BABK ASAIII With the same old Greeting Merry tthrlstmas

and

May the New Year be Happy and Prosperous

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To our many friends the same old wish in the same

old way.

Merry Christmas

Greetings

We cherish the thought at the tine associations that have been

aurs . . . and take this means

at expressing our heartfelt ap-

preciation for your friendship.

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May the divine Magic

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Ibe with You Always

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ternational Fur Conference

m lidichigan and Wiscons

would mean a big loss to

consignment from

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along with domesticated furs.

ago, the Niemarfs their largest farms 1n

grades the pelts and oversees

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Silver Fox "and y Mink Farming

Readers o! these notes will re- memy," “m; on, o; m, mo" reason is that the fall has been

prominent men attending the in-

“ r ds Th hi t 1

Charlattetow last July was Robert ﬁnguﬂogfhu b“; Bwacg): lgd

Stephenson of the Niemen ﬁnches another very grebt factor Is the Mr.

Stephenson told us that the iirm 'l‘o offset this a number of mink had deliberately killed 16.000 silver breeders in Illinois and elsewhere fax pups of the late utters last have banded together and are go- May as they realized then that ev- ing to start their own mgnufgct- ery pelt they brought to maturity Ihem- U011 to dispose of their product Now rwe learn that the Nlemalfs it is currently reported that they have pelted all of the 30.000 silver will employ Esther Doraty. the fox at the Hiawatha. Fur Farms, famous fur designer, and 5h; ‘ha; i-iermansvlile, Mich" and have also not denied the statement so it is‘ pelted down to 1,250 pairs o! foxes likely to go through. Th1; h“ as compared to a carry-over last thrown quite a jolt into the ranks year of 12,500 pairs. They are pelt- of the Associated Fur Manufact- ing right along and will not have urers in New York and they are the ‘work completed unti‘. the lat- examining all phases of the litua. ter part 0t this month. Their first Hermansville the high cost of fur manulgcgum New York Auction about two weeks ago and for the first time in many years this crop aésermm be“

of pelts had to be sent to Younk- does not twins oflkiatangtglng m“, ers. N.Y. because of the shortage the volunw m. m“ m

ot fur storage in New York City time as he did years ago and h“ as a result oi Russian fur imports wages have trebled or quadrupled‘

The Herbert A. Nieman Comp- any is an offshoot oi the Fromm‘s, Edward Fromm is married to Mr. NIeman‘s sister and they are cous- ins once or twice removed. The break in the family fur fortunes occurred quite a number of years establishing

northern Michigan and other farms in Wis- cousin. Their biggest years pro- auction of fox pelts was something 0\ er 45,000 and they bred a dark-

1 r1 Fr ‘s. '1 ~ a glulzem “garage: tgmpfoduse‘fhe“fg‘l, the sales tax in the United States

in plans Herbert A. Nleman. who a large part of the work along with Mr. Stephenson. said — “Many other fox breeders including my iEdward Fromm) switched their farms to mink but 1 do not think the shift wortn- 511- m‘ females for nice strings while. Though mink are cheaper to A‘ Winnipeg The 511ml! dill’ ranch raise as their feed costs only from mink “'35 abm" 15°?‘ 801d Eli Prices belie“, unchanged at. recent sales.

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mend for e11 kinds of furs. One

cne o! the mildest on’ record and stores have had s. hard time mov-

high cost of manufacturing furs.

“I108 Plant and sales organiza-

tion to see what can be done ghoul

1t is mostly blamed on labor, the laborer

At Seattle. Washington, Dec. tot-h, ranch mink was 60% sold at November opening prices, which were 85% below last year. Fine skins brought $13. to $17.; ordin- ary $10.‘ to bitkew skins." Silver- blu were 36% sold at an average of from $17. to $21; Blue Frost were

' 88% sold at an average of $0. to

$7; Koh-I-Nur was 40% sold at an average o! $6. to $0: Muskrat: were 00% sold, extra large north-west- erns bringing $1.75 to $1.86; med- iums end small B5 cents to $1.00. Silver Fox was 45% sold, selected skins brought $1'l; fuli silvers. $14; three-quarters I11; halves $8; quart-er l. Platinum Silver Fox was 21% sold. mediums brought $25; darks $18; pales $15. White face silver fox was 40% sold, pales brought $16; mediums $13 and darks $9. _ .

, At the American National Co- operative Fin- Auction held in Milwaukee. December 16th, about 88% of the 5,600 mutation mink and about 809i. at the standard mink was sold. The goods were of average quality. Top prices were. Sllverblu mink $39; Pastel mink $34; Breath of spring Mink $40; ranch mink ml for extra large males. Muskrat $1.90.

Pelting has been completed in this province and the furs have been sent to marketing organiza- tions, Canadian National Silver I-‘ox Breeders Association and the

the same

This and other high costs o! a plant in New York City has jump- ed the price of making a 111311- class mink coat to $800. When you add the cost of the mutation mink and 20% sales tax and then put a lretail price on the garment, it puts it beyond the capacity o! any hut the very rich to buy. The same thing holds good on a small- er scale for all types of furs.

We have mentioned from time to time that a very strong agitation is on in the United States and must be made in this country. to have the government do away with

and the excise and sales taxes in

fl‘ . ‘ll~ lid (l. ,. ZlBh-eightorwhfl: 16:962. Wm l“ °°““"*'- and 515° ‘° Pl" 5°!“ resttricitionslon the wholesale im- (JT T - Mentioning the sudden change Eda? on o foreign m“ Int“ ca“

Only 15% of the ranch mink of- fered was sold at the December 15th Western Canada Raw Fur Auction. Vancouver. B.C. Prices were around $17. for males and

P.E.I. Fur Pool. Ltd., Summerside, tn be graded and priced in con- formity with the Agricultural Pro- ducts Marketing Act. 1t is too early to find out just how many pelts have been taken off 1n this province, but there must be a very considerable drop from last year when the Canadian National handled 55.000 silver fox and mut- ations, and the P.E.I. Fur Pool also a very large number. A good auth- ority places the breeding stock re- tained on PEI. Fur Farms at 15% of that which was held over three years ago.

Similar cuts but probably not as deep. are being made ln Ontario and western Canada. Just what the situation is in Quebec no one seems to know. It Quebec could cut down to rack bottom it would be a good thing. then all Canada would be in a position if fox furs improved in price to get back to prices that would at least pay the cost of production. Cost of pro- duction on Prince Edward island ranches has variously been stated to be from $25. to $40. a pelt. de- pending on the number looked af- ter by a person and the cost of feed and labor.

$10. to $14. a grear. yet. I mink will soon be over-produced too". What the Fromnfs are doing is not being made public. They are more secretive than ‘the Niemanks and they have what might be termed an advantage in that they conduct a factory for manufact- uring furs in New York. They had one in Wisconsin also but it had not been utilized of late. We could not find out last July whether Fromms had appreciably dimin- ished their fox breeding efforts or not, but we presume they have as it would not be good business to make the mink carry the ioxes. l Just what quantities o! furs they have in storage is also an unknown factor, but no doubt there are quite a large number yet to be disposed oi. Mr. Nleman points out that it costs between $30. and $40. to raise e fox and that at the Oct- ober sale in New York they aver- lged $11.23 and averaged $12.00 in November.

The lest few months l-isd wit- nessed a. tremendous drop in de-

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Cook": Corner

TURKISH DELIGHT

a scent tablespoons gelatin

l. lemon‘ t

1 large orange

3 cups granulated sugar

Soak gelatin in 2-8 aup oold water. Put the sugar with 2-8 cup oold water aver the ﬁre and stir until it dissolves and Milne l0 boil. Add the soaked gelatin. Boil gently !or. 20 minutes, add the juice of orange and lemon. There should be from 1-2 to 8-4 cup fruit Juice. Pour into a wet mold having mixture about 1 inch deep Allow to set and then cut in squares and roll in ﬂruit sugar and cornstarch, using 2 parts sugar to 1 part cornstarch Nuts fruit and coloring matter may be added i! desired. l

FUDGES-BASIC RECIPE

2 cups sugar

2-3 cup liquid

1 tablespoon butter

1-4 teaspoon cream oi’ tartar or

2 tablespoons com syrup

Flavoring.

Boil siuzar, cream of tartar and liquid to "soft ball" stage 33B to 2381". Add butter, let. boll l min- ute longer. Let stand until almost. lukewarm. add flavoring and beat until smooth and creamy. Pour into buttered tin. mark in squares, let stand until ﬂrm and dry.

BUTTERSCOTCH STICKS

‘.3 cup butter

1 9E8

1 teaspoon baking powder

‘A cup nut meats

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup flour

1 teaspoon vanilla.

Melt butter in saucepan, add sugar and blend well, cool. Add

beaten egg and be‘at well. Sift

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flour. salt and baking powder and ' add to ﬁrst mixture. Add nuts and

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vanilla and bake in a shallow pan ior thirty minutes in a hot oven. Cut while still warm.

i110 degrees F.) mixture begins to loses its gloss. Add- ‘broken nut in squares.

ter and vanilla. Cool to luke-ilvarm meats Just then beat until pan.

thicken

before turning Turn at once into grcasca and pan, 8x4 inches. When cold, cu‘

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ALMOND BUTTER CRUNCH

One cup butter, 1 cup sugar. 1-2 cup ﬁnely chopped cashew nuts. lightly toasted, 4 squares candy dipping chocolate. .

Add the butter to sugar in a saucepan. Place over low flame and stir constantly until sugar is dissolved. Cook until a' smal‘. amount of mixture becomes very brittle in cold water, stirring oc- caslonally to prevent scorching Add 1-4 cup nuts. Pour Into light» 1y buttered pan Bx8x2 inches Cool. Heat chocolate over boiling water untii partly melted. Spread 1-2 of chocolate over top and sprinkle with 1-2 of remaininz nuts. Cool until chocolate is firm invert. crunch and cover with re- malning chocolate. Sprinkle with remaining nuts. Cool until choco- iate is ﬁmn. Break in small ir- “cgular pieces.

CI-IOCOLATRFNUT FUDGE

Two squares unsweetened choo- olate, 3-4 cup milk, 2 cups sugar. dash of salt, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 cup broken "nut meats.

Add chocolate to milk and place

over low flame. Cook until mix- ture is smooth and blended, stir-

ring constantly. Add sugar and salt, and stir until sugar ie dil- solved and mixture "bails. Con- tinue boiling, without stirring un- til a small amount o! mixture !orms a very soft ball in cold wa-

ter. Remove from fire. Add but-

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Greeting,

Meny Christmas and a Happy New Year

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MANY CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS A

MERRY SIIRISTMAS

YOUR PATRONAGE IS WARMLY APPRECIATED

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.lOY ITO THE WORLD

...and to everyone,

And Mey the New Year Bring An Abundance of HEALTH AN-D PROSPERITY

' LARTER BROS.

Manufacturers Concrete Blocks and Concrete

Merry h istmas!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

WIIITLIIGK TIRE SERVIGE

TO THANK YOU FOR THE INNUMER- ABLE TIMES YOU'VE FAVORED US WITH

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RY CHRISTMAS

JOY . . . AND MAY '49 BE A GLAD NEW YEAR FOR YOU!

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Our Greeting ls An Old One

But . . . Christmas Is the time at year tor old song. wishes, old friends . . . so again we say, Merry Christmas 0H4 Beet Wishes tor the New Year. ‘

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