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w.-n hie know now uliere we stand Wlll1 me proellsspg tax, 15 per cent has been lc ped of: from the 25 per cent w itch will be of considerable benett to; s11- vzr fox pelts that c. has u trimmings. The quan .ty that can be sold for that purpow will do. plllfl on whether or no: cloth is available for making Atoms, 1t i115 been very scarce guer- since war broke our. but we "understand larger quantities are lyeing yo. leased now that the do [hand for soldiers. sailors and 1.1m .1";- uniforma has practi- cum; Getting down to 171.145 tacks it may mean the dlffiruiw of 1mm two to five dollars on the t-ype of pelts that will be sold for trim- ming purposes. If no that much gain to u: would be very greatly appreciated.

The high-class peil r which go into the makinii 0! ‘fur nzckpleces, capes and Jackets will not be so fortunate. Forlierly all of fur garments and fur uere free from ihv; 8 per cent sales tax. Now tl1 . tax will ap- ply to them as it. ‘as always ap- pilstl to garment.) trimmed with fur. This 8 per ueut tax is not. relished by the ldg operators throughout the Dotti/Alon who got off soot free for so many years through some type 4,1 pup or u. iangcments it has been difficult to figure out. wh] 1e the utility garments (cloth ‘coats trimmed with fur) were made subject to an 8 per cent. n16’; tax. the mag- nificent two, t-liwm four and five thousand dollarurfnk coats were exzmpt. The tar: c gncessions made by Mr- Ilsley can only be re- garded as a hlflnning. We must keep agitcitlnll fr-r the complete removal of the processing and we are entiiPed to it,

Walter R. Sh |w. Deputy Min- Lazci- of Agricufure. has returned from a visit V) Delhaven. Dela- uare. and is ‘ncav along with his other numerr = duties. getting things ready r the live fox show which takes laltce in the new fox sho\v building‘. at the Exhibition grounds four wceks from Mon- day. being the week of Novemcer 19th to 2311b "llhis is the latest date the show has been held for 111111)’ llcars. lut in the comfort- able new qua! .ers it is not expect- ed that it Vflill cause very much mrcuvflnicnva- unl:s:. we get heavy show storms i at might possibly block the mics. Walter inspected the iox ahav: building Wednesday mumlr-s We); thoroughly and his impression fvas that it was tops. It was als. inspected by non Szcwart and. others who all came and)’ deiigLt-ed with the arrange- l-lfillts W11 Ida are bzlng made for the show. _

types OBPCS

The Miziiiigan - Ohio Interna- Uqilil F08 and Mink Show will be hI-d it Wrand Rapids. Michigan, Nllvcmbrt" 26th to 29th. Several of

ihebniarlo exhibitors such as w H. ')]_. Rutnven. Gilroy Bros. find J. ~ . McCague -will exhibit

there. These brad-era were quite EUBKSEK l last season carrying off H l0! o the top honors. -George H- ‘Mal-Sets of Lampson. Fraser d: l-lulh. II c... will be the Judge.

Th: ‘Seattle Fur Exchange of 551mb: Washington, has purchas- ed R v substantial interest in the famtdil. Little Bros. Fur Sales Ag- (my mi Vancouver. This brings icwtly: Szattl-s organization furs much have their origin in the i kun Territory, British Colum- b ‘A lberta and the Canadian v} and it should be oi eon- r ale benefit to the western- e.s.l__Just recently the New York MIC-i on Company acquired con- ilol raf the Canadian Fur Auction 5 cs . Company. Ltd. of ., Mont- Yl 1i, although we understand Ink Pingrce will act in an ad- \'1'_orv capacity. He was formerly m m: ger. 1t mav be a good thing in hwc thfse American companies some _ mto Canada as they are cg- ilfrrss ve and will no fioubt find .“")r‘e outlets for goods because of it eir- South American connections.

Pncnt the fox fur situation the

somuccvt/o wml Silver F0 K Farming

W! tvpe have fared quite well.

GUARBIAL“

Ionics

understands marketing ag wen as Bu! other man in America. It is well worth reading .. .. ,. THE MARKET FOB. FUD! “"119 MIN“. Manager

letter of the 8th instant, request- icngnkthe writer's“, véleews for the o g season uh your October issue. p “med m It ll 111051. difficult to forgcggt future markets under present can. ditions u there are so many M18183 to be taken inrto considers ation in predicting future busl. nesa. However. as it is close to "t! 00mins season. we can review lags: is happening at the present

We are pleased to report that in recent sales of New Color Phase Pox and Silver Pox, as well "8 R5001‘! Mink. we have found a very firm market. At the moment there are very few good Rgnch Mink available and it is naturally understood that some manufact- urers and retailers are marking time for the o ning season and W0 mlsnt men n that there are also some accumulated retail ord- ers to be filled from the next yearsorop. This» in itself. will absorb a fair proportion of the coming season's ,roduction of Ranch Mink and one does not ex- ect the crop to be any larger than it was last season. taking EVEPWNHB 1M0. consideration. Therefore. with the demand which

Platinum Foxes have found a ready market all season. At the present moment quantities oi good Platinums are hard to find. White-Marked Foxes of the paler the same as Platinum. and both of these articles are now much high- nr than they were at. the open- ing of last season. By the time that the new crop reaches the market there will be very few skim available from last season's collection.

Fine Full Silvers have fared well all year. Quantities at the present moment are not very large. Cheaper and medium priced goods are still more plentiful than the others, but. with the present demand. there should not be a large carry-over.

Breeders of this article are. of course, wondering as to the Scan- dinavian erop. There are various reports and one can expect a small production but do not feel for one instant that the channels which. consumed your production during the war years will also be called upon to consume this sea- son's production because we must call to your attention that only recently we were informed that the London raw fur market is now open for merchandise and that trading is evidently resum- ing again. Therefore, with the small production from the Scan- dinavian countries and a half decent break in the European market, as well as the splendid demand which exists in South America, we should expect that part of the Americas’ production will be used in Europe. This, of course, is rather a foresight and may be viewed with some skeptic- ism due tothe poor conditions in general prevailing in the European countries at the moment. However. as time goes on. we can expect these conditions to improve and trading will find its channels. Therefore, breeders of Foxes can look forward to a ready market for their product.

It gives the writer great pleas-

ranched furs still remain among the leaders in. the fur trade and Fox breeders can look forward to a better demand in the coming season for the trimming type of Pox. which. due to various regu- iations and restrictions. has not been selling too well in the Dani

season.

Harry LADIES. Editor of the American Fur Breeder. has made a complete digest of the American horse meet situation and a recommendation for action by

3114 wing article was written bv W ‘i!’ H. 1V’ who probably

werq part or all SUNGLO

three Live Fox Shows on ' START TODAY

t

Fortress.

Her; are facts to ponder when deciding on you:

Fail Feed. At the last three Live Fox Shows held ' on Prince Edward Island 1850 foxes, the cream of the Island were exhibited. Out of I47 lat prises award- ed, 73 were exclusively SUNGLO fed, and 42 part SUNGLO fed foxes, or 115 out of 1L7 ‘lat prise foxes received SUNGLO fox feeds. Out of 488 top placinga ranging from lat to 5th placing, 225 foxes were EX- CLUSIVELY SUNGLO FED. 1.45 W)" W"! P8111)’ SUNGLO m: or s10 out of 4st Ton Placing winners

feed diet. Out of 06 Championl. 300"" Cllllliilonl. Grand and“ Reserve Grand Champions.“ were EX- CLUSIVELY SUNGLO FED. with 19 more P!" stmoto fed, thus srmoao m." l" "ma-tithe with all other fox feeds combined 9101111!“ 0"!‘ 5° pet cent of Top Placing: and Top Awards at the leaf‘

USING SUNGLO- FALL FUBRING MEAL 0R CUBES,

"International m a “Animal Food: m.

QUMMERSIDI, ; PRINCE nnwann tenant).

fur organisations. This appear- ed originally in the American Fur

feeds, as their commercial

Prince Edward Island.

hi? existed for um article, the :5‘ eggs" fgmlgg lute the ermt; c n; 5 an war pan "n o y “p”: mo‘ brought about a substantial xe-

ure to inform the breeders that be

NOTICE

The woolen mills will be closed from October 17th to November 5th, 1945, to clear out some back orders.

WILLIAM CON DON ' & SONS

Breeder‘ but 1:35.755." our in- formation from the National Fur News. Harry says that the horse population in the is definitely on the decline. Since 188d the number of horses on U. S. ranches and farms has drop- ped from 16,500,000 to 9,500,000. Corrected Canadian figures are not available but dealers and packers estimate that there are 0.000.000 horses in the Dominion and reports indicate that the Can- adian horse papulation is on the decline.

Hflrry traces the use of horse meat which first started in the western states when horses were available at $5.00 and the hide usually compensated the fur far- mer for the initial cost of the horse. Then fur farming began to expand. Thousands of new fur farms were started and practic. all)’ all herds were doubled and trebled. Fur farmers were forced to go further and still further afield for their horses. This meant competition with each other and the prices.were driven higher and higher. The induction of caretak-

duction in fur animal herds and this helped the situation for a brief period, but the fact that Jack rabbits from the western plains and herring from the Great LSKCS would be- missing from the foxes’ menu meant that more horses would be used instead.

At the present time a new problem has arisen and it is the serious lack of nourishing food in some countnies such as Poland, Greece, Albania. Czecho-Slovakia, Yugoslavia. Italy, Belgium. Hol- land and France that caused them look for sources of horse meat supply in the United States and Canada. This has to be exported in the pickled or canned form, it is practically impossible to handle it in a frozen condition because of lack of rcfrigerator ships and trains. However. packers in both Canada and the United States are now planning on exporting considerable quantities to Europe for human consumption.

In the United States there are thousands of horses slaugh cred for human consumption. orse meat markets are doing a thriv- ingbusiness in California and the westem states. The manager of one place says they are Just eat- ing the stuff because they cannot get beef. We are shipping between four and five carlcads cf quart- ers a. day to Boston and New York from our two plants. All that is in addition to millions of one pound packages. Frozen horse meat is also used for dog food and as there is a great fad for dogs now it means that a. great deal of horse meat will be used for this purpose.

Summing up the situation Mr. LaDue says it is time to act now. The Canadian fur farming in- dustry has already embarked on an expansion program. the Swed- ish. fur farming industry was able w carry on during the war. Norway saved its nest egg and it won't be long before the Nor- wegian backyard fur farmer will again seeking a market for half a million silver fox pelts. Costs of production will once more become a vital factor and a difference of a few cents a pound in the cost of horse meat can make or break the United States fur farming industry. Mr. LaDue says it is hard to advise what course to take. If you have a source of supply hang on to it and cinch it if possible. If not his advice is for groups of breed- ers to plan and build-their own slaughter houses. This won't help several thousand of more o: less isolated fur farmers in the United States. but will insure a source of supply for groups of fur breed- erl~ congregated in one area.

I you are contemplating build- ing a horn killing plant you had better plan on building and equip- ping it with facilities for process- ing dog food and even human food. along with fur animal food. With the added source of revenue from the sale of the relatively high priced dog food and human food your chances of ring live horses to process in your plant will be mighty slim. All of the above sums up to-horse meat is going to be scarce andfvery much higher in price in the future.

As a possible offset to the horse meat. situation .there is whale meat. A few dadvs ago William Agnew, Fur Tra e Commissioner for this province to Newfound- land, stated that he was in touch with whale meat pNCGIlDI f a in the old colony and that in the near future he would be able to. give definite figures as to its cost

i

whale meat but one would have to fi d out just how or in what pro lions they feed it. Years ago we tried it out at our ranch at the request of the Hudson's lay Company but we did not give it sufficient test to determine it: value aa compared with horse lflllt.

lAlI-Y non- peToaarlou

"m. of mm - call moie- ed mm - taooroylieiotrirm to e d Egyptians — were

Ihcenioians decorated wit: male animals doo- gener-

Srf fiiJ-fl-"t-‘t-‘Pm "‘

suggesting that the feathers been tacked or basted on.

immature specimen it will be seen that rusty-brown is the prevailing color. instead of the adults dark bluish-gray. These changes always make for uncertainty, especially as the information given in popu- lar books mektlatizre. and the colors often too

puliet it had killed-J's sad mis- take it was to make." an the Pir- ates of Penzance says.

Colvin of/Summexside for the fol- lowing notes: ncss of Lsard of Bedeque, who ls the own- er. I have at hand a copy of the Island history you speak of in last Saturday's Newsy Notes.

which I am enclosing a copy) des- ignates him as ‘Pastor of the Free Church. Charlottetown.‘ probably means the first section of his listing of Presbyterians. In the book celled ‘Prince Edward Is- land. Past and Present," the Rev. George Sutherland is listed among the names of ministers who have served the Presbyterian Church in I

'0

so many facts on various subjects given in so few pages. As he says

importance that could its physical aspects have omitted.’ that it may point out to some of the Island youth the road to fame in the fields of Natural Science." Was Bain the answer to this hope? 081g was he older than a youth in;

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t.

landed here. The Norwegians use '5

- NEWSY NOTES -

NAGIDGA

‘The Terror ‘Of The Woods"

So Francis 88in terms the Am- erican Goahawk (Astur atracapil- lus). A month ago I passed on to my readers a description of a “1uvenile" goshawk which had been shot whilst visiting this farmstead. Since then I have had an opportunity to examine the body of an adult bird, and as it differs in coloration a very care- ful description was made. I have several colored pictures of this bird, but they cannot be consid- ered as altogether accurate: in each some feature or color is el- aggerated, Hero ia a first-hand description:

American Goeluwk. adult. Crown and cheeks black, a white stri above the eye passing round t e

nape. Throat and under-parts light. stippled pearl-gray. Back dark bluish-gray. feathers margin-

ed black, tail covarts rather light- er. Tail long, feathers blackish. spotted (scarcely barred) darker. each tipped with white. Breast. under-parts and half of tarsus with stippled pearl-gr?‘ ‘feathers. Und-

er-tail coverts clear-white fluffy feathers. Wings short, broad, upper surface blackish.

like tail; under surface with upp- er half finely stippled and barred gray-black. lower half dark-gray, barred whitish. Tarsus and toes yellow. claws black. Length 2i in- chos. weight 2 lbs.

The quills or midrlbs of all feathers shining black, those of the breast slender and threadlfike, ad

On referring to the notes on the

is always somewhat

8 . This bird came back for a young

That Old Book I am indebted to Mrs. l-l. T.

“Through the kind- a friend, Mrs. Wright

"The author is the Rev. George Sutherland. The title-page (of

This

"It is truly an interesting book.

n the Preface. ‘No facts of any illustrate been l-le also says “It is hoped

'I‘ufts's excellent of Nova Scotia," while the Waxwing appears among the com- mon birds. There is no reason to suppose that we are any better off in the matter of the Bohemian. but it is well to be on the watch all the same. The chief drawback to recognition is the meagre des- cription. of the birds; that was given special considera- years ago by ornitho- Here ls his

tion some logist C. W. Nash. description:

chin.

(Note by Agricola: Bain pill‘);

lished his Natural History of E. I. in 1000 and one must suppose}

h: was no longer a youth when, Sutherland wrote. There can. how-I ever. be no doubt that the one was influenced by the other. since the gzneral style and lay-out of the books are the same: though Bain is more exact in his knowl-

edge of the Natural Science to which he confined himself.) "Sutherlands book could not

have proved what was wanted ior very long. as a History by — Campbell was brou htm in i875. Campbell's boo ls valuable. among other things. from the complete list of the census taken in 170B. All heads of families are named. with details as to the family. No other history (of those I have read) has Riven any such lists. While several give the dates of census-taking. with the total numbers. no names are listed."

i ote: I have not come across this history. though I have heard that a Duncan Campbell once did some writing. Could this be the same? The old Meachams Atlas of' P. E. I. (i880), in its ap- pendix. did good work in giving he names of settlers. dates. coun- try of origin. occupation. etc.) 1n last week's Notes 1 suspect- ed that this old book was intended as a supplementary School Read- er. is turned out to be correct, for the title-page runv-"A Man- ual of the Geography and Nat- ural and Civil Histo of Prince Edward Island. for use of Schools. Families and Emigrants. By the Rev. George Sutherland. Pastor of the Free Church. Char- lottetown. printed and published by John Ross, 1881." Possibly the Campbell history -was a kind of counter-blast. because Sutherland did not hesitate to accuse form- er Oovemors of arbitrary actions, when their immediate descendants were still living: indeed. his own words were that he expected “harsh censure" from some of his readers who had no sympathy for his principles.

In further ex lanation it may be remarked tha the Presbyterians -the la est bodv of Protestants bn tn» Hand in mill-were ama-

: first. the _ of the Lower Prov- inces of British America: and sec- ond. the section ‘ ‘ming connec- tion with the Established Church of Scotland.

lhid Notes Iron Bammonlde

The lotto! goes on to give seine notes on the binds mentioned in the Rev. Mr. Sutherland’; Bisto z "Among the birds he mentions e ‘Btlllristtoalakhoalilgg otnhe tge Chglrry

.a to er e uaga an mama?) Chatter-tr (or as it n

second week

Waxw g). the of be: I paw a flock 89in

y

high over the tree tops and utter- ing their soft notes. Several time:

they came down to trees in ear enough for

yard but not

the a

good inspection. One very windy day I was startled by seeing the handaomest Waxwing I had ever seen. on a shrub near the win-

dow.

It looked much brighter,

with every shade of color mgre

intense.

The crest was erect. with

a. rosy pink t'nt. The black under

its chin was larger.