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Silver Fox Farming

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esI ners ‘ire tuingint out seunfiw ‘styles in scarfs that are atom, guuflng but ‘more practical w; wear than the long stole scarf ‘my; some ladies find hard to m“, Depleted in Women's Wear gflly of recent iarue is a scarf of um fem-the lower part work-

‘ls necessary where ted - feeds are - _ be emptied 0ut~ overy- day; and-replaced with JKQh-"Cwlll water,‘ -

Now that the furring " season is

and that being the case, the mark- ed pups we get do not follow the law of MendeL-but is determined by the relative dominance of one

type over theoiher typeand the 111M118 vie-think it wouldbe good lwtors m y be so liahti aet that prwtioe to go over all foxes and qx- we find t needieosc a and Qmine them for earmltea and fleas llsslins around as evidenced by the and l!’ they have any appearence

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iu lcops an slits so that it ls iact that a female of the old il- 0 rboring worms to,dos them any handled y" the wearer and verfiype may produce five whte "1111 W011i! clpsulcs. In our own gy ilattering. Another type shows faces and one silver one year and flnoh we are doing us; ens; iii,

five silvers and one, white face an- other year, and that when mated Retake same male of the white face t e. _

present and we do_ ni-i quite u

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~ end i-a white-face sil- i: 121%.»... Tgese are worked on m, hi” by way of introducing an individual teLmInatIon instead oi __ uIII.

___ . If our reasoning in this matter 141"" W- 11111011“. proprietor of gull other types and styles were is at all correct, and we do not 111W 01 our lel fox farms an manufacturer "of the

think we can be sum-sinfully chal- lenked at this time on it, then we can begin to understand some oi the reasons for acme oi the hap- ‘is silver fox stole worn over a lleninps which occur in our prim- uiort evening dress of black crepe ary e forts to start all-out. produc- md lace_ Ann shei-ingn netenqeu tion oi white faces, platinums or m; opening in a. narrow black uln- Whfll-ilflve-YOII- 011 111811 P11101111“! nersult. She wore a silver fox stole a finely bred white face male and with muii to match which was a breeds him to a. number of tilflhly m real stunner. These and other types 111111 intensively bred females out Gun is finishing 100 of the iivli- vliich the designers are getting 0f his line bred herd. He get; 5 “me eathiest and most promising mi, for fall will create a great per cent of the pups marked after on .1121“ your €ye ever “mi demand not only for silver fox but this male. I-Ie then sells the male Wm‘ s ole. of course, no being w; [or white-faces and platlnums. to a man who has not bred strong- o, 11114310 Hug Starter and Sun. ---— 1y for fixed characteristics of sil- ° 3°! 1111115119!‘ and the wit“, onu- Brager-Larsen who was the vor and that man gets so per centl g.“ h" the privil etching somiaant figure in popularlzirig white faces. One man purchases a 1e11,‘- fiery‘ feast at e crib then Norwegian platinum foxes. and had White ilce male and gets no mark- ‘hell M‘ ave a drink of water and imat deal to do with lacing the ed pups at all. What is happen- i 11 1'9! llm-to the same occupation Iur farms of that country in the in: here. there and everywhere is tygfin to" minutes. can vouch for Ioreiront. is now ranching foxes in undoubtedly. the clashes of noinin- m" ° 11111 they enioy it and so Michigan. At a recent eeting 0i ance. wherein as in all nature's °n 11-131’ 11¢ Why. one oi 14,. Iur breeders and fox food manu» clashes, the strongest comes out iscturers Mr. Larsen urged co-op- native buying of ranch supplies

51111-010 W! Reds. is flilii-Iflfi "1411- Be can tum his hand to any time oi live stock uction and moire a success oi i 1 We all know what he has lgyletd very few know th n, hi, some wonderful turkeys. Now he 11 out tohelp snada fulfill her 11 Yflquiremen to Great Bri-

d at the premier showing fiflfirort moving picture "For m,“ The Bell Tolls.” One style m; caught the eye was an elabor-

-w°11'5 "Wlnpl hments The process of outcrosslng to w“ we

production s coup] f produce or transmit for production M1119 “m” Wlefyew: evil-Elissa?

us eo-operative selling of pelLI, any valuable type is absolutely ne-, , -—

lhli did not please the manufac- @558"!- __

iurers and there were some lively ' ""- Odllgegf‘! indebted to George A,

tilts on the question. Quantities of silver fox offered 1 - ummera . for the in]. -___ at sales in Montreal and New ‘W111! particulars of the Silver lllox

Quebec fur farmers have Orggyilz- York are about one-third offered “t1” 111 Wllnodtion with the

Canadian" Fur Auction Comparing 1:111:11: plth Montreal on Wednesday l ‘mini-l! The collection was

.0119- and there was a small 991139111539 01 WP fliins and a large Percentage of lower grades Oom- pgfltmn w" 119911 111d 91 per cent gbnwm 911911118‘ ohl-ngtd. hands.

K l" pr ces and quantities:

gi i co-operative association and at similar auctions last. season. vIII work in close unison to en- This is due to the strength oi.re'- m, m; fuming activities in time cent markets when silver fox was

vince. They have behind them offered and prflotically 100:1?" Cent

eiuli support of the Godbou-t gov- 801d. The general impression is that eminent. To acquaint their mem- prices will hold steady until the bets with the happenings of the fur new crop is offered in December world they are issuing an official 11nd Jullilflfy B-nd that the decline

magazine called Les Pelletiers du then due to quantities will not be 5o bee. Dr. J. m. may» st. th great if at ll. Swill . - Iatinum, all known platinum foxmbreede: a 11111111181611 pglxlvers and whEe-markeii

The fur indust in the United 1"" P111 101d 1 - States has been rrlding on a wave w‘§‘¢”,;"°1°°°°11 1'1 '41 3-4. 01 of prosperity. Upwards of 200 mil- avergg. o! “z 6109M sold at an lion dollars worth oi furs have vancvea“ ' 1° P" "111 N1- been sold in the iii-stubs month, were b1 wlfcgeulpr 1-2 u: 3-4 skins of 1m and all signs point to that g1" “my, n" 31d e- 111 Wor- fiSllrp being doubled or more than “m, gelmbé" ,3" Jflwe o! 1 per doub when December is reach- ed. 5“ and w" a‘ "l"! number- ed. IPur breeders-who were in the “e m avenge f m '1' "$111 50111 doldrums a year sao have perked 3 per cmdecnge m; - T11 is I up and although the cost of onerat- previous sale but duemt‘: type ‘mm ing ranches has risen some 25 per ‘motion n rum, “eh 1°01‘ 6111' cent. yct the increase in prices of r ‘m1 15 P" furs has offset that and allows fur a 1" fair profit.

Now that the hot weather" has really arrived it is up to our ranch-

narl exhibitor. is the president of the Association.

Now that we are all so interested In breeding new type foxa, parti- cultrly white-faces, extracts from in article by Byron D. Brown oi Wisconsin which appeared in the August Black l-‘ox Magazine will

ve oi benefit. "In the fox realm he law which Mendel discovered and which was applicable to peas, certainly does not hold true, pro- holy became of the iact that we are not yet in many. if in any. cases dealing with pure strains of imi- We IN merely In the pro- lress of developing pure strains,

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vets nurgnligredqllleflirigllrlgrarriauwgl g 9B oer cent sold at; an ever", Z; $42.20, price unchanged. There were

°°""11‘1¢d on mu ll.

I This statement is typical of the reports received from many satisfied feeders of HEXITE BOX FEED — a quality feed designed to help, produce the

desirable pelts that mean profit to you’ -—- and prospective 1943 pelt prices indicate that every

rancher can afford to feed the best.

You can depend on HEXITE. The thorough cook- ing of materials in this duality ration 05ers high digestibility, making it of especially high supple- mciltary value to fresh meat - and that's importadtmw W

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THE STAFF 0F LIFE

There has been an attempt in Britain, to secure a better kind bread than that ordinarily offered to the public, but the refonners seem to have lost out. They have right on their side. for the white bread of the bakeries well deserved the title of "anaemic" given to it by the medical facult ; but the rnillers. for reasons wh ch will ap- pear, resisted any change and the

yet, will have to eat what the mili- ers provide.

the Stone Age down to the period when the steel roller mill was invented, hread was really and truly the staff of life. The whole ground, and afterwards baked. The flour produced by the mlllsioncs thus contained all the constituents of the grain, the husk, the starch, and the germ. The husk of grain is an lm rtant food In itself. A disease cal ed beri-beri, is common among the inhabitants oi eastom count- ries who cat " lished" rice. The disease manlfes itself in a nerve paralysis and was easily

hunks of the grain-—were added t0 the diet. The starch L; the main bulk of the kernel, and is the prin- cipal part oi the ilour that comes

product, heat and energy, as every-

the b0 staff than that!

the vitamins B1 and E. The form- er has many functions. not the least beln its elimination of the poisons w ich cause fatigue and its contribution to the welfare 01 the nervous system. Tne latter of value to the reproductive organs.

When the steel rolling mills came In. it was found ible to crush the grain, releasing the starch which was afterwards sift- ed out as flour, leaving the husks, germs etc, to b; sold as bran and shorts. As there had arisen a false taste for white bread, "such as the quality eats", the flour is subjected to a simple bleaching process which improves its a pearance but adds nothing to its ood value.

The bran. etc, is sold separately to be fed to live stock, and wei do they thrive upon it. This is a tribute to its nutritive qualities. but a sad reflection on the stupid- ity of the humans who allow it to be milled out of the ilour without even a protest, and upon the cup ldity oi the mill-era who find the present s stem most prciltabla

One ‘di flculty that came to the front when the attempt was made to revive the “stone milling" in Britain. was this: the millstones must. at intervals. be greased, i.e., roughened. in a certain way by means of a chisel and mallet. But the art of doing this had nearly perished and it was only after a lot of trouble that the old-time op- erators could be iccaied There was however no lack cf suitable stone; the lower slopes of the Penniri-e crhain. about 20 miles inland from Newcastle on Tyne. being capped with a grayish stratum called {he Millstone Grit.

Why Stars Twinkle

A summer visitor at one of the hotels in this "the name of that twinkling away In the south-west?" "why, they all twinkle; but let us look for it and perhaps I gan tell you." To my pointed out our old friend Antares. with which I was well acquainted This led to the

. question "What makes ii twinkle

and are there any stars that don't?" I shall expand the answer I gave because the enquirer will. In all probability. read this Note. All the fixed SiRTS-JIIOSE which do not percaptibly change their positions with regard to one an- cther-twinkle. whi‘e those of cur own family. the Solar System. do not. The latter (commonly called planets, that is "Wanderers" to dis- tinguish them from the fixed stars) are immeasurably nearer to us and must the sunlight be originally. when after all the extra mileage. it can resist the disturbing influ- ences mentioned above!

Autumn at Hand

In a few days. that is. on Sept. 17th. at. 12 noon. Autumn com- mences and the summer of 1943 will be nrnnbered with the past. It has been a summer to be remem- bered speaking cf my own locality. Spring was ccol to cciil. and show- ery. with excessive rain scme days. an that the grourzi cnllld not be

armasoou"

of short crops.

public, who are not organized as ll

. cured when "rice polIshings"- the outer

from the mills in use today. Starch

body knows. but does not build up dy. Life requires a stronger

_ The germ of the wheat is ex- tremely important as a source of

worked at the usual tune. Iii-this

it resembled the year i916. seeding

was late and thacmgipneraily means f.

out our clover since the land was often ban. and other farms in this district were in the same evil plight. 1 read a Dominion report

which the Island hay crop was said to he above the average: that seems to be too optimistic a view. We commenced our ha on August 3, and finished Aug l4 . a. month tel And. many were later! Pota- ‘tioes were not planted till about

une Nth. ,

Trapped two skunks this sum- Wrl “if” ll“‘i..i.“ér"°“ °°°R‘ ‘I25 es oye se eggs. m entered the hen-house with felon- ious intent; the hens made a rac- ket and warned us, and the intnid- or was shot.

In my Judgment bird life was scarce in this quarter, although they may "wander" to dli quarters of the heavens, may easily be recognized by their shining with a calm steady ight. But the fixed stars. whose immense distances have given us the term" astron- omical figures". always twinkle: since their light when at length it reaches us is so feeble that the wind and radiation currents on the earth cause it to waver and produce that twinkling effect. We get something of the same nal/ure when we observe the landscape to “shimmer” by reason of the radia- tion ourrents 0n a very hot day. Since the nearest, fixed star (Alpha Centauri) la about four light-years away, and a light-year is approxi- mately six million million m les, no wonder the starlight is feeble when it get to us!

Pluto, the latest discovered of the family of planets is about 2.675 million miles from the sun. says that fascinat book “Worlds Without End", by he Astronomer Royal I-I. Spencer Jones. All the rest, of the planets of course are nearer, down to Mercury which only about- 36 million miles from the sun. Unlike the fixed stars the planets have no light. of their own. but shine by mr-zms of rc- flecied sunlight, Just us the moon does. Consequently the light makes a double journey; from the Sun to the planet, then from the plan- et to uahI-low powerful few grackles or starlings were been, though crows often came up from the south in large flocks. ‘lree Swall- ows left early. At present (Sept. 2) there arernany small birds in the woods round the creek; they ap- pear to come from the north, hang round for a day or two. then make souihward. It is a pleasant sight to see them flashing in and out cf the young conifers. Some of these visitor's were Myrtle Warbl- ers. -

Insects were not plentiful this year. I-Iousefliea were scarce and up to the present we have had no occasion to buy "fly-catchers". Last year I collected from the window panes, sixteen different species of diptera; this year but. two. The “tame bees" cannot have gathered much store, since they stay in the hive when it is cold, wet or windy weather. and there has been a pre- ponderance of such days right, to the end of August. Besides, such weather is not conducive to the secretion of nectar (honey) by the flowers.

The farmer's financial prospects arc hard hit this year by the ap- pearance of late blight 1n his pota- to fields. I have seen fields, ear- ller in the season. compltely ruined by this disease. We have sprayed twice with a fungicide and doubt- less it is to this that our potato i-ODS are still green, though we have not uite escaped. However. every day t at passes while the tops are green, wll acid to the value of the

op.

I am of opinion (though 1 don't pretend to be an expert) that the quality of the sunlight-when we Bet it-is below par this year. It is said to vary as much as 5 percent either way in different years, and I have heard that there is an ob- servatory that concerns its-elf with such measurements. There have been many sunspots reported this memorable year.

Plant for naming

Mr. Frank Rose, South Lake, P.E.I.. sends In a spray from an evergreen, with scarlet 0r red bflYy-lllw fruits. for" Identification. This is the American Yew. some- times called Ground Hemlock. whose botanical name in Taxus canadensis Marshall. (The last. means that Humphrey Marshall

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had killed mo Ion

The season has arrived for pick-

ling vegetables. and we have-a lim- 11-9 supply of green tomatoes, cauliflower. ons. etc.

Dew".

Tomatoes ma a shcgt can supply I reasonable require- ments notw). but advise noted to delay

it may be necessary to o pickkng with less o them. Ii weather continue; wei-m s, llm

suppy of ripe tomatoes will be- avahable. plan of aeilin direct to the

consumer ia no dou t appreciated by our customers. They save the delivery expense and the consumer has the benefit of this saving, and as our custom always has been not how much we can get. but rather how low we can sell and come out with a reasonable profit. This also is appreciated by the people.

J. GAY & SON Charlottetown

years s80. after finding a speci- men of this Yew at Fvenchfort; and I s ecially direct Mr. Rose to Signs’)? anation of the BOvOIHOG

Taxus csnadenals Marsh. Ameri-

lireen bush up to 1.5 m. hi h. green on both aides, at lentil-h shining above. linear, muc- Nnflte. 12-30 mm. lonp; persist- ent when dry. Disc of ertile flow- gill y reielrgiblfipihalxiaeed’ ‘list atgg , s g a r

01 llwfly-COHY-od seed lefxty uncover- ed. In evergreen woods, often near water.

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plant except in Nickelrs I Ready Reference," where it is said to be a sedative, and to act like Digitalis.

..'I‘he English Yew (T. baccata) is like our plant in everything but

size, for there it is a tree up to 50 feet in height. and s imens hB-Vo been recorded as feet

Bfvwth- These were very old, for it Was the custom in former times to plant them in churchyards as emblems of immortality. and so they were never cut down. I have seen a £0111) of old ews under which e monks live while they were building, Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire. As the Abbey was found. ed in 1136. the trees when I saw them, must from their slow rate of growth, havebeen almost 1000 years old. or the monks could not have found shelter.

were vary deacrepit; been given cement cores. were supported by forked crutches. while some were kept upright by wire "guys".