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TIMELY NOTES ON

CONNECTED VVITII t Silver Fox Farming

ionic:

- NEWSY NOTES -

The gieat event the past week

bin the January sale of the

in t of all with practical? all tms and Jualitea Inst Mou- d" ed 3?} inigllz? swam“ hm. lagged. declined about 1

pearl mark silvers $1(5.00-really very

ll t rices ltho ifnc 3:13;».- elii illsunnnls dllishnflt Nllgg

th ike th iigur 0i 3g ch was add) lint theyfi oi the platlnuins was $110.70,

when was exceptionally 800d.

The selected silvers offered the some day appeared to us to have declined about l0 per oent and at this writing, which is early in the week. we cannot see anything but a considerable decline for all types oi’ silvers. This decline is dir due to the poor reception practically all iox furs st

Bay Gunman sale in Lon

next auction oi the Iliudsonls Bay Company when a better collection appears there will be more - % taken and better prices real-

ectl p” don .

comm“ ‘l’

m,‘ b’ He put the flowers into an empty - IIILIN rorrino mull ' fiélbottflgh Ind dart btlheia l? a; eo ccar to e. e er - ‘°“" ‘ v — v ~°¢-‘ open 11d found a little Canada is s com atively youn sources I venturp to draw out a W‘ "1 nagonwlizthoiigihit u‘ swish: fsstt deiclrmtiion. (Lev M‘) CHAPTEI. XXIV fig sags‘: was diehlliltvegha - m ° i ° y° " m ' ' ‘ ' der th broiler but Vi: iniivs m“, gathered much weather lore. That Adult ma e: Beak short. stout, conc- B“ at m i111 t - I "HM ' e -""° "‘" ’“°‘ ..'.'§'.'.'...~°i"2f.'.'€'}.°f€. Ltishriz: :i.i"ii...=:s:"."."..Y:":"...bir";:i Aggii» g; 3~}"'?§§=i‘-,";,“‘§'-="Y»'# 2hr. ‘iifttetfiiéi; ' 0 t? es o t e c. “in m, n” awduh m‘ _ inio rhymg_ low, crown black ea oi head Mm a _ - ently ihows a lower Itlilellifsflso Md 1" "mr" my °"P°'l‘“°° °' m“ 'T""“°°°“s' 3'“ “h” kupl": hm‘? matte hand Mltlilibbtelle dither-mill‘! $1: '3] eoolflfee blllllefllieittfiirghd |bg “on by (h, 1013mm‘ ma“ yveathar here, goes to show that hover-ts yellow. Tall bloc] ,"no cue . ‘he does,“ Lake mm’ M“ m“. x n“ whée the h k did quhflng M“ m, m“, i, m ‘winters back ls broken on Feb- res-t and undcralrtr u l" "w- she said. “The tro-jilg with work- m“ ' he °° to “out g ca.“ in ruary Nth. We may have spells of Wings black, sca ulars yellow, and m: women i‘ the T “ma” Ginny keel! cream pitcher? mmwy __ ‘now. grim and ind weaihei- afiel- half of seconds es and their cov- “med and SO- lndgefidgirllt" Sugar in the b0Wl—that was lucky. f — "i? m“: n: or v F“§t."i'.;’€.%§i§:.ff°r. n. o. n. i... “ti. 3“'...““‘?.'~.... we rea ze a e cow-zero e emae nn .. . ' e 0 t 8R lumen’ h“ a _ u” Iondw we“, are “weal away‘ not [such a handsomebblrduhfir lire: Erlxtllgmflk “we? :1 $02,232:!’ b”? like broiler made the rooms stuffy. so mark“ “bum” m“ ‘um. “d InCanada generally ‘we all know liiailng tint beinlg rlowiili nzrlcy. ‘my rm ‘om to “m M11754“: be put up the window again and bluo fog mo” ‘g l; ab “mim- the pular superstition about izhter and more tngc W! Y91°W '1” I stood there Witching for the bus. mine", . b“, “ma”, but u" oodchnci; (gaming from hi; on the under parts. ere is a “n, -un L” , It did not come, and turned mum n h b’ no only w m? d“ m, Februl 3nd}. my, 5-,... white chin patch in this sex. The h a "w, to meddle. Youll do“ . name, pwigd i; m, in”, m ab; we n“ m,“ me “i... Nature, (1 i, “i; he c-m 59., beak (in both sexes) seems a little e“ sorry. warned y Gamble. bunk,‘ you]; iookeci M, i“ in view of the smsii “woman o; his shadow he goes back to sleep 0h the lflrile llde COmPBPEd With , 511% may not understan -that watch. Almom eight o'clock. What m; “sci-inn nu b Mt,‘ only for six weeks more and winter ‘the head. BBQ "m! l! 0110 0! the 1m IQBTFYIIIK Din T110111!"- Blld did that old slave driver mean is... t m" continues. On the other hand, if flfild mflrkl- - u m“ 1m will!!! Mflfy- 5hr ml)‘ anyway. coping a tired girl on in “m, w n. m", ‘ no shadow is seeing“ guy; u" and Canadian Nature calls them stur- be a bit overwrite by the m d? in“ the night? ‘ um u, m. Mm a ring is at 1mm,- 1i is explglngd silly built birds, a proportion oi Gamble ianiily. Ill go to ago her w , w, mum get he, inn-Li," ica. ileibetl yer. of New York. " ‘hm’ h‘ '°"“° "m" l“ "'9 w“ ch ""1"", “Id” “m” ‘M bhck _'l9m°"°w' ,, girl tomorrow. is wife was - as wceent also or tihree '“P""m°"- 1°‘ brill" d!" "5 Rh" Wm" "rnk n§ly "mrked Wm‘ whm ..T°“'°“°w" mun?" through. He'd tell Teresa so him- kflnsimq; m4 o 10ml period 'oi the year mean cold (‘ra- iii fllsht- Ml- MacI-aren s observa- Monday is as good a day as “i; and 1,; im- m“; buyers of whom some have been 533°"? Wellhef- "id Perm?‘ *‘ m‘? h“ bee" duly entered h‘ my ‘rho bus came in sis-ht again [swig yo; _ te spring; while hanging clouds 500k 0! T900105- "She stays in that office all and Mike pm, out me iigms quick: A, _ Vi" toga-i" w“ and no shadow) indicate an open da ." b, “cod “M” m m“ the swim, 1063180 alive: mo. 036000 blue m. glnggrheng a,“ ergnliy rlaiiig of the Another ‘wk About "-1- "In Io ll. niaht- 1 know where ' oinn qbcned the door , , mink, o c uc n e ruary. ivegg- . ' fir: °“ “i "* "M d“ “>53 Dmii": iii‘. m" .i=.""“l""s= hi kzttiziiimiiiifi-irsiii- "M - - - “mks-En on"'€ii‘.i§“éo'°€§e were ered andlfl oent "Y e - 8 Mme H8 0 o . '-' C‘ simi mm we" I?“ ‘v Q p3 with the wegihgn i, much Dido,- Book. comprising Historical Im-i- thlédlzfnggndaafsmentfililé ‘Doug stOP- It Iflllflbled 0h 985t- the

and

011

iox auction, Oslo. is cir- ted to wen Jan. M. M. Vik's (Bio sale, 5 cent of silver fox offered andblueigxfll-doktlsefi l- WIIIO can 180 flkroner. respectively.

Georie Lilly writins from Ontar- io, is greatly looati . Kc

pleased with ori.

l-2 was solid‘:

than the Woodchuck legend. It was old when the “Country Almanack" in 1076 gave this doggre] to the world:-

"Foul weather ll no news:

Hail, rain, and snow,

Are now expected, and Esteemed no woe.

Nay, ‘tis an omen had, The Yeomen say,

If Phoebus shows his ince The second day."

The 2nd day oi February, Old Style, is now Feby 14th, but it seems our Woodchuck is a hit old- fsshioned in his dates. The amount oi weather lore that has gathered round Candlemas Day in Britain is truly surprising, there being more sayings related to that day than to any other in the veur.

“As iar as the sun shines in on

Moat of us will remember some Island, ii anything a bit colder at

years the Hon. Charles Dun.- bhis season of the year. The foxes cmdhm" day-

nlng. $0 was than ofhiiater of all arriven safely and in good con.- The" "Z111" W“ While" l" °"° Finance in the King Government. dition bui of course he his 3"!"- inadeaaagreementwiihthsUn-oldiriencsandstatcatilntitwill _ ited Stains Government whereby a very hard indeed to find w Th9 ‘we'd P‘"P°" l!» l! the certain dilute. 0i silver fox pelts nry good ones as he had here d" "EYE 5PM" and w-"nY W00!“

would be allowed into the United Stated It De! cent duty. This ag- i-egnent wi shortlxyd n1‘? Gilli.’ as thte o owiQg e a. a s impor - ant that our fur associations get busy and impress on Hon. Mr. sic-y the necessity of renewing it and if possible securing a lowering

of the tariff. The agreement which rm

Dunning made actually saved If it had not made all have been out of business. Looking back now we wonder what parties who opposed me deal must

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think of themselves. Their whole‘

idea was to continue shipments to gretat Britain, and the war finished a .

Washington. Jan. M — Consid- eration is being given to the ques- tion oi whether the emergency con- ditions with respect to the market- infl 0i silver or black fox furs and skins, which resulted in the supp- lemental trade agreements with Canada relative to these articles, signed in 1900 and l . have ceased to exist or have substantially charged. the State Department announced today

Shortly after the outbreak of war in i930, ‘several European mar- kets. which previously had absorb- ed large quantities of silver fox furs. were practically closed. largely because of the need of Govern- ments to conserve foreign exchange for essential supplicsjrlits resulted in much larger quantities becoming inunediatcly available for the re- maining markets of the world. es- pecially the| United States. and there was attendant demorallsa- tion of marketing conditions.

A supplemental trade agreement was therefore negotiated in. Can- ada in December of that year pro- viding that the total number of sil- ver iox furs which migiht be enter- ed into the United States per year should not exceed 100.0%. To pre- vent evasion of the nuota. the res- frictions were applied also to live eilverfoxes. parts of furs. and art-

les c of furs. i

The rate of tariff duty on silver fox furs was reduced from 3'1 l-Z to 36 per cent ad valcrem during the continuation of the quota.

second supplementary agree- ment was signed in December. 1940. and reimains in effect. This agree- ment continued thc basic quota oi 100.000 silver foxes rind furs and the 5~ per cent rate of duty. but rovided for changes in detail. rate 100MB were provided for parts of si ver fox furs. piece plates made therefrom. and art cles wholly or in chief value oi such furs.

The present quota oi 100.000 is allocated during V the first iive months oi each quota year. so that Canada is granted '10 per oent oi the permissible imports and all _oihcr countries the remaining so Der cent. After the end of such iive ,months unfilled portions oi the quotw may be filled by imports

from" any source

provides

. The agreement

either Government. after

‘ation with the other. may term - lit it ' notice should

emergency conditions which gave rise o the agreement have ceased to exist or have become substant- lflllv modified. Moreover. the share 3.291%. °i".'.i..i"'.’."" €° .°“"""

y c y inu ua wrec- inent. and the entire uots. ar-

by wo Governments.

It is

c s ca n. $3.“? l2.“ Vl-Da a a ‘resumption ll M15790.

an ap opriate

0 y“ person iring to submit formation or views with rc- thc fereiio

noon. Rb. 26. the amunime announce‘: ‘tied

u; QM will be held

m.

at l0 5.1a. on March be- ooimiivee in the hearing

room Tar n in tbs Uosiiiaission Building, lemeiitsl oral state-

bird

o. “ma. “$2. . mes?

.

lmiist

There i:

year it cost vicinity for cold and tho

the feed

ill 405.

X85. ma GIODGDBQ. B

or pelt.

Mr. it myise the silver iox industry in Canada. costs me about 1 l-Z cents per

ld pound. I have really struck the tllglt’ mot to grow foxes economic- a .'

n0

ma . But the real reason for his move was the difference in

on

Il- Edward Island

we must

stora e. la

oe atotal

There is no doubt about it that .41 great many people who are grow- ing foxes here have no idea what it costs them to produce. For in- Jtance they don't consider their ,own services worth anyth on’t think anything about for straw they use, the dru ;buy. light and power. gasolne or Ji-leohonc, insurance repairs a

all theother little items that

tiun.

It is none cf our business to ad~ vise others but we think it would be s good thing for other ranch- crs if they have not already don

t a little system o boo

so. tostar

keeping going back Imp

Jarruaaw and

count \oi every cent it own. STOCK BREEDEIFS TABLE

in the following time, ths last day of each month and the 10th "ing month only are given intervening days can Ibr instance. when the time of service 0th. aiismly sdd I days to the Dec 31st expiration date; Feb. 3rd, add 3 days to the Jsn. 31st expiration date; March 11th. sdd 7 days to the March 10th elplration date, etc.

and 30th oi the au be quickly and c

is. say, Jan.

to the first a l

y iiglled.

the price of " states friend for about one-

Prince

doubt about it,

. We are badly sit as import tactically all the feed we use and orse meat today costs seven cents a pound landed. or even more. and then one must provide for future months by stocking up putting it in cold

a Ch

the and Last e ran n in the at‘) arlotetown $2,786.13

rage: 883G181 for meats 31.20011) for the balan feed used

GIiLBOO-OO or ‘an average of over $16.00 per pup for food with

o c!

all placed on the pup pro- duction, which is the proper way to figure. The actual cost of pro- ducing a pelt for wages. hay and straw. drugs. lignt and ephone. insurance. ing, registration. belting and and sundry expenses was , . cr an average oi about $26.00 er pup. To this must be added en.‘ salaries, office auditing. bank charges nd depreciation to get a true pic- turc oii the cost oi producing s pup

wer. tel- knowing that a pair of Evcnini: repa . haul- Grosbeaks were observed today (Jany. 22) at this Station. I do

‘it?

reported previously, and if s1 how

, they frequently." e hay The Evening Grosbeak is a ra- they ther rare wlntcr visitor. for the

“i a

add lib to make the cost oi ranch- ing about 50 per cent higher than it was in 1032. As a matter of act .it would be impossible to cont nue a ranch oi the klnd we apes if the production was pelts and it was only the partial swvitch over to white platinurns which saved the situa-

lt oi silver fox

faces and

e x.

of ac- raise

er,,wlnter will continue for a long time. the stormiei" the day, the bei- ter for the farmer.

"If February give much snow, A fine summer it doth ioreshnw.’ "All tho months 1n the year‘ Curse n fine Februeer." “February fill dyke, be it black nr he it white; But if it's white, its better to like."

One is naturally surprised tn find Shrove Tuesday amour: the prophetic days, because it is moveable festival with n Filliflf" of about a month or so. liownvor Hw- "Shepherd's Almanac-k" for 1676 says: "Some sav ihundoi‘ on Shmve Tuesday foretelleth wind, stow" oi iruit, and plenty. Others affirm that so much as ih- sum sliiueih that day. the like will shine (‘VPYV dav in Lent." There arc ~‘.€‘Vf‘l‘ other beliefs connected with iliis day-but cnough's as good as a feast!

A Rather Rare Bird

I was clad to liav, thr- fnllnw- in: record from r. R. B. Mav- Laren, of ihc Exucrimeniiil Station. City. Ml‘. MacLan-n writes "I thought you might be inicrceii-il in

not recall ever having secn ihi-a bird before but ilicrc is no rloiihi about the identification. Tiir- pair orescniiy visiting us sccm 1;» he-l in good shunc, and the male is a very beautiful bird. They appear to be feeding on thr- remaining fruit oi various shrubs aboi: the lawn. They arc nulie fame and it is possible to approach them to within a few ioei.

"I would be interested In know- ing whether thcsc birds have been

only other record is from Ivlr. J.

dents, Traditional Tales and Translations. by John Mackinnon. Prince Edward Island." It is not as old as some already noticed in this column, being dated 1915 but unlike these others it was pr nted in St. John, N. B. The foreword is brief and to the point: “The pap- ers comprising this unpretendlng volume were written at various times for want of more pressing employment, and the Art Preser- vative ha: launched them on the boundless ocean of‘ literature"

Now, there are thirty-ans pap- ers in the volume and with few exceptions they deal with tales of the old pioneering days. A con-cs- pondent in B. C. mentions Rev Dr. Patterson: my hook gives a lively picture of his “Jubilee" cele- bration in 1873, when he completed his 49th year oi service. The gath- ering was at Bedeque on July 1b. and "tho affair was to consist of two features; a spread for the carnal man, very much like an 0i‘- dinary tea arty but on a much grander scae: also the presenta- tion oi an address to Mr. Patter- son from such clergyman as chose lo c present." The day at first was fine and hundreds attended. hut when the feasting was h full swing a rainstorm blew up and changed the "vlands to mush." In racy language Mr. MacKinnon de- scribes the wilting of the men's paper collars and the ladies’ top- gear. However he records the fact that $550 were made ai the tablcs in spit!‘ of the weather. Was he present?

The Yankee Gale of 185i when '14 fishing and other vessels were driven ashore and 160 lives lust; and lhc mishaps to the Winter moi] service in 1831. 1843, 1855 and 1885. fir!‘ all lrenlcri of iii tragic dc-inil Th0 most entertaining parts of Ml‘. MucKinuonXs book are iliose

relating to the daily life of two

or three generations ago, an"! the

ivinici‘ must have interviewed i many old people to get such if cum- iplcie pii-turc of events. One is tempted to present some of iiicse illl0i'd0!0S at length, but ihc au- 11101‘. a far-seeing man, had taken out a copyright on his book, and I am not sure that it has expired.

Briialii and Russia f2)

Following Mr. Russell's argument. what is WFLiilCfi is not a vague ap- peasement of Russia, but a r-lesr policy, publicly proclaimed, ‘iliiklili! clear in advance- what. issues would bc considered vital by Britain.

"We should, I think. cons-on.‘ a from huml to Russia in EiSlvlTl Europe (excluding Greece end Turkey) on the ground ihni in that region we cannot effectively lfltcrvclic: but in return we should have an arknowlcdcment of our iiilcrcsi in flip, Mcdilerranceivi. To this degree, spheres of influence, ihnuizh undesirable, 50cm fit-pos- sihln in nvoiil."

S0 says Mr. Russcll mu! if can- not hc denied thai his views are rather sanguine. Russia hns nl- rr-ndv fit-rill. Iicrseli ii frrc hand in Enstcrn Europe. \Vlli"il1(‘l' ivc like it m" not: and is qucsiioninu Bril-

Frank Steins of Snuris, who nhsirv- ed several during January and, February. i927. During my 36

years’ residence I have never sccni this bird, though I have observed. its relative, the Pine Grosbeak on) more than ono occasion, Thor.- is‘ a good colored picture of tho Ev."-

niniz Grosbeak in “Canadian Nat-l ure" for November 1939, liflfl n. smaller one in the "Birds of Norihl Carolina." From these and other

their foxes, allowing themselves a fair wage for the laibor, and a roper percentage of telephone. aulage charges and all other fac- ilities used Ii you don't knowl what, it coals you to raisc a iox pelt. you are working in the dark!

Time oi I Mares Oows Ewes Sows Service 340 days N6 days 150 days 112 days . Dec. 3i Dec. 6 - Oct. 12 May 80 Apr. 22 Jan. lo " l6 ", an June 9 May I " 20 " at Nov. 1 " 1n " l2 _ .. .. y i}... all] “m i: u l: all. Jiine at " 2 .1. '2 ~13 3i i ‘l ‘f. Mar. io -' ' 1a " so Aug. 7 " no ll g udl ab Jae n g " ar. an. " " Apr. io " 1a ~ 2o soot. 7 " 8i .. n .. a u ,0 .. ,. .. my l0 ‘PL l: IL“ i: Oct. ‘i " so ’ " i! Mar. 1 " 1'1 i" i5 '5" 1f 1' l; n2. ’-.' one ' - ~ as A . 1 " l’! u Jun. 5 n“. 11 as ,1 ‘P’ i3 ‘l n". ‘i "-'°' .5 ' si Julv s “'12 " 2i All‘. l0 " “ 21 Jail. '7 ll J. June i " . " s . -- is " mept. lo '9‘ is " as Feb. '1 si " " as July 2 " 1'1 .10 lept. s " i: " a1 " so oat. l0 f_ is " a: iitgr- It. I; 9g -~ a: ' A9" u _ ' so " '20 Nov. i0 “ ll - 22 Aar- I if» ‘I " c .: ': .1 " l3 ‘i. ,, '_ .. .. Deng '9 it " ' 21 May 0 Apr. i. " " as Oct. 1 -' is “ ll " Oi Des. I " ll _ " U " I