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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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l‘
llitlllb
with
ls-
inuicd
plon- cial
i.\'nil‘ Onfa t V
l"~l.wii»_»1“f°»m°r»wd
along .9es*..in|ormatiipQ¢- we.
U
00th] ml’
away
8
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in the
the
.X ,
ir `
IlO
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'
Rh
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
or
and
'» which
and
the
white
BH!
next
-. 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
il
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.
_ __4...\~'-___
(npr hy ll
kept them
yenr h
P
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
11
. . ,,_.,.. _  ,,..,. < -.
,  . 4" .,g§,§.. 
»:
1ii`Q§
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.
_ _ ,
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:Ȥlom~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-
i (Continued on Page Two.)
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-end   of lilo Career- Much 'lnterestingfund -lielllubli  ' ‘Y
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