ijoogasacrso WITH SilverFox Farming

tinued through the can es to foxes and is now real fox i Those of us who were

m b0’

ed at Fromm La ee. wil remember

th deadl {lines cl’ the vials m; t

successively passed from dog fox and from fox to fox becoming, as we q above. true fox dis- temper. By each successive lump it acquired a eater deadliness and he instanc cases where whole ranches in Western Canada and the United Btates had been practically decimated.

The curious thing about distem- per- is that it, exhibits many forms unlike what we were , lleve was a very abvious set c!

how no hal to

ﬁr cent of the offering, according the company report, found buy- ars from among‘ a fair attendance.

The report shows tn! bulk in full silvers which were sold to the t’ oi 85 per cent while three quarters were turned over 98 per cent and ves were sold com- lplefeiy. There were some presale Iwithdm/wa-is but none were made during the sale. Prices for w-hich he goods were bid in were below those of the previous day as the skins offered came mostly from in- dependent shippers and were qualit not the equals of the pelts sold e previous day which came from various breeders’ associations. While at Wednesday's sale the bulk 0d the goods were sold at prices between $46 and $65. Wister- day's principal levels was between 880 and $60.

In addition the report oi the American National auction salts which took place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Noni 1o and 11 is a boost. Nearly m per cent, of the

r fox pelts offered were sold and in-

it. Perhaps one or two foxes may drop oif with very little attontkrn being paid to them but every fatality must. have a cause and such eases occur history of distemper in the vicinity must be su emphasi discredit to a rancher or reﬂection on his conduct of s l’ be found with it and that he deserves the wmpathy and assistance of all fellow ranchers. a disease that can move eat distances. wPﬂPBﬂt-iy break- out in the most unusual places for which the on

enrtoring concentration is helpful and the hands with life- revi in

01D

ofdilnteotsnt Izmir: of the

W c feed or wplﬂns it or sndlnfrgurt is a necessity. it

It will probahw be necessary ution

l" young vigorous trees. A well-man- t. ll“

aocinsto fresh! m; Meat in by alnaiil from b

or he delivered a few e were treated with it last fall and an outbreak which occurred in

we tmdarstand Hanan

give free sufficient vae- m that

WM summ-

terest held up exceptionally well all through with the choice pelts offered the first and second days and the remainder, only fair qual- ity, on the final day. Pietinums sold up to $160 and were in strong demand. Full silvers were as high

s $88.00. The bulk of the best ‘whitefaces auctioned was at, e80 to $100 with uite a number of sales between 00 and $115. Pull silvers. best lots. were sold from $60 to QM, white marked from 850 to $78. The Association managers o! the sale eérpressed themselves as delighted th the results, part- icularly in face of the fact that silvers had been moving slowly on previous sales elsewhere.

CAREFUL MANAGEMENT FARM WOODLOT PAYS

areiui management, of the fanm w ,ot will not only mean the growing oi more wood but will re- duce the loss from incest damage. Al h ‘management based on s vicultirre is not the solut- n ta all forest insect robienrs it the only tactical soution of some and wl greatly assist in re- ducing the danger of loss in the case of many others says R. E. Baich, Dmninlon Entomological laboratory, nedericion, N3. Good management means leav- ing yo trees of good quality uh.- til they ave reached the age at which they have “CH1 the maximum amount wood ger year of whichtheyuecatpabie. u-t also means cutting them as soon as they reach this age and uhat no

weak, over-ma or defective

1n is possible when ordinary

"No wonder. He treats his seed with Cereesn. 1c prolectl a ainst Imtandotherseedandsoil- diseases. He gets bigger maps a». _

CERSAA/

San-i Dtiwrlnrrrrlvi lo-

wurar- oars - FLAX - cavern Controls Smut,

IIIII, Seedling Blight, Seed lllll R000 Ihl.

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SUPPLEMENTS FEEDS FOB SWIN

suv moss

nrua DiAllil

\ _.__ (Experimental Farms News) Experience and experiments

have definitely shown that prof-

itable year-round pig production arm feeds are suitable fortified with the necessary protein, mineral and

vitamin supplements, says W.W.

Cram, Dominion Experimental

Farm Indian Head Sask.

The provision of essential sup-

plements for the maintenance of eaith. thrift and normal growth is neither complicated ncrmcostly When reasonable amounts of skimmilk or buttermilk, green feed in the form of pasture, well cured alfalfa leaves or alfalfa meal and common salt are supfilied, a large part ci the deficiencies of common feeds will be corrected.

1f skimmiik or buttermilk are not available. tankage fed at the rate of l0 per cent for weanlinga,

pregnant sows and 5 per cent for

i8 per cent for growing pigs and

1 l

finishing pigs, or mature dry sows. will supply the extra protein and calcium required From one-half to one pound of common salt in 100 pounds oi meal mixture is necessary for pigs of all ages un- less mixed minerals of s. protein- mlneral supplement is fed.

The feeding of extra iodine to sows during pregnancy will pre- vent hairless or flabby pigs at birth and improve the benerai health and thrift of both sow and litter. Iodine may be provided by dissolving one ounce of potassium iodide in one gallon of water and feeding one tabiespoonful of the solution per sow per day.

Litters born and reared inside are likel to become pale, anaemic‘ and unt rifty unless supplied ex- tra iron i-rom birth until they are eating solid feeds. Sufficient iron sulphate to cover a dime placed on the tongue of each pig at 3 to 5 days of age and repeated every 7 days until 3 or 4 doses have been given will sup iy all needs for ex- tra iron. Ano er method of prov- iding iron to nursing litters con- sists oi’ supplying fresh earth sods daily that. have been sprinkled with iron sulphate solution.

Closely conf ned pigs no een feed often e thr ty owing to the lack of vita- mins A and D. These vitamins may be essilv supplied by (086108 one teaspoonful o! fish oil per pig per day.

The creep feeding of a fine

8 meal mixture will encourstlﬁ Hill’!-

‘ ‘forest is a vigorous. growing ores.

When the selection of trees to becutisbasedso yontheim- mediato profit whi can be made from and local markets are

“y motion oi breed-type

ing igs to eat at an early age with tier pigs at. weaning and less setback after weaning.

Chief Registration Office, who also seals and signs the ofiical certific- ates of registration. Assistance is iven in the establishment. of de- inite means of identiﬁcation for all registered animals, in the rc- classiflca ion

N“ projects and in establishing ade-

bud-

". 3.5391. 4s

quate safeguards in rcsbwii t0 breeding practices and registrations connected with urebred animals produced by artif clal insemination. All amendments ot the constitut- ions and regulations of breed as- sociations are aria ect to the aP" provai oi’ the Minster.

For the year ended 31st March. liirdanihrtae mirnbezedof elrgglsgatgiellsi ce ca s aWW W 1-“ - 1,964; cattle, 60.338: shes}: 20.702; swirls, 16,758: foxes, 4.4 5; dots. 10.921. and scat-s. 166. The number urebred animals exported was ‘ilhe nwrber imported was 6-

pear-en's U H9121! T

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By AGR-ICOLA

‘ In lac Prince Edward lhgazine for the year 1900, Vol. 2, pa" 3B, is a eypher or crypto- gr-srn, concerning treasure buried by' pisntel. The story connected with it is rather long and may oflt-be condensed. In the s-plrste ship, manned by Frenchmen, attacked a British ves- aei somewhere in the Gui! of St. Lawrence. The pirates were beat- en off, but captured a British sea- men, who on being searched, was found to have newspapers stating that. a number of armed vessels were being despatched front Eng- land, to ¢put down piracy. This man, who spoke French but con- cealed the fact, seems to have been well treated, though rather close- ly confined. I

The pirates took counsel togeth- er and decided to sail to P. E. I.. bury the guns and lreastlre and voyage to Europe as peaceful trad- ers. The prisoner overheard their plans sdn put them down in cypher and seemingly after the treasure, etc, had been buried. Then pirates, prisoner, and ships vanish from the picture for good!

The prisoner had placed his

cypher in a wine flask which ul- timately came ashore at some point in P. E. I. I forget where-Lit must be a quarter of a century since ,1 read the story. Three generations had tried to solve the cypher with- out success, and it was given in extenso in the Magazine, still un- solved. After some trouble the present writer hit upon the solu- ion. The first feature that came to light, was—All vowels written in capitals must be accepted at their face value: that is, A simply means “a" and so on. The other letters of the cypher must be sub- stituted by either the first letter to the right or the third letter to the left, as the case miuht be. The begirming o’ the (decoded) message is:—- "French sloop Lfalfzilo. Gulf St. Lawren (cie, May l0: 1738." The seaman was not ai- vvays careful in this spelling and the letters in brackets had to be supplied.

The message is a long one and gives explicit instructions for ﬁnd- ing the place where the treasure was buried, by describing the nat- ural features. The spot was at or near the mouth of Hollow River. an obscurestream in Lot 42. As- suming the story to be true—for it has some weak spots- the c .n- ces for recovering the treasure are small. because (it the pirates may have recovered it themselves. or (8)_the whole site may be rov- red with trees. or again (3) since there rs a well-marked subsidence of the North Shore. the treasure may now repose under the blue water; of the Gulf.

The P. E. I. Magazine may be consulted at the Public Library“ Charlottetown, and it should be| a pleasant occupation for some stormy afternoon. to unriddle that

cyph e r l Horned Lark.

The great snowstorm of the ~00- ond week in April gave me anam- portunity of seiins some c-f nuri winter vlsltmnts: ﬂocks of Snow Buntlnss and nf Horned Larks. I. was particularly interested in the! latter, having seen ncnc since a- bout i937. l-fnrned Ltarks are at. home in ihc Labrador and Hurlson Bay regions where they rear their yo ng; but-the severity of winter] thee is too much fnr the birds and they migrate as fsr south as Georgia and the Ohio Valley. The flocks observed are presumably cc- rng north again. Like the Snow Biintings, the Horned Lurks feed on the weed-seeds projecting above the snow.

Northern llomed Lark. (A.O.U. 4'14). Head with s tuft of long black feathers on each side of the oc- Ciilllii. forming the “hQr-ns"; fore- head yellowish. extending‘ hacic, in a yellowish stripe over the eye: a black bend backward from the hill to, below, and beyond the eye. Throat yellowish, a black crescent on the breast. Above generally gray- ish-brown. tinged vinaceous: below white. Tail darker, outer vanes of the outer feathers lighter. Colors: of female duller. and markings less distinct. Male 7.5 inches and female 7.21 inches lone.

By the year 1018. (he Prairie Horn- ed Lark (A.O.U. 414M had obtained a foothold here and was min ling with the flocks of the North- ern type. Thus they are ‘lard to distinguish except to s very c osc observer: a very distinctive mark ls the line over the eye which is white instead of yellow. This va- riety is also slightly smaller than the type and is lighter in hue above.

IaePerslanCrHs

r Englishmen, It is said, leam their

geography from their wars, and my generation ﬂvas no exception. Russia then under Ozarist regime, was always nibbling at territories in the Middle East, just as she is now under Soviet rule; and in general each nibble ‘was indirectly cuttin into Britain's prestige.

i Perl a, now known as Iran, is a

--¢0lllllfl' ll bl! ll $18111. France. apposition from the genldsrmes or

and Germany put together. It touches India and Afghanistan to the east, Russia to the north, and ‘Turkey and Iraq to the west. Just

Island as Russia has established a fringe

of buffer states in Europe, so Brit- gln h“ always regarded Iran and Afghanistan as the “buffers" be- tween India and Russia. 1 can look back to occaslonavvhen Russia made small inroads into both these states but backed out rather than put the crisis to the test of war. The pulstion of Iran is about i2 mill an people of which l0 mil- lion are wholly illiterate and des- perately p001‘, Theoretically Iran is a constitutional monarchy but these and similar words ncw mean different things in different places. Certainly there was a monarch. the 28-year-old Shah Mohammad Reza, a Cabinet and a Parliament to which the Cabinet is responsible, hut in practice the country is rm by about one thousand wealthy families. They own the land, they are the Cabinet they are the Par- liament (Mellie, they control the finances, they command the ar- myl Under‘ such'a set-up it is not hard to imagine the degrada- tion of the great mass of the pec-

ple. ~

That is the political picture: the social outlook ii not impressive. One thousand fabulously rich fa- milies. merchants. cu top; no mid- dle claas—instead, an underpaid (and consequcntiv corrupt) admin- istration; an industrial or work- ing ciass of not more than 50.000 in the whole" country and 10.000.- 000 Persians on the border line of starvation—"living on stale bread and tea" says one writer. ‘

After World‘ War I the wealthy families naturally turned from _ revolutionary Russia, and souzht social and political contact with Britain. The rise of Hitler attract- ed them too, but British inﬂu- ence became paramount. as Ger- many began to crack. Britain was not trying to form a frcmt against Russia: it was simply that the propertied families turned natur l iy to Britain which was then C servative, for solace.

Sometime in 1943 the Soviet Government determined to remedv this state of things: to reduce, if not to eliminate. British influence in Persia. Quietly Russia set to work and sponsored what was call- ed the Tudeh Party. with a simple programme that appealed to the mass.of the Persian poor. It form- ed trade unions in Teheran. Isfa- han and Tabriz, and forced em- ployers to almost double we besides making allowances in r: . cloth, and shoes. Tudeh also talked l of agrarian reform. i

Sc far so good; this was vastlyi attractive to the “common peo- ple." But when Tudeh went on to attack religion in Isfahan, the re- sult was that it lost most of its followers there. Russia had inspir- ed the anti-religious feeling but the time was not ripe, and some- how or" other the heads of Tudeh had underestimated fanaticism cf the Persian "Mos- lems." Another weakness nf the Tudeh] pearty was, dthat it? lead-airs were an owners, rawn rom t. e ranks of the rich families, and didf R- He“ Nefipaw” not inspire that confidence in the presses which is expected of a re- orm party. - a

Tudeh therefore, as an attempt crammw°uginséiéve’nnsénilgg my: to eliminate British influence, wsslcaniy g cum leied U", Rumans rather a failure; but at least it was 33'?‘ mgmm ' i the ‘Barb a beginning, gy tire cad of i844, glbzﬁe y re g n however, the usslan ovenlmcnt. ' , e resolved to test the strength of its’ Fuhf Dtrquglcratsdgfgrsg fﬁuigictiél} adversaryﬁs power". The Soviet Gov-lw H? ‘ZS, {Aft ,- Novpmhr, h“; emment secretly negotiated an oil gm by 1a (zmmion Md’ be; concession, extending over 150.000 y t t?‘ ‘gm Lérbanan ‘k0 m, square miles of Northern Persia. ‘min? txen 5m ‘V3,, tram urehcran‘ The negotlallccis had reached the {f} ‘Fa “i; gvaéuuted n“, N“) ﬁnal stage when suddenly the! f! ustshexr?‘ lav to eliminate ilfc Mews passed a bm prohibmng gnitiaiixo twrgrdiv ended ivilhuut the sinking of any new vvells solar‘? (325 a Mather of fact ‘he long u‘ fureign “Hm” ‘°"‘“‘“°d!r=tetfs§l§:§ had adored several points o“ Persian sou‘ Th“ slap m ‘he The Azerabljan movemr-nl Etacl face caused the Russians to with-- c ed the northern landlbrds and 8'33,‘ Amb“‘“‘3°' “m” “Wfvgarkensd the Persian Parlia-

ln the meantlme a Paula“ p? mmts- will to resist. One of the

. ‘ in Persia, avarn Sui- wiot’ one Bayyed Zia‘ Pad '°‘“""llrrlrilgiit £51’; over to 1h‘? Russmnﬁ ed from exile in Palestine. He was u an eastern Quisnng when ‘he a ma“ Wm‘ courage and ‘magma-i? r ian Premier Hakiml threaten- tlccl, and at once organized opposi-I e 5 tion to the Tudeh. He started the "National Will Movement," and in» order to get popular supper: land money for it, he turned to the mul- lahs (priests) and induced them to start a religious campaign against the Tudeh party.

By the time the war ended it was plain to the Russlms that the Tudeh would have to he reinfor ed by other means. They did so by encouraging an “independence movement." in Azerbaijan. It is difficult lo make out what really happened in that. out-of-the way spot, but reports ccncede that a considerable number of Russian Azerbaljanis were infiltrated into‘ Persian Azerbaijan. They look simiq iar, they speak the same language, but they were trained Commun- ists. At first they “went slow" buti by the beginning of October last‘ year they formed a new party, astutely styled the "Democratsl"

The Democrats then instituted s] new kind of armed revolt. There was no mass uprising, no mass march on ‘Ileheran. What happen- ed was this: a few Russians a village or town would let it bet known that. the Democrats were, taking over and would stand no

47.12%.

Falls, N. B. L. to R.Z

Why write letters and send money orders? Order your Bray Chlﬁkl through me-personai attention, prompt delivery.

THE FRED W. EBAY LTD I20 John Si. North. Hamilton. Ont.

Chas. Worth, care of Riggs Berrigan. Queen Si... Char-

lottetown Winston Dingweli. Mil!!!"

Statl Hunter

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Raymond Donceit. WEI‘.

Mn. Arthur J. Ilnman. New

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a ybcdy else. At n ht the armed L.“ c

mocrats would en the few keyi buildings md take over. Next

niorning the mass cf the Demo-l

In . I. Baf-ry Green. Central Be- " ‘risque.

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Generai view of a 175-lwre field of seed pots toes on a far-m owned by Senator F. W. Plrle. Grand J. K. King, Deputy Minister" of Agriculture; G. C. cislist; Hon. A. C. Taylor, Mlnistir

Left: Silvertown Danny Mischief, ent Brandon, Man, Spring show 1103's’ and girls‘ class and was grand champion at .

Three bests at the Brandon Poultry Show

the camera-conscious drake owned by W. R. Pearson. Hgml u; 1,}, entered by J. G. Sion, Oak Lake. O ' and e Emma

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Cunningham, potato spe- of Agriculture and Senator Pirie. _

_ Ymlllg bull which won the Hereford Futurit class t - Right: Mervin Bates, Gilbert Plains. and his stger which wuyarm Brandon.

were this R-hode Island Red cockerel shown by ,1,

tom

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Pd l" blink the matter nf Azerbai-

jan. before the first UNO meeting,

he was forced to res‘

innoh becamc Prom!

sequel i5 rrow nrvu

lion of our publi '05s. It is safe to say'illnt there is

Seed Oats

Crapaud Creamery Co. are booking- orders for Banner and Ajax Seed Oats until

APRIL 25th f: ‘-? =- ~ "

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all the Middle East-and p hnhiy hring about the rcni Arma- gcddoni

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Jinum Keats (left) and Stephen Lavoie. both three. find it a rough‘ ‘ job to bring water to a thirsty elephant. They thought they'd trry it " Just once when the circus came to New York recently.

motor . FEEDS not/r: rams/es ' "PRUF/T/MPPY! "