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"A dise3::v:”llggn3:1?K"';3w:33bg:31353;. If wnflucu;-3,; .,.,:m:”..,., Asia and some of the Indonesian It is true that they are also lumwiemr. iln E land Two Qumran" munom of rabbits we,-5 uued. Islands. including Samoa and New insectlvorous. and the United M ” Aumuul ,5 mm no hay, "med zealand. 'I'here are no American States Biology Survey rate them
of the disease have ben reportedl recently in Kent, one of the. counties adjoining greater London. Earlier this year the disease wasi, reported in France. It was said to-
Able to supply light and heavy feeders.
Write? have been introduced there by ai
land owner who wished to rid his
Box 15 walled park of rabbits. During the
0,LEARY(;'r summer it spread to Belgium. and
Holland and now has appeared in
PHONE 14 England. This disease was intro-
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America some years ago with thei ,,,,i
ATTENTION - POTATO GROWERS
When delivering potatoes to Assemblers for ship- ment to the Potato Board Selling Agency, Growers should make sure that they receive an Official Re- ceipt from the Agent for the correct amount of po- tatoes delivered. You should also check to make sure the Receipt is clearly marked showing the grade and variety of the potatoes. .
Growers should retain these Receipts in case there are any errors in payment. They should insist that the grade and variety of potatoes is marked on them so that there may be no misunderstanding in the spring when final payments are .being arranged for each Pool.
THIS IS IMPORTANT. All Assemblers are sup- plied with Official Receipts.
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over 3200 million worth of extra wool and other farm products dur- ing the past year as the result of the extra grazing for stock. During one of the visits which Mr. Mclsurc and the writer made to London in connection with the Hudson's Bay company sales we were taken to a large farm where they were producing rabbits on a big scale. They were the chin- chilla type and the proprietor said
lthat he was operating at a profit.
An exchange in the U. S. A. has this: Fur business nationally dur- ing October was believed approxi- mately 15 per cent below 1952 volume. The range of decline from various sources was anywheregfrom 8 to 25 per cent. However. the fur sake potentially is greater than such surface appearances would indicate and retailers are not carry- ing large stocks so that when buy- ing starts the market should easily take up the available furs.
A woman known' in New York trade as Etta Orr. was charged in June sessions court wth grand larceny in connection with the theft of 354,171 worth of furs. The indictment charges that she got furs on memorandum from fur dealers. falsely claiming that they were to be used at fashion shows for the benefit of charitable and religious groups. From Joe Zucker and Ruth Rudy, Inc.. in July she got 319,000 worth of fur: and from other firms the balance to make up the 354,177.
I-L Agcn and Sons, Inc.. New York. are showing quite a number of ready-to-wear long-haired fur pieces with fox in the lead. Lynx. too, is being promoted with black dyed lynx and black dyed fox fol- lowed by Norwegian blue the best sellers. The stole, a big favorite with fur buyers. is selling well, also matched sets of collars and cuffs and there is a big story in Fox muffs.
F. L. Hayes. vice-president of Hudson's Bay Company. New York, has a timely article on how to handle pelts for market in the October number of the Black For Magazine and Modern Mink Breed-
er . . . . . Pelting and preparation of pelts for market is a problem probably understood better by
breeders than by Auction Com- panies and for which there are many satisfactory solutions. Auc- tion Companies part in this main- ly consists in advising how pelt should look when finished. Refer- ence to pamphlets issued will give briefly chief points to be watched. Various processes described in order are:, (1) Pelting - put pelts on stretching boards in freezer soon after peltlng - until ready to scrape. Do not allow carcasses or pelts to touch each other or lie in heaps. (2) scraping - when ready to scrape allow fat to un- freeze to a condition neither too frozen or too soft, so that fat will come off without getting too soft and liquid. To be done in very ntoderafo temperature. as low as comfortable. certainly not in a
- much heated room.
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scrape from head to tail where necessary. but safer to scrape from tail to head in upper part. Roots of
FEEDERS WHO KEEP RECORDS
lialr point towards head, therefore
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THE STINPRO-PERKINS MARINE DlESEL.hn been specifically designed to give the P ' field the 1 of ' " '
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species, and these birds are not found on the mainland of Aus- trails.
The common starling (S. vul- garls) is very widely distributed throughout Europe and North Asia. It is smaller than the song- known robin. the American migra- tory thrush. It is brown, glossed with black, and has a buff col- oured tip to each feather. givlrig the bird a speckled appearance a- bout the .shou.ldletI and breast. They laok the style of the Ameri- can black bird. the purple grackle, with its long slenda tail and rich metallic purple and iridescent green reflections on its shoulders. The sterling has a short stubby tail and a more compact body than the grackle, and this helps in the lderltlficatlon of these two spee- les, which are often seen together.
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as the most beneficial insect con- sumer. They eat and carry to their young great numbers of cut- worms. grasshoppers. crickets and beetles. They, however. attack and destroy small fruits. and garden and fields crops to supply the ap- petites of their offspring.
starlings accommodate them- selves to nesting conditions as they find them. They use hollow trees, holes in cliffs and Join other birds under the eaves of houses. Any kind of a nest made of slender twigs, dry grass or roots. frequent- ly in company with other birds.
blackbirds have killed young mbins to supplant them. It is reported that in the Ganadienoweet they are nesting in great numbers in the grain elevators.
The result of their roosting hab- its has proven to be an outstand- ing nuisance to communities. They gather in great throngs to roost in city buildings, in parks and woodlots and under bridges. Great damage has been reported to trees in parks and in groves from the starlings droppings, which not only are unsightly, but have killed in some areas whole groves of valu- able trees.
The starlings, which have be- come a scourge in North America, were imported from Europe as recenfoly as 1&0. when a drug manufacturer in New York. Mr. Eugene Sohileffelln, brought out sixty of these birds, in his end- cavour to introduce to the New World all the birds of Englimd mentioned by Shakespeare in his writings. A second importation of forty birds was brought out the next year.
These insessores, or perohing birds. soon spread north along the Atlantic coast to Boston, and south to Philadelphia. In a short time they reached the Great Lakes re- gion They moved north to Eastern Canada and on as far north as Hudson Bay. They spread south down the Miulmlppi Valley and over into Mexico. They moved on west to the Rocky Mountains. They have invaded Alberta, and the zoologist at the University at Ed. monton reports that they are now there "to stay".
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Communities have undertaken to check this undesirable species of bird by oiguiiztng hunting part- ies, by destroying their nests and young, by trapping and by the use of dynamite. Like the attempts to destroy the ”lmrported" rabbit in Australia. nothing satisfactory has yet been found to keep in check this scourge that was brought to America. by one ad- mirer of shakemeare.
Here on Prince Edward Island
The starlings. being omsrlvorous, with a satisfactory food supply, and having escaped in America from many otgtheir natural en. emies, have quickly multiplied by eich Pair raisins. each season, two or three broods of four to seven offspring from each hatch, Their migratory habits take them to favourable winter coindiitions. -some seem to have acquired the
they could be damaged if pelt is WIPM towards tail. Scraping re- quires special care. Pelts have been apoiled by ncrapinr too hard when in 30” Rrensy condition. causing "windows" at head where fur has "dipped." (3) Putting on the boards - Choose board of as near- natural size of mink as possible, Avoid too wide a board as this causes thin quality and spa)-55 coverage. Avoid pulling hind legs down too tight as leather will shrink anyway and quality will also appear thin at inspection point. Center the pelt carefully on board. cut belly vents high enough to permit easy inspection of rumps. Set rumps on board to present iezisest possible quality and cover- I .
Open tails on underside and fasten so sa to permit proper dry. mg. Do not leave tails closed as they will sweat and shed fur. Keep front less and pa 5 from touching belly side of pelg otherwise they will not dry properly and will damage the leather of the belly.
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Dry pelts slowly at very moder- Direct TO ate temperature, say 50 degrees, with air circulation. If pelts are Your Door
dried too fast they will set too boardy or too dry. Mop off grease at intervals as it collects; do not rub hard. Avoid use of sawdust if possible because it is hard to re- imve completely after drying and spoils appearance of fur. When pelts are removed from board. fluff up fur with brush or
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the earliest arrival of starlings that we have been able to trace was a snail colony near Char- lottetown that nested there about 23 Y9!” I-I0. For many years they were in the minorltty when seen with the grackles, however, they have increased so that they seem to have replaced the neck- les. and for the last year or so great flocks of starlings could be seen in many different districts of the Province We have not seen so many grackles as in former years. . .
starlings are another illustra- tion of how essential some import regulations are to the citizens of a country. Had the importation of these birds been stopped at New York in 1890, the whole contin- ent would have been saved from s. scourge that it now seems im- possible to eliminate. I
Slimllarly, had an importation of cedar trees infected with a scale iniseot been sltcpped and destroyed, when they arrived some years ago in Hamilton. Bermuda, that delightful group of islands set in the South Atlantic would today still have its magnificent groves of cedars that extended throughout the many islands. Tu- y as you approach Bermuda, the beautiful. green cedars are dead. and their diry skeletons give a dull. brown appearance to the whole land.
Many remedies have been tried One that seemed promising wasf the importation of lady bugs to. eat the scale: but before they were" established, a hurricane came and, garrled the lady bugs to sea. As' a result, Bermuda has lost its' magnificent cedars. l
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ln the prairie country which an- nuslly produces the bulk of the mutkrat crop. shown that they have been forced to migrate by thous- ands to new areas. 'mls desertion of the normal family life of the animal not only has decreased the number of young in the 1953 crop but has brought about a conges- tion of muskrats which might lead trsppera in the new areas to be- have that an increased take would be permissible. If so they might seriously damage the future repro- duction of valuable fur-bearing animals by over-trapping this com- ing season." Looking at the over -ali picture as we see it reported on muskrat we believe there will not be such a dlmarlty in price this season as has been predicted by some parties. Muskrat is one of the moat ular fun, if not the most pop ar on the market and there is nothing that can take its place for certain types of gar- menu
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