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Show Uniting Illnck Foiei. A Maine farmer who raises nothing but foxes claims to have discovered that the black fox Is not n freak, nud ho Is proceeding to prove this theory by mixing n blnck fox from Ohio with n red one cnught In Maine woods. From the crass ho hns n pair or lino black foxes ten weeks old, and ns these twins are not the first he has raited the snme way, he Is confident that In tlino ho may bo nblo to replace nil the red foxes on his farm, nnd rnlso for tho fur market nothing but tho finest blacks, whoso pelts sell rrom ?200 to ?300 each. Judging rrom sales made In the past, the four black foxes he has now are entered on his stock list as worth ?1000, and ho feels rich. He has tho foxes enclosed by a wlro fence sixteen feet high nud running down to tho ledge, so that the sly rascals cannnt dig out. Ho feeds tho nnlmnls nud lets them have tho -full run of his farm, which looks like a weed garden with n row trees growing In it, hut pnys a profit with smnll outlay for labor. Worcester Telegram. |