A Brief Review 0f The il.N.S.F.B.A.

Intbeyear i920 anumoer of v provident fox breeders recognizing the necessity of a “Canada Wide" organization that would provide it: the marking of foxes to show the origin, age and ownership of the animals, applied to the Dominion Government for a Charter of m- corporatlon that would accord such organization the right to tattoo inspect and otherwise further the registration of members’ foxes. The Government considered the appli- cation favourably. and even furn- ished through the Department of Agriculture valuable assistance in the inception and establishment of the Canadian National Silver Fox Breeders’ Association, an ‘ - tion that has in many ways ’ ' the vicissitudes o1 the past fifteen years taken a lively and consider- ate interest in what pertains to the breeders’ welfare. and to the

“ n, advancement of the in- cfustry. Registration of foxes is ef- fected by the Association through the ofllce o1 the Canbdian National Live Stock. Records, at Ottawa, which institution keeps on its books a. concise yet fairly complete record of each animal registered.

An important primary in the Registration of foxes is identifica- tion. which has been secured. in legal compliance, to allow each member the sole or exclusive use of a letter, or letters, with which to tattoo the right ear or each of his foxes. This is practically a recorded

DFFICE OF THE CANADIAN NAT IONAL SILVER FOX BREEDERS

ASSOC IATION

copyright which other breeders may not make use oi without violating the law of the land. The left ear is tatioed with a serial number and

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@EAPER BECAUSE :—

The KELLOGG COMPANY utilises, to a large extent. l-hell‘ mug"- gquipment in the manufacture of BEXITE. A proportion of the insffifl- ients consists oi The KEL- LOGG COMPANYZS "EREAK- ' FAST FOODS.

s-For these reasons-

mgxrm can be put on the market at a lower price than would. be otherwise possible for rich a high quality fced

AND

11m intensified food value oi IIEXITE make it go much farther.

BREAD -- THE STAFF OF LIFE

FEED TOASTED BREAD CRUMB — Dry and Bulky

Mixes wonderfully w-lth any other feed. Absorbs large quantity of milk or water.

The manufacturers of our BREAD supply FROMM BROS.

WE CARRY A FULL‘ LINE OF FOX SUPPLIES:-

Dysol Disinfectant — Pulvex - Cod Liver Oil — Vermlfugo P. H. Powder — Brown Rice — Imperial Biscuit.

— A RATION

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year letter which serves as an age indicator.

The benefits of registration are so important that no progressive breeder can well afford to be with- out it. During the fifteen years of its existence it has through its in- spectors, acting in accordance with a set stBndI-rd of perfection, elim- inated many undesirable animals, ' which elimination has tended to the betterment of Canadian fox herds: it has directed the keeping 0f records of breeding operations that are now valuable guides to studious breeders, and now, with one or more official markers ap- pointed for each section through- out Canada, the rancher has the privilege of employing an ofllcial marker to tattoo his foxes. if he prefers he may do the marking himself, o: he may engage whom he wishes to do it for him. There i: nothing arbitrary about it, and the cost would be a matter depending upon how and by whom he would choose to have the work done. Information re the tattoo mark- ings to be used for each litter of pups will be supplied to any mem- ber who has applied for it in time. Pups must be marlmd as directed and the completed applications re-

Summersl’ turned to the "Rocords" by August Charlottetown 15th _ Albert” Further, beginning this year,

each member will be visited by a Fieldman who will be pleased to assist with instructions in all mat- ters pertaining to Registration in general-including the keeping of records, tattooing oi foxes. certifi- cates, etc. An important part also of each F‘leldman’s duty will be to assist in the solution oi any ranching problems upon which in- formation might be desircd. While

of the

ASS OCIA TI ON

“C OMPLIMEN TS

CANADIAN NA TIONAL’ SILVER FOX BREEDERS’

Surgnmerside, P. E. I. ’”

general inspection has been drop- ped as a preliminary to securing certificates, a standard will be set, which with additional qualifications, would warrant the issue oi certifi- cates cf Advanced Registration. Such certificates would be not only

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m sum museum u of such vital commercial importance to Prince Edward island. that it is both in and educational to noteafewhig btsinitsgrowth as related" in the experhnce of one oi the leading pioneer" fozmen of the Province.

Mr. C. R. MMQuIIIlBLBI-Immer- side, has briefly summarised fo us some of the milestones l-Ii hi8 - tory as a dealer in livefokes and raw pelts. He states that in i914 he began his career in the indus‘ y by forming the "First National Fox Exchange Ltds" under which organ- ization live foxes were bought and sold. The prices paid then were in the vicinity of fifteen thousand dollars per pair.

In i018 he became manager oi the Summerside Branch of A. and E. Pierce and 00.. Ltd. Montreal, the largest raw fur dealers in Canada at that time. for whom he purchas- ed large quantities of pelts. the prices then paid were from $200 to $600 each. When the ilrm of‘ A. and E. Pierce and Co. Ltd., discon- tinued doing business in Summe side, their stand was purchased by Mr. MacQuarrie. He made connec- tions with large firms who sent their buyers to erside where largp quantities of pelts were pur- chased and shipped to different parts of the world. It will be seen that Summerside ‘ a very busy mart where hundreds of thous- ands of dollars became exchanged each season for silver fox skins. Mr. Macquarrie recalls one instance. around the year i020, of having purchased in his odlce one partic- ular day. fox skins to the value of approximately thirty-five thousand dollars, this included the collection of skins of a number of Charlotte- town ranchers brought to Summer- slde, and also the purchase of three specimen skins from a prominent summer-side rancher, for three thousand dollars.

When the fur-buyers began oom- ing to Bummer-side they found- many skins which had been poorly pelt- ed, thereby reducing their. value which otherwise would have been

The P.E.I. Fur Pool Limited

The Prince Edward Island Fur Pool Limited with headquarters in Summer-side. P111!" “Wm n‘ “my, q-ggnfggd in 1930 for the purpose of marketing silver M pelts for a half a dozen ranchers. Rum (m; unpretentious beginning the business has ded far be- yond the most sahdlllhc EXPQWR- , tions of those who embarked upon the enterprise, until at the end 01 this, the fifth season of its exist- enoe, finds it with a patronase cf over 2,800 randies-s-eurely a phenomenal growth.

In keeping with the remarkable expansion‘ of the business the Company has kept right up to the forefront in the matter of Provid- ing facilities to carry on the work of the organizatkvn. It is no ex- aggeration to state that. the said facilities are the last word in up- to-dateness and are unequalled bl’ any other organimtion in the world. They include s. series of vaults especially constructed to fire underwriters req and capable of housing ten thousand pelts hung separately or over fifty

certificates of quality but also rec- ords of performance or production.

During the last nine years a Fur Marketing Department has been in craratig at Headquarters through which anadian ranchers, whether members or non-members. have been privileged to have their furs marketed at minimum cost.

Sc signal has ' the success of the cooperative Fur Marketing Department of the lloxbreeders‘ and so general the satisfaction of its customers, that the number of pelts received during the current season have thus far reached a total of 39,242—or roughly 10.000 more pelts lt-han during the previous season. Nothing Succeeds like Success.

On its directorate every province of Canada is represented. It oper- ates under the president of l’... T. Leeman, Salisbury, NB. with George H. MacCallum as Secretary- Treasurer. George A. Callbeck. the well known Fox and Fur fudge, is

Manager of its Marketing Depart-

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- SUMMER STREET Surnmerside, P. E. Island

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Vrilhoisals Grocers and Fox Supply

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ment. and Vernon Matthew is the Accountant.

All books and vouchers are under umro opmno us M irons irrausnb cred Acountant k at each an- nual meeting by the members themselves.

The official organ of the Associa- tion is “Canadian silver lib: and Mir," published at 184 Adelaide street West. Toronto. Ontario.

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thoumnd pelts grouped in lots. The temperature in the vaults can be varied as required from normal room tempo to nanny degrees below the freezing point-

The cleaning facilities are the very laziest obtainable. including ‘Quin, ‘* ‘rfur- heaters and specially-commie! drums operated by electric motors and under forced draught for the removing of the very finest par- ticles of (first and dirt. The pelting department is also conducted on the most modern pr‘ oiples, sev- eral thousand foxes being pelted each year in s manner equalled by few and surpassed by none.

‘Ilhe grading room is especially designed and European fur deal- ers who rec " visited Summer- side expremed themselves as amaaed at the facilities which they declared were unique and unequalled anywhere. Every phase of the work in the grading depart- ment is supervised personally by the t. Here the pelts are carefully graded,

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reliable fur houses whose financial

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ness is to Deserve It." every ‘ dloation it would appear that the phenomenal growth en- joyed by this young organization will continue unabated for many years.

Pool Limited carries on its work with a permanent staff, most. of whom have been with pany since its incepti .. but of

made annually, Its employees take a keen interest in the success of the organisationand are intensely loyal and willing workers in every respect. They realize they are a partof a concern which is taking a leading part in building up a worthy industry that has proven to be a very valuable asset to the cwntry.

gaged in most of the indumries through Canada have had eon- siderable difficulty in marketing 151:!‘ products, with the result

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mucbgreater; the buyers complained cf this and thus began a side-issue 0f the great fur bualneaF-the pelt- lng station-where‘ in the fall of the year large numbers of skilled men are engaged in the different pelting organisations. a '

One reason why Summ aide is such a large ‘dfiitre in the Bilver Fox Indust , is on account or the quality of Is nd skins being world- famous and the buyers here each fall are always anxious for the fresh skins and willing to pay good prices, which is a boon to ‘the ranchers.

We have been speaking largely of the vast amount o1 money brought. to Summersid —~and the Island in general, through the purchases of silver fox pelts, but let us not for- get the live fox industry which ha! netted the ranchers fine sums with the minimum of preparation for market. Mr. MBCQUBXTL? states that a few years ago he received orders for a large number of tine live foxes. He purchased hundreds of fin-e fox- “es-priae winners and from prime- winnlng stock-from some of the, finest ranchers throughout P. E. Is-l land .paying from four hundred to one thousand dollars per pair, and rrequently making shipments in car load lots to USA. One single pur- chase of live foxes for over fifty thousand dollars was made from an individual Summerside rancher.

Some 0f the prices quoted above may seem exorbitant to us now after the years of depression, but it can truly be said that the price of foxes has peld up Better than any other _ commodity during these strenuous times. Last year fine skins were purchased by Mr. Mac- Quarrie for one hundred dollars each, specimen skins of course be- ing higher.

It mfly truly be said that Sum- merslde, through the medium 0f her different fox organizations, has been very inst mental in bringing millions of dol rs to this Province;

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Mr. Mscqillmle alone. stairs he has paid out several million dollars to the ranchers for their pelts and live foxes.

. ME. J. F. ARNETT President Rogers a Arnett Ltd.

portion of the very centrally lo-

‘rhis Company does business only with the largest and thoroughly of Europe, responsibility is beyond question. ,

The slogan of the Prince Edward

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The Prince Edward Island Fur

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HOWQ

MB. LOWELL HANCOCK Manager of ‘ ticnal Ios and Animal Foods

Commercial Fox Feed Industry

In Summerside

the "Good Old Days" of

During

Sliver Fox Ranchlns. the writer is informed, feed was a secondary consideration for the valuable Fox. Reports from authentic sources go, that often meats and fish were the sole feeds fed in those days. wasn't even necessary totake out the spoiled meat and bones left in the pens. The fox apparently had a sYB- tem in those days of withstanding the after effects of spolledmeats etc. The matter of sanitation, use cf disinfectants,

cleaning pens, etc., was ports, absolutely unnecessary on the average rnnoh. Probably the in- herited resistance tosucn conditions. and surroundings and feeding was sufficient to fox through this period. question the validity of ports.

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system wry we: do

ma. . with u». continued

keeping of the fox in captivity, over a period of years, and with the in- ' judicious practice of certain breed-

lllox began to weaken, and break down under the above rat-notices. Today, thesystem employed both as to feeding and sanitation is en- tirely different through necessity, than the successfully in former days. Each year ranchers seem to be agreed that lt is becoming more and more difficult to succesaf _ titles of quality Silve roses.

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While thefeeding of Foxes has

stock

been exp-“mented on for a number of years, still there is a great deal to be learned and very little uni- formity is to =be found in the systems of ' ranches. On the other hand in live- and poultry feedins. general pl tioes are fairly well established the country over; varied of ng

the natural supply available in each locality.

on various

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During the pest eight years es-

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peoially there have come onto the markets a great number of Com- mercially belanced 11px Foods, simi- lar in nature to balanced foods for poultry and other livestock. Such foods generally speaking are bal- anced oomblnations of cereal, nuneral and vitamins foods. which are now readily available through sources of meats. fish, breads and cooked cereals

certain difference in the ingredi- ents, and particularly in amounts of different ingredients used in these foods. still their basic idea is pretty much the same.

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home ofonc oi such Commercial Ilbx Peed Houses. International For and Animal Moods, Ltd. manu- factureres of SUNGID PBX. poultry and Livestock feeds is now well known-to Rn: Ranchers particularly all over the Dominion. Starting in 10M. on his Hancock. working University compounded tures of ingredients to

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proves them beneficial in the pro- duction of better fur and immoved breeding conditions. Although the feeds made were not made with the idea of selling commer- cially, still, many fox ranchers soon

these mixes com-

above firm for the purpose of manuihctine of these feeds corn-

sraooo worth of feeds annually, and shlppingfcufeede alfarwestas Vancouver. n. 0., amounts into the United states and Norway. hill time employment is

and limited

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Pelt ldarketing Firm ‘Assists Breeders

Another pelt-marketing season is

over the year with a good measure of satisfaction. last fall, the pros- pects dld not i001: bright. ‘The pre- vious season had. ended with a de- clining market, and the unsett.ed conditions in Europe was mother dlaturiing factor. The record quant-

' ity of pelts on the location-January '

Sale was a cause for worry, but the ready absorption of the offering by the trade showed that the world markets could use greater num‘ a of Silver lib: than was generally expected. The demand for the arti- cle was strcng and the adequate

the demand. In other " words. a

of the trade has the effect oi build- ing up a selling machinery which later demands further larger sup-

Maioh, the quantities offered in London were again large but, as will be remembered, an internation- al crisis occurred just at the time of the sale. and buying was conse- quently curtalled. A small peroent- .age, comparatively, was scld at the March Bale, but such skins as were allowed to sell brought reasonably satisfactory prices. As soon as Euro- pean conditions became more stab- ilised the buyers naturally began t‘: look for skins due to the fact that they had been unable to buy heav- ily in March. Consequently, good quantities were sold prilately between the March and. May Sales. Skins Purchased by private treaty are. in almost all cases. for immediate consumption, therefore the trade can be assumed to have been prac- tically‘ free of accumulated skins some time before the May Sale commenced. This condition, coupled with the fact that the quantities oflered in May were much smaller than normal, produced the desirable result of a sharply advancing mar-

k“. which. from past experience, usually indicates price-strength the next Fill. The season has ben a satisfactory One. but it has been a trying time, nevertheless, for those engaged in

having some '10 odd dealers throughout the Maritime Provinces. hghe basic idea and the one which been proven out in practice to he _a practical one, is the Manu- by the above firm of the original Seasonal Feed for thesilver Fox. Foxes require certain materials and ingredients,“ certain seasons that they do not require at other seasons. A growing pup . requires larger amoiuits of certain elements than an adult fox and etc. Experi- ments conducted from the stat, in 1M6, pointed to the making of vari- 0115 foods. and these various season- al feeds are proving beneficialonthe (Continued on page l9)

dver. lbs-ranches may ltiqlbloi _ .

supply in January only lent full to large quantity of skins in the hands i -

plies of pelts to keep it supplied. In’

the marketing business, The various fur houzrs dcing business in Prince Edward island controlled a great many thousands or pelts. If unwise policies had been carried out, grave re:ults could have ensued rather than the favourableones to which we can look back. m.» influence that these selling houses have on the fur-market is tremendous. It will be noted that in January pelts were sold comparatively freely. Tho market was strong and the prices good, therefore the marketing firms sold. March brought a different set of conditions. Had large quantities been allowed to sell at a consider- able reduction, the price standard would have been lowered and quite possibly would not have recovered for a long time-certainly not again this season. Instead of this we ilnd a small quantity sold at the March Auction and private sales being ef- fected soon afterwards. all the skim selling at reasonable figures. The t:ade was netcr flooded and cams back in May hungry for pelts. Prices advanced-and prospects are bright for the Fall. Coeoperstivs marketing has brought fourth re- sults this scascn and has been the great steadylng influence all through the lean years. silver For is still at the forefront and going strong while other furs have sunk out of sight.