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rurnlrne§°h¢>§§h»»nig appear in. .following

' Aisthe

linked

discovery, as

with .plant oi “Charles

lox’ ranching,

land.

He lsllihw #ther of nn which is.;-ilakirigf.. the Ii beyond »t,be'S'evenj Fleas; he is eer who blazadltho trail,

Prince

which has widened and to a noyéalf \,to

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plon- cial i.\'nil‘ Onfa t V l"~l.wii»_»1“f°»m°r»wd along .9es*..in|ormatiipQ¢- we.

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away

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nume irnm

litemliirn, has

that

visit

THE

and

grass.

We succeeded

some at close

others

forty

are

hrowth ,ai

and la

‘ They

nn advgnti- tnme.i`He “Det idx"

with a few

‘limi-5 Ili the

quickly Bed

in viewing photograph-

think

ml' that

are of

do. As at 3'

the

clay ln and never

oi the pens he uses

sheets along the

top just below the ov-

sheets are several gnc

we sccurtd "'_lt1o`ln h

and '» which

and

the

white

BH!

-. hom

to KGHUM. .Bl

for instance, ,

sandy soil, ‘

p,,,‘f‘ "wt" te” 'md Wt (rua rms. oH1uu.us ' 'does' not helluva in, M. L. A., Presidential

or expensive kennels-~ Dalton sliver Black

are no-secrets in _the con- Ltd_

of mY' houses" he mid. ‘ . `

comfortable but not ex- ' V 'f“

.I have

erupt! ., 1103!- ‘make very interesting

boxes lor “He was a. iariner’s-

paclled the late Patrick

and out- Pond, and in Z

his

iarmi »

for

later years. is one of his

hi »i youth

father

mm, he lsiwhrst or eu, modest not glven,'1:o self-gl'oriiiceM<f§ll

im some i

his ciireer. which shnf_d

Charles

l7B.UYs

a. son oi of Nail

hard

inherited

illid de-

tiapping and”

that knowledrc oi wild

stood him in good

‘.E\'en today ,- fiivorlfe 1'6-

and he is noted as being the hest shotsfin the Wdst.

ground Mid Prevent In his_boyliood, foxes were very from climbing hizh, plentiful in 'his vicinity and 'he U10 8\°01\llli 81111 i1\i\1l`iD8 tells, ,that on one occasion ben he A1008 the bottom ~0f .put h"_a`ii outin order to get foxes

where. the ground is wet, -may .lgngngh to shoot, eight came sheets Ol the- same m°*=°l~ up in it. They were su reds. Thirty- ¢B¢!‘M\¢0 110 U10 ill'-W' W" ilve years ago, he ,trapped a black

we noticed meat in tubl. =|nx, the skin of which he sold for

with water. the water bei-Hz $52. He knew that the black for

hom a' rump operated br a was the rarest or its inns and echi- elmtne. ` l mended n high price, nnd he always

and it is protected from the `

Mr. Dalton. FOXES F000.

put the females on a, spe- when, they sre‘ with

we asked hil'u._‘

he replied, “I mefke

the usual system et hed-

, foxes ebo_ut,,the the year round prin- .and fresh, ssh. Iishbits hatnrqil iood lor them than might -be kent

owls. This ininch quitea rabhif rc- fnluad their pens and some oi by foxes. which 0: h e ir w a y

any trouble with

year_s but in the ranch was com-

csme beck

well pictured

number ol

in their

protected ?'

are who

w,th

li,»\ NCH.

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(npr hy ll

kept them

yenr h

venrs, ssc. The

gave ull U19

ended ln captivity

lt remained to point is the

of the

them the same I-lc ke t the

_ n'

their meat in 'water all ,V _ ,,__._‘__‘_`_ .. _____ ._.__.

MR, Dsurox' unrnnlsu His

lic would he bred in cap- lliirty years U20. A pups was ci\l>f»\1l`0d'

young iarm-

lwih to nnother msn.

£5, for one and

inr thc other.

in a e raised

- J

the st_6clli, Ij_desired. Lgnrocured. a pair of silver blacks irom John hiartin ol Lot 40,' end.. killed- the Anticostrsilvers. The Martin pair which were a year old, were the Adam and Eve ot. the preseliti genera- ticn,»ol blacklcxes -ln, this pro- vTndg_. They were dug outf ot :eden in the woods endwere almost black. I_lubsequen_tiy bought three dark sllvers- from Joseph Noonan, Albany and tour or about thai same. quality from Louis Spence, of Bedeque. If sold- the skins ui the lightest color animals arid kept the- dark ones for breeding., Upto this time, $200 was the highest price I _received for unv or them. The Antlcost.i's brought about £20. I was at this time liv- ing on; the homestead at Nail Pond, thi-ee‘m_i1es, from 'r‘gnieh. For a number of years I kept the foxes in 8, sued back oi ,the barn but with on- ly a fair measure of success. Up to the year 1894, I was' the only (ox l5reeder_o'n' the Island. In that year, I~en.tered into partnership with a hunting cllum of mine, R. T. Oulten wlio ‘lived on Cherry Island, in Al- berton Harbor. On that inland we built the ilrst wire enclodure ever used to keen foxes ln. Alter this enclosure the ranches ' qi the present day were modelled. We' 'started withvthree hair from .mv own ranch at home, Mr. Oulton having nr/ne. Cherry Island contains' about three hundred acres ol land, pnrtlallY wooded and we chose it because ol ,its nrlvacy and, bccahse foxes are lnath to. take to the water and. could easily be recaptured il they_

ried on breedinz with the utmost pri- vncv allowing no visitors. We met with s good measure' olmiiccess' rear- ing some animals, losing some each ,year and learning somelsllng.-_from

In 1897; 5'-11 removed to

and started' 'iheilry'-gocfls

ll# ill‘ere._tlw.i‘l_“.=° .fws htnch5'ii’~‘ i€'=»‘wltli 1 the Alberton ranch.

leaving in the latter the same num- ber in' charge oi Mr. Oulton. My rartnership with him continued nu- til last year when he removed to Port Elzin to take charire ol a ranch there. .We divided the stock. I ,re- moved all oi. mine to '\7iznlBi1» I 'would like here to nay n, tribute to mv partner, Mr Ollltoll. Rll l\0n01lI`- nhle. honest straightforwacd man. During the were wa were torether when we shared each others dielw* fonintmente and-. disco\\I'B~i1BY"6l1tS and shared too. the jovs. in’ solvinll the problems which. nt first Tlerlllex- 1-d us. when we lrv-md nur sto:-.k vet- Hne better nnd the price incrensinir for the hivher grades. I had amnlc onnm-tunltv ol' flndlnv his reel worth. We made it our rolicv to lnolr out for the best stncln. chan!- ine thu blood from time to time. ill order to keep the nnlmnls strnvw ,md viq0rnu,;_ We flienoreil Of llflfilf ind but neil-A until the venr 1909.. when we enln nur fir-1+ live f-.nimnis -one rvair-tri nnrvtlwr _rancher lf' +,\~,i_ wepinm mir:-, nf the Countv for sf4An_ frmlnv. ri *mir of a slriilar rin.-1 iw..-1,1 1,.. wnrflw from 510.000 +n-9=12_000_ Om- was black und th' ,,4|,,r.» ..'~~f-~-~ .lei-lf silver. 'Pho lent 4-imp me 'fallen f-was 'cr the slfiln wp" ifv- Nm 1f\1r\ ufllvs, flln Drtldllct Of uw vim- 100".

nlrrlculllss ovl:lzcoMl-:`

"What wcrn the greatest diillcultiel

to be overrumc in the pioneer years

iol the industry," was our next quell: tion. ’

"When I iirst started," saidl Mr.

'iJalton, “I kept the animals in or# idinury board sheds, collllccte-d<\ by shuton. They used to lose their \,lit-

ters, owing to the disturbances usll- M nlly. associated with , a bernyanl. `.

‘The first year 'we kept them lil vw.

iwirc enclosure, we had no ~over-'eu '

ming and two climbed out. At first we had out ‘strip of wire eac 'l.‘\le~

used

ioxes and

At Bret we pen. This when the

P011.

litters.

the water

nests causing

diem!!! to Coh-

was common to

to elect other ani-

lox is a hardy

elrlvfciiim into me nm

‘7:‘."'°“

escaped in summer. , Here, we car- i

being out in ths‘ `

all y a temperature of , Nteenfto twenty degrees below#

proceeded to get Mr. Dal-

the color queltion. in ‘ _ ---_ r -

cider-

"-~’,. Tv.

‘mong the reds. The hlnck fox is dis- tinguished from others by the total absence oi white and silver hairs, ex- cept on~ the tip of the tail. The hairs are three inches long. In the black fox each individual heir has s. blue section one and a. half in- ches long. next to the body and the rest of the hair is black. .In the sil- ver fox-,' each individual hair is made np- of the following-starting with the body-blue, for one and ll half inches, black one half inch. white one hall inch, black one half inch,

“There is not in its wild 'state in

this province ally lux as black - as the breeds which I have developed." said Mr, Dalton.

“Do the black foxes change color

as they grow older."

“Very slightly. The silvers are

usually darker the first year. than

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cnnrser lurred animal than. in straight brcedlllg. .A pak' 0! V food crosses may sometlmes_f`thr6w U sil- ver, but they are more liable* to threw their own lurid. 1: che' ell- sprilg is bred to a iull black, some of the litter may be black. I! the red is bred to a black, red, the W9, dominant color will usually b6_ the' result, but I have known redsd and‘ blacks to be in the same litter ob' several occasions, that is in, their wild state;

“How is the importation ol reds atlecting the industry ?" ' “It is not-interfering with the Bale

of blacks, but alter a man has ex- perimented ,» with reds and thu! lenrns how to breed successlillly, lt` should tend to give him a desire to procure blacks."

"Would you recommend the breed-

. . ,

- . fr»,. V.,

-they are the fourth or iiith year. The -black foxes we started out with had all some silver, but by careful selection of the blutkcst. ' we develop- sd a type. which`no\v leads the world."

"T140 black fox is not a freak. A

freak I. consider an abnormal accid- ent, eontrary to the laws oi nature. A freak will not produce a freak, but the ofl-spring will revert back to the usual type."

Mr. Dalton in response to iurther

questioning, proceeded tr/ deal with the “patch” or cross foxes.

In the London fur murlzet there is

no such term as patches. They are all listed as "ci-osses." Such foxes me a color variety the some as the siivers but more closely allied to the silvers than to the reds. They BTG B combination of silver, red and black. The red color is found on the sides of the neck, back ci the shoulders, round the ears, the silver on _thc buck, the black on the lace and nose.

Mlxsn BREEDING

Then, the question oi mixed breed-

ing was discussed. ‘

The crossin 1 blacks with

.. g 0

patches gives uncertain results/ said Mr. Dalton. We usually get s.

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GENERAL VIEW OF' THE CHAR-LES`DAl..'1‘0N RANCH AT -TIGNTBH'

ing of the blue folfhere 7"' ' .

This is. an Arena .fer when

is not sultah1e~,t0g0llr~‘Ie1||¢\fd.3.

atc, 11; has W ‘ ” with a. fnir»rnq`ii#£g.%,?d%’ Yf ` li a diflcrent species'-*l1'0m'ftlI`¢~ MLW. red or silver, it ll the *IUOOICI as the white iox."I’\1`Q-ski.ll- ll -not worth more than $20 or ` '$50,' il killed any time. lthls ai fhplfilf lil- der-iur than the black £0! hut olltll

fur is not heavy Qrso.,Ion‘g_.c .

LEADS THE Willlifll f

"why do me more meek rczylurs

1ead'the world."1 5 ; 1 I

.HA large ‘percentage-oi ~ a higher price /thalil;tho` yfssplifeo , or any other eo1o:»§lom~sny other part or the 'worl<l.;. .In cold; relay season will produce ibetterfrur than a warm dry season. 1 -'l'he.leesfsul\`- light the Uettbr ,thovmstrq >l.lld the darker the iur..~0l1l'_~;.Islai\_d climsfa

is eooleri the. che&Kes<or- temrlrv ture are less mar!" ithan in other parte of the‘Me.in1and and .the hir |- daptiug itself to these' changes .hu developed more uniformly than in other countries. As the iur reaches its tate of periectlonl the rniddli of January, the temperature late! in the winter does not ailect its tex-

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