DECEMBER Q. 1944

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TIMELY NOTES ON TOPICS CONNECTED WITH

Silver ‘Fox Farming

x cltinl Nkral-lons which hm ti... goin iull blast since part the month must b, pretty well completed now. The take-off for the entire province is enwctfid w be in the vicinity of eaooo skins of which about 2.500 will be wiuie marked and platinum. There has been quite an increase in the number platinum skins be- eguse the LEFUNM’. W998 hINC been pretty well distributed. One ranch we know oi will have around so pelts and there are quite e num- her with from l0 to 50. so it does “m, take too many lotsoftliii-tdes- cription to add up to 1.000

Wlrile marked foxes luvs not increased in anvthina like the ratio that we thought they would when they came here a few years ago. we find. and no doubt other breed- rrs have the same difficulty. that the proportion of while marked in litters is often Gillie small and illc markinzs tend to become less dis- tinct after two or three generat- ions. The same thinz is happening in thewestwe understand that Ollie ifclielll. the pioneer in the intro- duction of white law. has swung largely to the production of platin- nms. and pearl platinums although he does have a. nucleus of white {sees gs well. In Winnipeg quite a number of ranches that were featuring white faces have cut down their production and increased with platinums. No doubt now that P8811 platinum are being featured and so well liked they will increase and evencmlly ome one the hi8 factors in the

business.

News of the auctions in Montreal which have been published in this

aper are not. to say the least. ex- llillnratiggth partiouligly at t season e year w en we na ur- ally wish to be cheerful and full er ism. The fact that some 25.000 are being carried over seem to act as a dampen-er on the en- ihusiasm of those who felt like apreading themselves and b ng quantities. There is no doubt Ht old skins do hUVQ e sort of second hand appearance. the inside skin or fissile flaming yellow and if the pelts are very much handled they are somewhat bedraggicd. We often wonder pelts come through and sell as well after being offer- ed and handled on several sales. It i» a crying shame that everybody is allowed to paiw over pelts. If we ivere well organized and Dfiwefliil tinougli we could deuiand that the pelts be offered ln auction rooms where the lottlngs could be viewed without recourse to their beinB flung on ii table and clawed over. We noticed some time ago where one speaker at a fox gathering ad- vised all those interested in learn- ing about pelts to go to the auctions

and handle ihem. It ls a pretty cx- th

pensive thing for tire sellers to fur- nish education of that sort.

We ourselves feel more optimism than perhaps we did for some months although the market is not =_‘1‘0ll&' and the reason for the 01'1- tnnlam is that these low prices will have it tendency to clear up Ilia overhanging; and out the manufacturers to work. rt would not fake very much en-iusviasm all ar- ound to dispose the present surplus It ls a pretty satfe bet tI-ist when the new budget is brought down by Mr. llsley the paocessing

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taxwillbeputbacktowhere‘ it was a year ago-if i-Z percent. That _ bis help. perhaps the

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111W t wo on] th ii w ii y e rig t

K110i" of that has a

mini and it ls the and; W11‘. A atreng t

e culatton this low

Just let us ace what the looked like in March. 1918. on the

that I. d d f gffensiv‘: all‘! ‘llroe gr" r

SiOPPEd by the most heroic efforts.

Ontbezothcritr i ht {main near Vimy- IENWIas Sutfiifi

hat he would attack the Canail. iana a d ll th fl

“km B“ l c eld artillery was it'll’. 7.3 t a res. one of which Icon:- manded. Ti _ rifice biotin-genre known u m

n“ “l1 llliiht into the Germans,

"Hing several thousand rounds. At ‘

64° the offensive n but the flint; did not attack the Canadians. "5 ad ihey struck the-dist Scot. i151) Division Joining up on the Canadians‘ riabt. That wonderful division held them with the gig p: lillimrt from the 4th Canadian Division. Our battery was poi-ins. 0d b? five batteries of German ar- illlllfy for four hours. Siortiy iliterwards we were given ten days eave and when we arrived ln London we saw a store offering

my‘ hundreds of silver Fox pelt; pglggd

a! hish as £i50— lli _ The wonderful Britwlsemedvsto a? telrryins on unperturbed and l‘ W" "l5 WHY the fox industry W“ 80in: in the last great war.

Now there is no British market gut we have expectations of its clng opened up within the next six to twelve months and there ls a. chance that even Prince will be B Purchaser of Silver Fox. That was a country that really did go in for our commodity. in fact they were about our best customers and there are other parts of Eliriue that, will want luxuries. so there g no reason to give way to despair and figure that we are In a down and out proposition.

Walter R. Shaw, Deputy Minis- ter of Agriculture and Secretary of the silver Fox Breeders’ and Ex- hibitors’ Association of Prince Ed- ward Island. is an excellent an writer as you will note if you read

his ad for the l-‘hE. I. Pelt Show|

which will be held at Summersiilc c first week in January. Entries close December 30th and must he sent to Canadian National Silver Fox Breeders’ Association. There is no reason why we cannot make this a real big banner show. one that will Province and advertise coast to coast.

us from

We hope that each one who

reads this will if they have s pelt

or pelts that they believe are al-i tractive and of good quality will

send them so as lo bc rcprc- sented. It was Keir Woodside who

POX FURS WANTED

I require immediately to fill special order 300 full silver or marked full silver fox pelts. Must, be good

colours. Will pay a premium over market prices to fill this order. Also buying daily platinum and other fox furs, mink, muskrai, eic., etc.

W. R. JENKINS,

212 Great George Street.‘

rukflpuvan

has gone lo Montreal for

ment for private sale. merits daily.

OUR PELTING AND

Of HOLT RENFREW and CO. LTD., Montreal,

return next week. Exact dale of liis return will he announced through press.

CHARLES R. ROGERS

SUMMERSIDE

Wanted Immediately RflVl-Fllffo

All types Foxes, Muslirais. Mink, Weasles. eic.. required. We have disposed of practically all last season's goods and now need quantities of fresh skins for our trade.

We buy outright, also accept goods on consign-

Prompt remittance.

NOW OPEN QUANTITY FOX NETTING FOR SALE

ti. ll. llacillllllllli

Summerside, l’. E. i.

WBBYAN

Christmas but expects ‘.0

Reserve prices. Ship-

CLEANING PLANT

whole m: was. re-

t. do because st the present time there ls no inonayln fox far-; industry we; .....**~~i.:":r.=

t with all the money ililt ls in cir- silver fox should reach - point.

iiifturcy 31st of March of that #35

at ove them beck almost wsmifif captured s couple of hundred thousand prisoners and was only

"id placed on vimy the exception of two

We fired combing

Delis .

be a credit lo our

I QHARI-OTTEWWNA. GPARDTA" race Thrall-grail ll n _ __. ,. . g sts,.,,,._ i T0~OUR e. - May ‘this Greeting con- ve o o . - c| CUSTOMERS m salmon apypreeiifilgn “Zismhlli . d patronage- i u‘ Whither Away. Farming? as “food production" — which ""1 “my m;

THE HUNTERS’ . CORNER

DUCM AND GOOSE‘ SEASON

Nowthat the shooting of ducks and geese is over until the fall cf i045. hunters are beginning to compare notes. On the whole the season was more successful than lut year. Geese in particular were far more numerous t fall

the number of geese present this fall were only a small percentage of the bonkers that stopped oi! on the spring migratioi. northward. Geese fed mainly the fields this full and roughly between November 10th and 20th. they were present in fair numbers. However, after that date they began to move southward, not waiting for the freezeup as in other years. and by the sud of the month had practi- cally all departed. Heavy shoot- ing. or hunting. may have been responsible for their departure. for unless food conditions are excep- tionally good geese will not stand too much punishment. ‘ some good bags were obtained. good for this province. but in some sections of the United States and Western Canada more geese are shot in a single day then are killed here during the entire shooting season. The trio of pro- fessional goose shooters.‘ Bearlslo. Holman and Owen. are reliably reported to have bagged 2'1. They

won the Grand Championship last year and Keir had no idea that such fame would descend on him. In fact he was down in'li'lorida when the word reached him. It may be that some rancher smaller than Ml‘. Woodside will have this year's champion. Perhaps you may be the one. '

While the news from Montreal was depressing. as quoted above. there are bright spots showing up .in the United States markets For linstance. in New York last Monday Lampson. Fraser and l-luth’: sale of silver foxes and mutations show- ed strengthening prices. Fresh ail- vers showed a gain ‘of l0 per ccri‘. above the prices realized one month ago. Thcrc was a strong demand for new color phases. Silver fox, with a quantity of about 460 pelts, 05 per cent sold. The top price-for a pelt was $180. while white marl:- cd silver fox brought a high of $100. The buyers of silver fox were mostly manufacturers. Top ‘price for full silver was $76. top tprlce for three-quarter was s44.

| The first auction sale held ny of Canada. .. Toronto last Saturday. There was a good attendance of buyers. cori- sidering the fact. that it was the worst storm in nearly ‘l0 years. At least 2'7 cancellations were report- ed on the part of New York buy- ers duc to the storm. In an inter- view Mr. Cantor. the president c.1-

resscd himself as being very grnti~ led with the results of the first sale. in consideration of travel conditions. He anticipates a good future for the auction in Toronto. The top price realized for fox was I135 for a mutation typc and S70 for standard sliver. The silvers- were early take off and a poor collection. The writer expresses the opinion that the opening of an auction company in Toronto by such n well-established concern as

any will mean a better and groldcr market for silver fox at"? mutations. The Canadian Bu: Auction salsa Company Limitec has done splendid work but in reo- ent years it has shown shortcom-

ings which can be ettered b; stronger opposition. Aftcr all competition is the life of trade

and where it does not exist. arb trsrlneaa is liable to creep in.

. cues lln as Christmas ap- ‘proaches t e writer wishes to ex- press the compliments of the aca- _v will have a very HAPPY-

th C IIISTMAS.

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Fox Ranchers

Fresh Frozen Capliir iii 2 1-2 cents ii pound. Deliver- fed. Any station. Prepaid.

i FREEMAN POPE.

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NOTICE

‘Buying daily: Chicken. Fowl. Geese and Ducks. live arvi dressed. Paying

_ top prices. Eastern Packing. 0c. i‘ Sourll

rill/Irena “pp-e... i,“ ,, . 12-l9-6n.

the New York Fur Auction Crm- -

comparison with 1943. but at that l! can be remarkably stupid

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son to all our readers and the bnm- A

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FRIENDS

It ll good to pause at this time to extend hearty greet- ings to all our customers. We ‘ slull continue to serve you witlilri- the best of our rc- aources and wish you tlu- bestnof everything in near happier days to come.

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Speaking to a gathering of farm- ers. farm workers. and land-own- ers earlier in the year. the British Minister of- Agriculture told h audience that tne Ministry of Food tiras losing about 100.000.000 pounds i$7il0.000.ii00) a year. There was a Elisht loss on the resale of m» pire wheat. but a bigger one on home-grown wheat. and While the Ministry made a small profit on foreign meat. it was losing ‘l

unds (831.50) on British cattle

ought for slaughter. and b pence (about 9 cents) a lb. on British mutton. These figures. he said, were definite subsidies to British farmers. “Its no use burying your head in the ground when I . about subsidies." he laid (alluding to the otsrich which is supposed i0 _l>iii'¥ lit-head to prevent its "fink dill!!!) "I 8m n l’. oing

Keeping out of the roasting pen.

The ope

l‘

n season favoured the lack ducks and the kill was re- markably ligh 1'0 the ducks

t.

type of weather held ca until the

season closed.

last Thursday

Take for instance morning. high wlncl

and drifting snow. and all but, the

or slush.

amines Indncroeks scaled with ice

would be as easy to

secure the limit as potting woode ducks in a. shooting gallery. Und;

a shy and

snow squall. Notwithstln

Invaluable weather

1n ordinary conditions the black duel;

W!!!’ bird. but they in a

ding the qpen and durml earJv

December (the season closed on Dec. 15th). some good bags were

obtained by

some of the local

sports who make a study of cor-m-

tions such as instance, on t ing of the s

hours. when some

Wind. tide. etc. For he second last morn- eason Lloyd Wanna.-

l’! beauties in less the two The birds were so fart‘ that

of them struck the

frozen ground their breasts split

°Pln Just like a rip watermel . ' . A noticeable teat“; this sealislllm whether the British farmer came

was the f atne

ss of the birds. Black

ducks were in better condition on

the opening day (Sept. 20t tober 15th

on Oc Thousands of

with us and it is to be

l1) than

in other years. black ducks arc all" hoped that.

sportsmen will be wlliink to call it

a day. or yea shoot is still

their skill on the bunnies. bits are quite plentiful in some districts and afford wonderful spurt when shot over a beagle or rabbit

hound.

SANTA

Who was that wonzn who. used to

r. and. ii’ the ur e lo present. they wll try

CLAUSE-PLEASE LISTEN

say: “Give me a. giddy gift any day-

GlVg m1.‘ thl sl‘ l

l0

hgs that

‘rig’ 0f high glass 4900M and are experienced goose hunters and a. tots 10f the entire season draws that the Canada goose is nobodyli fool iiiiflflliii)’ Vknack of

i of 9 birds each

thing that the present

Rab-

<> a to say that agriculture is efficient. today. when I don't believe it. It has increased its efficiency. lvui i1 am only interested in results. It (l.e.. agriculture) has had four years. and now it has another four years to put its house in ord- er.’ And then-what?

trcm pre-historic times (and I mean luet that) Britons have been farmers. When the population was small and there were no great ur- ban centres. "family farming" or

subsistence far . as some call it. was amply sufficient. Every generation mode some improve-

ments. but they were tardy. "rule- of-thumib" and inefficient. no- cordlni to our present standards. About a hundred years ago. when the Machine Age first made its appearance. farming wu still ‘n e state of almost feuml simplicity. Then huge factories came into be- ing. manned ‘by huge towns. in- dustry drew ns best workers and thinkers from the farms. attracted by higher wages. Invention made the work lighter; social legisla- tlon kept pace and made the posi- tion of the industrial worker bet- ter in every respect.

While al was transpiring. the farmer was handicapped from the start. The industrial worker had his “union" to protect him in the matter of work and wages. ft was. of course. the farmer's can fault that he would never co-oper- ate with hla fellows to secure such protection. I am not surefis m

under the Old Age Pensions Act; but if he didn't he ought to. con- sidering the importance of h work. I did see a copy of the iln- employment Insurance Act of llli. but farmers and market garden-

is They loo

kasone

, of course. its main object. But those who use the term do not home; teli us. is out of dale. to see it run as a fac- tory with larger machines and more of them-and larger. much

ciwisage the farm u a that. the

larger. ks of land for the sne- chines to operate in. Possibly that is what the Minister of

Agriculture means to bring about in Britain. It has more than nnce been advocated in Canada and ii was tried out during the depres- sion by the Government of .hc United States. which threw away millions of dollars before the pro- ject collapsed. Russia seems to be succeeding in such a plan as ‘ar can gather from the scanty news: but conditions there are very different. and it was pos- sible to "liquidate" the Kiilaks (fermion) before taking over their land. There are many large scale farms in Palestine. complete with communal dining rooms. nurszrles, ctc.. but these are run by the Jew- ish farmers themselves. without the help of Government or "Big Pusi- neu". and are remarkably suc- cemfui

But no matter whether the Brit- ish Government or the commer- cial interests (which have lo looked a: this matter with avi

is harder there are at least a score

eyes) takes charge of "food pro- duction". the farmer will find his freedom gone for ever. I-le will havi- to tpunch his time-clock like the res . .

Milkweed Pods Received

Prom s valued friend. who in turn had them from Mrs. Wm. Stavert of Bedeque. I have lust received some sced- which f identify as those o milkwecd. I am told that they were grown in a plot behind Mrs. StaverUs house and I conjecture that this milk- wead has been planted there orig- inall . since it does not grow wild in t is Province. as far as I am aware. I tried to naturalize niilk- weed by the sidc of a small stream on mv farm but it died out for some unknown reason. though it grows but does not flower in the arden. This year it produced one lower- bud. which dropped off. It is difficult to give the snot name of a plant unless one has a perfect specime l. leaves. floivers. and so on. In this case tlreic is only the seed-pod or follicle. to work with. and to make things

of different mllktveeds (Asclepias) on this continent! Examining the follicles closely I find that they

vcrs. I noticed. were debarrcd from any benefit of this Act.

A generation ago the lut of lut British farm-laborer thired man) was. like that of Gilbert and Sui- livan‘s policeman. "not a nappy one." His wages were fixed by s kind of agreement among his bosses. the farmers UIBIIISCIVES‘ and they differed in different local- ities. ln my own district in the north. a farm hand got 22 Shlllillfid a week (about $4.50). and was con- sidered well paid. In the scutn wa es were lower: some go’ i slrilings a week. But in all cases t hours were excessive; there were no lholidays, not even bank or mgai

8.3811410 and holidays. and there was the neces-

sary work on Sundays. Farmers

Willi a usclessness almost doviilci provided a house for married help, Giivc me thlnzs that Id Ike to trytbut it W55 too often an antiquated

Bill. HGVBT. buy?"

ll

€mber- Who was she? Well, I

ti re s

The lungs I want arp brand now

ever would Jus.

Bogstruciurc without any sanitary or

domestic conveniences. In any oth- er occupation these would have