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, permanent liltilcn. ogowinnipeg, Nclweglian Eagle-um». and Glrsn- a .also credits l with being one up» innumerable pulses. Bwed- What can a mother give her child- mnmmpw, A, y, ylg, 3, _, land a uu .030 as well as the of the moat obsmlslve creatures of en isslowly rising; soisNova Scotia. ren, 1.1.3.. Vi!!!“ gm w gWA-“gefiggfwifi fir" a: wiffaéang‘: plfigiidlkle 0&1‘: and the shores or Hudson's Bay ,- Greater today than this Kreat ml‘? ends ma when he lived w". eld lfi December e Al! session of a tree ul an orchard they g0 gradual? 1kg ufél vtlvlfa ‘lreflfi Faith in shield sweet beautiful , here, who are Foul. pleased to see r ranch the greatest show; immeaiarely proclaim the fact to this article and for a similar CB-‘lfl. story, him. Dr. e is accompanied by 111.8 ibli his rve- been madam y the neighborhood. and then trouble n. was an earthquake in Chill 1m‘ a star. a stable. a new born nu son. J. . who recently rv- Y “‘ u“ hilitypnaswunu lull T“ elmmm“ "film"! ‘flamers the beach lush and a over l] Kris. °°"°§'.1§‘1.1'l?£§§ mtyigagug and a inhibit» tries: versatiiit of tug; '52 lglgaasgd i§°"'é."§‘§§i£.-'§ vtg1$ smfl‘ 3,2“ ,§‘§.'l‘§i§§dw'.'l.l”' flshining faith in the young lad J9]. m w ‘operator and saw agreat tn ‘ their cre- domain." ‘rhsy especially detest n ° “m” -

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5J1 of the world.

Our first recollection of Art Doyle was one afternoon many years when I at "it 1

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man-Iconic. nt and {taught in keeping‘ abreasgl of sh endalsoiot ssplen deare- takegnravho looked after the animals so . -

o sauuoay m. novlowith local dircginrs cf the Canadian National Silver Ibx Breed er leave for ‘Ibrorlio when the annual - .,..,,.. -~ "sou was

= dwygrr" r gg“i..‘ir"’ii.il‘ii'i am” and m,“ a t ‘ M than fillmTwil gvith the Association as “d well as of foxes and fur farmini!

l be discussed and a new presid- ent and other officers elected.

The esent epidemic of distemp- er in Ex ranches in this Province is certainly causing everyone a gfegfi deal of concern. It is in the o on of Dr. George Bishop on exceedingly deadly outbreak threat- ening the extinction of foxes in a fcw ranches. In some ways it offers o. new problem to be’ ilwfid 1Y1 i» Bl usual’ dose of Promm s distemrperoid

m, lstered to l: n.

ears o lunch he helped qr many d students the title c a first er he decided to fr. ley‘s advice- C man"-and Win11 permanent home-

inthe deve onmeuts and earned class school ast- low Horace ree- o west. your“; ..pog became his

i There he studierLand secured his

5A., .B., degrees and around 1919 started a fox ranehiin partner- ghip with Jack Lee of the, same city. Their venture was a success lrom the start bur Arthur, who was l. keen student of breedin , decided lo buy even better br stools so visl the first fox show ever held in Canada. at Montreal in the fall of i920. He ,rsuaded the judges, one of wholn was W Cheat- er s. Mculre, to a low him to watch them at their work and in that way picked up mo. pointers. He saw m; the Tom amill foxes. which were pure lton, were of especially good quality and there and ‘then made a deal with Ml‘. Hamill for ten pairs which included most of the show era Mr. Hamill had in Montreal. Among these was Queen gbil, the champion female heb ow, halgkhfir léid ilthol!’ good reedi s e eve ope one of theubest. if not the best, herds in western Canada and .n e few years was one of the largest show winners.

Ever on the Merl. to nick no soorl ones no made it a practice to ‘o each year to the Royal Winter Fa r fox show and we distinctly remem- oer hlrn offering $1,500 00 f0 lox pup which a . had sold a few minutes before to Bill Rutnven. As a matter of fact we did not intend i0 sell that WP but thou ht Bill was merclv shelving curiosi y when he asked he nrico. However. when we said $1,000.00 out came hi8 cheque book and the sale was made. That fox together with others he purchased from George A. Callback l! life sumo _ 3139,13. became the nucleus of some of the best pro-

llgh lg; purpose an very much

geavier doses areindicated. This of

course ‘costs money and Dr Bishop

has asked Dr. Ohaddock of Monti: u a v

$9153 mags“ it ‘rivaling? at

a modern“, w“ to treat foxes sui- goring with actual distemper.

_,.._ As an instance of the value of

the dirtemperoid vaccine Dr. Bish-

op Quotes a ranch which was in;

{hog ‘god go the xtent of abou ree

rs of i fox population

nter, as some evidence o. QQQQBA‘ was present. Tfhc 6015195 that were not lnnoculated ai abort- ed their young while those treated roduced normal litters As abort- cn has been evident in so ma“? ranches this wimer it i5 91°55”? ““3ui‘é°“ ‘““-.‘.3‘.§‘w*é?é‘ §§$§ni°’.’.“ o’ at $255M m. Bishop believes

so that the numerous ranches applying for inmzurlization could b}! handler quickl and effectively lli would re possi- 1e to clean up ‘hi! ¢pldemllc_ That _would be, carryilli: out the advice given by Dr Chad- dock, namely innoculate YOU‘ "clean" ranches and distemper Wm soon be rthiiiil 01 the D883 lY-{Ye i“ “is 5W s": styles if figfififig” 3Y1?’ bealmmillilled for life.

chegklng up with Dr. Bisho on the nwnllber or applications rcm ranchers for immunization arid treatment we find that they tots .- ed..al.. of these, 811 have si- tended to and amen! ‘him W5"

duced in. the Ruthvcn ranch. qune a number where distemlJt-i‘

—-- had become active and that mesh TAKE T 0 - .' p. ,,.._. -t- ggfeffll tripsto the ranch Aitho ll ruvrrztv orlrs-ofv t.. .. m; Dfictoi‘ is doing everything u

his power to halt. the s read 0i’ the dlsaug yet it is human y impossible for him and his assistant to sci over the whole Province ‘and ne would certainly welcome ne.p.

Wilfrid L Todd. well know" rancher of Norwegian foxes, wru- ing frcm Boston saysz- I advised ranchers to vaccinate their foxes a long time a o and not. to lock the door after t e horse is stolen. This Dr. Green vaccine will revent dis- wmper without s doll t and we round it will also cure distemper Bert Avery's and incredible tho h even when a fox has the erm. al- it may seem it was a success 1- motlgh Dr. Chsddflcii W m5 l" “wfhri-t’ ‘"1’ ifr‘."‘.i';‘l..h'é§ “W” '°“ is" "i? ihllnHWléi mic . entualy . vaccine prov ng e

was in the process of incub-

that the climate cf<O lifornia sult- guru: , ed him better than e cold Can- an ; but 1 kmw we even stdW-d adian winters and a division of the it area the germs were incubatinz All Star r ties resulted with after threemonths of dist/sums!‘ i" m. Doyle- over the Winnipeg one in 194a whore we lost 196 ranch and an. lee the camel-nu. adults and pups before slvins the .____ mjgqflgn gnd nit-Oi‘ that W6 105i

In the early 1930's mink were add- none at all." - ed and a good strain has been

Getting back 1o Mr. Doyle we lmlv any that although not securing ‘hat fox he bought several other

i prim winners from us and other Jnrlirs and each year wherever he would hear of good types sn- deavored to add them to the All “star ra . 5o successful were Messrs. Doyle and Lee in their op- "rations and so wldel known were rllelr foxes that peope came from lhe United States and purchased from them. at led them to _est~ ablish a much in California near

m. 1mm informs us labs! in the ranches which he controls ‘in Maaochusetta they have a lust-l good turnout _of 1ND! with quite‘ a large number of Pllmillml 5i‘, they all seem to be d WE - K Commenting on the state 0i ho 111i’ market he says that mutation foxes will roll well again this cumin! sf“- 50]), ht OOlOIQd fill‘! MG ~11?‘ high styled furs at present and wi- lsst for two or three seasons - 8 econ as all file woman I“ mink chokers they W"! b¢°°m° °°mm°n

ticullrl, has when whim marked llllo vogue‘ M!‘ Doyle W

lo see that they a-ere beautiful and would be in demand. so added ail "is best of that airain. l-le did same with plntinums and Green- land blue foxes and now as a con- sequence the All stol- ranch pio- liuces silvers of all types. pearl plat-

DONTLWASTE FEED! .

Make

FEED is scarce, this season. Don't waste it! the inoat of what you have.

Here-are two ways to do that. First. "m" Illrs you buy chicks with a real r lltatlon for living, thriving, growing, straining-senatorial] use of their feed. Sec- ond, rates tlfllibibllwfl. tender green pasture. That clots ‘your feed’ eoltapalrllfiraiaee yon better, stronger

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c k8- . :1. . v - l _' ' We have tile cltiells with thefrelluisilon for living- Hundudg l... gob“ QIITIQII -_- of farm. poultry rais-

ers willie]! your that liray." Chicks have “what it takes.” If you have the feed to raise them, that's the ‘ kind of chicks to start!

Bray v in p. pausing right fhrolgh Jule. We er- mttsha slvlnrcas.iluimihrlfly¢9|sifi°'i"m" V ' ' ' cartoon attention.

aloha 8t, N-nllaitlltonl

era’ Association tious an illiilflbllt m which l King- u

if sufficient help were avail- 11

crows, Hawks. Jays anu Grackies, and at once attack any or these blrcls, keeping up the assault till the lntruuer ls glad to escape - usually leaving some of nis for new feathers behlno Mere size does not scale them; an observer men-

bird attacked a Golden bB-fllé, and roce on its back for more than one hundred yards. viciously Jobbing away with its beak one wnue. lu sucrl lnolnents or excitement, llS orange-rod c_row:l patch is distinct- lv visible. its sfll-lrlfleous defence Ql. its territory has earned 1t the popular name o1 lslngclrd over all this continent.

A lea common name is the “Bee Martin", lor says ur. Taverna, this bird is accused of catching honey bees and most circumstantial amounts of ms dung so are giver. credence. ‘this czlulgc is to some ex- 4min} true, out or om lilngollus stomachs examined by the u». us- yasclllen. or rlslusultum, a cull- l-alnou a total o. 61 bees; 5i c1 wnlcn were (lIOZNEi, a were workers and z could not be aetelmmecl. ‘ipne "Bee lvlartln‘ ls saw to prefer the drones because they QOlTL sung!

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from the fact tilat crevices open in] the, ground uring a severe quake. sure sign ward pressure. l He conc uded _.llat tcrrlble and destructive as tn have proved themselves, never-the ess earthquakes remain the land's greatest safeguard against the ravages of water. wilioll unchpo would lead to total l and ‘a shoreless ocean round gxmgloeve" ‘h con an e ea er. 1n a recent Gallup Poll, publlshed in The Guardian, Zilisper cent 0f those interviewed believed that the moo-l influenced the weather; the rest didn't believe or were undecided f have here what cursor-ts to be Dr. m en's degtme t" kweathe; 9. oun u n e D aces o he moon. Whoever its value in i:s'""'-..". s. iiwwi“. "W" .as as r-e as wo ears have shown. Two qt t e miscel ane- ous weather clues are of some value. You can foretell bad weather by the sound of Niagara Fails” says plnelhobseirtéeli‘. 081 the island here} e w n m een rcm 1 north- erly direction 811G the surf on the North Shore rreccmcs audible, tile wind will cfhsnee to the southward within 24 hourl;—generally next

subm tumbling‘ The

resident. Fairly common. upper pans grayish slut-e color, ularker 0:1 the head and upper tall crown with a LOAAIQRIAGU orange-rec pawn which is absent ul uilua. ‘nil black, with a wblzo band across 'ile tip. wings dusky, leathers with maul white edging Under-parts wnite, waslhed with grtifl-

breasl. Length b w 9 inches

‘Inc Kingbird belongs to the family of tlle rlycalcners, all-a capr- ures a vast number o1 insects 1n the course of ltS stay; and "as most of these would produce eggs to be- come caterpillars. tne service is great," says the ornithoicgist C.W Nash. The bird varies its cllet with the berries of ‘m. sulmach, and Junc

g berries, but has never-been known

p cultivated

to touch any kinl. of uit.

Nature Notes

On May 31st an earthquake took the lives of 390 people 1n Turkey. The astronomical phenomena about that date are worthy of study. First. the Moon was ‘new’ that is, the Sun. the Moon, and the Earth were in a direct line Sazmndly. the Moon was in Pcngce, that is near- est. the Earth for the time being", a position (HOCOYGIIIQ to Dr. Alexis Perrey, a. French seirmclcglst) in which earthquakes occur most fre- quently. In adn-ticn to this. the Moon was in congunctlon with the planet Uranus on the 31st, and with Venus on June. 1st Thus. the Sun. Uranus and Venus.‘ and the Moon in Perigce, were all in line wit-ll the Earth and pulLing at it by Brav- itation. Here was all set for a major earthquake and 3t came.

A writer in an African pa — the Cape Argus. I tiiink- ad a good word for mrthquakes, sollle year's ago His argument went like this: Over all the land surface of tho globe, since the earliest times, there has been u perpetual struggl: between destructive and restorative forces. The great enemyhof land is water, which employs e double- edged weapon of sea and rain. The sea, for instance is eating away the east coast of Britain, and many spots are now sandbanlrs where old maps show towns and vill es Many people find it hard to beleve that rain (or snow) an have any appreciably destructiv effect on land but geologists say it is the principal element of denudation and point to the deltas, many miles in extent, fornleol by deposits of earth washed into the rivers by rain, (I see this ‘process every spring, when wagon-loads of soil are washed from the rosdbed and carried dcvwn Smelt Creek into Rustlco Bay.)

The periodical upheavals of the earth (earthquakes). says our author

and silver foxes and their mutation will again be in fashion Today scarf: of three u. five mink lkins ccstin from $125 to n a slat are ling very readily. RecsnJy we mode u a very fine white mark- ed fox lac et and sent it to (wi- fornia. It contained four and a ha]! large skins and the report came back that there was nothing to touch it. not even in the fash- ionable Ill!‘ 0i. MA _ thanks.

tel-es in letter and ‘your

ticn wh ch we have always found authentic.

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clay. “When northern 1i hts are ,in the south" suys anot er. "we ' are 801118 to set n change of weath- er". I have seen heavy rainstorms 'follow when the aurora stretches from the north to the zenith, and ‘beyond it to the south-as l think this latter observer means If the, wind is from the north and tilci aurora is in the north (where it should be) then the wind will short- l ly shift to S or SW. Meteors and meteor-lies. As relat- ed last wee-k theme were extraordin- nga showers cf shooting stars in, 1 and 1866 Iwastoovougfto take notice of the latter, bu! ter- wards got a fair lllea of the display from a colored picture cf it. which had been framed and hung in my bedroom. Observers said that on November 13 of that year many thousands of meteors flashed across the sky; in a small section of the sky, 600 were counted in the space of twelve minutes Some were the usual streaks, soml- were as bright as Jupiter or Venus, and one was reported “apparently as large as the Moon". cy appeared to radi- ate from a deflnzie centre. in ull directions; and as that centre was (seemingly) the constellation Mo. flit; meteors have been named the

Thirty-three years before ln 1833, there had been a noteworthy shovr- er of Lscmids. and superstition and ignorance led some people to pre- dict lhe end cf the world. ‘Thirty- three years later in 1899, I hoped to see the Leonids put on their show again but, was sadly disappointed. The meteors follow the track of a comet which came round every 33 ‘ears. but which had disintegrated ts “re1lcs", closer grouped in i883 and 1M6, are pe cps more spread

fragment-s were nearly “used up” in the great displays of those years At any rate no such showers have been noticed since If there art any Lcontds this year they ought to be seen on Friday, Nov l5.

Soot as Fertilizer

"Coal seems to be the fuel in town." I remarked to ayisitor‘. "Yes it is very generally burnt" was the reply. "How is the soot disposed of " was my next question. “Well, said he, “it just accumulates till it takes fire, and is nsumed" "And then the Fire Department is notified." ut in the wag of tile party. "In ewcaslle it was the Fire Department that did the notifying the soot took fire; and as a result you visited the Town Hall and aid a fine of two shillings. and s nee. There was a kind of ke in this, for "two-and-six" was he chimney-sweeps . cleaning the flue. . . You didn't save anythin by g ii. out!" "What did t e chimney swce dd with the soot " asked my f nd. “Bold it in the farmers for fertiliz- er." I answe . A do}! or two afterwards a friend from t e City visited me, and the conversation drifted round to the soot; disposal. He confirmed the story that the flues were cleaned by bumlng and said that the smoke from it was regarded as a nuisance. most 1e. He was surprised

n I tcd irn that soot was sold

as fertilizer and desired to know its composition. That was a question I couldn't answer. so I determined to look it up. I read: "Scot is a fertilizer for most crops. yielding salts of ' - potash and soda‘ . It was dusted over gardens or lawns in a quantity just sufficient to well blacken the soil or grass. ust be- fore rain: but it was somet mes put. or. two or three inches thick: with woeful results! It was commonly sprinkled over young plants as a repellent for ImNElB such as flea- beetles: but never when it wus freak-l from the. chimney. When loo fresh it injured the plants In (arr-e? “oversea? I had a barre sunk n the ground and filled with tar. Ooaivootputinablcof hung in the

coo was Bcowlrflht" without an? "I!!!" that I could perceive however it mill-t not‘be conlounried with the creosote generated by burning wood. c ‘ omnot be used as ertillz- or, being inimical to plant life. I138‘! Z00

out over its orbit, or perhaps the“

\1 . Lovers of high white things was

e. Jesus. straight as a Lebanon cedar; , Jesus. clean as the winds from

the sea. Faith in the young lad come to manhood. Jesus, compassionate, tender:

and true; Oh, my children.

ous _ Gift in the world. can I give l0

what more glori-

you? Carry it high, like a lamp in the darkness. ' Hold it for warmth when the day is cold; Keep it for joy, when youth goes

slngmg, Claslidii fol" peace when you are o .

What can a mother give her child- ren More than a faith that will not dim? Take lt my dear ones, hold it for- ever, A lamp for a lifetime-faith in Him! —Selected. THE FUTURE 0F STRO QG _ mums