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1 week nae been ‘on the m pfity favorable for mach- “ mwxhla? theymwuokieerglugwfg

lc are f“ p . This is one of W, most, at platters m; the rancher can attend to m oonsidrabie study and time

be Spent on it. Ono has awn: look around and see the mwossful ranchers. those who

flu that it f‘; in selection which iluoush the years that “drying results. The Qch breed of foxes hinges on me principal matter of selection. it was lust as true forty or fifty years ago when Charles Dalton. Robert Ouiton Siles Rayner and 0mg;- founders of silver fox (gflnmil were in their heyday as it g now. We heard Sir Charles ipalton say tbs/t when he and Robert Oulton wore building up

ve such of

have “In experience in plaizlnums that many of our fox tanner friends here have but we do put a. great deal of time orig Xi

th ht into th new examine the platlr-rum

i "Crayfish" . very Rood platinum and we do not get good results even with., Norwegians by using three-quart- t tiline h t illkliind mus u w a e u; i the best results in his ow; "fir?

Buyers do not like dark under- iurred piatlnums they do want the types that, give that bluish cast which was what made four pelts of ours sell for $220. each at the January auction through the Canadian National Sliver Fox Breeders‘ Association Every

Mom Q surface oi the land. clllmato. and c

1 1 tin .' 3mm; possess a high degre oi natural mtg; ifiifinfimbe, 1s to kg: fertility. In fact ‘the greater clear of very dark underfur 9m appears '-° b° lmerbf-

‘Nearly all flip, soils are deficient n

Farmer-In Japan iias Tough Joli

the minis o! view o! th

soil. Japan may be led as one of the poorer agricultural- cmmtries. About ‘l5 per cent oi

that country is hilly and mount- ainous the slopes of which are usually too steep or too thin for ordinary culti tion. Becausethe mountain regions occupy the central and greater part of tho country. there are no extensive plains as are found in contin- ental countries. The" typical plains of Japan are mainly nar- row. coastly lowlands.

With regard to climate there is enough rain on the whole to meet the needs of Japanese agri- culture. but the soils do not

nitrogen. and only by very careful attcntlon to the needs of each particular soil situationcan large production be obtained. Nevertheless. large crops are grown with many people on little land. the fields of Japan

able for star-gazing. When it not raining (or snowing)

me back to my old pastime. As looked u

a little explanation. the, Pole Star: it is. the

rection. Spaced almost at oi the heavens. The Dipper

one to find thr- latter? Looking

- NEWSY NOTES -

This fall has been very unfavor-

was there was a thick canopy of clouds that hid the stars. last week, however, there was one clear night that sent

t of the eastern window, about 7 p.m., I saw a brilliant dis- play of stars and realized that I was looking at the "Capella quar- ter" of the heavens That may need

Almost everybody can point out ‘sailor's lode-star, the friend oi everyone that wishes to know his true di- equal distances around lt are the Dipper, Vega" Cassiopeia, and Capella, each giving its name to its own quarter nnd “Cassiopelifs Chair" are fairly well known, the former especially; but Vega and Capella are not. How is

from the eastern win- dow at this time of the year one

sees a misty cluster of stars, (he SQS-"leflglh without breadth" - plemdes. or "seven Sisters" Us ‘like old Euclid‘s definition. Yes, some people call them, (Others in Things 599" BYE greater than

lng. Without it, the countryman feels, with Alexander Selkirk, that he is "out of humanity's reach." The sales, so dear to his heart, ii not to his purse, come and go and he is not there. There is no "hatches, matches and despatches" column to keep track of. He can say with the old general or philos- opher’ or whatever he was- 1 hayent time to look it up—"Per- dldi diam", I have lost a day! The radio, though excellent in its way, is no substitute. The listener, I find, can repeat only quarter oi the news he hears: some item catches his interest, and while he mulls it over the announcers voice flows on a most unheeded. That of course is not the radio's fault; it is tho imperfection of the human factor. As for the advertisements, the radio does a good lob. for its poi-- sistence, day after day. will bore into the dullest consciousness: but it ls not able (as the newspaper is) to punctuate its ads with at- tractive pictures of willowiy dam.

mn- ilne herd of silvers that m“ would in; them ou dear sunny

loci-ed and pelted. By the m careful selection. with an colonhconfgurixptation and alit tev up e gllagnivficent herd of silver the world had ever seen. today the writer can look as can many others in this

oi Dalton and Oulton foxes. clear bluish blade color.

t o a day in December ‘and if there was a shade of brownish- the iur they would be is;

eye

iur most foxes Even back prov- lace and recall the beautiful types

the t the market that there was last year

resilience oi the fur the bright- ness of the silver and the clear colored brushes and tips.

it was not the Dalton foxes. the Oulton foxes. the dtayner foxes or any of the best breeds developed here that gave the brownish tinge to tho black which a so mu in avldeme. That um).- from Newfoundland where a type oi black that never should lllVo been introduced here was rough in the wilds. Other blacks from Quebec were impo they had been bred in captivity bv Johann Bah and while not up w island stock in quality were ood. Thenthere were Ontario loxes brought here and they did not have quality neither did the wstern silvers. with the exception of some that came from Peace River such as the Pure Canad- ian Company imported. They were beautiful foxes. no question about it. and their strain. -- ed in quality through the

time we looked at those foxes in the shed we would remark that .thev had a distinct bluish cast and they were clear and matched ier-iiactiy. Of course considerable credit, for the price must go to the graders who placed the four of them in a ‘lot and a buyer from South America who wanted a particularly nice cape for a clicm paid the price.

This’ season there will be double he number oi platinums on the

but if the iur trade is in nn op- timistic mood there is nothing to prevent their being sold as Can adian platinums have made

reputation for themselves that has gone far and wide. There is a. big market in the United States‘ and if exchange is available a tremendous market in south A- rncrlca. W.- are all looking hope- fully forward to the first auction sale of the season which will be held late next week or the follow- ing week in Montreal. the reports of which from George Callbeck will be carried in the Guardian

And now we swing back to the matter of fox shows and have, through the energetic and kind artterltion of Lowell W. Hancock 0i Summerslde. who was present. a first hand account of the Oiiio Michigan National Fox and Mink Show held at Grand Rapids last week. W» turn on Lowell... "The Ohio-Michigan show is just, over

iiad 500 foxes and over 500

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are cultivated intensively They are treated more carefully than many a garden in other parts d! the world. Although handicapped with poor soil in many districts. the farmers by intensive appli- cation of labour and abundant application oi fertilizers achive high yields per acre Two suc- cessive crops are grown each year on a large part of the I-md. Th,- fact that recently 5.492000 farm families cultivated 14.896.- 000 acres indicates that the size of tn.- farm unit is small. averag- ing 2'7 acres Th- lrv" standard nf living oi the vast‘ majority of farmers explains in part, at least whv the country's small cultiv- able acreage can support such a large number of people engaged in farming

A government survey oi farru income from all sources from i918 to i934 revealed that the exception of i918. agricultur- al income each year fell short, of meeting household expenditure and forced farmers to depend upon non-agricultural income to make up the deficit. The income from other sources ranged from 23 to 3i pcr cent oi the total in; come In i936 expenditures 0n the part of farmer owners aver- aged 841 yen. or 2 30 yen per day (a yen equals 29 cents). Asthese households averaged 3 able-bod- ied adults. the actual household expenditure is less than one ven per person per day. It ls only through such smaLl expenditures that the meager farm incomes permit tho mainrity 0f Jfiilllmese

see twelve or thirteen stars in (he group, without optical aids; while the telescope reveals hundreds more.) Midway between the Plei- ades and the horizon is a small group shaped like a “V" lying on its side; there is a brighter rnd redder star at the tip of the lower arm of the V. This little triangle is the head oi Taurus (the Bull) and the red slur is Aidebaran, the Bull's eye. Taurus is the original long-horn, as one finds by produc- ing the arms of the “V" to whole two brightish stars form the tips

things heard" and so wo miss d511,)’ D5961‘. Worst of all, when the mailman doesn't come. you look in vain for your Newsy Notes in the Saturday's issue-to your in. finite disappointment no doubt!

Scheinfelds new "d Me" - l0 dig up some notes on the Silbjéfti. made many yea-gs ago. Well, I found them. but they are not easy to present, columns of

the will

Men Versus Women

I promised, when reviewing Mr. book "Women

in the

a newspaper becnuge

the sight of three bright

angled triangle. The brightest

will preserve the chart.

Auriga, in which Capella is

the heavens"; Canis Major, Sirius, the brightest star in sky; Canls Minor (the Lesser Duiz) whose gem is the brilliant

unrivalled galaxy.

lllflE, it was iveli-knuwn to Greeks and Romans, who gave

of his horns. Just a little farther and the stargnzer is rewarded by stars disposed in the form of a right- of the three is Capella. We have far- Pd forth and found our goal; and if my companion is methodical he

The Capella quarter of ihe Hill‘- ry heavens, includes some of the most notable winter constellations; (he principal star; Taurus, with its two star clusters, the Plelndes and the Hyndes; Orion, “the Golconda of with

the

first magnitude star Procyon; and Gum- ini with the famous twins, Castor and Pollux; together make up an

Now for Capella itself. A brill- lant white star of the first magni- (he

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"WY are more or less _in tabular form, Just as m classifying planlgl To reduce them to readable form will require ingenuity but rn try it. '

The difference between the sexes is (l) basal or primary; (2) physi. CR1; (3) sPlfmlali and (4) mental. K With the basal difference, im- important. as it is, we need not. con- cern ourselves here, It is biological and relates io reproduction only. The Physical differences. The noics lock ai. these from two as- pects which may he labelled (i) special and (2) general (l) Man tends to have prominent features. B Square Jaw, sunken eyes because of a rugged overhanging forehead and if masterful, an aquillne nose. In woman the tendency is for the jaw and chin to be rounded, the eyes to be protubcrani. the [orc- houdsnrooth. and not. overhanging and the nose lino and more of ihc “GreciaJW iype. (Among ihe tumu-

dyln: industry became so

able to imitation by using fox and tutnlnn it out as a black that the vogue was for silvers which could not be imitated. As a matter of fact painstaking

fox pelt but the imitation was easily noticed and could not fool anyone.

4 ‘Ibday the rancher has to be farniker with a great many types and to have an. appreciation of "W" quality and the proportion which he is going in keep of each. For instance o must i uro out lust how many white ace fe- males he wants to me. He knows Lllliiilklteuslgélti from fléhea: tfiat.

a e m s ver (wales or the white rm females

:0 silver mo not‘ n strains He mint mskgu up‘ V“ m 0t“ to use a white

ind

i800 male with

or not. Where that, male is fumd and very bright, cgffykig the silver up m the peck. it osn be a very good help in i853‘ Jkitltl“ in‘. will not do anyone rough I“ Oi “"1750 the type of whi to select

m um or "l! three enter fersdles with "l9 eXpectat on of getglng one:

sire

were a, sg... .... std-nan: cont nuo ruining Norwegians.

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ifiifffffiifv stag

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u- Krand and

mink of all types. The show was in the section of the Grand

Municipal sarage Floor »= was '10 X 240 The

ion was ‘l0 X 180. All crates plum] on tables single tlcr good north light with bleachers built at iha 80 degree angle pro- viding excellent nccomodatlrm for the audience. The attendance in- cluded ranchers from practically

overy state where fur taming is carried on and W H. C Ruth- ven. oyd B Pollock Giiroy

The banquet was held on Wednesday evening and over 500 attended. Dr. E. LeFoi-esi, was toasimastcr. I was one of this guest speakers. National Barber Show (radio stars) male quartette sang and there was orchestra music and dancing provided for entertain- ment after.

Here are the winners 0f the reserve champions Grand Champion. Gil- roy Bros, Oakv-llle. Ont Reserve Champion W. if C. Ruthven. Alliston. Ont: white Marked

Grand Champion. W H. Reserve Champion

. rest: Pearl Plat- um (Silver

Blue) Grand ghmp1°n_ w_ ,C Ruthvcn. Reserve. 0- iupids. Michigan:

Hudson, an; Pearlatina.

Grand Champion. Giiroy Bros Reserve Champion. DI 5- 9 Moore. Cadillac. lvilchigan: Giac- ier Blues Grand champion. 1-- B. Pollock. Reserve Champ l1- J. E. Lallbrcot; Platinum Silver. Grand Champion. Glenn Stock Farm Idaho. Reserve: Charles Awvey. Milford. Michigan. Platinums. Cvfhlid champion. Oil roy Bros. Reserve Champion. H o Hudson. an: Rapids. Mlchlaen The big chop from Black Fox 3513mm sends his retards to Y0"

Silvers.

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‘ m thouxhtfu tasks“ to the

keep us ppeninwl

farmers to engage in farming. The; agriculture ls~ 110i; SUI- iicieirtly profitable enterprise for most Japanese farmers. especial- ly for tenants and part tenants is further indicated by a state- ment of (he Japanese Bureau of Statistics to tho effect that the average tenant could count uti- on a surplus only when the area of his farm was larlii-‘l’ than 4-5 acres. The fact that by far the largest number of farmers till an area less than 2.4 acres is clear evidence says Fbreign Agricult- ure. of the difficulty of Janine-W agriculture as a usiness In Japan the output per acre large compared to that of most western countries but the acreage per farm is so small that the total income per family is only a fraction of that in most western mun-tries

“Feed Brood-Sow Well In Winter

Many inoouirles are made by farmers each vcar about weak and dead pigs in the sprinB litters and of sows without sufficient milk for their pigs These conditions gen- erally result from the improper feedirul of the bred sOWs. it is good business to make sure that tho bred sows will be well fed this coming winter. says 2.8 Fraser. Division of Animal Husbandry. ‘Central Experimental Farm Ot-

awa.

.The main essential ih the-win- ter feeding of brood sows is to supply bone and muscle building feeds in ample amounts to main- taln the sows in medium flesh. Bone building material in the form of a swine mineral mixture should be included in the sow's feed un- less a mixed protein-mineral sup- plement is used. Muscle building protein is essential to the develop- ment of the unborn litter. Tho milk lay-products. mixed protein concentrate tankage. and fish meal are all good protein feeds for this purpose vitamins are necessary. and here the most easily available feeds are well cured ol- falfa and clover hay. One of tho

the name whit-Ii means "the litilc she-goat" or Kid. What is SiY-illlfifil‘, the ancient Peruvians, who knew

proiiibcrant eyes wore hold in be the sign of a talkative disposition.‘-

ieur phrenclogisis of our village

times hrightcr than the sun, that it has a companion star re voiving so closely around it separate the discs, Rhyparography I Used fills word in Newsy Nnic

a fortnight ago. Ii comes the Greek “rhyparos,"

he usually painted, It

certain chapters in thc Rev. Lau rence Stern's “Sentimental Jour

expects from a clergyman.

The Daily Paper

trouble in our mail service

when the daily "paper" was miSS

_______.__.___ it in a hay rack outdoors

duality some other vitamin ter though more expensive vita min feed is a feeding oil such n cod liver oil Then lastly maior portion oi the

ration will consist cf and wheat. be taken not to

asthese might make overiat and clumsy

simplest ways of feeding the hay is to_ give the sows free scceu. to

Ottawa .

means (he same thing. I must illiffl on irusi the statement of astrono- mers who say that Capella is 120 1nd

(hat no telescope has yet. been able lo

from moaning dirty, and I first heard it applied to some of Hogarlhs pictures which were of a lewder kind than those was used too, by Professor Rhys to describe

ne_y"—a book very unlike what one There must have been a spot of

this fail, for there were several tluys

_ When hay is not availabil- or is of ee should be supplied An even bet-

the brood sow

common farm grains such as osis. barley A mixture or the grains is desirable and care should includ too great a proportion of barley and wheat the sows

There are many combinations of feeds lllliilblo for the winter feed-

lnflgéh blwldmifléughfl ‘Dfgfif; last of the series. that of the men- ae o! the Reds “villain, and tal differences. in next week's coal-rim with these gtrich Iaitiibcgitgtznla: "m"- l); whtfiisififitiaa indicates An Early Telex-aw» (1) i

if??? oi§§§§s§"§§“'§?nf$ tgwpgf some years lll§lfl "i393 I W"

. t _ quit row up. wa e over to minim Deanne“ n! Azrmm u" a diestgnt vrlilage to visit a cousin

"om, of Eur u 1 ,, . (2) More generally, man has (a) sclcngeg called iolpifzuflxnlllflffllos/Dfllgpl depth 0' "owc- ‘b’ “mum “I ’ ‘ shoulders, (c) hour-ii. (d) bodily

firmness. (o) ~g~~nyzlh, (f) nnd ac. five endurance. Against these wom- an‘ posscsscs (a) n finer, iriqlzer voice, (h) hrcadill of hips. (c) finer, smoother skin. (d) borlily softness. (c) cncrgyq instead of sirenctlnl which enables her to run the house and rear (hc children, an exacting task. (f) and not the least of her qualities is passive endurance. This last links with (3) The spir- itual differences. While man has (a)' activity, (h) courage. often combative, (c) boldness of inun- ner. (d) audacity. (o) its running mate assertiveness. (f) protective- ness towards his family. (t!) l acity for all ho oyvns, (h) acquisi- livcness to gain more, (i) will power. (j) decision in acting, (k) argumentativenoss, (1) deliberation or following a train of thought to a right conclusion, (m) and is the embodiment of spiritual force and power; woman, on the contrary is distinguished by (a) passivity, (b) fortitude in enduring ill. a kind of courage usually lacking in all but the greatest of ‘men, (c) coyness

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when I went to the mail box in _ vain. This was not without llS "f mammr- m‘ 5°"5m‘"~‘""55 °f lesson; H showed the void h,“ feeling, (o) attractiveness instead

of the repellent male assertiveness, (f) mothcrlinoss oven towards her spouse. (g) devotion lhroilgh love to all herv circle, (h) home in- siincl. for improving what she has. (l) perseverance. highly develop- ed. (i) dignity in acting. (k) per- suasiveness, (l) apprehension, often called "intuition." which cuts through the intermediate steps to the conclusion. (m) and is the cm- hodlment of mystery and charm. It must again be pointed nut that these notes were made many years ago, before the feminist movement had come to flood-tide; but oven yet, despite the hardening influen- ces of modern times, tho higher types of feminine minds still retain much of these old-world, gracious attributes. I hope to present the