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We arrived in Caracas. Vene- zuela. after an eleven-mile drive irom La Guaira Airport. over one of the finest turnpike 6-lane-roads that we have seen. The former road was about 23 miles. and it had 29 hairpin turns getting over the two ranges of mountains. The city of Caracas has a population of about 8 .000. It presents a marvelous s ght at night. w xc Caracas Valley is lighted a full length of twelve miles; i me cases it is lighted right to the top of adjacent hills. it averages about three miles wide and has many beautiful. large buidings.

Besides the O-lane autopista su- perhighway mentioned. which was mmpleted this year. at least two of the main avenues are being widened and improved. This has thrown traffic into other streets. .-io that we moved bumper to bumpy through city streets. with cars three abreast that were go- mg our way for miles through the

city.

(me passenger in our taxi stop- pod at the Patomac Hotel. which is quite new. He was the only one that could speak Spanish. so after many turns and quite a little hill climbing, we arrived at the Avila Iloici, but no one had asked to be taken there. We went back into traffic, and after a few miles we could see straight ahead of the -I-lane boulevard, up on the side of a steep hill in great white let- tors: "Tamanaco" Hotel.

This hotel has a very unique and modern design. With its back inward a beautiful tree-covered mountain, with adequate parking space. this semi-L-shaped hotel with seven receding balconies on ,.ach end. in adddition to great bal- ronics along the front. facing on a swimming pool and lawns plant- cd with trees and shrubs. appealed to us as the most magnificent ho- lei we have seen anywhere. It is it the Las Mercedes residential iistrict and about two miles cast it downtown Caracas.

About its lobby there are offices of four international airlines. also zclcgrziph and cable offices. It covers a great area and is nine stories high. We found the tem- perature in our room, which was nir-conditioned. quite cool, after the heat which we had experienced on the coast. , The thermometer was at 72 degrees F. and we had to put on a coat to write letters. We arrived Sunday evcninz. Ind ii-ore unable to get our friends on the telephone until Monday morn- ng, when we moved to reservations that had been secured for us by Mr. Clair Johnson. Secretary of the Caracas. Y.M.C.A We Wen! sack later in the week to get our Venezuela Visa. that the clerk of he ”Tamanaco" had put in our

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Monday we called on a number it mm in government employ, and later found that Dr. G u s t a v Rohstcda, an outstanding authority

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on Latin America live stock. is now on the staff of the Faculty of Agriculture in the college town of Maracay. about three hours eighty miles over a mountain road to the west of Caracas. The trip by ra oad is not recommended. Tuesday was spent in sight-seeing and visiting the Park lnfanta. We noticed the children and guardians start sway quite rapidly. and went along back to our hotel Les Jar- dines. which is on Avenida Les Jardines. La Florida.

We had scarcely arrived when there was a downpour of rain. The sun had been bright and we had not noticed the rain cloud that swept around the mountain from the east. This is said to be one of the "three seasons every day" that occur in Caracas. The mornings are brigh and sunny with many birds sing g from early dawn. At noon the sun seems to be di- rettly overhead, so that one thinks he can easily overstep his shadow. At this time of year they expect I shower of rain every afternoon, which makes a pleasant. cool eve- ning. Caracas is said to have one of the most uniform climates, with only slight changes in temperature. all the year round. In the sun it is hot. but there always seems to be a breeze to cool the air.

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Tuesday evening we went to the Avila Hotel for the Rotary lunch- eon. The speaker was an extension agronomist who told the Rotarians that Agriculture was the basic in- dustry of the state. In his work he found poor land being worked by some of their best farmers, while much of the better quality of land was in the hands of those who made the least use of it. His ad- dress was in Spanish, so that I got it from an interpreter. A member in seconding the thanks of the club seemed to me to "steal the show" by putting his remarks into verse and giving them a twist that brought out great applause. This club increased in membership from 74 in 1953 to 113 and 1954. The lunch was the finest we have seen served in any Rotary Club.

From memory we recall what we considered a double helping of fruit, including cubes and balls of pawpaw and pineapple, with a gen- erous quantity of orange and other tropical fruits. topped off with a cherry. Then a course of fish ser- ved in a dish resembling a scal- lop shell. It was held within French pastry and covered with a sauce. Then came a course with one-half of a broiler chicken. bread- ed and roasted with four vegetables and gravy. Next a large slice of an ice cream pie, several layers of hard frozen ice cream, the thickest layer being chocolate, all covered with meringue that showed it had been toasted in the oven before serving. Then came cafe nolr, served in.isn:all. cups.

Wednesday we were very sorry to have to cancel a trip with Mr. Clair Johnson to visit 97 boys in a Y. M. C. A. camp on the coast, in order to keep an appointment with Dr. Edwardo Mondolphi. ll former Cornell student, who is now the editor of an agriculture journal. His office is In the Edificio Paris. and when it came near time to go. we tried to get someone to call a taxi In Spanish. They failed on the telephone. which seldom can be counted on here, but one of the waitresses went out and hailed a taxi on the Avenida Les Jardincs. The driver had no English, and we could not get him to understand where we wanted to lo; a Spanish- English dictionary was necessary to get him to leave without a fare.

We walked up to a main through Avenida, and stopped by an auto- bus sign. A taxi stopped. and one of two passengers spoke English well enough so that we got to our appointment in time. After an in- teresting session. Dr. Mondolphi gave a taxi driver instructions in Spanish. which, with our know- ledge of the route by which we had gone. took us back in time for dinner.

Caracas has no heavy industries. It has grown very rapidly since Ve ' has become such an oil producing country. Its streets and avenues have names that change frequently, as in London, England; only here it may be they Chlnlc every block. One does not under- stand how they get names enough to go around.

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The annual meeting of the Cana- dian Ilink Breeders' Association is being held here on Monday. Tues- day and Wednesday of next week. Between E and 5 of the most prominent mink breeders of Can- ada are. present to meet with our local mink men and discuss the various problems connected with the industry. Representing Newfoundland is Premier Small- wood, who is very keenly inter- ested in mink breeding and be- lieves that it has a good future. We have had talks with several prominent mink breeders here and they are of the opinion that mink breeding on a large scale shuold be a very profitable undertaking. The reason they give is that horse meat can be bought as' cheaply as in any part of the Dominion and fish offal can be obtained from Souris at about one cent per pound. with this low cost of feed and a properly arranged ranch there is no question but that a good profit can be made at prices obtainable for mink on present day markets. but one must be producing on a fairly large scale such as Allyn Ekstrom. owner of the Kay-Bee Fur Farm, which is located about 26 miles west of Denver, Colorado. He has I stream-lined system of feeding by which 1500 mini: can be fed by one man In one and one-half hours. Here is the explanation . . . . .

Each of the five double sheds. which are 160 feet long. is equip- ped with a steel track fastened to the ceiling. To the track is fitted two wheels, from which are sus- pended chains with hooks on the ends. The 500-lb. apacity buskets are loaded in the eed house. lifted into the truck by chain hoist and driven to the shed. Here they are swung out of the truck onto V-ha conveyor track. one bucket 10 I shed. Pushing the bucket along as he feeds. a man can watch the mink at the same time. He can stop whenever necessary. and is "feeding mink instead of perm A wood platform. hooked to the chains, makes a convenient way to carry bedding and neat ISOXEL It is also used in movlnl K113 When being separated.

'rhe Key-Bee ranch carries 325 breeding females. About 11111 me herd is of brown CYIN3; Ruby-EV? Pastel. Stewart Pastel. Brown-EV? Pastel. The other half consists of blue type: St: vart Platinum and Sapphire. Kit production this year was over 1.200. It is thoroughly in keeping with the tradition of this ranch that it still has foxes -38 females and 10 males - Standard Silvers, Pearls. Pearlatinas and Glacier Blues. The Kay-Bee was founded in Wyoming in 1926 by Clarence F. Ekstrom, a great fox man. The ranch was moved to the Conifer region of Colorado in 1937. Clarence Ekstrom was U. S. sales representative for famed McNeill faxes and one of the most prom- inent fox farmers in America. ”ltIs only natural for me to like foxes," said Auyn. "I was raised with them. The foxes are fed a daily ration of equal parts of fish, tripe and cereal. The gray crags of Doubleheader Mountain look down on acres of fox pens, most of them in good repair. awaiting the day. But the five double sheds show plainly that young Ekstrom didn't sit out the fox disaster. He is one of the West's most progressive mink ranchers.

In the National Fur News is an article by J. Kokolsky. Fur Farm Supervisor. Department of Agricul- ture. Edmonton, Alberta, on the origin of Palomino mink which is very interesting . . . . . The Very first mink of this color phase or- iginsted in the spring of 1945 on a ranch owned by Frank Johnston at Mundare. Alberta. some 55 miles east of the city of Edmon- ton. Since Mr. Johnston never did

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Mr. Johnston mated this golden or blonde mink (as be preferred to call it) to other Standard females he was very much ” ppointed in the fact that no colored kits show- up. Not being versed in funds- mentals of genetics. he did not rea- llze that the mink was a true to- cessive and its offspring were hy- brids. He did. however, mate the orginal parents together and duced another colored m ale identical to the first. Two ranch- ers in the same area persuaded Frank Johnston to let them pur- chase matings from these blonde males in order b produce hybrids. Just about this time Mr. Johnston met with an unfortunate 1- ” t and because of his inability to get around. he was forced to pelt his herd.

An Edmonton ranche purchased the two colored males plus some 18 or 20 possible hybrids. in other words all dark mink that were closely related to this particular line - as could be determined from the records kept by Mr. Johnston. A year or so later Mr. Johnston died of a heart attack. It is indeed unfortunate that he did not live long enough to reap and enjoy benefits from the mink he originated. The three ranchers in question continued to produce the so-called blonde mink, and each of them used a different name al- though they all came from the single original herd. One rancher called his mink "Mist of Gold," another ”Blonde." and the third Palomino." - s

It is a very strange coincidence that the same type of mink ap- peared two years later in the State of Minnesota. Stranger still is the coinciding similarity of names. One was a Johnston and the other a Johnson. Irrespective of origin, the two types are the same genetically and by actual test cross 100 per cent. Originally the Minnesota type Palomino was claimed to have been produced through Pastels. While this may have been the case. the Pastel factor is not genetically linked up with Palomino. Experi- ence has proven that any new mutation having been developed in the past. vast improvements were made in subsequent generations. Improvements In color. texture of fur, size and reproductive ability can be accomplished by ranchers who understand scientific prin- ciples behind line breeding and genetics in animal husbandry.

True enough. like all other new mutations, the Palomino has its faults. Production was poor. the color a harsh orange. The texture derived from its ancestors was coarse and spikey. Where some ranchers concentrated their efforts in production of quantity others planned a long-term program of producing quality through careful selection. cross breeding. and so gradually eliminated these. faults. Although a slow process. this time- proven method pays dividends, for today we have good Palomino: and. of course. poor ones. The new im- proved Palomino has a soft beige tone, very pleasing, to the eye, and has it perfect blend of guard fur and under fur. The Palomino is a true recessive with pink eyes and its production is governed by the factors common to any other true recessive. Pure-. Palomino males bred to Standard females have dark brown offspring. known as hybrids for Palomino. The hybrid females when bred to pure Palomino pro- duce 50 per cent Palomino and '50 per cent hybrids.

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A report by the 131-953 Trust of Irivlnx Gould. preaident, said he Ind”. the Indian national news received telegrams from engineer auncyg Hid it was presumed the Gordon Moore Wednesday whlcn Portuguese cruiser fired blanks in read in pa”: ' the bombardment before landing hMmI' mterenmg "say pk” M troops to recapture Tiracol fort on the outskirts of the Portuguese col. ony of Goa.

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Nationalist groups crossing over from India took over the ancient fort from its small Poriiigucsc gar- rison last Sunday as'oLher demon- strators crossed the border into Goa calling for union of the tiny coastal colony with India.

In Lisbon, the Portuguese over- seas ministry announced that Port- guese police had recaptured Tira- col, lowered an Indian flag hoisted over it by the invaders and ar- rested 15 demonstrators found iri- slde the fortress.

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Reporters returning from the area said fighting has broken out between the Communist-led Goan People's party and the Free Goan Congress, which previously had joined forces to wrest the isolated area from Portuguese control.

The Goan People's party has been pushed back to the south of the en- clave, which is entirely surrounded by Indian territory, after 15 of its members were ”arrestcd" by the Free Goan Congress in an unsuc- cessful attempt to capture the vil- lage of Khandwel from its former allies.