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Show PECULIAR LIVE STOCK FARM Canadian Has Pleasant Possibilities In His Proposed Raising of Black Foxes. Probably few, if any, men in this province have started a black fox farm at less cost than Robert Rowley, prt- " prietor of the Laurentide preserves at Lake Edward, says a Quebec correspondent corre-spondent of the Montreal Gazette. While up at Roberval Mr. Rowley heard that a man there had four young pups, part red and part black. It is said that nobody wanted to buy the animals, though the price was about $10 or so a head. Mr. Rowley gave the man his price. The next morning Mr. Pridman, manager of the black fox ranch of Lieutenant Governor Wood of New Brunswick, who had been scouring the country for young stock, saw the foxes and immediately went into the hotel and in front of every one present offered Mi?. Rowley several sev-eral thousand dollars, but was refused. When the villagers realized the offer some of them almost collapsed on the spot and the place has been fox crazy ever since. Mr. Rowley is also purchasing a pure black dog fox at a very small sum and will cross it with the litter which he got so cheaply. He expects to have a litter of pure black foxes next spring. |