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The new fur -auction season got under way in Montreal last week with offerings of 50,000 mink by ihe Canadian Fur Auction Sales Liompany (Quebec) Ltd" and 50,- 300 by the Hudson's Bay Com- pany. In each case there were 10,000 standards and 10.000 mute,- iions. The Western Raw Fur Auc- lion Company. Vancouver, offered 15.000 standard ranch mink and the Edmonton Fur Auction Sales, Edmonton, Alta, started the sea- son with an offering of 20,000 iiandard and mutation mink which was followed by Little Bros. Fur Sales, Vancouver. with l2,000mink. we understand that all these sales nere well attended and that bid- iing was brisk.

in Rio de Janelro, Brazil. one of the most startling fur germ. rnts offered was a full length white ermine coat trimmed with unite fox. It is called Canada de luxe and is being featured by a French furrler who founded his 05 ablishment in Rio in 1927. The c. t with deep push-up sleeves ixas featured at a. recent fashion mow and was acclaimed the handsemest of the various articles offered,

Fox in a wide variety of little pieces has been going well this .-rason in New York and other cit- irs. Made up and selling as boas,

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some 10,000 ran h mink-40,000 mutations and 0,000 standards, will be offered on December l2tli in Minneapolis by the New York Auction Company. The mutations include sapphires, Pastel. Platin- um, Breath of spring and Gun- They are from tile Mid- west Fur Producers Association.

mum. chokers and a variety of little i?.CCCSSO.I'lcs, black, sllver,-pla.- tinum and blue -fox are moving quite pleaslnsiy. possibly because they are moderately priced.

Mink. seal and broadtail in than order are the leading eeilets with Paul Kasoff, who operates one of the leading retail show rooms on Madison Avenue. New York. He reports that in mutation mink those with a grey or taupe cast, have been selling best. Aleutians and Heather minks are cited spe- cifically as customer choices. This firm believes that most customers have or had the dark minks with reddish undertones and therefore take '0 the Ere-ll casts as a newer, subtler color idea. In ranch mink the very dark Kobuk shade is wanted. he reports.

sums of between 2300 and 2500 (approximately 5900 and 31500; were paid recently for Union bred Karacul stud lambs, according to a. cablegram from Cape Town South Africa. The high prices re. suited when breeders in the Union became more selective and im- proved their stocks following the CIOSIUE of the South West African border to Persian lamb exports. some of our readers will no doubt remember when an attempt was made to establish the breeding of Persian lamb in this country. I believe it was the Hon. John Ag- new who was associated with J. Walter Jones (now Premier Jones) in that venture in 1915, but the collapse of prices in the fox in- dustry, due to the war, prevented the new industry from being es-

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Current prices with IC re- duction for orders placed be- fore Jan. 1st. Special prices on cockerels for January and February.

Anyone wishing to pur- chase pullet chicks from us during January and Febru- ary to raise for us for ship- ping in June and July kind- ly contact us at once.

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Olympic Association. Rocky Moun- tain Association and '” -' Tt shippers. Also to be offered are 2,000 northern wild mink and I0,- 000 niuskrat for the account of the United States Government.

At the Edmonton Fur Auction which was one of the first to be held this season, sllverblu, platin- ums ,were 85 per cent sold. Breath of Spring intcrsbrted, male and female brought 321 to 330; Plat- inum lntersorted sizes medium and darker colors, brought 317.50 to 323; on-color pelts brought 31.50 to 315; pastels were '73 per c rit. sold; Jnedlum colors lntersorted sizes, brought 321 to 329; darkjand 011'-color 312 to 16. standard ranch mink was 62 per cent sold; dark. part extra dark male peltsbrought. from 318 to 323.10; females, 311 to 313.10: ordinary quality males 315 to 317; females 38.50 to 310; 2'5 and 3'5, 34 to 37.50.

At the Vancouverusele the 25.- 000 offering of mink was 28 per cent sold with prices on standards as follows: extra dark and dark mink 332 to 330 for males; dark and dark brown males 32 to 324; females extra dark 315 to 317.50; females dark brown 311 to 312: females ordinary quality 39 to 311: 2's and early pelted males 312 to 316; females 36 to 58; Starlight males brought 3171 to 321 and females 39 to 310.

The Canadian Fur Auction sales Company, Ltd. reported that 90 per cent of its standard and mu- tation mink offering was sold in what they described as one of the best opening sales held in Canada both from the standpoint of act- ual turnover and consistent inter- est throughout the sale. An inno- vation this year was a. night sale which concluded the sales at mid- night. The best quality dark standard ranch mink pelts were very firm, top ,prices for these were 338.50 for males and 319.00 for females. In the mutations. pastels and sllverblus attracted much attention and vigorous com- petition. -

There was a strong demand for Royal Pastel; best quality males ranged from 340 to 344 and fe- males 321 to 322. A fine catalogue of Silverblu mink was practically 100 per cent sold. Breath of Springs brought from 344 to 347.50 for good quality males and 322 to 323 for females. stewarts ranged from 338 to 344 for males and 022 to 323 for females. A collection of Lucernes brought from 328 to 334.52 for males, part females. In the miscellaneous category was a limited collection of white mink. They were 100 per cent sold with males bringing from 354.50 to 364, females from 330 to 339. A small offering of sapphires was almost completely absorbed, reaching 360 for males and 335 for females. Another sale will be held Decem- ber 2znd. According to the auc- tion company the features of the sale were threefold: (1) The in- sistent demand for high uality dark goods: (2) The except onally large attendance in the sales room; (3) The steady interest maintained by dealers right to the end of the sale.

The British Columbia Depart- ment of Agriculture is predicting firmer prices on mink pelts this winter in Canada. The govern- mcnt's market bulletin says, "With stocks at comparatively low levels across the country. it is anticip- ated that mink prices will reflect a. somewhat firmer tone this win- ter than was the case one year ago. While the fur market gener- ally was rather weak during the

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Increased Asiatic, African and Trans-Atlantic air trail: and the possibility, of the ene taking action by "biological warfare" led to several informal co eren in 1941, which resulted i the Can- adian Mlnlster of Defense and the United states secretary. of War appointing a Joint United States-Canadian Commission to protect the North American con- tinent against cattle-plague (rin- derpest), which might be brought to North America accident lly or by the enemy.

The commission was led by Dr. J. Craigie of Toronto University, and three of Canada's leading scientists, and Dr. R. E. Dyer, As- sistant Surgeon Cveneral,U.B. Pub- llc Health service. Washington. D C., and three outstanding United States scientists. They established the ffrst War Disease ControlSts- tion at Grosse Isle. P.Q.. near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in Canada.

The research laboratory was built by using many of the exist- ing buildings and reconstructing them so that safety procedures and rigid quarantine could be en- forced. The natural isolation of the location contributed to the safe handling and disposal of the many experimental animals. The Commission, however, stated t at: "The safe handling of large m- ounts of material and many ex- perimental anlmals for a period. of over four years", was due to "the sound technique of the scien- tific staff".

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The scientific staff assigned to the project, was made up of six United States' Army, Veterinary and Medical officers, two Canad- iian scientists, a corps of technic- ians from both countries, and Canadian Army service person- nel. Security regulations delayed any reports or information con- cerning their work until 1946, when that above Joint Commis- sion and the Chemical Warfare Service, U. S. Army, published, in addition to their regular April is- sue Part 1, another publication is- sued as Part II, Vol. '1, No. 28, which contained sixteen scientific articles on rlnderpest, prepared and submitted to the Commission by members of the staff. i

Permission was received froui the American Veterinary Medical Association to quote, in this art- icle. from the scientific papers mentioned. These articles will be identified as given in the Journal contents thus: in Article R.lnder- pest 1, page 135, it is stated: "The immediate objectives were two in number: First, we were to pro- duce, as rapidly as possible, an adequate stock of virulent rlnder- pest virus, and, secondly. we were to convert this virus into a safe vaccine, effective in protecting cat- tie from rinderpest”.

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"Source of Vii-ue.-"The rlnder- pest virus used in the present. experiments was an African bo- vine strain. It came to us dried in sealed ampules, and examina- tion of the powdered f-rlsments indicated that the dried tissue was lung. No difficulty was encount- ered in establishing the virus in calves. Administered subcutane- ously to calves, it induced a dis- ease that was clinically character- istic of rlnderpest, as described in

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duced retail prices effectively cleared the bulk of stocks held. As a result, breeders are in a. rela- tively strong position." The bul- letin said the buying public is continuing interest in mink coats and wraps. In Canada last year. about 600,000 pelts were sold, ovei 15 per cent of. the 1951 pelt crop

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the testbooks, after an incubation period of from forty-eight to sev- enty-two hours. Most of our an- imals have been sacrificed on the second or third day of fever, but those allowed to progress have died after six to ten days of ill- ness. The experimental disease is contagious between calves, trans- mitting by pen contact after in- cubation periods of six and eight days in the two experiments that have been conducted".

Page 136. "Experimental Anim- als.-We have used, for all work so far, calves purchased either locally or at the Montreal stock- yards. These have ranged in age from six months to one year and we have purposely included rop- resentatives of as many breed: as could be proc red. Most of the animals have een Holstein-Frles- ians, Jerseys, or Ayrshires, but a. few I-Ierefords, Red Polls. Short.- horns, Guernseys and Canadians have been included. We have as yet used no Aberdeen-Angus or Brown Swiss. So far as can be told from experiments that have been largely qualitative, all of the breeds from which we have used representatives are of about equal susceptibility to our strain of rin- derpest".

This article gives details re iso- lation, technique and precautions used in connection with the culti- vation of rlnderpest virus.

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Article Rlnderpeat: III. Page 150: "We have prepared a vaccine which, so far as can be told from tests under experimental condi- tions, is satisfactory for use in protecting cattle against rlnder- pest. The vaccine, as prepared, is a very slight modidcatlor. of the one developed and used success- fully in the Philippines by Kelser and his cc-workers. We have on hand a sufficient amountof fin- ished vaccine to combat initial, scattered outbreaks of the disease and we have, further, in frozen storage a. relatively large amount of infected tissue which can, on short notice, be made into vac- cine. '

If our vaccine is to be employed at all in Canada or the United. States, it will be only as an emer- gency procedure and in the face of an outbreak of rinderpest. Un- der such a circumstance, there are very obvious disadvantages to the use pf a vaccine requiring mul- tiple innoculatlons to immunize we have. therefore, directed our efforts towards the pi duction of one which will confer satisfactory immunity after a single administ- ration. So far as we can determ- lne under experimental conditions, a. single injection of 10 cc. of the vaccine is adequate to confer pro- tectlon".

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Article ninderpeott IX, Page 188:

"Summary: A method is outlined of doing neutralization tats in rabbits that measures the anti- body content in serunis from an- imals, either vaccinated against or recovered from experimental rin- derpest. The practical signific- ance for determining the efficien-

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Article Rinderpeat: XIII. Page 211: "Summary: (4) A method of

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(5) Production methods for large quantities of the avlanized vaccine are described in detail. .

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