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Fleur uorrs on TOPICS CONNECTED WITH

Silver Fox Farming ‘

ion f th glatinurgimlbx fargiu-en‘

The MacMlllan bred by Gofldon

son of Comwall. and have been dg.

as he is just qui

F uni-These g" cident

MacMlllan um‘; a

Wwwfiiillhh

Ibis??? "£1958 due to an 5:1 5 0 y0lll1l sons were keQpmg h” become l ho

right there on the lob am. ratify- , Wm‘, “m,

. veloped from a rticu . 111 1y showed a lovel ‘in the v My of ty furred strain of §1v...'§‘i“§l¢”h“§§_ and new t s. ihgr§lwfil .- iinlied and the extra- MacMlllan had in his ranch, may“ Ernest T. M . who as usual held up i-css made in the de- with a son of well Hancock's his end of the show and gave eviq.| of ina1'li'»‘d W915i 511V" 51S. We remember that fox very ends of what a small breeder can, pearl D101 "Ums- well and would like to have 1». do when he possesses the necessary n. iilrii a i: 1.01‘ cuthu- iilhased him but Gordon was t ere “mflmlulll- 0f 10X 1111111114.

v.71. and laracr lll ibei- of foxes rst.

noun illflli in possibly a decade.

l

~ [ll]! —of optimism was whiehGo Nlintllieebrtter prices realized in iofupii; tlie nast six months and attendance 110m

championship for S. Humphrey, Ke quality 0! whining of

Hotel on W-BUWS- and it was attended . icxmeil and their friends- ‘ ti. constituted a record attend- rFlv for nuv banquet 0t the 100111 ma‘ .. The prbgfflm of short and the

had a very large Drovement that h

Judge George C

. wont ovri" well

r tells‘ arn instad pcpon oxcan oyoul-i n better evidence than the ugh: rdon MacMillan has made climbing rung by rung of the ladder until in th 23a briaacticalléyl tfoppggmt e sliver- . e exc on . niniz oi the rliale K m’ Wm

theadult ma I-LG. Mutton, Sununersidc.

Standard White Marked Silvers

the types and the from other years firs; noted I

dress at the banquet remarked par.

1100 0f What is we did not refer to the w a“ up made bv Walter Gregor

show he

_ W“ Elm and more or less quiescent. male nun by ti;

110111811011. and é m” le by

. show around of quality required some change;

list and the im- 1”"- " “"11 1100

as taken place in

foxes shown all. ed-

w Carr of Stanhope in his

We think we would be

came back with some wonderful the hi! ranch

of breed to him limeliihtlfwfl-ie Nlrlllxtlflrfd.

of our great friend Hillard and histpotent beverage tlon which made .h%i.""r‘1§¢i~i°°“i°..°iE'm°m°“““' I11 lhmulh from the wgrd c‘

remiss if ‘comeback of Brack-

ley. W lte usually teopisedl: NulilI-flbggrly Show‘ but the last few year; h; h“ b”

of classes 1 n This week

of mefi into the I consisting

l0

. Ray exhibited somel beautiful sil .

.... .... hrtisutswvmflr" e some” -

crce‘

. ._ . , ticularly 0n the hltrh qualit of °1 c "MWWWH- ellllli‘ =11“élnt““5 “M1 a“ “vemml these exhibits and also at the L...- "m ytoilv n1 - clusion of the show spoke again of ‘LH- Mcmml "1 NW HIV“ tlrlélm lahla of the aiiniim sliver $3,050 m; vervmbesvilv dfugvd - . » -- ca slficntih-t dav a pa nurncasses which had not ' - 5P“ "R 111 °° llcll ivwhnnxlsfltteles consisting c! been judged n m: mm m‘ b"? desirable, which we would like to Cass Beecher Mcngugpll Que; w“ h¢|d_ have taken home With ill. and A. wltjn‘ Clarke worked 10m; 1-- 308"! had a. male and female . .13.’. 1v and made a masterly Show honors in these types went E11" W! put a bid on but he aI-ld. "d 11' ~ lt and pafiistakin to Mcisure d: MacKlnncn 8. l". Th“ 15 1115" m9 111ml I 119W 179°" .. 'Tuc=..1v ‘ngfnlng at 9.3% rms. Ltd. with three wim with 1mm! 1°‘ 1°’ W?" ""1 11010111110 ~ 1 q Lifgts wny The skies 88611 of the following having one- 11°15 °Yl 10 them.’ That was the lll“. s! \ ll-nsd lowers“? and me a“. fink Mach“ Lowe“ “smock L‘ way with Charles F. Willis. W H. . \\‘[l'i?_( .3 0 me h,“ inside the K_ Mckeflm Ernest T_ m“ and ‘ricmarsh. Ira D. Carr LC. Moun- MQ‘ lgdlllun was fairly good, D.O. Stewart. The championships l?“ Wm‘ "m! °1 1-5911‘ 141""- mm‘ M" improvement rmide in were won as follows: Adult Marked wh" w‘ m" W9 11°1d-'*"1d W110 all“ if?“ ..1-\tq_vu\d by [hi1 wuv, Sllvei-blfrngst T. Mill. Reserve; L "n 51m’ "m?" “ " ’ ‘ ' éom- K. cker y" Pu/o Marked Slver ,i-—— f\ ilglirlllinté?““23111111381112 Champion. McLure s; MacKin- ertiiegiixég lelk 13m to fishing; Lock- llrfficiled ‘.1119 5h°w an m“ S11 Rum‘ ma" Reserve's?; ed Silver tithing and ngergrl

from visitors, purticulai- 'l"oo:i, were it can be found

tlic United States or C1111- ilie 0111111050 101 “mm l‘

Farms. Ltd. Standard

Walter R

A. Serreinrv v( k 1n 1w “i3 tti..tl"itttir 11$?‘- riixulcklvv and efficiently wlfgh ~‘ , C llbeck wcr -

. tgrlioggifislon in aordcr to 00m-

- uwml

superior lldhtl the iudgln

competitors with

ieiitcd tug-b W110i t O gr 111125 wonderfult iilill lllf‘ silvers. to [Erncs Lmi-vll Hancock. who i mm: lvfililcedbhp veg“ 11151131151111 for lntroduclnz , platinum fox brought hfeare and .0

tk brooding of

G . u Kinnon oionshlps Audult.

B!‘

Reserve LR.

Stewart. Reserve,

s ference we could Pl

endency to Platinums do

retail‘ hat direction

35km (‘ionrco ho c:

“W. U 4. f1 ‘F1170 i-"w of ill" 71m“- wlicra tliei- ivere mtizst W22 “w; T1110? Clliggzxfgnd gmnif‘ Raymond. two wins and 111131121211. Shaw and 9011130 A‘ C bclck.

i- —~'“ ~ ere has lllll list of thr- 11in“ - b , bFéll published in this Paperis ‘if . "vdflhmktsc refer ‘o am 5 w l\".‘l”i’ 0 " (cages 11s 11101! “weal m

-—* 1

in commanding si- classes. Raoul Rey

each. The particulars tinums will this paper.

One

O. Stewart. Champion Marked ver of Show, Ernest T. Mi serve. McLum 6a MacKinnon 8.11‘.

Platinum ‘showed equal. if notmore, lmpro- R"- . vement than Marked Silvers in #08-

lity and numbers exhibited. hey were truly a delight and feast the eye and perha because of

O11 never before. D.O. Stewart l

Humphrey was next with two 11-116 , wing had one win each- Roy Woodsid . haweli Hancock. 1'1 M ttrat and McLure and Mac- . .Farms. htc. were decided as folio f...W. i-lanc

iii D0. Stewart: Puo. D.O. Stewart. Lockerby; Grand Champion Platinum Silver, D

Standard Plltlnumr. There was a. lame entry list of these valuable

Personally, the only dif- the

atlnurn has stronaei- fur

wool a havg g tendency 1n but halve offsettins beauty characteristics that are en- hanced by that kind of undcrfur- D O. Stewart was aiiain to the fore

Harold . 08 Haslam and Roy woo: side one W111 Championships and the regardinz Pearl Pla- be found elsewhere in

f the pleasing features of l _ iter. get-toggthsr fox gathering such I511 days work.

oped the past uality of bluis t em as most desirable

Silvers

Getting back in Ch

a: honors to Fran

111E115,

(we Wm,’ 30b5,; in the Platinums and

sire of these was sold glee last June w s too

Oharn- wkm

E 5

ws: oek, Reserve. and

.l W J11. lnckerby n00!“ WW

distinguish from 55519111

see was that would emin 132th there isr another

"2 . Fox Exhibition that

111935, th l! \V

|ition-—and it is u

anc have some of our

inning seven

yle w morv- second with ttiill R

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Navy Finds Seasickness Cure

CZINEIS: The bane cf seagoing men since cr-‘o: ' 1:,- llllfllfid seas} rs; can be cured ceptible person bl’ 11190115 01 .2 tinny. l cl now manufactured by "it H C. N Intensive re ‘ch has been carried 011 lia lvfoutrcsii Nzurolo cal Institute under Dr. Pciificlrl. and illt‘ ii1_v'l Cavinilian Navy M9511"

.l Unit undcr Surg. Capt. C H 3951i

. which did experimental work in Tdrollw

h‘ Ply the suffer on a nizh: like this . . H1" it "ll hgw-‘P-Ed cw dry l:n'i at l-i M. C. S "YORK" in ‘ "110. afisr .t;;t hxlf an hour's swlizzin". F1: .g‘ir,-"‘-°"9B1'l1urpeses swinging produces the same - c..s PS searlz-knsss . . .cvcn tu lrsing ones dli1n."."1

in)“ Yiirrraarct S‘o:k was one of the research assist- wm“ who played a large part in the experiment-l "'11 0n seuslckness. The machine she's usinl. 011 1161‘

and field trials at. sea. The new discovery important applications

and airborne troops as ratings and officers swung ori these swings research work» By test. the effectiveness of

"remedies . "

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a

w“:

n5

. i. . ylgl-it. i; a spectrc-phato cte by the W. R... 0. work.

R,1_.,Platlnu.ms. The latter fox, devel- two years showed h cast that martkled

venture he is assisted by his son

and vicinity we have to hand out

k Maciiciy. showed ulp some very fine s ecl- and his neighbor, Olarke, who was in the prize list

hibit of two ring neck darklsh red foxes attracted about as much at- tention as any of the exhibits. The

5e R. whose Platinums we referrer"; to thiscolumn some time ago. had afyeen caused small exhibit and they were good_the {org-mg had they been brought up’ bottoms instead 0i d halve been high up.’ Cudmore Eros. exhibited some very lovely specimens. and we might al- so mention Doug Mayne. and Reg.

us to put a shou der to the whe

in the transport of invasion well as naval personnel. At H M. C. S. “York? in Toronto. hundreds of

this means research workers can various drugs or

he has been ccepted l N..B. to continue her present

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arlottetown 1 who ope

whose ex-

for l. long,

fox breeder

Hoopetnt n .

on ard

por ill be held

early in January-the Pelt Exhib-

m every one ‘ll fields, and on sunny banks. Honey-

best Delta

entered so that when the consign- ment is sent to Montreal favorably with

New Bnunsvrick and Quebec

VALETFA —(OPl_ Malta’; 1m...- P1De industry has continued. almost v without interruption, all through {the war. One factory. carried on in the heaviest air raids without losing

it w Ontario. |

has oltally

during the

other

‘Ti-IE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

- NEWSY

Notes Concernllll loll

within the last three years bee- boy-and hobbies are not. a D10- fitable one-in our district; and it the present writer few notes on the

of the oc-

seemed good in to contribute a lesser known features cupation.

When our earliest ancestors were running about dire-Wed 111 $1118 and a "rug ed individualism" the bee; had ready evolved wh Rex Hunter calls an authoritative stoic on a corporative basis. Far beyond the range of prehistory they had ueens, drones and work-

eir habits and charac-

teristics have never chanxed throughout the ages. Man soon learnt to steal and consume the hone; they produced. and the earli- est ritons did more; they fer- mented the honvx and made a ich they called

w n-

a name later shortened by the Anglo-Saxons into mead.

Now. though bees have kept their distingulshin traits so long and there have. time to time, been attempts to improve on nature by those meddle- some fellows. the men of science. It need scarcely be mentioned that the “tonRues" of the honeybees are not long enough to reach the nectar (or honey) at the bottom of the red-clover flowers, for the proverbial schoolboy knows that. What is not so generally known is that, s few (years ago, a scientist was appolnte and a sum of money set aside, to breed bees with long- er tangues. Nothing seems to have been accomplished so far; perhaps the war has turned the scientific mind to weightlcr matters. Any- way, slnce the queen bee mates only when flying, selective mating have never been possible in the past; though if-as is rumored-a xmthod cif ertifical insemination has been discovered. it may yet be possible to breed bees on parti- oular lines.

Another problem for the scient- ists is the production of the "sting- less bee." This it is proposed to do by subjecting fertile queens to tho action of radium: and it thought that thousands of queens must be irradiated before stinglcs" offspring are reduced (if ever.)

Humans dif er very considerably in their susceptibility to the effects of bee-stings. Some are almost immune. and to them "getting stung" is no worse than getting pricked with o needle. Others are seriously affected. and in a few re- corded cases death is said to have by a single sting. Oi the strangest case is given by the Rev. Gilbert white. “father of English naturalists" in the well-known book on his parish of Selborne. “We had in this vill- age," he says, " an idiot boy. whom I well remember, who from a child showed a strong propensity to bees: they were his food. his amusement, his sole object. ’ In the winter he dazed away his time

z within his father's house, by the

fireside in a kind of torpld state- but in summer he WE". all alert, and in quest of his game in the

bees. humble-bees, and wasps, were his prey wherever he found them; he had no apprehensions from their stinks. but would seize them nudls

lrnanibus, and at ciice disarm them

of their weapons and suck their bodies for the sake of their honey- bags. Sometimes he would fill his bosom between his shirt and his skin with a number of these capt- ives. and sometimes would confine them in bottles. He was . . very injurious to men that kept bees: for he would slide into their bee- gardens and ""'"-i before the stools 1P ‘ '" hives! would rap with his finger on hives, and so t. as they came out. He has b t.i known t!- ovcrturri hives for the sake of tho honey, of which he was passion- ately fond. As he ran about he used to make a humming noise with his lips. resembling the buzz- ing of bees.” A notable incident this account is the failure of

"humble-bees" to rout the enemy. One of our native Ameri- can bumble-bees, Bremus fervldus, has been known to sting a mouse to death. and to "render a man so limp that he had to take to his bed." And by the way, bumble-bees, like wasps. can sting repeatedly since, unlike honey-bees, they have no barbs on their weapons. (Gil- bert, in a footnote. dlfifllfises that this prodigy died before he reached mBIlhCOdJ

The present writer has been stung once or twice, but the effect was almost unnctlceable: it may even have been benflcial. Some years ago a doctor. in Vienna had his bees sting him 7B0 times (not. all at once. of course! and they cured his rheumatism! Now this: treatment is being followed in most. ountrles. At an experi- mental hospital in Texas it was found that some hay-fever patients were relieved, in varying degrees. by eating honey produced in their 0W1! 10091113’. and in chewing of the

comb wax: it was put down io poll- 1

en in the wax. We are just on the threshold: and wlthcut doubt. medical men will yet find more remedies in the venom. honey, and wax. of these busy insects.

I read that the Maritimes, and 3.0. have had smaller honey crops than they had last year. It is the case in mv own experience. Bees don't fly in oold. windyéeoi- wet weather. and there has n more than enough of all three. l-foney- bees can make use of some kinds of clover. but all kinds were hurt and some cases killed outright last winter. Then the bees showed an unusual tendency to swarm and this hurt the crop. A wrltei- in a popular farm paper stated that she expected e good crop once in three years. and it looks as ii she was rlghtl

0n Borrowing

Who has not read Polonluss ad- vice to his son. Leartes? ft used to be "in the schoolbooks" and read in part:-

" eithtr a borrower nor a lend-

er be: Fotr loan oft loses both itself and r .

nd.

And borrowing dulls the edge of

husbandry.“

This ls sound advice uo to a cor- lltln point and particularly applies to money transactions. But we iisel sure that Pdonius did nct condemn the borrowing of house- hold neceasitles when neighbors

.llv¢ a long way frcm thtnsource

Here is another stare in the pill-ma‘ i-g. The cap-

sules have been moistened and are being dry. Nearest the camera is Mrs. I‘. i... Grov her is Mrs. Marion McNeely. Both are

tants at the Toronto.

laid out to e and with research

cf supply. Nor does his interdici ~ncly to the lendint; or borrowing of farm machinery. Indeed it may

be said of the farmer who lends types. In one pocket is bait.

“Inotice hlm no further,

NOTES -

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the borrower ought to render baoli the implement in as good, (or even better) condition as when he re-I ceived it. in this connection, it

grown up in the Island: the borrow-

randlieaves it till the lender comes or . is penalized for his good deed. Worse is the case when the bor- rower allows a. third party to take the implement off his ground un- known to the owner. Some years ago an instance of this kind hap- pened and when the owner traced his goods to “the party of the thir part" the lat er could not find it; In this case the lender had no doubt of the others dishonesty, but rather than make a fuss he out up with the lose. Said he: "It was a lesson!"

Two Nursery Rhymes

ln The Guardian of Nov. 5, I! read with interest the history of ~ Mary's Little Lamb; and in the Family l-lerald of Nov. l. there are s few instances of nurser rhymes‘ related to the Solar My h-Seeing that nursery rhymes are in the, air. so w speak, may I be permitted , to add my quota? Only. mine are historical, not solar.

We get a kick out o! our politics] cartoons but our British forefathers had no such stimulus; so the 111-, Vented a method whereby they. might thumb their noses at those. in authority and still get away with it — an important thing in those rough times. The made up <10B8f¢1 lwetry which i ey taught _to their children as nursery rhymes lseemingly innocent, but with an

ulterior meaning that was often sarcastic.

when Oliver Cromwell d.'ed (1658) his son Richard became his 511000550. and was virtually Klnz 01 Eflkland. All the histories agree that he resembled m; father in 1101111118; he was good-natured and "110111111110115. and quite incapable <11 guiding the ship of stale. In 1669 he resigned his office and re- itlrcd to the continent. Historians but it known that he returned to England long afterwards and lived quietly as a country gentleman dying at last of extreme old age m; brief

101811’ was commemorated ln the. rhyme: I

The mouse ran th l ck! ‘The clock struckupcne Fahd) down

1t come Hickory. Dick-cry. Dock! HCre is another tingle. inuclf older in tithe Vlhcn Mary Tudor,

dflllghtcl‘ 0f Henry VIII. ascended

to reverse much of n91 father's l1011¢y. Hen had taken posses- sicn of all ands held by the

Church and either sold thcm to PBS’ 111$ 891111711118 debts or gave them to favorites. Mary wished to iesume these lands and restore them to the church. she did not, succeed in this; but gave up lands "which she herself held. Like all the Tudors she was very obstinate, and like her father she was very cruel. All her policy was Outlined ‘in 1119 rhyme which we now sing. our centuries later:

Three Blind Mice!

They all ran after the farmer's

w

She an off their fails with the Dicdarvlng knife, eve yo in your; mg See such a sight

As three blind mice?

The "Prtxir about the land qllefitlon accounts for Mary's title 13:1’! farmers wife". and the three Rlgf were Hooper. Latimcr. and Eve cigugho were sent to the stake.

TY ~ y knew what was meant of course; but what coup-y H»... 1a“. 110 axainst such an innocent tingle Without making itself ridiculous?