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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1923-08-16, Page 6s; CHANGING CONDMONS OF PDX FUR MARKETING —AND THE WORST IS Fur Farming Represents Large Investment — Number of Animals Shows Heavy Increase. The growth of the fur -farming in-, their fox pelts to the London market, dlustry is clearly shown in a prelimired Reports to the Natural Resources In- ary report on the fur farms of Gan- • telligence Service of the Department ada by lane Dominion Bureau of Stas' of the Interior from the fur sales tistics. This is especially so with the there are to the effect that all skins raising of that valuable animal ,the offered were sold and at an advance of Silver fox. From the possibly ten fifteen per cent. over former prices; fox -breeding farms of 1910 the indus To quote one of the prominent breed - try has reached a total of 960,_ and ers of the Island province, the handl- from Prince Edward Island, where cap of the United States tariff and the fox-rearingwas first intensively car- proportionately few residents of that tried on, it has spread to every pro- country who appreciate the merits of. vince in Canada, and even in the Yu- the silver fox pelt did not warrant the kon Territory there are twelve fox Canadian fox breeders in continuing farms. Prince Edward Island, with' their endeavors to sell their output in 427 farms, has 'concentrated almost, that market. The United States fur entirely upon silver foxes, having on' riers took the ground that the eons December 31 last 12,394 of these ani- i paratively small number of skins enals ; Nova Scotia has 106 farms and 11 available, when spread over such a 1,601 foxes; New Brunswick, 85 farms, large field, and the financial returns and 2,029 foxes; Quebec, 148 farms therefrom were not worth the effort and 1,234 foxes; Ontario, 120 farms] required to educate their public in the and 1,5'70 foxes, and the western pro-' value of the silver fox. vinces smaller numbers, making a to -1 As a result of going to the London tal number of silver foxes for all market, as stated above, better prices Canada of 21,433. are being secured for the silver fox The importance of this industry is pelts. The large fur buyers of the seen in the value of $5,372,262 placed world compete for the offerings, in - upon the silver foxes, or an average of eluding several from the • United over $250 each. In 1922 there were, States who represent a trade of suffi- 3,679 foxes sold from the ranches, tient importance to make the attend - valued at $897,387, and 4,512 pelts, { once at the London fur sales worth valued at $ 525,408. To offset this re- while: duction there were 15,888 fox pups Fur farming in Canada bids fair to born. on fur farms during the year., develop into a leading industry; there During the past spring considerable; will always be a growing market for losses of pups were occasioned on j the output, and, while fashions may Prince Edward Island,owing to the, temporarily change the proportion of weather conditions, the spring being. demand for individual furs, the ex - exceptionally late. The ' industry, I per•ience gained in the raising of fur- however, is on a very substantial bearers will enable the breeders to basis, and with the accrued experience, readily adapt themselves to any. of many years, the breeders are Opti- l change.: The growing scarcity of wild mistic of results. !life, and the already depleted condi The Fordney tariff in the United tion of. some . of the species will en - States greatly increased the duty on i Bance the prices of pelts to the point silver foxes and their pelts entering, where it will be profitable to raise in that country, consequently the greater I captivity some -of the species which portion of the Prince Edward Island the present low prices render inad- and other ranches are now shipping visable. Why Your Lumber Bill Doesn't Come. Down. supply for their mill by a single for- est fire started by a band of campers. Another of the large Ottawa compan- Most Canadians believe that the ies lost more spruce by a few pros - storehouse of timber trees is the one pectors' fires than would keep their national possession that Nature keeps pulp and paper plant running for overstocked. We see trees along twenty years: This is the history of every highway, we visit shady parks, scores of companies and in itself ac - we hear of vast timber limits and counts for the penalties now being walk away with the impression that visited upon the Canadian wood con - no matter what else gives out, Canada will always have an abundance of nests. and the consumer, will, never a i e Frit .for hie tin �eSita�„�It1rat This is the falsest and most dangerous of all public notions. Seventyyears ago the finest of white pine could be bought on the Canadian market for $12 a thousand feet. To -day it cannot be bought for sixty dollars a thousand feet and thereare plenty of authorities who predict that in ten years pine= will be bringing well over a hundred dollars a thousand feet, if indeed it can bo had at all. The pine forests of East- ern 'Canada have been so depreciated by human -set fires and to some extent lakes, easily accessible, easily and by cutting that many of the largest mills will be forced to quit the pine business in the near future. One company manufacturing pine timber in north-eastern Ontario lost 56 years't and the losses on the way as well as sumer in the form of very high prices, ,Canada has lost, chiefly through-• fogies 'conn .orations,*' almost two, Wefts ;et her- .original ural fore Linnexs- tante and with five million acres de -1 stroyed in New Brunswick during June and 500,000 acres in Quebec, it is difficult to see where the raw material for "cheaper ]umber" is to come from:. In the phrase of a famous Forest En- gineer: "Every forest fire must be paid for by the lumber or paper con- sumer.". Another factor in the dear lumber situation is that twenty-five years ago and more, timber was better sithated than tay, It lay' along rivers and cheaply marketed. To -day, the timber. that reaches . market often must be . floated down the rivers for more than two years before it arrives at the mill, the burden of extra interest chanes make every log cost more. Lumber. camp labor has also deteriorated in skill and industry in many areas axxid this is reflected in higher .,costs 'el production. • The great foe to the user of lumber, however, is the forest fire and nearly all forest fires are started by or.dinba citizens on a camping or fishing'aike. It is an interesting fact that the far'rr;- ers of „America use more forest pro- ducts than any other class of citi- sons.. The farm demand for timber represents- three-fifths of the ann{'ial cut. • ''he Basis of Singing. It seems difficult for many writers on vocal subjects to keep their fingers off vocal mechauics, so to slieak, .and it must be said that much that iaewrit ten about mechanical i action in sing - log is altogeher imaginative. ? Things which never happened ancl,•eouid not possibly happen are alleged' to take place in tote preduetion. It seems difficult to talk about beautiful.;torte, wriic ,. rthe aiin and end •of all voiceragati- , mate teaching. But it i.shas Y i must coral talk about how Por e ot p t should be made. In fact a majority of people at least feel that if they but knew haw to produce a toxo .their problems would be solved for all time. This is by no means the most impor-. taut thing to learn, for it is not poste sable for any one to give directions as to how to hold the lips, tongue, lower law, and larynx with sufficient accur- acy that a .good tone will inevitably result. Unless such instruction is gov erned by the right tone concept there is not one chance in a thousand of its producing the pure, singing tone_,. Any voice will produce an endless variety of tone qualities. The question is, which one of these qualities do we desire to produce? " Here physiology must give way to aesthetics, which is as different frons. phyeiology Etc mind: ea from matter. The starting point, tlie basis of all voice training is, after all, beautiful tone. Good Thing for Parson. Among those in charge of a Church fair in Pennsylvania •"ere a number of Young women. When one of these was asked by a friend, after the event, whether the fair had been a success, she made reply: "Yes, indeed, the minister will have cause to be grateful." "How great were the profits?" "There were no profits.. The expen- ses were more than the receipts.. But ten of us goa engaged, and the minis- tee is in for a. good thongin wedding tees." One Danger Lacking., "Wasn't your life constantly.In clan- • ger travelling through the forest;. filled with, those terrible lions and tigers?" .9= -ad the friend, "Why y certainly not, •-ekciaineestthe returned traveller; "there warn t single automobile in the whole forest to dodge," Good Soldier. Mistress; "Another soldier has called on ;you, Jane, I thought you had only one. sweetheart." Cook: "No, mum; two. 'I hes one `on the reserve,' as they say in the military. a , Explained. "Pa, what's the difference between assurance and insurance?" "Well, ray son, the former is what the agent has and the latter is what he tries, to sell you. Night in the Open. I Rise of German Shipping. I love to lie beneath the bending sky, Of all the "invisible" sources of A 'breathing part of eight, my head ! caressing wealth that Germany poseessed before In idle love the warm, quickearth-- the war-souress from which 6114tlren Yderived' an income of about $400,000,- Foal ori xray brow the ,'dews of heaven's 000 in the year 1913—only her ship -- blessing ping is now yielding any considerable And kuow all things to be ons flesh sutra, says the U.S. Institute of Econ- omics, me, omits, in its forthcoming report on Night spreads its tender touch of per- Germany's capacity to. pay, Her• for--. eign investments, most valuable of all, have vanished, though a small part of them may ultimately be restored Are music made to leave an eeho there, by the 'enemy governments that seized And silence sounds its throbbing anote them,. ' Her tourist trade did revive funned air Deep through each sense, 'til earth, Sky, wind and sea of rest Around my velvet couch -no treasured wrong, No harbored grievance hidden in my breast Can life its voice against that solemn song; One, with every breath that makes or mars I mouut the, golden stairway of the stars.' —'Winifred Lockhart Willis. Persuasion A woman took her four-year-old daughter to be photographed. The little one would not keep still. The photographer was suave, called the child all the sweet, endearing navies he could think of, and used every devioe of gentle persuasion to snake the youngster keep quiet. Pin- ally he turned to the despairiug moth- er and said: "Madan,, if you will leave your darling with me a few minutes I think -I can take her to perfection." The mother withdrew. Soon the photographer summoned her back and exhibiteda highly satisfactory nega- tive. When they reached home the mother asked: "Nellie, what did that nice gentleman say to you when I left you alane with him?" "'Weil, he thaid, 'If you don't that sthill, you ugly, squint-eyed little mon- key, I'll thake the life out of you.' So 1 that very sthill, mainana l " By Intention. When a Soatchman has 'no argu- ment at his tongue's end to defendhis own line of conduct which another may have criticized, it may safely be inferred that his, ancestry has a strain from some other nation. • A man who has an estate in Scot- land took his new plowman to task for the wavering furrows which were the resist of his work. "Your drills are not nearly as straight as those Angus made," he said, severely. "He would not have for a time last summer; but this sum- mer it is scarcely mentioned, other sources have also suffered. IIer ship- ping, however, though nearly obliter- ated by seizures in enemy ports and by forced transfers to the Allies in 1919-20 under the terms of the armis- tice and under the treaty, is now re- stored: to about two-fifths of its pre- war tonnage. Just beforethe war, in 1913, the shipping income in Germany's inter- national accounts was about $110,- 000,000; '110;000,000;, in 1919-20 it was' practically nothing; in 1921, about $14,000,000; and in 1022, about $36,000,000. This recovery is due largely to Gov- ernment aicl. ' The ships that were surrendered to the Allies wore of course owned by individuals and when transferred by the . Government, had to be replaced by it. Up to March 31 last the Government had expended for this purpose about 230 billions of pa- per marks, whose estimated value in Germany when expended was about $110,000,000. Individual enterprise has, in addition, bought back some of the ships transferred to, the Alliesand has leased foreign ships to supple- ment Germany's insufficient tonnage. This does not mean, however, that Germany will cohtinue to gain at the rate she has daring the last two years. Competition is to -day -much more se- vere than it was before the war, ow- ing to the fact that serreral European countries have increased their ship- ping facilities and that the United States carries a larger percentage of American trade than before. Ocean freight rates, 'moreover, are back at pre-war levels. while the volume of traffic can not be expected to reach pre-war levels for some time. It is estimated that annual receipts of about $75,000,000 are all she can hope to earn. Furthermore, although German ship owners are profiting individually to the .amounts stated, the nation as a whole isot receiving the . valuable indirect advantages' which it derived lett such a glebe as this:" : from an equal volume of trade befoee "Angus didna ken his work," said the war. In the old days German' Tammas, ca3?n3y, contemplating his. • employer with • an indulgent gaze. .'Ye, 'see tiien •.the drilla ris�'ereekit tlie, sun Ix gets in on all sides, an' 'tis then ye get early 'tabes." Couldn't Be- Caught. An Irishnman, passing a shop where a notice was displayed saying that everything wras sold ' by the yard, thought he would play a joke on the shopkeeper, so he enteeed and asked for a yard of milk. The shopkeeper, ,without, hesitation, dipped his fingers •1 fe a • bowl of milk and drew, a line a yard long on the counter. Pat, not wishing to be caught in his own trap, asked the pride. • "Sixpence," was tho reply. "All right, sorr," said Pat. "Roll it up; I'll take it," Gcr j ; I r, to j:flfl London In the memoirs of Ludendorff a pass- age which, up to the present, had re- Xnalted rather enigmatic for the ordin- ary reader, reads as follows: "In August, 1918," wrote Ludendorff, "the gravity of the military situation was such that the supreme German command could no longer expect an effect from a bombardment of Paris. card London which would dispose the enemy toward peace. So it withdrew the authorization for using a particu- larly 031m -dimes incendiary bomb "which had been manufactured in August in sufficient quantity and was intended for the two yap%tale. The serious des- tructive effects. which were to be ex- pected would no longer have any in- fluence on the course of the war. The destructions were never ordered for themselves alone. "C"c:uut Herding had likewise re- quested the supreme command not to make use of these new incendiary. bombs,as reprisals against our towns could be expected. However, the de- termining role for this decislott is due to a eonoeption of the military situa- tion: ". Threat Watt No BIuff. Titus writes Ludendorff in his este- metre. And nobody had as yet paid at - tent :on to this sinister revelation. But a Frenolt oifiboer of the General Staff, Major P. de Casteinau, a close relative of the famous ' f>leiieral de Cas:retnau, recently has had acceee to Official war documents of the highest interest. They prove that Ludendorff Was not bluffing Waren, In his 'memoirs, lfo spoke of the ; eventual destruction of Parts arid Lon.doix by fire. The fear- fel scimenia was very near being real - Seed. "To deetrey a large - crit byfire," ate g' i" plains ]ajar de Caatainan, "one Maass 4eternfine hitch to eeraaddrertt I hued - nd Paris Now RcvcalccL ber of fires in it that it becomes utter ly impossible for the firemen to ex- tinguish xtinguish them all simultaneously. Now, Iwhen the question deals, with a fire caused by aerial bombs, the problem is a difficult one, owing to the very great number of free spaces taken up by the squares, the' streets, the quays, out of four bombs thrown from above, high up in the air, only one stand's a, chance of falling on a house; the three others risk to fall on a square, or on .a garden, and to burn in the open air' with a total loss—that is to say, use- lesely. 1 "Therefore, during the war, it was necessary, in order to set fire to Lon- don or Paris, first of all to find a typo of bomb endowed with a very great in- cendiary capacity, then to be able to throw an en5rmous number of bombs on each of the two capitals. In a word, it Was necessary for the airplanes to transport very strong bombs, which would be very small at the same time, .sus as to be able to transport a great number of them." Diabolical invention Bared. In. 1918 the German industry had succeeded fn revolving the prob:em, and in the springof that decisive year the firm of Elektron had the satisfac- tion of presenting to the Herman Gen- era Staff an engine of war whioh pos- sessed allethe required conditions, It was a bomb which dice not weigh more than two English pounds and whose envelope was in pure magnesimss. When it fell it was entirely consr.nfed and emitted en intense, heat. Tests had even demonstrated that if one at- tempted to extinguish It with water the latter, under the iniiueace of the high temperature, was immediately dissociated; the hydrogen caught fire and caused a+ veritable explosion; bits of ignited metal were projected to great dietahaes and contributed still more to extend the ravages of the hire. It wag+ Only a MabollW .nve3xttbdi« 20,000 Bombs for Paris. In August, 191,8, Captain Kellar, commanding the first bombardment aerialafieet, received the order to get ready in the greatest secrecy to exe- bombs. It was, therefore, in principle, cute a big .aerial raid on Paris. Fifty 20,000 bombs 'Mach were to have been Gothas were to take part in the raid, thrown on Paris. Admitting that only and each Gotha wc.i to carry 400 one bomb in twenty would have attain; ed its obfeetive and determined a fire; there would have been a thousand dif- derent points at which the fire would have been started. imxuediately after, should the ,experiment have proved satisfactory, a similar raid was to have. been attempted by the same aerial fleet on London, Everything was ready: The air- planes which were to have executed the raid were assembled' at Etrettx, a small village in the emelt' of France. The day of the bombardment was fixed . Suddenly, at the last mo- ment, a counter order arrived. The German aviators were advised that the expedition had been deferred, on the advice of the meteorological service, But, the next day, the bombs were un- loaded from the apparatus a.ud Shut up in soldered cases. The cruel truth was not long in being known. The supreme German Comrnarr•d had changed its mind and forbade the use of engines from which every one was expecting marvellous results Checked by Fear, Ludendorff, in the passage quoted at the beginning of these lines, giver the explanation of ibe sudden change ot the General Staff. The terribleeffects of tixe destruotfon, says he, would no longer have had any influence on the course of the war. There is perhaps. another reason; Germany, at that -hour, felt the whirl of.the defeat which she so much dreaded lass over, her, and s1xe .feared that if elle added an. other atroeity to all the "tomer .atroeir ties the settlement would be a terrible :one between the conquerors and h'er- self : The sentence written by IVInso. de Steel more than a century ego is al- wayrs true. "'W'ith the religion of force," said' she, "Geritiany has the oin-otiora of fear." • TI118 BRITISH NiteilCI The beautiful memorial erecter' ded3tated Iasi Month to . the vat. played so barge 4 part lit vw1tiniiig CIAL "rc ",Ha p'LYINQ MEN if tlr e 'pham•es emb nk� e a in rat, Landon, and its air tutees at the British 1!imTr ire who e war. ships carried a very large percentage of her entire ocean trade; to -day they:. p handle a much smaller percentage, tti"c, .. •,. which means of course that for eagne ships handle the rest and must be paid for doing so, just as German ships must be paid for carrying goods of foreign shippers. • That is to say, the receipts for 1922, for instance, are not net, so far as Germanyas a whole is concerned, and • must be offset by payments made to foreign carriers. Before the war Germany's earnings, from her owe. ships were much larger than her payments to foreign ships; to -day it is estimated that she earns little or nothing more than she pays. This, . of course, does not affect the' direct profits of individual ship own - The Old Schoolhouse. The schoolhouse where I used to go Is shabby, yes, and old The stave is almost rusted thrn, The room is &ear and cold. The feet of countless children Have worn the old oak floor • And signs of age are present From the platform to the door. The desks all bear initials Of the kide I used 'to know And my memory takes me • backward To those days so long ago. And the memories bring a feeling That is pleasure, yes, and pain As I think of some olcl sohoolmatt u I may never see again. Per they're scattered from the eastlenmd To the mountains of the west And a few have heard the summons Calling them to their long rest, Now the schoolhouse where we studied Played and quarreled is to be sold; It is now no longer useful,. It is out of date and old. So weal build a Aloe new building For the childrenof to -day With everything to help them Make their studies seem like play. And it surely will be splendid, This fine new school, I know Yet fond memories take me beck -ward To the school of long ago. Well Named. In ancient Norse mythology Iiel was, therepuisive goddess of tine sun= ,less region to wixicb'the souls of those uuworthY of •:Valhalla ., were sent. Woll "caught. "Where did you learn to swim?" "Let me see: Goor'e taught me Atlantic City, ?red at Palm Tears], IPoin at Serf Beach andJim at Break, et"s Point,