A French Government decree M. banned the use of the word .-M" on all products which do not derive directly from fur-been -ng animals. The text of the de- 13115 has been forwarded to the French Economic Police with in- cuuctions to prosecute in cases of gm,-1_ngements. Prosecution will “,0 follow in case: where imita- m,,., are labeled as deriving f.rom natural fur or hair. when this is M, 30, The new law stems from action taken by the French Na- tional Fur Federation ‘to stop the us. of terms such as nylon fur , . .The above ruling by the french Government is directly Opposite to the decision given in 3 case In the Federal Court at Montreal recently where Mouton, commonly known as sheep skin pr0CeBSed into fur-like garments, was ruled for tax purposes as ..tu,-_-' The ruling of the Quebec justice seems a very strange one ma was very contrary to the ex- pectations of people in the fur

trade.

Hudson’: Bay Fur Company. New York, which formerly went under the name of C. M. Lamp- mn & co., has not lost any pre- mge by appearing in the new garb. They were the owner: of 1,.mpson's, having purchased that firm in the 1920's. Recently they .ppeer to be doing the largest part of fur selling in New York and at their sale last week stand- grd ranch mink prices_ahot up gully I0 per cent in comparison with February levels. The action marked the end of a month in moratorium on ranch mink auc- tion: in New York and buyer: ectcd as if they were starving for merchandlse. There was a big crowd in attendance and bidding was heated throughout the sale. They officially report as follows: Section 1 and 2. 14,574 skin: 98 per cent sold, top price $40 for males and $22.50 for females; X Dks; section 3, 5.363 pelts. 95 per cent sold, top price $28 for males and $14.75 for females; section 4, 3.020 pelts, 99 per cent sold, top price $27.50 for male: and $15.75 for females. A good pert of the strength was said to bu specula- tive buying in anticipation of in- creased business to come from the excise tax cut . .And now the furrierl throughout the U. S. are afraid that because of the removal of the excise tax on furs by the Government that the various states will place a tax on furs and they are warning their members to use all their endeavors to resist in such a course is planned.

EMBA Topaz mink were all sold at Hudson’: Bay Company's fur sales New York last week. The offering of 4,025 skins was the largest collection of Ruby- eyed pastels ever to be placed be- fore an auction room. This mute- tion was introduced last year. The sverlge price..waa.sA7.16 and the high was $180. for males. 356 for IPIl'laIeS. A total of 11,099 dressed (‘eruleans was Oil per cent sold at a top of $66 for males and $27 for females.

An article in Women's Wear Daily of last week is headed ‘Charge Some Chinchilla Men Unfsirly Slur Mink in Press." it goes on as follows: Instances of public disperagement of mink and niher furs by some chinchilla pro-

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Silver Fox And Mini: Farming

moters is causing sharp resent- meat in the fur market. ranchers and manufacturers‘ pri- vately are leveling criticism at certain chinchilla breeders whom they accuse of poor taste and questionable ethics for knocking down mink in their effort to pro- mote chinchilla. These sources document their accusations with clippings from consumer news- papers — article: which have ep- peered in various parts of the country in recent weeks. Spokes- men for the National Chinchilla Breeders of America and the Farmers Chinchilla Cooperative of America denied yesterday that these national groups have ever condoned a promotion campaign derogatory to mink or any other

Retail furriers in Toronto are optimistic about fall 1954 business following the ennoun ‘ that the I5 per cent excise tax on furs has been repealed. The repeal should improve the situation and fur retailers are generally happy about the announce ‘. stated Stan Beer, vice president of the Retail Furriers Guild of Canada. One problem worrying retailers, he says is that the I.‘ sumer is li- able to expect a 15 per cent re- duction on fur coat prices while in fact the relief passed on to the reteile will be only 5 per cent, since the former tax was left- at the raw skin stage. Another item of concern is current inventory. Most furriers seem to be follow- ing the leed of Toronto’: major department stores and are plan- ning to sell current taxed mer- chandise at prices reflecting the tax cut. Overall opinion of Tor- onto furriers, however, seems to be that the tax cut should give fall 1954 business a substantial boost.

Canadian Fur Auction Sales Company (Quebec) Ltd. will hold its next general sale on May 13th. Many wild furs collections of beaver. muskrat, mink and otter will be offered together with standard ranch and mutation mink. A special offering of silver fox will also be made.

L. L. Berger Inc., Buffalo, N. Y., fur retailer, is playing up foxes. His ad is headed — Watch For Foxes -— and he hails the fox as a highly important fash- ion piece in the fur icture and emphasizes its relativey low cost compared with other furs In the smaller piece category.

We notice in the U. 5. Fur Rancher where the Great Lakes Mink Association of Minnesota is offering $100. reward for the ar- rest and conviction of any per- son or persons stealing dark mink or dark mink pelts from a mem- ber's ranch which would normally sell through the Great Lakes Mink Association's marketing outlets. That brings us back to the early Lil30’s when the Charlottetown Fox Breeders’ Protective Association was formed to cope with the stealing of foxes from ranches in and around that vicinity. A mem- bership fee of $50. for the season was paid and e bloodhound was brought here from sunny Tennes- see. He was named “Gyp the Blood" and great stories of his ability to track persons came with him. A full time caretaker of Gyp was employed and he was

available at any time to a mem-

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matlon of the association or the presence of Gyp the Blood. no stealings were r ported during the life of the Assoc atlon.

At the lath annual meeting of

after the statements had been tendered. Dave Loffmen the As- sociation‘: New York manager, spoke in detail and part of his ad- dress was as follows: “We should

Mink I,1so realize that there is a tre-

mendous movement of goods from dealer to manufacturer right now. The movement from menu- facturer to retailer has been very slow and unless this movement is greaty increased, we might yet encounter trouble." Mr. Loft- man pointed out the danger of “false security" based on reports we are five to ten years ahead of Scandinavia. Fox men, he re- minded, were 30 years ahead at one time and then. in a space of five years, the Scandinavian: were producing better foxes than we were. Referring again to mink, he showed how the Scandinavians had improved from the time seven years ago, when they were getting half of what we were getting for the average dark mink, to last winter when they sold at a :15 average. which fig- ure will be close to our national average for darks. He said we are ahead of them only- because they do not have enough muta- tion mink. and if many sales of mutation livestock were made to Scandinavia this would be a definite threat and the basis for a request for greater efforts to- ward a quota on imported mink.

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You can make this cement bird bath. The mold for forming the concrete is a simple job using common mason lath. A little ce- ment, sand and gravel are all you need for the concrete mix. The pattern shows just how to use the lath to get the fluted ef- fect of the pedestal. and the octagonal basin. Once the forms are made the materials for a number of these attractive baths cost very little. The pattern gives actual-size guides for preparing the molds as well as the formula for the concrete; and the con- struction steps are illustrated. A few bird houses and a feeder are sure to attract the songsters. A number of interesting designs are included in the Bird House Packet which is priced at $1.50. The bath pattern 227 only is 35¢ postpald. Address your orders - to the Homework Shop Depprtmcnt, Guardian Office.

KEUPP IN MONTREAL MONTREAL. (OP) — Alfred Krupp, whose family empire sup- plied Germany with munitions in two world wars, stopped briefly here Monday en route from Mex- ico fo Europe. In an interview. Mr. Krupp said he had visited Mexico on business and pleasure and hopes to return to Canada for a

"real visit. perhaps next year."

been but - glarised. Whether it was the for-

the Great Lakes Mink Association. _

NEWSY

NOTES

By J. A. CII-ll. D.Sc. . WEATHEI AND_ SEASONAL OBBIIVANCI

Corn.

Corn differs very widely in many ways from the other cereal crops that belong to the great family of true grasses (Oramineee). Wheat. rye and barley which belong to the tribe Hordeee. have many more characters in common than either rice or oats. These all. however, have known wild species and some wild prototype. The Encyclopedia Britannica states: “Corn [Is un- known in the native state." No wild prototype has been found. All types and varieties of corn so far identified belong to one species, (Zea mays L.),

When Columbus met landed in America. on the Island of Heyti. he found com being cultivated there. The natives called it Me.hlz, an Arawek Indian word that origin- ated in south America. The name "Malz" is largely retained in Latin America. Com is an Anglo-Saxon word that formerly was the gen- eric name for_ell kinds of grain. in Genesis 4l:5'l'we read: “And all countries came into Egypt to Jos- eph for to buy corn." Corn in Eng- land applied to wheat; in Scot- land, to oats. and in the United states to Indian corn (maize). The early settlers of North America found the Indians cultivating corn throughout the country. and to dis- tinguish it from other grain. the colonists called it Indian corn. In Canada and the United States the word Indian has bem dropped. and a Pennsylvanian court ruled that: “The word com is a. sufficient de- scription of Indian corn".

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Corn is of American origin, It is generally believed that it orig- inated in the warmer parts of America. Before the American con- tlnent was discovered by Europ- eans, it was being cultivated by the natives from Chile In South Am- erica to many parts of this contin- ent. including areas now i-I. part of Canada. It. was the great bread cereal of the people of the New World. Corn saved many of the early colonies from starvation. In the form of corn stover, it also saved their stock, which would otherwise at times have had noth- ing but salt marsh hay to eat: be- cause cultivated grasses had not been introduced.

There is no mention of the corn plant in any of the writings found in Egyptian monuments: nor did any of the Eastern travellers in Africa or Asia, prior to the six- teenth century. mention the plant Numerous varieties of corn grains have been found in the ancient tombs of New Mexico, Mexico, and Peru. Some of these monuments are believed to be over 2,000 years old. It seems evident that when so many different types had been de- veloped et that time, the original corn must have existed at a. much earlier date. Darwin found cube of com lmbedded on the shore in Peru. at 85 feet above the present sea level.

Columbus took _cam in Spain. and as the climate and conditions in the lands adjoining the Media- esraneanv-‘Bee were so favourable for its growth, it spread rapidly across North Africa and southern Europe. and from there, across Asia to China. The rapidity with which it spread caused many dis- puta as to its origin, and confus- ion as to its name. Some based a. claim on the alleged discovery oi’ grains of corn in the cellars of an- cient houses in Athens: and sug- gested that com had originated in the East.

der many curious names, given II. on account of the country where ii. was supposed to have originated. some of thue were: Indian wheat, Roman wheat, Spanish wheat,Bar- bery wheat, Sicilian wheat, Indian Corn. Turkish Corn, Guinea and Egyptian wheat. ships sailing from America to the Mediterranean Sea had taken corn to countries bor- dering that sea. which would ac- count for its very rapid introduc- tion. I O I

Corn is the most important an- nual crop in the United States. Early in this century the Corn Belt in the United States was said to be the greatest agricultural re- gion in the world. It produced more than three times the com grown in the European corn belt in the Balkans. It has made pront- arble dalrylng possible in some states; and the great meet indus- try of the United States depends on live stock fed and finished largely on corn and its products. Corn starch. glucose. oil and other products are in great demand by commerce everywhere.

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There are six types of corn that are easily identified; Pod. pop, flint. dent, soft and sweet corn.

Pod corn, more or less a novelty, has each grain covered with s husk, in addition to the husk that covers the car.

Pop corn. its small size, shape and popping characteristics make it easy to identify it from flint corn, which it somewhat resembles.

I-‘lint corn has grains that are hard, smooth and more or less oval in shape. It is an early matur- ing corn and does well in the areas in Canada where dent corn cannot be ripened.

Dent com is the corn of com- merce, and is most commonly grown in the Corn Belt of the United states. Dent corn was produced by crossing flint. corn and soft or gourd seed corn, which gave it a flint structure on the outside of the grain and soft. starch centre. The unequal shrinkage at matur- ity produces the characteristic dent in the kernel

Soft corn has a. white kernel. It is similar in shape to flint, but varies ‘in size from grains the size of pop corn to the largest corn known. The variety Cuzco, in Peru, has grains 15/18 of an inch deep by ll/16 of an inch broad. This type is largely grown by the Indians in South America because of the ease with which it can be crushed for food.

Sweet corn has a translucent grain with a horny appearance. It is one of the starch corn.s that has lost its faculty of converting sugar into starch. It is used as a truck crop and is cultivated largely near cities or mrketing areas. There are many varieties of all these types except pod corn. Frost kills corn in all stages and all varieties. At the turn of the century, the United States Experiment Stations recommended thirty varieties of flint corn and 199 varieties of dent corn. Canadian institutions recom- mended two varieties of flint; and one or dent at that time.

Improved Varieties.

A very great amount of work has been done to improve varieties. Since corn is naturally cross- fertillzed by the wind. it was thought. undesirable to induce self- fertillzatlon. Those who first ox-

In Europe. corn was known un- perlmented with this method found

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Interest: from Nova. scotla are said to be considering establishing a food processing plant in this Province. Nothing huge is plan. ned, but the factory would give nftcen people employment, for about eight months each year. The Nova Scotis interests have already looked at sites in the Murray Har- bour district end have been look- ing around the village of Mount. Stewart. Because the Latter place is near a number of strawberry growers it might be favoured. The company is said to be prepared to pack. when established, all kinds of small fruits and berries. as well as vegetables.

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Almost unnoticed. the annivers- ery of one of the greatest feats of arms in Canadian history occurred on April 9th. It was on that date. Easter Monday morning, 1917, that four divisions of battle-hardened Canadians. veterans for the most part of two yeers of attack and counter-attack, stormed and swept over the great bastion on Vimy Ridge. one way or another, one hundred thousand Canadians took part in the superbly organized as- sault, which started in the early dawn in a downpour of hall and rain. Ten, thousand prisoners were taken in the first victorious ad- vance of the Canadians. and by the following morning the entire Vlmy Ridge which had dominated Canadian positions for many months was in possession of the Canadian Corps.

Beyond the Ridge the Doual Plain, into which the Canadian attack carried them about four miles, stretched lnvltingly_ This ground offered the enemy no ad- vantage such as he had long en- joyed perched on the heights of Vlmy. It was a memorable action, probably unsurpassed in its suc- cess, scope, and brilliance of staff work. by any battle in which the Canadians have ever taken part. Many Islanders attached to many different infantry and artillery units scaled the enemy heights that day, _and Island homes paid the price of victory. It would be interesting to know how many men from this Province are still alive, who participated in that great at- tack on Easter morning, thirty- SBVCII years 380.

Plans for an early commence-

that they obtained reduced yields.

Hybrid corn was secured by cros- sing and selection of strains that. had been inbred from five to eight generations. This system produced "hybrid vigor", and gave a. very great increase in yield. -1: was originated by Dr. Shull of Princeton University and Dr. E. M. East of Harvard University. They began their work independent- ly in 1905 and later Joined forces. It was Henry A..Wallace. Secretary of Agriculture under Pres. F. D. Roosevelt. who was the first private breeder to follow this method. He and D. J. Jones of the Connecticut Experiment Station were mainly responsible for the acceptance of this new corn breeding method. By 1938, hybrid corn was planted on fifteen million acres in the United States. It increased the total yield there that year by 120 million bushels.

Algonquin, a hybrid corn. devel- oped by MacDonald College, Quebec has for a. number of years given best results in Prince Edward Is- land. For those that require an early com the hybrid, Canada No. 240, has given good returns.

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ment of the Fedcel Building‘ in Charlottetown have come under cross-fire of circumstances. On the one hand. are the residents of the area on which the building will be located, and who have notice to new. Many are finding it hard to find neyr homes. On the other hand are many idle men eager for work. A community effort to find new homu for those who must

move. would be a gaest. help at this juncture. It is to be hoped, at any rate, that the job will not be delayed so long that it will once more be put on the shelf for another year It is to be hoped. too, that none of the householders aflected will suffer hardship through being obliged to vacate their homes. without being assured of comfortable quarters elseu'hm'e.

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SIRIILIFIED FEEDING . . .

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slop-feeding hogs by placing a barrel outside the fence and rigging It with a chute fa supply the trough Inside the hog pen. A 2x4.

tapered and rounded at one end the hole.

Is used both to stir and to plug

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