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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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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
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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,
My-sir in mv';f{'isnis§f,=ranen.f' _ A
son: 'flucihsivrs 4
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
and is
te be
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interest in
retained as
direction of
e experience is _
value the company can
ter the new year strong in
that their most
are to 'be
the fact
patriotism has
ed a stimulus and that
Gem will, shine with
still lustre.
_ iuirin sim: or'srocl£.¢¢'
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
“How do you account for shortage
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ranch bred foxes. The majority of shortage. In fact had as many as I
foxes coming in from outside are sil-ever had, there being an increase off
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barking and greatly excited about
something. On going to his traps
he found to his agreeable surprise, a
beautiful large male black'iox. This
wild one hs. evidently strayed -a-
long and became acquainted with
the female and like Eve of old, she
led him into the fatal trap. This fox
is still kept in the ranch and is
quite an acquisition to the blood of
the stock. The next morning the fe--
male was secured also.” '
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Big Ben
a good, _all-pub
pine dqy_ and all dqy
use semce. 
He stand; it-ren inches tall. He
wears `s coli nf triple-nickel plated
steel. He rings with one long loud
ring for 5 invinmes /traigln, or for 10
minutes at inirrw/f oi’ '30 seconds \in~
lcn you :hut him off. _
'Hia big, liohl figures and hands IM,
ew-ro had in :he dim morning _t,
his large mong keys mum 
1-lie price, $3.00, is my ru pay be-
cause his adv.-iunges are sovcaun :_N-
Bi Ben is sold in Prince Edwlld
Ialgnd by' the following jewelers: '
_ G._H. Tayiar 
Charlottetown _
H. R. Crockett
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