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w, have received from Lamp- ‘son, Fraser 6r. Iiutlt an analysis of their "recent ranch mink auc- tion sale vi which this is a short summary-Breath of spring Sil- vorbluqflfl dressed pelts offered; the top price was $40; Bilverblu .18,56l dressed pelts offered, 42% sold, top price $26.50; Silverblu raw pelts 30,919 offered, 44% sold. top price $81; both dressed and raw pelts declined 10%. The trade continues to be selective, require lng beat colors and qualities a: there are still fairly lalrge quanti- ,tles to be oflered. White mink 1,- 904 dressed pelts offered, 25% sold, top price $41,. decline 20%. The trade is very selective. Miscellan- eous types 936 dressed pelts offer- ed, 60% sold, top price $13, de- cline 10% Royal Koh-I-Nur 3,081 raw pelts offered, sold 56%, de- cline. 10%. WP Price 810.50; Blue Frost 5,175 raw pelts offered. These were mostly unsold, the top price was $8.50.

standard ranch mink 29,769 Pelt: for the Great Lakes Mink Association members offered, 54% sold. The collection was under PWWBBB. Prices were unchanged. Also offered 33.584 pelts ‘for other 1111999". 42% sold. under average collection, unchanged when 5°15, SeIeclAd extra dark and dark mel. cabrmishr. from clans to $24.50, females $13.25 to $16.25,good qual- ities, extra dark and dark males brought $13.75 to m, females $10.25 to $12.76, average qualltleg and ordinary extrndark and dark males $10 to $14.75, females $8 to $11. -

Lampson. Fraser or Ruth's March ranch mink auction which was to have been held on March v7th will not be held as tihere are “IP17 lflrfle accumulations of raw Poll-s now in process oi dressing and they desire to give the trade time to move some of their goods. Their next auction of ranch mink will be new m? April tau. and the next mutation, mink sale on May 4111- “The? are pleased to, advise that they believe there will be smaller quantities o! standard and Starlight D8115‘ than prevailed last yea: and that with the continu- ance of the demand there should be no diioulty in disposing of standard and Starlight pelts on the basis already established.

The Hudson's Bay Company of 501111011. England. announces the following quantities of silver fox for their March 7th salez-Sllvers, 8.500: Platinum, 1.500; Pearl P1“. lnum, 1,000. Canadian Fur ‘Auction sales 091311-7171)’ (Quebec) Limited, Ofley. ed 43,000 ranch mink at their sale last week. ‘Trade observer; stated that about 65% had changed hands at a decline of perhaps 5%. Best demand was for the medium 111d cheaper Priced lots,‘ most of which showed little change from the January sale. some even re- cordlnr a fractional advance, Top price fcr large extra. dark size was $18. Many lots of half-bloods were offered and the top price wag $16.50. New York and Canadian dealers showed equal interest in ‘he cheaper _and medium priced ots. Mutation mink was in high ‘drmand and a considerable part oi the 12,000 Sllverblueold at u d€c1lne from January sale estim- ated bv the trade at ten to fifteen percent. Top price was S24. For the better lots of males the ramre was m to 819 and for females $12 to $15. Pastel mink reached a top oi $41 and ranged mostly from ‘ $10.50 to $30. ‘These were consid- ertd unchanged in price from last. ybar. Koh-I-Nur reached a top of 814.75 and down lo a low price of $4.7M Miscellaneous brought $425 lo $14.50.

Some 4.000 red fox was more active than at any recent sale for a considerable time. 80% was sold with a ton price of $4.00 and a low price of $1.60. White fox ranged from $4.25 to $14.50. Blue fox was only moderately taken. Top price for sllverblu was $14.

Chinchilla farmers have. shown the way to many other fur farm- ers by their determination and stick-fo-ltlvness in promoting. featuring and propagandlsing a little wanted fur. Recently o. gi- gantic chinchilla exhibition was held with valuable rizes oflered and garments made rom chinchil- la were featured by models and they looked very nice indeed. Within the next two or three years ‘places contingent to Lon- don. Ontario. ste expected to de- velop lnto an important supply centre for chinchilla pelts. Ham- ilton and London are the largest centres of chinchilla breeding in western Ontirrlo but ln- Guelph, Stratford, Braritiord. Gait. st. Thomas, Woodstock, Chathem and Windsor. herds are being develop- ed.‘ in Kitchener and other west- ern -Onta.rlo cities Chinchilla breedifli! "twice as‘ a bobby. m. w. linsusseli who la well known to many» Prince ldward dsianders through hla belt: employed at the Milligan h Morrison‘ flit Farms. Northam. and who has long been identified with silver fosr and mini: ranching. states-that as soon as the belting stage is reach- edwesternOntar-io will be heard from in thectilnohille world. Dr- itussell seye that the chinchilla business is now going through the same stages-that identified the silver to: and mink industries‘

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and Soudack-expi-Qea 6188mm 1° co-operate in any WIY Whlflh would help ““ ‘the ind-HEW- This seems to be the general idea in lihe United States also. Auction comment in Denver is very much in favor oi the some action. Abe Permack, general manager New York Auction Company, Denver City said, “We consider it to the best interest. of all the trade to formulate the program of orderly marketing._This Company has no sales scheduled here until March 30th, when fox will probably pre- dominate." The manager of the Denver Auction Company ssysz~ "Calling oflseles during March should be a good tiling."

An encouraging ‘sale oi silver fox was held last week by the American National Co-operative Fur Auction in Milwaukee, Wis- consin, when 60% of an offering of 10,000 fox pelts of all types were disposed of. Top prices were full silvers $21; white face $7.3; Platinums $34. Prices represented an average increase o! 30% over prices for comparable merchandise offered in the January sale. That, you will admit, is a big rise in price.

Oi interest to Island trsppers is the fact. that there was a 5% de- cline in the price of muskrat at the recent Canadian Fur A/uctlon sale where some 76,000 pelts were offered and bought mostly by Canadians. Top prices were $2.95 for Spring, $2.80 for Winter. Nova Scotians brought. top prices, with Quebec next and British Columbia lowest. Top price for skunk was $1.40.

The Canadian Fur sales Company, Ltd. sale of silver fox and mutations held this week saw prices improved over the January sale. The figures which we submit were sent to us by George A. Call- beck, manager Fur Marketing De- partment Canadian National’ Sil- ver Fox Breeders’ Association, Summer-side. The first figure will in each‘ case be that of this week's sale and the figures following those of the January sale:—-Plat- lnums 65% sold, average $16.55, ($15.08); lnferlor-Platlnums 75% 501d. average $11.13 ($11.70): Pearl Platlnums, 60% sold average $14.27 ($13.41); White Marked Sil- vers 70% sold, average $13.07 ($12.42): half to three-quarter d1- vers 92% sold, average $17.53 ($15.43); selected fulls 80% sold, average $17.69 ($15.29): regular fulls 60% sold. average $14.11 ($13.72); inferior types 90% sold, average $10.64 ($10.96); low grades 90% sold, average $4.75 ($4.60): total offering 70% sold, average $13.42. ,

The above sale shows a consid- erable advance in prices for the better pelts. Heretofore there has been plenty demand for pelts ranging from $10 to $14. but it has been very difficult for the buyers who are mostly representing Eur- opean customers to pay over $14. If you look over the above prices you will find that selected full sil- vers and regular full sllvers' worn Purchased in good quantities and that the low grades were the ones that declined in price. The whole trouble with our silver fox export situation as far as Canada is concerned is the mailer of ex- fhlltfle. Our-dollar la tagged to the American‘ dollar and Europ- eans flnd. it difficult to get suffic- ient of that type oi exchange tn mirchase as freely as they would like. 711st is the reason that Nor- ‘weglan pelts are bringing prices 59°? t0 100% hlllher than similar quality pelts of Canadian origin.

Should our government decide in

devaluate the dollar to its real status of ninety cents in compari- son with the American dollar. it would heln us greatly in trade with Gr~at Britain and the con- tinent“ It was when we were a bit flush that the Hon. Mr. Ilsley decided to put us on oar with our American cousins and we poinled out that it was s mistake at the tim- atyl that has been-more and more realized by people who have Canadian goods 1'0 sell. Friends of ‘rum Carruthers. and i-hdy are legion. are welcoming hl-m back to his duties as secre- IM"'-f,l'9”Sl11'Pf‘ of the flntnrlian National Silver Pox Breeders’ A5- sociatlon. Bummerslde. after- hi; recent illness. which bv the. way was lhe first in his long career.

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LONDON. March 8—(OP)—I.ni- portation of Eire potatoes to build up reserves was followed by a heavy British crop in 1048, and a loss of £200,250 ($825,000) to the British treasury. _

Food Minister Straohey told a questioner in the Commons that this loss would be incurred on a purchase of 00.000 tons of Eire potatoes last year. Bought at a- bought £10 e ton the potatota ere

‘being sold to alcohol factories at

28 to l4.

The offer to buy litre potatoes was made in February, i948, after e serious shortage had been ex- perienced durim the earlier win- ter months. But when the British crop was harvested it was 12.000.- Olli tons, 4,000,000 more than in I047.

‘thousands lone of potatoes were used for ' eed. other similar losses wet! caused last spring when potatoes bought on the con- tinent were not needed and later were abimed to qormaar.

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The Greet Grey Owl

This is the popular name for what Dr. Tavcrner justly calla the Clrier- eoua Owl, since It has plumage of more or less ashy coloration. In this it strongly resembles the Bu- red Owl. Moat writers assert that it is the largest of Canadian Owls. and by appearpnce and measure- ment lt certainly la: but those who have had the opportunity to ob- serve such an owl. “post portem", have expressed surprise at the smallness of ita carcase.

bird, nesting from the south of La.- brador, round Hudson Bay. In Winter it comes south ard into Ontario, Southern Q ebec, the

of the United States: It is said to be u rare winter visitor ln Nova Scotla and that, I think, ls its ita- tus here. Both Brain's “Birds of P. E. I." and MacSwalnh 1916 List refer to it as a visitor. ‘

Of 9 stomachs examined, 1 con- tained a small bird; 7 contained mice; and 4, other mammals. The bird is therefore suppoaed to be bent» mlal, and it may be well to let it go at that till we know more. Clnerecus Owl, Great Gray OWL AOU. 370. Stray winter visitor, and largest of our owls. Adults: No ear- tufts; facial‘ disks gray. marked wltli dark concentric rings; eyes small, yellow, (not black); bill yel- low. Upper parts ashy brown, everywhere mottled with white. Underparts: a black chin-spot; breast and belly white, broadly streaked with grayish brown. Tall long (about I2 inches). mottled Legs and feet heavily feathered. Length of adult, 25 to 35 inches.

Pioneer Botanisi:

Through the courtesy of Prof. R. R. Hurst, City, I am enabled to pre- sent an extract from the "Kew Bul- letin", cf Nov. 2, 1948. It ls en- titled "Early Collection of Plants in Prince Edward Island."

“In the year 1841 Miss Anne Elizabeth Grubbe, an English girl of twenty-three, went out with her father John Grubbe of Horsenden House, Bucks., to the young col- ony of Prince Edward Island. He settled with his younger children at Holland Grove._ in Charlotte- town, and Falconwood, a country house. At the same time his elder children made their home in South- wold, Suffolk, England. Mr. Grubbe died ‘in 1846, and ln 1847 his daugh- ter married Thomas Heath Havi- land, Q.C., of Charlotte Town, who afterwards became Lleuh-Governor of the Island.

“Two years ago. in the old house at Southwold, there was found ii small number of specimens collect- ed by Mrs. Haviland in Prince Ed- ward Island between 1849 and. 1854. At some time she or her familv must huvubrought them to Eng- land. unless possibly her niece, Miss Julia Grubbe, who herself collect- ed in Southwcld and elsewhere, paid a visit to Prince Edward Is- land and ‘brought them home as ‘souvenirs. At any rate, this small

_collectlcn of thlriy-hvc specimens

was given to the writer for the Kew Herbarlum, and after careful en- quiries in every likely quarter, no trace can be found of anything earlier from Prince Edward Island.

clety of Canada, Dr. Lawson, re- marks in his opening address In 1860 al Kingston, Ontario, "we al- ready have observers from Red Rivet in the West to Prince Edward Island in the East.’ Mrs. Heath Havllnnd may well have been one of the latter.

"The plants are what might be expected, and include Cornus can- udensls, Rhodora canadensls, Kal- min angustlfolla, Ledum latifollum, Eplgaen repens, Moneses unlflora, Llnnaen borealls, Betuia papyrlfera. two species of Pyrola and four of Lyccpodlum.

"A few of the specimens are too Ifflimcntary for certain identifica- tion. but a complete list of the coi- lectlon la preserved at Kew. It was presented in 1944 by Miss Margaret Grubbe. of Blythburgh, Suffolk, (Signed) M. M. Whiting."

As mfootnote to this, and an ex- planation to readers. I may any that lhe Royal Gardens at Kew are the botanical centre of the British Do- minions. There are ancient mans- ions, now museums, housing dried specimens of every plant known tn science. specimens of wood of all kinds, and all manner of plant dis- eases. The glass houses with their tropical plants, nre extensive. and the gardens themselves exhibit har- dlor plants in infinite variety.

The Planet Saturn (l)

Saturn (as already noted) la a prominent object ln the night sky at the present time. It is near Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo (the Lion). That constellation Is readily found by be- ginning at the Pole Star. running a straight line through the "Point. ere" of the Big Dipper. and con- tinuing till a group of stars shaped like u "reaping-hook", or sickle, is reached. That. represents the fore- purt of the Lion: behind this is s triangle of three stars. one above the other, representing ita iolna. and the third, behind them, sup- posed to end its tell. Regulus is the bright star ‘terminating the sickle-handle, and Saturn. a dull yellow planet, is in line with it. Also. Regulus twinklea; Saturn does not.

As we travel outward visually into space, Saturn is the last of the 53in‘; family that we can recog- nize lthout a telescope. This ought to give it some claim to our attention, yet surprisingly few can make even a guess at its position. When we do use a telescope \ve find that Saturn differs from all the other planets, being surrounded by a great system of rings. Galileo sa\v the rings first in 1610, through a smell telescope that he himself had made: but ea he was looking at them edge on. all he could won- der at were the "appendages" that projected on each elde of the disk. The osttonomer Hygena. In 1655. viewed them at a different angle. with a better telescope, and know them for rings. -

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known that the rings lle in the planco! Saturn's equator, that they extend to a distance of 85,000 mliea from the planet's centre, and that their thickness is perhaps 10 miles. There are actually three rings, ly- lng one within the other, the in- most being duller in color than the other two. and known as the crnpe ring. Sometimes Saturn passes across a bright star, and when this happens that star can be seen through the rings, its light dim- inlahed but never disappearing. This because the rings are not solid but. are made up of tiny bodies, revolving round the planet.

British Wind-tiublne

A note ln The Guardian lust week. relates that the British scien- tists are studying out a type oi wind turbine that will be put to generating electricity. That re- minds me of an experience about 30 years ego“ I was told to take down the storm windows of lhe building where I was employed. The day was fine. but there was a i-it of a north-west breeze, so that when I took down the west storm win- dows I had as much as Icould handle! The wind-pressure seemed to be concentrated near the wall. but. was not nearly as bad three or four yards away from the building. At that time there was quite a number of wind-mills on the Is- land, all of the common circular type, constructed of iron, and (I think) mainly used for pumping water. I didn't think much of them for several reasons, and wondered lf the wind could be concentrated and put to work in a different fashion. Finally I made a little tin model of a windmill which I will endeavor to describe. It was of two parts, the outer part of up- right slats, like Venetian blind slats. arranged on all four sides in a kind of cubical shape. The other part, which I called the rotor, had ihesléts upright also, but was cylindrical in outline. Thlalrrotor ad a central spindle so that it stood upright and revolved inside the cubical outer part. When plac- ed ln the wind, the rotor revolved. but could not be seen because of the outer casing-which of course. concentrated the wind.