AGE ELEVEN

1 CONSERVATION »

WEEKLY COLUMN OF PRACTICAL OPIN 0N5 A VITAL ISSUES AFFECTING THE USES‘ 0F THE RESOURCES BY MB.

NATURAL MARSIIFIELD.

I) ABIJSES OF LUDLOW JENKINS.

FACTS ABOUT HAWKS --—— L

y Jug Miner, Iillbablllllfi, Ontario. "' living 1n the open 365 _ in me year and-please let me still IUi‘LKLI'_BS a chitc u m ohio. hangmg on w mo- ' s hand, stioinng through a ', . jungle near our ituurbie buck- honw, visitmg as n-gh a; nine ,1. ghmshers’ ocmpied hes-s in Many that, may minutes, aflfl n mm, sprang and mil bl in BYQXLLICS, watching the passen- ‘lggoug, nOL by we lihullfifllldfi. ,' by we clouds; tnen in the first ‘ o; my teens we moved here w ' sunny ‘ e of Canada where ' weds, we the few cleared fields N Sunply sgimv with birds. I am ‘M1,. sure 1 have seen as high 15 scarlet tuxwger. . I called them _ “m3, m snghi. ac once and when red \)ll‘(I storm cams. as we call- gt, along about the 20th of May. W151. every naturalist of today , d have followed me a few hours me woods and he would have ,_ wit» Warblers in an hour than inn in a week right now. Hid e Ion; plVPffy lwurs oi no 500's . gqtili CG 1112101“ shorter and rich '31.... all these Lied-given cres- . aid mine in fact. 1 forgot all _, L m sppturance-Aong red and freckle I-—B.IId every Sun- ym the stunmer would find me ii-tic hiding places aliowml; creatures to come closer to could get to them, but. scien- F“!

“gum. 1 called the gaihswk .. Cooper's hawk "bullet hawks,"

- gharp-s-klnncd lwwk m and I called the "quail hawk." lled the per thrudr called the brown hnerit." Yes. l ..~ them and their habits but . their college-given names, and m ed that today there - many with their imivcrsity de- ... who know their names but . their habits. i‘ piegiveymlthsnaturalrno- .. of our wlckedsst hawks’ hunt.- syxmn in their natural home. eiy the virtrlrl rarest, He darts - h the ivoods at a height ol -» 51x or eight feet from the nd, then noiseiessiv he $010015 . w. shout. 9, one o'clock angle uehewillporchonallxrmas -- ossasastaweaibcutso feet ... the ground. then ln about or 10 minutes he will come rung down at a. five o'clock an- creuting tgxaod and making no p: noise than a dart. and if any i moves 1J1 front oi him he is on me lightning. when m the open d he tmvds high and I have ~gg0shGWk0Umed0WIl0ULOI air like a miniature aeroplane. - the boboiinks and ‘ow larkfi . and hide ln me tail grass, swift is this hawk coming from » elevated ponitlon I have seen . pick an adult forked-tail born = low right out of the air and g0 .A-. for game birds here in Oa- a at that time, very true, there e no humming doves worthy of lltlGll- but. I have seen over 150 Wfhlifi quail fly in the surround- : woods off one settlers partly ared 1.1m. and miffed grouse. - were 1n by the hun- < s; in fact, I am abolmely cer- n that taking 8J1 classes of song, =1. iivorcus and game birds into adoration. there were 95 per t more than there are today. (X rse this includes the passerizer zns that were here in the esc- sevt-ntics. but. as far as the hawks -' oivls are concerned, according my (rbsertutlnn. they are as plen- ul now a; they ever were. and me any of you contradict. this iement let me ask you what has teased them? Have the hunter-s - e out to kill them? No, but we Vi? some out by the millions. and mblnod our form with them and ~' the game bud; tight and left. do not know when the passenger ton alerted dying, but in 1878 do know tihev were pirsct-icahiv dy- ‘lw 1h» huénidglds glad m 1886. ' WPTP pm y, e n‘; _ Th" 116M. compliant about kill- ' the hawk is. you are “interfer- ~ _wii-h nature.“ or umeotlnv m.- ~ s balance. as they killcd the k or delicate ones. which I firm-

bclicvo they did. and the EN“

Provider put them there for that Pilllpose. And now with 95 par oem of their 100a brds gone, which m. fife; the passenger pigeon, the mWk-s are left here hungry. and e 0H3? Way to restore nature. or b14118 nature back to her own, is to reduce them m the same extent. that other bird life has been re. duced; for r2 iember. whiit s, hawk “i! take a weak. delicate ma first, he can and does caitch any “M: w. all except larger va- riety o! hawks. which include the red tail. red smoulder and broad- WmQvd hawks. . Personally, 1 do _ big. clumsy varie- "e - for while the will take rabbits few d fowl and so on. bhflfi does nDt bother me 50 much "WI- fi° 11nd the feather; of our cheerful cardinals and dozens of Places where mourning doves have DB9!) killed and eaten b5 such v3,- rieties as Cooper's, sharp-skmied and marsh hawks, just says m me, J80! Miner. you are not humane do not love and know the value of

our song and lnsectivorous birds if W" Will 5T8 .4’! for it. Readers, one cardinal singing good cheer near my home me more enjoy-

wines tncnt than to see 100 havfkg and hear the terrorized cries or gens;- valuable bird; getting away from

them. A8 fat as interfering with nature (i; (gwlicemed. she same may be said 8119911 08. Are you olng to allow h-im to continue ugchecked in your community or are you go-

lad. 20 years and will continue o do so until they are controlled by man.

could 1y to our or rabbit: our young 1K nun goes and kills rding to some men's , would be interfering - . I smy this is norvense, goandklllthemandsave uror- bear ruit for the rising QEGIOIHLODB.

The mme argument. 1e inter-fer with nature, applies when you k the typhoid fly. God created it. but he created man to control it.

8o I say, as far as this argument isconcenred. litis mfpmen w control the hawks. Why. bless your life. He has even given us power to

Niagara Falls

It is true the sparrow hawks clriefllvlngintitlefallotftheyearla crickets and grasshoppers and I might say he is s gpcd lit/tic mouse catcher. but. years ago. WllFn I raised pheasants and qua-ll ln ca twit. . the first, two or thre wee- of ese bw game bird's liife. the spairmwhe. wasoneofmywprsm

enemies. In fadt. one hawk carried away 10 little baby pheasants ln three hours

Yes. a m deal is said about the mouse-destroying ability of the hawks and owls and. in reply to this, the little wewel is the biggest mouse destroyer we have 1.1 Ameri- ca, yet I know one weasel to kil] and our aiwaiy 33 baby pheasants in one 1173mm and pile them" up un-

mulleln leaves. etc. Next to the weasel there is nothing to equal the house cat. fur both the weasel and the home cat are natural mouse killers. but the quicker lhey are buried side by side the bet-tar for the song. insectivormis and game birds; but remember. the hawks are rm- tural bird killers.

I can't understand intelligent. ed- umted men advocating the des- truction of the house cat because ‘lit kills birds and the protect-ion 0f hawks and owls becaure they kill mine. ‘Iihis proves to my entire sat- isfaction that these men have watched the house cat sneaking and rvpringdng unto birds on the lawns in the city where there are no field mice, but if they take the same cat into the country where hawks and owls live they will find he is the greatest mouse killer cf any of our buds’ gnamieg and how can man stand on the platform and advo- csife the deflniction of the hOIBA‘ cm, 311d protevmioin of great horned nvwl. goshawk. Cooper s. sharp- slvinned and marsh hawks. crows and g-mckles for the positive fncti up that the house cat is by for ti"! greatest mouse killer according to the amount, of birds he kills of my

Livestock Markets

(Continued from page 9, (‘ATTLE MARKETS

TORONTO cattle prices were W11 25c nt the opening but the Pill loss was fullv regained and -i Oiit-ring," disposed of by the W. Good butcher steers and tiers sold at the close st $5.75 t0 ‘Z5. with few sales of common 11W $4.75. Butcher cows closed 153-25 to 9.4.50, and eanners and utters $2.25 to 3. Fed cnlvcs anizr-tl from .50 to $7.50. tiahiv steers sold curly at 85 t0 50. but iaten-with a scarcitv 0f 1a class. o few reached 38.75. ‘W! lots of stacker: brought 14-00 - $4 75. and some fleshlv feedinK P?“ an to $5.25. A few zoo Md springer cowz sold at $65 t0 70 each. imdcr s dull trade. Momnmr. was 23¢ higher on ‘l fiiffirs and heifers and abo“ "fly on other grades. Good steers We Mi to sens. with a larile rccniale goln-v. for export Prat hviwn. Medium steers sold i’ '0 $5.90, and common 0m 5.25 down. “UfPhPf cows ranged om as to 34.75. with s few fa ' #5101‘ the Kosher trade at $0 to

C AI-I‘ MARKET l

TORONTO. calves were unchang- "i at so u» no m choice vsnls “d $5 to O8 for common to med- " calves. Montreal calf market ,~ steady m RYJOVHY. an closed “ hikher. Vania ranged from l5 Q an extreme lop of B0. Vim ‘ "mile mica close to 85.90-

inninm ca‘! market had l weak-

Good to choice 5'7 i0 down. minclslox bert had no calves on sae.

ht calves J“ 3°“ tgdgvftzgfalctiethlt-‘i $5.50 in 3g 50, Regina had best venls nt $6.50 to Saskatoon calves rans- ed from 47-50-

IIOG MARKETS

‘HDRONTO hogs opened steady “$10 to $10.10 for M00115 trucks, and colsed at S

$10.40.

Hamilton pecker-s o ned at $10

and closed at 010-! 1%: d n

live, off trucks; and 09615950 to 13.50 and closed at $1 -

“$.05, rali graded. Kitchener aplen-

ed 5i’, $9.50. 0105661 59-7 5- v

calves firm. $3. others 96-50

n41 $13.40 D dressed. 8935 gm! $10 aiive. Hull, 31118153111‘? 18113.70‘ ‘grassed. dMoncton. . ve, N559 Montreal H055 ldvimwdtg“

r bscons f. and w. W1 or o“ “ugh; gt $11. “All [T8015

saiss bmuiht $14.10 w $14-75- nnrrrsrr csrru: Minuurr

. 31' y msguinr. 00d fittflfis“ are hflldlnflw "Im-

good quslity dairy 0° l mm,‘ Canadians on

d 1 " h‘ m that good 0w- would make around

to “diam use to use. mmonwn 0

CATTLI IXPOITI TO OIIAT BRITAIN

""01 2m. ' ss. Noflnlim

Hsiifu to Cardiff "wen am as. nun. rm st John to Birkenhesd

Well Ens! Total

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month the early complaint of Over- ‘Pll-ihine hogs was ;eldom heard. The British bacon market advanced progressively dunng the month lrom a range of 7il..=._to 84.5. 0n Cs- mman at the owning, to 9, c195- "13 Yanks of 83s w 93s. All these factors contributed to a good serong "market. with advancing prices i-hrvuchoun the nuinth. After a W991i Welling at 'l‘oronw, with ba- cons off trucks making $8.35 to 38-50. Dflflvs guinea steadily to a high or $9.50 at the close. This was $1 higher tium a year ago. Mon- treat recorded gains also thmugout L118 month and prices were from 65C to $1.15 hgher than those paid in February 1937, with bacons clos- ing at $9.50 to $9.75 f. and w.

I11 U16 WPSL Emile was some-what unsettled. Bttcons opened at Win- mm: at $8.71». late; slowed down to a low price oi s8. but with contin- ued moderate receipts couipled with the improved trade in the East, the market staged a sharp upturn and finally worked up to a high o1 $9, 25 fOr billions m. the c1039, which established a new hi h DOlnt sznce last September. At Ca gury the m“- k0!» Was $1 inove February a year 8gp. Willi barons closing sit $8.60 of! trucks. Edmonton wag inclined to be unsettled with n lower tendency during, the first half of the month, but firmer fueling set 1n the third week and on the closing day ba- cons were mukini: $8.75 of! trucks, Aysimiiar trend was in cvidrnce on other lvcotmrn IIUIFRPU. all record- ing the best. pTlCGS at the cicse. Prlrw? Albert at $9 and Nlocse Jaw and Saskatoon $3.10 for bztccns ott trucks. _

Increase In Lamb Receipts

Lamb receipts at yams and plants comibixred were about 5.000 head above February last, year. the total run amounting to 36, 600. The in- crease was mcsilv in Ontario feed- lot lambs, Indications were that the crop of Western lamibs was not as heav as anticipated. Ontario f 0t lambs came forward in good numbers but quality was generally only medium.

A consignment. of frozen New Zeaisnd lambs was received in To- mnito around the end of February but they, apparently, had little or no effem on local lamb prices. the New Zetilund product being con- r-ldcred over-fa‘; and priced too high to attract. many buyers. Lamb prices opened at; $1 to $8.25 for best quali- ty 1n Toronto and advanced to $9 by the close. this compares with a top price of $10 in Fpbrtmry last Your and $8.75 in January this year. Montreal lacked in both numbers and quality. A few good lambs sold at $8, but the majority were only common and made no better than $6.50 t0 $7.50.

Abbreviated reccipts also fezttured the Wumipeg trade and supplies proved totally‘ inadenuaif‘ to test out reliabw quotations and. also. to satisfy the needs of the trade The fe-w stilt-able killing lamibs of- fered brought between $7.50 and $7. 75. Calgary closed hlgihcr at $6.85 for good handywelghts and with prospects for a. still better market. Edmonton had such a. small supply on hand that the numbers were not sufficient to actually establish a mar-liter. but the tone was firm throughout. y.

Exports Show Further Decline

As compared with February a yea-r ago. exports of practically all classes of live stock and meats dropped to lower levels. While there was a. pick up in shipments of cattle on Over- sens account, this was aibmit the only ly commoditv to show any 1M1!!!)Ve- ment. The increase in e b0 Great, Byifflln, however. was more than offset by e. decline in dhiflllflenw m the United States, and the com- bined movement out. of the counitfv of 6.384 cattle fell fur short of Feb- rumy last. year when the WW1 amounted to 15.955. Ehnports 0d cat- tle for_th_e__fl_r_sit two months of the

______.__?- one .04 the above-mentioned b11118 of they.

Ln other words the house cat is the natural mouse hunter but WW5 birds if he cnn get them but them hawks and owls are natural bird hunters but will take mite HAITI?!’ cannot, got birds. All men the» M6 ncnuuinim with the above men- tioned nwtttnt-s know that. this i5 truc. Now don't. amivonc be 19d lynllcvc that I am in favor 0f the house cart. I halve not REM one 0“ mv prt-tnises for oveihiiiz Yell“ mo?‘

~ ne a comes

I desuoy 11:58 rim great horned owl

seen his claw mark; around an cm?- ty tiest that high in a tree b11141 them 1.. no bird that can maid hiah or low cnouflh i0 b’? m“ “I roach of tho great horned 0W1- Morcuvvr, thP 1110*"- hfimed “W1 will kill ndult wild geese. turkeys. ducks. full grown chickens and so forth. that the cat ls hardly. if ever- known to kl - J.T°._‘f~§_

BRUISES

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NARUS LINIMENI,

__» ‘fl-IE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN Livestock and MeatTrade Review

year amounted to 4,554 Great Britaui. 7.508 to the United States and a total, including small quimu. flies ho other countries. of 12.453. éaiscgcpipares r gwtgfflllasgiuruig rresponding z: r

of 42. 472 head. p yea Calf cxiporis, likewise. were low- " M 3.709 for February compared Wilt-h 5.551 s year ago. Exports of beef declined from 1.330.800 1111s., in Fébfl-lfl-Kigiiii‘! t0 887.100 libel" n Feb- 1118!‘? year. and the total for the two months at. 3.340.000 13s., W98 ‘mill’ very slightly over half the shipments during the saute period last year. While the British bacon market averaged almost 5s higher in price during February than 1n January on Canadian supplies, and 91m“?- 115 hisiher than in Fflbruary a Yea-l‘ 880. bacon exports showed 9- dflilmfi- H08 marke s were much reduced as com with s Yea-T Mo. and shipments out of the w totalled 15.063310) lbs, as compared with 16,889,900 libs, in February last year. The total for the two months. however. was great- er than in the same mrlod Last yes,- bv almost 1.000.000 .. amounting to 343793310 libs. Exports of pork We"! WWII t0 882.500 libs, for Fe‘)- Tua-W- Wnpiired with 2.197.400 lbs.. last year. Canned meats and lamb were aka considerably lower. ex- port of the latter amounting to 1, 837.600 libs. while in the same month fit Year we disposed of 2,966,600

Li!!! MGM. In sung

Total swpplies of all varieties of lifests in storage on the list of March showed a. decline of about 7.003.000 bs... as compared with a mflniih earlier and about. 17.000000 lbs. as compared with the first of March 1937. Stocks on hand, how-

Wfl‘. wert a little above the five d lit 1 w... ......... .. ... m... ... _ 32: .3213: P.:.:;i".";."ii-..i'z Ii it: 511:.“ beef store on Mam-h 1st, 193a there is not sufficient of that kind 2,1215. m“ gem ifflalailledrgsgightiy Over 1'7. 0,000 lbs. in the Republic to satisfy the d5 V9 . 1- 0 .000 libs, pork 41,498,000 mand is shown by the fact that its and mutton and lamb 3,715,030 last year duty was paid on ngsrly n8 p

- 25.000 .iiver f0 its b ht t

. an avesrage vglgtlon mg}! mo?“ guard hair had not

Branded Beef Sale!

The volume of beef branded sales showed a small decline for the two months, combined txrtallrlng 6,073 918 lbs. as compared with 6.290.211 libs. for ths same period last year. Branded beef sales. however. ln Feb- ruary alone were just a little higher than in the same month last year amounting to 3.269.604 lbs.

Stole Cattle PIIPCIIB-Hmg

Store cattle purchases were less than hair those of February last year and the same holds more or less true for the two months of January and February. Shipments l0 the counmn; this year for the two months totalled 4.785 head. and in the same period last year, 9,334.

Bacon Prices In Great Britain

The bacon market showed steady invpmvement throughout February the range in Canadian 1n the first week was78sto 48s and by the end of February the prices had advanced from 83s to 93s ‘Ilhis compared with a. 111189 of 70s to 77s in February 1937.

The British Market

’Iil've fresh beef trade 1n Britain is passing through a, rather trculble-

some time. Demand for fat cattle rfces uip to the point where reta rsof fresh beef are finding it d/iilflcult to keep their vo- lume of turnover and maks a pro- fiit Seasonal

Mwer

. demands for stores has offered extra. competition to the butchers with those annuals that could go for either purpose. This sittiaitlon has worked w. the advan- tage of Canadian cattle, as so many

ofthese are sultablef saletpI-he a - _ meat trade or as feedzrrs. Both m; 9g,“ ‘he W“ a" ’°‘“°"°d “ “I” December. Eindswmthmtigfiewemmnnmmmatgae‘ '-"—' G via-men bee

lie f, , O - EOIKE 8.11 11.5 l’ B5 I1 same s. dairy cows mlffiggimggicugggsltiggfch‘ntrgg; pointed representative for which at theend .were Def“ were? roduoed “e of inter Pacific Coast Borax company. reported or at many centres. g1 Hemagflne has an ekvaflon largest dealers of borax in the definite the fact that an easier so! or ‘s87 feet and snw is on. the goridwoand] wiilfintroducle the 1pm- ua is expected at this time mound there practically an the Big?“ insists: pciépglaggnerg‘ ere.

year. Ofl’ Irish cattle for m!’

TIMELY NOTES ON TOPICS

CONNECTED WITH

Silver Fox Farming E

The London fur auctions peter-ed

out rather badly this week. 1n trend was ver week when

fact discernible last and Cobb

‘s

auction sale registered a smaller percentage of sates than usual with

declines in price. Lam this week added furt er to 11985111115 gloom as 0n Tues

H's sale

the day

most lots were withdrawn because customers were conspicuous by their

absence and those who did

buy

wanted the goods at below tagged

prices .

Colonel U. G. Dawson o! Charlottetown Fur Sales, called

the on

for an explanation, said it was a

of too

y furs auctio

03-56 0 mil-ll with little interval between.

ned In

January some 140,000 were auction-

ed_1n London and 111,000 were 5 With another 100.000 offered