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Show FUR-BEARING ANIMALS Fox Farming as a Paying Investment for 910CO The Silver Fox. The rapid illaapp-arunce of wild f urbearci s. combined with tho steady rlerr.anl and overriding over-riding prices commanded by (food furs has lad many to look for means r.f artificially supplying supply-ing the want It Is years sine,- the Idea of breeding for fur was liDusht forward, but nevr wero the times BO rlue as now. This kind of farming offers two dltlnct fields First, the production of a new variety of some already domesticated and easily multiplied mul-tiplied animal as cat. dogr. goat, rabbit or cow with a coat ot such quality a to hnv. B new alue as fur The BBCOnd Is the breeding, breed-ing, un ler (TOteetlon, of certain wild animals whose fur has lrea,Jy an vstabllshed market value In thla class are beaver, mink, otter, kunka, marten. flher and fox Thr are two ways of ialln(t with this e may aa 1 1 them wholesale ond retail. Ine first Is th Instinctive choice of th beginner, lie usually plans to K"t possession of an Island, u mountain valley or at leuot a cou-pc cou-pc of hundred acres of wild land with a high fence around it. This he expects to stick with fur-bearers that will Increase speeully to thousands, after which ie has nolhlnit to do but ahovel in a few tons of offal weekly and draw ofT a few thousand of the Choicest pelts each fall. This Is what I call the Wholesale Whole-sale ni-"tbcd. It nan never yet succeeded with red foxes, nor. Indeed, with any creature thnt I kn jw of. except perhaps to some extent with tho blue fox on the Islands of Alaska. Surcss In breeding any domcst'c anlmnl turns on personal care thst ran be directed and a-lanted to ach Individual If need be; and. likewise, thi- man who would hgln fur-rnrmlng fur-rnrmlng Is better off with five acres than with Ive hundred. This individual method Is what I call lh retail plan. It has been proved a success many tlmei. Eur-farming offers a good cSanni-1 for small cupltal. A man of experience may out In J1CO0 and get a rn:r.rkable percentage as soon us well started There Is no object In breeding cheap furs A muikrat with his 13-cent r't Is almost as much troublf) to ral?e as a ItiXi silver fox, ther -fore only the high claMi furs will be con-, con-, t-lderc-d. What Is the mcst valuable fur of all? ! No doubt the sea otter. Its ample and nuiR- nlficent robe brings new. I am told, from I lo tlfsyi but the anlrr.nl U so ram that a large fortune would bf exhausted In getting the stock, and nothing Is known of thi methods i necessary for Its propagation. Next on the list Is the alh er fox. Th black or silver fox Is nothing but a black phase or freak of the common fox. lust as the block I sheep is a color freak of the common sheep ' A pair of pure red foxes may have a black : fox In ther Utter, end that blsck fox may , grow up to be lh parent of nothing but r--, I foxes but a red fox Will bring only a dollar ' or two ond the silver fox a hundred times us I much. Country I Ife In America. |