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v sores on romcs _ coamecreo wtm ‘

§ilver Fox Farming f __

m may criticize us for pay. a So s: mulgylattelgtitltrfi u!) writ; {hers are 0H8 '3 OX - ck

elsewhere in Canada, the to its propcr- h," m - “T. baited States and Norway. but ear. Mohn 130a‘, u; uiilflgfil}, ‘it we do not watch 1111s trend of oggrattng fur “ranches. has iftiiinzr ""1 "5" gggfve: up to a ut a. 00 blue-foxult his elab- ‘iiale ill"! n-W 1 “ailments we crate place neavl-Ioenfoaa-about . ‘m fail behind an 1e race for 40 miiesnorthwq; M on“ Th", All" PM’ n iiimy by °“°" h" "m. and breeders and deal- rlilill 99mm!“ V: m“ breed‘ 9T5 91156“. no -ti'end' toward {up 59,, of cattle‘. kitties and any ranches nor so far u can h. ‘mu of live s00 eep in busi- learned has the Government any w; from yeflr t0 year. There are plans along this line for tlig. m‘, iirim like Walnut Hall, Lexing- urc operations of- the ‘rowan, Pun, Kentucky. devoted to the '1'he operation continua to be one tbmutng of harness horses that of many farmers each having a mire been in existence since 1902 few animals in a few pm...‘ “u; are still among the leaders. sortof extra-money device.

' mare are Holstein farms in Wis- Diatribution Analyses

mum and other types of breed-

' farms that Ktaintain "all: .

gupfélllfifiy year H er year u The. latest available anal sis of my are students of breeding and distribution of the foxes yamong i", proper care and attention to farm; is. for 1 . Ittwas offi- u, unimals under their charge. gipl and“? detail. . show

i. "i rma W Q

. u, countn that we think we ssca; n’

mm létkalep ‘blur eyfl or? very catarac- $1,000;

in -¢ u" ‘ITWBY- by 0X08. BOAfI-rms wi

flu our principal competitors foxes. 495 farms witthh 311mg, gt.) um silver Fox in the years prior loxcs, 92. otal. 19,189. '

t, this tar and at its beginning There is co-operation in ma gud _established a new strain sense that 75 per cent of the pro. new“ as Norwegian Platiriums. duction of fox pglt‘ i, qumuwd m“ we have successfully adapt- to come from members or m; Qd to this country and whether or Fur Breeding Association and that not we are raising as good quai- about 7,000 of the atimated pree- uy as they do we have no means ant 13,000 fox-owners belong to oi knowing, but I believe we prob- the Fur Dealing Department o:

ugly are and it is certain that in the Breeding Association. Tbere~

“u, respect! our‘ silvers are bet- has been. tiring the war u; w than theirs. a high degree o rqtmmuufi if,’ _ the marketing of the pelts, aa will New they have come out with be seen from accounts hereinafter. :4 new type oi eit. an offs ring and some of this may be carried at Greenland Bue Foxes. t, is over into the 1045-1948 season ,aaii to be better and lovelier than which begins in December gnu it was in i934 and that develop- continues through February.‘ meats were made under the noses ___.. oi the Germans and the Quis- There will be some of tho mu‘; flags while they were trying to re-war exhibitions of fine foxes mp the feeding of foxes. Feeding November and December. Even Ans been a problem with Norweg- during the war these were car. inns and so has the lack of usual ried on. and prizes awarded. to a rources of vitamins. There have limited extent. Difficulties of been during the war years higher transportation and some frailty or mortality rates among pupa of tha animals from the feeding de-

both silver and blue fox varieties ficiencies forced a reduction oi the .

with the blue fox coming through exhibitions. better. In the 1939-1940 season, the . ——- average price for silver fox pelts

"Norwegian blue fox skins. as was 55 crowns (at exchange pre- Jbey are now." says Mr. Roch- veiling then. $14.76 .» hianh, a leading breeder, "are un- For the 1940-1941 season, the knovm to the English speaking first under the German-Quisling world and we expect they will be rule. the average was 1'15 crowns. a sensation and meet the post- (Here it begins to be difficult to war demand for new types on the figure the dollar equivalent, for by lur market. They have been de- the 1940-1941 season the crown veioped through the carrying on was tied to the reichsmark and of selective breeding between des- the Greater Germ-anlleich finan- tendants of the wild foxes brought, cial system. The rate reichsmark. from Greenland. Spitsbergen and to-crown was 100 reichsmarks jibe island of Jan Mayen, between equal 176 crowns.) 192i and 1934." The Germans moved in, so to

From there on, Mr. Rochmann speak, with the 1941-1942 season. rounds like an advertising copy Quisiingb Ministry of Agriculture irrlter: ordered that all pelts be sent to

“The skins are large and well the Fur Breeders-Dealers Associa- rovered from head to the tip of the tion and by itrbe divided, with

soft silver hairs with half going to the Germans at, an

. The combination of this average of 186 crowns per pelt,

contrasting inc-shaded The other half was auctioned. with

gives the pet the ap- the Germans to get from the auc-

pearanre of luxurious soft silk, tions 60 per cent oi the silver fox

which is very flattering. We have pelts and 80 per cent of the blue

laid stress on producing pelts with 0X. Dlatinum fox and mink pelts.

r short nap and a silky texture and Each season thereafter, the ‘especially titted for capes. Jac- division was the same.

ital: and coats." The average price paid for the

' 1942-1943 half-crop to the Ger-

mans was 390 crowns. For the

German half oi the 1943-1944

Here is a table giving the best crop. the average was way up, :0 available figures on the number 415 crowns. It was to have been

oi animals of breeding age, for 310 crowns for the 1944-1945 crop not: of the war years: The best way to teltwhat the

Species true prices ware during these years

_ is to consider. Mr. Mohn. fox

silver Fox rancher, pointed out. that the

Other Fox prices paid in Oslo by the Ger-

Mink . 8,619 8,500 mans and by the Norwegians who

_in i930 the census showed 316- bid against them were about two

103 silver fox pups in addition to and a. half times as great as those

1119176490 grown silver foxes. The prevailing at sales in Stockholm fisverage litter per brooding female and New York.

tiller fox. pre-war, was 2.0. but The crown presently is worth 20 this has ,fa1ien during the war cents. Thus as many crowns paid

yam to something like one pup by an American buyer now as were

Pir litter. The blue fox litter going to be paid by a‘ German

average has fallen, Mr. Mohn. u buyer for a pelt this last. season

fur ranriier. believes, from five or would come out to 862. The dif- nrout thre ference is that. the Germans had

"Thor:- must b.. he says. “about printing press money and the Am-

lmnn hllie fox breeding animals erican buyer will not have; where-

"l Tiilriiliy now. and from 20000 as the Norwegian with the furs

102L009 puns. will still have production costs based to some degree on the mone- -tary conditions prevailing while u _ the Germans were here.

Ii it were not for two things. In addition. there is a duty in We would have as many animals the United States on imports o! MW rs we had in 1939. Firsz. silver fox pelts, amounting to 87.5 there have been a large number per cent. 0i abortions. with the rate for The encral feeling is that Nor- m" bring around 30 per cent wayb slver fox pelts will be sold ‘llmilflr-“d to 5 per cent pre-war. best to EuroPflm ""14"" "M" Second. there has been poor feed. trade agreements the government I_ would almost say. that the de- will be negotiating with European mine 112s been due to the lack of countries: and that only Wm‘ "W "filter feed. .more rare and more to-be-sought- ‘_ .

Litter Average Reduced

Improper Feed Blamed

For: sate

A number of Fox Coot?!» 5 ("thy 1.3 h" in good order with wire bottoms and suitable for Foxes. Poultry and Turkeyl- .95" 512 cacti. Excellent value. Floor wire new» one inch mesh.‘ , '

lbfLurq fir. Maclilnnon

SILVER‘ FOX FARMS LTD. VIMY RANCH NORWOOD ROAD

meet at the P. E. I. Show, but look at his winnings:

Grand Champion . . . . . .

Reserve Grand Champion

Champion ..

Reserve Champi n . . . First . . . .. 21

Second .. .. . 16 12

l‘ o WHAT A COLLECTION‘ w HAT a collection of show pelts -- all produced on one ranch, that. of George A. Callbeck, Summeraide, P. E. 1.! Mr. Callback sells a large number of his “tops” every Fall, for breeders, yet in each of thepast

three years the remainder, pelted, have taken for him the Aggregate Score Trophy at the P. E. I. Pelt Show. There is hard competition to

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Unless you have a source of meat supply that ia a real exception to the rule for cheapness and relia- bility, we believe it will pay you . well to put your whole ranch on

Purina Fox Chow Checkers

parntlve costs. You owe

considering all the facts?

1945 1944 1943 3

2 2 5 1 17 10

\ 'A record like that tells its own story of final pelt quality. Produc- tion? For the past two years the best yet. The feeding’! Mr. Callback

is an almost exclusive Purina feeder. (We have to

say “almost” be-

cause iast Fail he fed six bags of another feed.) When a breeder and exhibitor of i141‘. Callbeck’s ability and experience settles on Fox Chow as his feeding mainstay, that fact too tells its own story!

PURINA MILLS .WOOIJ§TOGK.TIIBONTO. MONTREAL

after blue fox wilktherb be were flown to London, sent across ‘malslghclddn Norway hgs- boon m5

heavy business with the United the Atlantic on the Queen Mary States. There may be some and flown from New York to Cali- switching to blue fox production. fornia. They hope to send pelts for cashing in on the higher prices all the way to America by air in

Rancher Mohn recalled that be- the years to come. fore the war, there was a world “Several times during the war’ overproduction of silver fox pelts Mr. Rochmnnn said. ' . —around 1,300,000 per year-com- serious attempts to ruin the iu: pared with only 10,000 blue fox breeding industry in Norway. First pelts. there were attempts at the be- Brynjuif Haalarid, of the rur ginning by the Germans and later dealing department of the Breed- by the Quislings, ivlio as late as ers’ Association. said: “It is dlffi- February of this year issued n. cuit- to see. with the rate of ex- decree for a forced reduction along change prevailing and with the lines and on such a scale that it higher costs of feeding. how our would have been ruinous. silver fox pelts can be sold at the . prices prevailing in America and Ouisllng Plan sabotaged still return any profit."

"Perhaps President Truman "As was the case with so many could do something about. lower- of the Quisling decrees, this one ing the duty on Norwegian silver was ‘sabotagecf and I don't think fox." Mr. Rtochmann suggested. there was a single animal skinned He and others spoke of the prc- as a result of it. Any reduction in

da s when Norwegian pelts the mumher of fur-bearing ani-

hsre Canadian soldiers landed at Dieppc in than“ u; wuh". ing fira residents of the community of Puya. gather to mark the un- a Alana cairn and a plaque. This monument marks the not.

o

result only of th i di id 1 b - ers‘ difficulties einnggttig: ‘fig-ii.

t... Crop Report

“There have been some reports

Z’r“r‘.~§“’r2‘X“i¥ 33f.‘ mi bdg“; m“ --—~ e '- me ng s m

it will take roughly t?) fair. t‘; WINNIPEG- Mani

Norway has today many foxes inst as good as thus-e of other coun- we u tries aha during the 1945-1945 a “r season her breeders will turn out

pelts and 20.000 of those blue fox pelts — and they are something." The two official auction houses acmrdmg to me

Nordiske Skinnauktion d O1 < . Skinnauktioner, both (fir 3:110. M5981 Rimmws‘

who raise foxes on the seal f 1- h h . . T lowed by Norway's No. 1 fox 8137191? figcI-Iuthouggiii :heItfi:\Ps%rkF1Afi:-’: er, Mohn, are talking of sending tlori Co. in New York and the their pelts abroad, if they can, to Hudson's Bay Co, in London

that was the objective of the Royal Regiment of Canada.

of the gathering at the ceremony immediately to the front cf the fam-

ous Dieppa casino. — (Canadian Army Overseas Photo).

the rest of this Fall. Make a note, right now, to talk if. over with your Purina dealer or territory manager. and figure out the com- it yourself to do at least that much about it, for how can you make a wise deca 0:1 without getting and

GUY E, KENNEDY, Island Representative

Scpt 21- bugld the breed up again‘ Th“ The past tveek showed very little

is lust not so. On the contrary, g-lfiéfigefi filigrxitolilyinytieiittimgasicatche-

W111i due to heavy rains and gold

T111 Alléilfrli?‘ the weather has been 100mm u f us‘ . coo W . s otvers. with some light s V" °x De 2°00” mm‘ frosts reported. A few days of warm. dry weather would help con- sidcrably in harvest operations

for Norway have been and will be “or; o; the Deparhgixfié

this season under present plans culture o; the Canadian National

QAYxuZ-Zoivi-Q I v

The Cucurbifa (l) i6 years I80 I wnmb“

"' Sgyhthe ground instead of throfl.’

of July and most 0 fruit acvaioped t hem off and left them

an article with the above mg them away as in former years.

The Giilrdim- The A11 the later fruit

has ripened

I explained. We" m” nicely: All the plants were pruned

gqmahes, cucumbers. End other: of that ilk. My 111W"

est in them was roused when 1 i‘

so remdiiy fig? m” uwymgrflgle North of

8 to be?

the orthodox manner. but 0M

how was staked and the Otblr Wll

The staked plants were moo;

ffected. I mulched

with grass cut from the

malaria iwri, and watered them regularly-

Eligwmlzgflgtdible Marrow". B Plum

“m; “wally boiled and serve

with ravy or melted butter. My terest was intensified when

bat they had Just -5 much rot as

That does not fit the

oubie is often referred to "Blossom-end Rot" lrid l"

I found, by written lPPlkluml- a’ by, irge proportion of the ists were not 011196 51m’- ,,‘.’,‘,‘,, i: affected Just at the tip; mama" f! “me n: but there are many Eiifltl-Qd 0n m9 assed

ms

sides or on the toP- I lmrsirir 1 can detect a small area in Q16

be well to

“at”; “ma” 5am centre of the 590i. that 10°35 w“ L-LIILG hi?

: they were two distinct slleiller 511d

would not hybridlm- He" w“ gxamlng the spots with a micro-

And now, l5 years later. I have accumulated quite a stock of notes

on a sod

Hera Manure And Wood Ashen

I was scattering the wood ashes field when a young

on the Oucurbits. I divide them 1 hb you; ~15 ma; m, into three sroubs- The first wires fir? yglll it?’ he said. “So-and-so l" the 89m“ Cmmflm“ ‘he pump’ empties the ash-pan into the hen- kins angnsqlillflihest-h secmtlggleltci: house and puts the manure néixcd sus firms“ -hhh tthl n en etc. Thirdiy the genus $12.3? efiAoléfluild that?‘ said

the cucumber, gher

"the ashes are safe from rain

The“ “e the 3"“ or snow that would leach all the goodness out cf them. I must do that, too.” So I put the ashes in

treated °1' l" me" 11ml)" 91"“- the henhouse all that winter and Cucurbita Pepo Linnaeus. is the put them cut as My. so-and-so pumpkin proper. This has been am

cultivated by the Indians of Cen-

Before another winter came

tral and Northern America from round 1 gouuu that 1 w“ guuuw. “m6 Unmmmflll (u w" 1mm‘ ing a wrong practice. It is right

duced into Europe in the

16m to store the ashes under cover.

century: into England in 157W- but wrong to mix them with heri- Even at that time the Indians had manuru poum-y manure is uu ex. differentiated many varieties or cement gel-mm“; useful on an

forms of C. Pepo, but with the ar-

farm and garden crops. but it is

rival of the Europeans and the man-fly u nitrogen con-yer and disturbance of their activities. the mm; u; with u-uuu “h” qr Indian-l h"! 1°53 mm!’ °1 the lime, sets free the nitrogen, which varieties of their old-time culti- escapes as ammonia and 15 lost, vetted plants. Sturdevant, towards It is 531d, howeven ma; the mun. the close of last century. found we and the “has may be put, on

that the Omahas could still

the same soil separately without

late the names of eight different dang";

kinds of pumpkins. but had lost

Since poultry manure is so high

the seed of most of them. A nat- u, u1u-ogeu_ gur- mogt, crops at uralized variety, C. P. texaria, was should be supplement“ with sup- discovered in southern and west- el-phusphute; one par-t, 01' “5upe1'" em Texas and so named by the m nine o; manure The manor; botanist. Asa Gray. The early should never be put on as side, or summer squash of the turban, scal- mp dressing in a lumpy condition,

lop and ' patty-pan

("Pattmm") for the lumps will burn the roots

Wm inmfbreed Wm‘ m9 of the plants where they touch pumpkin (C. Pepe) and so will them

the Vegetable Marrow (C. Povi- feral; and are consequently claim- ed to be different forms of the same species. which however have so long been grown separately

The Next. War‘!

In Britain, as in other couu-

tries. there am “Opinion Polls"

are DUN I114 "511? conducted on a national scale.

Not so the

I planted the ordinary colored round pumpkins in garden. and near them the pale-

OIBIIQE-

The British Institute of Public Opinion acting after the fashion of the Gallup Poll in America, U15 found that nearly 50 per cent. of those questioned expected Worl

green oblong Vegetable Mwrrowr- war III within 2.5 years. (Thoug

have

1943 the seed germinated well, but nomeg‘, Knut Lundmnrk, has Just

all the fruits that year grew ob-

aaid: “According to the sunspot:

long. like marrows but of a dark the next war will be in 1902. From mottled lighter. The flesh the sun are given impulses which W85 500d. but nobody would buy make odd people still more oddi")

the odd shaped fruit, for we are a conservative people in the mat- ter of vegetables!

In my 15-year-old notes. I in-

The National Opinion Research

Centre, University of Denver. ask- ed a cross-section of Americans when they expected the U. S. to

twdilced a happy analogy from fight. another war during the next

the animal kingdom.

"Dogs”. I 50 years. Thirty-six per cent said

wrote. “differ in size. color, shape. they expected the next war with- texillre arid Ierlflth 0! hair. and in in 25 years; another 23 per cent other respects; still we never rnis- expected it within fifty years.

take a dog for any other animal.

‘that is. a total of b9 per cent be-

The Strfllfls have bfierl kept w Diire lietved that war was inevitable with- however that we easily distinguish in the next half century. About a mam“ “Om ‘=1 Greyhound; yet half of these believed that “peo-

ali dogs readily interbreed." It is the same with C. Pepo and the strains derived from it.

Before leaving this species here are a few notes on its uses. The American Indians boiled them in soups. roasted them in the embers

pie will never do what. is neces- sary to prevent wars."-whatc'ver that is?

Bait Mania Caterpillars I am indebted to Dr. l; M.

of their camp fires or fried them. Cannon. Provincial Entomo 5818*. The SW65 Ere very nutritious and for these concise notes on the life-

were eaten as s. delicacy. In mod- ern times they are used in pump- kin pies. or preserved “sour-

history of the Salt Marsh Mdiib (Eseigmenc acres

Dtrury.) _- "The popular name of this insect

sweet" or with ginger. sometimes was given to it by Harris nearly a they are used to eke out marmal- century ago, and was suggatcd by

odes.

"humanity"

popular weekly. the local histor- ians are having

the Yorkshire dish called Ftrum- widely

the fact that salt marsh meadows near Boston, Mast, where is now the Back Bay quarter of the 01m were overrun and laid wastp in I note that in the pages of n. time by swarms of

But the name is misleading, as the a discussion on species is a general feeder and fl

llfilfla

distributed throughout

mlty. That word has several North America.