UARY 1's, 1929

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arming and Agrleulture :-: Special Features .:-: interestingiObservations Recommendations ' To L

New Zealand the,

antlers Produce 990,000 0f butter, eese G? Condensed ilk. and export 360,000 leaving nly $14,730,000 for me consumption

fitreall To Be

Cattle Centre

5A1,’ Feb, 15.-—A.ccording _. ghippcfs there is every pros- t the cattle tradmwhich has ,_ to this port for the past IWO ,_ may be revived. They state , sent conditions prevailing in fitted states market will force . tern Canadian ranchers to sell cattle to the United Kingdom, m thus use the port of Mon- . their shipping centre. .- 1927 only two small sh1l1~ of beef have left this Port 0W- tlle fact that the Argentine was l ing cattle at about half the! med by Canadian interests-J yoposcd new tax on cattle en- the United States is prohibi- mordlxlg to western farmers.

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or WHEAT as vaans om ls l onn EXHIBIT

TIMORE, Feb, 15.—-Al-l inter- ; exhibit of Canadian wheat, 3H old, W35 made this week on ‘ lilmore grain exchange by J. lds. s of wheat similar to the onc on the local exchange were (‘llS- , cd by representatives of the ‘all government at the Colum- position at Chicago in i893 1'0:- ose of stimulating the sale of lathe Dominion, at that time : at $3 an acre.

ETILIZER

e have on hand for mediate delivery a mited quantity of

POTASH

AMMONIA

MIXED 0000s ' (4-8-7)

hich we will deliver ~ any of our custom- s who want to haul

home by sleigh. rder quickly if you ant immediate de- ery.

.H0rne & 00.

Beginners in Far Farming"

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(Condensed fronl the Black F»; lllagazlne)

Many wh.» contemplate entering a

- new industry look only to its great

possibilities and profits, closing their Eyes. consciously or unconsciously. to the pitfalls and dl couragements that may exist. It is easy to deceive the

novice. Alluring articles in the public I"°§$—"F°X Farming. a veritable Gold

Mlnv-or propaganda by dishonest

dealers in breeding stock, lead many

to believe that a fortune awaits them. Others have the llotion that all there is to do is to build pens or fence in

9- fussed lllecc of land, turn in some fur-belners, feed them occasionally, and then once a year collect a profit from the pelts produced.

_ _ But the wise man Will get experience by 0b. taming employment on a. fur mm

,beforc engaging in the business him-

self.

Successful breeders of fur animals must B08955 pr must acquire a clear concept of the factors involved in bfeedillg- They concentrate on in- creasing prolificacy and quality. Their Primary object is high quality fur; the sale of breeding stock is second- ary.

It is not wise to begin with a large number of animals. Many who have done so or expanded too rapidly have failed. Better it is to start wtth 19w animals and increase only as one's knowledge of care and management increases. Troubles are bound to come and remedies can be learned

‘only through experience.

Feeding stock should be obtained in the fall so that the animals may become accustomed to their new home before the critical season. The weather issuilicienlly cold by the cud of September to perlnit shipment with safety. - _

Pelts produced in northerly regions are the ‘more valuable and the be- ginner should lllakc sure that his lo- cality is suitable LO produce superior fur. lTlllS paragraph of course ap- plies to the U. S. A. only). '

Many failures in fur-farming may be traced directly to ncgligenccon the part of the caretaker. Animals will not do well under shiftless manage- ment. A fur farmer who has no in- terest in his animals need not ex- pect success. One who goes through his ranch and doesn't see a sick alli- mal is not n proper caretaker: if he sees it but does not look after it at once, he is worse. A rancher who likes to be absent frequently has not the welfare of his business at heart and a caretaker who is not disturbed over the loss of animals, should no longer have charge of a ranch. '

The man who feeds mouldy or spoil- ed fced, the man who stints his ani- mals from pure water, does not have the instincts of o. fur farmer.

A faithful rancher looks to all de- tails and has his mind and heart with his animals at rill times. He likes to

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rown from our Haszurds proved (Bronze Top) and pond” Purple Top Swede) l Imported by us direct from growers (on Contract) In land and bringing good B! the AMERICAN

' KET.

Sugar Beet Pulp

In excellent substitute for 4t llNIPS and the price (with .1 is very low consider-n; the 0! of other Feeds. Therefore -~ SUGAR BEET PULP and Your Turnlpo for export. » l! Rood business and nound °- Tfr It and’ see how it i - out.

" have several curl ‘. of OAR BEET PULP on hand ‘ no further supplies can be ' hosed until next OCTOBER °ll the New Crop.

t! our low prices by the bol lll ton lots.

i OLESALE and RETAIL arter 6‘ Co. Ltd. 1 ' 0

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r. Farmer

'4. I! very reasonable prices.

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if “The Friendly Hardware Store"

discuss problems with others and t0

learn of improved methods of hand- llnl; and agement. In fact the readiness with which his animals ac- commodate themselves to a. life of captivity depends on his attitude to- wards them. (It is' easy. and very ‘valuable, to gain the confidence of animals. A quiet manner, with no impulsive movements, constant com- llanlonship, and plenty of soothing talk. will win the way to any wild thing's heart.)

Success in raising foxes in captiv- ity naturally leads one toconclude that other species also may be pro- duced profitably in pens. The pelts of fishers. martens, minks, otters, and raccoons generally command high prices. These and other fur-bearers have been kept in captivity and stud- ied to determine the feasibility of Pfvdllcing fur profitably.

Raising fishers in captivity has not expanded since 1912, when there were two ranches on this continent. There is the difllculty oi.’ trapping good bfeedlns stock without injury, and a1. thouBh they may be successfully kept in wire enclosures, there ism great dlsinclinatlon to breed in captivity. Mink are not difficult to raise, and when fed and handled properly they breed and produce yollng regularly. They produce 6, 7 and 8 to the litter. The equipment, feed, and‘ labour costs so ihuch that the money made in rais- illg minks has thus far been more through the sale of breeding stock than of pelts.

Dependable experiments have never been carried out in handling < otters in confinement. A generation ago. fur producers were optimistic but even those animals kept in zoological parks under the best conditions, in most cases never produced young. In one or two instances where young were born they did not live to matur- ity. Perhaps under the most favor- able conditions of care and seclusion it may be possible to raise thcm pro- fitably. but experiments must be con- ducted for some years before the in- dustry can be recommended.

A heavy foreign demand for black skunk fur about 1885 led ‘to close mllllling and its consequent scarcity So that many experiments in skunk farming were undertaken, but falling prices and other '- troubles led most breeders to abandon their attempts, although they had invested heavily in land and equipment. On careful in- vestigation it is found that‘ more money must be spent in feed and labor than can be realized from the sale of pelts at present prices.

The demand for live raccoons for both fur-farming and restocking de- pleted hunting areas in the U.‘ S. A. has encouraged many persons to raise these animals. 1n some States large numbers of raccoons are imported annually and freed to furnish sport "for hunters. The industry seems pro- mising if the animals can be produced economically in captivity.

(To be continued)

_OUR PARISH MAGAZINE

(By ROGER B. PFTIESTMAN) The Curate writes on “How to feed Canaries."

Or “How I taught my guinea-pig

to swlml"

There are letters from our foreign

missionaries,

The Vicnr's Warden dashes off a

hymn.

There's on article on “Cultivating lettuce And mangel-wurzels," signed Pris- cilln Pratt;

A‘ short descriptive talk of “Aunty Betty's." On “How to trim and decorate l hat."

There are "Notes on horticulture" by

the Vicar. With “Thoughts on Mother's meet- lngs" by the Dean:

And “A week-end trip to Paris," by

our tenor. Percy Harris, Ohl it's literature, our Parish Mag- azine!

We hon o nloc lino argues. handled or Wlillwl-l" . Illlllo or double blt ltylo. They on guaranteed.

Boating of Cross-Cut sown. We hove "will 5'1 "m"

Bethune Hardware Co‘. Ltd.

lfl Queen Street

NOVA scorn PRODUCES $200,000 WORTH or BLUEBERRIES ‘ YEARLY

In a report published by the Depart- ment of Commerce, T. Jaeckel, Amer- ican consul-general, Halifax, Nova scotla, states that according to an es- timate of the Province of Nova Scotla there is an average yearly production of around $200,000 worth o! blueber- ries in Nova. Scotla, the greater por- tion o! which comes from the wmern part of the province.

It is estimated that Nova Scotla exported around 352,000 ' quarts of bluebe fies (valued $35,000) to the United States during the past season, with an average price of approximate- ly 118150.; pound.

Mr Jaeckel states that the Depart- ment of Natural Resources of the Pro- vince of Nova Bcotla is encouraging production o! blueberries, being con- vinced that production can» be in- creased considerably on account of the fact that blueberries grow well on soils not adapted to other agricultural purposes. Reoenfiy, the government of the Province of Nova Scotlo gave the blueberry industry recognition in a special act drawn with a view to en- ‘couraglng the cultivation of blueber- ries. = Blueberry associations have been formed throughout the Province lot Nova Bcotio; the government, thr- ough it: forestry brunch, has co-ap- erlted with the association in select- ing those Iron but suited to tho pro- duction o! blllQbIflM.

InoLondoncoul-tmdivorcocaoes onbeiugheard thisaelllon.

cdlndaponarebeingmadnbymo Bwldllhlllfichlflllk

"rho New Iceland. Government in oolitrlbuflnl fuudl to new flying clubs.

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NEWSY FARM NoTas

By Agricola

Heredity and the Horse

Every red-blooded individual is frankly interested in horse-racing. The human race has spent so much of its long history in the struggle to progress, that anything which per- tains to physical fitness or mental alertness stirs the deepest feelings of our being. Hence o. fine specimen of a horse receives our admiration—even our homage. We feel that behind that winning performance there is a re- cord of racial and individual develop- nlent which has requlredtllne and the exercise oi‘ many admirable traits,

1 take (for reasons which will appear) the record of progress on the track from 1845 to 1913, a period of seventy years. Flora Temple, an American horse held the record in 1845, for a mile in 2:245 but had reduced it, her- self, to 2:19 and three quarters be- fore slle left the track. By 11384 Jay Eye See had brought the record down to 2:10. Lou Dillion in 1903 made the mile in 2 minutes exact. Ten years later (1913) Uhlan made it 1:54.

Thus in 70 years the record for the trotted mile had been broilglll. down from 2 min., 24.5 scc., to 1 min, b4 sec... and improvement of nearly per cent.

Now what factors are responsible for this ilnprovelilellt? Some are quite evident. When the bicycle sulky re- placed lilo old wooden affair in 1892. four seconds was clipped from tho re- cord. The great improvement in the track itself, and in tllc lnciilccls oi training helped also. But these. though helpful, are not the most un- portant factors, or else a skillful irainel‘ should be nble to put any horse into a modern sulky and get racing speed.

No. racing speed is ill lllc blood. Look up the ancestry of the record- brcakers of that 7O years, and you will see, time after time. the nimles of a few famous‘ breeding animals in the pedigree of_ nearly nil of them. Alix in 1893 had made 2:03 and three- quarters, and I select him as it is pos- sible to trace his ancestry back to the ninth generation. Even ‘so only 290 out of a possible 1.022 can be found. Ill this known 290. Imported P/lcssellg; 21

ents or grandparents 6i times. O" looking at it anolllol- wily, out 0f 96 known animals lll the ninth genera- tion of Alix’ pedigree, lvlrsscnger plus his parents and grandparents made up 65. So that if the some hold till’: for his unknown ‘ancestry Alix was 60 per cent bless-anger blood.

-Now Messenger was an imported stallion brought to the U. S. A-. in 1788. He traced back to‘ Godolpllul Arabian and Darley Arabian, lurc- elders of England's best racing stock; and taking the 22,238 animals regis- tered in the U. S. A. to the end oi 1906 16,495 are descended from Im- ported Messenger. One hundred and

occurred as sire 33 times. and his par- ‘

nlaterinl will take up fo\ll- pounds oi liquid. Best of all is dried mat which will absorb five pounds. But the two last are difficult to come nt ill u thor- oughly dried condition. so the farmer t is, as a rule compelled to rely on his‘ 'straw_ At ten pounds of straw per day we may calculate that each head will require one ton 01' straw ill illc ycal‘.

in the saving of the liquid.

FARIHING IN NEW ZEALAND

Rothamstead Experimental Station at Harpendell, Eng, has been in New Zealand, and at a banquet in London recently. told all about llis inlpres- siolls. He was struck by the rcinarlz- able . adaptation‘ of’ the North Island to gross husbandry-it might have

ilbeen made for the purpose. 'l."lle grass r ‘land he saw was increasing in amount l i and improving in quality. In the Wai- ‘

l kato, cattle are out all the year round and there is no importation

_that it was not uncommon to carry six or seven cows on tell acres of land-a tiling which it would be dif- ficult to do in England, without ex- pensive purchasing of winter iced. He found one urn with 41 cow's on '10 acres who was selling 15 D00 pounds cl buit/"iilt uiv 1.. zlurmr: revenue 0f licnrly $5.500 ill ozlliiliell i to the skimmed lalillz.

Warm l/Vater

l Tests show llull a dairy cow tirilllz". ‘

about four gallons; oi‘ water for. cLlvh gallon of milk shc produces.

‘means that a cow giving five gallons ‘

‘of milk o clay must have approxi- klnatcly 20 gallons‘ of water.

I Dalrymell have obsrrvod that covu"

‘compelled i0 drink at an Llllllcllflfl‘

outdoor tank ill cold weutiler do not ‘take so much water as they need. ‘They also c-nilsidcr outdoor exposure harmful 4o the cows when tho winds 'nre cold and i313 wcuakcr :12. m‘. Members oi" dairy herd inlprove- uncut associations often flud that lllc lllfililllfltlilll of uutollillllc llrinkizua ‘cups in their barns lllCFEilSES illc iprcductioil of tllcii" cows 9 or l0 per ‘cent. One clairymnn says that keen- .il1g a constant supply of fresh wu- ter before his cows in drlillzing cups saved hinl an hour's labor a day. Ill.- considers his investment in drinking cups the most pTGlllJblO he over ‘made.

PERU HAS OPPORTUNITIES

l FOR CANADIAN TRADE i

I Opportunities for increased troll“.

. W‘,

wig Qlearance Sale Y

and anything less" ullll indicate a lcsii.

Sir John Russell, director of the ‘

of expensive feeding stuff. He found _

a. HORNE o» c0.

Uri Sleigh Robes—-— ' l Fill" Qoats and Sleighs

DISCOUNTS "-—"_

1'" 5A9"- MBES z BOX SLEIGHS

:::: i-Zl’; Discount ranging , 20". DIFl-ounl ..__._......______ from - P’ . . , . . 5 ,1“ “OMS 20° s rum. stclolls to 20% Discount (irl-jv and Black 3Z1 l-Bf‘? Discount 50% "‘-"'“ 5 DRIVING SLEYGUS 0 V 20'), Discount l0 run cons Sale f0!‘ Q‘ 3.’! 14X} Discount 3 HFLEURY“

(ERAIN GEHNrJhZKS

ONLY

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so IIGRSE RUG-S Feb- 18H 33 1'3” Di*"°‘~"" 25f}, Discount to. l0 SETS 51.010 Solid Nizkel “unless with ‘.30 “.1316” BELLS Heavy Straps-Brclvclliilgsand Terms Tfa-"m- ‘IVI lllfirgnunt 50'.’ Disrupt»!

i For Cows

Til is l

..,_,,____..,___,.____,_,___, SPO?‘ (‘A SH lliNG MUST (l0 AS WE NEED Till‘) CASil. (Halli. EARLY AND GET FIRST CHOICE.

Qpot Cash Only

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noses-a- n11? fin‘... _-___.._.=- t». ~u\:"$r4.".*:)~fl£;1 mm. _~<r.=.s »-

seventy of the 180 trotters of the 2:1’) between Canada and Peru were ill‘- class were his, and 146 out of 150 cf ‘scribed by D. Cuetarzi, Peruvian Con-

mour of cvory five matches prcduc- 11088 daily, EXCGIJtlIIQ Saturday, paying high. est market prices.

the most famous pacers. ‘ Surely pride in ancestry is justifi- able in race horses!

srnaw IN THE smalls.

Of the two fol-ms of animal excre- ta, the liquid ls iilc more valuable. Nearly all the potash of animal manure is contained in the liquids voided. Comparing a ‘ion o1 the SOlltis with a ton of the liquids. the nitrogen content of the former is less than half that of the latter. Seeing their that this liquid manure is so valuable, absorbcnis to save and hold it are a prime necessity. Cattle produce l8 to 25 lbs liquid a day. and one pound o: straw will absorb 2.5 lbs of this liquid, consequently 10 lbs of straw will be required for each animal per day. ‘This of course is used as bedding. and one ton of this tvlll absorb the equivalent of forty lbs of nitrogen and fourteen of potash, the value of which added to the value of the straw mak- es a total of nearly $13: this is of course assuming straw to be wort. wper ton intrinsic value. Straw then can hardly be used in ally better way. Hay is not so good an absorbent, as one lb will only take up 1.5 to 2 lbs of liquid, and dried leaves, sometimes used, have the same ratio. Dried sawdust is better: one pound of this

LIVE, ‘ HOGS

We are taking llVl

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isul at Montreal. when speaking LIZ

‘the Matinee broadcast through CNlmi P,

lcf the Canadian NatiolTrll Railways in that city on January 29th.

die sold “Canadians are apparent.-

ly realizing more fully the possibil- ities which await tllem in Peril. Till} trade between the Donliniou and Porn .is increasing and there ls anticipa- ltion of a much larger increase dill’- ‘illg illc current ycar.

The Consul proceeded lo say iCllllildll. buys a great dcul of polio.- icuui from Peru and ill return so‘ whiskey, wheat, flour, vegetable oi conned salmon, condensed milk, in 1i machinery, lulnbcr, automobile tire.-

cement, pipe and tubing, Will] [lfllh-l and other articles to a lesser extent.

He advised direct representation i\_\ lCanadian firms ln South America i=1 torder to learn the customs and rt- iquircmellls of those markets filTl (was emphatic on the need of carry- l lng out business transactions in the I Spanish language.

Mr. Cuetara said "As the lbfétlf , part of Canada's exports to Peru goes‘ lthrough New York, I would not bc surprised lf a great part of it enters the republic as American goods."

cnara-rnurr nanrr'

Growing Popularity of Empire _ Product

A remarkable increase in the con- . sumptlon of grape-fruit ln Gran: Britain is recorded ill an Enlpirc Marketing Board Booklet published by the Stationery Office.

1n 192i there were imported 34.- 818 boxm. By i931 the imports hall increased tn 606,458 boxes.

Of tho 1927 imports the United States sent 501.314 boxes. the British West Indies 47,408. and other coun tries of the British ltmnll-e 02,003.

‘S the Am- dor supplied annually by Jack Frost. seen breaking on .- olothrll in the icy splcn- Tile seething foaming w: tr~'<f~'l; is iu- formations.

file l"1f_~'lli’irclll

lluli

Nearly $25,000,000 was paid ln ad-

Davis £4’ Fraser

missions to moving picture shows in Jamil last year.

(lreatest Premium Yet Offered

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“Everbrite" lV/lite Metal Spoons

Plor every yearly, new or renewal subscription received i0 Tile Charlottetown Guardian it will entitle the sender to their choice of a half Dozen Tea or Dessert. “ltverlvrile” White Metal Spoons.

ll ere is your opportunity to get in on a real premium.

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