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BICOLA

KEY Ti) ’s‘ﬂIt' SALIENTA OF P. E. I.

This is the name of a class of un].)I.liI)IOlI8 animals whose progress K3.) Lie \vord indicates) is 4 series or pups; and it includes the Am- erican Toad and the several 5D€Ci‘3a of Frogs. Francis Bain. in his clas- sic "Natural History of Prince Ed- ward island", tells us that "The poor road is a useful, ‘rough at repulsive animal. devouring large rurmocr:_oi insects, which ;t cap- tures with its ex.-enslble tongue. Green and bronze—rolored frogs are found in damp grass fields. The Tree Toads make the flooded swamps ring_wlth their shrill pip- ing in the still air of balmy spring nights. The Wood Frogs that as- gociaie with them in the ponds, make a hoarse, grunting noise. one species of Tree Toozi climbs into the branches of trees in late summer. and sounds in call from thence like a bird," This a. good general summary of our sallenta, and in time I hope to supplement .1 by a description of the Uradeia —lhe only other amphibians found

here.

It is exactly fort cars since Dr. Pbiilg) Cox u e: ok a sys- tematic s udy of our salienta while holidaying on the Island (1899). Horn his list I found it posslrbl to make out a ‘‘Key‘‘ which enab- led me to ‘identify any frog that ghance threw in my way. By it I have been enabled to recognize live out of the six species found here. the Pickerei or Marsh Frog being the exception. This does not mean perliaps, that the Piokerel Pro; ll rape; since I have never rurrtezl these creatures s iy, mci probably overlooked the species in question.

There are many different spec- ies, and more varieties, of frogs found in Canada; and there is often I difference in the same species accordingly as it is found in the East or the West of me Do- minion. If the student is inquis- rtivo in this matter, there is I ‘Frog Book" (Nature Series) in the Public Library, which will go for :o :f‘~ll£fV his curiosity. But such '.lI€l‘allll'(‘, is scarce and costly in Canard-_ and it is suggested that ':hLs a.t2cle may well be preserved tor rzrerence. The young student alight always to make hirnscll fa. rulrar with the scientific (Latin) mun: as popular names are not lfil-lbie, varying from one locality ‘o arrcilrer. It is unfortunate, how- ever. that systematists, through .ave of change, or penhaps vanity, have r'e-christened several species; to that the student is obliged to earn the synonym as well,

Order Salicnta (Frogs and Toads)

ta) Pupil of eye round or hori- rontal. parotld gland present: llufonidae.

ill Bufo amcricanus Leconte or B. lrnirglnosus, “Commor, Toad". Cranial crests usually divergent belund warts often large. arrang- ed urrlrout pattern in dorsal areas; spotted beneath.

ta» ',’1_rpii of eye round or hori- Ionlai, fingers and toes tipped with adhesive disc3—HylIdac.

(21 Discs large, under surface grarul.alcd; skin smooth or nearly

go.

12) Plc_kering's 'ITee Toad, Hyla plckerlngil Hol-brook. Body 1 inch low. 11 saltire cross mark on the.

IJACK. Posterior surface of femur bloichvd or spotted. V-shaiped mark between eyes.

‘at Discs absent. ear distinct.

m:u::r i.'trge—Ranldae,

(3: Skin with longitudinal folds I_>8bl\’tf'3n the lateral folds: spots flfillllllcly outlined on the back and ll 95

t3)’ Pickerel Frog, Marsh Frog Rana Palustrla Leconte. Males 2 to 2 1-2 inches, females 3 to 3 1-2 Inches (body). Brownish, spots

MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY

Dr. G. J. Trueman, Preslderl.

Dﬂtrec courses in Arts. sci- ence. Home Economics, Music, Fine Arts, Certificate Courses In Engineering, Teacher T7“ “I08. Commerce, Home Economics, and Secretarial Courses Preparatory to Law, Mrdlclne, Theolcsy. Dentl:try.

R"-5Id°0°€ Opens for new stu- dents on September 25.

squsrisn, underside of legs bright :71:-n8e~y_xa1low. A conspicuous LI¢h'. ° “Om muzzle to shoulder. sag) I-'°‘.7P“'d FT08. Rana piplen. leber. R. vlrescens (Kuhn) Cope. A common frog. Male :3 1.2 inches. female larger. o1;\.c_gX.3en_ 1-90. sometimes brassy. Spots rounq. °CI,_chucolate to blackish. outlined witn cream color or 1131“ green in two irregular rows. Usually vw.S 15-78” spots between the eves. (D) Skin relatively smooth bra tween the lateral folds. Leg; short N0 01301‘ Cheek patch. Ear of male lax; er than eye. J Spring Frog, G nun font-lnslia L.econr.er;°°§. .33.? "'“I:' M53931: 3- horloonenaio Holorook. Male 3 to 3 1-2 inches female 3 to 5. Bright green, flanks darker. (our variety is largely brownish); everywhere spotbea b A . 5 null and without 5051-01-9 pattern. Troat of male Yellow. of female white, spotted, Iaiteral folds conspicuous, (b) Leg: long, cheek patch pre. sent. ear of male not larger than

eye.

(6) Basile/rn Wood Frog, Rana sylvallca tfseconw) Gunther. Tm; it thought to be a var-let of the

an R. tempera:-I; lnn,aaug_ USUB-ll.V reddish brown but may vary from nearly black to nearly flesh color. A black band or patch on each side of head encloses ear ﬁnd €.V-3. and a light ring runs from snout to shoulder. From thiah to heel mulch exceeds length of head plus body. Male 2in., fe- mﬁ-IO I.

The above req'.'.I.rcs some explan- ation. The cranial crests of’ the common toad are bony ridges on the skull. which in the British] species are arallel (if my memory serves): Wh it in our B. american- us :l1cv diverge. The “lateral folds“ IN silk‘-In ridges of skin running a.lon__ each side of the animal: some :mes as in the Picker-e1 Fro." there are more than two lateral folds. As to color. some (perhaps all) fmss can exercise a kind of 0511101111080. becoming darker in gloomy surroundings. in sandy situations, changes take place rather quickly. The vocal efforts of the species; show considerable variety but it‘ is hard to discover the kind re- sponsibre for the particular broad- cast: for all fall silent when one approaches.

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NATURAL RESOURCES MAESHFIELD.

I CONSERVATION I

A WEEKLY COLUMN OF PRACIICAL OPINIONS OF THE VITAL ISSUES AFFECTING THE USES AND ABUSES OF

BY MIL. LUDIIOW JENKINS.

IS \‘v' LDLIFE A COMMODITY, ONLY?

It was said by the historian of the fur ttade in 1924 that the world fur sales dispose of 100,000.00 pelts annually, not counting rabbit, mole and muskrat. {The Fur Trade of America. Mzrcivfillans. "iv Ag-nes Laut.) As the rare and more beau- tiful furs became scarce the trade turned to rabbit and muskrat. These formerly despised pelts were processed to resemble their better-s such success that few pur- chasers of fur could tell the dif- ference betwc-en Alaskan Seal and Hudson Sral (muskraii. or (‘Irin- chllia and oliinchiilette (rabbit). The latter took on a hundred dif- ferent names, including Baltic Lion and Chinese wolf. While the former caused Louisiana to become ill“? foremost fur-r)ro(1rrcir1~z state of the union. 'I‘ho lush marshes and bayou: of Lmrlslrmzi were a‘-lve with rats and. though the lcwlv rodent breeds in every stream and waterway from Maine to Californ-

word ";;r'ousrrug". with wlrrcli LhLs nozu begins. it ts a rnoucrri slang vwru, wc.i euuugu known to rrcwspzrper rm-acers, but it has Lot attained to J. place in the "Kings izinglmir." d,:c'.rorrar'y. In my younger days it was called "gi‘cucliri1g', and had a, congeneric noun .1 "y,r‘0uclr"_ To gut :0 Lin: root 0;‘ the word we nrrtst go back irrst to the Middle iirrgirsrr ‘gr'o(‘heii", and from thence to the Old French "groucier", both mean- ing "to grumble". Much of our slang is really very old.

THE SAItRACEN_Ii‘\CEi\E

There is but one member of this F'a.m.'rly growing in P. E. Island the Pitcher Pianvt, Sarracenra pur- purea. An odd-looking plant with trumpet-shaped leaves, it must be sought in the ncigrrboriiood of pea:-bogs, I was in London in 1879, siiortlv after there had been a dis- cussion cn the Sarracenia, by a committee of the Royal Horticult- ural Society, so that I went to the “Kew Gazdens" to see the plant itself. In a note book (which lies before me) I made a drawing of one leaf: apparently to draw the

Epstein has sold his grotesque statue of Adam (the subject of a notice in this column a week mﬂ two ago) to a Wealthy English-. man. who is sending it about the countiy on exhibition. The price is not stated. but as another enthus- iast has offered the sculptor £15,- 000 if he will produce a statue of Eve. it is evident that “art" of this kind ir. a paying proposition. The new customer says he does not look for Eve to be a glamour-girl. which is Just as well; for Epstein man- ages to make his female statues with abnormally long necks. lrko the ‘giraffe women" of tire rustlcl fairs. and endows them with a hardness of feature seldom seen in real life. In one town it is said that 5.000 people paid to see “Adam". and as popular prices are, as a rule, one shilling per head. the owner would net about 1.200 dollars. Not bad!

In my last spasm of grousing 1 dealt with sculpture, painting and music. all of what is called the modern type. With the forgetful- ness which sometimes overtake: the best of men. I omitted to speak of poetry and literature, two arts which have gone astray like the rest. In a recent number of the London Observer, St. John Ervine goes gunning for a very modern poet, a Mr. Auden, who it seems is so obscure that Chaucer is an angel of light in comparison. says Mr. Er-vine. "My generation is so divided from Mr_ Auden’s that it is easier for us 1.0 understirnd the meaning of Chaucer, despite the difference of our speech. than it is for as to understand them (he means the modern poets), despite the resemblance of our speech. do not know the meaning of every word in the Canterbury Pilgrims, and must consult a glossary for explanations but I know what Chaucer meant. by his poems. I do know the meaning of every word in that stanza. by Mr. Dylan Tlwnns which I quoted last sun- day but I do not know what he meam by anything he writes, I am prepared to believe that that may be my fault, but Mr. Thomas will do well not to take it for granted that the fault is mine." 1 have had the works of a modern poet from our I’\l’0I.I.C Libmrv. fill’. can support M'r. Ervine in his con- clusions. Satire, howew:r. rather than lclzlc, is more likely to prove etlectlve in getting these see the error of their ways, and one Louis Zukolskv has per - rated a passable Imitation of tielr

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outpouring: in his “Poem Begin- ning "The"". of which this a sample:

43 O the Time is 5

44 (1 I

I 0 (5 For it's the hoo-docs. the somethin‘ voo-docs

46 And not Kings onclle but the

w men

47 Cvraue Socrates, what says Marlowe?

48 For it was myself seemed held

49 Bentln -Ibeativw-—

50 Body ling as over an

hora de'oeu

'mediatie1y inside the leaf: entering.

whole plant, was too rnuolr trouble! But I made up for this by acquir- ing a number of particulars which I have pleasure in laying before the reader. Files are attracted ‘by a sweet liquid which exudes rm-

ihey slip down into the waif: at the bottom of the “trumpct’ and are drowned. The inside of the leaf also has reflexed hairs which make it more difficult for the insect to ascend, On the outside of the leaf the honey-secreting surface extends down to the ground. and entices ants and other wanderers to follow the broad way that leads to de- struction One member of the R. H. S. committee reported that the "pitchers" of his plant became checked with files, and as a con- sequence it died. There was no reason to suppose, said the savanis. that the liquid in the pitchers is at all digestive: the flies seem only to rot and serve as nitrogenous manure. which is always very scarce in peat-bogs.

As a matter of fact our pitcher- plant is not happily named. for it is ncvt, externally at any rate, vezy like a pitcher. In a tropical house at Kew one may view the real pitcher-plants of Borneo and other Asiatic regions: but the heat and hr.rnidlty—very necessary for the n‘anfs—arre most rjncomrforfable for the humans. The nclnls of the leaves. are I?n2th(‘1'i8<I to form 1‘- second sialk, bearing the pitcher on its extreme and. The pitcher is fairly well formed. with a honeyed : in th-:~ A=l.'ri.‘c «onus iNF‘1’>0’»l' thes) t“c- hinge 1: away from the leaf-stalk; while in the Australian genus the hlnzr-_ is lust above the stalk. and the lid cD"l1S vrrtwnrvis Australia. has a_ nrrmbr-r cf natllfﬂl contradictions l'kc this.

THE DROSI-IR;\(‘F.:'IE

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Again there is but one reP»°5‘?“f lativo of the Family on our island, it is the little Round-tray-ed S\1m- dew. Droscra rotiuidifolia L. It ins been well kntrvsn in bo.anlc.r1 cuc- 193 ever since char 9 Darwin wrote his treat 5.’ on . 3‘iIV0T0ll5 Plants" The 1-‘,uud.=\v crow: 90:1 p:at—bcgs wh ~e ni'.r‘C"“l\ is W541 l

0 it lrus i ‘(on in (' . I193 I'oy sticky \\“i(‘Ii after the cap- lurc change". to an acid s"c’r.tror} Capabjp of dssolvlnjz album. :1 0 lo. fibrin, cartilage anti

Darwin prcveti ailgtllg by numerous oxprrrmsn s. y Iurtlrcr soriss of trials he found that the "dirzostc:l" matter was'ab— sorb.-“d by the cells of the pant Franck: Darwin fed 86 with most moat, the fibre bel fcrn into minute frrvgmenw. the plants proclucc stems. parlor

yield of seed-Si plants which ware not fed. 116 flower-atoms, starved and mun f vrr seed}.-

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Sundews n2’ I lion. and I d 1'73 f1ow'eri'ngi(‘.u~‘:< healthier loaves. anti a. su- while 91

had leaves.

in. llO'r\‘.‘.-ere else was it to be found and taken so easily. The prosc:ip- tion on Alaskan seal in the early 1900s because of the danger of its extinction b pelagic sealing. (A ,5 uare Deal or the Fur seal, pub- ,l< ed by the Camp Fire Club of ‘America, 1910.) and savage slaugh- ter. and the clever dyeing and use of muskrat by the fur trade to imi- gate the real seal caused 'rats to be o:ought to market by the millions. Louisiana, alone, supplied 8,000,000 annualy and aided the United States in becoming the leading fur ‘country of the world. However. so ‘great was the ravage of the marsh- es of this southern state that her returns were reduced from 15,000,- 000 (including all sorts) in 19%. to 2.400.000 in 1936. (New Orleans Times—Picayune, Feb: , '36.) The gala 1920s saw the introduc- tion of summer furs when the fur radn doubled and hen quadrupled and no exravagance in he handl- ing of pelts by the fur industry was considered too great to create an illusion of richness in the cheni- er pelts. Twenty thousand mus - rat skins were sacrificed in one experiment to get tints just right, and one hundred thousand rabbit skins in another. (The Fur Trade_ of America, MacMillans, by Agnes Lautl To counteract a. rapidly growing sentiment against the use of the steel-trap which was stim-

ulated ‘by formation of the Anti- Sf.r‘i=i-’I:a_n League, the fur trade advised its members “to saturate

the public mind with a desire for furs until that desire is sufficiently Strong to brush aside any emotion- al condition.“ (Our Disappearing Fur Bearers. p. 8. Edward Preble.) It is slguificent that not until the _trdc _be'zan to turn and even the rrolifrc muskrat dwindled did the trade seek to curb its wasteful pro- ceasing and cutting methods for the retail trade. Forced to do so by the shortage of pelts the furrler learned to cut skins so as to save four or five in the making of a smele garment. Locking the door after the horse was stolen did little Hood for in many states there en- sued closed seasons for the rehab. filtration of the muskrat and its restoration to future trapping. This‘ prodigal use of pelts by the trade is only a continuation of the

‘er sold at market

TIMELY NOTES ON

CONNECTED WITH Silver Fox Farming

According to Women's wear

stronger

particularly silver fox trimmed fox coats on Forstrnann fabrics, $75.00. Franklyn Simon stores, silver fox coats with convertible collar, $119.00, Oppenheim Collins silver fox coat; $76.00, $93.00 ma $119.50. Gimble‘s feature silver fox trimmed coats and skunk dyed oprpossum Jacket coat.

The U.S. is digesting a lot of furs according to the Government import data Most of the unpert- ant furs that are brought into the U»S.A show increases for the “T51 half year as compared with last year particularly beaver, rab-

bit, ermlrre, fltch, marmof, mink, JBPBTIESC mink. Mu=krat and squirrel

The raw fur sale of Lampson. Fraser and Hum, Inc. in New York

last week found ]7l'lCCS hanging around market lnvr-1; The atten- dance was gencrally fair. The

ranch mink offering which open- ed the sale was about quarter sold with the best demand for skins from $7.00 to $10 00. Tire CIlf‘ﬂp- er skins were 1re‘<1 to be unclrunged but the better ones were off 10% from last sale. There was prac- tically no demand for wild mink. There vva: a strong demand for silver fox and the offering, which was a small one, was L1rrer-.-qirart- prrros. This would place prices somewhat stronger than last sale. Beaver met with an unexpected lack of demand, III being estimated that only 20% of the offering was mov- ed.

The price ranges for some of the items were as follows: Ranch mink Yukon dark, $14.25 to $17.00, rang- ing in price to light brown $7.50 to $9 00, M—S $6 00 to $7.50. Red fox weztcrn Canada realized

waste of fur as its source. A trap- per may run a hundred miles of traps which obviously lie untended for days and weeks at a time while the catch suffers and dies. W few restrictions. the trapper may use any sort and number of traps. If "fur" is left overlong the ani- mal dies of gangrene, starvation, expcsuze or its pelt ruined by the attacks of other animals, The loss is sustained, not so r_nuc.h by the trapper. as by the people of this country in the destruction of wild life. The trapper is not greatly concerned with such individual losses for he may reset his traps and still make good on the season's catch.

The significant fact remains that, if fur is considered only as a national resou.ce that resource was reduced from $$500,000.000 in 1920 to $150,000,000 in 1935. (United States BS Leaflet No. 25, December. 1935.) The Biological Survey has warned for many years that a shortage of fur animals would en- sue from the ‘‘slaughter'' unless the States passed lawsregulatirrg the activities of trappers. “The entire cause (of reduced retvimsr be a.ttri‘3uted to droughts, floods and the financial depression," says the Survey. (Fur Laws, 1930 31. U, S, Biological Survey.)

The fur industry reports with candor that “the fur trade can no longer close its eyes to the t:uth.. .the facts are before it~the £035- 38 catch was the smallest on musk- rate in 20 years because the animals were no longer there to be trapped

. if it had not been for the large supply of American fox skins from the ranchts and a substantial in- rcrcase in the number of fazm-bred ‘mink skins, business would have Ibecn decidedly dlffl<“.rlt in 1936."

(Eur Trade Review, July, 1937.)

The Government of these United Istaies is essentially a, government ‘of industry. Wildlife to Lire Govern- ;rn.~ut is fur. hides and meat. Gov- ‘crnmcvnt fosters the welfare of the . people through industry and it Irlors not concern itself with the rcthics that are violated in the czuel ‘killing of wildlife in the stcsl-trap. 1Novert‘rre‘sss. Government is di- .r‘ecilv affrcfed by the adverse cm- irmnlc consequence of the use of

this vicious instrument for obtain- in: fur In which ml'lIons of animals lwvcme vIc‘ims of Its mrritilathg rffmt, (The common steel trap is one of. if not the most cruel de-

vices that has ever been Invented. INN one half onourzh has ever )6-on isari Mnlnst it. Anyone who has iscen animals with their teeth brok- Ion, cut ‘feeding. dying of starva- tlrlrst. 0xnr.=u'o. has W‘°\‘lf‘fl for mrans of overcoming it.—W. A. rmd ﬁrm.) This is a fact ‘which should stimulate the states

In r."nInf"‘ the steel-trap With R hirmane dovire.

(to be <~onI.inued)_'__

BRINGING UP FATHER

cannot _‘

from $5 25 to $6.00. Central red fox good colors heavy $7.00 to $8.50 Cross fox medium color silver $25.00 to $30.00, dark $22.00 to $29.00 Medium color $18.00 to $25.00, pale silver 522.00 to $28.00 reddish $9-00 to $14.00.

The London fur have for a considerable time been planning a great show in London which will be called the National Fur Fashion Parade to be held at the Dorclrester Hotel. September 6th and 7th The best known Lon- don manufacturers Will be repre- sented and the show planned on a larger scale than ever before.

The Canadian fur production for the season of 1937-38 have been released from Ottawa. Tiiov show a total of 4.688.083 skins valued at $12,527,497. This product-ion com- pares with 6.237.640 pelts the previous season which were valued at $17,526,365 There was a lower average of prices on practically all furs during the season of 1937-38 as compared with the two previous seasons, Silver fox averaged in 1937-39 season $22 67 compared with $20.46 in the preceding sea- son. Mink dropped to $10-00 lmm $16.24: muskrat dropped to 76¢ from 51.40; white fox to $12 59 from $13.71: bevaer to $10.47 from $12.54; marten to $23.38 from $26 28: red fox to $7.02 from $816 cross fox to $20 19 from $24-75.

During the 1937-38 season there were noticeable dcclirrcs in the catches of ermine, frslicr, cross fox, red fox, lynx, rabbit, skunk, squirrel and wolf. but there was a considerable increase in the quautity of while fox (5I!..'r03|

pod In the previous sea on

Mink production ranch and wild totaled 134,789. beaver total 53,- 076. marten total 23.728, rnuskrat 1.729 R25. otter 10 212. raccoon 2').- 366, wildcat 1.098 ties were all npproxlrnntr-.ly same as the previous season.

tho

Oppenheim Collins‘ of vvost 34th St. New York, are featuring this week half and half coals. hc-:\ut-l-

ually hrrif silvor fox, hall‘ Pcrxslari lamb llflti, half sheared hcavor with the fur sweeping down thr- mtlre front of the garment from the back to tho *l1mrldv~r‘s. Tlwsc coats are prices at $98.00

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Domlnion_Brrr-pair of Sta-

Dally of last Thursday August fur sales in New York la.t week were with emphasis on the part of local stores to push items,

coats Bloomingdale's had silver

manufacturers

more than twice the number trap-,

Tlrese qrrarrti-I

ful lifted garments that are nct-I

TOPICS

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i-istics' figures show that 196,438 silver fox pelts and 54,819 mink pelts were produced on fox and mink ranches in Canada during the 1936-37 season. Quebec had the largest total number of fox farms, 2,400 out of A total of 7,601 for the whole Dominion. There were 1,426 mink farms in the Do- minion. Other fur bearers bred on farms in Canada included fisher, fltch, marten, raccoon, nutrla, badger, karacul sheep and skunk.

The August Canadian Silver Fox and Fur has a photo of a group of ziinch employees and vpmprletor Art Doyle holding foxes at the All Star ranch, Winnipeg. All the pups are of the white faced, ring necked variety with white plentif- fuily spotted over other parts of the body and legs. There is an- other cut of Orville Griffin, ranch manager of the McKlnrion ranch, WEYI-‘Him. Sask., holding white faced foxes. Art Doyle, who form- EFIY taught: school at Victoria and

nlpeg, visited Prince Edward Is- larid during Exhibition week. He also attended a meeting of the Di- rectors of the Canadian National Silver Fox Breeders’ Association while here.

There was a meeting July 13th of the committee in charge of the details for the fox and mink show to be held at the Royal Winter Fair, Toronto. The sum of $2,750 was stated to be available for the conduct of this year's show. Some change in routine is likely to be effected and a proposal that is being considered is to have foxes released after eight p.m. on this Saturday of the first week and not held for the duration of the show as formerly, then to have the mink come in on Monday of the second week which would give them a three day show, the foxes having had five days.

It is proposed also to have all

is now a prominent lawyer in Wln- F

YOUR FOXES NOWI

Follow (in load of smart for ranchers, Keep your foxes fit and glouy by killing II“ [lean and unite: with I’i.‘L\’HX—t.ilur- it-as, simple [0 use. safe 1- pupa!

IEBOIF-‘I‘ha Perfect Farm Dlnlnfccmnt

Widely null! for dIlIIIIBCl.Iﬂ[ fox

Deni, etc. Powerful, ls(‘UI|I)llII(‘|II.

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PULVEX and KEIIOL are Cooplsr Product.-—Brlll|h Made -— Fully on-nmcca, Order from your Drug, Hardware. Food and and Stars, or write 0A N A D I A N C0-0I'I£HA'l‘IVl‘. WOOI. UICOIVIEIKS L] M IT E D Quebec and Illnrilinm Bram-li Lunnoxvilie, Que.

iProhe Into Smuggling Ring

I WINDSOR. ONT., Aug.

—Elght persons were n custodi and three others were sought as police brought to a close an clum- rnonths ill\e:.‘Lig8,i.i0I\ of what, they described as a smuggling ring that brought. huge quantit es of illicit gel- gohfoe into Canada from the Uni (S

ta 5.

Five customs officers sfationedal Windsor appeared in court late to- day cimrgcd with accepting bribes to permit passage of the alcohol. The were remanded without plea un Se t. 8 and ball for each was set at s .000 cash or $10,000 proper-

ey.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Rocro Perri and a wo an companion, Anna Newman. up or- onro last nrrzhr zlilti wok the cus-

3i—(CP\

toms men into custody today. Char-

Canadian Silver Fox and Fur. entitled “Co-operation vs. Dis- trust." we quote a few paragrrrplrs. "Of the many changes that have come upon the silver fox ranch- ing industry srnce its inception.

none have so broadly affected its-

status as a means to a, liviihood as has that of greatly increased production with it. accornpany— rug price decline But tlrere is also a change for the better tak- ing place—one that cannot fail to

have a good effect on the industry I —and that Is the broadening view.

that ranchers are taking of what pertains to their business Proofs of the utility of co-operation are numerous —— good ranchers share their knowledge — we don't know of a good rancher who would be unwilling to discuss a feeding schedule with a brother rancher. Co-operation of individual ranch- ers in a community is a move in the right direction — Hopes for the good of the industry can have no foundation in suspicious isola- tion. Each rancher assisting in a. community enterprise aiming at better and cheaper production of what the fur market demands will at the same time be acquiring I broader knowledge of how to handle his own breeding, feeding and general ranching problems."

According to Do—ris Hamming,

foxes in a class come up to the classification table at the same time. There they will be display-

ed and the classifier will decide whether or not any of should be placed in other classes. It is a sure lining that it will re- isult in more uniform classifica- tion as it is very difficult classifiers to hold in their mind's eye the exact definition of silver coloring.

C°l°’ phase‘ ‘"1" 519° be ’°"I5°d- tioned having a conversation with.

Class 850, not to show more than

40'}. silver; class 851, not: under 40% silver and not over 55% silver; class 852, not under 55% silver and not over 70% silver;

class 853, not under 70% silver and not over 80% silver; class 854, not under 80?}. silver and not over 90% silver; class 855, over 90% silver.

It will be noted from the above that all dark foxes from dark medium down, have been eliminat- ed for show purposes, which is certainly a move in the right di-

rection, as the continuation of classes for dark silvers only en- courages their being kept in

ranches They have ceased to be of value from a breeding stand- point.

‘ Dr. G. EnnLs Smith of the

Canadian Experimental 1=‘oxRanoh, Summer-side, P.E.I., will read a. paper at the seventh Intematlonal Congress of Genetics to be held in Edinburgh next Tuesday. This is an honor for Dr, Smith to be singled out, but quite in accord with his accomplishments .

The Board of Directors of the rNationa1 Chinchilla Breeders of America met at Cordston, Alberta. . recently on the invitation of Mrs. Irene WiIlInm:, whose represent- ative was here a. few weeks ago :and called on several fox ranch- ‘crs Chinchilla owners from all parts of the United States and Canada were present and the mce:-ing brought out the fact that there are 2.300 animals, younz and old. on the thirty ranches in the IU.S. and Canada, 1.60:) of them bolng on the original ranch own- led by Reg Chapman some of the breeders present at the meet- ing travelled upwards of 2.500 miles to be present. on the Cards-

ton l‘lll‘if‘.I1 116 animals are owned by 75 different people,

1-".J, Williams of the Canadian .Nnliona1 Silver Fox Breeders‘ As- lsnciai-Ion. Summerslrle, has a very (interesting article in the August

whose letter is dated July 25th and appears in the August Canadian

of silver fox pelts in London is composed of Canadian goods, the Norwegian; having disposed of

101' their residue at an auction of their Miss only thing wrong with the silver fox

own held at 0510 in June. Hemming states that the market is price level. sire men- the manager of the British silver Fox Sales, Ltd., an association comparable to our iur marketing organizations. He said they were wrestling with the problem of price because a £4 andgs skin does not give any return on the capital invested here or‘ nrrywirerc

else. He hopes to get around tire‘ difficulty by throwing in a cer-I

taln amount of service and there- by getting higher figures. For ex- ample, he is going to have all goods dressed immediately so that he can fill orders from retailers and manufacturers at a. moment's notice. As the number of pol * they handle is small this could be done.

The August number of the Canadian Silver Fox and Fur is very interesting, with leading art- icles on the “Use and Possible Ef- fects of Live virus-Vaccine“ by Dr. E A Watson; "Suggestions to Stabilize Mink Poll, Makets" by LD. Mcciintockz “Among Can- ada's Western Ranches," by o.K.

’I‘hiomassc-n: "The Mink Mating and Its Preparation," by Dr. J LaF‘orest: “Fox Illustration

E.

Stations,” by John C. Jack, M.A,; "Co-oprratton vs. Distrust," by P. J. Williams.

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Reliance, Scandia and I‘er- agcncv

fect Choppers. Knives and Plates and parts.

F.Vl. Lamp|ough& Co

Limited MONTREAI

‘ges of Customs Act infraction were laid against Perri. Miss Newman and Sam (Fan) Miller. serving a term in Burwash Rt.-formatory for rIof1'auding the government of $16, 000 EXIC.S€ tax. Pi-rri and Miss Now- rn(-n are from Hamilton.

Perri was known as a. rrotoribru bootlegger more man a decade 8.516 and since then has gained publi- city from the numerous attempts on his life. His wife. Bessie, was slain in one of the attacks

Perri and Miss N(~.v.'rnan will ht prought to Windsor for court hear- n .

Meanwhile nearly a score 0!

'a1 Canadian, Provincial and

W dsorPoliceso11ght three other men on Custums Act charges. One,

, Rene Charon. is helir=v(=d to be in Montreal The otlrors. Sum Mocluk and Norman Lepainr-r nro believed to ‘ be in the Windsor District.

Charges against two of the cus- toms men, Thomas A Smyth. 33 and Harry Jarvis Smith, 45, oxtcn hack to 1937, The others, Wilfred rF'latcher. 41: Fklward Manscli. ‘36.

‘and Carl Gough, 36. vcoro arrcstod on charges dating from 1036.

1 I I I i

Reich Using Half

JProductiveness For

, War Preparations

i VVAS1-IINGTON,_ Aug. 31—(AP)

1 United states military experts sea today they had been informed that Germany was devoting 50 per cent

mm 5“‘’°’ F‘”‘ 3-“d “R We b‘“3“°° of its productive capacity to militi-

ETY 13111'D0898. German economy collapsed when . the amount of productive capacity I devoted to such purposes reached I 65 per cent near the end of the Great War, they added.

The large proportion of produob ive power which the Reich is now using to turn out munitions and support the army explains in large measure, the experts said. why Ger- many even before the outbreak of or possible European conflict has be- gun limiting the amount of food in- dividual ciiizen.-; may purchase,

Reduction of the standard of liv- ing ls inevitable when a gieat amount of a nation's productive ﬂu- brlitv goes into non~productrve war

: mllCIlIi‘l(‘S. it was pointed out. Eventually the average civilian would find automobiles irard to get. food and clothing supplies limit transportation facilities reduced an housing impaired. the experts said.

~Supreme Soviet Ilatifies Pact iwith Germany

I

‘ Moscow, Aug. 31-The soviet

Parliament tonight ratified the I new German-Russian non-aggres- ‘ slon treaty and (llll'l.Oill1C(‘(.I the Red 1 Army was ready to rncct all em- . ci‘gf‘n.CICs nr'l.«;‘.r\cr out of the inter- ! rrational situation.

Ratification of the historic sur- prise pact was unariimous and fol- lowed decision by tire Supreme ‘Soviet (parliament) to reorganize

the officers corps of the Russian

I i I

army. (In Berlin an official new: cornmimiquo announced ratification of the pact by the

Gr-rrnan Gov'0rnnicnt.i Tilt‘. Supreme sot" Soviet Defence Com t>i‘.fI VO.’O.SI‘ilIL)II, pr-<»c1.r‘rnr the pre- p:rr'ednes.~. of tho Rod :irm:.',

“The effectlv<r\c3.s of iilf‘ army and fleet are fuil_ u in. position to face the in‘.cr‘nai.iourrl situation which the L’f)\'f‘l'IlfT.€‘f\t, t e munlst) Party and above nil g'r'(‘."LI, (J03:/1[)hf frilln laader) nrv: SL\l(I\'1n',: c1osel,\'."

differ-

Voroslrllolf slid, _ “Roall7.rrirr the nswrrfial

once: of .«’..‘-‘tire betrvorn the Sov- iet Union and tho <‘.1.pii:(l:.=i coun- tries. tho Sovicl, lfrl§.\‘.l mus‘ count only on its own 1‘(‘S0'lr(‘(‘S in nssurr: its (Iofcric¢~.' ho mid

l'se .\llnnrd'.I for 111104.

rB.'c;.;.g.. rvrcmanuc

\

THE

VIE In-we . 1.... crop or healthy. 2% A .1 .3. d _ d. _r..rv,. av CuOL.LY-THIS PROPOSED HELLO- I665-DINTY _'*J‘8‘,‘,g,",_§V‘,—:'§VE,2_ "Won: pup: um mi. a, medial Jiuyr °r>cu''.'$.'7.‘y53‘ “3 ” LION-HUNTING TRIP TO TELLS ME YOU ARE -— WHAT DO You THE JHI14-GLE5 GOOD-BYE-PAL-'

GOIN‘ LION-HUNTING- I HAD A BROTHER THAT WENT OVER

IT WAS NICE TO

AFRICA WITH ME 5ON—IN- HAVE KNOWN ‘(OIJ‘,,

LAW-LOPD WORTHNOTTEN‘ I5 GlTTlN' ON ME NEI?\IES'

53 The blind portals opening. AND NEVER and I awoke! um. CAME BACK__I

Not. before time! Modern

MEAN — YOU HAD A BQOTHEQ?

ROYAL FOX FEED

“hulk mu-in; former lesson: "I that the use of Boyu with I I“°°d meat ntum la the mom pon-

'° ‘VI! known for the ruuclm on ‘Wire heat breeding mum.

Insist on Iloyal. A“ Your dealer today or um- dlru-1 to

The st. John Milling Company til.

""“ Win an an-nuns:

stun also gets 5 hard crack from Janie: Joyce in the same spirit. This is entitled "Work

gross."

" epap. bearer, sure and sorry. at flgii of ohoho honest poilclst, on never again, by Phoenis. swore on him Lloyd's. not for boat/an wheat. not after sir Joe Mendez father. thanks! They know him, the convenanter by rate at least for a chameleon at last In h true false-heaven colours from ultnviolent to subrod tissues. That‘s his last tryon to march mo tryomphal arch.

It’: 1110!."

..

tub I. . knaw‘what‘It x:r.eotrIa"—to quote the

Blhhrillﬁi okllutanollthntthllzletuhu

through His

but I’ don't

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