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RUSSIA 1N ASIA

, .Asle, now know as the Rlgflgfuéoviet Socialist Republics. 9,3, familiarly spoken <11 flilfllbillgt.

tiie to of As a. r8

‘Pmwls m“ ficpOcean. If tile an area. is included, the hole Russian territory covers B and ,4 million square miles. a compact block of land on which live per- haps 190,000,000 souls.

pm of this area was invaded and onqllered within my own recollec- flon Russia was greatly impeded in “her commercial efforts in early ma; by the fact that she had no ',,,,,,~e._.’poi-i5 for winter traffic. It g“; believed -» tint. D€fi1llp5 it is

., 1 of s "ivill," urging his ‘Z?,,°p"l’e“ seek an outlet to the ‘spoutli. There was a deadlock in Europe because Turkey (aided and shettcd b)’ the English) held the pare-inches. and so controlled Rus- sian traffic via the Black Sea So lr the ling run Russia decided that 1;‘ would be easier to seek a warm wamf port on the south coast of M1,, The first and’ most obvious mp towards this end, was to over- mrow those states then known as Independent Khanates of Tiirkestzlil.

Bgginlllllg at Asterabad, a town to ihe south-east of the Caspian soil, if we draw a line up to the sea of Aral and thence eastward to Kllokaild and Kaskgar. we shall have delineated the southern bounc- llv oi Russia in the your i875. By i985 the boundary had moved south- aards, touching Persia, Afghanistan. and the Hindu Kush, the latter a mountain-range at the extreme- nortil of India. Thus the cities of Khiva. Bokhara. Samarkancl. and Khakzind, all of which had heredi- lilv rillors, ilad been taken by the Rilrsillils, and their territories iii- eorporiiicd into the Russian Empire. It was believed that the Czar did not entirely approve of these con- quests, which his officers often car- ried out without his knowledge, for tllcl‘ iicre fur from the capital and communication was not easy in those days 1NOW news travels niore speed- ily, and the radio can inform us of sucli things in one broadcast and coltradict them in the next.)

before giving some detai s of the expeditions against the citi named. it is worth remembering that Rus- sian officers believed that India was their ultimate goal, and looked for- " lo the dav when they should

' England knew this and be- d that atar with Russia was lnciitable As a Precautionary mea- sure England strove i0 retain Alzilhnstiln as a buffer slate. tvhui the ilussinns scizcd Pcny-deh in the noriii of Afghanistan. there was great exclteinent lii Britain and

bu: if I remember correctly, the Rilfialfills withdrew their troops and iniittrrs quietcncf. down for a Lime. ' territory thus gained. was not

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veniences. Readers may remember that Siberia was once supposed to be a barren, worthless country; now it is known to rival Canada in min- eral wealth.

The history of the Khanaie of Khiva (the nearest to European Russia) is a longi and bloody one. At the end of e sixteenth oeu- tury. a. band of Cossacks happened to capture some Persian merchants and through them leant of the ex- istence of the Khanate, which the Persians declarec to be very rich. This roused the cupidity of the Cossacks, who made a raid across the Kirghiz steppos, carrying no baggage save on their saddles. Af- ter crossing the Oxus they attacked the Klilvan town of Ui-getitch. and as the Khan and his army were lib- sent, the town_ was destroyed, the Cossacks carrying off a thousand women, besides many carts laden with booty The extra baggage prov- ed their undong. The Khivans over- took and surrounded them The Rus- el-EIHS had no water, but they fought for several days, quenching their thirst with the blood of the slain. At last. when most oi’ the Cossacks had been killed, those remaining surrendered and were brought back to Khlva and a life of slavery.

The Cossacks did not recover very rapidly from this 5871011: blow Yet after a time they again marched on Khiva. five hundred strong The raid was successful: but as before the Cossacks were overtaken, and the Khivans slew them to a man A third expedition was just as disastrous. The Cossacks lost their wily and instead of reaching Kiiiva they founc". themselves by the shore _of the Sea of Aral. Winter came on, frosts commenced, storms raged, Provisions were exhausted. At first the Cossacks killed and ate some of their number; finally thev reached the KhlVfliLq and voluntarily gave themselves up into slavery.

A report reached Peter the Great of Russia. that the sands of the River Amou Darya (the ancient Oxus) were auriferous, but that the Kliwaris had concealed the circum- stance lest it attracted the Russians to the Khanate. Peter wanted the gold, and. saw a way at the same time, to open up trade relations with India via Khiva.

Previous raids had failed from want of careful preparation So Peter caused forts to be constructed at points on the border and on the shores of the Caspian Sea. to act as bases of supply and of com- munication with Astrakhan. When this was done, he sent Prince Tcherkassky. with an army of 3,- 500 men and six cannon into Kiiwan Territory. They reached the banks of the Oxus lifter a march of 900 miles in the hottest season of the year. There the Khivans attacked,

and, after s. battle that lasted for three days, were repulsed. A truce was then declared, and the Prince. thinking himself secure, divider! his

rd as valuable iii the time. \\1llli‘l‘ i: lomz and rtilrl. some-

‘Iliilb; tilliilz: to 40 or f." licfwv: “r0

I‘. Fourteen below is looked‘ upon a i ire silllrlrl Z'f‘1.ii'{l 1cm \\i.i‘ ., '. the lzlilrl is \V8i<‘l‘i'.‘(l it ' cry‘ lbflll". hlli there arc stretches of tie-err iviiich iiiwi. he irlivcrscd by camels In those arid and cit-solute regions the summer temperature sometimes reaches 117 cog F‘

rlurinc the day, with the nights. rcid rlui-l almost frosty. 'I'hnre may. hoircvor. be niitierals hidden away in this inhospitable region, that will ‘Pliny the conqucrous for all incon-

troops over the country Tile Khivans again attacked and cut the troop; to pieces. ‘

The next expedition to come to

IHOLlCC, was in i839. It was head-

cd by General Perovsky. Who at- tempted to take Kiiiva in the win- ter! He had with him 4,500 soldiers twenty-two cannon, and a rocket battery. For transport he liar; thous- ands of camels and liorscs, tended by two thousand Kirghiz drivers. lie only got halfway to Kiiivii. Heavy siiowstorms, intense frost, ant. lack of provisions, forced him to retire. in the retreat he lost two- thirds of his men, nine thousand. camels, and an immense number of horses, from illness, cold, and hun-

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Not much more was heard of Khiva until the year 1859. when i-i large Russian force, avowedly for the purpose of making an amicable

.survey of the country, was despflwh-

ed to the east coast of the Caspian- Tiie Turkoiimn icsicents of the dis- trict, not liking the “survey," seiz- ed the Russian camel train and baff- gage. The commander was not able skyto map the district, recommended the erection of a fort at Krasnovodsk Bay, uncer pretence of opening friendly relations with the Turko- man; The fol-t was built in 1869. and another in 1870. further eastward. By i872 there were four- siich bases in Klrivan territory. and the Khan- iiow thoroughly 8111117185. MJP11°¢1 l9 Etigland for nelp Cvutt $¢hvW111°1Y~ the Russian Chancellor, made a statement to [lord Gran- ville in January i873, that _hc W115 going lo 50nd an expedition to Kiilvu in tile spring. to recover ffll’ Russian prisoners, and which after effecting the rescue. would Tell"

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BALANCING ACT BY- l-IANNAH LEES 1N COLLIERS (Continued)

The point is that all birds and animals and insects. to say nothing of the grass and trees and flowers have been here so long that they have developed a natural balance that would put any gymnast to shame and is apt to bring thing-s crashing down around 0111‘ cm when we uPsct it.

All over the world where lifc_ is still wild there are these balancing teams. The affair of the mountain lion, deer and eiknwillow thicket, fol-est, stream brook trout was a per- fect one with mountain lions. as it were, holding a structure that sup-

rted the brook trout. Perfect. that s, till man came along and removed the basic support. The debacle of the Western plains was another and rnorecompiicated one with the wolves actually beinB responsible for the support of the cattle by m; way of gopher: and prairie grass.

The robins. even Whllé @1161! l" doing their own little balancing act, are part of another Pretty faincy and magical act that natur- alists call a food chain. and 1118i I call magic because what happens is that one little leafy b11511. I01‘ 111' stance. ends by furnishing food for three or four dhferent and hunzfy animals. It works this way; insects eat leaves. robins eat insects. 5111111- reis and weascls and hawks eat the robins. There are dozens 01 01181115 like this all over the world and the chief mason-they work and keep on working is that practically every living thing except man who has decided to rim tninss to 5111i 111"‘- self and docs. when hestivks 1° h" own business. an amazing good job of it-reproduces with almost in- credible overabundance. repwdlw" with a big-enough margin to keel’! its own species going and still furn- ish food for the next high" 11111‘ 111 the chain. It must. you ses- li" 11 11 hadn't it wouldn't be iiere: it would all have been gobbled up.

CYCLES 0F LIFE

Here L; the way it works with; robins. Each pair that builds s. nes 15 apt. 9,0 have two broods a. Y8K!‘ 0f four eggs each. which means that if all them hatched and Brew uP. come fall there would be ten robin-i instead of two. But ro-bins having no use. remember. l0? the 911393513’ populated life we like so muchl. there is only room for the origlnfi two robins or for some other two. So each yiear 6181111’ D91‘ "l" D1 the robin population has to die. is really predestined t0 die to keep 150111? other species alive, just as a 0t 0 worms and insects were 919411851411“! w die to keep the robins alive.

It all sounds verv sad and 011191 by our humanitarian standing‘: but it is simply the Wsv 111s Wm outside our civilization and ev

‘and a an: battalions. he said: that

That $541k“. what. the Count dld send Was an slimy of 14.000 111°11- 54 cannon, 6 mortars, 2 mitrailleus- c5 (machine-guns) and for transP°T1 19,200 camels. The Khivans 111111 11° chance: the cilvPll-Bl. Khlva- W“ wk‘ en, and an indemnity of two mil- lion roubles imposed.

That was all very W11. 11111 111°“ had been scarcely any "$11M"! 101' the leaders. A tribe of Tiirkomzins who had been on friendly tom-is with the Russians. was selected to provlse g little bloodshed. A detach- ment under a general. was seni- =- gainst this tribe. 011 $01119 PIBWXI. with orders to spare neither man. woman, nor child This was liter- ally carried out; the villages were set on fire. and any bedridden in- mates perished in the flames. Chile'- ren. trying to escape were thrust back into the burning buildings. News of this kind was long in reaching England, for Englishmen were refused permission to travel into those parts It came to light afterwards that Khiva, the capital, had put up little resistance (for its defenders had" fled). but was bom- barded long after the white flag was hoLs-tcd. A native merchant, who had found his way to India, said: "It was fearful. s0 much bloodshed: so many friends killed; women and ohiidren too; such cruelties War is a dreadful thing.”

THOSE GREMLIN! It is a matter of common kilow-

lcdg-e that these spflifis P181’ P111011- cal Jokes on aviators; and another

Mme Kilbrlde. Port nu

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There will he a sale by Public Auction of ‘stock- and Farm Implements on the premises of John Wood, Briickley Point Road, adjoining the Charlottetown

ers throughout the Province who have anything to

are asked to list the same with Mr. Wood and bring 111cm to the premises during the morning of the sale.

A minimum commission will be charged for de- mcnt of costs of sale only. '

ff weather unfit the sale will be held at the same

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kind, we are told, causes mishaps

_to radio broadcasts. The latter, it

seems, are "gi-omes." There is a third species. which haunts print- ing-offices and is known scientific- ally as "Gremiinu; typographlcus." (with the aecent on the last syll- able.) It is this species that per- petrates the slips that pass in the typo Somelmes the (‘it's hold n kind of field day and invest the manuscript with a degzee of in- coherence that must be very puzzling to the reader and no doubt equally delightful to the writer In a dis- course Oil certain wnrcls l rr-cd: "I-lalistones comes from an 01d.

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J. A. LAWSON,

"fairly often inside, wiicn it corines to that. If it didn't. if no animal reyecl 0n any other animal, we'd ave no squirrels or foxes, no lions or wolves and very, very few birds. The Hudson's Bay Company up in Canada has been keeping records of the furs that pass through its hands almost as long as it has been in existence. which is a pretty long time, and through these records naturalists have found out some surprising things about the way tiiese food chains I've just been telling you about are linked to- gethcr. Take the snowshoe ra-bblt, which the Hudson's Bay Company is ititerested in not only because the ladies like to wear rabbit skins but also because rabbits are the fav- orite food of animals like iynxes and foxes that ladies like to wear even more. Well, records over a long time show that the snowshoe- rabbit. population up in the Hud- son's Bay region seems to have a. ten Year cycle. Apparently every ten years comes a. rabbit boom. Then for about three years rabbits are all over the place, as many as six thousand in the square mile. natur- alists have estimated, and that is a lot of rabbits. Then all of a sud- den. the next year there is scarcely a rabbit to be seen or caught. Then gradually during the next seven years they build up to speak again. Nobody knows exactly what makes those peaks occur, though they do know that the sudden scar- city comes from epedcmics of dis- ease. Just as with people in the slums, the raibbits gradually get so overcrowed that. they become extra susceptible to germs and are carried off in droves. But the most inter- esting thing about the rabbit cycles is that the lynxes and foxes that live on them have a ten year pop- ulatlon cycle too. but. always Just one year behind the rabbits. It's beautifully logical. ‘The years the rabbits are all over the place the lynxes and foxes eat more breed faster. and raise more young ones. ‘The year the rabbits fall off the lynxes and foxes are all over the place and easier to trap, which ls wily the Hudson's Bay ‘Company registers them as over abundant that year. But they also can't find anything to eat so they die of star- vation. Result: ncxt year a lynx and a fox shortage.

Life in the raw is full of beaut- ifully inierdopendant cycles like that. naturalists are discovering. The field niice and lemmings in- Lalbrador, for instance, have a three to four-year population cycle, and

year behind again. comes the popul- ation cycle of the artic fox, the one that drapes the gals in blue and white fox furs. and incidentally is awfully fond of mice. But the arctic fox isn't the only one affected by the mouse cycle. The year mice are so plentiful and easy to catch, the

flee north away from the wolves for safety, and that means the northern Indians who depend on caribou for food have to be satisfied that year with ptarmigan a. kind of northern

i.iie mice are plentiful farther north too, and the foxes who usually live on ptarmigari are eating mice, which leaves plenty of ptarmigan for the Indians. And to carry it right outside of Labrador, fishermen find salmon and sea trout more plentiful in big mouse years because, since the fishes natural enemies are feeding on mice, there are more fish than usual.

Probably the most remotely affec- ted cycle is that of the sand grouse, which every eleven or twenty-two years migrate from Asia into Eu- rope. These mlgrations, naturalists think. are affected believe it or not- by sunspois. The naturalists got together wwiih astronomers and found that every eleven years the sun has an extra bad-eruption of those spots you hear so much about, and while they're at the height they cause electrical storms and alter the usual rain and storm tracks did you know that rain and storms have tracks? They have and they've been charted. Well, when the rain doesn't fall where it's expected and falls where it isn't expected, that effects the levels of various lakes, and a good many of the larger ones. 80 up and down with a regular eleven vear pulse. Arid that quite naturally affects the feeding, breed- ing and migrating ha-blts of the birds that live around the lakes and probably is what makes the sand grmise start out on his eleven- or twenty two year pilgrimage.

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A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW

Probaibly if we'd been farmers some twenty or so years back and had seen hawks carry off some of our chickens we'd have worked hard lust as they dlrl fnr a bounty on hawks. We probablv wouldn't have stopped any more than they did to find out. that, in most districts there are well over a dozen kinds of hawks, that only two or three of them eat birds of any sort tn amount to anything. and chickens form ii very tinv percentage of those birds. Certain hawks will take the risk of stealing chickens if thev are starving. and some in- dividual hawks who have got n taste M barnyard fowl even prefer them. But if a farmer is smart he will shcm the particular hawk that is troubling his particular barn- yard and loaves the rest alone. for most hawks live on mice and insects arvi other birds.

w» "noel-meat now believes. and so probably do voii. if you stop to think about it. that we have lest MO manv railw- anima)»; and birds al- ready by thickhcaded destruction. w... think tlv-r ivr‘ll feel awfully snn-v Owflvli’ 4"‘ thlrtv m- a hundred vciirs from now if we wake u-n and HM that we have a crept man‘: "W" varieties of hirris and animals w-q w-a have rmv. Wm. think we can carry out. our civilization and mm w r"lO\'l'lI lilo much more if u... v w. w» ingenu- and birds and -»'~~~'~ ~~i .-~~.i*i~~.u~i land: to work things out. for them-elves an...“ u"... w‘... boon doing It fr»- ....-. ,4 w...‘ M"; w“; do it for thousands more ff we only have sense enough to let them.

right along after it, but lagging on»,

wolves live on mice instead of car" looked vefywlbOu. so the caribou don't have to

grouse. But that's all right because‘

1 TIMELY NOTES ON TOPICS CONNECTED WITH

Silver Fox Farming "

The Canadian National Fox Breeders’ Association executive committee met in Summerside last

have the annual meeting of the Association at Sumi-nerside June 15th. A committee consisting of Messrs. George Ciillbeck. Lowell Hancock and Don Stewart was ap- pointed to make arrangements for the meeting and select outstanding speakers for the occasion. It will be thirteen years since a similar meet- ing was held in Summersice. we understand it was in 1930 that the last annual meeting took place there. The practise has been to hold meetings in various provinces for the better aoconunodatlon of directors and to give the Association a really national set up

When June 15th arrives the di- rectors will have a verv goor; flC—. count to give of their conduct of the Association during the past year. It is on the up and up, fiarticularly because of securing of t e market- ing of new types such as plat- inums,. silver platinums and white faces for most of the large ranches in Canada. The results of the sales _in January, February and March for these types was good. in fact better than good, while silvers also Proved in the last sale. Prospects are that therewill be no decline llllfl that the remaining pelts held by the Association will bring b; good prices as those realized in March,

Don Stewart, President of the Canadian National Silver Fox Breed- ers’ Association, was in Charlotte. town on Wednesday giving a radio A R P. talk that was carefully pre_ PRICE, well delivered and must have appealed to the large number of listeners who heard it

"Good and bad" luckls reported all over the province, but we hear more of small litters this season than we have heard for a number of years. It is doubtful whether the 61W W111 l-Werflgic anythnig near last season, which was an exceptiolb 811i’ 800d one. Just what the causc

ls the less than normal snowfall Years when there is a good snow- fall the litters are usually larger and production throughout ranches is better. Then again the snow dis- appearing in mid-March icft dens more unprotected and the cold we.“ ther of recent weeks may have caused mortality in pups when born.

Thereare exceptions to every sort of conditions and Frank McKay. East Royalty. looked at a. little of 111118 PUP-s, While Vincent McQuaio of Charlottetown had the pleasure of viewing nine sired by ii full bro. ther of the male in Mr. McKay's ranch. which was sold by him to Mr. McQuairi

Litters 0f nine are very exception- al and the first authentically re- ported litter of nine that we re- member of was in the George Low- 15 T311011. Willi which J. A. Webster andolhers were connected All nine survived to maturity allt.‘ were nlgg pups, that anyone would like to own,

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Dr. Leo Frank, who gave up fox ranching temporarily. we hope, to EITEHge in commercial activities, has ad armost successful season ro- DTC-ienllllg the firm of W, l-[_ Schwartz 8c Solis, Lid, Halifax so successful was the Doctor that. lle ran out of goods to sell. Every- where he went he was given a good BTEBNHK and we are pleased to say the customers who placer. their con- fidence in him hsrl no reason to regret it

Incidentally we would 11kg u; Point out that Dl‘ Frank was sound 111 1115 Jlldzinont wiieil he hred the smcini “ultramarlne" bliie type platiiiums which he exhibited at the Provincial Fox Show. i941, It. is true that they were "different" and therefore could not be classified with types like LaForest. but that very difference is what the trarle is look- ing for today -tha.t bluish cast simi1ar_to some of the better type Norwegian platinums. The Doctor had the satisfaction of having his iudizrilcnt verified by the prices he obtained for his pelts and we breed- ers were the losers by not having the vision to buy them alive Per- haps iri the above we spoke trio quickly, because there was one man, Frank McKay. East Royalty, niin did buy a female of the Dr. l-‘rank Dlflllmlm type. that gave him a litter of four pups this year that [money cannot buy.

Advice from Washington, D C , is that the office of Price Admin- istration is planning to sot specific dollars and cents ceiling prices on raw furs. The administrator. Mr Brown. is of the opinion that the present ceiling prices are somewhat. lnflllequate and for till; reason Mr Brown said’ 0. P. A Ls faking stops to apPOint an industry advisory committee in the raw W111 be asked to advise the n10 in the shipment of specific dol and cents prices and replace the present ceiling. He pointed out, however, that because of the nrriiro of raw furs the establishment of such specific ceilings is a different insk.

The reason for the furor lii fha raw fur prices for mink, muskrat, beaver. raccoon. ermine, etc, have been climbing because of the law of supnly and‘ demand. rind it ‘is

Biscuits.

SllVQl‘.di"bIl.I‘€1l‘y ceiling set March,

Tuesday evening and arranged w O P

P11 ls we cannot say, but; perhaps jtvthG sheds should be well bedded

1942. when the market was in a depress- ed state. It is fortunate that the . . A. has a man like Mr. Brown at its head because he ha: good sense and judgment and weighs the fflcts and takes a. sympathetic view of the other man's difficulties We feel confident that nothing will be done that will tend to injure the fur trade, but on the other hand there will be no leeway given for runaway prices.

Lam son, Fraser & Huih. Inc. New York. ielc. n raw fur sale April 7th and the turnover was extremely good. all the merchandise being sought after at good prices. Red fox was 80 per eent sold, the top price being $17 for western Canad- ian ones and twos. Grey fox, whose habitat is Pennsylvania and western New England. was 60 per cent sold with a top of $3 50. Cross fox was 4i per cent sold and prices looked ulp verv considerably. " ecimcn s verles brought $50; pale silveries $32 to $36; ordinary $35 to $21; dark silverfes $26 to $34; pale good quai- ity $21 to s26; blue fox brought from 5') to $69 for best grades; weak and slightly rubbeC $35 to $48; slightly silvery $32 to $50; dark and slight.- ly silvery $34 to $31; low silvery $21 to s32; low darks $6 to $16.

The little things to attend to this time of year are the supplying of fresh water to mother fox and" pupg daily, or 3t least every two days. and stepping up of feed so that the growing pups will be supplier‘. with plenty of nourishment, the worming of the pups when from 15 to 20 days old. according to the nature of your ranch, and the following up of lhis with a second dosing in eight or at most ten days if necessary. All pups should be EXBIITIIIQG‘ for earmites and as a preventative ears should be treated with eiiimlte lotion. 'I'hey should be looked over very carefully for fleas and if they are harboring any they should be treated with flea powder

When the pa an put in binds with hay or straw if wire bottoms are used. because wire 1s cold‘ and dampness and cold are liable to bring on rickets, which ls malfor- mation of the limbs. The present season is favorable for the develop- ment of rickets because it has been damp and cold throughout. Your feet; should contain cod liver oil at this season of the year and either some bone meal or ground green bone. The cod liver oil and bone meal or ground green bone are pre- ventatives of rickets and therefore ir/erg important constituent,‘ of

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.191’ Pflylh! more attention

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partmeuts of Agriculture. the Prince riculturo and the Prince Edward Lsla tee. Its purpose is to assist in every p

quirements of our country in this tim Deputy Minister of Agriculture, C Seed: Grain [

A number of inquiries are conning to the Provincial Department of Agriculture regarding seed grain

For the information of the general public. we would point out that the Department has secured a quantity of good seed oats, Elrbzlii and Victory and to some extent Banner, ity of barley for seed. This grain

will all be inspector. rind only Num- ber 1 Grade seed will be distributed. The quantity secured by the De- partment will serve a; a backlog against any shortage of supplies

We do not wish to have ii stampede of orders presented for this sr-ec.

Farmers are advised to secure their requirements through their local seed merchant, or from some local supply. In this way, it L; hoped. the with the quantity in the hands of the Department of Agriculture. any shortage of seed may be avoid- ed‘. The Department is distributing this pain at approximately $100 per bushel for oats and $150 for barley. An attempt will be mride to have this grain at depots not far distant from the demand.

Grow More Barley

Witi-i a largely increased ling, poultry. and cattle population, the question of grain supplies is ex- ceedingly important. The Deputy Minister of Agriculture his consis- ldflily urged farmers in this prov- ince to increase their barley acre- age At no time is it more necessary than now to pay attention to bar- ley. or a mixtures production. The total food value of our grain erop may be tremendously increased‘ by» an expansion of this production. The Department of Agriculture 113-! Available this year, substant- ial quantities of Number l, chm- lotteiown Number 80 seed barley. In addition to this supply, there sfiflnl t0 be considerable barley Offering We would urge farmers to place their orders early and secure 3- qllfillmy Of this good seed for the PIE-vent season's production. I?! 1942. approximately one tnlllion bushels o! grain, taking all feeds coming in under the Free Freight P119103’. and converting them into the basis of grains, were import- er. into this province. We can sub. stantially assist our feed program _ to our varieties and types of grain. Bar. l?’ is rrrioa certainly one of the $70118 11C rs in our v . production. n e 510d‘

New Wool Policy

At the same time care must be taken not to give too large a quant- ity of bone meal or ground green bone as they are constipating.

The Swedish Government Price Board has placed gelling prices on fox polls and squirrels. Contrary to the general impression sliver fox famiing in Sweden has not been greatly curtailed, and while the prices do not give a very large tnargln to the producer yet they are sufficient to keen him interested iii the business. The Swedes are planning to be in a. position to ship live foxes as soon n; the present conflict is over.

Beaver, which from the earliest days of the fur traders, have been a staple article and were the fur particularly sought for when the Hudson's Bay Ccmpany was formed in 1674. and the distinction of creat- ing a. new all time high when a lot of Quebec-Labrador beaver sold in the Montreal fur sales Febraiirv 19th at. an average of $64 per skin

Fromm Bros. have diversified their fur forming activities. A few years ago they secured a number of Nor- wegian platinum foxes. and prior to that had‘ added blue foxes to their herds Now thev are in n position to offer capes made from blue foxes l‘lil.'f‘(l on their own ranches. It will probably be a couple of years more before tliev will become serious far- tors in the platinum field.

Fur farming although an infant industry of British Columbia. has acquired considerable importance. The nurnbct- of animals on ranches inert- at the and of i941. or a year iluo last December, totalled 29.619 mink helm: 27.060 and silver fox i.-

ivero sold for $222,879.

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BISCUITS

Just arrived Carlot of Ross Miller whole Can be obtained from Roy White. Carter's Warehouse, Grafton St.

J. ROBERT MUTCH

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(By The Eanadian Press) APRIL 17, 1918 _Britisli repulsed cnnan attacks south of Kemmei

of Ypres, halted a German‘ drive, taking 700 prisoner; Baron Stephen Burian appointed to succeed Count

Czernin an Austro-I-Iungarian for- eign minister. APRIL 18. 1818 -Gcrman thrust

and Givenchy repulsed. New British Military Service Act raising service age limit to 5i became law vis- count Milnoi-‘succeoded Lord Derby

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558. During tile VPR!‘ 17.708 ‘1(".I.“._

‘The attention of our sheep breed- ers is directed to a new wool pollgy which will shortly be announced in 11111‘ 7111s Policy provides for the Plvmen. of a four cent (4a) bonus Per pound on all wool that has been glrotlggly taken care of and‘ satis- T§° 1.7 Dre-pared for marker, 116W hfls- been n serious lack o! anenuml Paid to the handling of 1116 farm flock in so far as the grade of wool is concerned bi... évgcojlkicontalning seeds, Weeds, l“... m 811d other refuse will bring 15 Year {mm l?" i" fiflecn emits 2E1; pgélnc: loss than the fleece that reflect enitpropmly cared for and own s a entinn on the part by n". er In this connection too it may be announced that the 1:19p; sliclerptzPoivlcy initiated in i the éeasoaiiifbe continued durlng ‘or th g1 0 1943 Neglect to flppl‘. time zen (ImUF Offered ‘n51 3'0“ 111 era] -of (‘in 116k of krioivledce in gen. 0 T101161’. prevented qiii'r fqllffllbell 7mm ‘obtaining liq bone...

“IS BREADM

Silver Tip Breadmraf. is fnlislvd. in the manufacture of Silver Tip dried, but toasted, changes the pr which puts it i-nto a digestive c intact the value of the ingredients.

Broadmest is the most woi-rlerfnl When soaked in milk or wafer (he

up. raw eggs.

Freight prepaid on 500 lb. orders.

Manufactured hy

Silver Tip Biscuit 0o. MONCTON, NEW

lee your Fred Dealer or write

We have a quantity of N

also Number i Seed Bill: freight paid l0 your rzli accompany order.

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also a. silbstaiiiial quant- "

tablespoonful

BRUNSWICK

ferent varieties t0 sell to the fzirirrcrs at 'l‘hree Dollars ($3.00) per hag of one hundred pounds,

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THE FARM FRONT

‘Hits Department will be maintained by Provincial and Federal De-

Edvvard Island Federation of A:- nd Agricultural Supplies Commit- ossible way the expansion of farm

production in this province 1n 1943 and thus contribute u; the food re.

e of need. Farmers are asked to

forward sound practical suggestions that will assist this crime to m0

harlottetown. ‘

fits Those interested in cstabl,‘ in; new flocks in i943 shOlild. app I early in the season for an oiliiinh of the policy

Departmental Servfmu

paruneiit. qumtznti;

nnr. :ilat tile ation and s between the partments d‘ lClii Period. I.’ .

oflthe fnm... i ls an;- problc-nl '.\ .. . having cifficultyi .'

Bwinl Breeders‘ Note Book

1. Do not keep l sow for br lng purpose; llfllESl she ls of bar.

type ii'zlhoil' serious iizzixs 1r. cor. firmation.

2. Do r10: select l sow fr: crew! ing if her litter mates puck]

poorly.

3 If PCS-bible do not select. a w- for breeding if she - indoors the pl‘(Z\".I)l.5 of exercise am. mi." in the growing 50w in bad mothers and . .

4 Did your brood sow m from a herd free from rubercuicszsa

flour sou}

5. Before you breed get a rating on the breeding a“.- tflle of all near-by." boars iron: ‘l representative nf tile Domini/i i". duction Services in your plot-m»

6 Dir; your sow pick up hog lrii from the boar when she war, bran If so, act quickly i

7 Have your sow gaining l flesh just before you breed lie-r 1 This means larger litters, ‘

8. Give the bred sow a heapir. of a good miner mixture every day. ‘fills nieli. vigorous pigs and prevents _ fever at farmwing time. ll

9. If you must keep the indoors, give her some clean sod every day. Save a few barrels sons for the winter If you ram _ got erlnh, than treat the gout -').".<‘ a month with reduced iron fr. ii feed.

1O Remember grain and rc are not enough for s bred row , She niust have some protein add from milk. fishnlr-al or tarikage