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c. of Philadelphia. Pa. ,,,x'.,"g'.;u:i'.u out a very convenient ,,,mgg which they have named Tubox, which is my to use 101' tum” fox and mink ranchers in

dminggjgflng penicillin. Edward 2...... .....-. ax we are- Lakes Mink Association. likes it Very much. He says: ”Keepin8 mink muthy is a big job. How- we,-, glnca Tubex came alone Wmi Lentovet (Penicillin) in Tub” cartridges most of our problerrnts are -olved. It combats the maio ll 0 I-nseases successfully and it is ens! , uge Tubex really K009” 0"" ,;;,,,, gmp ma staph infection: in R hwy, We generally givf til; mink a shot at the tilirst sstn 0” infection-or when ggyg iaemmk ihclr feed. 0”” "l ” E 9” . means the start of strep septicemia tion and Tubex enables us to mm: the trouble early in '-V": Eleni: The shots of Lentovet run . . .. (mm 300.099 um” w 6oo'3'(ll)limllie Tmd dosage chi?” 9”? 5)-g-inge and cartrldttk

. tment been Hildbilhii ilebv:v:7C9tYl::39 ii WW” iiiiavelsaved certain ranchers we mow of s iarse sum 01 '"”"”V- I" fact rs late as last year We 10'0" of s promim” "'””" who Ii-iii s great many 01 I m”"ul?”:W: strain or mink which '-'” ,, "Veg with the above trea been No doubt Lentovet Tubex liitgllli-)0 obtained in tllianaga ably drussists throush WY” '” ”" ' lgn branches.

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1 7 gang extension table: I” dying"! a sideboard: A Wine E e rah. nu"-, wash stands: i:ii;l:cn'nnse; 1 him!" i""” ' emu; floor caverlns: dun: aojhu; dlahell 5W”? I eeisalr oil lamps, and a lot a nnall'artioles: 1 "W”"3 ”"'m 1 harberia chair (Cousins) and eur-

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ll: day not fine. sale first fill! day.

1 Terms enh-

THOMAS WIGMOBE. Auctioneer-

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1 WANTED

' MALE IOOKKEEPER Experienced.

Apply: MANAGER Tlgnisli Co-Or -srative V Association Limited. T

son sass: BIINGALOW

6-Room Modern Conveniences. .

Phone 2429-I. Auction sale

joonwar. -nwasnax, MAY 10th as 1 o'cr.oon.

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-' I am instructed by Eric Ram- iaay to sell by Public Auction the 1'”"0WiYIl: 1 mare, 7 years old; .1 born. 12 years old; and machin- riry as follows: 1 truck wagon; -'1 i:.'..".:::: 1..;""":.i”ei""i:: I W ICII l.'l'l 0 ; .1 eeder M.-ll. (new)' 1. set fan- : 1'pungr slelgh;' 1 set bob iana'”nl..l.l.”?”i”i.l'.:y. '.?.'.5i?. 1?: "WI: 1 lens plough; quantity of ,'seed wheat and oats; 1 auto tract- 'or with 103 Chrysler motor. good 5" MW: 1 set disc barrows: many Miles articles not mentioned.

”'rorus'uaso known as sale. snosras - . . Auctioneer.

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couurcrso warn Silver Fox and

Mink V Farthing

a many mink are now raised onc sdian and American fur farms as ten years ago. From 1040-1045 the average yearly production in the United states and Canada was moon and the estimated 1050 production is close to 2,000,000 in the United states and 350,000 or more in Canada. About ten years ago the first mutation mink made their appear "cu but in very small quantities, Standards, being the vast majority of the pelts to reach the auction companies. '10- day the situation is different as more mutations were ,roduced last season than the standard dark mink type. A number of theso different colors have been popular with the trade and profitable to the breeders but some have not been a paying investment nnd have been bred at a loss.

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The present vogue for mini: may or may not carry through for a number of years but it would seem wise for ranchers in the 17.5. nnd Canada not to increase the num- bers as there is a grave danger of over production. At present mink is all the vague and the excellent advertising given by the various mink associations and by the fur trade has kept it right in the lime- light. For those who are envying their seemingly more fortunate mink ranch friends who are pro- ducing mutations we might give a word of warning and it is that the production of new types is not al- ways a success, while the standard mink has through the years invar- iably been a paying ,1-oposition if quality and feeding and other fac- tors are right. If you are a small rancher you will be wise Jo stick to standard mink as the cost of the newer mutations is so great that they can only be experiment- ed with by people with large cap- lial and great breeding experience.

The 1950 Michigan International Fur Animal Show at Michigan state College featured a newly de- veloped artificial lighting system and for the first time in show his- tory mink and for were judged successfully without resorting to natural daylight. This was greatly appreciated by the judges and also by the spectators who could ob- serve the judging and inspect the animals in comfortable surround- ings. Over a million dollars worth of. animals were on the first day because this artificial north skylight permitted the judg- es t.o work until early evening. The new lighting system is named "Mlfurba Norllte" and was the re- sult of eight months of research and development carried on by the lighting division of t.he'Detrolt Edison Company and the lighting committee of the Michigan Fur Breeders' Association.

Fearful that army msneuve s in the neighborhood of a mink farm near Kitchener, Ontario. with kits valued at 310,000, would disturb the mother mink and result in the destruction of the young,

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Mould Through the

. NEWSY NOTES. .

I: l.A. Clark. D.5c.

liarthworms as soil builders

0” ' Darwin, a great scien- tist, in his student days, became interested in earthworm, and fhroughout many years. in many ands. he recorded his observa- tions. setting them down in meti- culous and painstaking detail. shortly before his death, this great naturalist published in 1881, his famous book on earthworms, "The Formation of vegetable Action of Earthworm, with observations on Their Habits." In his introduction, he mentions: " I was thus led to conclude that all the vegetable mould over the whole country had , ed many times through, and will again pass many times through, the intestinal canals of worms. Hence the term 'animal moruld' would be in some respects more appropriate than that com- monly used 'vegetable mould? Dar- wl.n gave the name "vegetable mould” to the fertile layer of top- crust which sustains all vegetable soil, that thin strata. of the earth's and animal life.

Life In The Soil

Mention was made in previous "notes" of the five essential gifts of nature, that nourish and sup- port all life on the earth, namely: soil, water, heat, air and sunlight. The last four all contribute in the formation of the first, but the greatest contribution in the building of topsoil from the ori- ginal soll elements is life itself. There are thousands of these forms of life each performing its own contribution in soil building. but the one that best fits the poet liongfellowis lines: "The Mills of God grind siowly,. yet they grind exceeding small," is the lowly earthworm. it is naked. blind and has neither tooth or clsw as a weapon of offense, nor feet to run away. Yet it is one of the major forces, that has made it possible that life may exist and continue to exist on the earth. Aristotle called earthworms the "lnteatln of the earth." Prof. W. L. Power moko of the earthworm as a "colloid mill." These descrip- tions very tersely indicate the ac- tlon of earthworms in soll-bulld- lng. They consiane about their own weight of soil and fine organ- ic matter each day. The serve as colloid mills to .produce , chemical and mechanical mixtures of fine organic and inorganic matter which they bring to the surface in the form of castings.

nrtlswonns Produce lfamus

Earthwornis unite with the many processes of nature to form .the thin surface layer of dark earth that we call topsoil. The most val- uable inzredient of topsoil is hu- mus. It lightens the soil, increas- es its water holding capacity and provides the source of plant food, esential to plant zrowth. Under natural conditions the creation of humus from dead anknal and vegetable life is a slow process if measured in months or years. with one exception, earthworms excrete humus, They

of the mink pleaded with the com- maude of the military unit te change his locale. Listening to their argument that the'nolse of cannonading would excite the mo- thsr mink and cause them to de- stray the kits. Bria. W. A. been decided to hold his maneuvers sev- eral miles away.

The breeding of mink initiated two years ago on a farm near Mar del Platte. an ocean resort 300 miles south of Buenos Aires, has caused the establishment of several more ranches. The first five pairs

of mink were imported and the re- kits

FOR SALE

suits were so encourssins thlt 120 more minke were broueht in by plane last fall. Back in 1931 the Mclbure and Mscxinncn silver Fox Farms, Limited. made arrange- ments with a company in Argen- tina to train an employee sent up from Buenos Aires It the local farm. The following year he was to take down thirty pairs of silver foxes. The depression of in: hit the Argentine very severely and the sale did not materialize. We understand. however. thlt IllV9l' foxes have been domiciled in the Argentine and are producing suc-

cisuniiicia Au-cnou SALE

All BENCH IIVER Acting on instructions of Harry MacLcod I will sell by Auction

on his premises on

WEDNESDAY. MAY lltla BEGINNING AT 1 .P.M.

His very attractive home containing 8 rooms. This property is in is situated on high ground overlooking New ban-

the best condition; don harbour. In a word it is one Also his entire house furnishings,

room, bedroom and kitchen furniture, including modern and antique furniture, namely. living-room suite (antique): carpet; dining-room

suite; I bedroom suites; kitchen ra

Rocker over 100 years old. with 4 chain to match; the finest assort- ment of hooked rugs the wrlterhsa seen; sewing machine (Singer): a quantity oilcloth rugs; and all kinds dishes and both modern and antique now "on the premises.

TERMS CASH. if day is unfit. sale on next day.

llliill It IIOIIIBON. Auctioneer...

ccssfully.

The Regina, Bask., high court re- cently dismissed an action brought by a Fort Qu'Appelle mink farmer to collect damages of 85,000 be- cause of a disturbance created by a road gang near the premises during the whelping season. Judge 01:. Taylor rejected the claim that Provincial highway employees cre- ated offensive and pestilential noises, while working on a high- way bordering the plaintiff's farm. The disturbance was alleged to cause the-death of about 100 mink

DESIRABLE PROPERTY

199 North River Rd.

8-Room House with Lot, 62 x 260 feet.

PHONE 8024-11

of the beauty spots on P. 1:. 1. consisting of living-room. dining-

nge; kitchen table and 1 Boston

- utensils,

tion be programmed.

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Charlottetown p. E. 1., ' April 30th, 1981. .

FARM IMPROVEMENT SEIWIGE.

Farmers requesting the use of Tractors. Bulldozer-s and Ditchers, made available by this Depertmentufor stum a ca-.

, clearing, etc., requested to make liim AT ONCE to this Departmenigpg ,Box 251, Char ottetown, in order that this work may

niiranrusnr on movers! sun naruaar. assooaoss I i

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I are the shock-troops of nature for

the prodiloi of humus, while her slower processes are getting under way, this high-speed humus factory, combining both mechani- cal and cheinical processes will turn out the finished product, topsoil, ready to produce good root lmwth and strong plants. The earthworm castings (Manure) contain in a water-soluble form and in the moods y proportions all the elements required for plant growth.

Earthworm Populations

Darwin found in the soils of England. concentrations of from 25.000 to 53,000 earthworms per acre. that they ate, d r” ugh their bodies and brought to the surface from ten to eighteen tons of dry earth castings annually on each acre of land. The British Government in later investiga- tions. in favorable locations out- side the British Isles. showed an annual volume exceeding 300 tons of castings per acre. Many have corroborated Darwin's findings and have shown that he was ex- tremely conservative in both num- bers of earthworms and casting tonnage thrown up per acre. In the cotton growing area of the Nile valley in the Sudan, Africa, British eanperts estimated the casting of earthworms during six months at 130 tons per acre. Prof. S. 0. l-feiberg in a radio address over WOY Farm Forum said: "If your soil is suitable for earthworms

. . there may be more than two and one-half million per acre, weighing about Moo pounds. That means that you may have more pounds of earthworms in your em- ployment than all your domestic animals put together."

Esrthworms As Colloid Mills

Dr. Thomas J. Barrett, in his book "Harnessing the Earthworm"

describes the earthworm as "a digutlve tube alone, stripped of all external encumbrance which might interfere with its life-func- tion of digestion and equipped with lust enough instinctive in- tellisonce to carry out its feeding activities without too fine dis- uimination." The earthworm is one of the strongest animals for its size in nature. It may move a. stone more than 450 times its own weight. It has been described as strong as steel and as flexible as silk. Its body is made up of from zoo to son muscular rings (de- Pending on the species), woven to- sether to form I tube, streamlined and of great strength. The earth- W0l'-Bl. when nccessa y, softens t.he earth ahead of it with secretions mine the ,lnciple of the hy- draulic drill, and sometimes giv-

Notice is hereby in Charlottetown, 3:-Rtiifs llil)arbiiime Electric interested may attend and A.D., 1951.

. PIIBLIG IITILITIESHHOMIIISSIOII IIIQIIIIIY

MARITIME ELECTRIC COMPANY RATE SCHEDULES

ivcn be held in the Council Chambers in the City Bull on Thursday, of May, A.D., 1951, at the hour in the forenoon for inquiry into charged for Electric Power and Energy customers within Prince Edward Island. All persons

DATED at Charlottetown this 30th day of April,

L. B. N, PUBLIC

-. . rue GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

lng a hard surface I chemical treatment to get choice morsels from the weathered surface. small particles are swallowed. to serve as mill stones in its glssard while being subjected to the solvent ac- tion of the digestive secretions.

Earthworms are night forsgers, they hold fast to their burrows by the tail-end and reach in all dir- octions, stretching themselves to grasp bite of food. to draw it be- low the surface. where it is event- ually eaten. In addition to this vegetable matter, and other forms of soil life including such pars- sites as nematodes, the worms eat great quantities of soil. From this soil they assimilate what. is useful to them, leaving the remainder from this colloid mill upon the surface. It is believed that prac- tically all of the fertile topsoil of the earth's surface has passed many times through the bodies of earthworms. Thus long before man invented the plow, the soil was being continually turned over, combined with" hunvua and render- ed soluable as plant food for the vegetation that covered the earth. The earthworm colloid mills grind slowly but they grind ex- ceedingly small. for all forms of ife.

TENDERS

Sealed tenders will he received by the undersigned up until noon May 14, 1951, for the moving an the old school buildings in Cem- ral Royalty and West Royalty lo the new school sites. The build- ings will be placed on prepared foundations and tenders for the said foundations may be included in the general tender or be sub- mitted separately. Specifications may be seen in the Unit Office in Porkdalc . School.

Lowest or any tender not nec- essarily accepted.

GOBDON M. RICE, Secretary, School Unit No. 1

TENDERS

Tenders will be received at the office of the undersign- ed for the supplying of the City with one heavy truck chassis and cab only. Truck to be equipped with front tires 750 x 20, 10-ply. and dual rear wheels with 825 x 20, 10-ply tires, and spare tire. Tenders to close Fri- day, May 11th, at 12 o'clock noon. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

J. A. FULLERTON, City Clerk-

that a Public Hearing ill 'n

the Seventeenth dag of ten thirty o'clock

a proposed Schedule Company Limited to its be heard.

'Urn.r.rnns COMMISSION

SE BAR

ALWAYS INSIST ON REGISTERED SEED IT PAYS

Charlottetown, RR. 5

as

Reg. No. 1 Charlottetown No. 80

r NOW AVAILABLE AT

Atlantic Wholesalers Ltd. and Halifax Seed Co., or at our Bunbury Farms.

BIIIIBIIRY FARMS -

Ell l.EY

Phone 486-I2

REGISTERED

Sponsored by the P. E. Assocl

is insane '

the followlng:- Provlnclal Department

GONSIGNMENT SALE

OHARIDTTMUWN EXIIIIIITION GROUNDS FRIDAY, MAY 11, 13151, 1 EM.

Consigned by leading Island Breeders. All bulls Government inspected. Catalogues on request from

L. W. Roper, Charlottetown, or Sale Committee Athoi Roberts, Southport,

R. R. Bell, Charlottetown, John er, st. Peters, John Coos . Meadowbank, A. H. Mu , Esrnscliffe.

r. r. 1. SHOBTIIOIIN anamnans ASSOCIATION

SIIOIITIIIIIIIIS

I. Shorthom Breeders atlon.

IIFEMALES

of Agriculture, Ch'town,

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FOR SALE

One iron ldtchen range (Regal) coal burner. Iiltable - - i for hotel or restaurant. Perfect condition. Two large 1' V ovens, hot water connections, also oil attachments. Practically new. Can be bought for cash at half orig- inal price. Apply in person MORELL HOTEL. C. S. V

KEITH MUTCH MacMillan. Southport

BAPOIIIZIIIB

Make your appointment early when you buy your chicks to avoid disappoint- ment. Best age for Cross Breds 5 to 6 weeks; for Bar- red Rocks 6 to 7 weeks. For appointment phone 1591-2 or write

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