. . B! .- NEWSY NOTES - AGRICOLA WHO WAS GUN TEE? received the following hlivgarrespondent who desires to ,. n lnco nlto: “Dear , in I119 ess of’ recent l of an ancien surveyors com- , brings tc mind the surve or's Gunters Chain which may ave m; and interesting history. but the books of information at ,, gre silent as far as 1t or its , [or is concerned. It apparent- “. masterpiece measures. ble as it is by the English foot .. yard. ans‘ having the advant- . of the decimal 1 system for ulatlng acreajzes and we think , oi-igiriaiOr is entitled to a place m; Hall of Fame for giving us instrument that never has been ..ved uilflll- p you have information on so . ancient matters you are the .. one we might ex ect to give my light on the su ject, if you u pardon a little idle curiosity. m a postscript m? ¢°Yl'»“5lil°llfl' . goes on “We enjoy reading your wsy Notes" and lcok ft taro Saturday's paper on ac up. of feature. We also 1""? hi8 FP- unity to thank you for the sam- oi soy Beans wrncu you so ...| sent." , “m glad to be of some assist- 1L0 my unknown friend, since he eis to my efforts insuch flatter- , terms. and also because he is . second, out 0i’ all who asked . land got) soybeans. who has . wledged their receipt! with regard inthese beans I am g to get hold of information n their domestic use. apart industrial and farm efit all who have the beans. Now for Edmund Gunter. An 01d .. 1n my possession, says Gunter born in Hertfordshire in 159i, Welsh parents. He r ceived a ... education and in 1599 enrolled tstudent at Oxford. successively A., and in 1615, th B‘ 1p " lilo ‘"2.’ ...- to a o cssor 1- nomy in rexam Co ego, .... in 9. This was a lion that enabled him to in- . e his mathematical granitic and . eld it till his death 1626. Gunter published several treatis- cr1 the Cross-staff, Quad- . , the Sector. . . nts- some of which were in tin. e also published his non Triangulorum." an ex- lve table oi sines and tangents . aver-y minute and degree the ilfl . ' ills practical inventio were (i) .. Gunner's Mngards long -- subdivided into I00 links. "Its . nass arises from its decimal cditesimal division and the fact v ll) square chains make an .-." (in The Euntilr-‘s Line, a thmic line usu y laid down , etc. (3) The uadrant," to find the -- of the y, the sun's azimuth," . (t) The Gunterk scale," called seamen ‘The Gunter, a large" . scale trsually two feet longbiy l-i inches wide." By means ht and a lr,of com- roblems in nav gation could , ., an . r ordination) . He hid w wooden measure of 5 1-2 Yards. ously termed the rod pole, or --)ns tbc basis of the newmea- ~ ' and by quadrupiing it 11c away the fraction, and so - ylrds became the new unit of euumment. Instead of a .. the more convenient chain i brought in. to suit this longer - t; and the inventor made a fur- er improvement by making ‘the ain of 100 equal links. It ‘s. how- mnot correct to say that tho - ain is divisible by feet and yards or each link is 7.92 inches long. d co uently not an aliguot -< toi a cot or a yard. Once on a time, during a winter hen I had little to do, I took it to my head to make a Gunters nin -with some changes, which ~~ correspondent may not class l-r - movements! It was. I found very ifficult with the means at my lmsal to make links 1.99 inches n3: but as the whole chain was ~ be 792 inches, then 99 lings of 9 ches in length would fill the ro- ulrements. Now, the links of I lllltci-‘s Chain are really short rrgth of steel wire with a circular eye" or loop worked on each end. lid some plan had to be evolved or making them all of the Mme rrect length. Finally I procured l ~ ort piece of hardwood lank. and lh a half inch bit rilled two vles through it. exactly seven chcs apart. Then 1 drove two- r li-inch bolts up through the link, so that their outside mea- urement was just eight inches. fier the wire (which had been tempered) was wound round one lt. to make the “eye? it was car- lfll to the other bolt where a imilar eye was formed: and the lull was slipced off the bolts. " en 99 links had accumulate" ti’ wcre joined together, and the lialn was put into the furnace rebamturv to rel-tempering it. . ‘Three of the links measured two tel: and nine‘ of them rneas “ ylrdsndcpper tags with the "mien I. 4. c. s. etc. were tr- ed at theproper links to mark e yards, To help in getting a Elli Blikle (often ‘llclllg a farm) a br iiixcd to the ands of the 24th. th! 6th Ind the can. links. and u. the - ginning of the first link. This Fox Farm Choppers out!» has been used once c t '1- by mm“ r \\ ce mufizicxwn‘ who found it quite T!!! BIRDS AT SOUTHPORT I have also received this letter lsfnzhe ypupg nature student at ll Port. ear Agricola, Spring ieems to be here again and lias rousht ma birds with it. I think m“! 93 0"!‘ Prlng birds have come, 9309931! the Warblers and some g ers. ven some Warblers are ere. On March 1'lth. 193s, 1 ob. served a Song Sparrow, and on the 18th. a Fox S arrow came and fed by the door. n March 25th 1 saw a Wilhipnina Sparrow and a Tree rrow: on March 26th, I observ- a Bronze Crackle. On A ril 16th I saw a Flicker. and a cw clays later, a Vapor Sparrow. On April 19th, I observed a Marsh Hawk, and a bird which I thought wag the Oven Bird. though it may have been some kind of s. Sparrow, Qn lrr-lplrlilllagbtlévf gaw a fiemale Black- ar .er an a M ’ Warbler. Bgnoha The Purple Firwhes arrived a few days ago. Sunday May 1st, I saw a Hermit Thrush, and some While- crowned Sparrows and Juncos came almost to the door. The Hermit Thrush was the first I ever saw. A 1r of R/obrns have nested bv the ouse every year and have begun building again this year. The Arctic Owls seemed numerous here this ear and several were shot. Today. ay 3rd, I saw a Vireo, either a -eyed or a Warbling. Well, Agricola, I think I have mentioned all that I have seen, but I hope to send more notes in the coming months. Yours sincerely, Clive Stewart." Clive adds a postscri which is as interesting as the let 10 which it is appended: “I am oing to tell of the bird I mentlone in my last letter and perhaps you may be able to run it down for rne. It was like a Grosbeak in its stout bill, and was the size of a Crackle. perhaps a little 1 er. The color was as well as I co d tell, a dark purplish or almost black bird. The reason I called it a grosbeak was because of its bill, and because I heard some- one talk of the “Purple Grnsbrak." I was in doubt at the time, as I could not find it in my "Birds cf Canada" (by P. A. Taverner). I am thirteen years old. and g0 to Roads School where wehavo a Bird Club. We belong to the Audubon Society and everyone is interuted in birds. We also have a chart on which we put the names and the dates when we saw the Bp _birds. I shall be glad if you can ind-tho name of the bird mentioned above. C. S." I am sorry to disappoint my young friend as to the supposed “Grosbealfl but the color, size, and with at the adult , which has a metallic purp- iah iridescencc in certain lights; l but than the Sterling's beak is sharp and dagger-like. There is a Blue Grosbeak, the male being of a deep indigo color; but is is con- fined to the United States, and winters to the South. However. I shall put the question to Mr. Roble W. Tufts. Chief Federal Officer for lvfigratory Birds when next I sec m. ' The APOUC Owl: 1a that the Snowy Owl, (376)( or the Arctic Horned Owl (875.b). a variety of the Great Horned Owl? It is in every way commendable that the scholars at the Cross oads School have organized a bird-study club. A naturalist once wrote: “A love and a knowledge oi Nature can mean inanylife a hap- piness cmnparable with that which religion brings. If you want in find divinity in nature, you will pe it there. Or if it is enough for you just to find out something you did not know before, there will be no end to your fun." Even a little knoweldge (he says) puts tremendous new interat intc every familiar scene. We behold na- trn-e as something more than a beautiful picture. It. becomes — pied with friends whom we cal by name. And in this newly revealed world we may walk. ha py in the mastery that is ours at e price of just a little curiosity and effort- So persevere. young ornithologists Cross R0 ; you hobby will bring you a cultural reward all your life long. ALLOTMENT GARDENS Gardens of this description have been running in other towns in Canada with excellent results. and I have often wondered why ther: was nothing of the sort in our cap- ital city. When (in the Old Coun- try) I moved from the village; -to the town I found that there were allotment gardens to be had, so I wnicd one. It may interest my readers in learn how the gardens were r11n. It appeared th ten ears before this, there had been a. meeting at which a deputation had been appointed to wait upon X5 r9 the Corporation, as the Town Council was called. There object was to press tion to provide c allotments. After some bargaining eed to fence in a .~'f'he g: 1n as one man could cultiv- atc ,and the inner fence was to be ed by the tenant. Everybody was satisfied to become a tenant on these terms. but dengéigedn: -onc Wat's else. W $33.1. when tho "Nun's Moor Al- tment Gardens" were inccrvflfli- ed. ‘There was wisdom in askini 101' a loale. because the around 1M in grass for rem (when! hundreds) and the tenants knew “M, gha first year's crop was likely - p, all, but would increase year ‘ipto to em the Flllmd I“ "’ ".9 Al... corporation ml! '8' ii 5.‘ and mouse! hi3: m. wrwcisld M ‘is "l" o’ . "u?! "n"; from one of the WATRFOWL RESTORATION - THE PLAIN FACTS (An address by Ira Gabriel-son, Chief. Bureau of Blolvsl-tal Survey. U.S. Department oi Agriculture. at a meeting of the Maryland State Game and Fish Protective Associa- tio3r1 )in Balitmcre, December 14, 19 6. It give me real pleasure to at- tend this meeting and tell the story of what we are trying m do in he Federal mi ra water- fowl program. I ony wis that it were possible lo tell every sports- menfs association in the United szates just what this Federal pro- gram is and what we are trying to accomplish I am sure that if his could be done, 75 per cent or more. of the sportsmen of the country would be solidly back of it. Cer- tainly, an immense increase in hearty cooperation has been the result in practically every group that has already come to know the facts n; I shall present them t0- nllglifl-‘n other words, the story of Gkr-Ytlv what we are trying to do and why we are doing . It may be a little harder to con- vince you Marylanders of some of the facis as we see them because you live in one oi the great natural wild fowl concentration points of the country and will have some dunks to shoot as lcngsas there are any left at all on th part of the continent. The Susquehanna Flats and other points in Chesapeake Bay are amonfihghe fiinest natural food areas of Atlantic flyway. and the birds naturally concentrate with you. It is only to be e cted that those fortunate enough live in such favored areas will be the last to realize fully the seriousness of the decrease in our birds. Ac long as ““ birds remain in the Atlantic flyway to fill 1p these Susquehanna Flats on their south- ern movement in the fall and their northern flight. in sprinfl- Wu will have ducks in front of your eyes. and you will have to remind your- self continually that conditions elsewhere are far different. Now among the important facts in the case is the simrple truth that except. for a very few species Maryland doeo not produce the migratory water-fowl that are hunted in the State. Yorfmpirrtails. redheads, oanrv . other species of that kind arc not grown in Maryland nor anywhere near here.‘ These birds are produced largely in the great mine slough: of north central Uni Canada, and no measures that we can take to improve breeding grounds in Maryland will help to supply izhwe birds. The only con- tribution that you can makc to- ward increasing and restoring some of the sepcles that are in mod serious condition is to hold down your take of them while the re- habilitigtion of their!" groun taking, pace n great nestling regions. It has been seriously proposed by a fe-w that. because duck-s are atill present in nulrn mim- tlOn here, a_ longer and more liberal hunting season might be allowed in this territory. while hea. re- strictions or an entirely o1 sea- son should be imposed in the North Central States, where the wafer- fowl decrease ls more a/pparent and the sportsmen aro fully alive to the seriousness of t-he reduction of birds on the breeding grounds. Frorm a national stnni-‘Pwlllii. l8 well as from any selfish vlc hi. this would be albout the mcst sighted move ‘possible. It would be exactly as in time of short- ge of wafer in Baltimore's mu- the like. were stored. There was no trouble in getting manure in those days for 75 cents a load (three shillings) but a cheaper substitute (which required composting) was to be had in street sweeblngs con- sistlng of horse manure, leaves. etc: a sixoenny trip to the scavenser. and he dumped his cart at your garden gate. An old fellow, "Old Ned" was always on hand tc wheel- barrow the manure where W" wanted it. When I became acquainted with the rest of the gardeners, I found them a curious cross-section of our cl population. Many of them were well to-do business men. and many had “retired" and took" this way of spending their leinre. One had been t0 the gold-fields and made his pile: he was known as “K1ondyke" and always wore a kind of cow-boy hat, and a s ank. There were a couple of "jobbn garden- ers” who attendcd to ot er folk's gardens during the day. and work- ed ‘heir own at night. My next neighbor was a worker n the City power station, and held very advanced political views; he would have been taken for a "Red" now- a-da s. He was quite a Eellllli. i001 he showed rne an oil paintlnilof the "Temptation" which he ad made; and he had given Satan the countenance of John D. eller, co led rom some American paper! d poor, all made rdens when they d, for th buzzed like a beeqhive. at a ren. thronged the ‘the week-ends, when owsfiit tween the plots, all intent on buy- niclpal reservoirs your city author- ities would open wide every faucet and fire plug in the city and at the same time restrict the water con- sumption ir1 the surrounding coun- :ry.£‘he result would be disaster or . Havi been a duck hunter all fe. I understand how irk- some some of the restrictions are that we have felt it necesary to impose. and it should be under- rwod that they are an essential part. of a well-rcamded national restoration program, While I am {hiking about regula- tlons it may, also be well ic esent ' our int of view very brie! y. The regru tions were not designed to hurt any community or to intcr- fere with any person more than with any other. or to favor any one area over other similar areas. The rogulailions were designed solely for the pu o of holding down the legitima kill of birds each year to a point less than the total annual production. I1 this can be done for a few years, the flight of birds can be built back again. I will be frank to say that up to three years ago I thought further restrictions were useless. There seemed to be no hope for the migratory water-fowl. I had lived for 15 years in one of the great prodming of the Pacific Coast flyway. I had traveled ex- tensively in the uclng areas of the other flyways. and each year has seen fewer birds roburnlg t0 blkg advantflle 0f the n ing grounds that war-Q available. Not only that. but the area of nesting grounds was airriniining M tinuoualy before drainage. before natural ef- fects of droughts, and before the normal davelopmnt 01f agriculture which no one can stop. These taken er with the steadily increas- ing annual kill w a greater and B3986 doom of the misratory err-fowl. It appeared that we might just as well open the season wide and tell the ducks hunters to shoot the wild fowl for twelve months in the year. shoot them on the hating . and shoot them anywhere else ba- cauae th would go y. I‘! that co tion still prevailed, I thin]; I would still feel exactly the same way about it. However. now we have great hopes that the conditions am changing rad/limb During the put thmc Federal Gov- doing co ice work on a. scale big enough to give real hope for the future. You will all rocall that early in Preside . Roosevelt's ad- ministration he appointed a com- it of three prom- tee Ecntcitilens whomadcareporton the wildlife resources and ed among other things that the only hope for the migratory water- fowl was a complete albout face on the part of the American public and a 1c ‘Redd-n habitat. restoration and refuge program. ,.Whilc the program omtcmplatcddn this report has not by any means been completed, we have made vast strides in its directions and have adequate plans for its realization. Durl the last three years a to- tal 0fng20,000,000 has been able for the purchase of ref and the gvf lands i m tOPy wit l‘-- 1'8$Wl'n¢ mtg levels. providing better feed- 1mg grounds, fencing and posting refuges, and doing many other things necessary to make these areas valuable foa- water-fowl. The program is simple. The program is iologically sound, and whether or not it will succeed depends upon many factors, some of which are outside of the control of those who are handling the . The program is based on two mises: First, Iif we are to halve and geese in this country. the ‘binds mus-t have suitable hair itat in which to breed. feed. and rest: in other words, the areas of marsh land must ncreased rather than further decreased. areas of marsh land must be in favorable localities for the birds. The second premise equally important: We must have birds to breed in i-hese marshes. if their establishment and rehabili- tation is to have any considerable effect on the nu of the birds. As you all know the migratory water-fowl follow four main fly- walys in traveling between their breeding grounds and their winter- ing grounds. from the north to the south and bark again. and we have this knowledge in establishing the refuge program. Wq have thus outlined it on a broad c. Prom our surveys and studies. we know there are ap- ‘qaroruirmrartely seven and one-lhalf million acres of marsh land, strategically located alcng the fly- wav, which can be restored or im- Eoved for migratory water-fowl make framework of a mighty rcfuge system that would provide ‘eouate feed and resting grounds for the birds wherever they might happen to be in this country. In addition to this. we are endeavor- ing to restoro every available acne of marsh in the natural breeding grouram that can powblc b, re- Netumllv you cannot sec much of this habi at-reotomtion work. ing vegetables and flowers. My s ialty was ripe ‘ "c tssntlv“ m . o... 1n hel back a stoc of the latter for the Xmas. Market. The outer board fence put u; by ‘dfi".rl'r‘ii..l°t"°.'i °' ‘°° J53.’ dun my nancy was my plot "rm: ." ann , a sort fair called the Futival, on the Town Moor, not far away from the lcfmcnts. were o (ha, poled) 1nd and - in kind M nal from one corner to an ann - thing of value In he went. I to for tomatnl): my neigh had forgotten his when wont home and A tnnaerur cnor lmun a largo of healthy vllorom plpa by feedinr novn rox FEED lfiltl during Connor caucus alrowltlrattlranacflcyalwltha goclloatraflcuhthcmcatpoer- filvovrayknownfcthcranclml lcolobcctbroedlngnnlta. inhalant. Aiyolrdoalcrtodayorwrlto dinette Bonpany Ltd. Uolrnlohn In Ilruuwica The St. John llllllng R AMERS, srocxmulfibyibkglfis AND GARDENERS I CONSERVATION » A A WEEKLY COLUMN OI’ PRACTICAL OPINIONS OI‘ ‘I'll! VITAL ISSUES AFFECTING THE USES AND ABUSE! 0F‘ NATURAL RESOURCES BY MB. LUDLOW JENKINS. MABSHFIBLD ' TIMELY NOTES ON TOPICS CONNECTED WITH Silver Fox Farming All "Ari! ltlrt The Silver Sheen Ranch. con- sisting of 5d acres of land fronting on 5t. Peters and Royalty East Roads. two houses. barns and buildings and 400 fox pens, has been sold to John B. Andrew. East Royalty. ‘This ranch was built in 1915. two years after the silver fox boom had reached its crest. 1913 companies capitalised at Q5.- 000900 we're dotn business here, while private ind viduals the score had valuable holdings of from one to 25 pairs. Options on young foxes in the Spring of 1914 ranged from ten to fourteen thou- sand dollars a pair. and we were evidently in for a further enonn- ous expansion of the indus‘ y. On August 4th the Europeanwar broke out and prices of live foxes dropped within a couple of weeks to .000 a pair, and 1n November to $2.000 a pair . From then on it was a case of pelt production. The Silver Sheen Ranch was composed of the ‘Iuplln Fox Corporation, Woodstoc Company and other well known high-class fur farms. The quality of the animals was the best in the land. and as evidence of this it may be stated thait ir1 the early Spring of 1920 a fairly large consignment cf skins from the ranch sold for an average of over $600 a pelt. Year after year it was enlarged until it had a cap- acity of 400 pairs. The drop in price of silver fox furs which has been a steady factor for the past several years made its futher con- duct unprofitable, and flnls was written to the company and ranch by the sale mentioned Ilbove. 'I'hc ' sympathy of hun- dreds of silver fox farmers will go out to Percy Barlow and his son Philip. because of the death of a. beloved wife and mother. Mrs. Barlow was justly esteemed by ah whohadthepleasureofherw quaintanoe because of her many fine qualities. Particulars concerning Fromm Bros. auction sale of silver fox pelts on Arplril 19th and 19th are contained in the May number of the American Fur Breeder. Ac- cording to it February market luv- els were upheld and even exceeded in spite of ernoemionally unfavor- able trade conditions in New York and throughout the country. In thisrespeot thcsailewu asucccas. although less than half of the of- fering was sold. The far as Wash only tivel-y 1 numbers of fowl breeding outside of this area. This northern tier of gtates west or the Great. Lakes is the only breeding ground United States when such pintail, redhead. areas other species. It t duck incubator of thrb coun- It happens that I was born and raised 1n this territory. I sa/w man! parts of it before it was by the great drainabe movement which swept this counizry in the early part of this century. Let me cltc the aim/m lc of a farm which Iknew as agcy. Itis typical of thousands of farms. and when you multiply it by thousands you have one of the reasons the migratory water-fowl have teacher such dee- tc straits over vast areas of his country. ‘This was a typical prairie farm in northwestern Iowa. 0n that. fa there was one little lake or ole which comprised about irty acne. In addition to this there wm a. low swampy area that took the overflow water from it down into the slight drainage system that nature had succeeded in carving in the landscape. Thea-e was another drainage system of low mar-shy land which crossed the farm to another lake outside its boundaries. _ Those two areas produced many dozens of ducks every year. Not enough perhaps on this one farm to interest you hunter's greatly, but ever-y farm in the coun at that time had a similar oohd-i on. Titat land was drained as a part of a great drainage and agricultural development program It is doubt- ful if that farm ever nrodlwfil B111’ greatly increased crops as a result of that drainage I do know that it ceased to produce ducks and other aquatic life and that one o! the mat recreation centers for the neighborhood was destroyed with the lake. COLONEL ‘cause if they did so they would Much The catalogue number consisted 0f l5. silver fox, 900 blue fox. wuuon 350 cross fox and . New York City was represented by some 40 buyers with only two buyers 1mm (Fhlcsac. two from Brooklyn and three from other cities. Bc- cause it was believed that an mt- tcnvPi would be made buy the Oflcrlmrs at greatly reduced price levels. Fromm Bros. protected their own. as well as the skins of ship- Ders consigned u» them under the trade mark “Feder-al". and efiect- mu ively maintained values established at their February sale. They e!- plained to the press that this refu- sal to sell at bid levels was be- onl each made almost continuously produc- harm many retailers who have e59 siaeable inventories of silver fox and would generally demoralize the market. The low percentage of sales would have no bearing on his Company's policy with regard to future sales. in flats alread be grown by from seed started Seed of and such flowers and tomatoes calbbage. vegetables 9n: ‘Thirty-tour per cent of the 5.316 Fromm pelts were sold the first day, the full silvers averaging $70.33 as compared with $68.33 in Febru- ary and $112.6’! last September. The best Fromm skin brought $960.00; the second highest priced skin — another full silver -— fetched $220.00. sovm in away. The best soil for this pu Pofislbly a little rotted leaf mould 0r sometimes s thegroundis 9,160 Fedicrall (other shippers‘ box and an L! planted or the skins) offered the first day were 32 per cent sold at averages of $44.52. about on a par with February prices. The top Federal skin brougivt $94.00 and the lowest $99.00, as compared with $86.00 and $331!) in February. 192 blue foxes were 100 per cent sold at an aver- age of $20.49, or 15 per cent above February. 13° timesasodis vertedandiihesecd tcdWh andalloragvnerrousp turibvmoe to root. Where one has ___.___ On the second day the sale was not so good and lower prices were averaged, both for the Fromm skins and the Ilbderals. For instance. 549 Fromm three-quaricr silvers were only 90 per‘ cent sold, at an average of $42.11, and only 94 per cent of the 1.585 Federal three- quarvters were sold at an avern-se of $90.49. while almost half of the m0 Federal full silvers were sold at an averafle of 888-00. Fedflsl half-silvers sold averaged $27.50. Federal quarter-silvers sold aver- aged $91.30. a summer at home and later take we lake. And a Late Finish the new gardener is also advised spread his several ‘Ibshowthartallthegoodson \ Canadian Garden Service i938 l av ooanon more fun, much more sat- rcsults where gardening is spread over the entire season. while the whlgleuplot may be planted in a vcge . lcally none at all. On the other band by Bowing a wt of the seed of packet at one time. by using short out methods in the wary of started plants. by providing a lrttltl protection against early fmsLs next the amateur garden can be hive. For first, rizsicolm mg lfirst veae- egen "He? 1100!! ts. T may be pur- rom reliable green houses grown or they may he gardener himself petunias, marigolds, cosmos - f head lettuce and other or “m; m“ so on humming shallow boxes or little pots or paper boxes and started 1n sunny windows right rpcse is a mixture I ' sand fine eartf and t is carefully removed leaving soil intact about the roots. Where pots or boxes are not available some- used, the same in- plam . on the plant is ready to go outside sod iece of it is planted. This Vminrs the oper- ation of transplanting without dis- cot- tage that will not be visited until June. the usual practise is to start practically all the garden iizndoorfi grown out to the garden by the In addition to using starte ' plants t0 sowing operations over weeks, especially so with zFrcvrniizthegaibi-ivlpixrnises’;Edrwar"“d:_r€‘_* ' ~ -— -~=—- Fromm goes on to ztatc the bene- closed and cupping mm N" iitcoladvertisingooas to create LINDSAY SMITH prac- ‘ly feasible with thou carrots. beets and it insures very freshest vegetables, j mermaid fol. ear vegetables like and leaf lesttirce, however, wag fir“ ZWWth in the cool iii. dam" “ sow all seed first thing i: the spring. Harvesting season this case is spread out by using leat one early, one medium and om late variety. To add still further to the sea- son it- is possible to bring in you before the first severe frost next fall tomatoes. vines and all, celery com with the stalks attached an have or store in some cool p “k6 some or cellar when; the sluwlu "8 1th outdoors. lmiifoving the Soil sandy the ground at one's disposal its liking d " . r .m.=r1.§.‘i..i“.;‘2l.£%.t.i°.i“f.:‘. film-Med to any type desired. 359W $519k? clays are made loosq and pliable by the addition of plenty 0f rotted leaves, or other vegetable matte;- which scientists term hirrn. us or fibre. Extreme cases may be treated with sand m- Qfdingfy ma; ashes from stove or furnace. Liber- Bood cultivation will help and also digging und oats or jusfl‘ Crops of clover, Where ven, damp it may be m. CE-‘llfy to provide drainage claim by "Pen ditch. tile or by removing a foot or two of the t‘? 5011 and put. tin! in a layer of nder gumgg o;- w-"l- ‘PM l-Ylhctise is particularly dmiralble for preparing a rose bet-L Light 50:15 also benefit by hea/vy. Bllllllcallfllns of manure, rotted vege- table matter or dug in 5mm “up, This will increase their irrunus conl hold moisture. Li ht "m; will not require 51c rmgtafirttcgulti. tional Fur News, which may be o! thccuotionwcrenotofthewv 1m t quality it may be mentioned that consumer demand. He uotes the when?" be?‘ aggga only 40 per cent of M9 cross foxes Untud Sta/too Covemm through about the "m, u, M. make were sold at $18.12. ‘They were d0- soribed as mediocre quality. Fifty dark: were sold at $19.16; 32 mink out of a. consignment of 202 brought an avenge of $6.70. 811d £ rédqsb were all sold at an avenge Harry LaDuc in an editorial alp- pearlng in the May American Fur Breede , with reference to the United States silver fox tariff says: "The tarli! hearings are over-thc fox breeders havehad their day inoourtandnowit-isumtothe Prmidcntof the United Stateathc dence. According Washington there will be no de- cision on the tariff matter until mid-simmer and them the decision wlllbcintheformofanan- npirncomenit with the terms there- o. the Ilbulk Fur Company of Louis. as spending skins by advertising them azlnes throughout the year. istoadvertise the rancher by advertising. naipolis County, N. dent is M. P. Nelly, with ‘Treasurer. nual mink shows. "-——' uni-he nsordnsdlsinf Briefs and statements from Can- De e adlan fox farmers and editorials from Canadian fur publications were mad and flied with the com- mittee opposing tariff reduction on the ground that. American fox breeders had created their own market. through style promotion. wdveritisirul’ .etc.. and thalt 4 this standard would be materially af- fected by a heavy influx of foreign silver fox fur with certain decline in pelt values in the United States which would reflect in other world fur markets. The matter is strictly between the rs “ t and the n Government. United States Senators and Congrewmen can do nothing except file protests 800d disinfectant. a pound of cure, and plenty pests from visiting you later on, protecting their constituents. So Class A f lrsi C ad American breeders will be on the namely, tlhey lwillalbe “sfififi K | L anxious seat rmrtil nsid-surnrne .” test for Bangs Disease-the tech- A L L i 1 1 r . Edward Fromm writes an edltor- 30c: Qfifipsfioffijflg’? gggie F L E A s ial in May American Fur Breeder headed. “Why Advertise?" In it he predicts that the 1998-39 crop of silver foxes in the United States will be 50,000 more than the pre- vious year. and states that the 1937 crop has only been 50 per cent marketed by ranchers and probably less than 35 per cent marketed by the retailing field. In other words. there are probably twice as many silver fox pelts still to be consumed at this time than there were a year ago, and the still larger crop now in the making will commence to go may be contracted ease. affected in the vicinity of Char going treatment. While this (goun TY to market within six months. year ago American ranchers were averaging about $45.00 for their pelts. Today the average stands at about $35.00 and is in danger of declining still further before the from aborted cows. Mrs. California. writes us as f AUBREY 2.10 2-5 Registration No. 3940 ___.._. Colonel Aubrcy will make the cea- aon of 1999 as follows: Inning the owner's stable! Capo Travcne. Tuesday. May 11th by Angutlne Cove to Victoria at noon, thence by thence by Inn; Haven over night. Thursday 19th to John 0'Brlen'l. Bimini. noon. crop_is__ allwmgankoted. phosphorus and Vitamins request. Write us. Agents: J. Robert Match. @541 15 per cent o the market value of Alaska seal- to the womcnof America infashion $- is not a quption as to whose duty it . it is a. question of creating more interest and more demand, therefore more dollars for A mink breeders association has George Armour of Middleton, as Secretary- The obiect will be to foster better mink breeders, secure best possible markets and hold an- Clean up now. Within the next week or two is the time to clean cot-ins the latter with cneolin in the pro- portion of one to 40. or using other Burn all old straw and litter and leave nothing around that can develop or harbor fleas during the coming hot w“. ther. Fleas are a very serious menace in a great many ranches, and it is all very well to say we will powder the pups later. but an ounce of prevention is better than strorls smelling disinfectant of the coal tar type will prevent the little Cattle to be exhibited at the Provincial Exhibition will come under the same regulation of other that Bangfs Disease is a serious and dangerous affliction and it humans through cutting up meat from dis- eased cattle, or by drinking milk from cows affected with the dis- Several persons have been lottetown and one ls still under. is probably freer from it than most of the provinces of Canada yet there exists a suflicient num- her of cases to call for action and vigilance both in regard to the 115g of milk in the home or the feeding of it to foxes, or the use oi‘ meat J. A. Campbell of I-iollhter. 0110's:- Brace, MacKay & Co, Ltd» Surnrneralde o; $6M n. 1» 3L in this section where we seldom "e "Wt- Almis is atrproxinm/tely. forty miles from here. Wishing you conti d ma)“ whiréilrle success with your from home." The clipping shows .1 cordon from Elmer Atkinson, created a sensation among th trade and was one of the finest . the tyne ever seen. na roa avarmvc W115!‘ a very light wrflm ls needed. wear B short was or tucked taffeta with ostrich l whit mum” Tl 8 0i‘ b18431! Or clipped m... W°t¢h1118~hold it in a n“... m. "gislllly- 0m: TREATMENT Kenn your (oxen fit and gloomy hy klillng l" fleas and ur- - ‘ Inltcl w it h PULVEX—-n Cooper Product, Brit- hh made and used hy lending fox nnchsn lhn world over. Safe . . . odorless: . . . almplo to um, At your Fox Bubbly llouan. Dru. lhrdwaro. Fwd and Seed , Store. or write O A N A II l A N CO-OPERATIVE WOOL IIRONTIBS LIM [TED Quebec uml Mnrlllmn Brunch, long nelson vegetables like cog, ~__ ust roach- ingmaturl .alii.irroughlates1ln.- q ‘L esential it 1| ','_ lace cob: . for weeks after frost has blackened - mlwme WW5 0f Boll is no longer gae-lxllenNas antarrcuc for a poo;- gar- - With plants that do not take kind- ° m“ r “m” “W” °' h” - ly to mnsplantlng sometimes small individual boxes or pots are used paper holders that have no bottom. Then when warm outside either SW19 Dlant will find such earth to - able applications of manure and . tent and allow them to absorb and ' vation necessary with new-y tym l! fllways like a letter I Noakes of the New York Irm- Aug. lien Company. New York. holding B- Drize silver fox pelt received Amos. Cali- Yvmla- This Del/t brought $510.00. A letter from the New York For Motion‘ Company to m. Atkinson also lDDears in the clipping, ex. tending wngratulatlons of thl‘ ‘Jemvenv- stating that the pelt For irlvolus wZnEgs when only" 3 mOXIICB COWI h00d_ or a, b01979 o;- alicrt Jacket of feathers - curred 1n white or blue fox color‘ 501m" "1118 as fur. but light and that is a moment and it will write morn Lennon-lilo. flue. Larger Felts and Better Fur are practically assured by proper feeding during the first few weeks after weaning. STANDARD PUPPY MEAL, then gradually change to R-M VITA-CRUMBLA “B” (Reid), containing cereals, abundance of carbohydrates, proteins, iron, Give your pups R-M A, B, D and G for good bone development and vigorous growth. Samples on Charlottetown rt» a I ll G i! ‘ . 9i a