MARCH. 12. .1949

11-h! GUARDIAN. iCl-lARIDTrEwwN

m“ for mink ranchers is

God potgmg i so Mum 1 against 82.440 in 194B; toblo 46,000 thl Pr i . Th 1916 lit s gas) as the MOI!’ prominent con- W f M kg; im myi" guy c” g? U” mund Iimg. ' v contained in the lnn°w°mmt ‘f! mwhnn- DEMFEKJW‘ b?“ this Yozr 3 $000!‘; Mug]; 1, this yea: against 21.925 in 1948. "OTTO JzeIfiln wit... 1905's’, Tit stituent of Saturn's atmosphere. on p p g y p g - .' m, New York Auction Companys received from London epresersta- 1pm Bur the,‘ i, We, twice m, In Nova Scotla, seed-figures this g1 5 rm other ‘pgrflcularl, f: is There is also a slight admixture of m", which M" given “ch dgfini“ "w", w" H" pa" .-

mutation mink sale held late last

"g lt was one of _the maior ht $a5uxfiVeffli9 Price males Figures from the Marketing Ser- 4374 l!" YEN‘- Blli- "W" 1a also N. B. (Moore: "Birds of N.B.", . "c" a ‘ w as“ '01 the current raw fur $10., females $14. Silver Fox firsts, vice Report of the Dominion De’- twice the amount of table stock 1928), and it also appears in a For the physical and orbital ele- ‘ Wm hold this year with 4.290 ions merits of Saturn, the reader is re-

mwn when Bilverblu mink prices which hGNe been easing off for “m, weeks staged a sharp come- back. The firming up of Bilverblu '“_, "or expected by the majority of the trade and many in the sales mo... admitted they had come to mu“ bargain; but with all ele- mgnffl of the industry participat-

in the bidding prices were es- 1n Montreal ha! the 1011mm- on a basia or as to a0 per cent sold. Quebec draws ‘an increase uus Peter-gun, Sometimes, in making a copy d: a first": to be equal to New York!- Wllirfh finch"! "I" laws ""10! at an advance oi better than 1o year with mast tons compared to B|¢l111-d|qn'|0wl,AQU,3T1,Rgre natural history or scientific draw- P. h b k t f H‘ , . I I u flab“ Dggembfl‘ sale. W‘ I'- Wmldiirabl! ellwlllale- per cent. Early prices ranged be- 14,344 " winter visitor? Adam: Forehead ing. it must be reduced in size‘. "S" "9 9°" °P ° 9 “m9 u" "e V '

While most of the trade was lip-prised at the turnabout in de- mmd r0,- the article the re-action d many was favorable to the ‘ugngfh shdWIi. This they ex- pmmd is because Silverblu was felt to be at a point where it was n“, cheap" and having s. depress- ing effect on mlrrk items. Averase size males were noted bringing @_ to $25., females worybringixig e15. i0 $17., some in the neighbor- hood or $20. About 60 to '10 per cent oi the 46 to 50 thousand skins qffered were sold. Aleutian Blue Mink offered for the first time brought good demand from tho trgrle and a top price oi $01. Al- though about only 2,000 skins were offered. keen bidding and wide interest was shown in them.

A fairly largo offering of about mm skins of Royal Pastel mink w“ reported 90% sold at 10% higher prices. Regarding Aleutian. most of the males ranged beiiween g1 3nd $55. and funnies in the ps0, lo s35. bracket. As in the case of standard mink at recent sales funnies showed a little more sirermh ihsn many had expected prior to the sale. The best price (or a lot oi female Aleutian was £50. In the Breath of Spring Aleu- tian known as Arctlcs, 601 skins were sli sold with a $10. rpale top price and a $41 top for females. In Royal Pastels there was a $50 10p for males arid 032.50 for fe- males. Breath of Spring Pastels ahowed. $41. as the best malo prise, $20. for females. For fairly [cod quality Pastels males and females mixed W": averasld be- tween $28. to $35.

Details o; last week's sale at tives. Top price first quality mink bmug

top price 106., average 830.; sec- onds averagedtiifland thirds 819. Platinum White Face and Blue Fox were held for higher prices than the customers would pay so were not sold.

Worneifs Wear Daily, New York. commenting on tho recent auction

merit ........ .. Evidence of recovery in silver fox and reduction in the available supply for 1069 was pre-

~sented to th, ssiesroom at the

opening of Canadian Fur Auction Bales Co. (Quebec) Lid. two-day silver fox sale today. Disposing of a widely circulated runour that ther, existed a carry-over of 100,- 000 skins. Arthur C. Prentice, gen- eral manager and auctioneer. an~ nounced thst- ho had received authoritative information to the effect that the available supply. inclusive of nearly 35.000 pelts to be marked at tho current sale. amounts to only 90.000 skins of all categories of silver and mutation "fox. Thls means that. apart from this sale. the net supply is only about 65.000 skins. compared with 200,000 skins a year ago.

Mr. Prentice made the announce- ment during the marketing of the first section of platinum fox. This consisted of 2,510 skins and brought encouraging bidding, re- sulting 113' tho sale of approxim- ately 65 per cant of the catalog at an advance of l0 per cent over January sale in tho opinion of trad, observers. Top price was $25. paid. for medium "A" grade and also for largo, light select. Other lots cf medium “A". Many sood average skins ranged between $13 and e18.

Inferior platinum numbering 1,409 skins, was also figured ls 85 per cent sold but unchanged from January, with a range between $6 and Q0, and many from $0 to $14. Most pronounced activity was in white marked skins of which 2.710 were offered. Th, saiesroom es-

hal! the estimated amount of seed

amount of table stool: on hand.

pertinent of Agriculture show the following comparislons with last YQBI‘. s Total storage figures for all Can- ada show 201.233 tons on March 1. i049 as compared to 265.446 in i948: {£1,577 in 1947; 161.302 in 1946; 197.010 in 1945; 184,504 in 1944.

timated this article to be selling 194g

tween $0 and $19, with average lots $13 to $10.50. Most soles were anode to Canadian and European dealers. Whit, marked ailins con- tinued to sell in the lata after- noon on the same baslfas earlier.

Both selected full silver and regular full silver mslntalnedthe strength shown by the platinum and white marked catalog. luau was reported by salesroom experts as about 90 pcr cent sold at an ap- proximate advance of l0 per cent. Selected full silver (1,374) ranged from $14 to m, with average lots, mostly 817 to $19. Regular full silver (2.236) sold between Ill-SO and ti‘! with. many around 813.50 to $15.50. Americans. Canadians and European dealers bought both selected and regular iulla.

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A branch of the English firm of C. W. Martin Ar Boas. Ltd. are getting ready to process Alaska sealskins in Toronto. The firm will be known as Martin-Silinaufer Ltd, Fur Dressers and Dyers. They hope to begin operations by the end ot the year. The process of dying and dressing seslakiru is an extremely complicated one, de- manding-great skill on the part of the operators. To function properly it will be necessary for the new firm to have transferred to them certain key workers from England so as to train Canadian workers in the various opwations as well as to bring over same machinery from England. Canadian sealsklsis have been processed by the Martins in London for years and they will probably continue to process a con- siderable number of them. likely

the largest part. until the new

on March i. 1949 was 41,520 tcnsas

year are 4,535 tons compared to

against 2.048 last year.

The tonnage on March l this year on hand in New Brunswick shows for seed 50,401 against 43.243 last year and for table 65,295 compared to 44.910.

The Maritime total this yen- is 214,443 tons compared to 1N2?! in

Ontario is steady with 2,401 against 2.459 in eat-cm and 30.600 against 30.653 western.

Prairies have less on hand this year with 094 ions compared to 1.- 343 in i948.

British Oolumlbia has some 5,000 tons loss with 125M in storage this year against 17.4% last.

firm gets thoroughly acquainted with the technique. I I I

The compiled statistics on fur production of Scandinavian coun- tries shows that during'l94'l Sweden and Norway produced about 219,- 000 silver fox. 117.3% Blue fox and 289.000 mink. The total world pro- duction was estimated to be about 700.000 silver fox, 190,000 blue fox and 2,350,000 mink. On the basis of those statistics the Scandinavian countries contributed about one- third of the silver fox production. over 90% of the blue fox and about 12% of the mink. The United States was th; largest producer of ranch- ed silver fox and mink, accounting for 263.000 silver fox and. 1.526.- 000 mink. Canada. was second with 1&,000 silver fox and 500.000 mink.

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While we have no method of judging total production of silver and mutation fox in Canada. arid the United States in 1948 we think a fair gums would he 150.000 silver fox in the United States and 125.- 000 in Canada. Our guess is the production of silver fox in the United States in 1M9 will not ex- ceed 50.000 pelts and in Canada ditto. Our Canadian estimates is based on letters we have received from every Province in Canada from foxmen who know the situat- ion in their respective parts pretty thoroughly. 1t is a plessifl sign

and a most encouraslng one that

the percentage sold at motions

this yeas- is good. which means that pelts are moving freely and we trust ere December 1949 rolls a- round all the stocks on hand will be disposed of in Canada. In the United States it is a different story because we cannot find out what quantities of silver fox Fromm Bros, largest producers in the world, are holding in cold storage, or their cousins the Nio- rnan’s. We think those held by other ranchers would not posslbh! be more then 25 to 35 thousand over and above the 1958 product- ion.

O O O Three years ago we remember a rancher friend who formerly rais- ed some foxes in this Province. holding out _for higher prices. He was still holding out (lie spring of 194'! -- poor fellow. no doubt he met with a uvere loss as by that time his pelts had declined about ‘i5 per cent. '

Piox and mink ranchers are hold- ing meetings in all parts of the U. S. A. where ranching is carri- ed on and they are taking the most determined means to have the W96 excess tax on fu.r gar- ments at retail reduced or abolished. They claim this tax is deterrent to sales as the merchant quotes a price to the buyer and then has to say. plus tax 30%. That kills the sale. in Canada the

only one specimen To on record in

ssi to be a rare winter visitor in

list of N.S. birds, this time with- out any further information. Dr. Tsverner considered it the rarest Canadian owl, and refers to it as the Arctic Saw-whet Owl.

Though nowhere abundant, it is found in northern Canada up to the limit of trees, from the MacKenzle River to the Maritimes. 1t winters south "to the edge of the U.S.A."—-

heavily spotted white on the brown feathers; ear-tufts none; facial discs framed ith black; eyes yellow; bill yeilowis . Upper parts generally. grayish-brown; back and wing co- verts spotted white; tall with 4 or 5 imperfect white bars. Underparts white. vaguely streaked with gray- llh brow-n. Legs and feet heavily feathered whitish, barred with gray- iah-brown. Immature birds: Upper parts cinnamon-brown with a few more or less concealed white spots. Breast like back: belly buffy; tail a; above. Length of adult 10 in- c es.

The Tlaaet Saturn (f)

The unique let of appendages which we know as "Saturn's Rings", has given rise to several conjec- tures; some of which, though back- edby famous names, are rather far- fetched- !t was in the year ‘i859 that the physicist Maxwell publish- ed the views that were recalled in these Notes last week: i.e.. that the rings are composed of an im- mense number of relatively small bodies which revolve round the planet. This theory still finds fa- vor among astronomers. The Ger- man astronomer Struve, however. has made computations of the total mass of the rings, and states. as a result, that they seem composed solely of "immaterial light." of “a film of dust only", or of "a cloud of fog." Later. a Professor Bernard was inclined to adopt the idea that the rings were self-luminous; while Prof. Blrkeland says that t lum- incslty of the rings is due t eige- tric radiation, the planet being con- sidered as a magnet. _ However, the Astronomer Royal is of opinion that Maxwell was right, and that the rings were pro- duced by a satellite that came too near Saturn and was disrupted into a number of fragments. These, col- liding with one another, “were still further broken up, until at length the fragments were scattered in a ring all round Saturn." The dis- ruptlon of the satellite, he ex- plains, is produced by a “tidal force" exerted by the planet. In taking leave of the rings it must be remarked that they render Sa- turn the most beautiful object seen by the telescope.

Saturn is well provided with satellites. It has nine moons, which are all provided with classl- cal names-Mimas, Encelsdus, Tet- hys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion. Iapetus and Phoebe; the last was only discovered in 1898. If we could visit Saturn (and stand the cold) weshould be rewarded by a rnag- nlflcont pageant: the nine moons of different sizes circling the sky at different speeds, while the rings threw a silvery arch from horizon to horizon. Our Sun would be seen as a distant pin-point star.

There is, however. a circum-

government taxes are more subtly concealed but lust the same they sro there and they have the ef- fect of making it eces y for a merchant i-n order to profitably sell a fox pelt tc mark it up from two to three times the price the skins brought-the rancher at pugtlqn. W; hope and Ilflllt the Hon. Abbott in his new budget will remove the sales tax and pro- cessing tax and give the fox and mink ranchers of Canada a chance

to survive.

Want Eggs, or‘ Meat

as ice, and ‘left methane (marsh

ammonia-which does not improve it'

ferred to that excellent little publi- cation. the Observer's Handbook; merely quoting the diameter of the planet as 72.000 lniles, and its mean distancefrum the Sun as 886 mil- lions of miles.

A Proportional Compile

Suppose. for instance, that it ll necessary to represent a right- angled triangle whose sides are G. 8, and 10 inches, on a sheet of paper only 6 inches square. With a desire to leave a border for ex- planation. etc.. the triangle must be reduced to one-third of its size. This can be done by arithmetical calculation, by the use of a scale. or quickest of all, by a proportional compass. Such a compass is easily made, and as for endurance, I've had mine for 30 years or more!

I selected a strip of good even- grained wood, 34.5 inches long, half an inch wide. and one-quar- ter of an inch thick. This was lawn into two pieces. each 17 and one- quarter of an inch long. With a iine plane, and beginning at 10 in- ches from one end, each piece was neatly tapered to that end, so that it was only one-quarter inch across. The other end was. treated _in the same manner. but the tapered part was only 3 and one-half inches long. A hole was now drilled through the rods 4 and one-quarter inches from the shorter tapered ends. This was done to permit the insertion of a small brass bolt which acted as a hinge for the two rods that it unl- ted. Common stick-pins were‘ be- headed and driven into the ends of the rods for compass-points: they proiected about one-eighth of an

nc .

When the mpass was “opened" so that the pins on the longer arms were 12 inches apart, the pins on the shorter arms were found to be 3 and three-quarter inches apart. That is roughly one-third of the first measurement. The 10 inches of that triangle would be repre- sented by a line about 3 and three- twentieths of an inch long, leaving a good margin on the 6-inch paper.

The proportional compass is here described in its rough state. It was afterwards smoothed with sand- paper and otherwise made to look more finished. Besides reducing, it could be used in enlarging draw- lngs.

leading Causes of Death

The Boston Sunday Advertiser re- cently gave the statistics oi.’ the six leading causes If death in the U. S. A.. for the year 1948. They are as follows: Heart diseases claimed 626,176 victims; cancer. 189,811; ao- cldents. 99.579; nephritis (kidneys). 80.38; pneumonia, 61,836; and last. ly, tuberculosis. 48,064.

This list I find, covers 1.105.754 deaths, and the reader can easily see that heart disease is responsible for more deaths than all remaining five causes put together. The thought comes: is this alarming state of affairs in any way related to the inordinate use of tobacco in the form of cigarettes? Young and old, men and women. are vic- Unis of the tobacco habit and this Is bound tolhave an effect on the race in the long run.

Does Standard Pronunciation atter?

A recent letter in the Publb Forum quoted an opinion that "cor- rect pronunciation does not matter provldediwe understand one an- other". That is plausible, but in thi long run it fails to work. The R0- mans had an adverb which they spelt "nunc". and pronounces. noonk. The ancient Germans, who sped the Romans in many things. took the word and turned it into "nun" (pronounced noon). We can imagine the Teutones telling the Romans that it did not matter "pro- vided it was understood." Then a later generation, the descendants of the Teutones, called the Saxons, crossed to Britain. where the in- I liabitants dropped the end letter

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and made the word "nu" (noo). ' or Both 9 lllm“ tux: ’ “Am ans ca e e wor noo, an _ Scottish people did the same. Th; Southrons got. the word and turne - ‘"6" 12m". '5 THE sicnifl hand“ h ,ndudI‘>' — w, it into now . and in this form It l s enshrined in the English langui 5nd

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age. Now. at each step it might be urged that it didn't matter, since both parties understood. but the final result was that neither the Roman nor the German understood the Briton! That of course is but one instance, but most of our com- mon words may be traced to other languages. with a little trouble. I have heard it ariuvd "l" Wm changes must take place in a living language. I prefer to think of them as degeneretions leading to thO death of the language! Anyway. that is what happened to the R0 man language (Latin). and it b0 hooves us to be careful of our owl- Here are a few words. PM‘!!! D hero and there, that need correct I lng. They are: prelate, dynastyi H