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Silver Fox Farming

ailveau that brought the blu llrice above.

mim all fox wit: found a NBC]! “"1; the United States and Great Britain and we would any that the average

The Master Rancher. published" by the Department of Fur Bear- ing Animals by Master Feeds. Tor- onto. January n 1'. has ir- rived and is devoted to the ury pelt Mink sale at Montreal. Edited and written by D1’, Beadle Bcwness it has a particu- larly excellent review of the mink sale analysing the reasons why wild mink was sold at 37'... higher than ranch mink and Why buyers want wild mink in preference to ranch mink. Dr. Bownees e patience and ability to 8o into such matters thoroughly and for those who are interested in mink farming we would advise sending for a copy if they have not already received one. We will look for- vrord very eagerly for his Master Rancher No. 2 on the January fox pelt sale.

Last week the Montreal Fur Sales iCanada) Ltd. sale of silver fox and mutations held in Mont- real was announced as successful with some advance‘ and a falrly good demand. This week the

anadian For Auction Sales Com- pany started selling silver fox on Wednesday with an‘ offering of .; 0.000 pelts in ihe first SBCUOIIIOI the catalogue. 0n "i'liursdfll' 3'71 silver fox show pelts from Ontario ' and Prince Ediward Island and > 9.000 other silvers of the second . l section were on sale and yegiief" day the third section consisting of 0.000 skins was offered. By toe time this reaches you you will ., hive had reports on these in the L‘ Guardian from George A. Call- beck. Manager of the Fur Mar- keting Department, Canadian Na- tional silver Fox Breeders As- sociation. who is attendina’ U19 sale.

urns in Janu- ty

the same

ed sllv

when th

have

that way.

Lampson d:

River 100x

Personally we do not look for much advance in price as the markets in New York seem to be - ' Just holding their own. There the it poorer qualities of silver_fox are ~. practically neglected ano buyers seem to want only the better ;‘ lack of I

breeding a

grades. No doubt the

linings has had its effect as the coat and suit trade would be pre- vented from making up their usual quantities. but the big trouble is me taxes. 200', in the U. S. A. and 2'1" in Canada. Until these are removed 0i‘ at least halved, sil- Til‘ fox auctions will show low prices. Now that parliament is in session at Ottawa and the budget vlll be broukht down. our efforts should be devoted towards having the Hon. Mr. Ilsley either remove the 25”» tax or at least half it.

No one finds fault with his handling of his department. He has been an excellent Minister of Finance. but. he has certainly not .1 received good advice with regard . t"- tlic taxing of fur breeders. Fox " firmers are the one people in all ‘ Canada who have gone through 1- the war without a profit or if they

1911. George

and

in

the others i one

tc our local

they don't want to go in whole- sale for the production of muta- tions. If they do boat rancher: who are tohy mg some very platinums and white also a lot of v

rounds them w

ra/ther interesting. A

that was that gave them four pairs which v being prolific soon built up a nice herd. among them some of the finest silvers in the Cbtlnhry, n. over, was one of these three-quarter e

have made a profit it has been by the sale of live foxes or new types or by the production of plat- in quantities or other new pes in quantities. and that has been done at the expense of the E. backbone of their rancbea Right hero we -wa.ut breeders

they will be in with

indifferent mark- foxes, plat unis and poor SIB.

No one knows what will happen

e u market opens t V ‘ up again. The people of Great bluish black necks and very bright Britain. Frame and most of the w countrlu of Europe have not seen any silver foxes for sale for five years and there is every probabil- ity that the glamour which sur- ill not have been forgotten and that they will be wanting them. V been educated up to plat- in-ums. pearl platinums and such types and perhaps they will want. the darker Silver types. certainly the three-quarter silvers, must not get too far away from these types even though our mar- kels today do not reflect

They

How different things are from i918 when World War I ended. In December of that year C. M. Co. held an auction of silver fox pelts and the top price was obtained for a beautiful three-quarter silver from the Seal

many others. dropped out in the tough times around i920 to i900.

- the that

western reduc-

will

SOWS

. things

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l)

The story of that company is ary prices of 1028.. 1n December. years ago last fall . . McDonald. Morrison established seven George E. Aultl and Pope Fletcher. a all since deceased. went to Char- les Daltons ranch in Tignlsh to purchase a pair of silver fox pups for breeders. Mr. Dalton told them he regretted that he had nothing ado. to suit them. that the only pair oi pups he had were born in May he never had any success with May pups. However. bought them for $7,000 and the 09X‘? $911118 Billy Jenkins brought established are still continuing to the glad news that- the pair produce good silvers and muta- had a. lit/ter of seven. n5, traded to bring in new blood and

‘ ‘ ’ together with purchased.

they l’!

Two were tio

and

produced many of the belt Dalton foxes in Prince County.

atraina of

“M a m gaiton’: we must not ‘aver-gab the mute one aptain liilia strain. e

but remember six of there which the

genial Captain. who caane down

from Boston every fall tn sell his

pelts. showed us prior to selling

em to

an average of 0125. They were

silver ranging from one-eighth half or three-quarters. There was plenty of resiliency to the fur and the color was real Bcod. It may b6 that in those days we were not accustomed to the very clear color which we insist upon having to- not day. that foxes keipt on mother earth. which they usually burrowed into. could be on wire bottoms as they are to- day. But anyhow they were beau- tiful and the picture still remains and can easily be recalled. were boom days indeed and as we look back now at almost the end c ference in prices for our product we vronder what the days of peace will bring, slump or market and greater demand and some rise in so. Ranchlng Company, a Ltd. of Seal River, P. E. I. ‘The ranch manager of that company was William Jenkins, who is still certain number sales of silver fox pelts at up to foxes, but the company itself, like $605 for selected one-half silver skins and up to $000 for selected three-quarter silver skins.

That made a total of 14 ranches in the state. thev shipped 97 pairs of foxes to their various ranches in Color-

werc two of the most active silvlel:

Randall was one of the most ad-

He was a Nova Scotlan and had the ability cf putting his views

arice per pelt would be in the v init ti taco. The next Sarina. flamb- lm, at C. M. Lamuwn Company's gels in London, waiter S. Grant sold upwurdl of fifty lia for Par Producers. Ltd. C ottetown. It an average of over 0600.

was a particular] fine collection. incstig uthr-lele-quariers bu; 63:11:“: ew a vera. They

from Tu stock creased with

In mentioning good

W. Chester S. McLui-e for

ypical Bolton's with beautiful

It does not seem possible

as clear as those kept

Those this war and think of the dif-

further

whether a the

a broadening of

. .. We hope (Average price at February ion in Montreal was $29.50).

price. ..

llCt

Seventeen years ago the New l; York Auction Comparw reported

These rices were 20% above the Janu- . .. .. Seventeen

Milligan and new ssociated ranches in Colorado.

it

In December of 1921 of

Messrs. Milligan 6s Morrison L“

"Ema" i“ ‘mmlci “m snared re this wonderful and ihe “by”? amwmfh m" 3°“ fascinating era of our Island's friends Edflar and George have mum-w

assed on the ranches which they

Seventeen years ago Dr. E. A. ertised men in the fox industry.

most‘ magazines carrying

rticles by him that were very

L,\,‘l,',l\|,';>l Jtliliitiiilifi minim ...,........~....@».

readable and merit. The Spring of 192a in livered an addrem to the mom. bets of the Colorado Fox Breede ers Association in Denver. .: .. Seventeen years ago Messrs. Me. Lure 8r. MacKliiiion of Charlotte- town had just returned home from attending the Hudson's Bay com. army's auctions in London where large quantities of silver fox pelts Purchased in Prince Edward Isl- and were sold by that company. Prices were high and a pelt sent over by Edgar Milligan roi- Milli- kan d: Morrison sold for the equiv- alent of $1.260 and sixty pelts sold for an average of £60 or approx- imately $300 each. highest priced pelt sold on that auction was from McLure d: Mac- Kinrion Silver Fox Farms, Ltd, and

We have received a letter from our good friend Dr. R. l-I. Mac- Donald of Saskatoon conunenting on the write up of the Frank F‘. Tuplin. He said he found

that every effort be made to col- lect all the data that could be ob- tained regarding the early history

ter up with B. Graham Rogers. who is writing

hope that ‘ere it is too late as much material as possible will be

F0! TI/E mnr wit" g s, ‘"1540 m: fi

‘A

5.113201‘)??? ( p; P, iiJ-tfrliiif croft...

ail-Flowers your

had considerabfe de-

The second

brought over $000.

life o!

most interesting and suggested

the industry. We took the mat-

to his uncle. Fred Rogers in Saint John. aiid we

flown, Kent, that measures 5 feet in girth. There is. it observed. nothlnd Very

that measurement. tor Pennant. a

NOTES -1

must be in

where he found a Yew rneasur‘ 56 feet in diameter. though time had wasted it to a hollow shell. with only a few leaves at point. eiit years. says he has seen ‘Yews of 2'1 feet.

ish Isles and in Gaul. according to Julius Caesar, and this is cor- roborated by the umerous trunks embedded Ireland. It seems to have been re- garded as a. sacred tree. perhaps an emblem of immortality. owing to its long life, and the durable character of its wood. Almost al- ways. the Yew growing in old church- yards and the argument has aris- en, was the Yew planted there be- cause of its own sanctity. or was the church built near the sacred tree? Abbey, Yorkshire, the trees were there first. the monks and workmen slept in the shelter of’ the Yows while the buildings took shape. Some years ago I visited the Abbey. now in ruins, and inspected the old trees which were still standing but much decayed. Their noble owaier had clone all he could to prolong their lves. led with cement. forked props sulp- ported their decrepit branches, and wire cables or guys Prevent"! 0911' ers from falling.

in Caesar's time. Yews are scarce in England now. By a law

Edward IV (1400) every English- man was to provide himself with a bow, of his “Yew. , borne". the last-named being now known as labumum. The Yew with its compact. wood. stands at the head of the list and the supply naturally he- caime exhausted first. was passed that

0H8 Sir James Hooker. in rec-

l‘ . Yews were abundant in the Brit-

in the peat-bogs of

‘W I nowadays, one only finds

In the case of Fountains built in 1132. since

Their hollows had been fil- Whatever they may have been

own height.

wych-hazel. ash or aw-

hard. and elastic

Then a law

every shloman

BI‘

. handling of the bow; for the arch-

I have never heard of’ our -"Am- erican Yew" being poisonous stock, hut it is a well-known fact that the twigs and leaves of the English, Yew. eaten in very small quantities, horses ported. will crop them with im- punity. that sheep and goats are immune to the poison. Turkeys and oth- goultry eat the leaves and fruit out harm. Whilst heard of cattle dying after eat-

it

ing trimmings from In old ‘

from the sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries. may be seen Yews cut ln/to the shapes of birds and beasts. or globes and other geometrical figures. These are trimmed an- nually to keep them in shape, and t the artifice is known as topiary

protested against which was the fashion time. "I. for my part." he says in his Essays. cut out in Juniper (yew?) and oth- er garden stuff; dren." bring my desultorv notes on the Yew tree to a. cl

It was, ii’ rn the Rev. Char-es Kinglsley wrote a poem about a hairy oubit. Well. on March 0th. I found one trawling about outside, quite ob- livious to the wintry outlook. This hardy caterpillar. locally known I believe. as a. Woolly densely covered with long, hair. dlspcs tions: fore and aft it was black. while the middle third was brown- ish red. Gan any of my entomo- logical friends tell me what ibis "oubit" feeds on and what moth it ultimately beomes? I have also seen "oublts" clothed in bringing 1n a butt o; Maimny white, but later in the year.

heir mua-

t0

Eve bit, th the are certain death to and cows. Deer, it is re-

v1

and Linnaeus observed The Olly

C01 th shtfihtsif. out history. 51 A.D.. t

in England

a Yew he e. W"

gardens du g

the Roman

Colouia Agrlppfn his wife here

The learned Lord Bacon this practice. of his towe

"do not like images

they be for chil- thls quotation I

With 08S. A Ilalry Oubit

memory SONGS, who

Bear. was erect ed in three equal sec-

Wrlte for

yellow and

VEGETAILE SEEDS ASPARAGUS» ~ Mary Waalriugtou-Pkt. .. 0e BEANS: Yellow 8i Green-Pod (Bush) Davis Wax Golden Wax Pencil-Bod Blltk W8! Bound-Pod Kidney Wax Bountiful Green Pod Teudergreeu Plit i410. 1,410. ' 5e 10o 00a 00a 7 IEANS: Broad, Lima It Pole Broad Windsor; Duuk Burpee’: Imp. Buxla Lima. Scarlet Runner; Pole Kentucky Wonder Wax; Pale A Kentucky Wonder Green-Pod; Pele Pkt. K lb. If lb. 1 lb. 0o 10o 80o 50a BEANS: Yellow Eye (Belt for Baking) ‘,5 lb. 1S0; I lb. 300. IEET: Alwuya Teutler Croabyb Rypflau Detroit Dark Red Early Flat Egyptian Early Wonder Pkt. i ca. K lb. 5e 20c ‘I00

l lb.

5f Ill. I. 1h. I-ll SJI

BORECOLE or Kale-PH. . . . . . ..5c BROCCOLl-Pltt. ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5: IRUSSELS SPROUTS-PH. . . . . . .50

CABBAGE:

Copenhagen Market; Baily Danish Bullhead; Lute Early Jeraey Wakefield Early Wtuulngutudt Golden Acre; Early

Green Awe; Barty

Large Late Flat Dutch Penn State Bullhead; Late

Pkt. $6 “a. l on. 1,410. 5o 30o 55o 2.00 CARROT: Dauvefa Ialf Mug , PM. Mul- for. l/l lli. Ills. 5o 10o 30o 95c 3.25 CARROT: Chauteaa led Cored Nautaa Coreleaa Pki. lieu. fox. Klb. ilb. 0e 00o 00o 1.10 0.00 CAULIFLOWER:

Early Erfurt — Plit. ............ .. Extra Surly Snowball - Pkt.

Super Snowball; Early-Put. . 10a CELERY:

Golden Self-Blanehlug-Pkt. 10o

White Plume-Phi. 10o

CORN: Yellow Sweet Golden Bantam

Golden Suuahiue Pkt. K lb. l6 lb. i lb. l0 Ila 00o 00o

CORN: Hybrid Sweet Golden Crol “ ‘ Spaucroua Pkt. 541b, lg lb. 1 lb.

10c 200 35o 60c

CUCUMBER:

Early White Spine Improved Long Green National Pickling Straight Eight

Pkt. I or. i4 lb. 94 lb. $8 I00 70o Li! HERBS:

Summer Savory-Pit. KOHL RABl-Pkf.

LEEK-Pkt. ............. ..I..'Qs¢

LETTUCE: Black Seeded Iuipleu; Loose Leaf Grand Rapids; More ha! Ieeburg; Bead New York ll; Bead White Cos or Celery Lettuce; Head Pkt. l or. $4 lb. 0e 00a 70o MELON :

Citron (Per Preaerveal-Pkt. Muskmelou; Ilouey Itock-Pkt. .... ..

Watermelon; Cole’: Early, Greeu-Pkt. ONION:

Early Yellow Globe

Yellow Globe Dauvers

Plit. l5 or. l 0a.

0e Ila Q

ONION:

Large Bed Wetlaeralelil White Portugal or Silver Skin Pll- ti ca. l or.

Is 8S0 00a

ONION SETS: . nu» Dutch-Lb.

PARSLEY: Double Curled-Pkt. PARSNIP: Hollow Crewu Improved Pkt. lea. 5i lb. Ilb. 0e 12o m 1.25 PEAS: Early Varieties American Wonder; Dwarf laxfmfu Progreaa; Dwarf Telephone; Dwarf Thomas Laxfou; Dwarf LATE VAIIETIES: Stratagem; Tall Telephone; Tall Plit. ‘A lb. $5 lb. lib. l0 10o I06 30o

C

5e .50

Ia

I00

5e

TCartefs i945 I

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E.

PUMPKIN: I‘ 'field"'—'Plrt;' t

...._..I4fll‘te Cheese-Pitt. Mammoth or Jumbo-Pitt. Small Sugar ‘(Beat for Plow-Pitt. .. PEPPER:

Harrie‘ Earlieat Sweet —Plrt. RADISH:

French Breakfast

Icicle ‘

Scarlet Globe

Scarlet Turnip White Tip

Pkt. 5o; 1 ca. I00 SPINACH:

Bloomadal Long Standing

King of Denmark

Pkt. 5o; 1 ox. 10o SQUASH:

Bolton Marrow; Golden Hubbard;

Green II “ ; Vegetable Marrow.

Pkt. 5c; 1 oz. 15c. SWISS CHARD:

Giant Lucullua

Pkt. l4 ea. l ca. 34 lb.

0e 10o 20o 70o TOMATO:

Bonny Beet

Earliaua

Marglobe

Pkl. 54 oz. l or.

Se 40c 10o TURNIP: (Garden)

Early sl-r Weeka-Pkt.

Golden Ball—PkL

FLOWER SEEDS ANNUALS

. I0 I0

Packet ,AGEBATUM, Blue Cap .......................... “I00 ALYSSUM: lweat WBIIO Carpet of luuw Violet Queau .. ANTIRRIIINUM or SNAPDBAGON Super Majeatle Tall Mixed Blue Ribbon Bedding, Dwarf . ASTII. Gfaut Crqu Mixed Flue Branching Mixed . IALSAM Double Mixed Dwarf .......................... ..l0e

CALLIUPSIS, Dwarf Mixed ....... .. CANDYTUFT, 'Fll'l'elt 'Mlxed

100

“JIOQWT ZINNIA

CENTAURI-IA or BACIIELOR'S BUTTON

Double Mixed COSMOS, Single Mixed CLARIIIA, Double Mixed . ESCIISCIIOLTZIA

California Poppy, Flue Mixed GAILLARDIA, Double Mixed GYPSOPIIILA or BABY'S BREATH KOCIIIA or MEXICAN FIRE BUSII LARKSPUB, Gtauf. Imperial Mixed LINUM or SCARLET FLAX LOBELIA, Crystal Palace, Dark Blue MARIGOLD

Afrloau Mixed

French Dwarf Mixed MIGNONETTE, Odorata. Mixed . MATTIIIOLA, Evening Scented NASTURTIUM

Empreal of India.

Scarlet Gem, Double Dwarf

Golden Gleam-l or. 25o

Tull and Dwarf, Mixed-l ox. 25c

NICOTIANA, Flowering Tobacco, PANSY

Giaut Trluiardeau, Mixed .

Masterpiece. Mixed ......... .. PETUNIA

Balcony Mixed ..

lrbrlda Mixau . PIIDOX. Flue blxad POPPY, Shirley Mixed PODTULACA, Double Mixed

urcmua OP casroit on. BEAN

SAI-VIA er IOABLIT SAG! SALPIGLOISIS, Mixed .. SOABIOSA er MOUBNIIVG BRIDE Double Tall Mixed SUNFLOWER, Double Dwa SWEET PIAS Burpeeb Giant ltuflletl Mix0ule

if I0. 01.00; l ea. 00o

Sperueor Type Mlxed

K lb. SIM; I ox. 40c

TEN WEEK STOCKS Dwarf Double Mixed .......................... ..