the hardy ‘* annuals into the ground as soon ,5 ii; is workable. zinniae. Pfiivllnill. ralviaa and marigiids are a few for

early 6995"”-

Mgny of should S0

it you are cramped for space. sow

Tor- 2'-W" crrwcus cvwziers

. _ . p_ ' Chemists have succeded in se :~;'l‘la'I1:lV1l&m1n A from cod liver ca placing it on the marker “‘m9Nl311i'- in Newark, N, ,i_ 3'“ 1mm"‘5° plant devoted In l“"P°9¢- After the Vitamins removed from the oil the resi. dl-16-is sold to soap mnnli! A e,,_

pmgcy seed with the early raclshes. The latter will ‘ and b, used up before the parsley

is ready.

Golden Bantam is still an excel- [em variety to grow for home use.

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.Vlyrick's Ltd.. Alberton. .\lcWilliams & Turner, and Claude MacNeili, 0’Leary. Thos. Nesbit, Tyne Valley. Arsenault & Gaudet, Wel- lingion.

G. S. Cook and MacKenzie & (.‘o.. Kensington.

[van Brown, Clinton.

R. L. Dickinson, New Glas. gow. : J. D. Jenkins, F B Conrad, and Dillon & Spillett, Char- lottetown.

Frank Callaghan. St. Louis. Ellerslie Cold Storage, Ell-erslie ,

D. B. MacNeill, Miscouche. H. B. Bernard, St. Eleanors.

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ted Vit used extensively in chlfilgi ‘feed: find lhlely in silver fox feeds. It is °ka::“ay;'l:n;:;l-Tile and also has Vitamin A. has be all

8'l’0Wth Vitamin. It l5e[l’le(3c85S:lt"ly ltd: 8?°Wl«h. visor and health. Where Present in sufficient quantities foxes develop and are also good ii;-eeders when kept for breeding.

is sometimes called the anti- illfeclive Vitamin bcause it ilssisrs in building up body tissues so that 9193’ may be more resistant to disease. particularly respiratory in. fection. When foxes do not recei-e Sufficient amounts of Vitamin ‘A U19 tissue in the mouth and eye is méefied and infection readily at-

Vitamin A also ii iii “$55113! to make \?ftameiriqll:;“h~log: effective in building bones and pre. Veminl rickets. For that reason it is particularly necessary that at :his season of the year and umii he pups have passed the tickets Ltase. tale food should contain cod ver 0 or prod t Vitamins A and nut 5 wnmmng

Dr R°flB'd G. Law. 13. v., s. on D. V. S. C.. has a splendid article in thelast imue of Canadian Silver lmx and Fur. which I take the x 1'5!“ of selecting a few extracts rorn. Once the mating and when). in! 595-50“ 18 Over we arrive at one of the most important periods of the entire year, namely. the care of gum-10:0 (cl! the first considera- °“3 N 3-D in! the pupsis piillng. Due to the prevalence of the round worm it has become customary to Dill pups at three weeks of age with a reliable worm capsule. A 55“-‘5l'|¢5°1'y method is to gather lhe DUDE in a box or basket and take them away from the vixen to some building where the pill is ad- ministered.

The pill can be easily given by pressing with tile forefinger and thumb the angles of the jaw which will cause the pups’ mouth to open. The pill is then placed at the back of the izmguc and lightly pressed with the blunt end of a pencil. If this is done the pup will readily swallow the capsule.

The question of piillng pups at in Girl)’ age is one that can only be answered by the individual rancher. If the pups are poi:-bellied and show signs of worm infestation then the ruling should be carried out. on the other hand some ranches are comparatively free from parasites and this procedure is then unneousary.

The second stage in handling the pups is weaning. Pups should be weaned when they are around eight weeks of age, or the female com-

"" them when

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1/3 by weight RED MEATS 1/3 by weight OFFAL 1/3 by weight SOAK Tl-IE CEREAL IN WHOLE MILK, and l EGG Per 3 PUPS should be fed ‘hill! in addition to above, breaking them over the pans of feed. FEED SHOULD BE IN- CREASED TO ALL VIXEN WILL EAT TWICE A DAY. TO INSURE WELL START- ED PUPS.

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they attempt to suokle her. At this stage it is well to have a thorough examination made for fleas. for if lhue pasta are present they are a serious menace to the welfare of the growing pup.

Experiments carried out at the Ontario Fur Farm deincnstratcd that fleas were responsible for severe anneal‘ in foxes. Every flea left in the pup is taking his daily quota of blood and in consequence the pup is being deprived of nourishment which should be going to build up his body and promote optimum growth.

A reliable flea powder should be applied freely to every part oi the body and with special attention being paid to the regions around the head and neck. Flea powder should be repeated within eight days after the first application in order to catch the second crop which may have been in the stage when the first dusting took place. Flea powers do not destroy the eggs laid by the flea and are only ef- fective against the young and adult insect.

when the pups are being dusted with flea powedr it is convenient to treat the cars for mites. There are many treatments for ear miles which are quite satisfactory, but .in the writer's experience there is none better than the following mixture, equal parts of balsam of Peru. other. glycerine and alcohol. should the mixture separate on standing it should be thoroughly shaken before

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using. The treatment is applied by placing the mixture in an cii can tipped with a piece of rubber tubing, the tubing being used in order to prevent any damage to the ear which might happen if the spout of the oil can is not pro- (acted in some way.

This treatment has an advantage over others in that it does not re- quire any preliminary swabbing or cleaning out of the ear with alcohol or other cleansers. If ear mites are

present the second treatment should be we ppiicd within ten days.

The question of accomodation for pups is an important one and at present the tendency is towards sheds with compartments approxi- mately ax4x6. Each partition is bedded with straw and considered to be sufficient room for two pups. The main advantages of the sheds are to protect the pups from the weather and the bedding helps to prevent rubbing and scuffing of the ur.

They also have a very definite mace in keeping parasitic infection down to the minimum. Particu- larly is this true of the lung and hcokworm and therefis good evi- dence that where is plentiful supply cf straw bedding is in~use that the round worm does not find it a desirable enviroment. However. some very fine pelts are produced in open pens and if some shelter is provided those ranchers who have not as yet invested in sheds need not feel that they are under a hopeless handicap by not having them

It is very important that the pups are not too crowded and that greedy fighting pups are not allowed to remain in the same pens with shy timid ones for it will al- ways happen that the stronger ani- mals will get more than their share of the feed. Where board floors have been installed in pens for the purpose of eradicating the lung warm as much shade as possible should be provided, for there seems to be no question bilt that foxes run on board floor pelts and which have not been pl'o\'lde:i with shade ‘.\'lil not rirvclop as high a quality of fur as those run in sheds or on dirt floors. Possibly the most unsatis- factory pen of all is the half cover- ed and half open pen and for some reason or other this type of pen produces the most undesirable pelt of any.

After these details have been taken care of the next itemisthe all important one of feeding and at once we move onto debatable ground but regardless of individual likes and dislikes there are several fundamental facts that no one has been able to question. one of the rri.ost important of these is to give the young pup all he can eat of an easily digested ration, for if he is to develop into a real fox in the fall he must be kept growing through the summer and fall without any setbacks. Among the feeds which stand at the head of the list for dlgeisabiiity in fox pups is fresh meat. A mixture of fresh meats in- cluding hearts. tripe, muscle meat and liver should be included in the dairly ration from the time the pup commences to feed.

A very good index in regards to quantity is to start the pub in at two ounces of meat per day for every month of age. Eggs at the rate of one to every four pups: bone meal in quantities of at least one quarter of an ounce dailv; one ounce of canned tomatoes; two to three ounces of milk and a. suffi- cient quantity of thoroughly cooked cereals or one of the high-class commercial foods should be added to'these ingredients so that each pup will be receiving all he can eat daily.

If a ration of this quality and quantity is fed the rancher will be repaid with healthy, well—deve1oped pups and there will be an entire absence of any of the known diet deficiency diseases. No greater mis- take can be made than to stint growing pups or to reduce the quality of the feed by the substi- tution of inferior and cheaper grades of food.

According to Dr. qharles E. Kellog, Bureau of Biological survey. U. S. A. ,ihe color phases of the 56,119 pelts placed on the January auction sales of the United States and Great Britain are approxi- mately as follows: full silvers. 12.- 114: three-quarter silver 16.595: one-half silvers 14.085: one-¢ll1ll‘ir9i' silvers 3.935; slightly silver and black 2.150; undescirbed trashy or I damaged skins 6.590.

2 Congratulations to Benilmln ,Oairns of summerside t. who counted 54 pups in the at nine

kennels looked at. one was 3 mill‘ or ten and they were halo and hearty at the age of eight days. The only other litters of ten that I re- member oi were one whelped at the General For Farms‘ ranch, Mount Edward Road some eight year! I80- and another litter of fan at Lt.-col. Fred Andrews ranch East Royalty s

were raised to maturity.

1". rr. oopp. M. p. 9., President of the New Brunswick Fox Breeders‘ Association, thanking the New

his Association for a grant made to assist the silver fox industu. said among other things; "No where else in the world can better foxes be raised in captivity. New Bruns- “wioi on have on‘ many occasions

both the Montreal and Lon- don ulna. There is something in our ecil and in our climate which give: the fur its giorious lusture and thot ‘something’ which the ex-

year ago. Both these litters of ten _

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NOTES

AN OLD SCHOOL SONG BOOK

Last fall. during A periad or en. forced idleness, I read an article entitled “The New Education" whch. had appeared in a British Maga- zine. The old school. Said the auth- or. endeavored to impart a certain amount of information, and a cer- tain number of ‘skills'; while the‘ New Education (proceeding rather in the direction of reform than by a series of particular changes) treats the school as H minia:ure world in which the child finds op- portunities of developing in the sides of his nature." The old-fash- ioned educator sometimes still thinks of the artistic side oi school work he a irill,“ says our author; "Isn't it just a wa.:tc of time and 1T|°l’l9)’?" Now that opinion is not confined to a section of the British educational faculty, for quite lately I heard it propounded by a disting- uished visitor to this Province. The modem teacher (of the New Edu- cation) answers that such artistic activities are essential to the all- round growth of the child. There are several other objectives of the New Education treated of b1 the Magazine article. but these do not touch upon the title of this “noie."

The “artistic activities" were not neglected in the little rural school in which the present writer was a scholar. more than sixty years ago. We had vocal music twice a week on the “tlme—t;ible." and drawing (freehand. perspective, model and geometrical) every Friday after- noon. Besides this, the schoolmast- er would have us sing sometimes

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I honor every nation's name, Respect their fortune and their .ame,

But I love the land that bore me."

Another, with music of greater technical finish, hld . more :19. vaticnal character: “Now pray we for our country, That Britain long may be The holy and the happy, And the gloriously freei Who bicsseth her is biesed, So peace be in her walls, And joy in all her palaces, l-Ier cottages and balls!"

Eiza Flower, the Victorian poet- css. wrote ‘‘England‘‘ where the book now says "Britain"—«but let that pass! One other patriotic sel- ection, which we sang to Dr. Gaunt- iett's fine tune St. Fuibert, must be noticed before leaving this theme: (1) “Lord while for all mankind we

DTEY. Of ev‘ry clime and coast, 0 hear us for our native land- The land we love the most. 0 0 U

(5) Lord of the nations! thus to Thee Our country we commend; Be Thou her Refuge and her

Her everlasting Friend!

Next to love of country came love or home. Firs: of all stands “Home. sweet Heme," but we are not told the name of the author and. com- poser, a strange omission and about the on'y one of its kind in the book. "I-lcme is the best, dear-

for disciplinary purposes: it was an excellent sedative for the restless- ness which occasionally pervaded the school. so it seems that, even in those old days. our school was at least abreast of the “New Educa- tion" in that particular point.

What and how did we sing? To answer the last question first, we were thoroughly drilled in the Tonic sol-fa system of notation. The simplicity of this system en- ables an earliest student to accom- plish results in vocal music which would take ten times as long by any other method. so well is this understood in Britain that S31-fa is always ll ed as a basis ’or the siaff notation for local purposes: and the (ombinaticn is called the “Dual System."

To answer the question “What did we sinz?“ the writer procured a copy of his o‘d school song-book from England. This book was call- ed “The First Blackb‘rd." a title rather misleading to u.s here, where the biackbird is anything but a. scllg‘.ter. The Blackbird of the Old Country is a kind of thrush, as our Robin is: but he is a much better singer. using six disti'nct tones in his phrases instead of three or four. Browning hos tcld us of the fine careless rupture of his tong. Next I noticed that the price of the book is now sixpenoe, whereas it was fourpence when I went to school.

As every Briton knows. the Brit- ish sysiem of education lays as

',u-ilh words of a similar. nature. to

(st home.” is a pleasing little ditty,

; the previous number, while “Around line Hearth" impressed upon our ijuveniie and plastic minds that-

l

,l Whatever be our earthly lot, 1 Wherever we may roam, Still t our hearts, the

spot

Ls round the hearth at home:

i The home of e‘en so lowly birth, lThe hearth by which we sat, | No other spot on all the earth Vi/‘ill ever be like that."

brightest

And without doubt we little “Victorians" prized our homes [much more than do ihe young folk of today; and our songs helped the sentiment.

Shakespeare makes one of his characters may: “Beware of entrance to a quarrel," and our song-book twice repeats the good advice.

"Be not swift to take offence; let it pass.

Anger is a foe to sense: let it pass.

Brood not darkly o'er a wrong.

That will disappear ere long,

Rather sing this cheery scng, let it pass!"

“Angry words too oft are sp:I'.<cn

G. flsribundus. All these '

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sre hardy, and as they are early

flowering, they must be planted in

the Autumn.

The South African species of

Gladiolus, the palents of our large-

ilowering strains, were not intro-

duced info England till about 1750.

The most noteworthy were G. car-

dinalis and G. pslttaclnus, the first

two species to be used for cross-

breeding. At Colville's nursery,

Chelsea, England. the well-known

Gladiolus Coiviilei was produced in‘ 1823; it was a cross between G., concoior and G. cardinalis. Be-

tween that date and 1850. at least three other species, blaridus, oppos-

ltifolius. and iamcsus. were used by continental hybridists of that

time. Loui.s van I-Ioutte, the fam-'

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ous Ghent nurserymari, acquired? all the European hybrids, and con- tinued the work of cross-breeding. and selection. This was the origin

of the Gandavensis (or Ghent) sec-

tion of G‘a.diclus. The first varieties of this section are described as rich

crimson, marked wth yellow, but it

was not long before considerable differentiation of color obtained. The variety Brenchieyensis arous- ed great interest and was much

grown in its day: like the other_ Gandavensls hybrids, the flower

spike was not so robust as com-

pared with present day varieties.

and the blooms were smaller, close-

iy sat on the rpikes. and often

eight or ten were expanded at one

lime. Brenchleyenss was the fin-

est scarlet I had then seen in the

Gladioli.

In i872 another species. 0. pur- pureo-aurntus. was brought from South Africa. It was golden yellow |ln color. with large purp1ish—black blotches on the lower segments. Le- moine, of Nancy, France, got hold of this species, and cros;ed the best of the Gandavensis with it.

As early as 1875 he catalogued the first of the Lemoinei strain or type. one Q’. which is still grown- the magnificent indigo-blue “Baron J. l-lulol."

Mr. John Lewis Child secured the entire stcck of hybrids between G. snundersii and the Gandavensi; strain, originating at Baden Baden. Germany. and they were sent to America. In 1882 the first of the Chiidsii hybrids was placed on the market.

Since then Gladio‘i are so mixed that they are no lcnger listed as Lemoinxi. NB.I'l(ElBl‘lllS. or Grinds- vensis types. 'I'll(‘l‘(‘ is a very dis- tinct type called G. primuiinus. with hooded florets. which was found in 1887. growing almost under the spray of the Victoria Falls in Africa. "Primullnus" commemorates the fact that the original color was] primrose-yellow. but the hybridistl has changed the color to various' shades of scarlet as well. The f‘ow- ers of the primulinus type of Glad- iolus are smaller and nectar. and lend themselves well to table dec- oration.

Lale‘y the “Lacinlated" and "Snapdrsgon" types of large-flow-' ering Gladiolus have come to the front, and s. scented variety was put on the market in 1935. The chief originators of new types are located in Austra‘ia, Canada, and

In a rash and thoughtless hour, Briglmzst links of life are broken By their false and evil pow'r.