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comiecten wmi ' Silver Fox And ' I Mink Farming ',
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Japui is rapidly increasing its exports of mink. Figures released recently mow iluvt 350,800 undres- ud I.nd 2.l00 dressed mink were exported to line United States in 1952 which is considerably more than the previous year. Also ship- Mad were lliifm squirrel. '2z0On1.-.r- tan and ll5.0'.'7 rabbit.
Albert J, Foldtnon. President of it. Hollander and son in an inter- vie".v says: The hu- inoustry has been built on a wide vnriofv of l'l'H and in re-building this diver- nriminian ties the hope for improv- ad b-all-ions :.his year. l-'urr. ollher than mink. he said. have beauty utility and color pvwiding them with crew. appeal if srrled and Wade interestingly. He emrphazied zhat sxnalfl fur mares have as much appeal in a var-io',v of fur woe: is in mink Mlnli he said has been the moving force and the 'ound'atlon of thn smoll place trend. mt the-so "smell u:-tr" hrs have '” 0.1 -,.l.-1 hcmtvse of climatic l . "owe-r price. and the ion that show are flattering I! well as practical.
For these same reuon.- he feels rnall inns in other 'urs t-han mink rave a great pozen-tiai for Si'-CCH56 :hls year. The complaint that ihe in business has become a one-fur ,-nterprise is not actually supported ny fact based upon 7952 experience. he said. ,-kbo' . 3.500.000 nersian larch pelts wefc consumed in l952. iiil'-ions of muskrats also found -heir way into production and llslfrihution, Furs such as marmot. aeavor. nutria. American broadtail mocessvd lamb and others totalling .'nE7-lions of polls were also nrodiwed -nri marketed. It is ev'dr-nt that -he widegnrpgd use rf mink is not :1 much -a calamnltous sign as Y is a slznal of a fashion trend in small wear of which we must uke cognizance. America's retailers re ready to spend more of their ulverfisinv dollars on a variety of urs if the trade will utilize it” nnenuitv in creutinv furs that will motivate the retailer-s' and mn- Iumers' interest.
We trust Mr, F:-ldmanls remarks vlll sink dos-n info the conscious- iess of the fur sJ:vlfsts.nianu.Fact.1ir- -rs and retailers and that their will nke up silver fox and its mutations -gain and by divevrslfvlmv the styles mire them popular. If in some way the stocks in mid iforage sou-id be cleaned ten the nuontlties wow being nrnduced in Canada and me United States would easllv be nbsorbed by a little enthusiastic )romiction.
Paris Fur Bureau reports that luring the past year the demand for American and Canadian mink Ikiin-5 has been increasing. Part of the explanation for this demand has in the fact that manv pieces 1:: fox skins are now out of fashion
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and are being replaced by other furs. mainly mink. ALso the buying public. at least the section that cm afford it. is thinking in terms of mink after year of post war austerity, In general. all sort of raw skins in France
are being maintained at normal
levels Apart. from American and Canadian mink skins there has
been little or no increase in imports
of other okins from States.
the United
Fsbnury. 1053. the French sudden-ly rcs'.ri.':i.ed imports of raw furs from the United Kingdotn and other Euro-
In government
pean markets. In effect this put the United States and Ca-il'1df,i. on the some footing, thereby making it no French raw fur buyers to get United States and Canadian skin: at the London fur auctions Now they are free to buy direct at the American and Canadian auctions and thereby pas-
longer necessary for ?he
(within import license control)
sing the London auctions and sav-
ing on expenses and cornniinsions.
That is the big reason why Ameri- can raw fur exports France and other
mink skins,
they are letting stiff competition
from the Russian vnrietv in Europe the Russian skins are banned from the United available in prices lower than those quoted for American
at present, because States market are
great quantifies at
muskrat.
The American Fox Breeders' As-
sociation will offer 10,000 silver and its first public the Hotel Governor Clinton. Goods will go on
mutation fox at auction April 17th at
.5llC-iv April will include various colors.
lilth. The collection plat-
inum, pearl. white marked and all The goods are by the A5-
types of silvers, described as choice scclation.
Imports of raw furs info the
United Kingdom from the United States during Fubruary totalled 2313.957. 9, decrease 0" 30 per cent from a year ago. Imports down 21 par rent from January figures. During February the United States was second to Russia with E4-81,126.
A deepaltoh from Franlafurt. Ger- many, to Women's Wear Daily states Uhat most West German fur dealeis would prefer to buy in New York and Canadian auctions but dollar resltrlctioims prevent muoh direct purchase. West Ger- man direct imports from the United States in 1952 reached al- most a million dollars against 51.- 300000 in 1951. The difference was due not to lack of interest in Unit- ed Slates market but to the fact that Scandinavian countries trade liberalization had created consider- able German buying power in ex- change for German goods, There- fore Germany is getting as nvanv fuiis as possible Wlllh countries other than dollar, keeping their dollar for things that can be bought only in fine United States, The m sellers in Germany at
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imports of
to European countries are tending to rise. Ac- corciinv: to the trade in Paris the Canadian market supplies mainly beaver and muskrats and the American Market mink, raccoons, skunks and opp:-ssum but
WET 8
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Elfplosives ore defined in an not Passed by 'he Canadian Parliament in 1946 as: "Gunpowder. blasting Pmvder. nltm-glycol-inc. gunoonmn, dymunite. blaatirg; gelatin, gellnlte, Ulrninaies of mercury or of other metals. coloured fires, and every other substance made, manufactur- ed or used with I view 30 Droduce a violent effect by explosion. or a pyrotechnic ef- fect, and includes fireworks, fuses, rockets. percussion caps. detona- tors, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions, railroad track torped- oes, fuses and other signals, and every other adaptation or prepara- tion of any such substance."
What are known as onmirnerclal explosives have played a very large part in the development: of our nia- iuml resources. in the building of rail-ways ad highways. the excava- tion of canals. and for the founda- tion of great power developments; 919 exbloratlon of the earth for metals and oil and in the clearing of land in Canada. The shaping of our country's destiny to the place she now holds among the nations of the world would have been impos- sible witlwut the use of explosives. Our physical progress has depend- ed largely upon the application of power to production. This is well illustrated on the farm. where the explosive power of gasoline in mod- ern equipment has rapidly replac- ed the former physical power of Ioxen, horses and men.
Mr. Charles Kelley was the first manufacturer of explosives in Can- ada. They were produced by the Canada Pcnver Company. who made black powder at Cummingsvllie. near Burlington, Ontario, in 1855. The year that Alfred Nobel an- nounced the use of nitroglycerlne as a commercial explosive in 1862, a charter was granted to the Ham- ilton Powder Company, whioh then acquired the assets of the Canada Powder Ccmrpany; and in "1871, when they purchased a small nit- roglycerlne plant that had 'been built at Kingston, Ontario. The Hamilton Powder Company was bought by Dr. Thomas Bralnerd -and started operating in l879. If is the oldest existing manufacturing unit of the companies making ex- poslves, that were amalgamated in 1910, to form Canadian Explosives Limited. After World War I. this organization expanded its interest to the non-explosive chemical field. This culminated in l027, in iihe for- mation of Canadian Industries Limited,
War Explosives
When World War I came. Canad- ian Explosives Limited was making only R small amount of rifle cordite .for the government; the monthly rate they were producing at the end of the war was nearly ten million .p:iuui:ls per month of military ex- plosives; this was rougihivy divided into one-third each of cordite, smokeless powder and 'I'N'r. Cord- itc was the official British military vpropellent. It was a slow burnlnc pm-peilent, and consisted of 65'? nftrocotton, &0"5- nltroirlycerlne and 5'; cf mineral jelly. This product of two "high" explosives oomlblnlng to fcvnn a slow burning. "low" ex- plosive. is very extraordimry. Smokeless powder rnltrooolxton powder) is the United Stata offic-
present. according to Mr. I-Iei-ms- dorf. are types of curly furs. In other lines there are no sharp tendencies except for any long-hair furs including all foxes and Up- possuim which selvl badly at pre- sent. -
THE GUARDIA.
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inl propellant for her armed forces. TNT was used as ll base of burst- in: charges, usually wibh amnion- ium nitrate. and is a vital war ex- plosive. It was A Belgian ship load- ed with TNT. in collision in the harbour
many places'on Prince Ednvard Is-
wllh a stick?"
Kingston, Ontario.
treat firm. I C I
When British
Lakes, it is recorded that "the whole of of one contract of supply- ing 100.000 pounds of nitroglycerlne for the first section of the trans- continental railroad iravel-led in 50 lb. cans by rail to Fargo. North Dakota, from thence by boat to Winnipeg, then on two-wheeled bullcarts to the Lake-of-tlhe-Woods, across the lake, and finally on men's backs to the advance con- struction camp of the railroad." The following description was writ- ten concerning the chemical plants that supplied the explosive for the Cascade Mountain section. of the C.P.R, transcontinental railroad: ”For nearly sixty miles. from Yale to Lytton. the river was cut tlirougfli this lofty range, On this sixty miles of tunnels, rock work and bridges . fifteen tunnels have been bored. one 1.600 feet long. and millions of ions of rock blasted and rolled into the river. All the immense quantitiel of Giant Powder used, is manufactured on the line between Emory and Yale at the nltroglycerine and cartridge works a force of sixteen
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g that caused the terrible Halifax disaster in 1917. The shock ifrom that explosion was felt. in
land, The writer was at Red Point. east of Sourls and heard and felt three distinct. waves of the explo- sion, One of the boys in a house then-, asked his ,mother. "who was striking the side of their house
It may be of interest to note that the State of Massachusetts. which started work on the five-mile Hos- sac Tunnel in 1858, using black powder as its blasting agent. aban- doned the work in 1801, and it was when the company that built Can- ada's first nitroglycerlnc plant at maul-aotured dynamite for them at the North Adams end of the tunnel. that the work was started again and com- pleted in five y-rars. by 1866. The englnrers who succeeded after oth- ers f:-filed. were members of 11 Mon-
Cogumbia entered Confederation in l8'l . a part of the Confederation agreement was the . building of a transcontinental rail- 1919 m31"k9mlE by ”n"”0"5 9”” road to connect all the provinces of Canada. It was dynamite "that made the building of this road around north of Lake Superior and through the Rockies, possible. The follow- ing episodes illustrate the enormous diifloultles met with in this under- taiklng: In 1873, in order to supply the oomlractors north of the Great
Accident lnannnco
All Federation directors and school district officers now have in their hands material relative to the group accident insurance program. The success of the pro- gram depends upon its accept- ability to th' members and upon the activity displayed by secre- taries and chairmen in pointing out the advantage of such pro- tectlon.
It is important that reports from each district should arrive at the federation offlcefno later the Monday. April 13th in order that all names be placed on the original policy.
Visionary Theorlsia
In mg Legislature the promotors of Marketing Boards and similar plans to give the producer author- ity in marketing were branded as "visionary theorists."
By inference the reference was likely to the Potato Board which came into being only after some 8000 farmers had voted in favor of the plan. Back of every develop- ment there is usually a. theory and where there is no vision the people perish.
We do not feel that the term ”vislona.iy theorists" was used a. complimentarylsense. but it is not likely that farmers will be deterred in their efforts to regu-
on their efforts by constitutionally timid legislators.
Floor Prices
There is a tendency on the part of a. section of the press to hold the floor price policy responsible for keeping the price of food. to the consumer at a. high level and for placing an unfair burden upon
the taxpayer.- It should be pointed out that floor prices have been set ap- proximately at cost of production levels and we would suggest that consumers have no right to expect the farmer to produce at a. loss. The present floor price on eggs is roughly thirty two cents a doz- en to the producer, but the market at the moment is well over forty cents; the awpporl: price on hogs is twenty three dollars and the market at least four dollars above this; the support price on butter is fifty eight cents and the market roughly sixty four. In the light these figures we fail to see where the support program can be said to be keeping prices at :1
Among The Farmers
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high level to the consumer. Loot years floor price on eggs was too low to bring forth needed production and has resulted in presently much higher prices.
Bon Voyua
The good wishes of his many friends follow William Calms of Freetown as he leaves Halifax for six months of farm study in Eng- land, under the Nuffleld Founda- tion.
Such an opportunity is 3 very rare one and the selection of the young Freetown farmer is a well merited recognition of his inter- est ln all things agricultural, and may well be considered a com- pliment to his community and his Province.
Butter Floor
The announcement that the support price on butter is to be continued for a two year period at fifty eight cents will be met with mixed reactions by dairy farmers.
There will be those who believe that increased farm costs and the condition of the national e- conomy would justify a. moderate increase. others will resign them-
in selves to the situation in the be-
lief that one half a. loaf is better than no bread.
While cream producers may not look forward to p1'os'pe.rity for the next two years. at least they do know where they stand
Miarkeiln; Legislation
The Agricultural Products Mar- keting Act was enacted by this Province in l940 concurrently with a. demand on the part of farm people for similar legislation in other provinces.
The experience of me 30'; de- monstrated to farmers the fact, that without some legal say in marketing matters of their ex treme danger when left to the tender mercies of the law of sup- ply and demand, the darling of free enterprise.
Collectively the industrial work- er and most of our professional people decide upon what terms and at what price the service of their individual members is to be offered.
Marketing legislation provides the farmer, in a, democratic way, the same privilege and if society accepts the situation from one group of people. it must in fair-
nem accept it for all.
brancli said that some ruthless days.
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