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foxes are taken in box traps and the best of each sex are 

 saved for breeders, care being taken to mark them by clip- 

 ping the hair on the end of the tail as they are released 

 from the traps. Daily records are kept of the number of 

 males and females released and the number of males and 

 females killed the reasons for killing the latter being 

 carefully stated. 



The Semidi Propagating Company, besides stocking 

 from North Semidi, Long Island, and Chirikof for itself, 

 has sold enough live foxes to stock the islands of Pearl, 

 Little Naked, Goose, Green, Demidof, Deranof, and 



FOX FARM, LONG ISLAND, NEAR KADIAK. 



Ugak, from which in turn several other islands in eastern 

 Alaska have been supplied, while in western Alaska four 

 of the Shumagin islands have been stocked from Attu, 

 where the blue fox in the wild state is still found in limited 

 numbers. 1 



All of the islands kept by the Semidi Propagating Com- 

 pany, and many of the others in Alaska devoted to the 



1 In 1898 a few pairs of foxes from Long Island were sent to Foxcroft, Maine, 

 and placed in wire-fenced yards. The animals were all pups of that season but I 

 am informed that several foxes were raised in 1899. 



