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Silver Fox , and

Mink Farming

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Disaster struck the ranch of James Tozser. West Brownsvi e. P3,, when a strange doggot in his mink yard and kllled,25 animals. This was :1 bad blow as he only started breeding mink two years ago and this season raised 48 kits from 12 animals. The dog dug under the guard fence and de- stroyed 28 kennels. killed 25 mink an the spot and two more escaped alive under the fence. One of these was captured later. I or the mink killed seven were sapphires, eight Aleutiaris and the balance Piaiinums hilt! darks. Prestor. Tuplin. is so -of Frank Tuplin who was one of the nrst fur farm- i-rs in the United States, lives ncarby West Brownsville. and he said that in his thirty years ran- ching he has never seen such vic- ious killing and that it is unbe- licvable one dog could cause so much destruction. Even the wire pens wei-e,bent in and he suggests that other ranchers check their gliai'd fence to prevent such hap- pcnings.

The above is the first we knew of one of the Tuplin family being located in Pennsylvania. We thought the younger members were still living in Michigan where Ffilllli Tuplin set up a ranch af- irl' leaving New Annan, P.E.I. in 1915. Afterwards Mr. Tuplin mov- ed to near Victoria. B.C., where he ranched both foxes and mink until a few years previous to his death. Frank Tuplin was one of the "Kings" of the fox industry in the days of its glory here. He nas one of the first to realize that there was big money in selling ioxcs alive and disposed of ten pairs for sd5,000 in the fall of 1009. Later on he sold his entire herd to the Tuplin Fox Corpora- tion. He was also one of the first to bring an automobile to the province and drove it through the streets of Summerslde to the ad- miration and delight of many people.

Yellow-fat is one of the causes given for a large part of the mor- tality in mink. In the current number of the Black Fox Magaz- ine and Modern Mink Breeder there is an article by Perry B. salck on "How I Cured My Herd or Yellow-fat”. This is the gist of it..."Thcre is never a dull moment for the person in charge of operations on a mink farm Prices and scarcity of materials have brought changes in the style and construction of pens. Prices and scarcity of some food products are bringing changes in the for- mulation of food rations. The element of change brings many new problems, even a. change in cereal content brings a new prob- lmi to the operator. Horses that are slaughtered today are often young, carrying a lot of flesh and much more fat. We are advised that we can" feed more fat, but how much more? 0

"During the spring and'summer or 1951 our horse meat supply be- gan coming in with more and more fat in it. By the first of October, 1951. we were in trouble.

were on feed and refused to eat. Eight animals died and post mo;-. tems showed the .iivers to be the color of an orange and the kid. neys white and degenerated. or course all mink breeders know this to be what is generally called yel- low-fat. I feel that !atty-lnfiltra- tion would be a. more proper name. The amount of vitamin E was at once increased in the ra- tion and fresh lean meat was fed However, most of the animals off feed had to be coaxed back to eating. This was done by purch- asing chicken livers and heal! and feeding each mink small pieces at a time. Very many were encouraged to take these small pieces by first dipping them in Karo syrup.

"To me it appears that without vigilance excessive amounts of fat can cause serious damage. Fat globules enter the blood stream and are deposited in the liver, re- placing the normal liver cells. This process continues until the liver is a golden mass of fat and when it cannot properly function any more the burden is thrust on the kidneys and they soon become degenerated. The question was with us, what could we do to re- store these animals to have them reproduce normally in the spring of 1952? I was fortunate enough to meet and discuss this problem with a representative of the U. B Vitamin Corporation. He explain- ed the function of their products. Pervinal and Methiscol. which I began to use in December 1951.

"The Pervinal was to give the mink in concentrated form all the necessary vitamins and minerals to help bring them into breeding condition. The Methlscol was a new medication to prevent the formation of fat globules in the blood stream and instead of ai- lowing fat globules to be deposited in the liver to reverse the proced- ure and have the fat in the liver carried back and deposited in the body tissue, where it belongs. We continued to feed these two pro- ducts all the way through until weaning time. We kept 185 fe- males for 1952 breeding. of which 131 were young females and 54 were old. We did not use any hor- mone shots at mating time and all but one of the 185 females mated. This was the best mating result we have had in many years past. The June count showed we had 758 kits. an average of over 4 per litter, which was the best pro- duotion we have had in years. There were very few dead kits in corners of whelplng boxes ascom- pared to previous years. I am of the opinion that fatty infiltration causing degeneration of the liver and kidneys is the worst offender on mink farms today. Based upon our experience, .we are convinced that the use of Pervinal and Mestlscol helped extricate us from a pretty bad hole."

Next Monday morning foxes will be coming in from various ranch- es in the Province to the Fox Show Building at the Provincial Exhibition grounds, where the 22nd Annual Live Fox Show and

One hundred and forty-five mink

.'I'hree years ago a 45-year-old Dutchman, Area Struyk. arrived at Cochrane, ont., from Holland with a battered car, a wife, 11 cm). dren and 517. Today he is worth 325,000 and this figure includes six farms. umpteen buildings, all sorts of farm machinery, a 1952 car, cows, chickens and pigs, By plain hard work, careful planning and pooling of family resources, Mr. Struyk has opened a. new back -to -the- land movement

5th Annual Live Mink Show will be held. Monday morning will be receiving clay and classificatioii day for the foxes and on Tuesday morning starting at nine o'clock, George A. Calibeck will commence judging and continue until all the above classes have been finished. The afternoon of Tuesday mink will be received and on Wednes- day morning judging will be com- pleted and in the afternoon mink judging will-commence with its probable completion by Thursday noon, November 13th.

The president of the Association is B. B. Jones, Bunbury, and the secretary-treasurer is Walter R. Shaw, Deputy Minister of Agricul- ture. We understand that a real good entry list of foxes and mink is expected. Classes for foxes con- sist of medium silvei', light medi- um silver, light silver, extra light silver. Standard Pearl Platinum in light medium and extra light. Standard Platinum in medium and light and White Marked in ex- tra light.- There will be champion- ship classes for these various mu- tations. Mink classes will consist of Standard. Pastel. Sapphire, Al- eutian, Platinum, Stewart Platin- um. Breath of Spring Platinum and White. There will be cham- pionships and prizes in each class.

TUNA INCREASE

OSLO, Norway--- 03?) - Tuna fisheries off western Norway this year so far have produced 3,217,- 000 pounds. compared with 627,000

pounds in the whole of last year.

and must be observed.

PRINCE COUNTY

Morris Bernard St Co. Lid. Tlgnish, P. E. I. - g

Tlitnish Co-operative Tlgnish, P. E. I.

St. Louis Co-operative St. Louis, P. E. I. r

W. B. Maclmllan Alma, P. E. I.

Alberton Co-operative Alberton, P. E. I.

Bloomfield Co-operaiivi Bloomfield. P. E. I.

-T. E. Foley Bloomfield, P. E. I.

01-08?! Farmers Co-op. 0'Leary. P. E. I ,

Ellsralle ,go-operative 'Ellerslls,' . E, 1.

Wellington Co-operative Wellington. P. E. I.

-T. D. Johnston ' E-Imldale. P. E. I.

Summerside ,Co-opelraiivs Summei-aid . P. E. 1.

D. A. Msthsson Emerald. .

Kenlinclo, airy Co-op Kenslngtog, P. E. I. A .

POTATO LICENSING REGULATIONS

Effective at.once the following Potato Licensing regulations are in effect

ALL DEALERS who ship or export potatoes from this province should have a Dealer's License from the Potato Board.

ALL DEALERS AGENTS, or ASSEMBLERS, who buy or load potatoes should have an Assemblerls License.

ALL TRUCKERS who transport potatoes from this province in loads ex- ccedlng 2,000 pounds should have an Export Trucker-'s License.

ALL POTATO GROWERS should register as such with the Potato Board and should not sell potatoes until they have obtained a Producer's License. Ap- pllcatioh for Producers' Licenses should be made either to the office of the Potato Board at 'Charlottctown or to the following Board Agents:

Crossman & Bradshaw Albany, P. E. I.

Abegwelt Co-operative Carleton, P. E. 1. QUEEN! COUNTY

17'. W. Cutcliffe Fredericton, P. E. I.

North Itustico Co-op. North Rustlco. P. E. I.

Cherry Valley Co-op. Cherry Valley. P. E. I.

Vernon River Co-op. Vernon River, P. E, I.

Tracadle Co-op. Tracadle Cross. P. E. I.

Richard MacPliee New Haven. P. E. I.

Daniel Livingstone New Dominion. P. E. 1.

Clark Bros. Mount Stewart, P. E. 1.

John II. Myers

I-Iamptonp P. E. I.

Earl Hughes -4, Fort Augustus ' ..

Andrew Johnston New London '

, Licensing Iiegulations must be observed and will be fully enforced aim Novsinlier In. I T .

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KING'S COUNTY

Eastern Farmers Co-op Elmira, P. E. I. Ronald Tl. MacDonald Annandale, P. E. I.

Jas. Fay A: Son Newport, P. E. 1.

James McConnell Georgetown, P. E. I.

Lea & McFarlane Murray Harbour, P. E. I.

William Whlieway Murray River. P. E. I. Cardigan Co-operative Cardigan. P. E. I. Morell Co-operative Morell, P. E. I. Dingwell & Rosslter Morell, P. E. I.

St. Peters Co-operailve St. Peters. P. E. I.

J. J. Stewart . Montague. P. E. I. John P. C. MacDonald Monticello, P. E. I.

W. C. Fraser North Lake, P. E. I. ,

"THE GUARDIAN. Cl-lARLO'l"1'E'i'OWN

around Cochrane. Over a period of years farming has played fourth fiddle in,N0thern Ontario to min- lng, lumber and pulp, There has been a. gradual wooing away from the land. until today whole strings

of farms lie deserted. Into the

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AGRICULTURE

Sweden is about 1000 miles long from north to south and its great- est width is 300 miles. It has a coast line of about 1550 miles and an are of 172,000 square miles. Its northern area extends beyond the Arctic Circle and is covered with vast forests, that are drained by short rapid rivers with many waterfalls. Central Sweden has many lakes, the total area of these exceed 14,000 square miles. Most of the cultivated land is in southern Sweden and is about the same height above sea-level as Prince Edward Island.

Sweden found it almost impos- sible to secure'the farm machin- cry and the fertilizers that were required during the Second World War, to meet the increased de- mand for foodstuffs. Her people learned from their war experi- ence, the importance of their ag- ricultural industry and the part it must play in the nation's prepar- edness which it has to face under present day world conditions.

Sweden has almost reached a

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breach, brought about by the lure of regular pay for regular work, has appeared the Dutch immi- grants, who have created s. new little Holland in the northern scrub. and for them the problem of finding hired men is no prob-

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combines in use in the country. and some of these were being used on the smaller farms.

Farm Crops

There has been 1. decrease in the areas of bread grains. The seeding of rye has been much less than in 1948, and there has been a decline in the area sown to win- ter wheat. Spring wheat, however, largely due to improved varieties. suitable to certain areas, has doubled its area,as compared with the seedings before the war.

There has been a shift in the types of fodder grain, from oats to barley and mixed grain, as the number of horses has greatly de- creased; but the total acreage sown has remained about the same. The hay crop. including clovers, has decreased since the war, but there has been quite an increase in the area devoted to pastures. The area devoted to sugar beets has remained about

the same, but there has been a decrease in the acreage of both

place of being self-sufficient with reference to providing her own food, provided she can import fertilizers and farm machinery with which to produce it. She has, however, a serious problem in a. shortage of farm labour, and is endeavouring to meet this through mechanization, and by an increase in the wages of farm lab- ourers. She has succeeded to some extent and has also increased the yield per acre of her farm crops.

In 1951 agricultural products were exported from Sweden to the value of 374,200,000 kroner, but to do this that year she had to import, feeds, farm machinery and fertilizers to the value of 324.000,- 000 kronor. The imported feeds cost 122,000,000 kroner, the fertil- izers 142,000,000 kroner. There was also a very large outlay for gaso- line to operate the farm machin- ery.

Agricultural Investigations

Agricultural development in Swe- den owes much to her scientists and technical workers and their outstanding investigations and cer- cal breeding work that has been carried on at their agricultural station at Svalof and at other points. .Dr. L. H. Newman, when Dominion Cerealist, received much valuable information from them when he visited Sweden. Two val- uable oat varieties that have been grown extensively in Canada: Vic- tory and Gold Rain, were origin- atad at Svaiof.

The government and agricultur- al representatives have tried to increase production by regulating prices. Agricultural wages in- creased son. from 1946 to 1051. but industrial wages were raised more rapldly, and the gap between the two widened; not only that, but improved living conditions in the industrial areas drew many workers from the farm. The not result of this movement from rur- al to urban areas is shown in the following percentages: There were in 1035, out of the total popula- tion, 3073 engaged in agriculture; this had decreased to 2897; in 1045 and this year it was down to 2m. This loss of farm labour led to increased mechanization, which generally improved efficiency. but Swedish weather conditions are not favourable, in some areas. to the harvesting of grain with com- bines. and losses have occurred.

The cost of machines and equip- ment have also sky-iocketed. A machine that cost 3100.00 in 1988, cost 3201.00 in 1950. In that year, Sweden paid out for needed ma- chines and equipment over 250.- ooo,ooo kronor. In four years. the number of tractors increased to three times what it was in 1940; and by 1951 there were about 9.000

potatoes and root crops; on the other hand. there has been a great increase in the acreage seed- ed to oil producing plants. The cultivation of these has spread northward. as hardier types of plants have been developed so that last year there was about five times the area that had been grown in 1945. There were 136,- 000 tons of cattle food produced from these oil plants.

Live Stock

There has been I decrease of 150.000 head of,dalry cattle in Sweden since 1939. Improvedstock and better care, however. have re- sulted in is 201;, increase in milk supply during the same period. This led to a. large surplus of dairy products, and these products now constitute about one-third of all Sweden's agricultural exports. In the year 1950-51. 3,000 tons of Swedish butter came to Canada.

Beef cattle raising has declined since the war, but hogs and pork products have increased 1079 dur- ing that period.

Sweden had its first real tussle

with foot and mouth disease in 1914-18. A much more serious outbreak occurred in 1924 - 27,

which cost the country 25,000,000 kronor. Sweden has been using a vaccine since 1930, but up to this year the supply which they have

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lem at all. Their families, now totalling 50, are closely knit with all members working to the com- mon goal. Mr. Struyk is seen front row, centre, with his wife. his nine children and grandpa. in the back row.

been getting from Denmark was limited, and so far Sweden has not produced this vaccine, but is now investigating the possibility of pro- ducing their own. In 1938-40 the value of the cattle,hogs and sheep slaughtered because of this disease was 12,000,000 kronor. The pres- ent outbreak came from Germany in October 1951 and has cost Sweden over 17,800,000 kronor.

Information has been received that Mr. Sterling Moore. Pownal. R.R. 1, Charlottetown. P. E. I. was only entered in two classes at the International Plowing Match at Carp, Ontario, and that he was not coached by Mr. Glen Morrisey.

The records in the Secretary's office showed that, Mr. S. Moore, Charlottetown, P. E. I. was placed 5th in Class 10. and was not plac- ed among the prize winners i.n Class 18 which had 36 entries.

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NOTICE

A. Pickard Farm Tractors Ltd. are pleased -to announce the appointment of MR. K. W. ANDm- 5 SON, St. Peters, as a. John Deere dealer. and invite all farmers who are interested in getting value for their money to call-on Mr. Anderson-

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ATTENTION

HOG PRODUCERS

We will be loading hogs. at all regular points on MONDAY, NOV. -10th and TUESDAY, (NOV. 11th) as usual.

Receiving Hogs and other Livestock at our Char- lottetown pens, Belmont St., all day Mondayyand on Tuesday morning till train time, 11 o'clock.

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POULTRY

WE WILL BE ACCEPTING , LIVE POULTRY MONDAY TO FRIDAY NOON

of euchweek. until further notice.

CANADA PACKERS

A Canadian Press article in the Ottawa Evening Citizen of October 10th, 1952 included the following items: "Out of Money". "Sterling Moore, Queen's County plowing champion from Prince Edward Is- land, failed to finish in the money in the same class, spoiling his rec- ord of a. fifth Wednesday in the visitors' class. He was out of the money in another class."

illowever, the Prince Edward Is- land champion, Glen Morrissey of Cherry Valley, will uphold his province in the tractor champion- ships." . ”Morrissey 17, arrived yesterday to coach Sterling in his match. he said he feels he has a good chance of winning the overseas trip it he can get in enough practice before the event scheduled for late today.

It was this article that led to the errors in a recent article in Newsy Notes.

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