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--- lemma. Fraser a nutnu analy- l" °3 "16 fipecial June sale of ranch mink and Sliver Fox showed that of the 30,500 ranch mink in the first section 7B p. c. was sold and 91 Mr cent in the second section- 18.000—was sold and 60 p. c. iii the third sectlon—23,600 — was sold and 95 per cent in the fourth leotlon—28.600 was sold. a total of $.28 pelts. Selected quality extra dark and dark males brought from $21 to szsso; females $15.25 to $32.50; dark brown and brown males $17.75 to $22.50; females 813.00 to $17.50; good quality extra dirk and dark males brought from $17.50 to $26.50; females $13.25 to $10.50; dark brown males $15.73 t: 131-502 females $12.00 to $14.50; females $10.25 to $15.00: dark brown males $13. to $21.: females 09.75 to 014; half-blood males se- lected and good quality medium clear brought $23, to $29.50; or- dinary quality $16. to $24; kgnt colors brought from $21.50 to $31; ordinary quality $17 to $25; poor quality brought $18. to $21; ordin- ary quality poor color $14. to $19.

' Silver and Mutation Fox-A fur- ther offering of 2,850 Platinum Fox pelts was 25 p. c. sold bringing up to $37; 1,800 White Marked peits

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Silver Fox and

$24: 3.250 full Silver Fox pelts were '72 per cent sold bringing up t0 $23; 2,150 miscellaneous poor quality foxes were 42 per cent sold bringing up to $14.

Prom far away Turkey a letter was received recently from an American lady who has spent twelve years in Istanbul. She writ/es that "Silver Fox is very popular there but that only wives of food profiteers can afford to wear them. It is worn not only for its beauty but to indicate the pros- perity of its wearer. There is no fur that is looked on with so much

favor in this country‘ as silver Fox," The above coincides with what we have leazned from con-

versations with parties who have been in touch with foreign trade. The potential market for Silver Fox is great but the trouble is to se‘-.l it to the people who want it be- cause of currency difficulties.

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l While in Ottawa last week I had l. conversation with Capt. l). C. Douglas of the Foreign Trade Ser- vice. He is a. very intelligent Rig- lishman with a good knowledge of foreign trade, and he is very mucn interested in finding markets is: Silver Fox. ‘He mentioned to mo the mo. which I have since noticed in the press. that one of our larg- est processing firms was trading Canadian meat products with par

ties in Brazil and bringing in 1.1 exchange Brazilian oranges. He said if we can devise some wa; to move our Silver Fox furs now remaining unsold and receive a fair return in commodities which wanting countries can supply, a new situation and new hope WOHiu develop for the fox farmer.

i There is a large potential mar- ket in South Africa and probably Captain Douglas and his staff may find a way to introduce Silver Fox which is s. wanted fur there. At present we understand that the fox furs unsold are of a very good quality. the cheaper ends have been mostly disposed of. This is all to the good because if we are going to introduce our furs into countries like South Africa it is well to do so with a line of goods that will bring repeats in the lu- ture. South Africa at present is enjoying a tremendous boom. Great new diamond fields were opened up a. few years ago and are em- ploying many thousands of peo- ple; irrigation which was much behind, is being introduced on s large scale; mining of coal and various other minerals is being pursued, in fact South Africa is one of the boom countries of the world.

It is nice to get an idea how our neighbors to the south use faring in their ranching operations. While in Ottawa we heard many

revues

underiofng and one‘ widely circu- lated yarn — which we doubt very much - is that a nation-wide ll~ mous Silver Ho: company had ‘tsp. ped on 1300 breeding females n- ther than have them produce their offspring, which would average at least four. The reason given was that. the company's pelts of 1947 and some of 1946 were largely un- sold and they would be going much in the hole by producing another large crop. Whatever the truth of the story there is this to be said, that the cut-down in Silver Fox in the Units! States has been drastic and we can state on pretzy good authority that less than 100.- 000 fox pelts will be taken off there this fail. The over-all picture in Canada is about 33 1-3 per cent less.

Mr. W. M. Ritchie in an ad- dress given to the Canadian Na- tional Silver Fox Breeders’ Asso-

ciation at Ottawa, stated that the Norwegians were going through serious difficulties too, in that the barter system has broken down to a considerable extent and they have a great number of Silver Fox pelts unsold. He said that unlik- Sweden, Norway has difficulty in obtaining food supplies for foxes. Sweden has plenty of food and fur farmers there are raising a superb type of three-quarter silver. He said that the mink exhibited at the International Fur and Leather Fair at Basie, Switzerland, were not comparable to the best Canad- ian or American types and that the Silver and Mutation Fox on display of Sweden and Norway were with the exception of the three-quarter Silver referred to a- bove, not at all comparable in quality to our Canadian exhibits. The suggestion he made that the exhibits of made up furs be shown in all the principal cities of Can- ada in connection with an adver- tising campaign next fall is one that should be talked up by every rancher. The most of the people have no idea what a good Silver Fox or Mutation Fox pelt looks like, or how, it would show fash- ioned into garments. Popularity would be instantly achieved by the display of really worthwhile furs.

The P. E. I. Fur Pool, Ltd, re- cently imported several tons of Master Feed pellets, the formula of Dr. E. R. Bowness, and a number of ranchers are testing them for comparable results with the regu- lar ranch rations. Dr. Bowness is expected to be here during the week of the International Fur Con- ference July 12-16 and no doubt he will call on some of the ranchers who are using pellets and give ile- tails of his ezmerience with them.

William P. Bender, President of the National Board of Fur Farm Organizations of the United States. cites a few figures with reference to mink that will be interesting to ‘our breeders. In 1940 the out-of- pocket cost of raising mink was $6.86 each; in 1946 the out-of-poc- ket cost of raising mink was $13.57. The total cost including owner's wages, overhead and interest on in- vestment in 1940 was $10.31 each‘. and in i946 was $18.42 each. The average price paid per mink p615 in 1945 was $24.05 and in 1947 $15.49, The annual costs in 1947 were at least as high if not higher than in 1946. From the above, states Mr. Bender, you can readily see what is going to happen to those mink farmers whose costs are as high or higher than the average and whose pelt prices are as low or lower than the average.

He is of the opinion that 500,000 additional pelts will be produced in the United States in 194d and he says that Sweden will produce 150,000 pelts. He does not mention Canada. This warning is thrown out . . . Every mink farmer who increases his herd should stop to think about the sale of those ex- tra. pelts. Many a mink farmer is of the opinion t t if he can raise twice as many pelts for half the net profit per pelt as before. he can still make a lot of money. He forgets that too many pelts will hrLng the prices down to where neither he nor any other mink

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The Roman domination of Britain lasted from the year 43 when the Emperor Claudia in- vaded the island, to the year 407. when Constatinus who had been proclaimed Emperor, withdrew all his forces to make himself master of Gaul. Between the tawo dates more than seventy individuals had assumed the royal purple, some by virtue of heredity, some elect- ed by the army, and others by successful plotting. With most the reign was short, turbulent, or lgnomlnious, but a few justified their title of libniperor by their devotion to their duty, and their care for their Empire. some even visited the Britannic Isles, then looked upon as the world's end! 0f these, Publius Aelianus Hadri- anus spent the greater part of his reign in visiting the different provinces of the Empire, and it was he who built the massive stone wall that stretched from sea to sea across Britain, to protect the Britons from the wild tribes of Caledonia.

This remarkable man reigned from 117 to 138 A.D., and came to Britain in the fall of 119, to in- vestigate the disturbed state of that island. We can gather some- thing of Hadrian's character from a fine bronze head of the Emper- or. which was dredged from the Thames and is new in the British Museum. It is brachycephalic (bullet-headed) in type, as one might expect in such an ener- getic character. His hair is curly and he has a beard, closely clipped to his face. A small, straight mouth gives determined express- ion to his visage, but his nose is Grecian rather than Roman. The sculptor has taken special care with the eyes, which are hold and well open, as if engaged in obser- vation.

A Roman poet, one Flor-us, tells of Hadrian's travels in Britain, in this mocking verse:-

Ego nolo Caesar esse

Ambuiare per Britannos,

Scythicas pati pruinas-

That is _ “I wouldn't like to be Caesar (Hadrian), to ramble among the Britons, content with the Scythian frosts."

The Emperor hit back - “I wouldn't like to he Florus, rambl- ing among the taverns, sneaking among the speak-easies, content with the round cups!"

Hadrian is the reputed author of a little pown addressed to his soul during his last illness. The flaw in this statement is, that the ancient Romans never used rhyme in their poetry -- only meter. Hadrian's "address to his soul" may he based on something he said, but the setting given be- low, is undoubtedly medieval.-

Animula, vagula, blandula,

Hospes, comesque corporis,

Quae nunc abibis in loca?

Pallidula rlgida, nudula!

Nec ut soles dahis joca.

Literally -- "Little soul, little wandering, gentle one, guest and companion of the body. in what place wilt thou now abide, little pale one, still and naked? Nor canst thou give (make) jokes as thou art wont."

The poet Byron turned into verse, not too happily.-

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sprite,

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clay! To what unknown region born, Wilt thou now wing thy distant flight? No more with wanted humour

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A full century before Byron's effort, Matthew Prior had pro- duced a much more elegant trans- lation, here presented in ending this Note:

Poor little, pretty. fluttering

thing,

Must we no longer live together,

his herd he would reduce it and improve the quality.

Mr. Bender's article was proba- bly written before the June mink sales and he must have been e surprised individual to see the very strong market which developed f0: ranch mink both natural and mu- ‘ation. Every auction sale company in the United States and Canada

reported advances so apparently there is a mink-hungry world.

By Agricola

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~To take thy flight thou knoniflst

' not whither?

Thy humorous vien , thy pleas- ing folly,

Lies all neglected, s11 forgot;

And pensive, wavering, melan-

choly,

Thou dresd'st and hop‘st thou know’st not what. 7 (The word prune, used above, is an old form q: “pi-een," meaning tc trim and arrange the feathers.)

Roman Sanitation

when I was in my teens, I Joined a Field Club which visit- ed hlstorlc places in the North of England. Tlhe Roman “rev-unins" of my native county drew my special interest. I observed with what. care the Romans tried to keep ‘warm and. dry in our colder climate, and later saw that they did not neglect cleanliness. Traces of drains and pipes were found in their houses. which were with- cut doubt intended to carry off

bath-water and sewage; but nothlns was ever found that corresponded to the modern

toilet or latrine. The larger towns had underground tunnels. dialled

on each side and roofed with flagstones. as dralnes. They were high enough t0 allow a man to walk upright in them, but not very wide; side-drains of smaller dimensions opened into them and ccmmunlcated with the houses on each side. Tine smaller towns threw the drainage water into the street where it was conducted aiway by channels of carved stones. A curious sanitary measure came to light when a hill near Rich-borough was cut rivniy by railway excavators. Just outside the town were found numbers of very deep and very narrow round ‘"wells," such as might have been made by a post-hole digger. They were filled with a mixture of earth, animal's bones, broken pottery and other rubbish; but the main content was a dark earth which an experienced chemist pronounced to be ster- coraceous matter. These "wells" were afterwards found to be quite ccmmon near Rcman towns in Britain. One antiquary supposed tlhat they night have been originally covere with some light structure. That, owever. was quite unlikely, for the continental nations up to a very recent date ‘(by which 1 mean 80 or 90 years ago) used these “wells" openly and without hesitation.

Old Books And Coins

In a broadcast. on Sunday. June 13th, the speaker gave a list of the old books and coins treasured by owners in the ltiari- times. This talk was cultural in- asmuch as it implied that books vzere worthy of care. There have been, in the past, many pamphlets and books of local importance published here, but alas! they are not available todayzznost of them have been destroyed. Those that rurnain are woriih twice or thrice their published price. I have one complete copy of Francis Baln's "Natural History of P. E. 1.," which I purchased, and parts of t-wo others which were given to me "as curiosities." One of these was scribbled over by children; the other had the backs and some pages missing. This was the fate of most Island books "in the old”

days. My oldest book is in the pink

Charles E. Worth 273 Queen 8t. Phone 3801-1.

Elmer Waugh. Wllmot Valley Winston W.Currle. Album: c. a. name. Brooklyn Fred W. BRAY, Limited 120 John 8t. N» Hamilton, Ont. _-_ of condition, though it was printed in Paris in 1531- It 18 l world history written by a Greek Diodorus Siculus, and translated into Latin. My oldest coin is a small Roman bronze, bearing the profile of the Emperor Costens, who reigned A. D. 333 to 350. when he was murdered by tine soldiers of a rival. I have other treasures nearly as old‘.

The American Golden‘ Plover

As pointed out last week this plover somewhat resembles the Black-bellied Plover in color, but has only three toes. It, like some other of our migrants, breeds in the barren grounds from Hudson Bay west/ward. As a migrant ft was common in P. E. L, previous to the 1916 checklist: but observ- ers now class it as uncommon, and on the way to becoming rare. ~Dr.i Taverner traces its fllsihii first to Labrador, then to the Maritimes, where it. leaves the land and makes its way over the sea direct to Brazil. As it is not a proficient swimmer and there- fo-re cannot rest on the water at will, that long journey must be made in one efforti There is no answer yet to the question, why does the bird undertake so toil- some a journey?

American Golden Plover. AOU. 2'12. Migrant, uncommon 1948. Summer plumage: back of neck. and crown, black with yellow feather tips; side of head, chin, breast, and imderparts black, bordered behind on head and neck by pure white. Rest of the upper porto have black feathers marglned and spotted golden yellow. No hind toe. Winter plu- mage spotted more or less with blackish brown and yellow above; grayish white below, but no black; some indefinite stripes on the breast; axlllars and under wing coverts smoky gray in both plu- mages. Length of adult bird 10.50 inches.

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This was the ship-to-ship trans- fer of 20,000 British troops from British to American vessels when Britain was at war with Germany and the United States was neutral.’

T119 American vessels transport- ed the British Tommles through Atlantic waters to the Far East without a hitch. The Germans never were aware that the United States had broken neutrality rules at that point. ,

The operation is described fn a magazine article written by Harry Hopkins. personal adviser to the late President Roosevelt.

"I remember the event because the Canadian army was asked to fill e British ships returning to the nited Kingdom with Cana- dian soldiers," the spokesman “m, "lt was quite a large convoy since many peacetime ships were iust be brought into military service BUdIWETO not fitted for military transportation."