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silver nix Ami , Mink farming”

in; csuaisa” Q Fsrming'AIsctiOnl. inc. Paul L. Reinhardt. .. secretary of the association. .re-7 ';

sales Company (Q ebee) Ltd.. sale in Hunt " ml week me

with good interest. Wild mink sol

90 per cenfiat unchanged prices compared with the previous sale; Ranch and 8,IpPh11'6 sold 40 per cent and.'.07 per cent respectively. High shippers limits prevented a larger turnover. Pastels' were 68 per cent1old'and contiinued gtfonl. Platinuma sold ill per cent and met with some price ra- slstance. Arthur C. Preptili, the manager. declared that in spite of this offering being an end of the season collection a firm interest was clearly evident throughout the sale.

Considerable interest was taken in '.ths silver fox offering. Plat- inum silvers were 50 per cent sold and pearl platinum 41 per ,eent sold at prices which were slightly higher compared to the previous sale. White marked. half silvers and full silvers sold in small per- centages. The highest price in wild mink was 531 for Northern Mani- toba 1 pt 2 XL and L. Top price in ranched mink (5880 skins) was s2i.50,fo'r 1 pt 2 Xdk males; gen- eral prices.were 1 Pt 3 xdk miles. 520.50 to 324.50; females, 512.50 to 513.75; dark males. :16 to 321.50 and females 310.25 to 314.25; 1 and 11 males were 313.75 to 317.50 and females 5l0.w. Platinum fox (270 skins) sold between 32.50 and 511.50. while pearl platinums (685 skins) fetched prices ranging from 57. to al0.50; white marked fox (045 skins) ran between 53.50 and 37.505 nail and three-quarter silvers (355 skins) and regular full 3 i l v e r s (1010 skins) brought from 37. to 39.50 and 34.50 to 39.50 respective- ly.

At the American fur auctions in New York last week EMBA muta- tions moved freely with the price trend generally unchanged from June levels. A total of 10.480 pelts were offered mostly mutations; 88 per cent were sold. Pastel. plat- inum and gunmetal types were re- ported unchanged to quite firm in comparison to the June -sale. Breath of Spring platinums were reported easier.

Here is a report of the fox sale held by the above auction com- pany for the American For Breed- ers' Association . . .Tha auction or American Fox Breeders Asso- Eiation for Friday .aucceeded' in

bringing higher prices than in sev-. eral years though- demand was

quite selective at American Fur

ported -B50 Norama pearl platinum fox sagas per cent sold. reaching s top of 335. A few of the better lots rangedrfrom 321 to 835. he said. Lower quality pearl platinums were withdrawn. . .

3 Some 020 Norama platinums were mainly withdrawn, though a top of 015 was reached. There was better demand for lower quality platlnuma. which were reported 40 per cent sold. selling mainly a- round e 310 mark.. according to Mr.- Reinhardt. A total of 195- three-quarter and one-half silvers was 50 per cent sold. the former reaching a top of 118," the latter 320. High shippers limits on Nor- ama silver iax' resulted in with- drawal.of- most of the offering. Norams silvers reached :15. Some 1,590 fair quality silver fox were reported 00 per cent sold. A total of 008 white marks were 30 per cent sold at a top of 311.

.A total of 4.000 blue fox was 22 per cent sold Friday afternoon. American Fur Auctions reported, with best demand for medium cclored Norwegian blues. Pale and light Norwegian blues were next in demand, but dark mediums sold below expectations. Demand was mainly for large size skins for for use in the manufacture of atolea. and for cheaper merchandise for use as u' i TOP l' ' i W" price was 322.50, the auction house said, though a few lots sold in. the 320 class. The offering in- cluded 2,429 Norwegian, 1,086 Swedish. and, the balance were Danish and United States pelts.

At San Francisco on September 20. more than a thousand chinchilla ranchers held a two-day confer-

ence and heard speaker after speaker make pleas and sug- gestions for quality rather than

quantity in chinchilla breeding. The conference took up the challenge of the New York Auction last June which saw pelts being with- drawn at levels as low as 311 and predicted a "terrific future" for the industry because the emphasis is how of producing superior ani- mals for their fur market. Furriers, ranchers and veterinarians offer- ed suggestions on housing, nu- trltlon. genetics and grading, all designedto produce superior fur. The conference noted the majori of pelts on the market in the pa . were thetresult of casualties which make for interior fur.'

We are informed by Walter R.

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A bounty will be paid RACOONS from this date lows: e

racoon pelts which will.- the property or the app Bounty will be stations ONLY: ROYAL -119 Grafton Street

1" 5 'P. E. E. FUR Water Street "

each. Itaooons - 38.00 each. . The bounty will b'e.,paid on presentation of skunk snout with portion of w to stripe attached, on fox or

pfliimatthe following receiving racrfma ooursmr urn.

-- naraamam or manager AND NATURAL nsssouaors

on SKUNKS, FOXES and to March 31, 1955 as fol-

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Shaw. secretary of the P. E; I. Fur Breeders Association, that Parvinicass of Summerside has accepted the position of judge, of the foxes at the 24th Annual Fox Show and 7th Annual Live Mink Show which will be, held in the, fox pavilion at the Charlottetown Driv- ing Park November 8 to 10 under the auspices of the Prince Edward Island Fur Breeders Association. The president is L. W. " '

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NOTES

as J. a. cluk;.D.5e. ssosqu nons-

The persistent. aggravating hum of a rnosqulto 'as it approaches and recedes in the dark as one tries to slee , is. most annoying. Itimay be to interest, however. to know that these mosquitoes with the loud burn that seek to obtain a feed at our. expense during the night. do not belong ''to such dan- gerous species as the anopheles (carriers of malaria fever) or aedes aegypta Iainne (carriers oi

I yellow fever). The adult mosquito

of these two species bites chiefly in the late afternoon. evening and the early morning. Their approach is stealthy. they prefer to hide in dwellings and crawl up under one's clothing to bitc;. nor do they an- nounce their presence by a loud hum. i -

Matheaon. an, authority on mos- quitoes. has described 139 species, including more than 100 that trans- mit serious diseases to man. Mos- quitoes bite. domestic wild ani- mals and even turtles and snakes. They transmit diseases to man and many other animals including horses and birds. Female mos- quitoes are the proven carriers of four of the most serious human diseases. and there is no other method known of acquiring yellow fever, malaria. elephantiasis and dengue or breakbone fever.

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Yellow fever was one of the most dreaded diseases in the world until. in 1900. American army surgeons working in Cuba dis- covered that it was spread by what has since been knows as the yel- low fever mosquito. Terrible epidemics had occurred in such seaport towns as New Orlgans and Havana and in some tropical coun- tries. This disease prevented the French from completing their at-

tempt to build the Panama Canal. which was undertaken before there was any known remedy for yellow fever. Once the cause was known. it was rapidly stamped out in one country after another. It has now been eradicated from almost ev- ery country, and it was believdd that it could be annihilated from the earth.

Recently. however. there has been discovered a "jungle. fever" in the wild areas of South America and Africa. where monkeys are be- lieved to be the hosts or a perman- ent rcservoir from which the dis- ease is spread by mosquitoes. This is a grave source of infection that it will be almost impossible to eli- minate. It may be transported by incipient human cases or by infect- ed mosquitoes by airplane to populous centres where there are mosquito carriers present. A vaccination against yellow fever has been perfected which con- stitutes a great triumph of mod- crn science. We require this vac- cination, and learned that there are only four cities in Eastern Canada where it can be obtained. namely: Toronto, Montreal. Saint John and Halifax. Dr. Donald Ross, a Scotchman in the Indian Civil Service, is credited with the discovery that anopheles and allied genera transmit the disease to humans.

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Malaria fever. caused by mos- quito bites, is said to be the most serious disease, when the people of the whole world are considered. in that it causes a very large per- ccntage of human deaths. in the United States, in 1935, it was esti- mated that it had caused 4,000 deaths among the 900,000 cases of

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mourn control methods and improved standard of living have made. it a rare disease in the Uni- ted States. This disease. however. is still rampant in many tropical countries. The entomologist, E. H. Ross has pointed out that these are unfortunately "more especi- ally the fertile. well-watered and luxuriant tracts; precisely those which are of the greatest value to man."

Malaria ("Ague" or "chills and fever") is induced by miscroscoplc organisms; causing anaemia, that live in the blood and destroy the "red wspuscles. Once introduced int the human body by a mos- q ' . the parasite increases very ra dly, and gu0dllCCI the char- acizristie chills. fever and sweat- ing, It has been estimated that three billion of these parasites may be isresent in the blood of a sin- gle patient. The aexual stages of the parasite occur in the stomach of a female mosquito that has tak- en blood from a malarial patient. When this part of the life cycle of the parssitusis complete and this mosquito bites a well person. it passes on with its salivary fluid the stage in the parasite's life that infects the new host. This com- plete life cycle occurs in from one to two weeks. and it is the only way in which malaria is contract- ed. I O I

Some female mosquitoes winter over in the adult stage in cellars. buildings, hollow trees etc. Other species winter in the larval stage. They either freeze up with the water or live over at the bottom of ponds in a dormant state, but the majority of the species winter over in the egg stage. All mosqui- toes develop -in water, and the larvae live in misroscopic plants andhnimals. Their eggs are laid on water. or where it is likely to collect in depression from the memng of snow or ice. The com- most mosquito lays its eggs. us- ually several hundred. standing on end in the form of a raft. The

malaria that year. Since then,

Sumrnerside, Vice President, B. B. Jones, Bunbury, Secretary W. R. Shaw, Clyde River. Monday. Nov. 8 will be receiving day for foxes until 11.00 a. m. Judging of foxes will commence at-12.30 p. m. Tues- day, Nov 9, judging of foxes at 9.00 a. m. and continuing through- out the day. Mink received. Wed- nesday.,November 10. judging of mink until completed. Andy Stew- art of the Hudson's Bay Company. Montreal, will be the 'judge'.of minis. Followinguare the classes for foxes . . . Medium silver. light medium silver. light silver and extra light silver. Standard pearl platinums, with sub-divisions for adult males, adult females. pup males and pup females. Champion- ships will be awarded in each type for adults and pups and for: grand champions. There will also be get of sire. groups. progeny of dam and aggregate score trophies. Mink classes will consist of andard.

pastel. platinum. Stewart Itlnllm and breath of spring. pphire Aleutians, white and other type. Championships and gresate score awards will be gl rs.-It is expected that with the prove- ment in the outlook for es-and

ranching here. that this show will be one of the best in recent years.

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The control of mosquitoes should be on a community-wide basis; at least it should be on a large-area basis. These insects. while they breed in empty tin cans or any useless dish that will hold water. also breed in the foot prints in mud of animals. in gutters, catch basins. drains. rain-water barrels. lakes, streams, rivers. any place where there is fresh water that contains aquatic vegetation which provides food for the larvae. Sat- isfctory control requires expert direction from those who have in- timate knowledge of the biology of mosquitoes. including such fac- tors as life cycle, breeding habits. flight range of adults, the resting places and the food preferences of the adults of the many dif- ferent species that may be in the locality. The choice of larvicides for the control of mosquitoes de- pends on cost and the type of mos- quitoes. Aircraft control by the use of D. D. T. has been employed in certain jungle conditions with

The Guardian Page 11 as rday. October 2. 1954

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INDIAN IIVEI W. I.

-The September meeting of Ir. dian River W. I. was postponed from the customary Tuesday to September 21, out of respect for the late Aeneas Machellan. a life- long resident of Indian River and a former School Trustee.

Mrs. Leslie Ramsay was hostess for the meeting. and in the absence of our president, Mrs. Peter Mae- Lellan, Miss Grace Easter. vice- president presided. Thirteen mem- bers reclted the Creed and at roll call donated an item for the Fish Pond, which when 'fished" later in the evening, realized 31.25.

The School Committee reported that the Senior Room teacher re- quired a Grade VI textbook, and this will be paid for by the W. I. The presentation of a Union Jack to the school by the I. O. D. E. Chapter in summerside is grate- fully appreciated. Twelve renew- als to the P. E. I. - W. I. News were 'received and, forwarded to Miss Robin.

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