110 COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION 
The Japan fox or Raccoon dog, and a few thousand skins of two 
South American species make up the balance. 
Brass estimates the world’s yearly production of the various species 
of foxes as follows: 
FOX SKINS PRODUCED ANNUALLY 
Common Rep Fox Pouar Fox 
Kit- Gray 
Continent Fox Fox 
Red Cross Silver White Blue 
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America...| 200,000 | 15,000 | 4,000 6,000 || 50,000 || 30,000 6,000 
Kurope....| 775,000 5,000 1,000 
IASigw he: 160,000 3,000 300 || 60,000 | 70,000 | 4,000 
Australia... 30,000 | 
Geographical The quotations published by fur-buyers make a geographi- 
Classification al classification of furs, thus: 
Rep Fox No. 1, Larcr:* 
Alaska, Northern and Western Canada..................e-000. $12.00 
Newfoundland and: ‘Labradors. 2)52 22... 26h ences ee ae ees 8.50 
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Dakota, Missouri, Michigan............. 7.50 
Eastern Canada, Michigan, New York, and Northeastern states . . 6.00 
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois........... 5.00 
All central and southern States 
Rep Fox No. 1, Larce:t 
Eastern Canada, Nova Scotia, Labrador................+.++-8- 9.00 
Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Ontario.................e006- 8 
Northern New York, northern Michigan, Connecticut........... 7 
Northern Pennsylvania, central New York, central Michigan... . 6.00 
Central Pennsylvania, northern Ohio, W. Virginia, N.Y......... 5 
Central Ohio, northern Indiana, Illinois 4 
Southern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, north Carolina, 
southern Ohio, northern Kentucky.............066. seeees 4.50 
Southern and Southwestern..)....i.%).- . fate saejeivioe tee aie cle etete ete 4.25 
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The geographical classification reveals the fact that in North Amer- 
ica the higher the altitude, or the lower the temperature, the heavier 
the pelt. Mink descends steadily in value from Labrador to Florida, 
Eastern Canada mink being quoted at $7.50 in Nov., 1912, and Florida 
at $4. A heavy pelt, if properly coloured, is usually the most valuable. 
Canada, therefore, produces the best fur in the New World as Russia does 
in the Old. It is quite possible, also, that the pelts of raccoon, opossum, 
*Fur News Magazine, November, 1912. 
tFur Trade Review, December, 1912. 
