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D AGIIOOLA

h d n it. for it is a night-lovin statesmen ith “ha? secluding itself d mg business w

the world is still. Then again, when autumn comes it enters into “he 131811511 pu

durmDUlQ picture it

coins. seeds. insects- etc. food which we eamet w; the m

I suspect some mediaéval ecclesias-

its geographical distribution it is been eh uhwi

Scotland; nor _

to see wha/t the disease looks like. o; Amen“. Australia and issued by Dr. H. T. Gussow. the 1 predicted years ago, will

are shown colored to the life. No hnuswd by me wag‘, Wm

this chart 1nd dmibtless the Llib- an,” 3_ntam_ Nor W111 spun oratory of Plalnt Pathology. City, mm to ream yo, 1m.‘

place for obtaining it. the "Cloth of Gold" Crocus, a Brigg}.

streak on tlhe outside of the “petalsfl alone Wm, Ausma and H

d": up all the bulbs. and spread ed me ppm of the greet; \’i‘l‘v most of Dutch bulbs will in crease. and its good policy to give 1n 31133}, Impgrlaljsf,"

10o crowded the size an quaitly of m Bflflgh 1m the bloom deteriorates‘; per April Gowk! ‘That is the North- “Remember- thnu O

a silly action on the first of tihat bird ivcli-knwon in Britain. though subdue the arrogant.

Sumer is a-coimcn in, Other Prophecies Llhuiie sing cuccul . . .

found in tnc nests of several species cial advances have 60M-

°l lfl-rka. Wrens. d sparrows. all Recently a visitor save it as his m he dpuiinn the/t a greet hfli-itflrm lllr-“rloper. When the eggs hatch would be fnstnimenfnlinovetrthmt:

Wrv much smaller birds than 1 1i the young cuckoo hoists its ing the Axis amides. and

foster broth d lst .- hailsiones would weigh l WW1‘ bond. and fifimlfis, hi. .331 .1333. (Rev.l9-21>.A58S¢T¥t-llm11819"“! °l misplaced arentfil attention. 12s lbs. ‘fioy. this i.» 1 contended. lifter explain ng all this to the more likely lo be syyirboiic Of Mm“! i]? , Fad the far‘. tl-at the Cuckoo builds no verses give sOme comtbofhliflfl

Nature study Class, and stressing bombs. to which nest, the teacher asked: "Willie. the afferls described-

Whnt d k , 1h 1t, is talnl noteworthy to find viii.» ......*i such as’... s... .. .... 3......

- _- t, o av egigéilubird that doesnt lav its own gergrphgigioo‘izgd i151 fag?“ up of

the Euphrates, (one of the

but their superb smot- . m5; gratefu as to war as! 7.7.1. t». s ""’-r-'»...""1'3 British;

normmui i l lain.» cw“... Bali; swcrs to Days of Intfimfllm? ii iii

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Iflhrhulnr

rehruna NOTES a GERMAN raornacy

‘Iihat little British rodent, the 111w other dgy 1 Doumouae. got. quite n. boost when old pamphlet. benwcmqfifamwvelfi

Lewis Carroll invited it to have tion of the Last - supper with the March Hare and 085851101‘ in England ~ (15%, QT“ the Mad Hatter; for in the whale the, sub-title "M on To 10m

Y ange of literature it, is scarcely don 1912-1914, By Pg-lh L; h . _ inentioned twice. And probably not sky." ’I'he Prince had rfiieadecanigfiv one in a t. ousand who read of it favorable impression on the ExtglLn whom it

ply offered, the tinned d

. t0 becom cq - day and coming 101'"! 0111? while had formed no loss favorable opin trade contin

a state of hybernatlon in a skll- It is significant that 11 one takes fully concealed winter nest, when a blurs-eye view of modern diplo- it sleeps till the sun awakens it to 111-803’. one finds Ambassadors of life again. 'l‘l1ose who have seen the yery varied races speedly becoming as l more British than the British

chubby animal. with a blight buff- themselves." as one writer says with colored coat. Imminent black eyes, Will-us Just a little exaggeration. short 1688. Mid l bushy tall. Its 31mm!‘ Grimdl, the Italian, was re- wtal length. when full grown, is called mr Just this faint: he liked 5.5 inches from snout to tail-tip; the English and they liked him. and the tail itself takes up 2.5 Iiitvinoff the Russian. was recalled niches cf that. mo; aixtzill IHIthlIX-IIUO what was practic- The Donnouse feeds on nuts. a- eiefnefus°gelnsi 311: uggzrahgnngx.‘

increase in rec bulls were

some western

in Wesaam 0a market held unchanged.

i! ‘wquims W 911mm"! "995. 8t Ribbennrop in this lisj, r03? ulilch it- is an adept. By the time no have come w Brhain Wm, the autumn comes it. is very fat and inwnuon o; being as wvtempyuom biililfllih- and Wm“ hYbmw-llhs 1N as possible, and only succeeded in Nflhlmfim Plat-lice"? w"!!! l-fld belngcmi-templiible. Our-American its body becomes quite cold. friends, 1 notice, have irp to the

wh° 3a" u ‘he mm“ Dwmmise? conceitgcm nvélilfin??? common names, as a. very general English me mldamydlology mu- do Yule’ “e 31v” by ‘he °°mm°n not stay long enough to 'form a Pweie; "l" h“? i" M" P Willi“: sound judgment on the Eng Ill-l,“ “'11*°h "WWW with some- character. With the Bflton it t -1>°°l' mum”! with 1M4"; “Mlle time before the distant acquaint- dromlet "is the "mouse that. sleeps." mm becomes (he do“ grgend_

fed calves

tic wim a taste for Natural history, , e. a 1 . n responsible 1 ‘an m. than hi. hffsiki...“ ‘$5.223 Pufi“... “i” to give the modern scientific name friendly ehm-urer no eoheeei the ler 1th“ 23 brim: but I may in- slitiater designs. n. himself was full form you that it tells of the little o; seuqepmmh wghgln he under. beast feeding on haw nuts. M im- stood the dece tion m which he had gt-i-ng . It has

cdmmonicst in sou/them Erlgifllld. never been explain why. in the less abundant in the northern areas, 1515f yea; o; the weir (that, 15, 1n wild not t» bemfoggd in Northern 1918), the German Government l-li-"d- should have perimitted the ptisitlxtg

Bmnmn m ‘l, oftihesaievelationsinsocheapa a“ i: Ito t ° "Mi" 1mm as the so pfennig edit-ion. “my. add Pm!- R- 3- Ilclmcvwsky sums up his thoughts Bu“ *" “get? 3°35 ‘m me in the finallpamgmphst—“Andwhart “Wger w e WW1“ industry must we expect as the result of this iluougli this bacterium. I hunted Wm. o; muons? The United states "ll “'11” 1 W" my "whim atlas" of Africa will be British. like those

be the bright

1 found the answer in a large chart And m,‘ mun 8mm o; Europe, u’

Dominion Botanist. The appearance m“, me same relation Wm, the U“- of the leaves at, successive stages of ha; Kmgdhm that their path; we malady’ ‘the “Inward 9-9pm" sisters in America maintain with w“- “ld “WW1” mfkmile 01 the United States. The Anglo- pomm tubers mm m3 and hme‘ Saxmi will dominate them. Man

‘Ume’ can “fwd t” be WWW" zttach herself still more closel

. 00h will be able either tosupply a copy “Am h, Asia “he Rmians and GT ‘vesmm

or direct the enquircr to the night Japan”: Wm sm-ead and W111 Carry

their customs witih their frontiers,

Not. this year. Oh March i9, i935. and m, south W111 remain to th m“ $850’ Re

cfruver $9.

species known as C. sirslanus to “Th Worm W111 beimg 1,0 the botanists, was in full bloom. n u of Anglofsmm, mash“, m... Japan- a bright yellow inside, with a brown $a_ and the gexmhn W111 remain

or divisions. It 1s rather smaller Hi5 rule W111 be that, of thgught, and than the later zit-Kim M00118“- o: commence. not that of the in lmndmw") bu!’ l!‘ "X11" 1P‘ bureaucrat and the soldier. He made wartime makes it rely welwme- his appearance too late. and his last This year it. will be nearly April ehmee o; making good the past, 19th before Cloth of Gold shows up. that 0g founding a 901011151 1:11pm, for trieie is about four feet of snow Wes hhmhuaned by the world-war. above il This Crocus had multi- “p0,- We 91,31] hog supplianl’, the gilicd greatly since 1935. so last fall 9on5 a; IchWe_ q-hen W111 be reallz.

Rhfld “Wm Wt 11140 a MES" bed- Th6 who sa/w tlhe salvation of humani ' in the explansion of Btitondmn —

"m" i‘ ‘$113380 of charters fivefl’ The prophecy closes with a verse three or four years .Wiien they get from vh-gh, of which this is a lalism."

, Romain, to llmbiian (and I believe Scottish) rule the plea with authority. Wliv of saying "April fool" to some ‘mac for ig-fge shall be the arts: innocent who has been bequilcd into to unposc the ordinances of peace, period last month. The gowk is the cuckoo. a To favor the submissive and to

how it. came to be associated with (The "sons of Ichlwe" had me

llractical joking is not very clear. stymied at first. Ichwe is evident-

Ii-l Anglo-Saxon name was the 1y a German form of Ban. who

£15411. and the oldest English lyric wag deprived of his birthright by ins.

Oailv hi Jacob. the "one who supplantsfl’) es e

at $11 to oasloaial t

‘me other night. 118145111118 ill. I The meta love the Cuckoo sinner. heard u... Prime lvflnister repea. M. much as they do the Skylark, that unprressive vision of Revela- aud the average Briton will listen tlon. 21st Clwpwr —"'-4l11ld I 56W l for its notes Just as we await the new heaven and a new earth" . . . fizs’. Robin. Musicians find flint its I have a friend who believes that. cnll-iinfe.“c1lck-0O." nmvbc written this wit. be an act/uni liamlelilng B-G. B-Gl ‘ hut, a, symbolic one, Therein vie

With regard to 1.1m hgbltn of the differ, for I believe that "all things bird there has been a lot o! non- will became new" after this W8!‘- sciiwe written, but in singular habit and the first ste. towaJds anew of entrusting its offspring to fusf-er- cider are being flkvfl 1X1 B11591" llillrltts is vouched for by man," ne- now. and will M011 the m‘ °i "he iumiists. Cuckoo's egzs have been won-id ma‘. a5 S0 mB-Yiy “h” 5°‘

solowtha

88W Paid

h. high of $8

Hog prices dropped ‘Toronto, the basic grade selling at. $11.15 dressed. Montreal also was a little easier with the bulk of the salm at. $11.50. Western markets were unchanged, Winnipeg paying $10 25 L0 $10 45 fm‘ lizllnde B-l dressed. Calgary 3 and a. high of $10.3 10.20 to $10.40.

I -, 1; to the anni- r2132». Jhiwgiim of tlhe East

- A t0 extend their rule. (Rev. l6, 12). . This need ‘not the taken Wtgs lglretgg ~ . r wa

12% to u at. supi- Content f§,d“°§.‘,§“',,,§§f.§.,°h,. “and... (Rev.

, . _ pun of all ‘Imam: In 17,15), The western nations are ex-

_ radian rln Inn hamunj; m ‘ves, and the easi- ‘ Rt? flat" ‘ "f"? cm nations are already 1110mm!-

Tiieie was no material ch the lamb market. situation. stern lambs sold at 11 to $11.25 at Toronto. whilc Montreal's lng were all of the 1940 lv bucks. and sold at $8 to 88.50 peg was about steady up to t géilgary and

Wlrmi $10 and top sales a Edmonton were at $9

0197360000 (3,873_000- $179.83’?- 000): other cattle, 4.670000 $170.- mooo (4.60l.100 8151007000»;

' ' " t, i. sceptical " vsi:""'...:".i..5."v: M“.,.°.,,“...‘"§§‘.E.”f.’&.§5;‘. h‘. l. ........ fare. mole t beauty that my; l5 being flllfllllfd. Did not

anilrymrnrt of Halon; y i] “it p“). ,r::i:.:.:'..'.§:ii:::l::t 2:.§3.?.'2"ii.’.‘it."i.“l.‘s ".“.....°.......... A lertiianresulutomawss. t; they mould ever prove a0 un-

IIIII’ befl blni fDu kirk. and the usuwlyl" Q mfigrlggagefiussolygf! "at; an.

Live Stock 0n Farms

Ill! — Our ll; Ill! mgnbg and value; of ,_ 800d n4 hurry In! glghwllauhtock htrzldnada in 194-)

“Wokmiani :l%376l.fi)0)’;":|iilk cowl, ifitfilw- <°?-‘°°'”°° ""'°°“'°°°"

Weekly Live Stock Market Report

HgITAWIA, cnndda —March 2'1,

SUMMARY:

In Spite of a very moderate sup- catile market con- ull and selling rates were barely steady at 25c lower. steer classes bore Pressure and at n

et were the poorest sellers.

Eastern Cattle Markets Cattle tirade w

pis continue

Western Cattle Mackeu

The trade in Western O ‘lacked activity again duringanada past week and all killing classes

E6815. cgivjvs appeared spo n the market. Steers at Winnipeg met. a draggy trade and sold fully 25c lower. with the bet?" Fades showing the most losi. Few steers were able t0 make 0W!‘ $8 50. the bulk of the killers B01118 from $8 down. The small quantity‘ of smoker and fr coming forward of by orders on kinds carried fai tion to prices

mbgihv fcedelm

a. vc. Calgary with butcher st

United souls Market

figifin $511101’ ha: beerlymobtaéned lat i ma n - tained, undoubted] m” n of Ontario cattle 220m ‘tlfiehliprder. Zléiene were no o tons . -

tie art st. Paul. on madam m

“IVW and 500 h0g5. In the same year shipments totalled 19-955 beef. 1.03s dairy and 1.591 calves,

Calves Steady 1o Lower

Vancouver $10.50.

Hogs Lower in East

Lamb Market. Unchanged

351.000 l4 204.070. $50,213- 38g); hens and chickens, 60.201330 044006-000 ($850,000 341-006-- 0001; turkeys. 2. .30) $4,038,000 12476000 84.35000): . 802.600 412431100 1796,4170 $1. 6n: duck-s-

now!) $575070 (624000 $540,000 total prulfry. 64.141800 050.182

THE CHA RI.O'I‘TE'I‘O\VN _ qua lent/w‘

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» CONSERVATION 1

l WEEKLY OOLULN OF VITAL ISSUES AI-‘FECT NATURAL RESOURCE

PRACTICAL OPINIONS or run ING THE UsEs arm luausss or s sr rm. wnnow JENKINS

NA TURE

TIMELY NOTES ON TOPICS CONNECTED WITH

Silver Fox Farming t“

I Ir. is estniatcd that there are |8-000 tnppcrs in

with 554.000 iaells into doilazs amounted tc more than -. The greatest number of pelts came from the muskiat - in the nzighibcrhood of 417.442 skins. But the beaver grossrd $463.l05 for

DEFENVE 0F TllE SKUNK Alaska who fur- mlirkct lust year which titanslaied

By Lucy Furman

Av last the once-dispised skunk is coming into his own. Flax-m Jour- nals and secular magazines alike carry articles praising him as the Amercan Insect. Eater des- troyer of harmful insezls months in the year. and of sniaii rodents the other three.

He is the cnlv creature who can smell a. gzub down in the ground. and dig it up before it can change and come up to breed and multlpy maybe IOOO-fflld. Though birds ale highly valuable insect eaters. they catch these only after they are up and have possibly already laid their

'I‘he skunk is the chief

bare whole field com and glasses.

In an eight-ac... ficlri (‘Xumlllfld by bologisis lll Manitoba Canada skunks were found to be owrroying 14,200 w-hile grub; fc the acre. As every farmer Khflwfi the white girub lives as long as three years undergrcund. vcraciously de- vouring the roots of trusses, grains. legumes. stiawberries and the tubers It will lcave large

To the skunk the tobacco worm is a. deliffmis rnorsel. He is the only creature that will eat it. except the turkey which is not often availabie. In the late spring and ealy summer he catches the tobacco worm moth when it, ccmes up to lav its eges; worms alppfeag- upon the

e

(for he has a. fne family by then) march up and down the rows pick- ing the worms off the leaves Just as high up as tlfeii‘ amns can reach- And fter the worm goes down in the ground they continua to dig it’. stage, until a hard

The hop-growers of New York State found out. as far back as in the nfiieties the value of the skunk against. the hop-worm. and had it protected by law. ll. also eats 1814!!‘ numbers of culwomis liz-umful gruhs. and catches quanti- ties of locusts. grasshcppers. cater- plllaas May beetles. crickets. sphynx moths- a potato bug. hated by

the m.“ o, m, a vraw WORTH MILLIONS

Cudmore Brothers have a femalel early every mar-

that is doing her best tokeep up The Ont‘ ‘

fcx production in the PIOVIIICE. Fcur lation will haul a an springs ago she had her first liter 1011mm M the 0111 ‘- of nine and raised eight, The next (7011080- Glielpil. J1 season she had seven, the hex: A splendid us! oi eight. and this seaszrrs litter has not 1h: 111011111111 fill-d _ yet been counted but from all 1111-‘ zrlllli will hi‘ ii-‘llfli peararices it is a gocd one. t 1'1"‘-

W. Chester S. Mcliure returned Thursday evening from a trip to Ottawa and Montreal. a week of which was spent. attending Lila: Can- adian Fur Auctions and keeping an, falt with the fur trade in M nt- real. Mr. McLure says that the per- centage sold on the recent silver,‘ fox auction was rather dzsapptinh. g—-39 per cent, A great reason for this was the absence of Amercim . buyers clue to the quota (if 70.010 . = -. r. pelts allowed entrance to the Un- ited. States being taken up. There was no dispositLn, honever, in slaughter pelts, consignors holding firm. Around the sales room talk was that. the Delis were largely held 1n this Province and in firm hands and that tho=e who held them would likely get. their limits later on.

ues extremely sensitive to supply and it takes only a small ‘ elpts to affect prices. During the past week cows the best sellers. The calf market suffered a severe setback. particularly at. Montreal, and at centres. Hogs were a shade lower in the east but steady nada and the lamb

living in this cit-y I. help but envy. I (10 not know him in any way not e. but I sometimes pass is really a very ordin- ary house. only two storiys. built. many years ago. Now it is some- ha a/pidated and needs a coat

aim. Tnere is nothing one could ch a house. but it is

a low hill a little abo To the west. the whol drops away down a so that this man can on his veranda, or at any west. dow in his home and look out square miles of open

TOLL OF 'l'"E S'I‘I'Il'lL-'l'll..\I’

A Mount Ksrn vOLlth win caught. iaiizi shot. an eight, year nirl police grin" '11 hlr ten ivas lct cff by the Judge before vuhoin he was tried be- cause use cwrrr of the d'.g did not .wam to be the cause of giving the

Although the ycuth was 2i years of apnlnu illegally and a-d shown himself merciless to- z who had stumbled to ifs illicit drvice.

In I-ln-rfson. N. Y. if. iii a steel-trap for

Near Tcddville, Lovva. a dog dis- appeared from its home for four days. When it rrtrrned. more dead t-harn alive. it was drag f rmly attached to a 5w"

. it the best care in the leg his minis successful and t

as very dull at. Toronto and, while cows, bulls and held steady. all grades of steers were lower. The top price on weighty steers lot with two head butcher steers closed at $7.50 to $8.50. writh some choice at $8.75. Steers at Montreal were 25c lower with the best fering suffering the most s

that nest that lays s of small grains.

was $9 for one at. $9 50, while

neighbours houses, s. across a. couple of rivers on and on till at last; he steady to of the of- loss. Good were generally $9 to $9.25, Cows, on the other hand, were firm with good quality M, Recei

R1112 a. trm thirty

veternrian gave l can an cifo-t to save l trations were un- lof h here new hobbies ville a tree-legged g mute testimony of the steel-traps cruelty. In New Hampshire the Fish and ame COXllfILSSiCH repartezi that a skunk was found which had been in a trap fo. one month. lack- 14y; four days. Excep; lured lag the skunk ap Ln 200d condition but the State pursued its invcstig: tion to discover the owner of the tra had not been taken of the_sc:iscr1 and warned “that a g fine stares someone in the r the many charges in the

$6.60 to $7. Martian and fight m tro es , cows i sellers with other were s “g steady, the best of ed at $8 50 10 $9.50.

What a view! What: bod

e build so that his view is Many a millionaire in h New York or Chicago with all its convenences forts. might well envy th. workmen his glorious outlook. etim I wonder if this man aflpreciates his Bocd fort/line. 8e t0 look out freely of the year. at the

magnificent of all

Asked as to the quantities of esting to note _ pelts held in Canada Mr. McLure breeder who 1110M‘ l1 said he believed there wiulri rim. est/s, ls sllil in till’ be more than 30.000, which was a. ‘£01110 cf hi5 girbdi small quantity when you consider that same of the best months for the disposal or pelts are ailead oil The talk of ranchers n 0v“ us. "You know." said Mr. McLure, the peculiar season we ‘-~ “that the tourist trade are lmport- whim resulted m so n ant buyers of silver f<x and great matings. Last Wfirk we l numbers of peoples, much greater seen a dozen ' i than last year, are expected to visit vvh. were ex" the principal centres of the Domin- latter part o1 i011 this 545650113’ week. That VJLUJQ br