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liimely Notes On Fur Farming

A report from Frankfurt. Ger- increased an average of 31-52 oVe1'li.ai)0f' costs are a bit higher here many stntes that German mink the previous year. The 1954 figurelbut then we have other attract-

ranchers' iiutput of about 30.000 animals per year is increasing at the rate of about 10 to 15 per cent for the 12 months of 1955. However the quality of German ranch mink is still below the American level, states Frederick Scelig. German mink rancher, who recently visit- ed the United States. German mink ranches are small and mostly op- erated as a sideline.

Only. a few ranrhcs THi.w over L000 animals and the largest ones possess not more than 2.000. They are situated around the North Sea area where the fish supply is plenti- ful Most German mink eat fish: only 20 percent arc moat fcd This is the main reason why imports of American animals play only a minor role. in the L'uiied States and Canada ranch mink is mainly mcat

Sourls that fed with I Di'0P0Pl-10' !of local horse meat will give in a formula as good if not better, ithan the Newfoundland one and ithe cost is not very much more.

was 322.19 as compared with Sm.67iions that we think make it much and in 195: and 319.44 in 1952. lmore desirable to raise ranch mink Last seasonk qverjgg price; were in this province than to go outside as follows: Standards. 317.17; sil- It- verblu, 319.79; pastels, 827.11: sap- pli.l'l"mw1)5;l.ii .f"'""'"'t. ii 23:58.1); e -d t i th c d Mink it ie. . ; u y-eye pas e . 1'95 En 0 9 M8 a Wisconsin continued to rank first as greelgetris i;iS:ltgCi:it;!n.ed addxessed the biggest producer of ranch rninki 9 I 0113 - In F9 EYE 8500- some 233 nnciiu in uni ningeiiationi recently at their Seattle, produced 973.412 pelts in 1954, uiwashington, meeting. He brought Eer censt of all produced in the;:T99ij'"E5 mam lilaeuisatnafga mink nited tater. In second place was: "'9 "5 3" 5'" 3 I W35 I Minnpgoig with my i-nni-he, nni-ilsiriurce inf iEi'9aid56iiiS'ilt('ii0nhionlil 319.074 kits and 11 percent of thei" "5 " 303 3 i 3 5110 "9 naginnni ouipni, Michigan wulrelatlons had existed through the iiiii-ii win. 132 ranches producing..Vcai's between the mink breeders 192.154 his mg 1 nu. uni of the of the United States and Canada.

Ken Montgomery of Edmonton.

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first time this ear spread to Maui- ieba. new so secured by us its this disease and others will be made freely available to your re- search foundation.

"During 1064 Canada imported from the United Staten an estim- ated i1o.ooo mink pelts and 1.404 liva mink. During the first four months of 1955 Canada imported 3.102 live mink from the U. 5. Our organisation set up their first marketing board in 1954 and through our efforts a tremendous increase in the number of mink pelts produced in Cant a were mar- keted in Canada." Mr. Montgomery ende by hoping to perpetuate our existing good relations. :

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THURMAN. N. Y. (AP)-Chan ley Bills. aged 14 months. is not; llkely to remember the day the; black bear visited him. But hiai mother will never forget it.

Mrs. Edith Bills said Charley. suddenly began iabbering with en-l thusiasm in his play pen on the porch of their house in an isolated section near this Adirondack corn-i munity the other day. i

She found him "sticking his finger out through the play pen. slats. smiling and cooing." A ti black hear was standing nearby on its hind legs.

”I grabbed up the baby and ranl into the house and into a bedrooml and slammed the door." she snid.' "The baby didn't seem to be scared at all." i

The bear just plodded away.i

liA'i'FlELD. England (AP) - Britain's latest Comet jet airliner landed here Friday after complet ing its first test flight outside the

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be administered by mouth were announced to a German medical congress Wednesday.

Prof. Ferdinand Bertram. chief internal physician at the Hambu 5- Barmbek hospital. reported a drug called B255 was successful in most of 100 tests be supervised. This is a sulfonamide compound found by Mannheim chemists who noticed it caused a rapid decrease in the sugar content of the blood.

Bertram said the treatment of- fered "good chances of success" for patients above 45 if the diabetes is not older than five to 10 years and it they were not treated with insulin longer than one to two years.

country. The new Comet left Brit- ain Sept. 30 and visited Athens. Khartoum and Rome in trial runs. The original Comets were pulled out of service after two fatal "rashes last year in the Mediter- ranean area.

difficult. Herr Sccluz stated Ger- "NPFWE "'9 mink l'3nCl'I9l' 3 Pro ninny impni-is mini. niainiy (mmiiection against disasterous losses Scandinavia ultcrc iiwy arc fcd,'PiU59li by disease. it is possible ii," figh nnn ii,-iii mmi, makingiinr rancbcrs to obtain at a reason

exaniplcs tat during the past two years Llanada Mink Breeders have made a direct ('finil'lhilil(li'i to l'i.ilHA Adi crtisiiin Fund of approx-

Scandinavian mink more suitable for them. i

There is much cross breeding in; Germany and mutation mink is bred in almost ex or; possible color. The share of miitniion mink in Germany's output is between 25i and an per cent Gcrmnny does noti import raw ranch mink skins biiti sells them dressed F-crman mink ranches are able to supply about only 20 per cent of Gernianfsil mink demand. The rest. is im- ported mainly from Scandinavia. United States mink though desir- able in quality, is In general too expensive her.-uise of high trans- portation and lrcizhi costs.

The Canadian Fur Auction Sales to. (Quebec) Ltd held a special sale yesterday. October 7th, with R.f)0ti beaver. 300 otter. 40,000 musk- rat and 2.000 ranch and wild mink.

A "299 promotion of mink stolen and capes at the Evergreen Plaza Chicago. last week was very sue- eessful. It was backed up by ai three column ad in the Sundayl Chicago Tribune. The ad was ii-. lustrated with three photos. one; featuring a clutch cape. Response was heaviest on the clutch cape in aliverbly. though all types ofmink were represented in the mo col- iectioa.

Sam Gottesfeid to an article in Women's Wear Daily. has the fol. lowing in part: World production of ranch raised mink will approx- imate 5.8 million pelts this year oft the basis of available official and unofficial information. in the United States fur farmers appear- certain to exceed the Si million mark in ranched mink production. Canada estimates it will have a crop of around 7tl5.ti00 mink and the total for the four Scandinavian countries. Denmark. Sweden, Nor- way and Finland is cxpecied to he clnsetst to i.400.0(i0 Lfnited State: rnutuation mink output last season amounted to over 76 percent of the total crop as compared with 70 per cent the previous year. Pastels continued to he the biggest rolnr Phase amountinr in 37.5 per cent of national production.

Prices for all rnnclt raised mink ,..em.mm.gem,ggm,;e.

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