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lubruary and early March and the gbfiipldle disappearance of snow gm the ground has presented oblems to tho-fox rancher dif- sult to solves Many ram.- egmpllih that lfley have been - ‘sis to obtain as large a percen- lgge tat-matings as in other. years, in fact some matings are so late in some ranches that quite a big percentage will be blanks. The dia- gpeai-ance of snow means -that g rancher must water his foxes a ily or at‘ least every two days. 1 he does not do ao there ls a ossibility of ‘the animals becom- B13 constipated due-to lack of moisture in the system. It is easy to overlook this necessary work, but no matter if the foxes don't drink all the water that is put out for them we think it a good idea to put in fresh water every day.

jSome ranchers have complained about foxes biting their fur and we have found on nqulry that they have not been using any salt in the‘ diet. It is a well known fact that salt is a necessity both for men and animals and a percen- tsge of say 1-2 per cent should be fed daily in the ration. We iia.c not heard of many liters being lost, in fact those who we have met say that due to the mild- or weather they seem to have lees trouble with itters than usual. Maybe when this is taken into ac- count the fuil season's breeding operations may tum out quite is well as any average year.

What to do about the mcat sit- uation is concerning most of us. Horse meat is obtainable and most of the dealers have stocked up with it so there is no meat worry on that account. Tripe, however, is impossible to buy except locally. The packers are canning the tripe and shipping it to Europe. They get about twice as much for it that way as they would if sold to us so the prospects for tripe seem iery remote indedd as this famine ll liable to continue more or less for ii couple of years. As a substi- tute and to partially tone down the stronger qualities of the horse meat we think that anywhere from 10 to 30 percent of fish can be led. It would of course be neces- iary"to,etl_rt._-wllh a small percen- tage, say 5pc!‘ ,0 t and then grad- ually add up to,- nper cent as the lesson rogresses. Fish bloc put

i_ii_ ilk is obtainable in cen- iilte Charlottetown and Suin- merside and many ranchers have used it for years with great suc-

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Montreal, March i3 —- Canadian lPur Auction Sales Co. -(Quebec), lstd., announcer the following of- .. rings and order of sales for its forthcoming auction:

Mood nmrch as; um musk- rll. 17.8 ermine, 000 otter 2, beaver soo lynx, sec lynx cat 1,410 wolf. I00 tininsi- wolf. aooo Alaska seal dressed and dyed by Martin, Inndon, 715 blue fox, 575 white fox, 10, red fox.

Tuesday: 8,51!) ranch mink. f,-

wild mink, 000 hlllftd-Ytk 565 s unk, 2315

fisher. 5.680 raccoon, 3,820 29.80 Canadian cross fox. Wednesday: oooo silver fox. Thursday: 1.100 s ecial collection Canadian Nations Silver Fox Breeders Assnn 8.000 silver fnx. Friday: 0,500 silver fox, wild fur sale commenc s at i0 a. m. and silver fox at .50 a. m. All skins will be on show from Friday, Mar- 22. until time of sale.

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MONTREAL SALE LISTS

Montreal, March 13 —M.inl.re.'-ii Fur Sales (Canada) Limited an- nounces the following quaiititiw and order of sale for its general sale Friday, March 22, starting at 9280 a. m.: 1,000 special foxes, 2,700 sllxer fox, aoo blue fox, 1,000 red fox, 2,500 ranch mink, 600 wolf, 500 badger, 1,700 dressed Persian lamb, Indian lamb, 30,000 rabbits and a quantity of miscel- laneous furs. These will be on show from Wednesday March ‘l0. until time of sale.

Mrs. Charles H. Showers f Madi- son, Wisconsin, is seriousi think- ing about changing her muskrat coat for some other t e of fur. Wearing her coat whie walking near her homc a few days ago she was suddenly attacked by a rela- tive of the animals that gave their lives for her coat. The muskrat, believed by police to have stray-a ed from a nearby marsh, bit Mrs. Showers in the leg before being driven off. Later it was tracked down and shot by a policeman.

Washington, March 11—The com- mittee for reciprocity information is conside lllg conflicting testimony on the uestion of whether caust- ing su ernental trade agreements with anada regarding the 1113101‘- tation into this country of . iver fox furs should be changed, ‘er- minated or allowed to remain in force as thgay stand.

Represent tlve fur merchants ar- gued against retention of the ex-

cess. It is of, course probably more txpensiveihan feeding fish" ivhfcly‘ is obtainable, from vlcinities

town whi are within‘. ‘easy ‘ ac- cess of fishlng grounds.

The pelt situation seems to he fairly quiet at present. The next suction will be held in Montreal commencing Monday. Bilvenfnx will be on Wednesday, Thursd and Friday and in connection wl the sale there will be about 1,000 new type pellzsoffered by the Ca- nadian National Silver Fox Breed- tion, Bumme " . _ comprise platinums, platinum silvers, pearl platinum: and white faces with a small num- bft of glaciers, litany of us will be wstdiing anxloubly to see how these fare off in the auction room. The silver fox pelts from the allow coilectlonaof Prince Edward Island and Ontario will not be of- fered at this sale but will probably to on the May vendue.

, The writer took a trifi‘ to New York attending the meet g of the United States 'I‘rotting Association last week and stopped at the Wal- rlorf Astoria. Thousands of people tlitcr its portals from two streets ddliy andiquite a number of them life d! ‘the moneyed class, so I found l very interesting when the op- Wfiilhily offered to see the types df furs the ladies wore. Platinum i" Jackets were very mucii in "idfihde and some were very beau- llful. White marked Jackets were u" ‘lull-e common but slivers pre- Lominawd. They looked very nice deed and the writer felt very much encouraged by the numbers “Him and the attractiveness oi the ' V" 10X Jackets. We formed the °iiinion that it would be ‘ong, 011x time before silver fog went of the picture and tiie proba- wully is t at in a few years I be th greater uiar- iy than t has now. For t t rea- ldii I do not think it would be wise “l; curtail too much the production whims". I behave it would be to k a good ' ltreed in ad , p ‘hum allvel! And will h" this on pear have not distinguished "fmeifmglna much higher pldeg been follow itlie various

use l" Souris, Summerside and Charlotte-q

at auction. We _ave._

lsting quotas in a hearin ncre ji t week, while representat ves of . ganized fur farmers in the Mid-

KWest and‘ West» insisted the qu tas must be at least kept-and p y ‘uced-and that tariffs should be raised. The tariff argu- ment appeared to be irrelevant un- der the terms of the public notice calling interested parties to the committee's hearing.

Isidore Ber ner of E. S. Uilman- Allied Co., nc., New York, ar- gued there should be no quota un- der present conditions-that ‘im- portation of furs should oe free of restraint. Answering previous arguments of the fox fur farm- ers that the resent world market would not a1 ow this, he said he had sold furs to France within the last i0 days. He said the fur merchants should be enabled to buy and sell freely.

Alexander T. Macleod, represent- ing the American Fur Merchants Association, Inc., New York, took a somewhat similar positioni on the desirability of a free entrance into this countr for Belts from abroad. Omar rager- raon of the Petoskey Fur Farms, Inc., r- bor Springs, Mich., said that if the quota cou d not be eliminated com-

letely, Norway, at least, should

e entitled to a bigger slice of the United States import market than it has at present.

Eight representatives of the fox fur farmers had eeented their case for the retent on—or diminu- tlol--of the uota and for reten- tion of a tarl f at least as high as the present 85 per cent. (Editor's Note: If the quota Ls eliminated, he tariff automatically will re- vert to the 37 1-2 per cent which prevailed before a quota was first established in 1089.)

Lam son, Fraser dz Huth, Inc., New ork, are holding a large sale of general lure, commeiicin April 1st, almost immediately a- .ter the conclusion of the Montreal sale. In the collection we notice 1.000 blue fox, Ml cross fox, 1.800 red. fox, 5,000 silver and color phase

500 marten, 37.010 ranch mink, H.000 wild mink. 250 dressed Rus- sian sable: in matched bundles as

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w ll a large number of , r emselvel ti» ‘an,

Vfludaonu Bay Company, London,

" a few d ago that

‘it expects to- offer . alive

fox and I500 platinum ones in

scheduled to - begin , h. Analog, Chadwick and Kiever an- nounea they will offer about 12.000 skins including 500 piatlila.

LittlaOllllCeilIog-Prleel

E88 prices have declined slight- ly this week,_it was learned yes- terday from figures issued by the Dominion Department of Agricult- ure in Charlottetown. The decline was due to the fact that prices have been adluated to export lev- els previously existing

forwarded to Saint John this week for export to Britain

n . Prince Edward Island gradln "stations are quoting for ungrad eggs, delivered, as follows: larle 29-30; A-medium 21-28; 23' C 18

32-3: A- medium 30-1; B 28; C 23. Specialized producers receiving for carioned pack: A-large 38; A-medium 36; A-puilets 33

at ceiling levels, with practically non-existent.

Livestock a

Moderate receipts of live siocit were well cleared in the past week on a generally steady to firm mar-l ket. Principal interest centered on the top grades of beef-making mi:- terial and whii some western markets made sight advances on

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cattle. the over-all picture was little‘ changed from the previous wee .

Cattle deliveries to stock yards, and packing plants at 30,400 were about 3,000 below the correspond- ing week last year. Marketings for the first 11 weeks this year total 346,700 as against 363,600 in the corresponding period last yeor. Calf marketlngs were also a little‘ lower and the total to date this, gear is 82950 as compared with' 7.400 in the same period a year ago. Sheep and lamb sales con- tinue in good volume and 13,300 were brought in to yards and plants in the past week; in the same‘ week last year deliveries were 10,- 500. The sales since January 1st this year amount to 142,000 as

Hog gradings for the week cndcd March 0th totalled 106,871. muk-y inn the total to date this year l.- 0165124 as against 1,555,722 in the same period of last year.

Eastern Cattle Markets

Cattle marketings on eastern stock yards were moderate and ices generally unchan ed. Early ids at Toronto were a lttle lower but receipts were such that It was impossible to lower prices. Weight» steers sold at Toronto at $11.50 to $13.5 butcher steers 210.50 to $12.50, butcher cows $8 to 010 and some stockers and feedeil sold stronger at $10 to $11.35. Buyers at Montrea, where there was a slight increase in receipts, paid up to $13.50 for the best steers on of- fer, but with no choice on hand, and $11.50 to $12.50 for just med- ium quality, Good cows were $9.25 to $10 or a shade higher. Receipts continue extremely light in the Maritimes and the best of the steer offering was quoted at $11 to $11.50 fob’. country points and good cows own.

Wellern Cattle Marketa

Cattle deliveries in the west were in moderate volume and de- spite some effort on the, part of buyers to reduce prices, al quo- tations remained steady and in some cases firmed up Winnipeg had some selected steers at a top of $13, with most of the iiest slaughter steers 012.3 to $12.75 and stacker and feeder cattle, which were not sufficient t0 meet the needs of the trade, sold from $9 to $10 on reasonably good quality. Calgary was a little firmer on good butcher cattle and had good to choice steers at $11.75 to $12.40. Edmonton also advanced 25a on steers and heifers and aid a top of $12.60 on one load, wi h another a’. .50, and good kind-s selling down to $10.50. Medium steers were $10 to 011M. Prince Albert topped on steers at $12, Moose Jaw $12 to $12.5. Saskatoon $12.75. Re- around $12, and ._Vancouvei- Exports to United States

Dairy cattle shipments to the United States for the week totall- ed 1,000 as against 400 in the name week last year. Shipments to date this year are 7,552 comfiared with

Egg Surplus Must Find Outlet in Great Britain; Prices Decline Slightly

January. One cariot of eggs was egg supplies, the only outlet

~ a fraction

compared with 135,000 last yearJ A“

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Egg Market Statement

In connection with the egg mar- ket aituation, Mr. F. G. _Wal' . issued

poultry products inspector, he following statement: "We have reached tiie

lng that of export to

ccnLs per dozen for A-large

shipper about .37 cents at Char-

A- lottetown. There la a considerable B abount of work in connection with

, . matting up eggs for export. The Graded shipments delivered t: s have to be sized do that the Charlottetown (Packed for ex- ex re large eggs are excluded port) A-large 34-5; A-medium from the shipment to Britain 1n 32-3; B 28; C 23. order that breakage; is minim- Graded shipments delivered 172d- Egils 118W t0 lhdlvidlillllj Charlottetown (Packed for com- Stamped with the W011i “Cllhfldh" mercial use) A-larg —this stamping of-sggs is not a

Canadian Regulation but an order ,of the British Ministry of Food. All cases have to be wired both ends anti stencilied. Nothing but

Poultry quotations are nuininai 800d C8585 PM he "Sid in d 5MP‘ deliveries| High:

to Britain."

is the privilege of guiding stations throughout PE I. to put up cuss in their own station viz- ed, stamped and aeked for ex- port, or they can e put up for export by those firms that assem- ble such shipments in cariots. This work costs money and the price for export has been set at the a- hove mentioned quotation.

"Poor grading by country grad- ing stations results in additional works and costs at the assembling plants. It should be the endeavour of all grading stations to bu ex- ceedingly careful in the manner in whi h they pack these eggs. pac ing large ends up in every in- stance, exc uding all dlrts from the Grade AAs, using good clean fillers and flats. Such care on the part of grading station operators would do much to maintain the price to producers on a basis of

0 cents for A-large.

"If grading stations do not t-x- ercise the care above mentioned their shipments will not bring them in as high returns."

"In future, market quotations issued by the Poultry Marketing Services at Charlottetown will show prices paid for export pack and for commercial pack. Qudat- ions for export ack should be in the neigiiborhoo of .340, possibly higher, wliiisi com- mercial pack eggs will probably be around 32-3 cents on a basis of

- rge."

One Cnriut Shipped

"One cariot already has iieen forwarded to seaboard for cxpoit to Britain this. week with another to follow on Saturday. It is ex- ecte dtiiat the "xuort nf @825 to ritain from P.E.1, will now be continuous until the and of tiie export season, The recent advance in the price of eggs which has lasted for tiie past six weeks was attributihie to l|1(‘ facrthat ilie Marltlmcs were exceedingly short of eggs. This period has passed and we may expect prices to be at the original level nf early January, namely netting the pro- ducer .Ii0c_ er dozen for A-iargc. to last unti perhaps the end of May or at least until the cnd of ADPII. These prices are compar- ative to those prices in existence in tiie corresponding period last ear.’

“Great Britain is the one mar- ket that we have at the present time that will take our complete 8ilfi>lus of eggs. It is up to regis- tered 988 Bfadlng stations on P. E.I. to do their best to create.- by tiie 200d quality of their eggs and pack an exceedingly favour- able position there."

Police Sek Pair In Torso Slaying

HADMLTON, Mort-h 2l—iCP)-— Police tonight sought two men in connection with the torso slaying of John Dick. 40-year-old Hamil- ton street railway operator undit was learned that a third man may be linked with the case.

Arrested by police investigating the case, Mrs. Evelyn Dick, at- tractive flli-year-old widow of the slain man, and William Bokozyk. 24, of Hamilton, are being lield in custody without bail.

Mrs. Dick is charged with vagrancy and Bokozyk with being in pomession of an unregistere revolver and with vagrancy.

LONDON --(C El- When the owner of two unfurnished flats in the London area advertised them

084 in the correspon ng pgflqfl to let he received rm letters and

a year ago. repaid telegrams from would-be enants.

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Calf prices remained steady at Toronto with choice veals at 815 to $17. ontreal sold the bulk 1f the veal.) at 013.50 to 14.50, while Winnipeg was lower w th good-I to choice veals at 018.50 to 114.50. Calgary paid $12 012M to 18.50, bert $12 o $18,, ae J w 1% to 311.50, Saskatoon $14 to 011 , an Re- gina up to $14.50.

There were only minor changes riots. Toronto was a ady

ig er, cloaiii‘ at 017M to ‘lraltrg. " p0 lemme‘;

, . to 10.40, Id- ce Al-

wntylrouil! sollhulslf "No sine. 1 treated all my seed with Eadie wanllnfn‘ cop. ‘amthhg, Caressa for heating seed-llama "

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period early in when a surplus exists in Marltiéne Q0 Brltam. , with an- Eggs exported to Britain recent- othier cariot to follow this week- ly are paid for on a basis of 33.8 e e- livered at seaboard. This nets tiie

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"(uiiittillin Nature"

"Ilhis magazine, devoted in Nat- ural Science, is maintaining the high reputation it has built up during the nast five years. There

is in the Match-April issue a full-page colored picture of the American Woodcock. a bird

common here as a summer resi- dent. A smaller colored picture shows tiie Wilson Snipe, liar bird whose heard in late Spring. quavering sound with rising inflection. produced high in the air," says "The Birds of P111." Barrie Rennie, well-known Can- adian artist. contributes a fine painting of a Trillium (T. undul- atum) which used to be common here but tends to disappear.

A short article on the “Giant Silkworm Moths". displays figures (in black and white) of the Poly- phemus. the Cecrovpla. and the Promethea mutiis: the first two are common here, being the big- gest moiilis we have. I iisvc never found the Pi-omethea moth. but that's lint to say it isn't here! The scientific name of Ssmia cecronia has been altered to Platysamia. without any real justification. This article also describes their large green or blue-green caterpillars. which si- ways attract our attention.

The National Museum of Can- ada contributes photos and matter under lie title “Dinosaurs in Can- ada." These egg-laying reptiles, greatly diverse in s.ze, form. and habits. once flourished in the bad- lands north-east of Calgary. Some 0i them-the herb-eaters—waiked on four- legs, while the flesh- eaters (who Drobabiy fed on them) hopped like Kangaroos. One big species of Gorgosaurus was forty feet long "and walked about on his powerful hind limbs with his head some 12 or 14 feet above the ground." 'I\"ie bones (or some of them) of such a creature. were found at New London once on a time. but I simpect the animal was a “rare summer visitor” rath- er than a "resident." These re- mains are said to have izone to some Museum in the U. S. A.