MARCH 7. 1953i
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-MARCH 11th and 12th ' LEGION HALL.- CHARLOITETOWN
Wednesday, March 11th- ,. 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.--Prince Edward Island Dairymenis Association.
Thursday. Mitch 12th- , 10:00 a.m.-Prince Edward Island Sheep Breed- ers' Association. 2:00 p.m.-Central Farmers' Institute. 7:30 p.m.-Federation of Agriculture.
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Congratulations to Mr. An- drew Bain, French River, P. E. I, Mr. Bain's York- shire entry in the 1952 Roy- al Winter Fair won the Brethour Trophy, highest award for swine carcasses in North America. A high- ly successful swine exhibitor, Mr. Bainls recommendations for success in the show-ring are: 1. A good animal. 2. Correct preparation for feed- ing programme. 3. The .best possible feed. 4. Regularity of feeding. A consistent SI-IUR-GAIN feeder, Mr. Bain says "SI-IUR-GAIN is :1 wonderful feed-you're sure of good results if cu fol- low the-instructions on each bag."
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For some time we have been wondering how the American and Canadian markets could handle the vast quantities of mink which are being thrown on them. Now we notice where Lampoon, Fraser 5: Huth, Inc., New York, are is- suing a circular letter to all ranchers which features the can- cellation on March mink sales. They explain it this way: "Since the beginning of this marketing season very large quantities of Ranch and Mutation Mink have been offered for sale by the auc- tion houses and 9. very high per- centage has been purchased by the trade. While a large portion of these pelts have already found their way into the hands of the consuming public, there are still slzewble quantities of pelts in the possession of dealers and manu- facturers and it is our opinion that it would be in the best interest of all segments of the industry to offer to the trade an opportunity to reduce their inventories. Thus, after depelting their stocks, buyers will be in a position to make fur- ther sizeable purchases.
"We think that you will agree with us and, therefore, we are cancelling our scheduled Mink Auction Sales during the month of March. We will resume our Sales schedule on April 14th and we herewith give you our Auction Sales Dates for the months of April and May, as follows: April l4th', Ranch Mink, Mutation Mink (non-members of MMBA) Last receiving day, March 21st. April 28th, Details of offering to be an- nounced later. May iith. Ranch Mink (including UMBA), last re- ceiving day, April lath. May 26th, Ranch Mink (GLMA) Last receiv- ing day, April 30th. Further EMBA Auction Sales Dates to be an- nounced follcwlng the MMBA meeting early in March.
"We realize that there are ranchers who would like to sell their pelts prior to the month of April. In such cases, we shall be pleased to offer their pelts at
their consideration. If financial as- sistance is required, we will or- range for immediate advance pay- ments ogainst consignment upon request. We also call your atten- tion to our livestock loan facilities. If interested, kindly write for fur- ther details. Any requests will re-
A cable to Women's Wear Daily from London has the following: "The Hudson's Bay Company con- cluded selling during the morning sessions with an offering of silver fox in which the darker shades sold well and other types were me ly withdrawn. Top prices were silver fox, dwrk, 5:8, 15 -shillings (824.50): quarters, .69. ms, (s26.00); halves, Ell (330.80); three-quarters, 28, 15 s. 624.50); fulls, E7, 5 s. 620.30.) The above prices look mighty attractive to us on this
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side of the ocean but we imagine that the quantities sold at the above figures were very small and the skins exceptionally good.
The New York-New Jersey branch of the National Chinchilla. Breed- ers Association held their annual show in the Hotel Statler, New York last week. some 500 chinchillas were displayed Commenting. Wo- men's Wear Daily says: "This marks another in the numerous events in cities all over the coun- try to publicize chinchilla, and to encourage breeding of the ani- mals. Breeders estimate that it will require about 30,000 Americans to raise the 1,500,000 chlnchillas that will have to be bred before a. regular pelting program can be launched. This, they feel, may come in about eight years. They estimate that there are now about 250,000 chlnchliias in the United States.
"The claims chllla breeders are that when the pelts are marketed commercially they will fetch from t50 up in the fur market; that it will be profitable for breeders because chinchilla: are non-meat eaters and feed costs run only about 53.50 a. year. Fur trade sources in the meantime remain cool to chinchilla and its possibilities. They claim that there is no de- mand for chinchilla among me vast majority of fur sources, and that the chinchilla breeder organ- izations are selling the public a bill of goods through a. super publicity campaign designed prima- rily to sell breeding stock at fa- bulous prices. A pair of breeders now brings 31,000 to 31,500, accord- ing to the breeders. and usually produce, within four years. a herd large enough to sell off as many as 10 other breeding pairs :1 year. for an income of 315,000 a year!
"If and when commercial mar- keting of chinchilla becomes a reality, trade sources believe, it will be the large professional breed- ers who will be the backbone of the business and not the non-pro-
yards. Of the 400 exhibitors show- lng at the New York show this week-end, is live in Brooklyn, and others lh New Jersey, Westchester. Long Island and Connecticut. These are the very part-time breeders, which the fur trade be- lieves, will be forced out of the picture when large scale market- ing develops."
Japanese exports of fur skins to the United Staten during 1952 were almost 50 per cent larger that! the previous year. The gain was accounted for almost e tlrely by increases in shipments o undress- ed squirrel, rabbit and miscell- aneous skins. Figures show that there were 349,140 mink and wea- sel skins, undressed, shipped to the United States during the first ten months of 1952. The United States is Japan's largest cus- tomer, taklng about '16 per cent of the mink and weasel, half of the squirrel and one-third of the rabbit skins exported. Japan ex- ports altogether about 80 per cent of her production of mink skins, 60 per cent of the rabbit and about 85 per cent of the squirrel. Export prospects for 1953 do not look so good, due to the price situation Right now the exporter must pay as much for skins as he can rea- lize on the market so that the trade is profltless, As a result more furs are being used domes- tlcally.
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Booking orders for Chicks from March 25th throughout the sea- son. Have available 400 started Crossbred Pullet Chicks. Anyone interested in raising Pullets for us for shipping during summer months kindly contact us at once, as we have more orders than we can supply.
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THE- SUPERVISOR, Vocational School, Charlottetown.
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-NEWSY
Hsndkercni ' are believed to have originated with the Romans. who called s small cloth that they used to remove perspiration from their faces I "sudarlum". They also hold it in front of their mouths to avoid or ward off disease, rather than to prevent the uncut of in- fection to others. The Romans also inaugurated the custom of waving the handkerchief when greeting friends or persons of high rank in the theatre, and also when ap- plauding or showing their apprecia- tion of actors that gained their favour. Anyone who has witness- the departure or arrival of the great ocean liners or observed na- tional parades in I.ondon and New York, will remember the sight. of thousands of handkerchief; that were being waved to those going or coming, or those tak-lng' part in national events. The cheers roll out in great volume for those most honoured, but the handkerchiefs continue to flutter after the people are too hoarbe to shout any longer, and when those acclaimed are away out of hearing. , There seems to be evidence that the phrase: "At the drop of the handkerchief”, also'orlginat.ed from the e by the Roman Emperor, r” a similar piece of cloth, drop- ped as a signal that games in the arena were to start. This signal is probably as old as the one used at the close of combat by the gladiators, when the victor looked to the Royal party and the great crowd, who indicated by "thumbs down" that he was not to spare the life of his opponent. . . .
The use of the handkerchief for hygienic purposes, while appar- ently one of its most ancient uses, and now its most valuable contri- bution to public health, declined with the fall Off the Roman Empire. During the "Dark Ages" its use disappeared in the filth and ig- norance of a period when the coat sleeves or any garment took its place as a means of wiping the nose. It is recorded that the plac- ing of buttons on the sleeves of men's costs was resorted to at the time of the Renaissance to deter men from substituting their coat sleeves for hanclkerchiefs. There was one exception to this uncouth and .unhyglen:lc practice; the famous Dutch scholar. "Erasmus, (1465 - 1536). a man far in ad- vance of his time in so many ways, actually considered blowing one's nose 3 social duty; so he possess- ed a surprising number of hand- kerchiefs, and put them to this very practical use."
We learn from history that King Henry IV of France possessed twelve shirts but only two handker-
chlefs. Samuel Pepys (1632 - 1703), in his "Diary", discloses that Charles II, that supposed
"Merrie Monarch, could also boast of just two." From early in the fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century, the hand- kerchief was as indispensable as jewels to ladies of fashion, to in- dicate their class and rank in Europe. Large -handkerchlefs. ex- quisitely ornamented with wide borders of the finest Gothic-point lace, may be seen in the portraits of Royal ladies of that period. Many of these "mouohoirs”, ex- travagant Renaissance hanker- chiefs, cost enormous sums of money. They were reserved for ceremonial ocrasions - court 4' weddings and chrlstenings. Ladies of the Royal courts used these attractive squares of silk and lace to draw attention to the beauty of their hands, they deve- loped a. flirtatious code, known as
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HANDKERCHIEF!
the "language of the handkerchief", supposed to be quite as effective as the language of the fan became later..
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Very few of the exquisite and luxurious fine silk and brocade hnndkei-chiefs were washable, and while generally highly perfumed, were not carried for hygenic rea- sons by the aristocratic ladies. Chemical dry cleaning methods were unknown, so that, despite their elegance. these "show" handker- chiefs soon become useless due to their need of cleansing. Before the coming of chemical bleaches, clothes were boiled in water or sun-bleached. but the results did not compare with todays's gleam- ing whiteness of modern h-ankles.
Near the close of the seventeenth century, the handkerchief ceased to be a luxury, and became a nec- essity. This was due to the grow- ing habit of using snuff, a fash- ionable vice, started in the French Court, that spread to Germany and throughout aristocratic Eu- rope. People had to use handker- chiefs to keep the snuff from staining their clothes. In Germany, handkerchiefs became known as ”snufvflng cloths". This habit of taking snuff spread to the middle classes. and as the snuff stained the white handkerchiefs, coloured ones became popular in the eigh- teenth century, and we were adopt- ed as articles of every day use. It became necessary to have some place to carry them, and the name pocket-handkerchief became gen- eral. ,
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Men's handkerchief: developed into large cstton squares. Many of these were printed or dyed. These were at first,duone by hand, later by engraved copper plates. The demand for these hsndkerchiefs gave a great impetus to textile printing, and many menls hand- kerchiefs of that period vie with the pictorial handkerohlefs of to- day, as they were printed in col- our wlth maps, calendars, histori- cal portraits, and they were also used for carlcaturlng persons be- fore the people. Many derisive illustrations of Napoleon were print- ed on English handkerchiefs.
When men began to use handker- chlefs universally, the ladiws hand- kerchlefs became smaller and daintler, many of these were ex- quisitely hand-efnbroidered on the finest cambrlc, and worn only on special occasions to be handed down from generation to generat- ion.
Thc modern ceilu-cotton tissue handkerchief is a triumph in the cause of personal hygiene. The sulphide process which turns wood fibre into convenient, economi- cal, hygenlc tissue handkerchliefs, so plentiful and inexpensive that they can be disposed of after one use, is 9. great triumph for the chemical industry.
The standard Dictionary des- cribes handkerchlefs as (l) "A piece of cotton, silk, linen or the like, usually square, with hem or selvage,, used for wiping the face, nose or eyes. (2) A pocket-hand- kerchief, less properly a necker- chief.
The encyclopedla in our libraries do not mention the handkerchief, an article which has become an every day necessity. The only men- tlon found was that Passaic, the third largest city in New Jer- sey in 1920, "made one-third of
the handkerchlefs used in the United States." The Missouri-Mississippi river
system, longest in the world, cov- ers 4,500 miles.
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