrum) as one of our native plants. It must be relatively 111i- common since I have not yet come across it. It is known that the Indians of California ate the ripe berries of this piant, but consid_ ered the green berries poisonous. about 1910 or 1911, I noticed a. plant of the Woody Nightshade (B. Duicamara) growing near the door of a little shop in Charlottetown. It had tempting rod berries but these were very poisonous indeed, and on my informing the old lady who kept the shop she destroyed the "vine". (In Newcastle the newspapers of Aug. 26, i898, told of the death of a little girl, eight years old, who had eaten ten of the berries; she ate them on the Monday night and died early on the Wednesday morning). This plant may have been brought from New Brunswick where it is found in waste places or thickets.

And can you believe it? the haves of that troublesome lawn- weed, the common Plantain (P. major), were eaten by the Indians of New Mcxicoi

Three members of the Honey- suckle family — the Caprifoliaceae —proved useful. The berries of the "Cranberry-tree" or Pimbina (V, opuius) were eaten fresh or cooked. Not far away from my dwelling is n place where the In- dians of old deposited discarded oyster shells and over it grows a thicket of Pimbinii and thorns. Our Rcd-berricd Elder furnished berries which were eaten raw or boiled, and a tca was made from the roots of the plant. The Com- mon or American Elder strongly resembles the fragrant black-berri- ed, Eider of England: it seems to be scarce. The berries were eaten fresh or cooked; the fragrant blossoms were steeped in » 110111118 water to make a beverage.

(The Indians of the U.S.A., and especially those of the Southern sections cultivated many species of

pm. Faiconwood Hospital

lives lost, but damage, Ju. 28. 1926.

set for June, in Latitude

p.1ii.

min. for Tignish.

THE BABES A

', ting throwing further light lOId and famous Nursery Griston Old Hall, at the

"framed up“ in the ballad.

cause he did not conform prevailing “religion”. The were commonplace enough-

l-lall. When 10rd

e11 with his two children. and a girl. Four years in

On the way back he died- de Grey was now entitled

but the boy (who hfld been

much of his 1ierty_

t warn. ‘

Severe electric storm about 1 a "I

struck

and main central tower gutted. No $251100 property

Local Time of Sunrise and Sun-

46 dc-

grecs: 1st, 4.11 ant. 7.46 p.m. — 5th. 4.09 a-m. 7.49 pm. - 15th, 4.08 a.m., 7.52 p.m. -— 20th. 4.09 a.n1., 7.54 p.m. — 25th, 4.10 am., 7.55 pm. — 30th, 4.12 u.m., 7.55

To reduce above to Standard

Time add 11 min. for Georgetown, 12 min. for Charlottetown and 16

IN THE WOOD, GAIN

I am indebted to a correspondent who sends me a newspaper cut-

on the Story.

The wicked uncle of the tale was ‘one Robert de Grey who lived M»

little

‘ town of Norfolk. Poor Robert was

in the

same way as Capt. Blight of the Bounty was treated in the talkies. and the story is that it was be-

to the facts Lord

,1. a 1 the de Grey Yfiglszt. mess... Hall, W3‘; ton. and not far from Srflilfismigham

died’ Robert dc Grey was entrust.

s, boy ter the

boy (then aged eleven) Dflid fl "Sill to his mother, who had married again and lived at Bacoristhorpe-

Robert to all

the land boonging to his nephew,

a, ward

of Queen Elizabeth) had been mar- ried as an infant to one Eillzflbelh Drury. on the strength 0f this. the Drury family commenced a law- suit which cnded in Robert losing own rightful

pro-

gourds (Cucurbits), which will when the boy died whispers of form the subject of a separate you; play were put into circula- article). tlon. and bit by bit the story grew.

The series clores with notices of- l few mcnibcrs of the Coinpositnc. The Canadian Goldenrod, one of our, “Ycliow-vveeds", furnished seeds which were eaten by some tribes. The young and tender leaves of the Largc-icaved Aster (A. maerophyllus) served others as greens. One of the evcriastings, (Antennaria) furnished a kind of chewing-gum from its stalks. The ash from the Sweet Coitsfoot (Petasites) was used as salt by the Western Indians. Our trouble- some weed the Burdock (Arctiuin) was utilized in scvcral ways; the fresh leaves were eaten as greens, and the roots boiled in soup, also dried and stored for winter. The Dandelion svas made use of in much the some fashion. The fresh leaves of the Lettuce (Lac- tuca sp.) and of the Sowthistle (S. asper) were eaten by some Can- adian Indians. The last item on the list of our native plants is the Hawkwced (Hlcrucium), from the coagnlated milky sap of which a chewing gum was made.

Those botanical students who have p1"c:»:c1'\'c(i the previous "notes" on this subject, will now have a most valuable list of our edible wild plants, and may re- gnrd all not mentioned with sus- picion.

After the lawsuit was ecclesiastical authorities heaviy fined and Off/CH lmll A wood close to Wation iod thc Wailing Wood, said the legends. it wed

the babes: and the beneath which Thomas in 1879.

OIL FROM COAL

is being done today at one

another "factory" will established in South Wales,

dusiry there. besides

Britain independent of

Frieclrlck Berzillfi. a Germai

ally practicabc, but Dr.

A NATUR-ALYSTS CALENDAR . (Continued) Teutonic perseverance,

Late frost damages gardens, Ju. l8, i920. A cold month so far, Ju. 18, 1925.

June ‘Z0, 1917, inside tempera- ture (without fircl rises to 76 de- grees. This is about the period of the Summer Solstice when the sun enters thc zodiacnl sign of Cancer, and Summer begins (As- tronomicnlfy). This happens on Julie 21st of this year (i937). In the Old Country, owing to the difference of cllnmip, June 24th is known as Midsummer Day -—- a heathen festival in old times, when Beltane fires iverc lighted in honor of Boai, but changed by thc Church to the feast oi‘ tiie Nativ- ity of St. John tiie Baptist.

A most disastrous frost settled on the Isinnd on Ju. 21, 1918. Tomatoes and brzins hung black- ened, and acres of potatoes suf- fered. Readings from several points showed 24 decrees. Ju. ill, 1924. Vegetation backward. Mos- quitos extraordinarily numerous Ju. 21. 1927. White Gastalia Wat- er-liiy in bloom, Wiusloe North, Ju. 21, 1931; temperature 74 deg. In shade at 11 rum.

Soft Coal is a compound of H. while oil is l]. hydrocarbon

of hydrogen 11nd become oil In a. nature used to

ors, and the members of a cal combine furnished him in.b:r:1tory and money to ca his expenmcnis. This was i at Hanover and may b: mentioned that it c combine $6,007,000 before crowned the work. like a wise ma roll master of the material

of coal from all ovcr the and studied their

produced synthetic ooal of

He first attempt was

Before Robert dicddn i601. ballad as outlined iii tll(‘.\{‘- Noics. was pubished as a broadshect.

Robert got into trouble with and was

will revive the dying mining rendering

incidentally

thc ended the

risoned. is cal-

because,

tobc

haunted by the wailing spirits of huge

and his sister are said to have died, was struck by lightning and destroyed

oak,

To ‘make gasoline from coal does notscem a. feasible task, but this

of the

collieries on the com of Durham. England; and it is reported that soon be

_whlch in-

foreign

oils to some extent. The method of producing the oil, is a modifica- tion of that worked out by

Dr . i, some

years ago. It is one thing to work out n. method, however, and quite another thing to make it comerel-

Bcrgius

did both-with thirteen years bc- tween! An admirable instance

of

Coal, as is well. known. is princip- ally made up of Carbon, Hydrogen. and Oxygen in various proportions.

O. and

in the proportion of 16 to 1;

with

thc proportions at 8 to 1. Berqiur task therefore was to find out how to make coal accept a doubic load

melting

“sulx titties" he did not lack back-

chemi- with a riy out n 101i. it ost the success

nDr-

Bnrgius first mltdelllm-

he was

to work in; he sent for samples

world

composition. Afterwards in his laboratory

he various

kinds. foi- two years: and then he was ready for his real task.

t0 heat lu/mps of con.‘ in a steel tnnk and

Wind. North. strong, cellar furn- to force hydrogen into the tank loe on, Ju. 22. 19in. imder great pressure. The ma]

Fire-flies flying Ju. 23, 1927: a turned to coke under the has; warm day, 78 degrees at 8 pm. evolved, and didn‘t drink up the This was followed by an electric hvdiogen. Would grinding the coal storm in the night. Ju. 23, 1918, first. improve the process’? The Lesser Bitter-crass (C. ninsuta) in result was ready for his reg]

bloom.

Humid. with touvpvrnture 78 de- 8189s at 3 p.m. "Vegetation-jump- ing!" Creek dry early this year, Ju. 24. 1930.

June 26, 19%, temperature 84 deg.

5111689. Th's was heated

next sieo was to mix the ground coal with all to a kind of

in the

airtight steel tank for some hour-a "id "w" hvdwaeii was forced in

LI ME

‘IT BRINGS THE CLOVER” '

Orders are now being booked for immediate and Spring delivery. '

‘Ni-lie for prices delivered your station

Brociiviile Manufacturing 00., Ltd.

Bruolivillr. Si. John Co, N. B-

H. G. S. ADAMS, ‘Manager

sold by leading merclldnb

as before. When the tap was open- ed n. syrup-like fluid ran out. Part of the coal had tumcd to oil in the presence of a catalyst-m this case the added oil. At last the scientist began to see his Way-

Finally, Dr. Bergius mixed the ground coal with tar. “Mechanical stlrrcs agitated the sooty pflfilfi in hot tanks." says the account 0! this experiment; and as before. the hydrogen was numbed 111- When the valves were opened gas and oil flowed out. Success at last! But three more years were t0 P055 before the patient scientist rid of all his difficulties

aftc 1 d i rected another. and , Ifadyag daffn was by a‘ 5°“ °f the rfllvlir fsaclfirllvs now produce one Nvpume‘ (lmwrted tlwflmgh‘ million barrels of gasoline and l bred’) knoll“ as the “Hayes

The com- in a.

lubricant oli annually. bine got back their money few months.

The factory in County Durham uses crude oil to mix with the

coal as a catalyst and has two pjpc-iilcs running to the coast; the one to receive tiie crude oil

1mm thc tanker, and the other to deliver the gasoline for transport. One can scarcely estimate the value of such factories to Britain, and it is hoped to extend both their number and capacity.

JUST A FEW WORDS.

Ighnve sometimes voiced an ob- jcction to the phrase “off of," parliy because of its unplcasfng iOlllld. and partly fiom its re- dundancy, It is now p, sort o! dialectic usage in the country to thc f-‘oiith, Iaut sociiis to have PfiliilnlPfl. in litcraryi curios in Eng- land to (he inizlclic of the Eigh-

Viccnlh Ccntuiy, I have alluded to its occurrence in the works of l Dcfcc, and just lately I have come

‘across it in the Second Pnrt ofi

iSiinkspoarcis" Henry, VI" lisccnc 1, where Simpcox says was crippled by “a fail off of a. tree" An English writer of the piescnt day would certainly omit "of," and most likely would change the phrase t‘; "a fall from a. tree."

On the other hand thc practice of leaving out “oi" from certain phrases seems to be growing: we read of “a. couple years’ time," "a couple more eggs" and so on. Couple. pair. and words of that kind, are substantlvcs and neces-

Act 2,

the noun they refer to, it is a SllpSllCd way of “Tlting.

Nilziny, times this past winter, over the air came those short vocal cfforis generally termed ‘Sailors’ Shantcys." Many music catalogues adopt that spelling. which obvkiivaly ivrong; the sound cf thc music and quite naturally carries miuisconcc of the chanting church choir, so the term is pro- Dfiily ‘Sailors’ Chantey." Such Chantcys were sung by the crews of the old soiling ships, to keep the men in slop zit the capstan, o1- in hauling on ropes,

We call a she fox a vixen but that 1's jurt a. dial-rot form of the old word fixen or fyxoi-i, which by flin wriy rnveys no idea of sex, but does c? plurality,

I am icid that the old North- llllll7-lflfl dialect, familiar m my boyhood days. 1s fast dying o“; Oulv a few of the older folk’ use it now, and the school children iii-e raid to speak "qiijtc menyy-

words a. m-

SCANDIA No. 6 for large fox farms. SCANDIA No. 5 lighter than above without hand lever for small fox farms. Prccurahle from-ailDcaIcrs. F. W. Lamplough 1S. Co»

Limited Montreal, Que.

A 11am: Pill’ snow

Insure a large crop of healthy.- vigorouc pups this year by feeding

ROYAL FOX FEED '

Results during former seasons shows that the use of Royal with c good meat ration is the most posi- tive way known for the rancher lo secure best breeding results.

Insist on Royal- Auir your dealer today or write

The St. John ling

Company Ltd.

New Brunswick .-...-....-_

pa? is:

Saint John

mesa‘; Province, and at the time

d : Milton” was bred he was owned by fggfigfsm: lag ‘i the late Moses Byme, North River.

he‘

By Mr. C. E. Maclienlio

GREAT BROOD MAKES

Dex the dam or “Royal deserved a place in our great brood-mare list. ‘This mare, al- though not Island breed, produc- ed that noted prize winner and sire of carriage and roadster horses Royal Harry, Dex was a daughter of Hambilionian l0, having been imported to this province by the late Dr. John T. Jenkins and the result of her mated to “Prince Marry" was "Royal Harry." Dex also produced “Young Ham." a Ion of Young Hamblltonian in twin, a' son of Hambiltonian 10. "Young Ham" being in bred was a beauti- ~ fui horse.

Dex, as her name indicates was a. sister of the noted Dexter 2.17, fastest horse of his time in America.

No doubt the dam of Jeff, would be cntjtied to a place too but the writer is unable to give her breed-

chem

adult

merit

The Honorary Judges at the Brit- ish Silver Fox Show held in Inn- aon the latter part of December, nave released a. report (which we are abbrevlating) standard of the animals shown to

l. The standard of the champion- ship Prize winners was very high, partlcuariy in the full silvers and three-quarter silver classes. The champions and- reserves in these sections could hardly be improved i upon for color and quality, and the

tion were a. considerable improve- shown during the past few years. 2. The standard in the quarter

silver, black and slightly silver sec- tions and in the half silver section,

CONNECTED WITH

Silver Fox Farming

on the quality known

for judging.

Dr. dogs in the half silver sec- on anything that has been.

so large they cover sixty to one hundred acres.

Major T. B. Rogers.

the contingent province at the Coronation of His Majesty King George 12th. The Major has made great progress with his three years and has developed some very beautiful animals,

success with his breeding operations zit Rosebank Fur Farms. He hopcs to have over 200 cross fox pups from his matings of standard breds. breeding has proved quite profit- able to the Doctor on account of his attractive cross sold in New York at good averages,

d

when every normal person begins to yearn for spring and summer. Winter sports, even for the you g. pill as snow gives place to Ill 1:. and slush to mud. But beneath the we“ I theft slush and mud or it may yet fox rancher, will be one of , i‘: bggfifghfgotzzsilgture once more rcplesenlmg ‘m5 l Birds are returning from the . south; sap is rising in the maples

and on the southern slops of thc

hill the earth is commencing ('1 , steam at high noon. Soon it will be time to sharpen spade and for]: and get out in the garden, either iii the bran dnew one that is going to be developed this season, or to make constant improvements in our

VI on May

foxes thc past

Leo Frank reports excellent

for generations. Active Operations;

Al. k d '15 a an ’ may not be possible yet for weeks l

Tl ‘itch 1n Us S“ in some part". of Canada, but in the meantime plans can be laid, seeds and other stocks ordered, and early

which plants started in sunny window or

pelts

ing. “Lady Milton, the dam of m; wot as mentioned above. was not and the demand for his Alaskan 110% bed- 1;:g::eo%e: azidamnaiinté?‘ 181mm“ 011 quit/B 511011 B- 1118?! level- I11 $11656 males as breeders. By the way. honor "Lad gfllton s e m’ h sections density °f Bilver and over- some i011 P116“ “We realized f" Guden ma“ w . n y n wa a dsug - 11311 could have been improved freak crosses at the Mlantreal sine} 1- of, Sambo thoroughbred said “pom this spring‘ over $200 being paid For the permanent gory, o;

to have been the most choicely bred horse that ever came to this

“Lady there

Horse, the mother of Lady's dam as well as the mother of the Hayes Horse were both daughters of imported Rancavalles, thus we see that we had four crosses oi’ thoroughbred. Lady Milton» had nine colts. all but three of which were sired by Clyde or cross-bred horses and every colt she raised wit; l1 real horse. Jennie bee. by Red Clyde trotted miles in 2.42- 1~2 ivhcn this was considered l‘(‘(‘O!‘(l time. .

Neptune Lee, sired Hamlet 2.16, Tiveilght 2.22. Longfellow 2.26 1-2 and Dauntlcss only sired seven colts among which was Snatcher 2.29. .

'G£1ma. dam of Parkland. Park-

asin

performance of both Parkland and Parkdale as cdt trotters brought fflme lo this province, while many

“Liil,” ii daughter of Dean swift, produced Dot 2.18, Administntofs fastest, colt. She also was thg dam 0f ‘Nfltlnlls.’ the mother of "Kivkapmw 2.1a. Both these horses were sons of Preceptor,

Among other urorthy, min-es

surly lake “of" to connect them to strung" To m", sired by French Lion, and

15 Was. I am repetitive Macmms P0113’ Ned. being a. son

o; a Edward Iziand from Vermont and

might bomentioned the dams of 2.25. said to have been Sir.

Lure,

John Dean 2 25 1-2.

No doubt seine of my readers will be able to furnish their ex- tended breeding,

Theldam'of Ned HanJan 3,35 tofu. a. daughter o!

of “Kimble Morgan," a handsome black horse imported to m...»

a typical Morgan,

The dams of Minnie Warren, p 2.25. and Wili-o-‘the-Wisp, p, 2-29 1-2 both sired by Dean Swift, should also be worthy of honor- able mention in this list, but as the writer has no knowledge of their biccding I 11m unable to give this information. Should any reader know the particulars I would be pleased to publish same in e IUlUTEYITl-lClG.

Among other dams distinction I would like io make mention of the dams of Beau Prince 2.27, Banker 2.29, Vfontrose and Rnse- mont. Money Maker 2.18, Hamlet, 216. a. daughter of French Spotter and whose dam of was Maclnnis Pony and salodaii breecilng- The dam 0f Twilight 2.22 W85 a daughter of Harry Morgan out of g, mare sired by a Son of "The Gull" which “'11s one of the r9111 gmgwm of earlier days.

e dam of Orwell Belle, was sired by Administrator Right. This horse sired "Bye and Bye" 2.25, Bob Mack's 2.11 dam was g,

on his Saladan

ra inv

which tween

writer

11181135

daughter of Pnrkside and side was

mother's b1 erling.

of

bred turned

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, while

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3. In most of the large classes

tween the foxes occupying the prize Winninz places, and 1t was usiiiiiiy quality which was the deciding fac- tor. In general, foxes which did not take prizes lacked density of underfur or density of guard mum Floxes with good quality necks and shoulders with strong guard hairs were scarce, and we think breeders should pay particular attention to this point. Color in the classes from half silver to black was not as ‘good

4. There was much room for im- provement in the tails of a large percentage of the foxes exhibited. Many tails were either thin, greyish in co.or or with twisted over hairs. Although from a trade point of view tails are not of such high im- portance should be given to this point. Bel- lies, too, wcre often sparsely or too

Quite a number ranchers visited

Fromm’s by building large wooden parts, believing that will improve the color of their foxes (which are kept in open pens) and increase their

Discussing the influence of light on color with

sonable to assume that dark sur- Yollndlnes tend to produce clearer and better colored pelts. He in_ stanced the sabies come from the dark, heavily wooded parts of Kamchatka, Russia. and the bat mink come from the Similarly Wooded portions of Lab- rador. McLure, “that foxes that are kept for belting purposes should be per- mitted as little my! kept free from the effects of ra n."