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TOMB OF A SAXON KING

Archaeologists Ln England are stil.l puzzling over s. "burial-ship" which was discovered late last tum- mer a’. s place called Sutton I-Ioo, in Suffolk.

H00 is an old spelling ' i _ rising around; cuss is on the side .l‘.‘0 which fiows flu.-

rii Di-lscri. Burials in ch a ship took the place of a in tvere tomrnon among the

the ship having . if drifted to sea hi the flui- eral pyrc. At who nos the ship was haurd up to the top of some hill near the shore, and it and 1m c<‘ii'eiits were lRbnflfllbiy cowwd One of the most re-

bl‘ early . last crntiuw When the ship was uncovered. it to l1 dd a full-sized

u.:< found . h. a four-ivlievicd cart tfor one an armchair‘, lootieriv, glass-

‘! Ofllljlllflll .. l store of ewels, bracct¢~'~i_ snd ornaments gold and silver.

'l‘he Sutton Hoo ship was s azal- 1K)’ ti; luJL icing. ivltii piticcs for ‘iii. Lnlfivlllkil, bu‘. the s" "lre thing IFIHJL it was LILLY. tilt... were no "w: 0.’ aziy htuiiun reiiiuziis. it ' archaeological i o! the‘

iiLtxi v.'..ri

i; usurea, but. none were . .

i... tirllo‘ but. 11.1: e" '

they (VZOII- E

f...

. orziiuiicnwcl the Byzantine

r . l Kim; would merit the honor of a snip-burial, and when the disctvzv-ry was first. mhdo 1t was Slillflkfifi at. ll..ioti'.'.'i\ltl tlic Cau- t-o . ' of East Anglia, was burial 2 ore, Bait thc absence of filly brew of the dead King dis- proved that. tltaoiwald is sup-

iavo died in G17 ADJ.

e to that delightful old ' Celt. Roman and n". SIIUXVS iiie that

' bi is were not

A mniarkti 3e instance was

I‘.il'E. found in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery iii Bouriie Park, near Canterbury,

curly in the nineteenth century. ‘Um was s. grave. fourteen feel: long. about half that. in width, and lulu" foot deep, siiiooziilv cut. in the solid twliulk. The grave had been filled up with fine soil brought. from a distance. and not with the chalky soil of tho district. At the foot of the grave in one corner had stood l DUCK“. and the bi-oiize hoops and ball handle still occupivd their p1-()_ pcr DOSII-lOIIS, as if the wooden statics had been llierc to support. them. such buckets, often elabor- ately carved. were used at feasts to hold bear for rcplonlshing the drinking-glasses. In the position where the legs of the body should have been. was a coiisidcrable heap of fragments of 111m. Allioltgz these was the bass of a. shield. p. horse's bit. s buckle. a number of nails with ornamental heads. and some smaller nails of brass. At. the side of the crave were rin-rza and buckles aiJtJH-Nnily the remains or harness. (The horse may have belomzed to the “a.bsentee", and was sacrificed. for his use in the spirit world.) Near them w-as a. piece of n. thought to be the point of s wea- pon. At the head of the grave was an ole ntly shaped bowl of oop- per, th ckley gilt. about 5 foot in diameter. but much crushed bv the over-lying earth. Many smaller articles of unknown use were found but no trace of s body. nor was there the long sword and knife usually buried with adult males in Anglo-Saxon "barrows." From this it would seem that the chief had been killed in some distant ex- ition and his friends had not .n able to obtain his bods’. ' The curious thing to me ls, that the soil of such a small island. dull. ploughed, and ransacked, for our I thousand years, should still yield Qiesc archaeological treasurers.

VITAMIN B].

"Better Homes and Gardens" an ericsn horticultural nrafllhuine. as been delving into the 11011188 of a new prermratiorn desilthed vitamin Bl. This, it is claimed,

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Ask vour neichbors whul lrny Chicks did for them. Then phone, or drop in.

W. l. Bowman, Hunter Rlvcr. W. ~K. Crater Remington. Francis Gard ner, Launching

Place. Mriltllasll MacDonald, Tracsdle .,, ,

Wsldcfitfnchonald. pnuiweu.

r C. Johnson, North T170"-

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when spoiled w me soil. W111 m-

I CONSERVATION I

A IZL! OOI-UIII I B-AOIIOAL OPINIONS 0P ‘I'll! VITAL ISUUE..LI'I'IOTING T!!! U!!! AND ABUSE! 0F

n! ma. Lunww Jzuxms

duoe fiVe-itwh iore-buclg narrow; Nuruuu. usounms bigger than s salad plate, and ciay- IABSBIIIIID.

IUJQQ (we call them ‘or e lilies")

with sterhrgs seven feet liig . Thus

cuims_ v0 made Bl "tho moat

dmmd awning m m now AnUUT oalzausnir tftiow ismzoneA to rocoiiciieymse PAPERS FOR THE STABMNG’ 5 11 Smell than from Wm.

l lk m; _ -- y . By Rachel 1.. Carson

it‘ a, nois, writes 1m afraid when John June: Andaman

We'll be so smothered in house- plant greenery that I can't find my iymua-iter." A woman from Ash- hmd. Kentucky. wysz-"I we ab- solutely no results from Bl. My decision ivas and is that I've just bvvn taken 1D again, and that y-Qu are liable for using the malt-j to defraud."

‘These letterkslom with mm- "#15 0i. others, were sxidresed t0 the scientists who discovered that plants need vitamins too. Undoubt. Why the preparation has figured n. some marvellous cases. Dr, Fred- erickliarllott, dental surgeqn of Wliéillnbllfiln. D.0.. relatm h-ow he climbed a ladder. and cur. 3 b10011], 10 inches across. from a 12-foot dflhim. In Lincoln, Nebraska. F. W. Much, chemist. had B. Chrisg. mas Ciwtus that, had w; “one for two years. He watered it. twice

with Bl. and 1; doubled m; 51m m

a month. A nurssr-ymm 1n M.

ilB-IILDIB was not so pleased. "You've mined the sale of my 91mm" m Sillll. Tile little plants, only two or

three inches high, were already in

full bloom.

The explanation given by the“

California Institute of Technology,

(Wllilih introduced uhe use c: the

vitamin) is that. Bl is w new that much QKDBFIIIICIILLI work must 40M bfl-wre we can be sure what it will doto all plants in an 50115 and all climates.

At this Doiiit I may relate an odd

l i 1131399111112 in the rock-garden. lust SUIIUIICI’.

In one corner of LL19 gay.

den plot I had a heap of comm-

grase roots piled there H190’ hadllain there during the win- ter 19:48-39. and ivere dead, and, to U18 6Y9. fairly rotten. In extciitiiiit; the rock garden last spring, I used the decayed roots for "DOOReI-i" between the Then I Di-luwd a sprig from I, plum, oi Suuuui rciieximi twhich came from flourish in the now soil and await- ed results. Pretty soon the sprig

t-\\'i e the noriiiiii hclght while trio leaves became thrice the usual 512A: and llllfiiillޤj one thought. it. n different 5pecleg, The flower-head was abnormally large too. So it continued but. when the autumn set in, the IIlOW shoot conic buck to the old oriii. lieved tilat soniothin grass roots "burnt.

bodice

who was becoming the dictator 0i USCG

mus; "Beware the ides of March."

in 1938;

filling the

J ii) h) grow dim grow m4 y; “'35

might have

all summer,

The old folks at home be-

ln the couch , 1e fields" and the batonical iianlo Agropyron em- that belief. It seems as if they contained some chemical with vixhosc; properties we are not yet, acquainted. and which it uiigiit be well to expcriiriciif, with.

Till IDES OI’ MARCH

‘Beware the ides of March." laid the soothsayer to Julius’ Caesar,

Rome. The warning is still

in current literature but. iii a dif- ferent sense. The German dictator, who has ins soothsayers too, ax:- beiieves that and neighbors then. It is they who The word icies or idus. was an expression used in the Roman calendar to denOIe the 15th day of Ilifimil- MB-Y. July and October. and the 13th day of the other months. I have not been able to discover

painted his Birds of America s. cen- ury ago, he incaided n0 portrait of the sterling in that. famous port- folio. ‘This omission is easily ex- plained. for starlings did not exist. _n Anielca in Audubon! time. There is good reason to suppose that every one of the uncounted millions of starlings now inhabiting the United States from the Atiarrtlc Coast to the Great Plains and ranging from southern Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico traces-his lineage to two colonies of birds-BO and 40 respec- iivolyv-drnported from Europe and librrutcd in New York's Oenrta Pink in the springs of 1890 and 189i. Severn previous attempts to introduce the bird appear to have failed. The successful introduc- tion was made by Eugene Schieffelin W110 also bfbllifllii in the English sparroiv and tried Mthout surccs to iniroduca sons: thrushes, chaf- flnchs, bullfinches, skylarks, and nightlngiiles.

In spite of his remarkable suc- cess. ax a pioneer. the starling pro- l baliw has fewer friends than almost any Dill?!‘ creature that wears feath-

ers. That fact. lgwwever, seems to be of vcrv little iin rtanoe to‘ this chcerfu bird w Lh glossy

plumage and stumpyjcil. Without smming to care yvhctlier the ben- . efiting famier thanks him or re-‘ viles him, lie hurries with perky, stops about tlihe farms and gar- desn in the summer time. carrying , moie than 100 loads of destructive , insects per day to his screaming offsprinz, cramming his own stom-

r3011 full of such food as Japanese

beetles, caterpillars. and cutwonns. With complete indifference to angry protests, he finds roosting placcc in warm cities in the winter, going out each morn-inz. a faithful com- muter-in-reverso, to earn his bread in the surrounding countryside. On one point ornithologisis an pretty well a'rreed—the starling is here to stay. Shall we then con- tlrue to regard him as an alien or shall we wncude that his successful planer-rim: and his service in in- sect destruction entitle him to American citizenship’! '

As to economic wortih, s pretty complete auditing of the starllngkl books has already been perfomiedl by the Department of Agriculture; After going into the matter of food | habits more thoroughly than has been done for almost my other blrd, the Department pronounced the stariing "one of the most. dfec- tive bird enemies of terrestrial in- sect prsts in this muntry."

It was found that the starling is quick to ferret out the presence of the Ja anese beetle and to des- troy it; at weevils. ground beet- les, and plant-eating scarabaeids, wit-worms, grasshoppers, and mille- ncdes are favorite items of diet. The total evidence Zed the biolo- gists to conclude that “from the viewpoint of the fanner the insect- eating habits of the sterling leave little to be desired. .. In the north- eastern states the starling is econ- omically the superior of the robin, the catbird. the red-winged black- bird, the izrzwke the cowbird, or the English sparrow."

charged On the

The starling is often Wiih eating cultivated fruit. other hand. it has been estimated that the robin. which no one would seriously propose to “control", eats

why these dates came to have a. special name attached to them. The Calends or Knlcndae were the first day of every month. Martial calls them "Trista kalendae" (sad calends) because they were the time of paying interestl The Greekr; did not call the first day 0f their months by any special name. and so had no calends: when a Roman promised therefore to do something "ad Grimecas Kaleiidas". he meant "never." The Nona. or nones of seventh days of March, May, July, and October, and the fifth of the other months,

This peculiar and rather cum- brotis chronology was adopted by the monkish compilers of the An- glo-Saxon Chronicle. Thus under date Al). 916: "This your was the innocent Abbot Egbert slain 11.2., by niarziuding Dunes) before midsum- mcr. on the sixteenth day before the oalcnds of July. The same day nus the roast of St. Ciricius the martyr, with his companions."

If you enjoy a book of a gently humorous turn. road "Azlvmittiros in Coniuiitniont" by David Grayson (Hurst. ac Co., Now York). The chief character-ff cannot call him liero)—is an Amerlcaruwho through many feverish years worked 1n I biz city, striving (as he says) “to- wards that. vague Success which wo Americans love to glorify."

One da7r~it was in April, when the soft i\ pies in the cit? Dark were beginning to bloom-he came to himself. He recalled the de- lights of his boyhood on the old funnstezid: he hungererl and thlrstcd for the earth. So that year- eight. years before the story really opens-lie rented a. farm and took his sister Harriet. to house- keep for him. By the fall he had come to love the place so much that he decided to buv it, mid from that; moment; his "adventures" be-

gm,

Oui- new farmer has the soul of l. poet, though he never writ/es verse; the eye of s immorlst. discern the foibles of his neighbors -and to condone them; and un- dernea-th all a very human and understanding heart. His visitors. the Scotch Preacher, the book- agent. the Professor who tre in search of botanical spec meiis, the millionaire who farms amusement: the conununity In- fidel, and Horace who sold him the farm, all firmish little chapters from which the reader will get a sedate chuckle. Even Harriet, busy with things of the house. adds to the amuscmnnt. A good you must read it.

GUANO

Sixty years ago the name "guano" would have been no mys- few to my farmer friends: perms

thérr remain some, who if y

the month were the.“

about. twice as much cultivated fruit as the sterling. It has been lcharged that. the star-ling‘ harass lnative birds and drives em mit of their holes; but it has recently been foira-d that the gen-tie house wren is also a. despoiler of nests, and who does not love the WYQTI?

Elven granting his economic ms- irabiiity, many will continue to condemn the stsrlinz for his win- ter habit of wmrregating in citia. Objections to the litter produced by the nightly gatherings are re- wiiwn-vilzbiizrglmnvavief

have not vised this materiel 5511 remember the eagerness with which it was sought after. Guano was a fertilizer, of an ashy-zrfly 601°!‘ tingid in places with a misty brown, and of a OOnSI-Stenflv which might perhaps be described as “mt-aly." One of its unpleasant features was a penetration. oimizent and nitrous odor that was liable t0 pcrmcam anything near. or in con- uict with it; and ships taking it to

“ADVENTURES IN . . - Britain, curried on the outwa CONTENTMILNT. voyage coal or some cargo that would not be affected by the smell.

An uiiclc of the writer, who was a .i'armei*, and was moreover III-fwd with a. flow oi colorful language. kept. his supply of guano out of the way in u tool-house in the orchard. because, as he svered. "it smelt like perditlon." Tlus guano was the exiets of numberless sea-birds such as pen- guins, gannets, crimes. oomiouarvts and so on; and feeding mostly on fish. their manure was composed 0f coluble and highly valuable con- stlbllelllS. It was found only in certain rainloss, or nearly ralnlom lslldntk 5nd districts Ln South Am- er ca. Humboldt, the great explorer, first brought a specimen of this deposit to Europe in 1804, and af-

l starlings set out for

many cities to dislodge the uninvit- ed Quest. Gunfire has been tried in Harrisburg, Baltimore, and certain other cities under spgcial police re- gulations. 1n others. streams of water hsxvs been played on the birds; colored bal cons have been waved tinder the roasts" or tin cans have been rattled by o otherwise obleas in an effort to scare away

as been attained in some quart- thc birds. While temporary success era, I have seen no claim that starllng roosts ss a whole an s whit reduced.

T0 my mind. the most interest- ing qualities of this bind are as- sociated with the habit which some find so objectionable. Mom th xiiglhtly encampments,

the suburbs

shortly before sunrise each mom- ing are busy all day about their insect-eating activities, and knock off work to retuzn to the city roost at about the same time each ev- ening. Apparently light conditions rather than actual time control the arrivals and departures. starlings that were watched for s number of successive mornin? fn October loft their masts 10 o 14 minutes before sunrise on clear mornings, but 5 minutes before on cloudy mornings. In Washington I have noticed that in good weather the starlings are rarely assembling about the buildings and Oriental plane- tieec on Pennsylvania Avenue, their favorite roosting places, as early as four o'clock. On dark, threatening afternoons. however. the four o'- clock hour is often marked by flocks of starlings hurrying across Lafay- ette Square or Potomac Park to- ward their roosts.

One of the most fascinating sights I have ever witnessed is that of starlings in their aerial maneuver- ings before settling for the night. In mighty flocks, which grow mo- ment by moment through the addi- tion of new anlvals. they wheel and turn above the buildings.

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TIMELY NOTES ON TOPICS CONNECTED WITH

Silver Fox Farming "

lad.-. AA-Mlus, “Midst. a... aert, has good results with the two male white face toms ho h fmm Well McNeil] and son. He mated them to twenty-two females and expects to have a fine crop within a. short time.

Parker Wood, Bouthrpork who struck luck two s o by ducin some of he pla. lnum var- iety reak foxes, two of which he sold to Colpitts Ems, Salisbury. N. 13., and one to Dr. Leo Frank. has hcd an urgent inquir from parties in New Brunswick ctr this sec.- son’: crop. He has been wise en- ough to retain some of the best of previous litters for himself and says that he expects some 20 or 30 puns quite as good as those he sold and some even betwr.

Hudson's Bay Company, Iiondon. England will offer up oximately 90,000 silver fox pelts a their sale commencing Monday, April 1st.

The story of silver fox pelt im- ports into the United States shows that the average value of the skfts purchased from Canada for Unit- ed States consumption this year is 4.2 per cent less than last ycar. The average price paid in Canada was $13.50, for Norwegian s n: $15 35 and for Swedish skins $16.11, making an average for all imports to the United States of $14.20 com- pared with $28 00 for i939. How- ever, tlie purchase of pelts in 1940 from ail sources totalled $986,000 for 66.500 pelts as against $420,500 for 16,465 pelts in 1939.

The Customs Bureau at Wash- ington announces that no more sil- ver or black fox skins can be im- ported from Canada. until Decem- ber 1st. Foreign countries will be permitted to fill quotas commenc- ing April lst. Canada's quota was 58.300 skins.

It is expected that the Canadian

pateming the evening sky with in- trlcate deslrrns. Icadcrsloss, appar- ently animated by the pure joy of indescribable beauty At its con-V clusion. the birds scttfie down ra-i ther abruptly on the buildings be- low. The-y crowd inyi church vow- ers; they petr*ch,.black as Poe's rs- ven. over windows and doorwaymi they outline the ledtzes and the sheltered pcrrticocs of buildings with row upon row of sr_,,‘j dark forms. i This is a period of i msnse commo- tion, during which competition for choice roosting places is keen. From now until darkness quiets them,|

their tongues are never still. A con- .

fused, incessant chltter-chaatter fills the sir, at once slbilant. shrill, and '. grating; a. sound that has become . as typical of a. city strcet. at dusk l as is the raucous booting of unpa- tient traffic. homeward

| Acqurain-tance with so enqaging a bird as the sterling sucgests many _

questions, among the most inter- esting of which is how and when

he clevelpoed his habit of congre-

‘gatting in cities in the wintertime. I’

seems that a possible explana- tion is to be found ln the facts of the star-bug's existence in this country. The birds liberated in

‘Central Park came of a miizratoiy

shock. With the cumin" of crfd wea- ‘ther. the starliri-rs of "ic old world m south: from the British Isles or northen continental Europe to the Mediterranean. the shores of the .Indian Ocean, the foothiYs of the Himalayas. Apparently this racial ,memory. which the lmmizrant birds Jnust have curried wltlrllicrrn across iihe Atlantic. was modified by the Ifact that they were in a stranire ‘land-s land crossed by no ances- itral sir routs that "i" "light f0‘.- ‘low to a warmer climate. ‘If this fear of the unknown was stronger than the instinct to mi- grate. as we may swipes-r. it Ls not survprisinz that so iritclliccrit it bird as the stariing should have souzht. a substitute for mirzratlon. Cities. he quickly found. are warmer than open oounlryn ‘Every observant hii- man knows that the first FhOWIIYZ of yellow fnrsytliia and the first up-rushlntz of nrile pres-n shoots come in the citv. So the adaptable starlings fork into cities in the fall and winter ns the ‘first. substi- Htutes they can find for the subtroo- ‘ical ciimes where their ancestors . spent the winter. | Little by little, howevcr. the star- llnys have extended their range. Litie by little thcv have begun to drift south in winter. For the first six years of their life in the United

rd States Vcedinw stariintzs were con-

fined to Grcalcr New York. nv 15110 they had occunicrl much of Connec- ticut, Rlicde Idanrl. soiiihcrii Mas- sachusetts. much of Ncw Jersey. ,and a little of easinrn Pennsylva- ,nia. In 191B. an important year ‘in sterling history. they crossed the

Alleghenies. 'I'hercafter prowess ~was rapid. Bv 1930 the glossy

'blnok bird mu become a. familiar sight to residents of southern On- tario, Wisconsin. Missouri. Arkan- sas, and even the northern parts of states bordering the Gulf of Mexico. They have now pushrd westward into Minnesota. Iowa, -Karisns. and Oklahoma, and a few even farther.

In all this expansion of range-

there has been evldciif. a pronoun- ced seasonal drift, which is becom-

Oustoms Bureau will announce shortly its classification of the Nor- wegian Platina fox as u new and distinct typo of fox and not in the silver fox classification

Yesterday a collection of 4.200 fresh Norwegian ranch bred blue fox pelts were offered at pubic auction at the sales room of the New York Auction Company. The collection ls advertised 8;. contain- ing some of the very finest speci- mcns of blue fox with color phas- es varying from the beautiful plat- inum blue shade to the rich sable shade. This is the first special sale ever he'd in the United States of Norwegian bred blue foxes. There is no duty on blue foxes. white foxes, cross foxes or any other type of fox brouzht into the Unit/ed States with the exception 0f sil-

Iver fox on which there is now s.

duty of 35 per cent. No decision has yet been given as to whether Nor- wegian plrttinums will be consid- ered in the same category as silver foxes. l’

Perhaps some particulars regard- ing the Norwegian b‘uc foxes may be interesting to our readers as there are quite a number of ranch- es i'n wcstci-n Canada specializing in blue foxes and others that; are

adding some of these animals to“

their herd to diversify it. There are also quite a number of breed- ers in the United States who are making good with blue foxes, so herewith is a short description nf what the Norwegians call the “beautiful blues."

"Blue fox as bred today on mod- ern fox farms in Norway is one of ‘the most colorful furs available to ‘the fur trade. It has been mu up 1n a merit years so that the polls are rich, lustrous silky. heavily furred and of various b‘ue shad-rs. ‘A far crv from the clumsy W001)’ ,dull. dark purple-brown pelts of s ‘few years ago. Norwegian blue fox breeders. building on wild Green- land and Svalbard breeding stock,

shipment from The R. V.

sible have your Iund analyzed.

- teresting by articles

rest us 11s never quits ro- wver his health. m his n the fox industry lost I and. ve fins gentleman. He was gbly to}: owefi ma." Gertrud; ox w o re nq shes pen an guiding ha to other: who will no doubt c013‘ on the splendid tn- nave gone im- Bsleflfl or ureecers in ditimis of c Black Fox Muslim. other countries in the oductlon I ——-—- of finer blue fox pelts. have! From semis we get from s11 striven to produce or 1i t col- over this vinoo ti“!!! ll 0W1’! ored skim —f.hat blue fox pelts reason to believe that the sv with an abundance of the bright fox female production this your silver hairs which may be cle- be isr er than usual. The reason scribedsssplatlnum bus ngiven thattheuhssbeensbi: -——- islicke-up and poor foxes have been Norwegian farm bred blue f0: pelted off and those remaining u! runs heavily to the silvery or pale lracelving better care and better

types with s small ,_ entage o the unique and beautiful blue fox skins well described by a leading Parisian fur man as "chinchilla." These particular foxes sre so very sillq and yet so deeply furred, so 1e and beautifully marked as to comggrcblc only with the lovely and in itable chinchilla fur.

Then is I great deal more to thl description of the Norwegian b1ues~ given in recent Fur Trade Magp- nines the writs-ugabeing the work of Oimsr Brager- rsen. who as a publicity man is certainly number one. It will be how these skins sell-next week we will give particulars in this col- umn.

Additional information regarding the Canadian Fur Auction Sales which were completed a week ago last lfi-iday in Montreal has arriv- ed. The sales room estimated the offering on the whole us about 5 per cent below the previous month, althoufli there was very little dif- ference in the figures obtained. It was the quality of the skins that was better. Of the total silver fox sale sélected halves to three-quart- er silvers were 3B per cent sold a. an average of $24.87. s decline of 10 per cent. Regular- quarter to three-quarter silvers were 84 per cent sold. averaging £6.89. ad- | vancc 2 per cent Selected full sll- i vets were 72 per cent sold, avermlc $30.82, Reirular full silvers were .77 .

r cent sold. average $20.57 In- , eriors were 67 per cent sold. aver- 889 $ .27. how "rude! were 76' per cent sold. svermw $6.53. Ab- sence of New York buying was noticeable and buvcrs representing Australian and South Amcrican firms were not particularly in evid- ence. Canadians boiieht almost all the skins sold thoueh some were believed to be for European ac- count. Included in the lot offered on the lust day were 81 skins de- séiilaeéd as freaks. They averaged

Mrs. Gertrude E m, pioneerl woman mink breeder. has sold interest in the Black Fox Mags-i zine to its publishers and has re- | tired as Editor. She will. how- ever, remain on the staff as con- sultant until this fall. Recently she ‘ purchased a. large plantation and orange grove on the west coast of Worlds where she spends her win- ters and engages in the owin! of citrus fruit. Australian pncs for the rayon industry and the rasing of pure bred Brahman cattle. In, addition she is engaged in mink farming. owning a ranch in Maine which is conducted by Harry B. Piumer. Mrs. Fox L: certainly c] very versatile woman and richly - deserves a holichiv alibi‘ in so many ventures. l

The Black Fox Magazine was started in 1913 bv F‘ C. Kaye. and the writer gave him one of the ncl- ' vcrttscmenis for his first issue. He also had advertisements from W Chester S. McLure. Walter Cont. W K, Ropers and many others who have either zone to the Great Beyond or ceased thrir connection with silver fox farming. Later on B Graham Rogers of Summersidc. now head of our Tourist Publicity Bureau. was his lsrgcst adverii-W’. and copies of the old ‘Black Fox Marzazine of 1917 in the late 20‘! were made considerably more in- from the mn of B. Graham. or full page ads that really sold foxes.

Those were the boom days of

ri....a.i.... t.

We have u limited supply of both these varieties of Nova Scotio Registered Turnip Seed for scle, wholesale and retail. secure these varieties of Turnip Seed from any of the following; 4 George C. Kitson, Colvilla, Lorne Coles, Milton, Harold Cudmora, Brcckley, John A. McKinnon, Union, Melvin Joy, York, Irving

ing strongly northeast. to southwest

m‘ analysed it attracted some Bi- 'in direction. ‘Thus birds that brrctl tciitioii in the experimental world. l 1n western gummy waste", New BY 154° Wm“ Liam-K's W911“ °n York. and" wcslei-n Pennsylvania. chemistry in relation to flzriwl- winter in Ohio. wmicrn Kentucky m" were Pu-biismd- imam’ 5°?“ western Tennessee. and even mtth- W ¢°m° 151° "5 °Wn- 771° "-59 °‘ er to the southwest. The birds com-

for

it increased rapidly. Great Britain and her colonies taking the 1am- est share, with France s good sec 0nd. Statistics are hard to obtain. but it seems likely that fourteen million tons of this sea-fowl man- ure were imported into various countries up ‘P 1876. when quantity to fail. as well as the quality. Poruvian mums. ct its mat, when analysed pave 17.41 p.c. of ammonia and 24.12 pc. phos- hatus, The miano from the noted chaboe Isle-rm GQDOsIts, had s. greater pnosphatio content (30.30 DB.) but only 7.30 p.c. of a-rnmonia. From the foregoing it will be seen that guano was rich. active and gtimulatiflg: it a to cause an excessive development

fl-ilpiuiution to crass land. In us- imz itlfor field logd zlurden crop?‘ it WEI-S BWQYS ftpp :1 00111111 on A with suwrvhflflnlmiu.

of fflliflire. and was well adapted for '

manly live in a new section several years as whiter mhrrnnts before thcv move in as breeders.

'I‘hcse facts lead one to sneculafe IOTI the future of the bird. There is zstrong evidence that in the rela- tively short space of half a. century

“wflihe pinncerlnq stnrlinz has estab-

‘lishéd the eenernl path of n ml-

t-orv route, It seems not im- mrobabie that In another half con- turv this aerial highway may be known lo the bulk of the sterling population; that the migratory in- lstinct may became more pronoun- lced as the land to the southward becomm better known. If in time the starllmz in America forms the habit of winterlnv on Gulf

‘coast. as his forefathers winter-ed

an the llfmlilvrrrrvnn. will not the

meed of warm cities be lost and the

"sterling pmblcm’ solve itself? The I ‘answer to this speculation deqiens

as may table factors

Mt. Herbert and J. Leo Prnught,

The Island price has not as

will be the some cs other distributors.

the industry and F. C. Kaye, s

See

One sees ones neighbor ou In 6n g nfllllfflllv concludes that this sort of

I strongly advise that only two varieties of Turnip Seed he ‘qt-aim; planted with the hope of selling them us Tabla Stock Turnips for , this Province this coming Full.

Ditmcr Registered Turnip Seed grown in Nova Scofic is b; fur the most popular and 4-5 of your acreage should be planted Ditmur. The Luurenfinn Registered Turnip Seed, grown in Novc Scotin, this is c purple topped Turnip that we are frying to introduce but unfortunately If does not wux us well us the Difmcr

variety cnd not more than I-S of your acreage should be Luurentiun. I

I strongly suggest that our Turnip growers plant not more than ekoelled. There is c 1-4 of their acreage for the early market and for the remainder do figggfigiflg w?“ Yum "° not be in any hurry planting but use 242-6 with Borax and if pos- s x ‘owe a. o! u

You can

Thompson, Dunstuffunage, Frunk McNolly, Scotchforf, Earle lngs,

Cherry Volley, Harold P. Smith,

Pownul, as well cs cf our Charlottetown office. .

FERTILIZER

yet been established. Our price Our business is expanding

ecch month and indirectly through the above mentioned dealers or of our office we would appreciate a share of your Fertilizer require-

IIIBHIS.

i Consider that you uro bound to run info u year when prices on ' Produce will be low and naturally when this occurs we will prefer buying from those who purchased their Fertilizer from us. We allow whols sols prices on both the above mentioned varie- ties of Turnip Seed and Fertilizer to Shipping Clubs“

FRANK B.

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I.

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» Much we often ms 150k den traces to s. miss

,enjoying himself. ‘merely puttering around, moving a, shrub from one comer to the other, or more likely admiring the beautiy

e and a climate have

hues, st least hal l tinct vegetables and score; of shrubs and vines. Weth baimicst close to t e Arctic Circle something in almost eve . veloped to suit

f lfeed than usual because feed is low

in price and the outlook is better for more substantial prices this fall. However. the total ntmbec of for:

produced this ea: will. our IIIlgflnMlI-l as! not b0 very much Thalia‘ £3 f2:- otgierlufir “if. Con: ada as well. with the exception u! certain ranohihz mm v -' shchcwan. Alberta I-nd “*5- ,wheco breeders have ms 09' bright silver females ic p "n "I

‘wmis faced or platinum foxies. There ls every indication o a. large production of these types this Sprink-

The weather has been uito fw- orablc for females who . with tho exception of the two day! of this month which were vary oold ivnd some losses resulted, bu most fox farms don't h-I-Vc v01‘! early litters and the weather has been ideal lately and will probably continue with very little lower tem-

Iperatures until whelping is over.

A flew tips regarding idle! It this season of the gar may not N out. of place. Fir . be sure Your females are kept laxative and if necessary buy some liver and feed 1 ounce to 2 ounces s. few days prior to whel lng. If you hB-W 170611 feeding cod var oll in the ration don't out. it out. Some vitamin C in the form of turnips. lemon Juice or tomato juice should be an in- izredierit of your ration, but if you have not used any start cautious-

ly.

When look in their cars for scales. young pups may have earmites and if so use some. eamiite lotion. not or the watery kind. however, ss it will‘. not stick in the ear long eri- ough to be of use. Fox pups should be pillcd if pot bellied st fifteen drive. certalnl st twen -one do.

you exsmine the fax pups Even

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danger o worms durin: March but

later an when the snow goes u m very liable to ‘be infested Bu}: sidcrsbly with worms. If fliers arq any fleas dust over with s good fies. powder and be sure and do all“? litter sntdhwstcii gig (may.

flLS em II IQQ flhg she not take offense at m: new odor

‘This is the anxious time. For the next few weeks we will all b; on our tou wonder what mother 10m m coin: to for us. m us not fall down ourselves by any neglect or insttention. Better days sm surely ahead, so one and all let us put our shoulders to the wheel and bring our industry back main to sumethinl of its former name-w.

t BUTCBEBS’ BONUS IONDON — (C?) -— ‘lb meet the higher 00st of liviruz caused by the evacuation of Su-iltnfield Mar. bet. the London Whocsals Meal;

Simply Amoclstion Ltd. will waters s. bonus of 10s 02.22381

EASTBOURNE. England _ ((1?) —A family of I2 itinerant mug Wckers hero was Nund to be illit- erate no members of the fssnily for generations having been able u,