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ture." "

“When do you expect the industry

to get down to a fur basis," was our next question. i

"It is hard to tell," said Mr!

Dalton. “it depends on the demand for live animals. At present ranch- ing is only started in Nova Scotia and other parts of i‘iinada. The es- tablishment of the industry in Rus- sia, where our company has sold six pairs of 1913 pups should cause a great stimulus to the industry in this province, where Russia rcust look for its supply of breeders for some years to come.

"On what do you base your be-

lief in the permanency of fox ranch- ing ?

The more plentiful the silver foxes

become, the greater the competition will become. The fashion of wear- ing furs will be more general and there will be an increased demand for skins. The indiscriminate trap- ping and shooting of wild animals,

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lconrirrr sr6nY our nosr

Fox riuc

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of fur. The average price of a good. silver was not more than £40. The best quality black from .£400 to £500. The highest price I received since beginn_ing_breeding wus £580, for a single skin in the year 1900, I also obtained such prices as £540, £530, £500, £460 and £410. The skin I sold for £580, was jet black and large size. It was one ofa litter of two male foxes, both of which were killed. The other which was half silver. was sold for £95. Each was equally well furred. I was informed by the New York Agent of Lamp- son’s, that he could pick out every one of my skins on the market. All the buyers were looking for them, but did not know where they came from. 1 never sold a skin for over £250. which was not black. The skin I sold in early March 1912, brought £410. It was from an animal that had died. The first skins I sold to the London Market brought from .£15 to £20, This was about twenty

five yeais ago. In the coming March sales at Lsmpson's, I do not think'

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-~ for $15,000.` In fact, I could sell

RESIDENCE OF THE H

has caused a steady falling oil in their numbers each year, as the na- tural increase is interferreef with.

All the fur producing countries are

being settled and the fur-hearing ani- mals are being killed off. Furs will not alway keep their color. They;

and after a few years they will show their wear to some extent. In Rus- sia] France, and Germany there is a steady and growing demand for the fox fui's for mulls, stoles and for lining and trimming coats. It is for thalnst named purpose that they are so keenly sought for by the Russian noblemen.

Since Mr. Dalton began fox breed-

ing`he sold about two hundred skins, the greater number being from the Alberton ranch and he has natural- ly made a careful study of the mar- kets during the last quarter of a cen- tury,

THE FUR MARKET

"Tue hrm of Larnpsons, L'ondon,

are the great fur brokers of the worm. It is upon their sales that' the' quotations of the world are based. They hold four suction sales every year in January, March, Junc and'October," said Mr. Dalton, "and these are conducted as follows -Eight days before the date of the sale the furs are arranged in lots, generally, as to silvers, one skin in each, seldom more than two. These lots are all numbered.’l"he expert b.uy- er examines them, takes do\vn their num.ber..and places opposite eucli the maximum amount he can afford to pay. He determines the value en- tirely on merit. The name of the breeder and the place where they were secured are not known to him. The auction is held in a diilcient place from where the furs have been exhibited. Ten shillings is the mini- mum bid. The sales are made with great rapidity, scarcely a word is spoken; a nod from the buyer suffi- ces. Often, it takes only fifteen sec- onds to dispose of one lot. The large percent of poorer skins urc usually offered in October and June. The principal sale is held iii March. It is at these sales that I have sold nlmost all of my skins. It is then thstthe greatest competitioii is met with for good skins. Since I first began to ship, th falling of! in the world's supply of silvcrs has been about sixty per cent. The average price for ordinary grades has increased by two hundred perl cent for the higher grades about

four hundred per cent.

In the year of 1911, the price

showed a decrease of fifteen per- cent as entirely due to the absence

of my skins.

GRADING OF THE SKINS

"How are the silver fox furs usu-

ally graded sccording to color ?"

The lowest is the pure silver, the

whole body covered with silver. The second grade is black between the ears, shoulders, back of the neck and belly. The rest of the skin is silver. In the -next higher grade the black would extend down half the body, and; the silver would not be very bright on the rest of the body.

Going] higher up the scale there is the ree-quarter black and the one- quarter silver, with no distinct ei- vldfng point, the change being gra- dullsdrom one color to the other

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TU highest uality is the pure black. Year ater year there has beeaian increased demand for the bl fend a stiady increase in price. In last Kai-eh sales at Lamp- ¢cn'e .tam were 569 skins or en klnhi ,The average #ice would not

be 61|! £50. Only ht/ell 0| WOM skins brought over

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ON' CHARLES DALTON’ Mr. Dalton naturally attaches

that there will be 500 silver fox

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vers and crosses. Pure blacks are

very rare. _ _

It was at one time thought .that the best furs were secured from in- land districts, at least fifty miles from the sea coast, as it was thought the salt sir affected the fur, but now that Prince Edward Island stock leads the world, that theory is pretty well exploded.

Mr. Dalton has sold a number of

red pelts in London and the highest price received for such was £4 each. ' The price of feds has advanced

from $2 in '87 to $6 and $8 at the present time. The ‘price of live ones is about $30 a PIU at Dre- sent. Some have sold as high as $500. but the strong probability was that there was some black blood in them.

VALUABLE ANIMALS

"What Drice have you received for

pairs of live animals ?" Mr. Dalton was asked. _

“I have sold them as high as $10,~

000 a pair. Ircould sell them now

my whole stock of young at $15,000, if I now had them on' hand. I own s. four year old, pair, for which I'was offered $30,000. but I will not sell at any price. This pair has raised twenty-four foxes in four years, and seven in one year. One of my fe- males had forty-five in seven years. The average litter is between three and four. `

Mr. Dalton estimates that there

are between 100 and 150 of the best quality of foxes on the Island at present, with about the same number of all grades. He places the value of the industry at $2,000,- 000. just about double what it was two years ago. Although he had sold one pair of breeders in 1902,

sell any live animals. The sale of the latter dates from the year 1910.

THE $l00,000 SALE

great importance to the sale of the six pairs in Russia. He showed the

there was an agreement made not to,

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stories to tell dig-ing his‘quarter of

the fortunes of 'rn men on this Ie

eye of our people fr" the Golden West to the Golden Here, is

mother fox, when the. tug ones

moved her young to my _house and

save them, was the question, I pack-

them in s. basket near the stove, and on returning later found someilffe in them. I would have lost them all,

kittens adopted them and reared them until they were old enough' to

be fed otherwise. I sold the litter for $12,000, that fall, when they

Mr. Dalton hae, many interesting,

H °°°¢l1f¥'S experience in connection with an indusby which has made

land, and is dest‘i'\‘i!4~ to .1-,um the

one of the incidents which Mr. Dal- ton relates-"One yearrll lost. the

were twenty-four hours félrlf I re-

they were apparently all dead.How to

ed them in warm cotton wool, put

only that a cat which had lost her

Silver Bleek Fox two months

in the

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interest in

retained as

direction of e experience is _

value the company can

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patriotism has

ed a stimulus and that Gem will, shine with still lustre.

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Mr. W. B. Prowse the

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skins.” The neuron _Bev company, Ediwf 01 *hs Peffwi fW° let- ANOTHER Paofro 'or 'ram FAM ous mi/ron srook. "

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ternoon. The prices of both com-

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are not everlasting like diamondsfpantet' uswuy “nge about the pairs of black foxes of the stock of

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~`,-.3|MP0RTEn_ _STOCK stay for two or three months in that ` country in order to give instruction

"On being asked regarding the how to conduct the ranch and tend

quality of the foxes which are at to the animals.

present being imported to this Is- land, Mr. Dalton said. “I have seen

two or thee good ones from Lab- said Mr. Dalton, “will tend to es- rador and Newfoundland, but the tablish a. market in Russia. Ranches stock from Ontario and the United are being started there and experi-‘ States were not very good, al- ments are being tried with Siberian though it improves after being ac- stock. There are several ranches -in climntized here. In Labrador and the Maritime Provinces, Ontario Newfoundland, about eight per cent and Quebec, one or two in the State of the foxes are blacks and sllvers. of Maine. but outside of the Island, The Newfoundland Government pro- .the industry is practically in its in- hibits the exportation of foxes from fan¢y_"

that country except those reared in `

captivity, but the exporters there of young in 1912 7" get round the law, by building “I cannot account for it unless it ranches in order to keep foxes 101' was owing to the inexperience of the a while for the purpose of selling as ma orit of breeders. _I had no

1913 for $100,000, and send them over

"I believe that this Russian deal,"

as she was killed the first of April.

Here is another story which he re-

lated. "One of he females escaped s- bout two years ago. She succeeded in getting. absolutely free outside. She stayed around and came regul- arly for her feed night and morning for about ten days, Mr. Dalton _de- cided to set a trap for her. The next morning he went to examine the traps he saw her out in the field

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