f auousr 1e, 1947

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y,“ ~ * - - k . TIMELY IDIES llll TOPIBS i GIIHIIEGTED WITII - Silver. Fox and Mink Farming

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Accorxiiiig to Womei’: Wear Dniiv Edib fall will be a big sea- wn ‘for fur scarfsl Women will get used to seeing fur-trimmed fabric goals ~ some will prefer the ver- "mlty n! a scarf. The entire man- nor of wearing thcm will be differ- nnt. They will move away from “tn; worn in a. xareless drap ng nver-the-shoulder manner to the new“, more organllcd. fashionable lhemc rhat places fur hlzh at the neckline and reveals narrower |houlder lines. Optic-n the news in (ni- scar‘... wll‘, be in the Victorian “nun; they portray -- new today. mnmisccrt. of the old master's vaintings.

Apcorjlng to New York fui- mag- -|g1;1e5 consumer interest in this ‘anemia prices and styles has niaintalned a high level in recent weeks out salt-s are fewer in com- arisen than DIQVIOU] y-ars. Ono .n_\-<-r snys his promotions are bringing many "lockers" but they arc doi.ig little to hclp meet last year's ‘iyurcs. Various large stores nyp pr-mnoting riiiicrcnt types of furs, some sticaicj braver, others P-“fsiall ‘iimb. others northern baCk miiskrat. and l.J Fox “Peerless Persians They have not pct around n; yet ‘o pushing silver fox either as scarfts oi- jackcts, but many coats tr-nimerl with silver (ox will y," matting their appearance this (n11 and the new style of fur nak- wcnr iri.i.tioned above may take in silver fox as it C€1iJllI1lY lends it- self better than ary ctliei fur to that purpose.

Two weeks ago w-aders of tries: poles “all remember an exclusive interview — the first givei. in Am- wcn -- which we had with P A. Qwren, president of thl- Norucg- ian Fur Breeders‘ Association, end Olmar Biager-Larsrn. This has been widely circulated and ccm- inc-xited upon. Now we are able to bring to our readers an interview which Fkcderick Ei"llEll)'1ll1'l1. teat- uye ucritcr with Womt-vs Wear Daily. ntid with these gentlemen in New Yr-rk a few days ago.

PA. Owren. president. of the Norwegian Fur Breeders Assoc a- ttion. curie nil the wny over nere by plane from Scandinavia tn rer- iiiade t..ie Canadian and American silver tozt brtcclcrs to cut back on their priduction.

Mr Oman dncsii‘ speak Engksh but has i. good lntcrprcior in Ol- niar Kroger-Larsen, Unlled States represastativ“: cf the Norwfllian lox breeders interests.

The immediate rrsult of r.'lr.. own-en's visit hero-ho flew back tn Europe a rnuple of (luvs ago — viiil be a mceilniz of "Presentl- lives of the lox breeding indtisTy n1 the five countries (nncerncd: Nrrwny, S-wetien. DCnmT-k. Can-

relentatlves fur the pow- wow,

It will be the il'st international meeting on record to regulate the PFOdIICtk-n of farm bred n; thrcugh voluntary adherence to 4 program, lt- is believed. .

Norway, at. the same time, is to start a big publicity dfiyg on be, half o. blue fox of wtnlnn ynn; country ls the only serious pm. ducer. This campaign will concen- trate oii the United States, Booth America and Paris. tho three m“; logical markets for blue fox.

Mr. Larsen who has b-ven baby- lng this article for some time, without much success, says that, earlier efforts to induce Paris de- llflner to do some meritorious work with bluo fox have not been suc- cessful.

Messrs. Larsen and OWTQn do. elared that the Norwegian farm- er ll just u badly oft as the Am- erican nreeder. because fnx breed- ing. is his only livelihood. There ‘as well as here fox br-edlng has‘ |not been profitable. and in many ;cases tho. marketing of :hg pgtts ‘has not realized enough noney to cover he ccst cf breeding.

l Both men say that. something must be done for the fox breeding industry immediately 1n Ordgr to save what there is left of it.

1 Breeders in this country and in ,Canada have complained bitterly that the trade has shown no sym- lDathetlc feeling for the ailing breeding business. The trade has ‘been oiten accused here of greed [and sedlshnss and of tte pursuit of a wiful scheme. to wreck the breeders.

Amoflt, those who havo been op- erating in the fox trade many ‘point out that the dealer. in pelts have made no profit for yearl and that they can hope only to enjoy good business when prices are fair ,and high enc-iigh to attract busin- less.

0t late the cloak and suit trad; lhas shown great interest in s‘lver fox for trimmng purposes. out thus far only at low le\'t“s. Many in the trade hope that the whole silver fox business will spruce up again wren the current reason will have given proof that the Ameri- can public again has appetite for silver fox as trim on cloth coats

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A few days ago we ha: a phone message from Premier Jones ask- ing if we were interested in feed- ing whale meat to our foxes. We replied that we were interested but at presint w» had made arrange- ments for su:fi:lent feed to see us through until the end o! the sea- son and consequently did not. feel like taking on any more, even though whale meat shears. consid- erable prcmtse as a dietary adjunct fc-r foxuu. He asked what price we

if whale

‘are required. The Lutal man hr/llfi

Born Harvesting Equipment

(m'"d““m “m” w“) n: July mo, during a drive into

11mg u, two methods o! hujPrlnce Oounty, Mr. Harold Messcr- "sunx and enmlng car.“ u," m“ vy pointed out that Lynlmachla ter- wm, m, corn bum". “h” cutter‘ reatrla, the Bulb-bearing mose- nnd mg ‘ma, my“ the mm mp strife was growing abundantly on m“, Lnd m". 51w“. The“ edges of the drainage-ditches.

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hmdlmz operpuom "mm! ‘tom thyrllflora, the Tufted Loosestrife, 5o n, 1W0 w,“ p" Se“. and u“ a species of which I was rather gqufpmu" wnkh can b, med mo“ doubtful till Dr. W. l... Holman economically depends primarily on brought in specimens from ‘rraca- thg gmounz of cQfn us“); 1n 1° b; (116 WIN. Jul)’ l9. i947. L. Nummu harvested "d, yum My‘ w_ Km’ larla, commonly known as “Money- (leqsch, Ann-Jun“; Ennnemng wort," from its golden flowers, was Divlsinn’ cum-n Expnmnentll found as a garden escape near Farm. Ottawa. Newtown Cross July l3. 104.5, by

when m; acre,“ o! com 1| Mrs. W. D. Ross, a reader who has 5mg“, m, use o; m, cm, blnde, contributed much interesting tn- in conjunction with a rented or “nnamm w "ll! mlumn- co-operatively owned silage cutter A 1W div! ago I caught I 898d- is the best mPthOd of handling the men of the "Eastern Slender Mea- cmu The 1nvggnnnm m. new c,“ dow Grasshopper" whose scientific of a corn binder is about c300, and Heme. culmerholul lawman. is the annual cost $28. The annual 5110"" than l"! P001111" 59.518"!!- machine COIL! if s acres are cut is t-lw- It 1A rwt an uncommon 1n- » on acre, or $1.00 if l5 acres are "c! 1' ihlflk- M’ Withfllllt In? 5W1- nng ‘Iflgpqgggt p" m“ o; cum“; in! search I usually come across a l5 acres with a hors" binder L; about couple of specimens e vwr- The $2.80 per acre or 21 cents per ton, insect is of a beautiful apple green including depreciation, repairs. horle wlvr. with a dark brown stripe labor and man labour at. 50 cents running dOWH the back “from held per hour. A tractor type corn binder '10 $8113’ It! body i! alwlli- on loch costs about S450 and a. has nn long. and the line thr d-like an- annual machine cost of $3.05 per tennae are the same lngth. Con- acre for 20 acres or $1.57 per acre Ocephllll! meal“ "COIN-head" 1°!‘ for 60 acres. The cost per acre for the head of the insect. seen tn cutting corn with this binder and Flde-view, resembles a small cone a two-plow tractor ll‘. $3.40 per acre with the point: directed downwards. or 34 cent: per ton when 60 acres The song of this grasshopper ls a is cut. each year. weak plee-e-e, tzit, tzit.

The machine charge for a silage ‘This year I have looked closely cutter worth $100 is 39 son's per ton for beetles of the genus Cicendela when 30o tcns are handled. The _Tlger Beetles, to the uninitiated. total cost o! operating a s-lage cut- They used to haunt our local sandy ter and a 2-3 plow tractor with one roads, and I could always depend man is approximately 48 cents per on seeing a few in the lane. They year. WJBIB an elevating "can binder would wait till one neared them, and a silage cutter are used at the then fly ahead and settle to repeat same time, the total cost‘ of new the process. I have not seen i5 equipment used for harvevlfl! and sinqle "Tiger" these few years, and ensiilng. including tractors and believe that the drift sand from wagows might be $5500 t: 8 6000. ithc cars has driven them from

For a, forage harvester or corn their accustomed haunts. harvester with silage blower valued Our brook is dry again and the at $1200 the machine Ol-EITKG is 45 watercourse is as smooth and dry ant; p"! ton {or 303 tons of corn as a hoard. Time was when one per year or 25 cents when 000 tons could listen to a full choir of frogs of corn are handled. A corn hitr- “when the springtime comes again.“ vester with 3-4 plow tractor and The last few years have been diner. one man, cutting 8 acres per day. and when the stream failfi the has a total cost wirh fuel or about tadpoles retreat to a deeper pool. $4.90 per acre (33 cents D61‘ (on) This too dries and at. last the tad- (ny 590 tons o;- $tu5 pa; acre 124 poles perish. So it has come about cents per ton) for~000 tans. 0f corn that frogs are extremely scarce per year The silage blower and here. tractor iequired with the harvester On the highway, just at the er.- would cost 20 cents per ton Where trance to the lane. is a bed of sand a harvester and silage blower are eight or nine inches deep. It lies used together. the total investment on the lowest part at the rggd 3rd in equ patient would be $6903 l0 has (as I suppose) drifted down $7500 including the tractors and from the higher levels. Its destiny wagons. This equipment m'ght ecsiie is to be washed into the brook hy m0 t, lgg tong pg; day. the freshets of next spring. and to kwdjf lfind its wav into the eastern part

The man labour required to cut of Rustico Bay. An extraordinarv corn with a horse ccrrvbinder ls amount of silt is thus deposited about 1-4 msn,,hours por ton (l5 each spring, and the "creek" has per ton for a tractor Olndfil‘. For become narrower. The smelts do minutes _ier ton) and 1-8 mun hours not frequent it as they used to. hand wading, hauling and ensllln! Then there is the effect on the corn 1.25 to 1.75 man hours per ton mad itself. No earthern road wtzh a grade or slant to ii._ can come

m. cnpzng, loading and e-islllng is through our frcshets without he'd;

Ida and the meeting will be held some tl-rne later iii United Stairs- Elgnillcnntly it was in (lctobcr 1890 on Prince Edward Island, the place Ivherc ‘ox breeding was fathered way hark in the 83s by CA Dal- icii. the fisherman who later was knighted by lllf‘ POD!‘ Y" m‘ w)‘ breeding exploits and “"00 didn't tlo so btdly when he soil for him- lelf and his associates 2o pairs of fox breeding stock at a total 01 .000 Looking bfllfil‘ to those years and tgurcs doesn't make it easier fcr|

thought could be paid meat could be secured and we said that we unerstood from the Nor- weglans who were here a short time ago that they were paying in - the vicinity of 4 cents p»: lb. The Premier did not bclicve it would be possible tn land frozen whale mcat nez: at that. PIIPB, neither do we. in tact we do not think it would bc landed l-icre urder 8 or 9 cents e lb. which would bring it about on a par. or make lt a little dearer tfllln UOTSE rcieat.

he iox brecders to suffer toriaY-B eprcszcc prices.

Well the idea brought here by r, Owtcn mm Norway ls simply o curt-u; production. to 110M551? ll poor stock. to retain only the st. of '-l:e good and tn try to biiild p ggqln tho reputation. produc- n an." demand of rflver fox. racticallv from scratch.

Accorcllitg to Messrs. Ovncn and arsen. tre peak of prod-irtlon W!!! cached in 1999 when [ox farmers red 1.400.000 animals. 'l‘his Y?!" he production already had Shrunk o 800.000 and the goal is to "It down further to 400.00: by next car and to have an extra fine rop that can be marketed willi- ut difficulty by i350.

These two Norse breiders raY at. in Norway breeders already ave agreed on a restrictive FY0- uetion policy. This achieved by e practice ‘of having every "l" It is produced graded ‘cy an R5- ablation grading committee. The ... skirs are kept oft the mar- ei. and 0171‘ the hcst grades are ilfered to ‘the inwi-novcnsi tui- ade.

Mr. uwren spent much of hi5 me on this cohtiiicnl in Canada here iie sought nut the best of e fathers to discuss ilk‘. DTIV-“m lth ‘them. He reports that the] adlan brreders already have eed to an over-all plan and at tile biggest of thr- United ates Lroeders like-wise iiave been nvinued that reduced rroductivn the but way tn AIISuEF new life the flck (n; breeding Industry. The iizccting on the Pzlnce M- rd Island wlllnserve t-i formu- te a rode with which n. rcilllltie e phlducfjon n! silver and mut- lon inn in the world's rrlntillfll eding cnu fries. Efich of i116

Just how to feed lt i: ii question that has been mlved in Norway but. by what method of trial and error and how man)’ Pfifidlfihfl were ma result of its lkle at first we have no knowcdge of. Away back in 1928 or 29 the Hudson's Bay Company, who were then in- terested in our farms. smi- llP l gupply of whale meat fer experi- mental purposes and also dessicat- cd whale. liver. M horse meat was then avudable around 3 cents end tripe about the same. and the whale meat cost. more we did not conduct very satisfactory experi- ment; so cannot give a proper op-l inion c; to its qualities n! a fee

One trlng we would like to-get is dessicatcd whale llvu or seal liver to take the place of beef. pig and horse liver. which l! HOW BO expenslvt as to place them beyond the means of the fox farmer. As a matte;- ni fact. we did feed consid- erable pigs liver for which we paid 16 1-2 cents n lb. through the spring months and Junc- It is good and pahicularly so during the breeding season. We know of rsrichezs that have had excevillm" al success with large turnout: of pups when they fed quantities of pigs liver througfiout the Winter months. The reason that beef, calfand pig liver is so high 1n price today is that it is used tor 1h! treatmen‘ of anaemia and it is one 0f the best remedies for tllli- Pl"-

osc. W's cannot envision the limb when prices will decrease. so some substitute must be secured.‘

The past. month has been un- usually hot and ranchers who have had thri care cf many foxes have found ‘t. difficult lo imp th-m pl-Qpefly gupplled with drinking water. 1r. ranches where the lrfl use of water iii sieglectad there

coiintria; is‘ to send three rep- may be dlalnemm rum“; A wx I" that dr-nks hi! quota of water will have a better pelt be t‘. adult or pup, when fall petting tin-o arrival. Mnny n1 the poor grade putts that we cornpln‘ of are from insuf- ficient diet. ln- some form. quite

v ‘F9 Mat .

,_ m STOCK often an lnlufflciency of liquids. HORSEMEAT n is attention to detail mt makes ‘if; 11g"); the successful fox farmer or suc-

cenful man in any wllkbf lift. Thou who just aim to It’! b! M"? got. far enough to make a real auc- etu of my endeavor. The present depressed not of tnc for industry don not o: course 1on4 itself to Qftlhllllhlil for endeavor, but it i: ' in Just rucl-i time: n these that to moum. determination and

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All. a it. Jenkins

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usually 1.40 to 2.60 man hours P" ton. with a forage 0i com harvest-El‘ the total man hour. may be 0.9 to 1.30 man hours per ton. An average difference ls 0.6 man hours. P91‘ 10n-

For 1.00 tons or corn D4‘! WIT. l! would require 20" years to save sufficient on labour at 50 i-ents V" hour m ma!“ up the added in- vestment required to substitute a corn harvester and blower for a hcrse binder and onsilazc cutter. when harvesting 600 tons of corn per yea. it would only 1'00"!" 33 years to make up the difference in cost, anti in this time an estimated 1000 hours of manual labour would be saver’. in harvesting 200 tons of

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strength of character of a fox will be shown to best. advantage.

At a meeflng of the directors of the Silver Fox Breeders’ and Ex- hibitors‘ Association of Prince Ed- ward Island held recently. dates for the 17th annual live fox show were set as November 17-21 at Charlottetown. and tor the 10th fax

a‘ pelt show at Summerside January

5-7. i948 Ccmmitt-es wvre ep- polnted in connection with the various activities of the shows and exhibitors can rest assured that every means will be exerted to make thorn a real success. '

A clean-skimming. easy-turning Ionfmv is available to van now.’ There‘: no waitlm; for delivery! A: "ll motherland Itenfrew Beare- oentatlvq for this district .I will lladlv demonstrate a Benfrew In

mn- uvm dairy; ‘than’; no oliib‘

(ll-Inn to Iurohue. Got more cream and hitter. with a" log. Glvo no a all and I'll

um‘. u lo m: utllhctlon.

J. M, Lardner m m1 STREET

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gouged out badly. Thirty or forty years ago the Brackley Point. Road was so badly affected each spring, that. there was an alternative road on a bank alongside the htghwiy: this was about 10 miles from LLV-Vll. Doubtless there are many other localities having the same condi- tions, and it would seem that the only way to combat the denudation would be to pave the slanting sur- face-an expensive remedy.

Last week I had the pleasure. of a visit from Mrs. Walter Douglas and party, from New York. It. ls, I believe, six years since these lad- ies last. visited the Island. Mrs. Douglas is one or the Director of the American Horticultural So- ciety. an organization with which

‘most other national societies are affiliated. Mrs. Douglas brought in two

plants to be named. when I got. an opportunity to study them l. found that one was the purple- fruited form of the Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum var. purpur- cum. The other with verticillate leaves of two kinds, was a. species of- Juniper with which I am not acquainted. I suspect it to be Juni- per nbina. and if so, it is a can- didate for the next "New Flora." However, the Botanical Division, Ottawa, will be asked to identify it

In last week's notes on Couch or Qultch-grass the name was said to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon word "owic" meaning alive, from the plants’ extra vitality. Unfor- tunately the A. S. word was print- ed "civic" which has a very differ- ent meaning. A little further on. the rootstock was said to develop a "corn; what it: really produced was a "curm"—a bulk-like growth of a solid texture.

"Youth and Crime (2)

Professor G. W. Keetonu article,

reviewed in last weeks Notes, des- cribes the present position ot youtti- ful morals as "catastrophic, with very real cause for alarm." There is no doubt that the outlook is very gloomy, but it Britons seek help whence help has so often come ‘of old." the clouds will dissolve in i blessings. , On sunday afternoon, as my cus- tom is. I took down Coverdales- translation of the scriptures, an-I ichlnced on this verse: "The rndde and correccion rnyntstre (give) wyszdome. but yf a childe he not looked unto. he bryngeth his moth- er to shame.“ (Proverbs 29. l5.)

Here. in mv opinion. is lust the point when the parent shirks his

t duty. on the advice of the psychol-

ogists. They have been teaching for some years now, that children should bd encouraged to fully ex- press their personlties that there must. be no inhibitions. and that corporal punishment is a relic of I barbarous age. All this is, of course. clearly contrary to the verse just quoted.