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sharp criticism was levied against rising muskrat prises 1n the raw ills market by members or the mrusirrat group or m, Associated Fur 00st and ‘Prim. mjpg Manufacturers at a meet- ing held Inflow York last week. it was one of a series of fur in. dustry brllflrh Group conferences. 1t was stated that mluskrat prices were not holdlns the line and fear was expressed that strong consumer resistance would do. volop next season if prices could not be kept in lino.

The action of the above as- sociation is In conformity with others controlling the manufac- lure nf furs and fur garments and the big reason for their cautious attitude is the recent tremendous decline In the vol- ume of sales for all types or furs until sometimes as much

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'ed in on a litter of pups an 5"’ a Wile Dub with distinctly "m" merklnas such as white collar, white ilace and whtlte marks on legs. Ity and he kept it. The more he looked at it as it grew to matur. It)’ the more be became fascinat- ed WWI. it and instead of pelt- I-IIB it or selling it as he did with most of his production, he decided to retain it.

lllirst he did not luvs numb “we” l" Droducing foxes like u". 1118119. but as time went on illgsrifilrriblear tgghlfo marked sil- e a~n pups 9w

and visits from sin’... m. more nun-serous. Among these was Mr. Fred Colspitts of sails- bury. who took away a choice specimen and it is Mr. 0'11“. let's ttnn belief that it was on...

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particular fox that was among the first to start Mr. Colpltts onl the road to fame and fortune.

as 50% declines resulted. Now that a floor or something like s. floor, has been established for most types of furs. dealers and

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-is that the feminine mtlnd does not take kindly tostandardiaa- tion and that to be_a successful fox or mink rancher one has to study the trends_ and endeavor to breed different yarieties.

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Iiondon. March 2—Present mar- ket riimotes for I-he.London sil- ver fox sale beginning March 17 itdicate a total offering of about 41000 skins maximum This in- cludes 35.000 announced by the Hudson Bay 00., which also is offering 2.750 platlna slitlns.

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THE GREAT BLACK-SACRED GULL

On April 11th, i988. as I left the house, one of these gulls was ily- irng overhead, on its way to the North Shore. Its large size, slaly- black wings and its harsh, creak- ing voice, were sufficient to deter- mlns its species. It. was steering in the right direction too, for this gull nests principally on the Iuabra-l dor coast northward. In the who‘ ter, stragglers may be found s1 far south as the Garollnas, often "in company with the Herring Gulls"-Reed. ,

Great Black-backed Gull. or 8nd- dlcbaolr. A.O.U. 4'1. Winter Resi- dent, common. A large and now- erful bird. Summer Plumsle: Hood. neck, and underparts white. Man- tle (back and wings)’ slaty-biack, but primaries tipped with white. Eyes and bill yellow, the latter hav- ing a. red spot near the tip of the lower mandible. Feet flesh-color.‘ Winter plumage: the principal lit-l ference la that the head is streak-i ed dusky gray. Young birds have

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we days. But later research showed that this element was not to bat trified with.

Let us, in oomplny with Mr. Scheinfcld, see what the scientists are about. There is a genus of, flies, the Droaophilas, commonly called "fruit-flies" who reach mat- urity i.n two weeks. thus providing 88 generations In tho year. Natur- ally. the fruit-flies were selected for experiments by the gencllcrstsi who wanted results quickly. Tito flies were bombarded with x-rtlya with the result that the hereon,- fuctors (genes) wore so shaken up that freaks of all sorts appeared In the flies’ progeny. There were flies with stub wings or almost time; partially blind or totally eye- loss flies; dwarf flies, lopsided files, that didn't look like flies-i And only ratcly oould any of the offspring be called an improvement on the‘ original stock.

“The basic mechanism of hered- ity ln human beings is exactly the same as in flies." So that if peo- ple were subjected to some similar kind of radiation any offspring

Writs for Free Garden Guile SROOKDALE-KINGSWAY

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Psrmitstbofrooponsh-ationoftbsbonsflcialultra- vlolotrays of the sun. Ordinary glam stops thus rays, Retains boat: longer than glam.

Keeps out: cold bola: than glam.

Will give your seedlings earlier and better growth. No drawing or ‘ L, under Windolita.

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men of piety and valor. mostly from the islands fringing the west vnflSl. of Scotland: just the locality whence came our early Scottish settlers. The Macdonalds were Lords of the Isles and Reginald Mac- donald was buried in l-Iii "in the‘ year of our Lord 1207." This clan‘ became very numerous, which was probably the cause of their emi- gration to the New World. On this Island, in 1798, there were 68 fa- milies of McDonalds, 402 individuals, that Is 9.2 per cent

Plants require leas_ wataring. Unbreakable, light-weight, uaily handled. ' Iuy through your hardware dollar. null onior lsouoo or soul Intros.

WINDOLITE is still in short supply. To avoid dissppolntmsni: flan _ Ifillsotdtcsly. Writoioofionssmplowlilsdnu-ipflvnloldu’.

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‘would most certainly show abnor- the head, neck, and underpartszmalities in development- dwarf. whitish but more or less strcakoddsm, extra limbs, partial or com. and mottled gray: back and wlngs[plete blindness, and so on. worse brownish, mottled or streaked bufflstill for mankind. The rays huve

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of the population.

Bv a grant from Kins David If of Scotland, John Macdonald, cull- ed the “Good? obtained the Isles

manufacturers are not anxious to see higher prices paid for raw material fearing another collapse.

fn the recent Montreal sale blue fox. presumably of Aleutian breeding. front a western Canada

ranch. were moderately sought after with silvery blues selling between $38 and $50; ‘pale s11-

verics sold between $38 and 50: browns ranged from $16 to $25. Art Doyle of Winnipeg has often advised us to aanch some blue foxes, stating that they were pro- lific and that there was a good profit on them. However, they are not as attractive or nlco to handle as our own type of all. vrra and mutations and where nne dnrs not like a tyrpe there cannot be too much success.

Wc- have been wondering all along why cross fox were not in creator demand, because they are nilraclivc. at least to us. and at one time you will remember many oi us bred them thinking we were rlong the rig-ht. l-incs. At the rrccpt Montreal sale they were rclrclivrlv purchased to the ex- irnt of £107. with prices un- tllrlngrd from January. The top price vras $34 for a white mark- ed cross. High. class reds sold up to $16 with prices ntostly be- tween that and $9.00. Marten sold it-nnt $70 to 1'78, for British (‘t-lttnibin types; Quebec pales sold from $10 to $30; browns from $27 to M2. and light browns $32 to $34. Fisher brought from $72 to $100 for No. i darks and cthcr grades from 3/20 up. Lab- rador rcd fox sold for a top of $3.50. Wltitc fox ranged from $8.50 to $34.00. t ,

Max Kook of New York ar- rivcd back from Paris last week

and is thoroughly enthusiastic about ill!‘ fashions he saw. l-Ie nan much impressed with the aniount of silver and pliailnum ' fox u-hiclt s dressmiakcrs have In lllcit‘ fu d he was in com- Illctc nppr f the styles they; are dcvclop for thesc long-i

ltalred furs. a number of which

hc will adopttfor his own collec-

tion not only for capelets and

sioles but for trimmings. The‘ long evening ooat is on the pro-

gram of fall developments. fitted

and llaired. Other highlights he

rtmnrntrd upon are round pud-

drd hips and deep armihole sleeve. mountings.

Wc had a pleasant chat with Archibald O'l-lanloy of St. Peters lzttt wrtk and most of our con-I vtrsallon was about foxes. Mr.- Olianlry became interested In stlvrr fnxrs almost thirty years Q80 nnd in the early 1900's he Ms producing quite a number of hilt: class pelts. His foxes were sltrilnt- In strmln to Will Mac- Earhrrns. Mermaid. and were rharacierlzed by good size. plenty of fur. itsually well silver-ed with lslle brushes and tips. it. Ollanleygrece-lved quite a sur- llriso one ntorning when he "look-

"Wflbiy hurtipered by restric- tions and the fact that the pow. ers that be at Ottawa would no; feilvtnize a fox with white mark- ings as eligible for reglstratiom, Ml‘. 0'Hanley much on the q.t.. that ls he did. not publish his strain to any great extent. Some of them were pelted and these brought good prices, but there were not enough of them to really moire an im_ pression on the auctions, as hfllliiened years later when liked

001114!!! KPP-BHB s surprise int Montreal with an'ultra-sellect number of white

marked and Platinum pelt-s. ~

To Mr. Colpitts must. go the credit for popular-lasing these mu. tatlons in Canada and for as- siduously and tenaciously breed- ing them in the face of opposi- tion from those wlho were sup- Puscd to know what the market demanded. A few weeks ago we quoted front an article in Mac- Lean's Magazine showing the amount of territory covered by Mr. C-olpltts In his quest for new specimens of, the types he was cndieavoring to produce. Only a

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ing to the advert-hesitant of Fromm sliver fox jackets at $195, sponsored by Canton Pirie Scott d: 00.. in Sundays Ghicago Tri- bune. customers jansned the ‘fourth floor fur department at .t-he opening of the store. Previ- ous to that, throngs were wait- ing outside the store. Fromm sil- inohfr utsidet hesto cmfwy- ver fox jackets. capes and stoles from $235 to $55 also received considerable consumer interest. Demand for sliver fox jackets and capes has shovn an increase so far this season. according to reports from Goltienhcrg d: Zit- ter, of New York. This is ao- counted for here by lowered prices, some pieces now retailing at last year's wholesale prices. Following the demand for more length. Jackets are generality 2'7 Inches long. lln one style, report- ed to be the best seller here ham- lincs are out in deep scallops and open cape sleeves feature snaps, allowing the wearer to srlsp them together for added wiarmtth. Shoulder lines are kelpt as nar- row as possible. it i-s noted, and

man with a. great purpose and a strong faith 1n the future of new type foxes could have gone through with it.

We do not know but we strong- ly suspect that there was a close connection bctween some of the foxes developed in tine MacEach- ern ranch at Mermaid and the 0'Hanlcy types. Anyhow Iihe writ- er remembers visiting a ranch in Mermaid in i926 where there was a very beautiful sllvcr fe- male Mil’: while hh1d legs. We bought her, paying a long price.

‘and if my memory is correct it

was her granddaughter that pro- duced the original white face fox in the ranch of the Prince Albert Fox Company. Prince Albert. Saskatchewan. In t-he early 1900's. Ollie MaNeill was one 9f the dtareholders and ‘Ithe caretaker and as the other owners were in favor of pelttlng this magnificent male with the white collar and white face. Ollie bought him for $150. Ibelleve he also bought t-he mother and transferred them- to his own ranch. From that be- ginning he produced white faces that were the forbears of most of those bred in this Province. Ontario and western Canada, as well as Norvuay and Sweden.

One has only to gto back a few years to recall in memory the magnificent white faces in the ranches of Raoul Raymond and ivellingion McNeill, Souil-tport. that were the doscendents of Ollie's strain. Every once in a ivhlle they produced platinuims and one of these which perhaps might be called a white marked

collars lle flat In back. This style is shown in platlna fox as well as silver fox. .

-Jackets take preference over capes in demand but, especially in New York. capes are reported gaining favor. Here a silver fox sling capo is 28 inches long and has the scalloped hemllne.

Blue fox la shown in capes. jackets and cape stoles and the cape stoles, which are also made in silver fox. also are longer, 25 inches in back, 30 inches for the stole panel.

Denver, 601.. March 8 - Spirit- ed bidding marked the sale of silver fox of all types held here. yesterday by the New York Auc- tlon Co. It was attended by a good representation of New York dealers and manufacturers. ap- proximately BO per cent of the offering of foxes of all types was sold at levels 20 to E per cent higher than December.

Interest was particularly strong‘ in fulltstandard silvers,. wihich brought from $30 to $45 and white ' faces which ranged’ from $36 to $58. Less interest was shown in a mediocre collection of platinuun fox. which sold for from $45 to $09.

Also offered was a small col- lection of browm nuink, of which about-70 per cent was sold at. prices 20 per cent higher than

January level. Brown and dark brown males, I and II. brought $18 to $20, wlille brown and dark brown ‘females, I and II, sold for $10 to $12.50.

silver. was sold to Tom lVIlcGlIl of Ontario by win McNeil] fo-r s. good price. It seemed high at t the time but as it turned out the ~ fox was a small gold Itino Jot Mr. Mcflill.

Length ofadult 29 Inches.

These gulls feed on refuse. fish, and shellfish, and are fond of the, eggs and young of other blrdsi They are said to destroy thousands‘ of Elder Duck eggs every year.

MOUNT ETNA FRUITS

Word cams via radio this morn- lug (March 6) that Mount Etna. Sicily, was again in violent erup-‘ tion, with a torrent of lava flow-I ing the rate of 600 feet an hour. and t reatenlng a town In its Path.

The beginning of the trouble was on Feb. 26th. \vhen, according to; press reports, Etna suddenly be- came active. By March 3rd a num- ber (23?) new craters had form- ed, and there were signs that the activity was subsiding. Now it is increasing again. I

It is about 19 years since the last eruption of Etna occurred. Preceding it, says my “Weather Book," wet'e several earthquakes” "of a, mild type," then on Nov. 3. 1928, the volcano was in violent eruption. (About the same date there was an eruption of Mauna Loa, in Hawaii.) By Nov. 6, lava. streams had caused enormous dam- age, destroying several small towns and villages In their path.

Etna O1‘ Aetna was well known to the ancients who relate several fables concerning it. Typhon or Enceladus,-a giant, wanted to ac- quire the sovereignty of gods‘ and men, but Zeus ‘chief god of Greek ~ mythology) subdued ltlm with a thunderbolt, and buried him un- der Mount Aetnn‘.

“Under Mount Etna he lles,

‘It is slumber, It is not death; For he struggles at times to arise, And above hlm the lurid skies Are hot with his fiery breath." So says Longfellow i-n a striking poem entitled Enceladus.

In the interior of the volcano was- the smithy of Hephaestus and the Cyclopes, one-eyed Titans who forged the thunder-bolts for Zeus. There are also several volcanic eruptions mentioned In the rec- orda of antiquity. .

Effects of radio-activity

When Mr. Amram Scheinfeld writes he always gives one nome- thlng to think over; and his con- tribution to the magazine Ub-irty (Feby 15) is not less ntlnatory than interesting. It deals with certain obscure and far-reaching effects of atomic fission.

II- may -be recalled that, some years ago“ certain workers in a watch factory fell ill of a myster- ious rii-scuso, of which some died, while all were permanently affect- ed. These workgrs were girls who were employed in painting the pointers of self-illuminating watches with some form of radium. Una- ware of radio-activity, they were accustomed to hold thclr_brushes in their teeth at times: The news- paper story at the time was. that postmortem examination of the bones found them radtio-sctlvo.

There was, of course, some scepti- cism on the part of the'publlc, who

been known to cause sterility.

We have now got to the gist of the matter. "Radio-activity from (i.e.. IOIIOWIIIB) an atomic-bomb, eaaplosion.....catt affect people sv-, erywhero on earth." And the 118-‘ tion using the bomb, is in just. s; much danger from this cause, as the nation against which the bomb Is launchod.

It is proposed to use the uran- Ium group of elements In industry and unless special and extensive precautions are put In force against their radio-activity the results will be just as dangerous to humanity.

Ml‘. Schelnfelrfs article in Lth- erty is well worth the attenlion ol my readers. scientific or othcrwrscnl

"Butfiof the tree of the kitowletlge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for In the day that thou eatost thereof thou shalt surely dleP-Genesls 2. 17. True it is that man has always turned his know- ledge to exterminating iii-s fellows, but now he has over-reached litm- self and he is like to have a. tragic ending.

Traces of Latin.

When Rome was "Mistress cf lle World," Latin made headway in Italy, France and Spain. It was not always the Latin of Virgil or Hor- ace. for the natives of Gaul and Hispanlg wouldconverse with their conquerors "in a kind of "pldgin- Latin,” that was more disorganized the further westward i-t travelled. The Roman Empire fell, and France. Stpain, and Portugalp took shape in the course of time. The languages of these countries have g-very solid foundation of Latin and one can usually translate a French or Spanish sentence If mic has a smattering of the classic language.‘ Take, for instance, the Portitgueso saying printed in The Guardian of‘ Feb. 2'2, l947.—"Quem nao tem vtsto Llsboa, nao tem vlsttfcousty-boaf‘. The Latin, s, bit jumbled, wouldt be “Qul, non, tempus, vldlt, Llsboaz" He, who at no time has seen Lls- bon—"non, tempus; vldlt, choso, beau," (the last two words being

thing beautiful. A freer translation would be-"He who hasn't seen Lis- bon has missed something very beautiful." Notice ths Portuguese preference for o. vowel end-ing, sure mark of_ a musical language; and note that "no.0" is just what a Londoner says for "no?"

TIE STORY OF IONA

Following the Note on Ions a week ggo, a good frI-endltaa sent 'me a, well-Illustrated book, “The Story of Iona,‘ and the informa- tion that a piece of stone from Columbia's cathedral at Iona

displayed in St. James‘ Church, City.

. Bedefis says that the monastery of

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French) at no time has seen srmew _.

from Lewis to Colonsay. and John of Lorne ‘gave Mull to him. The Macleons and MacKinnons of Mull thus became followers of Macdon- aid. There ls a considerable lati- tude in, the spelli-ng of the old names, and we learn that Macieazt or Maclaino ls MacGilean, from their traditional ancestor Glloun na. ‘rusighe, (Gilesn of tho Battle- sxe) that being his favorite weap- on. I-[e lived In the early 13th ceri- tury. Sir Iachlan Maclean of Duart and Morvern, in 1634 seized the “Yle of Ycolmekillfltlona) which belonged to the “Blschope of tho said Ylatiri." The Bishop complain- ed to King Charles I, who ordered Sir Lar-hlitn to restore the land, hut llm gt-oal political troubles that shortly broke out. overshadowed all else, and what. SI-r Iachland did, Is not stated.

There Is a recumbent effigy of Abbott Mackinnon, who ruled about 14$, in Iona Cathedral. A badly- spelt Latin inscription on a broken cross preserved in the Cathedral calls the Abbot Meic (Mac) Fing- one, which may be the original form

STILL NEED FOOD

NEW DELHI —(C P)-—- India's, need for substantial food imports during 194'! still continues, At the first of the year food stocks stood at less than ilircc weeks‘ supply tdcolton ions! and six weeks’ supply- of 1.0031100 tolls is needed to main-l lain the rationing system.