Show THERE is MONEY mm IN FOX FARMING industry Is rapidly gaining favor in several of 0 northern states of country MANY ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY bet best location for farm Is where winters winter are cold and opportunity offered to develop fur burbig big price for pelts Pie prepared pared ay iy by th 0 united stair Dep department artmont ot of lox fox tanning farming Is fust fast paining gaining favor in the united states the industry barely known a decade ago Is if fairly common in some states of the northern tier Is represented in nil all states in this tier and in that next to it and Is growing rapidly there Is money in it for or the ralser who starts modestly learns the business end and then expands his holdings thero there are aie losses losares in III store for the type who starts stalls with a big ranch no knowledge of ti the I 1 e bus I 1 i leg and only a desire for quick profits at the present time the industry la Is undergoing a process of 0 stabilization most tox fox farmers raise animals for breeding purposes slid and comparatively few fen have adjusted the business to a pelt basis all told there are between and silver foxes being bebis grown in captivity on amerlan american fox terms farms nt at this time many animals in canada such atre are some of the conclusions of a representative of 0 the biological survey united states department of agriculture who has just returned to washington after an all extensive investigation ti of american fox farms farais and A silver fox the methods of their operation in canada where tile the industry originated and especially on prince Ed edwald wild island where here there are arc approximately foxes in captivity fox farming arming is conducted on a much more extensive scale then than lit in the united states its promise of goot good financial i returns to those willing to master r its problems give ghe indication that within a com campara para lively short time in this country it will rival in proportions the industry in III canada the best location for a fox farm fann Is where the winters are cold end and the fox ifon may have opportunity to develop fur in keeping with the needs of tho the climate the industry is thus confined by climatic conditions to the northern states there the ral raising sing of foxes bores for breeding and for the fur markets flourishes most of the foxes raised in captivity are on oil farms farma or ranches with pens for from 28 25 to 50 pairs although in occasional instances the ranches are rauch couch larger containing pens for as many as pairs the illie foxes generally breed in january and february and the young are born bom within 52 clays A pair of 0 foxes raises one family a year car the number of young varying from one to ten tell though rarey rare exceeding five or six most of the fox raisers ral sers troubles come when the young are a few weeks old and 1 I are peculiarly susceptible to attacks from worms great care Is necessary to carry the young foxes through this period mo most 8 t foxes foxe 11 sold for breeding it Is not advisable to kill a fox for tile the pelt before IS 18 months of age for at that time its fur Is more valuable than at a younger age comparatively few of the foxes raised on american ranches ore are sold nt at the present time however for their pelts most of the ran ranchman ranchmen ranch clunen men obtain higher values than the lie worth of the pelt by selling the live animals ani nials for breeding purposes A good pelt may fetch as much all ai COO though the average Is to low er approximating bating to tile furs me are comparatively little known because of their rarity silver foxes axes vary from those in which the color Is entirely silver to those in which it Is entirely block black except for some white bonded banded hairs on the back and rump in ili the black fox tile the white Is absent from all parts except the tip of tile the tall which Is generally white in nil all phases of the animal |