Th! "Port of the mutation mink lale held by Lampoon. Fraser d; i-iuth. New York. last week is at hand for which we thank George ll, Meyers. the manager. It will be

lesdwlthintereetbymamybred- 1,; h _ __ _ _ era who have lune in for mllmlion c-llizaatclwollvllsvolrtsflzeultpglglf. ‘fyfimeyhanieaflxaeujhouase Ia1 lF: an", torukePlaitler-sonum l? Igriffedmoowuvd- nOOKDALE-KINGSWAY the wolfldls mo" fumom- “on,” IIIIIIQII" will "I. mink the pest year or vwo as it attendance consisted of about 600 wuefmd a hlppy mm‘ gm“, Bum to u‘ him‘ gm“ d imd‘ Nunsimis g ass plate protection, with a 10-year gum“...

flu-niches a pretty good indication of what the market will be like this year. . ..8liver Blu Mink- There were 5.5M pelts offered and these were 96% sold at an average of $55.05. Th. top price was $82.00. Males sold from $52. to $32. FU- rnales from $33 to $57. The best prices were paid for the light and pale tYPQ males-him to $82.

Royal Koh-I-Nur - There were 1,96 pelts offered and thesg were 50% sold at. an average of $22.50. The top price was $33. There was s good demand for them but e. definite price rmistence prevailed.

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sure captured the attention of the lldlbe present. for they were indeed hieh style. flattering garments and those professional models knew lust how to display them. The com.

women who were invited and many of ullemnodoibtwiilbebtrysmn Wl-velsy to see that they were deeply impressed.

Ilikethissort ofworkasitkeepe me eu felt with the fur industry. I hi" hklbed this retailer put on three shows the past year and 1 am confident if they were featured in more cities not only in the United States but in Canada as we feature them yhere would be a mug}; lu-g. er demand for fox furs and mink furs. The move to Idvertlgg lg g Rood one. It is too bad we did not

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Thmidh the courtesy o: Mme. JM. Dent and Sons, Publtilters of Toronto. the wflter is permitted to nuke use of a selection, bearing the above tii-ie from the book “In Pioneer Days" written by Dr. DL. Dickie, and published by Messrs. JM. Dent. ,"Thomas Hooper lived in New

when the war came, Hooper. feel- ing that he could not fight against his flag. refused to loin tihe Ameri- oen Anny; h, remained quietly on his farm taking neither tide. Hits American neighbors and relatives were angry at his loyalty to Brit- sin. They helped themselves to his cattle. pigs, and fowl, whenever they needed them: they stripped his place of oxen.

The war dragged through nine weary years; by 1782 it was plain that peace was near, and that Brihaln would give the struggling colonies their freedom. Hooperwas

hind him foil’ Ilrls and his be!!! boyflrodosomusthevebesne brie-l for the poo:- father. but he hsdssyennohoerletowflidlto take them. y

Hooper and his sons got safely to shelburnc. which was then building. Thomas worked and saved for two years. 3y this time he thought he had enough storm’

The Governor arranged that Hoop- er should be granted a lease at Bsdcqlae.

Hooper and his sons croled to the Island in 17M. ‘lhcsnes we: a careful mam. but in the end he found Just the farm he wanted. The land was rich; the sea abound- ed with fish; the river with wild fowl. Hooper hoped that at last he might build a little home and gather his family abouthlm again.

In New Jersey. Anm. the oldest daughter, who had had change of the fall-m and the children. now prepared to move. She held an

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think of it eerlier lmtlike our mink mutation breeders. One has Just to see what can be done with ad- vertising by watching the enormous

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the “Birds of North Carolina‘

(Brimicyl though the latter does ptrestmt a half-tone picture featu:

ing Kumlierrs Gull. amongst oth- cvs. (There is no blackin its plush- age). “A List of New Bnmsvidck

Birds". prepared by Mr. William ii ‘Moore. Scotch Lake. N.B.. Ivporv Kumllcn’; Gull. A.0.U. 45. a; toi crably common. It does not appea in a “List of Birds of Nova Scotia.’ prepared by Mr. Rollie W Tuft uell-lmc-ml crnitholcgisn. retried in his book. “Some Common Birds of Nova Swiia."

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a shrewd man. He wished to live in auction sale. Three months‘ credit a Brilifli 00111101’. and he felt sure was allowed to all those who that the Americans Who had treat-bought more than. ten-shillings’ output o; ha“ point ‘mm They ed him badly during the war. uculrhworth. The coeds were sold for a Lita-guy s,“ 1n m, mlmom at not he kinder when they had allithird n!’ their value. but they were prices that a few years ago w, power in their own ilands. I-Ie de- 501i and the family began i0 pack would ‘think “nm,"c_ Imagine t-ided that it would be best for up and make rea-di‘. Efifflh- ‘IW pens that cost from 31,50 m gggo him to go tcNova kotia orPrlnce second daughter married arnd rc- to produce selling at from 511mg Edward Island. m~inetl in New Jersey.

to $17.50. ff we could only apply Early in the spring he set out to The Oilifis reached Bedetue in a small percentage 91th}; gygtem find a new horre. l-le wen-t to the Prince Wdward Island in Decem- tc fox fun we would receive bene~ Maritime Provincm and ifiivelled her. 1786. The baby was now quite fit that would probably exceed our about examining the country for a big boy; his father would not: expectations. Tine American public he wanted a good farm. Tre Gov- have lcnow him. The rcilgh little are particularly Eulliblo and they cmor tf Halifax lzari already prom- cabin in thr- bush n11; a poor place follow each other closely. If a 55rd farm; to all Loynlisis \\'ll() \\'lSl‘i- am“. mm. fire hum. in yo“, Jqq. woman wearsa-patlnlun fox jacket cd io lcuvc the United States. 593g but Lm-v wcfc all iugciher her neighbor will want one. also a Hooper‘ was (‘VBl‘y\l\'ll(‘i‘0 kindly rc- on. _ nwrp, faiivzr. brothers and‘ better one. This also applies to fox Oelved and. in July. ‘rciilrlted to 51515“, and in the j“. of rrunm "8118- In V"? few cases mink his home fuii of hope they cured about nothing else. I

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It is quit; evident, states the re- port. that future prices on this article will be controlled consld ably by the production as the de- mand i4 somewhat limited. The best prices were realized for the light uniformhr marked maiesqfill to $33 and the medium uniformly marked males-Sill) to $33.

Biu-likost-SQH pelts were offer- ed. Of these 20% sold at an average of $8.101 Lampson's state that it is‘ difficult to forecast the future of this article from a pelt stami- polnt but w; know that from a breeding standpoint the future of these mink is going to be most valuable. Best prices were realized for medium silvery, pale and ex-

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tra pale underground-MG to $35. The sales report concludes with the following: "Wevcan not advise you at the moment cf future sales of mutation mink but we will do so us soon as these dates are arranged with the marketing committee of the American Mutation Mink Breeders‘ Association." ‘u.

Our American‘ from whom we ports of happen ' ‘ U.S.A. that are of IIIIEIEIR: vffirmers here writes as under date of Feb- ruary 28th. . . . "Well, the old fox industry is certainly through the wringer at the present time but strange as it may sound I am not st all discouraged oven though my income from fox pelts this year will be small. When one stops e moment and compares the business of producing fox or mink peltswiih any other branch of animal hus- bandry or attimal culture over say n period of thirty years. then you will come to an immediate con- ciusion that it is and has been a very profitable industry when properly conducted and will be

I again. I only recall three or four

years in the past. tihirty when fox pelts were unprofitable to produce snd even in those bad years-if one had really good stock there was a possibility of melting a small profit. One must remember that a poor cow never earned a profit any more than a poor quality fox. Y?! E0 many expect the impossible in prof- its from foxes or mink.

It is my intention to attend the New York Auction sale of foxes nn March 10th and on my return I hope to give you a true picture of "ile sale and the feeling in New York. also a brief description of lome of the types of pelts offered. 5o far there is very little demand lor foxes of any sort. A few are :al1ing for real good white marks and platinums but at prices lower than we care to sell fcr—~$50 to $60 —for good average platin-ums. The lost of feeding foxes for the past lwo years in western Canada and rastern United States is too high. I mnnot see any reason for fox cer- lsl being from $6.00 io $750 a swt or horse meat at 10 cents a pound a4 it is in most of the New lmgland States landed at. the ranch!!! we had normal feeding rosts and labor costs then we could

show a profit even on a low mar-.

kct. but it. is my confident belief that this low market will Iraduaily advance probably by 5 and 10 per- cent ilunpa until we are heck c5011! 0n a profitable bllll. I really feel that the mutation foxes will be Profitable pelts for many men! Years and as new types o! 800d quality and appeal an, produced in quent ties they will find a ready market at profitable prices.

Recently I assisted‘ a retail fur merchant to put on e fur style show at the Copley Pleas Hotel. We had a very clever colrunentatm from the Yankee network and five professional models. Thl! showed $0 coats and jackets of all kinds. llsc e few eeerfs and chokm- I made sure we had some 11M

‘ote-rlatine. blue fox. platinum fox. white marked and silver foe Jackets. for ranch‘ mink.

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chokers or scarfs are flattering. They dress a. suit all right and look mil too. but a long-haired fur 0i‘ tho proper color like foxes are most. flattering to at least 75% of women. If the manufacturer will not feature fox furs then the prc- dllcer must see the retailer who twill be forced to stock them as his Custom"; will ask for foxes and the retailers will stock anything they can resell at a profit.

It would seem to me that present conditions will weed out s lot of fox farmers who are not benefitting themselves or the industry by stay- ing in it. All ofer the United Stat- es and Canada I hear that fox runner; have cut their breeding stock from 25 to 50 percent during January and December. If that ¥s the case it will mean that there will be less furs to market next year and of course that will help the carryover from this season. How- ever, we will have lqurope to deal with as they are going into fox farming again on s. very large scale. also mink farming. many of them having bought high-class mink in the United states and had them flown over.

Getting back to the long-fsis-ed fure I may say that every seven or eight years there has been an agitation against them and people change to the short-haired types. but they always come back to foxes because they are the only long-haired pelts they have to use in the fur trade. so it is almost compulsory to use foxes because other. iongyhieired pelts are coarse, lcw grade or not fit for ecerfs or garments other than very cheap garments. But there is one exception and it is lynx. However, there are not enough or them trapped to even consid- er thorn."

In concluding his letter our friend says: "You will recollect that I said several years ago to concentrate on the medium and dark platlnuun fox for future business. The trade wants the medium to darks and are not so interested in the pale plaiinums. The best looking garments we showed last week were medium to dark silver type plstinums of good color and under a spot- light they looked as bluc as a diamond. while one light color- ed jacket looked almost white, mica is not good as few women want to weer white furs of an! kind."

The Canadian Fur Auction Sales 0o. (Quebec) l..td.. conclud- ed their February sale on Fri- day. Feb. H. This sale opened on the 34th, with the catel of general fure being offered. Bhort haired types were in strongest denind, end on many of those. price averages advanced over January levels. Wild mink were

067i sold at e361: advance above’ Idsnuary ievell. while 70% of the

rend: mink were sold at a 15% advance. Top prices paid were lNMrfer wild mink.‘ endJMM

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I‘ so me . ‘Q / g , . ‘Wexere etill buying ell kinds of Row Fore in eeceon at lie Mum locum. Charlottetown. Dvlag in your Fare and receive‘ lmt mairltetlpricel. _I

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Matters had not tern gcillg wcil in his absence. He found his wife and two children sick of a fever. His American roghbczs llati grown bolder thaw ever. TilCv pretended in‘ thirk ile was hiding a spy; vosnt often to hi; place. plundered his house rnd barn: thrust tllcir kay- cmets through the furniture. cur- la""i, and iray-fillz-d i-cd-tirks.

At last one morning. ih<y “m3 in and tcok the bed from under Mrs. Hcopcr. who nos still an i-n- valid They carried her out and. laying he: down on the flcor of an outhouse, they made off with the bed. lvflrs. Hooper took cold and died. After that Thcmas Hooper hated the Aurel-leans.

He was watched but he lraniged to escape with hi5 two S3215. lad qt nineteen and icn. He left be-

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ns was offered on Wednesday and following days. Sixty six per cent of tile total offering was sold at an average of $20.26 as against the January offering o-f 30543 skins which were 46% sold at an average of $11.75. A ,iarge number of buyers were in

{attendance and competition re- mained active throughout the sale. ‘A large percentage of the

offering was secured for U. S. A.. South Asnenica. and London ac- counts, with other countries com- peting for smaller quantities. The following summarizes the selling of the fox catalogue. com-

In 1787. Thomas Hooper was ltci- ified that filo British Government i-ad allowed him £347 18 sh. as r-onlpensviian for lite icss c.f his farm. but so frr as we know.‘ it was never mid." (End cf cxceofpi-l

As regard; ihc (‘OIWpCIlSHIICYIL it. i5 more ilbn likely that it was paid {find touched the Is"ard but did DBL rerch Z-scper. The his‘cry of the early riavs rrcovnishxwnv episodes in which public officials (lid W-‘l av-penr in any zzccd light.

Eleven year; later, the 179a cen- sus shows that Tllcma: Hooper. lr-cw dis flzuisiaed frcm the rest of the Inhabitants of LEI 26 by the title "Esq." was still cn hi; fzmn ‘at Bedcque. With him were his two you-rigor 5cm and one woman l-probalblv hI; dnughirr Anrn. Noi re»: awav lived “Major licoufir" with hi; wife aalli iwo daughters. the falter iroirg "ltliricl- l0 years“. This lwould ize the youth rgetl i9. WI"! left New JcTsey in m2. and would be 35 when the census was taken The name licoper still survives 0*‘- iflo lfianci.bctllnsasurnamc

honorable mrnticn.

I do .110! knzw ihe lilelni 1W0’ tion of D1‘. D.J. Dickie, author of “In Plover Days". but was loid (in 1915» um. . family oi Ill-l" mmc lived in Lct 26.

THE KUMLIENS GULL

It lg definitely stated 5ft U19

Glacier Blues. and Platlnums and was an attractive offering. Pearl Platinums were in particularly strong demand.

Our second 191.7 special col- lection will be offered on the Canadian Fur Auction Sales Co. (Quebec) Ltd. March Sale. Til-ls will include sh-ow pelt! from the provinces of Ontario and Prince Edward Island.

As you have already been ad- vised. this association is market.- ing fiurs under the Agricultural Products Co-Opcrative Marketing Act. for those of our shippers wlhc make uppilcatzion io lmvc their fure marketed under the act. We

perisons being made with the January sale. I Febrmry 1947 ' No Skins Piatinums (Good Qual.) 3917 Platinltms (Inf. Qual.) 3130 Pearl Platinum . 136 Western Can. specials 500 “Mite Marked Silvers . 3601 ‘.6 - % Silvers 0U Selected Fuila . 383 Regular Pulls 5211 Inferlors . .. .. 1178f Low Grades . 508 ‘Ilotals . 33%!) The Western Canada special

collection containing 500 skins con

believe that this system of mar- keting will facilitate orderly and % Av. January I947 Sold Price % Sold Av. Prlcc 86% SILGB 49'}; $38.29 ‘l5 26.27 30 23.17 88 33.51 90 35.14 96 59.19 -— — 77 24.64 31 21.38 M i836 95 20.82 ‘l0 $.89 70 22.4.8 55 19.80 42 18.14 54 13.56 50 18.15 6'1 6.53 48 5.75 06% 00.3 dfb $17.75

controlled selling, and at the same time provide immediate returns

slated of Pearl Plstinulns. to the producer.

largely during the nesting 583E011

upon eggs and young cf other

birds. They seem i; have a spe ‘ill FHYS

liking for Comcran-t eggs." Chester Reed. '; hey ltcst about

mouth of the Hudson Bay. but win-

ter as far south as Long Island. ISLAND FAMILY NAMES

Islanders abroad take a. great forest in the notes on names letters, from all parts of Cart from ihc Aihmtic to the Pacific

to prove this. Nor are there wani-

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quickly and as fully as I should

like. but hope to give my ccr pcndents satisfaction through medium of this column. And. "fihfiilltt. i may remark that

Guardian is lord fur l-nd wide on":

i‘~- "holc roriilctn coaltinenl. 3rd“ by lhc number of such quiries. l’