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FOR FARMERS, STOCKBREEDERS and GARDENERS

Soybeans in Canada

An s thoritative article on flie . mliltlivation. and uses of

Prof. l". . Experimental Farm. i1- insh-aled. and its letter-press will mrlntercstint to many of our s who have wondered wheth- er this crop would succeed in Prince Edward Island. In southwestern ontario the AK soybean has been grown for many years; farther northward the Mandarian variety has been grown for almost the same riod, and now comics Manitoba iown. an earlier ripenlnB strain. ybcsris ther rth

specially engaged in evolving em strains of this valuable legume, are those at Ottawa. and at Barrow. southwestern Ontario. States farmers have long recognised the value of the soybean as a soil-builder, as stock feed, and es a requisite ln e. great number of industries. and they produced last year l. total of 57.5 million bushels. rs are evidently shy totel produc- 000 budiels

made no progress in till after the World been

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the roots “#599140 .waschew:hn"ai?d g-‘lzrllxihcd as a remedy to wounds. The were some lme "sod era ’ “ B ird member of . we is the slender Neftllg, ..-'1'h9l>iantisweilnamed, ‘m’ m0 Ill-in Wflrd “urere" werg_ whence Urtica-meens to burn; and who so has once lricautiously hlndled the slant will remember the derivation! “Nettle broth 1.5 o, m Btfllnst influenza, as well Is a Nod food". says a not; 1 made about half a century ago, derived possibly from some rustle source. Another note says that the “Mar tons or nettlu are boiled Ind eaten. in spring. m roine mmliean countries. Among the American Indians the use of the nettle was wholly industrial. ‘The dry stalks were in q mm“ m‘ Pounded wl e. stone to separate the fibre from the V0050’ DB"; then the fibre was spun into twine or cord. R0 s of nettle fibre were used to obble horses. and cloth was woven from tho finer . The fibre was also "I4 W the mdian children es wads fer their "pop-gum," . Another variety of nettle, Urtlea "Pena l... the Small Nettie, is in the valuable list oi

The stinging of the nettle make interest-

Prowling about on the by-vslys

snout faintly of melt of e. pi . Its large, perm: nIns or but wfil beneath is its head) with

on a i" f:

. a Bavarian (German) had an establishment

He begged the de- .l-n sdtrerwairde

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of the foot-end-moutih disease of cattlanand this may leeid io its an.

n Eflslerid are, or were. given over '-° imp-growing and the harvest

brous-ht together s. motley crowd of hop-gatherers. who lived like Uncles during progress. 'f‘hls

Mode Fren names the easily understood Nord." and "Houblon," which 1 confess is ‘beyond me! The W111i shoots were formerly eaten

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Non-con“. ire. lion Jrrilnnl. and Egon “g1. . META ‘r. ._ . ,_ as 213mg. 1 ‘lie psi-rm aii- "ét ‘nausea homoe-

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r. eel Iaritlm Breech, Inlllxvllle. ma. '

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happens the they claim to est meals. They halve invented s. special technique of cooking this creature: after pre- paring it by evlsceretlon, they give the little carcass, spikes and all, a thick coating of brick-clay. A hole isndg in the ground. the carcass pl in it, then brushwood is piled over all, and fried. sufficient time has ele

When this will lose whet of their tssti

the meat more too hsomel There is more, however, to hedgehog than merely providing e destroyer of vipers which are the moi or the nomads. Hoof: e breve y . r . snakes. If he is bitten during the fisht. ls he near always ls. hereooilsfcreseoormpasseehis tongue over the wound. and returns

to the assault. He wears out his

heed, whch he always devours first. n glands and all. one can ll a ehcg with vi ‘s

beds venom. but it would have to a dose thirty or times strong- er then for any o er the some slae. A guinea pig or a reibht. when bitten a viper

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MABSHFIILD.

I CONSERVATION I

l WIIKLI OOLUQ OI‘ PIAUIIOAL OPINION! OI’ ‘III! VITA]: ISSUES AITIOIINO Till U!!! AND ADUBII 0P NATURAL RESOURCES BY Ml. LUDDOW JENKINS.

A FEW MORE DUCKS (The Hawk Mountain sanctuary Assoc M zin )

for a closed season on waterfowl. The shortened season, reduced bag- limlts. abolition of live decoys and other reforms which e E. C. C. had the honor to fight for under the battle banner of Dr. Homcday have preserved the wildfowl from further decrease. We congratulate the Blolo ical Survey u on courage w th which it tel to the sportsmen the facts about the pres- ent status of the waterfowl. There ls. so the survey states, a sliBht ii crease in the waterfowl over the number of three years ago. the period when the birds were at their owest ebb. But no margin of safety ha been attained. and the rarer

th he _ regu continued and strictly enforced, we may add each year g few mom ducks to the supply, But the major part of the yearly dividends of our pitifully reduced stock 1s destroyed y “s rtsmen" in the shooting sea- 8011. for _a period the birds nov killed for ‘sp0rt" might no "w," t0 the brie - tack, regulates

s shooting could again be without the danger c; mping on the less plentiful species that mus be threatened with extinction while their numbers are so reduced. closed season would. give resso e hone oi’ perpetuating uio waterfowl {gr future generations. r in

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incom e fauna order l0 Sfliiidfy e out-moded custom oi a minor group?

Our minds are wont to run along dBQD-cut valley roads of thou t.' i ii too seldom that we clim Ihe heights. and look objectively at a

question. But-ask

i-Pov birds w e. far greater pro- portion of the citizenry wish to pre- serve? Because "sportsmen" y vwo or three dollars for a shoe?‘ license? It is less than the price or one brace of domestic ducks, as {my housewife will testl . Because éiillligrthstrlagrgfiave investtg monjiay in

Because ey en oy a day in the Ii-air? Because "rrec

hunting" is e Wight" of American? How ridiculous all soun

wl comma. lmnliniv ilieJifc

0i course such thl P0130

811ml iri all hi: fitaif 30mg of his blood is injected into f the veins of mother animal. the re- eotion is the saime as though lt had been bitten by a viper. me has“- hog can also eat “blister beetles" t0 chemists Spanish

(known a;

o! Flies) with impunity; whereas if a

dog or cat ate one of these insects, it would immediately suffer severe

For the rest the h eh is active destroyer of fieedlld n?” at: other vermin; and can easily be tamed in spite of its rather morose countenance.

Two Mien and a Hobby _ EVH’! man should have a no matter how trivial it me

peartobeAhobbyisiitie antidote to the tensity of s century when the world much with us an iiho more in- tellectual the 'I'iobby 1r, tn, pom;- for its r. Physical hobbies, like hoc ey or golf, are transients; s. time comes when iihere is n0 pleasure in them. but a hobb - horse. ridden by the intellect, last out the race.

1n tho course of my ao have been in men who had none of the vantages of education, in fact, could neither read nor write. The one had lived. as many of the old folk did, in rather primitive style, havinB no interests but the trivial local goes his d;

obb , ap-

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nurribe .

NOUCIHR the lonely old man. I es- sayed to hold a conversation with hlrn. but once was enough, and I never repeated the attempt. And there poor old fellow sat, un- noticed. and oticlng.

I became uaintied with the other at a meet oi The Vale of Der-went Field Ne uralists’ club, ln the year 1890. He had heard we gleaned a “hike" to i-i-is neighbor-

cod. and was there to meet us. in his best suit and crowned with e rusty old topper as a mark of re- spectability. He was born. he told he. in 1814. and had been flame- keeper to Lords Ravensworth, fa- ther and son, for sixty years. Ho had made bird-study his hobby, and made our outing a great suc- fiece by giving us a list (vive voce. or he could not read nor write) oi 106 birds observed in his district together with numerous notes on their habits and nests. Such a man was a treasure. and two of_us vis- ited his home. and took down his list at leisure: it- was afterwar- printed in our “'I‘ranscctlons" and is at hand as I w-rltel (No 6i was the Snow Bunting. our Snowbird. and he classes it as “a frequent winter visitor." just as lt is hers.)

which oi these two. think you,

was living the life?

\ SCANDIA Fox Farm Choppers

NmIfotlnIIePIl-fllfl NasfsramsilIprms

FJI. Lapplough 8i 0o.

Limited IONIIIAI

. age e. The E. C. C. reiterates its demand th

Horn . months the

A burg

lskgrdiedtheiiel

tive yourself 1m i151 do "sportanen" dos- Lhgowflgefl

mo without harm to wild

t5: Schoo oi Hard Knocks. an in- fl! s ution not known for its scientific research

histories of living species. Few

B tfigrsoid- a—lnd n S"

are firm frien and con . The

American citizenship tho sadist privilege of destroying the waterfowl and other creatures are an an No

mgsroup has any right at

lic rty. Rea- soning minds o-day re use to ac- ce t such nonsense. Ennslllvfl-ll-a has declared ifllof $2 on the Great named Owl. e stupidit oi this action, and the ignorance which it betrays deserve more than s. passing notice. n- neylvania is not an ecological unit. and the destruction of a valuable species in Penmylvania must be a matter of concern to surrounding states, and to the country at loge. The Great Horned Owl is v u- able both totih DOITNDB-li- I enis, the most destructrvIe the farmer and orchardlst. t preys occasionally on birds, weeding out the weak arid sickly among game birds and other species, leaving a health seed-stock. Nor is the Grea Owl plentiful; in two from the rlstlgmovember to vania bounties on i9‘! indivi- duals and neatly arrayed the atom- achs In jars upon shelves in Harris- , throwing in the waste heap

seen of them butors of

a boun-

e farmer and to the

a

farmer. To compense loss of sxrlcultures faithful watchman Pennsylvania's fair and mo? now be strewn with poison for

r ants-Does it make sense?

The Pennsylvania Game Com- On. Mr. Setn Gordon, Execu- Ohixrman. does n seem to

why it put a bounty on

id “m” °"" .33.“?

proveaneasymeanso pp g

into public funds. and the Oom-

mlsslon owns that it has been weak

rnder pressure of a demand for a

‘JOUIILY on something. A “give and

iake" policy the Commission calls

t; the state gives frgom the public

unds. and the unty- r takes. The Game ion does not boast much knowledge of bi -

logy. and the Great Horned Owl was perhaps just a hit-or-miss choice.

Mr. Gordon says first tho bounty because of complaints of the depeodat the owl. But the Greet. Horned Owl is not protected in Pennsylvania‘ any farmer is free to destroy owls found doing damage on his land. The self-reliant Permsyivania farmer does not need the incentive of a bounty toritnduce him to guard his Own prope .

Mr. Gordan says that the bounty was offered so that a study might be made oi the food habits oi the Great Horned Owl. Ho did not know, apparently that. this was all done long ago. Bad he turned to any of this great. educational institutions of the state. they would have enlieht- sncd him. The U. S. Bureau of Blo- logi Survey. or the E. C. 0-. could have directed him to sour-ca of in-

formation.

l’. Mr. Gordon says that the bounty on the Great Horned Ow declared Ln order to educate the

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O. finds that the educa- publlc can be carried on iiie' throu h the good emmgl: of Hawk Mounts Sanctuary. a owled e of the ec- ohraigmic value Mg] the irds oi prey 5PM“ Y; ‘ ‘efnth place; the t les rigisd mifll havfis except the eoc pliers on the protected list. The Penna

‘The E. C. tion of the

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the, Division of Riesearc and - tri utson. describes the results of bounces as follows:

"It has been shown that the pey- lnent of aunties u o preda rs a paren y tiher in an ef icient control of the e5 involved nor in any ner improvement. of con tions. For that reason a one ie not eemed ed

continue the on the earliesdlposs ."

The whole ficuit was elucid- ated by . Gordon f in an address to the Wildlife society in

surely the frankest as he is

courteous of men, dressed gmulp of wild life technicians. congrat - sting them on their knowledge of biology and ecology. He the. in his youth no c sos were offered in the sciences n d for an under- standing of wild life conservation; his . he said. was received in

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This explains, in a measure ex- suses . Gordon's ln the mount on the Greet orned Owl. But should not the wild life or Rnnsilvanle ha: the? benefit of

A LARGE PIIP 0ROP

Inlere a les-go crop c! healthy. vlgcrenolpltliieynrbyfeeilin;

ROYRL POX FEED

Benito during forum seasons allow! that llo Isle of loyal with e good meet ration is the most poi- live way known for the rancher I secure beet breeding reeelie.

Insist on loyal.

Al your dealer today or writs

direct to

The St. John Milling company Ltd.

dual Jolie New Iii-enamel

vice appears a in Charles I‘. Willis, Oovohised,

n be the payment of "rent" to

t grow up eventua ly

Company received from I iniicn Governmen

TIMELY NOTES ON TOPICS CONNECTED WITH

Silver Fox Farming

Purine Ser- cut of

In a. recent issue o!

holding a vay beerutlful fiox. An- other cut of llric Colee, Milton. with a three-quarter silver whjch shows up in fine style. Eric raised 28 pups from six viirens. He sold two alive and he pelted 1B. ever- agirig $.12. Eric in addition to being a successful fox rancher, is one of our best rifle shois at the Provincial rifle matches and at. Ottsrwc. There is another illus- tration of Carl Moflat, Martagerof the C. C. Holman ranch atMoose- jaw. Saskatchewan, holding a 32- day-old white fox freak pup, the first freak born on the raridh. Mr. Holman. proprietor of the ranch. is a brother of Councillor B. Rd? Holman, Charlottetown.

We received the following tele- gram y from M6511. W}. Burke. representing the Provincial Government. and George A. Call- beck. manager of the Fur Depart- ment of the Canadian National Silver Fox Breeders’ Asociation, with reference to the sale of silver fox pelts in New York which com- menced last Monday- ‘Phase We?! viewed by the gentlemen kglrior i=0 the sale and we are loo a 101'" ward tc having s more comllmfl report when they return home.... "Lam n, Fraser s: Ruth's sale conilarl asooo pelts oozisisrwd 11v American National Fox Breeders Association and arm by other shlppem. Up until Wednesday night. 05% were sold with bright rswwrncnnb

ows P6 me ,, ' tition. Burke and Callbeck.

That is good new: from PM! aridGeorge and no doubt the sales will continue w be awd in N" York, as there is a. much brighter feeling there commercially because of the fact that visitors to tihc World's Emir are already droppim in in large numbers. Some 01' 31¢ more optimistic merchandisemmle- dict that New York will have the biggest year in ladies accessories ever known in its history.

oee Chasori of Chasori Biron. Ngw ixlilgrk. interviewed Vi’ m! F" Trade Review on return flout I- buyllhg trip to London reoeniiiiv. said he found merchantsdthQ-N operating very cautiously an 0- ple generally resigned i!) 8:911‘ fats, At, the March silver iox sales dremnnd was quiet and merchan- dise of good quality was obtained at quite reasonable Pficfi- M'- Orieson purchased both Norwwiln and Canadian silver iox pelts. Some cf these have arrived inNew York and have met with a ready sale. Prices of silvers have declin- ed steadily druririg the past year M‘ more, said he, but in his opinion have reached a level now which will probably prove to be the low- est for 1939. The lower prices have brougiht o. new demand from con- sumers who always wanted silver‘ fox but could not obtain them at the prices they could afford until this year. His firm stated that ii? has sold nearly twice the niimiber of silvers this year than at thB same date last year. '

Winnipeg will hold a "Royal Visit Week" from May Nth t0 11th, and the famous Canadian fur city will leave no stone un- turned to celebrate the vlslt o! Their Majesties, the King and Queen of England, May 24th. The entire running from Mtady

l the high points of'

King by the Hudson's Bay Com- pany. as set down in the Royal Charter granted to the Company in 1cm. This rent is w be paid in elk heads and black beaver skins should a King or his heirs or suc- ceaors visit Canada.

Two magnificent elk heads and two specimen beaver skins recent- ly picked from the Company's col- oi 16.000 pelts. have be? ver plate beneath each mounted elk head reads as followsz-“Yield- ed and paid to His Majesty King George V1 by the Governor and Company cf Adventurers of EH5- land Trading into Hudson's Bill'- under the terms of the Charter granted by King Charles 2nd. to their first Governor, Prince Rup- ert, second oi May. 1670. Winni- peg-Csnada, 24th May, 1939." The presentation will be made in the orniiii park in winnipea where stands the original stone gate 0f Upper roi-t carry. once the great fur trade centre around which the settlement that was to become known as the City of Winnipeg.

The above shows the antiquity oi the Hudson's Bay Company and the continuity of its management. It ls certainly some feat to carry on e. company successfully from 1670 0001039 and have lt stronifl‘ and more flnnlv entrenched then ever before. Of the original grant of land which the Hudson's Bay the Dom- t in i807 when they surrendered their interests in whet is known as Western Canada for the sum of $25,000,000 and e grant of seven million acres of and, there still remains some four million acres in the Company's hands. Over a million acres are also lly owned them throng settlers. These have been invariably successful, having been irdlciousiy chosen and more srless ooked after.

Women's Wear Dally. published In New York, commenting on Lampoon. Fraser s» Ruth's sale of silver foxes. referred to above by Messrs. Burke and Callbeok. state: "Silver foxes offered by Lampsmi. Fraser as Ruth's sold at surpris- ing levels to a well filled sales room. with fully 85% oi the full silvers oflered selling at levels fully es strong as last sale. The room estimated that the better types oi’ iulls were about. 5% stro er than last sole with the other of iulls about the same as lest sale.

sales room estimated the oi- fering 00% to 38% sold. The auc- reports

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P31, not

Ufi sold.

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The importance d not in the fact. fiat been unpaired b larlvy active and the levels we're distinct everyone in the room. season isfectory iihcrc seems tion as to what was

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flhl/t for speculation. The next meeting of lottetown Fox Club will the Agricultural Hall, Month. enlng, May ist. W. Pied Bur the Department of give an account of his trip York auctions and his

parative prices as between Am - can and Cenedlan skins. It should be y interesting evening and bring out a large attendance of ranchers.

J. 0. Stewart was recently elect- the Char

mar yielded a profit on production. One skin exhibited at the Charlottetown pelt show, brought a net of $01.00.