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we are indebted to Bovyer “Biis" tones, Bunbury, for some news of of mink farming in

‘h; pFOBFQSS Nnvn Scotia. Bus made a trip ‘hrough that Province recently

"tn said that even in Cape Bre- ton there has been a marked in- Eerest in mink farming with quite l number of people actively en- used ln it. In other parts oi Noya gcotiii mink farming has been car- ried on for n number of years but tn the last three, ranches have ex- panded and new types have been naught in. Nova Scotia is really wry far in advance of our Prov- ince in this regard although dur- ing the past few months there has been quite a marked activity here ind the vicinity of Charlottetown will likely aee some very fins ad- ditions to its mink population be- [ot-e the year ends.

Anent mi-iik farming in NONI Ucotla it may be mentioned that their wild or native mink ha e al- wavs brought good prices o the fur‘ markets. in fact they are inuch more highly regarded than our mink, probably due to the fact thnt in the places wheer they are taught the water is free from any admixture of salt water. 0f course the best mink in Canada come ircm northern Ontario and Lab- rador. The E. B. Labrador which are controlled by tlic Hudson's Bay company are the fl-nest wild mink in the world and in recent years have actually sold for H0000 ind over per pelt. In our annual journeys to the Hudson's Bay Company in London Mr. McLure and the writer always made ll practice of looking over the 'ni1.k. The liandiers there. some of whom lintl been with the company for upwards of half a century were rcni experts in sorting and grud- Intt. Hudson's Bay Company grad- ing could be taken as absolutely correct in every particular no mut- tcr what type of fur was offered for sale.

Nova Scotia Mink Breeders’ As- sociation is holding their mink show this season at Lawrcncetown in the Valley and noha very great distance from Wolfville. It -s ex- pected that there will be a very line showing made tin of the Nova St-otia winners at the Maritime Winter Fair and dozens of other exhibitors who did not go there.

By the way. we feel ivt is due our informant “Bus" Jones to cffcr our congratulations on his own succcss in mink breeding. He was a definite winner ct the Maritime Winter Fair and a party who vis- ited his ranch recently said that he has a most up to date mink shed and a very fine line of breed- irii: mink in several types. By the wait". Bus, t-ilcnt iii the production of prize animals comes naturally. His grandfather. Franklyn Bovycr. was one of the outstanding men of his era. a wonderful cattle breeder. a grower of marvellous simwberries and one of the lead- ing fox ranchers of the world. We ivcil remember the thrill we got \Vil(‘fi we visited the Bovyer ranch In the fall of 1910 and saw the large heavily furrcd. beautifully slivers-d foxes with big brushes anti lips coming to the caii 7f Mr. Bovyer in the shaded ranch at ilunbury. It was a sight net/Pi" to he forgotten. Then on the other ride of Bus‘ pedigree his hither is l graduate of Acadia University and was for years employed hy the United States government in Wash- illgton as a trained geneticist. was the author of the origfncl "Fur Farming in Canada" a book which is sill] a treasure house of infor- mation, and is the breeder of the World's champion Holstein and hundreds of other prize winners. Ycs. we can be sure of it. Bus is hound for the top as a breeder!

Our congnitulations to the ranchers from this Province and clsewherevho made possI-lile the lllghly successful fox and mink show at Amherst. October 30th to November 2nd. The fact that 275 foxes including B9 standard silv- ers and almost 200 new types were (in show is proof that the com- lictltlon was keen. There were 20 crzhibltora including Dr. and Mrs Ii. B. TGRkAEIr Sussex. N. 3., Wvi- lcr Lusiiv. Amherst, W. I‘. and P. l. Mayne, Westchoster. N. 8., Ron Allen. Northport. A. R. Trenholme.

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Pugwash. James A. i-‘lemminspi Debec. N. 8., George A. Callback,

L. W. Hancock, D. O. Stewart. Frank Cameron, Foliand and Mo» Farlane, Summerside, Gordon Mc- Millan. George McMillan, Corn- wall. Charles Willis, Covehead.‘ Roy Woodslvde. Malpeqtie. J. R. and l... K. Inckerby, l-Iamiltoii and- Doulgas Bell, Cape Travcrsa. P. E I.

In the mink section four exhibi- tors showed 80 mink including Eastern Standards, Yukon, Sliver Blus. Koh-I-Nur and Sno Whites. Yukon prizes went to B. B. Jones, Bunbury, who won four firsts. champion male and female and reserve champion male. Reserve champion female went to L W. Hancock. Buiumenldc, Sliver Blu mink top honors were divided. l... W. Hancock winning champion and reserve champion females .ind one first. James A. Flemming wil- nlng champion male and .two firsts. C. H. Grunt winning re- serve champion male and two‘ firsts, Black Cross Koh-l-Nur’ honors went to James A. "lem- ming with champion and reserve champion male and reserve illum- pion female and two firsts. B. B Jones won champion female and two firsts. Sno White prizes were divided between James A. Flem- ming, C. l-l. Grant and L. W. Hun- cock. No grand chamPlims WM“? declared in mink. Both fox and mink shows were judged by John Mahoney, Manager Hudson's Bay Company, Montreal.

In the fox sections the top lion- ors in silvers went to Waiter Lus- by, Amherst, who won the gland championship and champion male. Regrettably. Mr. Lusby lost these through attacks of acute indiges- tion a day after they had won the awards. On opening the animals it was found that. their intestines were filled with straw. Thcy had evidently eaten a lot of the bed- ding with their feed. At .'lil\'iC‘5i. every show one or two foxes die but thi-s is the first time that the trouble has really been definitely placed on the bedding used. l. W. Hancock, won the reserve grand champion male in silvers. Roy Woodsicla was top- winner with five firsts and reserve champion- ship. George A. Callback andi George McMillan each won three firsts, D. O. Stewart won c-nc and reserve championship and W. 1". Mayne one first.

In the Whi-te Marked Silvers Mrs. A. B. Teakles had the win- nlng champion fem-tie and grand championship and Walter iiusby wori the reserve champion female and reserve grand championship. Roy Woodside won one chamiiion-

A clean-skimming. any‘ Roafrew is available to vou now. There's no aitlni, foi- delivery! As the authorised Raufrew More» combative for this district I will Iiadlv demonstrate a Renfrew in your own d There's no obli- gation to purchase. Get more cream and butter. with a Ren- frow, Give me a call and I'll prove it to vour satisfaction.

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one championship and reserve grand championship. Gordon Mc- Millan one first with one reserve championship and Rosa Allen one first.

Walter R. Shaw, Secretary of the Silver Fox Breeders’ and Exhibi- tors’ Association. h-xs sent out the prize list for the 16th live fox show which will be held at Charlotte- town November 18th to 22nd. lust one week from next Monday. 1n- cluded in the catalogue are par- ticulars re the 9th fox pelt show which will be held at Summerszde July 6th to 8th. 1947. The prize list gives full Information regard- ing the classes and particularly stresses the fact that entries must be sr-iil in not iaicr than Novem- ber 12th. All foxes must he inno- culatq-l with F‘romm's Distenioi-r- old Vacr-ine at least thii-iy ‘lei/s beforo the owning date. Novem- bci‘ 18th

Monday. November 18th, will be receiving and rlissification tiay and judging will start Tuesday morning at nine o'clock There are classes fcr medium silvers. light silvers. extra light heavy vellinvr and extra light. also Strind- ard Whi-te Marked Silvers in light silvers end extra light. Standard Platlnums consist of dark, med- lum, light and extra light. There will be no Platinum Silver classes this year as these are now com- bined under the head of Platinum. In Standard Pearl Plalinums there

ship and seven firsts. F. L. bfayne one reserve championship and twoi firsts and Dr. A, B. Teskles one first. i

Platinums-Top honors went tOi George A. Caiibeck with sic: firsts. champion male and reserve cham- pion male and grand champion platinum. L. W. Hancock had champion female and reserve grandl champion platinum. Mrs. A B. Teakles had one first and reserve champion Walter Lusby had three firsts. 1". L Mayne two firsts and L, K. Iiockerby and Charles Willis one first each.

In the Pearl Plntinums George A, Callbeck won two firsts, also champion and reserve chsmptnn male and grand champion. J R. Imckerby won champion female and reserve grand champion and four firsts. Ross Allen, Folland 8i: McFarlane. Dr. 'l‘eakies and G. F. Cameron each won one first, with 0.. I‘, Cameron winning reserve champion female. _

White Marked Pearl Platinum: (Penrlitlnas) Mrs. A. B- T88R10! won six firsts and champion female and both male and female reserve championships. plus grand champ- ion and reserve ‘grand champion- ships. Dr. A, B. Teakles won two firsts and champion male. One first went to A. R. Trenholme and George A. Callback.

Glacier Blues-Dr. A. B. ‘reakles won seven firsts. chamolon female and resefvg champion female and grand champion fox. with Georgi! A. Callback taking three firsts.

cre classes for light and extra light and in Glacier Blues. Med- iums and light. Classes are iub- divided into sections for adult males and adult females. pup males and pup females. Of course there are the usual championships for all types. Aggregate score trophies will be awarded for Stand- ard Silver classes and also for new type classes, George A. Callbeck will be the judge.

The elections in the United States should interest Canadians probably more than they do for the reason that (he Democratic party when in power has usually been more co-operative ‘rn the matter of tariffs than the Republicans. We Canadian fur farmers have been the victims of Republican high tariff policies that have brought dlsasterous results to us on several occasions, notably in I902 when after the Republican iitates of Wis- consin and Michigan figured they had enough silver foxes for their own breeding purposes they work- ed on their representatives ln Congress and in the Senate to put through a tariff of 50 per cent on Canadian silver fox pelts. That tariff remained in force until an appeal was made by the Hon. Mr. Dunning to the Democratic’ party i-n 'Washingtcn to have it reduced to 35 per cent. Now the fox breed- ers and mink breeders of the Un- ited States have pre ared a bill In which they will as Congress to cut down the quota of silver fox pelts and mutations allowed into that country to 15 per cent of the United States production. On the basis of last year that would be about 30.000 pelts for all the rest of the world, This year we will export approximately 55.000, so, if

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the proponents of the bill will lie successful Canadian pelts will be practically shut out of American markets.

The tlsct of the matter is we are fn a precarious state as regards marketing in the United States and we must endeavour to find other markets elsewhere and also to improve the market in Canada- If we were free of the incubus of the Dominion tax which we tried our but to get Hon. Mr. Ilclcy to do away with. we could interest enough Canadians to take up at least two-thirds of our production which la only 150.000 pelt! 0f Ill grades. Then with an advertising fund we could bring to the atten- tion of fur conscious ladies the attractiveness of silver fox and develop a healthy market in Can- ada. Yesterday we noticed a very charming young lady wearing a platinum cape- on u black cloth coat and canyi-n: a platinum muff. We an sure it was a much more attractive ensemble than a flat new tyoe mink cape aml muff would be. Yes. there is no doubt

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Besides the Horned Grebe. ither two Grebes had been found in the Province: this is attested by the list issued as a bulletin by the P. W. College in 1916. The Holboell Grebe is much the largest of the three and its size and rich color- ing have made it too conapicu u: for its own good. The silky red breast of the Holboell was former- ly in great request for ladies’ mil- llnery and the resulting slaughter has made these birds comparative- ly scarce. I have yet to lee a single specimen.

The Pied-billed Grebe is about the same size as the Horned Grebe but its duller coloring, ‘its beak and its eye, all hereafter describ- ed, will prevent any confusion be- tween the species,

llolbooll Grebe. AO-U. 2. Sum- mer plumage: crown, crest, and all down back of neck, blackish; cheeks and throat white; front and aides of neck rich chestnut-red; lhlding on the breast to silvery White. Back and wings grayish. the latter with a white patch. Winter plumage: blackish above. under- parts white, front and sides of neck pale reddish in adult birds. gray in immature specimens. [length l8 to 20 inches. wings '1 to 8 inches.

Pied-billed Grebe. A.O.U. 8. Sum- mer resident. Summer plumage: upper parts brownish black; a

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recollection of the story. but some | readers may be able to amplify the mammal much“ o; gm, dean” _ adlan Army units are traditionally _I am indebted to Mr. Colin Hig- "old country" tune; nnd gum 8m! 0i Oyitfifbed Bridge. for the airs as "Bonnie Dundee". "High- loan of a book entitled "Eighty gnnd Laddie", “Blue Bonnets", Years of Progress." It is a com-{wly Boy Willie" and the stirring prehensi-ve volume, treating of all “British Grenadiers" head the list Canada, and as the last date in alliwhen the various regiments are tables of exports. etc.. is i861, one on parade A few units such as must suppose, in the absence o! aitiie Royal Canadian Regiment and title page, that it was printed in the Royal Regiment of Canada 1862. The eighty years of prcgregg, nave their own original marches.

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then. would begin in 1182. ceremonial parades. “Gary .Pf'inO0 Edward Iliflnd is treated Owen“. is Played by the Irlfih of at»some length. Originally 398111191" 0f C5118“; "M011 01 known as the Island of St. John. it i Hargedl" by "WG “dig P731“?

tat r1 n m . iinuse Dragoon uar . an e re ne tat name t the year “mbroch onmald Duh" by the

1800. In 17% it was estimated that

the European settlers were sixty

families of Aosdians who had re.

moved from Nova Scotia after the. Treaty of Utrecht. In 175d the whole i population was estimated at 1,354. “The expulsion of the Acadlana from Nova Bcotia was the nielfll of more than doubling the popu- lation of the island‘ when it be‘ res onsible for the choice of n came a British possession. i-n 1458. I regimental march ‘m. ‘he my“ the inhabitants numbered 41(7)." t Canadian Army sex-Vt“ (gm-p; s0 says this wmk‘ “m! the state" imust have been endowed with a ment is hard to reconcile with the ; nice sense o; humnml (on gwgy figures given in Fanning's censusiback in the days when tong n01.

Cameron’ Highlanders of Ottawa. the Rictou Highlanders and the Queen's Own Highlandersaof‘ Can- ada. The familiar strains of " l- onel Bogey" echo across the par- ade square when the Calgary Regiment (14th Armoured Rout.) and the Irish Fusiliers. Vancouver. strut their stuff. But the man

derance of new. non-Acadi-an set- were snppiytng the (not soldier, he

black patch on the throat; upper breast, neck. a'nd sides of body more or less brownish, faintly mot. tied dusky: no white wing pitch; bill compressed, and with a black band encircling it. In winter the throat is white. and the bill is without the black band. Length l4 inches; wing 5 inches.

All grebes have individual webs on their toes. no tails. and their

are. The Pied-bill has a brown iris. but the other two have red eyes.

All grebes are expert underwat- er swimmers and dive instantly at. the flash of the gun, to appear again at some distance from their

original position. The ability ‘.0 swim_ in this manner is of great use in procuring ihc fish whrch

is thclr chief food. Island Family Names.

The beard family had lzccume established in the Island before the census of 1798 was taken: the census-taker gives the name. spelt Dhoneticnlly as a family name in Lot, 28, It ls. I think, an equival- ent of the Scottish "Laird." mean- ing a landowner or Squire. John Lord who had a family of l0, lived in the same lot, he was evidently English as was William Warren. The Warren family h-1ve_ distantly dfllvelided from Earl Warrenne, a nobleman of the Feudal Period. such turns of Fortune's wheel are quite common. Philip Callbeck also lived in Lot 28; the name has come down for a century and a half.

In Lot 3i Johnson Basto had 4 50m and 6 daughters. This name comes down to us as "Bearlsto." and so on. I used to wonder how the name arose but finally it struck me that this was an attempt at

somewhere in England.

In Lot 31. among other residents, we find Wm. Dockendorff’. his wife. and one child: he probably came from Germany, as did con- rad "Yonker" (Younker) and Jacob l-llartze (so spelt.) Conrad Yaunk- er‘s tombstone is still to be seen. I am told and his descendantsvare many and favorably known.

In Lc-t 40 dwelt Wm. I-lassard. John Burho. Nicks Jenkins. Wm. W005. 1r. and senr.. and Jam-cs L. Hayden. All these names are still wl-th us but in more modern shape.

Joseph Beers, Esq. lived in Lot 00. and from his title. must have been well-connected. or well off. I-Iis neighbors were Frederick Praught and Richard Myers. Many family names were derived from lands. towns or villages, and the name Beers w-as taken from the vi], lage of Beer. near the mouth of the Axe. on the south coast of Ting- land. Tho(mas) Pendergast also settled in Lot 50 and was probably well connected. though the ccn- sus-taker did not spell his name correctly. The Prendergasts were an old Norm-in family and the late Lord Gol't’s father was the Hon. John Prendergast Vereker, before he attalnedJhe title. This ncmc seems to record the capture of a xolrit or ‘grist!’ However. the name is now settled as Pehdergast. and 'l'homas’s descendants are with us today. Peter Musick. James heard. John VanNlderstine, and Fred Schulize were all resident in bot d0.