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IMEL no s 0~ topics] CONNECTED WITH-

Silver Fox Farming

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The annual meeting of the Can. clan National silver Flax Breed- ‘ was held in the York Hotel June l7, 18, 19th

11th Vwu devoted to lmetlngs

hare. e-ll o1 whom were “L

t with the tio to d

fmﬁlﬁ

no mnrt o: the Direoiors was fine

tif sho ~ “Quit” ﬁr... ‘"

are 1th of fox an‘; mill: {aim

Dr. A. A Klrigsmte, o; m Orltetio Veterinary College, spoilt: S’ B150 Promising (so-operation to the fur breeders An mares; m“ 33g- of zn§yutl§2s1§rvyg°"ey‘ “m” Monta- y

pride in th dhaws that

. The owl-lit is $239,081.16.

Some amendments to the con- stlwgion were presented. one of

aid, did not favor latlnums, that tter taken up.

Jose h Conn ll , Bath -

Plmaidgnt of (hi: nonuurfiégil Ne?» Council and a large mink rancher was very glad of an gxppornuut to

m . m d! the we" e e tl"ll5

i took pelt shows wing the tlti. glnssiligtions.

ens. A

was extended to

his assist-

‘ 1m

oblems as preserntedxbgrlrqd- e Dominion gov-

s d total at 820. A total of 5910 foxes were in 1945 This season to m $1 ruloh statements were fil- m ed 3,840 registered males and 8,766. registered females.

marketing department re Manner ' A. '

mark d ﬂiow Z t .30 wilfully; It! {lllfrrimg ssilstfers

m, ggrl

ocier . go balance and platlnums are be in rlbe June auction at

Mite fished l\ t. 1 ere the cone . '0 on)‘ W

3% pelts disposed of to advantage but manv conalguers wrote to e Agxhtlnn oompllmen the 011l- cfoils on the excellent resu t4 obtain- ed for it:

t 24- ' ld lie ml; :11; has‘: nit-hm; (lls vitality.

The “pm-t; Q1 (h fur committee which vnspreeenled by n o. ceived ' aisle-man and members were active at all times in endeavorinf to safe- guard the interests o! the ur breed- ers of. ads. Members day was June 18th and i ere was upwards p o! 1C0 gaunt. 'l'.‘he meet was Silver .l"ox was voted the brought; order byPresidmle me Qiilois-l organ of the Association. molleod who gave s. very splen- All M’! . hich

aolearsxudoon had been made in past years u; the retiring president was declined in 1015 Lowell W. ~ 16 be l." inio a. fund for the l 1°11 Willie men in the fox indus- try. Bo far no sanlsfucto been evolved to use it. mutter came up for an for retiring resident George Mao. Levd. . acLcod stored that he did not consider his services had been sufficiently onerous to war. it and he lhc llt cod idea to l? - _ honorarium in my be mengioned ‘QM Lend s e rat er Py of the work if? had members

Mac- Dr. W. E Russ- .. l: W. Hancock, M. Doyle, Winn.-

Grants to live fox shows will be gm seine as in l appro- vortising ‘

that as far all ll out fh tal

A'- ggﬁlvzilgileeﬂxlir g never E an good u . ‘merit. calm and pleasing manngr made everything go smoothly, l: was a pleasure, each director n. nlarked to have served with him. d .I-Ie said hat whn d d sidOa-atlon ' the conclusion that ~ firlito could be deoid efforts will be men where their utilized if available. thanks was extended to the man- lltf“ ‘hﬁnﬁthyﬁ “h? s w o as e ﬁt ‘martin In relating the smell

A 2f

A pleasin feature was the ban- mt exten ed l-v the . o

' ltinunln: 4 . in ptveiinble “on now. tlngmztltr llogcvnryl

r .

101%. Nitric?’ I ‘all!

est-l . 51*?

a breast. Rest of

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NOTES -

B)’ AGUCOLA

THE NORTHERN FUCKER

regular fashion.

Northern Flicker. A.O.U. 412.2 Summer resident. Common, i910, Decreasing 1946? Beak slightly cur- ved. Top of head ashy-gray, a bright scarlet band across the back of the neck. Back, wing coverts and lgnermost quills brownish-gray, thickly barred black. Tall coverts (upper) white barred with black; primaries blink externally. Under surface of the wl-ngs and shafts of its golden yellow. Tall black yellow below tipped with Side of head, throat, and breast, vtnaceous.

s bove, b.a .l.. upper

t broad black stripe (“moustache”)

down each side of throat, from the base of the beak. Both sexes with a broad black cresent across the the underpurts white. tinged vlnaceous and thick- ly spotted black. Length 11.0 inch- es, wings 6.0m, tel-i 4.0 in.

The Flicker is a prolific bird and the brood may number from five to nine. The nest is usually located in a hollow tree or same- ilmes (as I have seen) in a tele- phone post which has hem hollow- ed by one of the other woodpeckers. Under the stress of finding food for its nestlings it will the cherry orchard if one be handy, but this seems to be its only bad habit. In its feeding it otherwise rese-nb- les the Meadowlsrks rather than the Woodpecker predilection fo

to thrust its long sticky

down the entrance of an a

“to pick up the ants." Examln

of Flickers‘ stomachs showed im- mense quantities of grasshoppers, beetles. moths, and other ground insects. The North Carolina ornlthologists. HJ-I. and 0.5. Brim- ley. remark on their fondness for peanuts. no less than slxt

were seen ln one small fleld. In tne southern States they eat the fru’: of the persimmon, black gum and lliﬂ-IU w! - d others unnamed.

nmui wit *v~

Last. week author K stlor t-vld of the Russians footbal team and its reaction to the civiliiies extend- ed. This week his remarks take ex- ception to the "Iran Curtain" which Russia has drawn across eastern Europe. When he says Rus- sia he of course means the Gov- ernment and he cites some striking instances of how it misled (he people. .

The Battle of Britain, of the U-boats. the North Africa and Italy were pity/ed down by the radio and press till they were barely audible; while the clamor for a "second" Font gave the Russia that they alone the war. The ple had never kirk, Alameln or Bataan; what they did hear were “reports from Coir!’ that Britain was seeking a separate peace, that American planes u re dropping weapons to the Fascist marquis oi’ Warsaw, and that the Allies were sitting back in their armchairs watching Russia lees] to death. Nothing that the Western Powers could do or say, could in- fluence Russian suspi "one (h is artfully stimulated-for the Iran curtain hid the truth. (Not quite. I think; for under pressure, the Sovl-et Government revealed o its subjects that the U.S. had supplied munitions and implements of war under Lend-leasebut the account was written in a way to minimize the action.)

~ What historical reasons. asks Mr.

systemstlcall

Koestler, prompted the

leaders to create

since 1918, this artl-llclel "climate 7

Then.- were two relscns; (l) exhr-

n01, (2) internal. - The external reason ls fairly ob-

vious. The Western Powers HRfl

H A. Dor-

LW Han-

. MaoKinnon,

Registration

Dort

a oe- . -

ma. A lvfléll uhémkrxlgidog

, , y-e, e e .

was ‘tar. some"? "-

rru ere. e s o L- S B. Board-

w a c. Ruth: t

ven, Allistori 01E? .1..1Tr:. McCaguc, Alllston, Ont. Representatives Royal Winter Fa . . H

s": MlaoKinnm-t. Gordon MwMlllan F. George Mncbeod. E . Burleflgu. Chief Inspector and Mmager r Mar-kn . George A. Callback. . m mile! 1n- spector LK. hxlreaby.

IIIIIIID W. Ill! LTD“ I80 John It. North. Hamilton. Ont.

“more: ct- '*~

tvI-Uhitinlml-onolhe. [bailout-rial All»

supported the arm er-revolutio

it reactionary

[ollliciatris spread

lle " about conu tlo IS

. “All this gave the infant kind of traumoilc

l’ kept esccit in the people-‘s mind “Capitalist ln- tervention,” the slogan of the Anti-Soviet Crusade," the don Sanltalre," and so on. till it developed lnlo an obsession. Why? Thl-s leads to the second, the ‘n- ternal source of this attitude.

To transform backward. agrarian Soviet Eurasia to a modern imlusl- rtal nation wasa gigantic which imposed gigantic sacrifices upon the people; though ‘rt is not- iceable tliat the leaders did not share the The sacrifices en iii- ed the exp ing of food and "aw materials to buy and import. ' chlnery; and the ccncentrati.

- cent above DIG-WEI‘ ﬁgures.

icig it. Here indeed was a par lo" The workers and peasants in a x c- lalist country were worse off than the workers and peasants ‘mrter the capitalist yoke! It would no: do to allow the people any oppor- tunlty of making comparisons, so the l-ron curtain was lowered all round Russia!

No Soviet citizen was therefore allowed across the frontiers of his country—-except on special mission; and he was forbidden to ‘Ikl.’ friends with any foreign journ sts or engineers rn ' fraternlzatlon with

whole generation; the State mono- tpoly in information and the stunt

can we do to break it down? (To be continued).

WEATHER LORE FOR JULY

The well-known "Dog Days" bu- n on July 3rd and continue hIIfO August. Tho popular exp-lawman of the name is that the great hoot of this gioriiorl zilsy/xses dogs to af- t HWlFODhODlB. .t\--i' tho Northern

~ there is plenty of r weather shortly after the sun reached its greatest summer a. ude in the sky and is begin. . g to decline again. In southern Asia it brings the monsoon season, but here it brings only the rain so necessary to field and garden crops.

“A shower cf rain in July. win-n the corn begins to fill.

15 worth a plough and oxen and all belongs there till"

The special days in July are the th 16th and 27th, the latter of

' St, Swlthlns‘ Day. All the sayings dealing tvlth them point to the particular weather on those days as heralding n duration of similar weather.

“If the first of July (13th N8.)

e rainy weather.

ill rain more or less for four weeks together."

The 16th (New Style) was Bul- If‘ons' Day, and the saying went- "If Bullions‘ Day be dry th .e will be a good harvest." And- Bulllotfs Day, gif ye he fair, For forty days there'll be air." t A sufficiently ambiguous rhyme, which might. mPEn no more fine weather for 40 days,

T special day dedicated to St. - Swlthln was (and to some extent still is) believed to have an influ- ence over the coming weather, The belief is very old but later "weath- cr prophets" have transferred its efficacy to the three or four days on each side of St. Swithii-Vs. The

experienced throughout the week ls no bad in- dex to that of the future, they m-

mate.

"BL swithin's Day, if thou be rain, _ _

For forty days it. will remain: _

St. Swithln's Day. if thou be fem‘, » For forty days ‘twill rain nae malt."

The old English rustlcs, when rain fell towards the close of this month, interpreted the sprlnk as “St. Swlthln Ichrlstenlnz (b

"Y hos t-

UB9 m

A WONDERFUL FLOWER

Dr. Joseph Arnold travelled ll the island of Sumatra in i818, in company with sir Stamford and ,Larly Raffles. While on thbs jour- ney the party arrived at Pulo Leb- bnr. on the Mauno

words e

had ventured some WHY Irv"! t"? party. when one o! the Malay ser- vants came running to rne "with wonder in his eyes. and said. come with me, sJ-r. come! a flower. very large, beautiful. wonderfull’ I lm- mediately went with the man about a hundred yards info the jungle and he pointed to a flower growing close to the ground under the bushes, which (flower) was truoly astonishing. . but finding that 1t wrung from a small root which ran horizontally, 1' soon detached u and removed it to our hut." Here he was joined by Sir Stamford Poffles in measuring the ﬂower. "It. was of very great thickness, in

placer three-quarters of an

like" pe

a foot from the insertion ef~ petal to the opposite one." (Pictur- es of the ﬂower show a cm rat. bowl-shaped "nectary" a foot in diameter with the petal: ranged round it). “The nectary in the opin- ion of all of Ill, would hold twelve pints, and the weight of this prodl-lgynwc calculated to be fifteen poun e. -

Bpeclmenl of this giant flower were lent to the Llnnaeln Society

fflula Arnoldl, in memory of Dr. Arnold who died shortly af- ter its discovery.

one p

GllAllglAN

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. o’ 13y, rural/ma f Eﬁyurﬂlfﬁ/L- /

f L; Lighten dairy chores with a Rcnfnw Cream Separator, 6h’ ' ~' with waist-high supply can and crank ll us! the ngb: d‘? \'-§. height for euy turni . A. clean lkimmlng Reufrew > " s N. y“ 00:31:10 rter, has greater capacity and Xn lg. ,

more than ordinary n" y.” a“ a NEW makes. Ask your Ren- frew District Represen- tative to demonstrate a Renfrew in your dairy.-

Also MINES e IIIICI SOLE WASHING MAUI IBIS m”; a, 3545;”, Qpggd’

THE RINHIEW MACHINERY COMPANY LIMITED llnlnw, On o Sussex, NJ. o it. John Q, 0 log“, ‘uh

Fami Machinery Output Doubled a

(By The anadian Press) OTTAWA. June LEG-Lumber production by 782 mills east of the Rockv Mountains totalled 7'7.- 0481100 board feet in April. com- pared with l08.4.2l2.000 board feet produced by 893 nlllls in March, the Dominion Bureau of Statist- ics reported today. Shipments of 953162.000 board feet were mode by 412 mills in comnared wltli 108,309,000 shipped by 404 operators in March. Stocks on hand at 290 mills at the end of April were 272,935,000 . compared with 319,- 904,000 feet at 217 mills at the end of March. Of the 782 mills sawing operations 982.0(1) board feet

(By The Associated Pres!)

OTTAWA. June ‘Ii-Reconstruc- tron Minister Howe said today Canada's production cf farm ma- chinery had julfllped 50 per cent since the end of the war and now probably stood at least 100 per

Appearing before committee of said he believed cent of current exported and thought U.N.R.R.A.‘s quota had been ﬁlled for the cur- rent vear.

Clarence Gillis

the veterans the Commons. he that about 40 per

production was

(CUP-Cape Bre- tc-n South) held that the funda- mental problem was not one of giving veterans priorities for the machinery available. that everything possmle

to increase production.

. Howe said it was difficult to get the basic steel to keep the industry going. Certain parts of certain machincrv were imported. Canada was wholly dependent on the United States for tractors.

“l! we could make iron we could make mor cry," he said.

. Gillis asked how the pro- duction of pig iron could be in- creased.

“We are producing all llle pig iron we can provide coke for,’ Mr. Howe replied. production 25 per cent to put all available coke into the production of pig iron. All the blast fum- ucss are working on this."

Mr. Gillis: “Then what is the possibility of increasing steel pro- duction. by fonning Crown comp- anies, tapping new seams?"

Mr. flow-e: "We are building furnaces ulilch will practically double the production of coke but it will lake a vear to build them. We have under construction now a very large production of furnac- es to turn coal into coke."

Production for the four months e-ndin-z in Atpril totalled 371.906,- 000 board feet. uhile sihimnents were 385,181,000. Out/put, in ands b.v Provinces follows: figures in brackets) Prince I-slund, 2% (168); 117.112

Edward Nova Scotla, ._ New Bninsmltrlt,

I Quebec 30,273 (27.-

. 17.386 (9.905): Mani- (3,3~i-5l; Saskatchewan. (13,938); Alberta, 3,718 (21.-

ro vrsrr cameos

SYDNEY, iber

B - Australia -— (GP) Wiles

Wﬂﬁldenl o,f the Ne South Fur Traders’ Associa- tion, will investigate fur fanning and breeding m Granada for m: slate governments of New South Wales and Queensland.

turned the German armies in that country in March, Vctn Neurath saild, the Munich na ones sent on y “paper prom “I had expected l

Gl,’!~

p . and Hitler xvould have avoided further nggr-QS. sive action ‘

Says Munich Signers Bluffed By llitler

NEURNBERG. June 26- (Api- Baron Constantin von Ncurath. ctnetlnte German foreign minister said today that signers of th lch pact could have halted _ aggressions ivi-lh a stern diplomatic reprcof after the absorption of Czechoslovakia in 1938. I

The elderly cit-diplomat. describ- inc the rapid-fire

other top-rank Nazis on war crimes charges. declared he was still sur- prised that France and Briialn allowed Hitler to gel. away with his Czech adventure.

When Hitler called in president‘ Emil Hacha of O hoslovak andi

receipts were $54,406.

QUMITY YE

The largest. bull sale ever held in Lsoombe feat- . ured the selling of 2112 bulls and 38 females. Total Top price of $725 at the sale ent to Frank Oollicutt for his second prize Here-

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JOHANNESBURG (GP) _.. Elxcivement at the mmng Vi,“ c, lhe Royal {anally to South Africa

lmnext year is mounting among fhg in the geaiple colored population, Piang are

rs . made to hold a ial "coon" 40 per 1,000 population carnlval similar u: that held We" ooﬂimred with Canberra's 27. New Year, and some teams haw/a Whyallas population is alneady chosen their gafmenw’ \____;_____ ___

Guernsey Purchase Extension Policy

WHYALLA, Australia This little South Australian sh: bullding town challenges me cla n of Canberra. - ional capl

To encourage the establishment of new Guernsey herds in this Province, the P. E. I. Guernsey Club with assist- ance from the Provincial Department of Agriculture, has initiated a policy whereby the following amounts will be paid to purchasers of registered Guernseys:

Calves under six months $15.00

130; twelve to eighteen months $25.00; eighteen to

_ "ill-four $30-00; two years and over 5.95.00, together with one half the freight on importation.

_ This assistance is open to any Island Farmer who at (mile of purchase has less than four registered Guernsey fe- ma es.

As funds are limited applications will be considered in the order receiv .

; six to twelve months

Al] animals purchased will be subject to inspection. GUY RODD, Sec’y. P. E. I_._ Gu rnsey Club,

Brack y.

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