1951

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MAY 26.

Notwithstandins the unfriendly nn-rosphere which prevails in in- temationsl affairs auctions go on as usual in Russia. The 22nd in- ternational Leningrad fur auction will be held on July 24th with goods on show July 14th. Over 1-my buyers from the United states and others from all over Europe will be present to bid on the 1 numbe .. that win he ouered. For instance there are half a million raw squirrel. 50,000 kolinsky. l0,000 red fox, 200.000 muskrat, 15,000 white fox, 200,000 Km. hare, 250,000 Persian black. 30,000 Persian srev. 60.000 white gncl black fitch. 7.000 sable-which would probably be worth almost as much as the majority oi the fur; offered. Peouliarly enough there are 20,000 house cat skins on sale. These have been dressed and no tloubt will be made into gala furs for some charming young iadv Russia with its immense nacir. of land and forest area has no doubt. the greatest collection of furs of any country in the world. one thing we hve not noticed in most of the recent auctions is sil- ver fox although some months ago we saw that 10.000 would be of- fered. Mink and fox breeding are being carried on quite extensively.

in the latest Women's Wear Daily we notice an ad which states: A-"rwo amazing values for early promotion, squirrel two row coat 34 inches long. squirrel three row coat -i0 inches long. Come and see these styles that will sell this sea- son for s295."...Bo squirrel are not to be despised as furs, but just how they make a big collection of them we do not know. For many years we have seen the curious lit- llc chaps running around the trees in our ranch and we think it would be a very difficult proposit- ion to catch any quantity of them. They certainly can move fast.

The New York Auction Company issued its schedule oi auctions for December. 1951 and also for 1952. This year December auctions will be five in number and will be de- voted entirely to mink, but on .lanii:iry 3. 1952. both mink and fax will be featured and this will continue right through until No- vember 10th.

A number oi New York firms have signed a contract in Moscow to buy 100.000 Persian lamb Ii ti0.75 per skin. f.o.b. a soviet port. other brokers say the price is too high. One said he was pre- pared to buy a quarter of a mil- lion skins it the price was forty cents cheaper. When the skins are purchased a down payment 01 30'". has to be made. A ETC” mimy are cautious about investinz 131'!!! sums of money in Russian furs for future delivery. pcrl'ii3P3 due '3 the international situation.

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Northern wild .mink coats will increase 896 for the averag bet retail price 33,500 um yea. .5. Wmpmd in 83.250 in 1050. mn- zeizillxcrs of all types responding to

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3'13: in New York and nu tack: csgai dealers were con- - uthern wild mink wm ref-all from 32,000 net up to 33250 "'d'”V"- 111 Canada prices ,for ::'..::':.v' be up we or it added in the Abbott

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Lempson. F announc d thcxl:searu(ftlomlit:ugh.1:- Decembm 195- The? are four in number with December 27-28 in so 1'3? "link. silver fox, etc. The other suctions will be mink only. ..Can- gdinn Fur sales Company win and special mink sales December ” md 23th. 1951. and general sales including silver fox in Jan. 3111')? March and April. also con. V5105: dates...At the Seattle, 2835 "Ki-Om May lath auction.

.000 muskrats sold up to 7”, 31; no price change. Top wan 33,39 go,- fine Alaska trapped lots with av- erase Upper Yukons bringing 31.30 in 82-00. 2.200 ranch mink regist. cred no price change. 45m or the collection zed hands. Fine males went at 025 to 334, female; 814 to Ola. Ordinary 322 to 323, females :12 to 814. No mutations were offered. A very ordinary coi- leciion of 1.000 wild mink was 359'. sold with no price change. Yukon gages and twos moved at 321 to

Competition was strong for muskrat and beaver at the Sask- atchewan Fur Marketing Service held in Regina May lath. 76.461 muskrat were l00"i; sold at prices Unchanged to sch up. Stronger American representation for musk. rats resulted in 20"A. oi the offer. 1"! Purchased for American ac- counts. Top price for north cen- tral and central. XL selects was M65. Other splendid lots sold for 34-25. 33.70. 83.63. 83.80 down to SLB8. Saskatchewan auctions are held by the Government and there are large muskrat farms in that vast Province. Apparently they are producing far better muskrat than the Russians as a comparison of prices will show.

It is also true that northern Canada produces better white fox than the Russians but the Rus- sians have everybody trimmed on red fox. These are magnificent pcltries from the Kamchatka for- est regions. During our attend- ance with Mr. McLure at the Hud- son's Bay Company sales in Lon- don we saw many of the Kamch- atka reds and they are truly beau- tiful although the prices received for them today are insignificant compared with some years ago. Russia has a complete monopoly on sable. Years ago an attempt was made by Dr. Leo Frank to trade silver for: for sable. The deal almost went through but some- body threw a monkey wrench into it and aueed its failure. We re- memeber sable being brought here by the late John R. Dennis but I believe one of the pair died and that spoiled the poaaibiliij of pro- ducing them. The pelt when of- fered for sale is shaped like a medium sized dinner plate. The fur is very handsome. tish brown, not too long, and certainly when the skins are dressed and made up they are captivating.

The annual meeting of the Prince Edward Island Fur Breed- ers Association will be held in the Vocational School. Charlottetown, at 1.30 pm. Tuesday, May 20th. according to a notice sent out by the very efficient secretary W. R. Shaw. Every rancher who can possibly do so should attend this meeting. In union is strength. The fox business is at the cross roads and whatever can be done to in- spire enthusiasm and interest should be encouraged. We are sure the officers oi the Association have 5 very good report to present and are to be commended for the splendid Exhibition held last No- vember. Ey continuing the organ- isation, holding shows and featur- ing other activities we will all be rendy when the tide turns to reap the benefits of our steadfestness.

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DO9s&00-&00-&00&00-30 Charlottetown No. 80 Barley

Charlottetown No. 80 barley was selected by the writer, from bar- ley secured in Rustico, known lo- cally as Old Island Two-rowed. which had been brought from England to Prince Edward Island by the early settlers. Its progeni- tors were in all probability Eng- llsh Chevalier and there are evi- dences that natural crosses had occurred, as, several distinct types were selected from the original seed. Those were tested for sever- al years with other characters of the Charlottetown No. so led to the discarding of the other strains, these were: that the majority oi its awns are frequently shed at harvest time, leaving the spikes practically bald and it out-yielded all other varieties under test by a significant percentage. In a ten year period ending with the sea- son of 1901 it out-yielded its high- est competitor among two-row sorts, Gold by 7.2 percent and the highest yielding six-row sort. "0. A. C. No. 21" by 8.5 per cent. Dur- ing the first five years of that per- iod. field tests were also conduct- ed in different districts of the province. The average yield from these fields was 51.9 bushels per acre. This compared with the average yield for the province, during the same period, (as re- corded in' the "Census and statis- tics Monthly"). of 29.0 bushels per acre indicated an increase of 13 percent over the average barley crop. Recent lhd-Row Tests

The average yield per acre. from rod-row tests of barley. at Char- lottetown for the eleven years end- ing with the i950 crop, gave the following standing of the three leading varieties: Byhg 40.5 bush- els, Charlottetown No N, 44.1 bushels and O. A. C. No. 21. 39.1 bushels. Byng does not have the desirable characters of Charlotte- town No. 00 and it has a disquali-

Central Experimental Farm. tawa, describes it as follows:

Ot-

two-rowed Chevalier type of bar- ley that is. the heads are lax and

plant is medium to tall with med- ium narrow leaves of medium col-

about four inche. from the sheath and are nodding. The awns are

aleurone is yellow, the hairs are short, the veins are med- ium barbed and the sterile spike- lets are large." To this we might add for this province that: it rip- ens slowly. and it takes about in day; to mature compared with 92 days for O. A. C. 21 It is a most satisfactory barley to sow with oats or cats. peas and vetches as it ripens more nearly at the time of the other grain. In the ten year test mentioned above. its average weight per measured bushel was 53.9 pounds. compared with 47.0 pounds for O. A. O. No 21. produc- ing not only an average of 5 bush-' els snd three pounds more per acre. but 6 pounds more grain per measured bushel.

A Barley That Drops Its Awns

One of the outstanding features of Charlottetown No. on barley that commends it to farmers. is the dropping of its awns in the

By J. A. Clark, D50.

"Charlottetown 80:- This is a narrow, the awns are rough. The our. The heads completely protrude

covered with medium barbs. The rachills

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when a total of eight farm build- ings were destroyed. In the photo above flames may be seen eating

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field. The heads are nodding, with the awns spread like a fan before harvest time. the grain is firmly attached to a fairly compact head. which prevents it from shelling easily, but the awns at maturity are only weakly attached. and under certain conditions all drop off in the field. leaving the heads naked. This character of the awns being loosely attached, is very beneficial, even when weather con- ditions do not remove the awns before harvest, they all come off readily in thrashing. The Grain Growers Guide. commenting on this feature said: "Undoubtedly much more barley would be grown in Canada were it not for the discomfort of handling the crop on account of the awns and beards attached to the kernels in the rip- ened grain. Apart from this as- pect of the matter, these barbed awns injure the straw for feeding purposes. Horses fed barley straw in the rations are apt to get an accumulation of awns between the jaw and the cheek. causing sores. A barley beard entering the eye of either man or animal may have serious when-,uences. In Prince Edward Island a variety of barley has been produced, that drops nearly all of its awng before harvest time, and thus overcomes these disadvanagas. This variety which is known as Charlottetown 'No. 80. originated at the Char- lottetown Experimental Station.

A Popular Variety

The Late .)am& E. Murphy. of Augustine Cove, P. E. I. one of the outstanding pure seed growers of this province, referred to Char- lottetown No. 00 barley as: "the farmer's barley." After testing it, he dropped the growing of other varieties. It has become the lead- ing barley throughout the Mari- time Provinces and has given a very good account for yield and quality when tested elsewhere. At Maritime grain shows and Exhi-

rying wegknegg or straw, so mu bitions, it has carried off the

it in not 1-eoommmded 10,. um premium honours in all two-row province, barley classes for years.

omcm Dnaqpuon Many hullcss. beadless and

smooth awn varieties have been

MR, 1:, R. gowwg cm,” tested with Charlottetown No 00.

specialist, Barley Investigations. md dl””d'd bww” ii! 1”” by

shelling, low yielding qualities and other undesirable characters. when the Prince Edward Island "Seed Drill Survey" was made in i950. with reference to barley the report states: "All samples . were of the Charlottetown No no varie- ty.”

Increase In P. E. Island Barley Production

In checking over the annual barley production as given in the reports of the Provincial Depart- ment of Agriculture. we find that during the last forty years. by averaging each ten year period, there has been a steady and signi- ficant incl-cue in the total amount of barley produced up to 1940. since then production has doubled in the period ending in 1960 over the previous period and it was more than three times the produc- tion for the period ending in 1030. We believe this is due to the general distribution of information concerning the value of barley. as the chief grain ingredient. in ap- proved fattening rations for hogs. poultry. etc.. and also to the in- troduction of Charlottetown No. 00 barley during the first period mentioned. it was registered April 6th. i010. and given the Canadian seed Grower's certificate No. E. 0593.

Dsainrs Royal Jester. Jersey bull recently inverted from Jersey

friend by Velleyanna Farm. Mu-imam. Ontario.-sire of many 9.-inc-winnlrig sons and daugh-

Iera on Jersey. and sire of the dam of one of the young bulls specially selected for the Prince Edward island Jersey Club. by the Manager of Vslieysnna, Bert stoma.

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Liquor Control is be- cause it leaves the industry free to build up vast power and makes the government the retail agent of the brewer. Under this system fa-

'politics is in constant danger of corruption. The social bill of al- coholism is borne by the state. soc- ial and economic problems are complicated, many die or are kill- ed directly or indirectly because of the traffic. There is waste of wealth and of life itself.

The proposal of nationalization is now being made - that by pub- lic ownership of the manufacture and retail gale of alcoholic bever- ages we could solve the problem. By this method we are merely substituting public greed for pri-

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W.C.T.U. NOTES

THE CHRISTIAN CONCEP- TION OF TEMPERANCE (PART II)

(Condensed from I booklet of the same title by Rev. Dr. Elbert Paul)

In the section previously printed the author defined the word "tem- perance" and set forth the ideal expression of temperance in life. Two pertinent questions were ask- ed with regard to the temperate use of anything: (1) What will be the effect of its use upon me? (2) Upon my neighbors?

The consumption of alcoholic beverages has reached such ser- ious proportions and its influence invaded so many sphere! 01 '11” that the modern Christian must have is definitely Christian atti- tude toward it- an attitude that can be defended in the full light of the teaching. spirit and life of Jesug -Christ.

The Facts

Let us look at the FACES re- garding Alcohol itself and its ef- fects on the human system "A1- cohol is actually a depressant or narcotic. it acts on the brain and higher centres of the nervous sys- tem to deaden them. The first ef- fects are a loosening of normal controls. This taking off the brake. gives the appearance of increased activity and thus causes many people to have the false impres- sion that alcohol stimulates. As more alcohol in absorbed the per- son becomes less and less able to control his movemnts. Big tongue becomes thick -and his Slit Un- steady; and. if he drinks enough. he finally falls into a complete stupor.

"Many experiments show that even small amounts of alcohol tend to weaken control over mus- clee. one of the first effects of alcohol is to lengthen 'reaction time' -- that is. the time that passes between your seeing a lil- nal and reacting to it. You will see just what this means if you imagine that the signal is a child who has suddenly stepped in front of a. moving automobile and the reaction is putting your foot on the brake to stop the car. Any lengthening of this particular re- action time may mean the differ- ence between life and death.”

The Verdict

Upon the basis of this evidence plus htlnan experience the effects on the individual and society can be seen to be definitely harmful. The relation of the consumption of alcohol to increase in accidnis (driving and industrial). Io crime. to poverty, to juvenile delinquency (because of broken homes) is ex- ceptionally clear.

WHAT TEEN SHOULD on THE

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TOWARD ALCOHOLIC BEVER- l AGES?

A. Ills Personal Use of 'raoTaa

TOTAL ABSTDIENOE is de- manded of the true Christian be- cause of (1) Personal Effects of Alcohol - any one who is serious in following Christ must give it up completely. (2) social Effect -it drags others down- so drink-

to be builders In the Kingdom of God we will leave it alone. -

3. our Attitude Toward II: Soo- Ial Control

Various methods have been used or advocated as means of handling the liquor problem in in uiganisad form. We cannot be in- different to this phase of the problem because the industry is great and powerful and wields tre- mendous social. economic. and

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