is past master in borsemansbip and

ta d. cents donb d as can per ponn very popular when“, h‘ to“.

be: by nwe- “Y” ‘ "PM" "I Blankets $2.00. ms u nnlannderad

1m "11 "111111111" "i"? mm-"Jlss. It takes five lbs. o: wool per

There are two dates in October |WEA5ELS, AND HOW _ 'Wel.l," he said, as he rused on! Blank”. Wool ma: be wellgksrflashe: on which (if the tlvory oi’ piane- Which is, of czursc, more logi-l To DESTROY TllElWhand and came towards mo, “thatlfll: fiigz1flrge :2 a and‘; tary influrnce is w l-ztuxlt-d) we cu‘. just where you are mistaken. ’

" and doubled yam flue. medium. may expect dlslurbznces in the ter- , shilkspcrc. actuzdng t1. .t res-mi. My, Miner, you think you know ma" “q hwuln; yin]. Put ship-

éAGE TE}, , . THE ACHARLOTTETOWN‘ quAlznlAN W ocgqapg 15,1933 FOR FARMERS. STOCK BREEDERS AND GARDENERS i; NEWSY NOTES L, §“'""'""""""°"‘"‘ " ‘““°°“ ;.,-,§;"¢.=' ‘Li: i

ASTRONUMICAL HAPPENINGS "He that cozltpucs agave! his “"1111 cuAPrF-B 1X

Is o! his own opinirn still."

Messrs. Well McNeil! and Raoul Raymond returned from Halifax recently and we understand while

a Held-mouse destroyer Now, TSKG 8. ti]! from Jimmie

_ ‘ Now, as . there purchased two thoroughbred

‘atrial atmosph‘ n‘ "ml perhaps] “M16 m tie Guard?“ 11,25 twolwc have cometo the kin; o! therflihim. but you don't. "Then raisin! ffumnmz‘ :§'.l.'e'§s"f.§°ll'u§§:¢'tl§§§ 11111111113 ma?" W111“ we" Mme" - urmquakcs' Vi“? m5 m p -f,'l~\‘)!‘-C i? jail. I have iollnd as 111$“ 55 ‘wernylwth hands’ he contmued‘ “Maw mllnaide. Baud by ml" 0P flvlshl- at the recent races in connection F E P E R

on ocmber H,“ m? plan,“ ulrcll is lllfzixuiln C. ,1‘) tllIIlta1fJp5_1SC'v'£‘n aiiilll field mice stored in aime tell y?“ who he is, ‘Mr. Miner. mum "m b. p,“ m, mo ||,_ h,“ ‘with the Exhibition .

c ma“ “d vmm‘ a" 1“ °°“j““°' 1 H-u(1/~I»li‘5§r fl‘. u‘ ~‘ l». sliil1""“’"‘5?1'5 “"111” 1mm“ Y“ °f “nine is a “m” or the dc“ “d he WM. LANDBIGAN. l . F 0 R F I I E P E

mm, and Wm b. bu; mo degrtcsifil p .~ t . l o. . ., . . lthe four4iggf-d enemies our birds oontinued coming closer and goinl 55 QM“ 5m“, chuuszugqynul‘ This sum u, b, “mun; 1g g, m;

. _ F H, _ moe unprintabe! _ apart. The dlsurbasce in t...s ca.e; has 1 km“- ot none to comparqfrom bad to worst. aaylnfl’ nasty. but it. appears as In item in the say‘ Jimmie to Sammie,“

. Budgie is a. good talker, but I can- gieam: tgia°?lsn‘yg' 139'“? °1 not Si‘. m. me Lwbmrd ‘down into his port's packet he pul-l 119511-991? next 11107111118 111591? I ~- . n: s to le ' ‘ '

“em: 1e“ and mw pwhaus n2‘; jdo it out. icti o.’ what looked to beiwould ilnd ten or iiteen more dead ‘ram m, 0mm?) érhmzvfxitj 11m $53K‘; Bmgnqzlyc ltobacco, Cfllflliil illlsiles and mllx-‘chewnts. I P111- tra-ns everywhere . Let us hope :0‘ " '“ '1 lured shall‘ ufis-l- pouring this iromfllnd 031181“ 85 many 111191185035 l5 The summer 1s gout", 111.; ]Q;1\'e;§:(?l1e hand t.‘ the other and bloxviug “9115915- I "SW1 8J1 131105 OI bait.

are filling, and one naturally takes 'lhe coarse gravcl out, he Upped his and failed. I tried to call them. but _ stock o! the bttznicwl discoveries of mouth on top of his face. and rais- l11°- 11°- 1 90°11 111N118. 11W birds and Ralph. when 1 first came m P’ 1-116 ysar. There are a few plants illg his hand above. he let this junkiput them in a small mesh wire 0889 1', I, I bet-emf agquainmd Wm, [new 1° 111*‘ 15101111. IBCOTdPd lore-oil into the cavty, just like throw-‘and 591 11395 911 111° “$5159. W?» “mu my whcse parents can“ mml 1935i. They arer- ling garbage m.” a 5kunk_hO;e_ Th“, nothing doing. At last I brought the Ralph, pronouncing me uLl. w mutt Round-heaved Mallow, Malva ro- he turned and 533d, “M53 Mme; do pheasants near the house and all you know Mr.--'.>" calling his neigh-ihands W111°11°°1 1119m- 11114 0V6“ 111w

ODDS AND ENDS

the name sounded like R-al-i’. Now 1 tunduoua L‘

man have dominion over all." Eventually I thought, "Why did‘ the weasel take the remnants oi pheasants over to the rail pile, nearly a hundred yards away?" Yes, it was plain enough he was over there and knew that hiding place‘ before he got the birds. Well theml it I had a trap over there I would‘ have headed him ofl. So I wouldt reverse my plans, and instead oii destroyng their homes I wvduld

Dr. Rryhstra o! Kansas City Col- comb“ “prewar, u to interest‘ lege stated the disease was known 53.9mm,“ m “m” and “ma” as equine encaphelomyelltls and ma,“ They run“ that a gram was believed to be identical with d”; o; pleas,“ can be obtained the horse plague oi 1912. From the "om ample “m,” and that description we would say that it ts_ muumem 15 on, o; the necessary very much the same k'nd o! s. dis- New“ m, 119mm “m. m m, ease as destroyed some thousandsqm mumhq-Au w"; m4 no p1“ o! Ioxes in Prince Edward Island mgke; Jug ‘ dun bcy~__15 a true during the years 1929 and 1930. mo, . |

who says there is a shortage o! ‘ In an editorial. trotting versus

(Oanadan Press)

MONTREAL, Que, wt 12- Tnere would appear to be every in- dicatirn that a considerable quan- tity of Canadian hay'can be sold in the United Kingdom market dut to Yght stcond cuts in Great Brit- ain, states the’ Agricultural De- partment oi the Canzdinn National Railways. Inqulries have already

‘been received by exporters in Can--

ada. Latest reports on the cereal harvest in Great Britain indicate

., in Northern Blsland. the name 15,0 13°‘ Mumd‘ E"“°“~"'°1'“m B9111‘ -———---_-_ we lost some. I studied wcaeels build the... a, pgffgcf, as 1 me-wlcflsh 1111116 U- 5- M‘ 11 W" 11111" m‘ m u“ m‘ m o! u‘ a greater yield than was at firs pronounced to rhyme with “half,” um‘ “My 5mm m1 dc d and clemedlnlght and day, but 1 we; page“ h,“ so Wm, “gm prospects and a so Just listen to this: During the Kmmmzmgn ma Mr wort: a w": anticipated due to the unusually

Butler. by force of a doggrel me- “WT! @1051 sat. and lilac in olnr.

m, “L. be“ ma“, Proper names! Purple Loosestrife, Lythrum 511-‘ Wvhere dd they come mm?

lmarla L_ I24 in less than an hour. The 241

in Imgland are notoriously intract- we- , . _ ghid scarcel thr; 2 d , . able, so I reserved Judgment as whiff?“ B11E1°$ I/lwlvsis Hrveh ;madQ a real Bflgnshebicfihfd sgzlFor there were weasels in the door- detelminwmch meflitiothd right, “d wisely! These D's-ate were but on reco d?“ them" . 1 yam’ "<1 u the Romans’ ' ’ ‘ .. Tweasels i tn be do" under the circumstances. Bunby Pm!‘ Herbert Gmh’ °t ottawaithf 2.3181191 “Mo: mcommends1Tliere we; weeasells-nlin the MW I find classical “nation for‘ Prof. R. R. Hurst, and H. A. Mes- i wme - as a cage bird, p and,‘ house the northern usage in ‘Tiudlbrafljewy’ m1" °r chammfiuwn" T1115: s 1a “er flmpaflmlcaly M! ' “n”: . ,year.s “st is a short one. and it ufhis habts. etc. He stresses tlimweasels all over the farm; llikeiy that Iuturc lists will bejstarllngs memory for melodies thatfThere were weasels in the c1151!" 11A “l” h M4 w}, equally short: since the bulk o1’ the ‘ “f? piayed 1° hm“ but states that}: mom’ “Ralph: o” name waflflowerzng plants have already beelnhls nmuml 5°“? 1‘ 1am" P00h|we115°15 111 1118 81104 amt in the adventure went hisllwt on leCOrd in these nctes. 'H°“'°‘”~‘*l 11° 15 9111* w imitate and/ind when I vent to sleep at nleht. hw- | This {all has um, n0.<.._,o,.hy for 5011K 0f other brcls. and can alsozThere were wensels in my head. 15116 8181111 quantity of fleshy fungi. repeat the 5mm“ °7 W311i? V913’ tone. wmmtnly called madflools. which: disunmy‘ The FFQYTHB becomes so no m“ Mm Ralph‘), ‘m an Om? swing up arm. L. e heavy rains‘ | tame ‘as to be allowed out oi his And when we can with mam, she The knowledge of theze plantsjcgge mm In"? 11'°'d°m °1 $119 Fwm. Well call him so; i! not plainnmrms 11 foparnte- and diiflcut -.He is a twly birdl 5°91‘ k17°'-"5 E11 Ralph." ' ‘branch of Iwtanv; but the student! “w ramny’ “"1 15 elm and do- oi fungi in Canada is fortunate imcne’ but ‘11111111118- sffifings have 1b may“ u mm, with “safe” 1s;hBVlD8 a capltaly illxlsuated man- H)?” kmwn 1'° 11"“ 1118511 Years. Just a. d388erel Joke. Hal wen mum the range of l.ls!T“~°Y 11"" P1 111°“ "Xfrwrd-Inary.

hen-

Thwsh waiters, for more stately!

I could see weascls on the bare ground,

Weasels in the weeds;

I could see weascls in the pheasant. coops.

Doing their bloody deeds;

I could see weasels coming acros

these lowly triers T13 Gil-finely

abundant, and lll othlrs they are ‘falknl: o: Infefls ‘V1111 5- 56171301 hardly to be found. In the years l ‘Gamer the 0th“ 113"" I a-"md 110W nmny insects woe suppxcd to

vcd extraordinary popularly. King Charles LI was so much talzrn by 115 W111)‘ sat re that "he slfpt with Hudibras illlder his pillow." It has m“ 811d 111" they ET-Wv m extra- ordinary hulnbrrz-I nrd by a cozn- (mm n °°1"°713°"' T11" "P13?

Flor in spite oi all my determin- ed effoits the weasels were in- creasing by leaps and bounds: Not that they were getting more num.

‘Drovided Enilish literflfllle with , _ was hole out about an inch deep in the 11w 101' Wrh-iha so much to say so w, w,“ “u”, m", m, “w;

more quotal cns than any other Cldcuce thise “E19 illd inliuulzll E m“ mo": (M not gym w be 34m“ thrvushout 1116 W110i! oountfy. centre and put in a handful oi soft 111119’ 111111 Want Y°11 1° und"‘"'“d record o! 2.0a made by Eula H. I from HOLLAND (or fail book, l, we except the Ema and ‘ W. . or is It that m0 tyre of fll-(Cd number. but Sllf? thcuqht slle but they were simply attracted here be“ feather,’ and placed m", down just how to head oi! this pest, as W,“ dflven by Bmy Key” m planting and early Spring the worlds oi Shakallcri: unll.i“f"“1‘" m“ 1W1“ lhe growth or} ‘L 1° ""°1“d" 111°” $P°~“111‘-"11S.'°Y 111B piles-slants. and it was n0 on them. setting the triEBer o! the ‘one weasel W111 1=111 H 111811 "1 ital The slowest heat o1 the meet- B'°°'”' A" m“ ‘m’ B"“’" though Probably it is queue as of- i t.» fungi is responsible rrso for the . m.‘ “i” 5° “s 1° g“ ‘1 111%" '11“- 11-“1 111°" ‘"1119 1>= more and trap very light Then I dropped 111M111’ °1' “my W“! M" 1“ ‘m’ ins 1n t1" 411111111‘ Fm F" A11 ‘ “YACHTS 1mm“ “M m. as ever. "has droppqd 3..., m, Ell-Tad u: the epidemic? are“; llrr no collection. With due nlore next season. l thought two or three light leathers on top. Msht- and to Raw 11W W "W1 m, mt m; oi which was well 5111""

awilfirlcllc» I brought {mu-um

clrss of book: sun-ch “c mmef A large white ioaclriool. Wifh Qfzoted than talked of, an! mnrr- ‘1<“"11'~“~ ling lronl". ‘llg like lungs‘? m“ 11 1117141?! b? more talked o! than read." Th" out is oi °1’1'1~"*11~111"<1 cl "mp1 1'!) round S111‘ “"1 ‘l’ 11 1cf~vhcra would

_ ~- -~ » _ ‘ , ~gainst a determined 1 ll . the lightest character, zlnzi cue in- i the stem. and haunt; white spores. “we ‘pm 1‘ ‘M11110 111111111" 01”“ e 0w w km

lfllwflvel! 190ks to Cervantes mrlurhs out to be Ltlfota nauciliatsp9cimcn5- 115111911- 11’ lwsslble. andrilni I Y“ dying timid; and whne the orislhals or Hudibras the ' F1. the "Smwth up 01a.” 1t is of- t Telvresenrarive of tllfi dlflerrnt ia- m my mum“ 1” mm“ "’ ‘Knight’ and Ralph‘, the Squire: I m, taken for a whte mushmoln 1 mllies c! the lrsccts, sermon. yet I want to tell you what but the characters happened‘

are so lightly 11* 1" stuns in siulllr situations. _ Thfie "FY1111? 1° 11¢‘ a bins in ia-

drawn M1170 banish any suslliciongmd is edible. D". Gilxxmv \-..lni.-,.‘°1' 01 111'"- "Rlkker mount" or some. A few years 97mm“ u’ um’ ' o! plagiarism. “We have really wvl-fagjhsi @111" 1111 1519 A8» 1W5: modmmfln‘ "f 11> 1'11" 1115955 bdnddear “me boy whom God lent w little kept beiore us but the sonlfd lphrlllolles u. .X.»~..~-~r-._.r, 5p,“ s, um in col: in batting. I suppose it 111° 1°!’ B Short time clinired "PM! vices of m. {Manes-- what .s_ d,,_._ with this iilngus l 1m a lviter appeal-ems, bu. “m, my lap. and putting his little arms ing the Commonwealth) "their h.“ AllCliitl‘ large 1'll.,,'= of striking 11115 "W111" 11 13 91111951 11171995511116 "mmnd m!’ "wk ‘"1111 11'! ""91- POCrlSY. thfir cllurlish ungraciou/11FP°@11”~*11°‘ 1111171 “F” . was s=llt in m mwyrve the 111199711185 111171013 m“ 1mm“? m” 1111119: P1951195

i

11191 would have to give m,

beaten. But Mr. Weasel had run up

mss_ their greed of moltey and aw m. mentmwlgon C“ on‘ m.“ It and these are often of the llilzhcsi; with me to go to Sunday School thorny’ their m,‘ and to“ monk I w“ nucholonh, pwonatull‘ F,“ imlof-rtance in d-a-‘cnnining a. spv- with him and mnmms. 1 unclaaped ity. ther inordinate prdc." (Groflfhe "LHHC-hlvd Trlclwloma." The “l” this little arms one at a time. and Saintsburyv. cap or plcus was five inches aczoss,

Not very prom sing material with i ‘M11 "mm 111° 11‘? "11-“5 18413118 t0 which to buld up a. classic; uut,1’1°“'" S11 1" 111° 111"1‘11°= the sills

U1» Pniher

light heart I went at it again and built. three weasels‘ houses as fol- lows

11hr each one 1 took tour pieces: o! two-by-iour scantllng, ‘three ieeti ‘10115, laid them down on the level ground. pointing these scantling east, west, north and south, but leaving them about six inches apart in the centre-just room enough to set a No. 1 or 1 1-2 Jump £18.11, Then "I covered the top with old’ lumber and nailed it fast, leaving a hole in the centre about a toot square right over the trap. which I covered with a loose board. Now I had a weasel house, com- plete. six or seven feet square. the cover Just two inches fiom the ground, with all the runs leading to the trap like the spokes lead to

the outside. 1 then threw pieces oi’ stumps, rails, or snyth ng I could find, around to make a complete weasel harbor. Then I scratched a

making it appear like a perfect mouse-nest. I now put the loose 1board cover over. I set the traps fillly in the apflnl. but weasels did ‘not come until I put the pheasants ‘out. Then the real iun began. for I caught three in one tralp in one day; this was in the trap on the out- side o! the enclosure. To prove to your satisfaction that my weasel story is not exaggerated, I caught titty-seven weasels the ilrst sum- mer, and they only got (our pheas- ents; tor three seasons in SUCCESu

m. I got over fifty weasels each

year. But now they are so nearlylannoyance, ancient history.

thoroughbred racing at the Salem, N’. H. mile track this summer o! a duration o! approximately six weeks, the sum oi! $11,668,230 was bet through the Peri-Mutual ma- chines. The crowds were so great on holidays and Saturdays that only about one-third o! them could be accomodated on the immense grandstands.

parieon is made between the results achieved by the respective breed- ers o! these "equines. "The writer contends that in one respect the trotter has outstripped the Ameri- can thoroughbred completely. For whereas there is no market tor the American thoroughbred in toreign lands the American trotter there reigns supreme and has for many years past."

The man who built the above race track at Salem. N. H. sinking a fortune in it had endeavored throughout the last ten years o! his life or ever since the plant was built, to have a bill legalizing Pari-

Mutual betting passed by the State. Assembly. Just a month alter homm" w" ‘um "um ma“ u“

tale race between died U10 um was passed with th “"1111” ‘ m‘

above result . Darkey Grattan and Calumet Brownie, which only went to two

Following are the statistics re- garding the I-Ialilax races which l _, ttably could not be completed on account oi’ the severe rain storm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

one weasel platiorm, as we eali them. and catch two or three weas- eis a year.

Please let. me ask you to excuse

The fastest heat o! the meeting was in the match race won by Day-key Grattan in which he step- ped the first heat in 2.08%. one-

him the night beloreinsteadottbe morning alter, is worth the price o! this book a good many times a year ii you havehad a taste o! my experience. And the great beauty oi’ it is you cannot help yourseli without helping your ndghbor. Pm- vious to my exterminatlng over ninety per cent oi’ the weasels in this neighborhood. some of my neighbors were almost discom-aged trying to raise young turkeys, and, in tact. any domestic rm but today these conupliants seem to be a thing of the past and the weasel

by Star G. 1h 3-15-

01 the $2.150 in prise money. Nova scotia horses won 81.437. Prince Edward Island horses $683

Counting each startas a separ~ ate hone in each race we 11nd that

tboPJLLlmraaailandthsNew

we won almost hall the amount oi money won by the Nova Sootia horses with less than halt the number o! starters.

and New Brunswick horses I80. -‘

the Nova Scotia horses totalled 39, I:

Brunswick horses l, showing that '

line and dry weather which main- tained during the summer. {The wheat yield is estimated at 1B1 cwt (35.09 bushels) per acre, which is 1.5 cwt above the average {or the past ten years. The expected potato yield is 6.4 tons per acne. which is 0.2 ions above the average ior the past ten years.

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3 TURNIPS

Will be buying turnips and potatoes at our ware- house, Hogan's Wharf, every day. Highest price for good stock. Phones- 798-938.

J. LESTER DOUGLAS.

. , . ' ~ » . 1118 X08132 the hub 1 g 33. *”'**' Hndlbru. Does anybod puy-SQ I rm“ m D?‘ Gussowxszrite of lncreas. as we on ths side1 , _ ' ,. , . MIN, thus mak Ill l $01411 ° . snudibras" now? I doubt “Mushrooms ard Tcadstools," 3.1011110 ‘mamw 11191111111118 wt- fge weasel‘ ‘n the lane’ I Pmced the“ 1hr“ P1a11°n115 In old Kentucky, i‘ Amen“, beats all won by Dacera. the aver- 1771 I V!" by Samuel Butler. and first mp1’ °! Whifih hwy be consulted at‘ I e mmmm! when I awoke ‘round m the mo“ likely places’ l" 1-1519 b91113 343%- ‘ . l ‘I . ‘ , ' . v . e published m 166a, l, a, on“ acme_'i.h¢ pub,“ Lloraxfl. In mm 5.4.31.5. FOLLECTIONs or INSECTS h“ we“ 1°“ the b19111 two in the enclosure and one on 93141791111111" 1-11” W6 0919' 5°99 __..__.- §QWL .

;auu emu;

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, a? GOLLY‘. wuAr-a THE MATTER I WrTH MS. NIAMAQIR 114.5 MQRNNW | “E I-Ool-vs A5 IF HE. ‘i091- Fnsugsqga

c NW“ OvT Hi5 INCQME ‘Takx-

E

ore. smooth-rurninz. "and framed T110 59m w?“ about one inch u; be the vify value of mocking thick. and two l‘nz- Illis 1s edible laughter." by mirvgllougly wide: too. and used to be sold in the knowledfl! (sometimes expressed 54111111 01f 13111111101 as "Blewits" with all the coarsenras oi the per-g 10d). by a subtfe strain oi ridicule. THE and by astoundiha simlles. has, produced a work unlike any other! in the language.

STARLIN G: POINTS OF VIEW

OTHER

The Montreal Gazette says: "The ~noisy stolld birds (Storlings) who

“A man convinced against his will v have defied who'e police (Lpnrt- Is of the same opinion still-" Iments and lire brigades in several lOniario cities . . . , . are silent

as some have quoted it: but in Part ' and cdlble in blackb-rd pe.

II, Ozrto 111. we get the corrcct "Hem- Jack Miner, Kingsvillcb

version as famous naturalist, who can 11nd m . good in every bird. "

Del LOOK A‘: iFi wAs LAuGi-iusiq ?

"'1'- "v I'M-l- mls... m. m-auaaan and.

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