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#3000. By 1913, they were selling at $16,000. The craze became 

 to trap, not to kill but to get foundation stock for a fur farm. 



To quote from the Canadian Conservation's Report on Fur 

 Farming, these findings may be set down as facts : 



(1) Silver parents always produce silver pups — never red or 

 cross pups. (See possible exceptions below.) 



(2) Red parents mostly produce red, but, occasionally, some 

 cross or patch pups and even a small proportion of silver pups are 

 produced. 



(3) Usually cross or patch parents produce cross or patch pups. 



(4) When a silver and pure red are bred, they produce red pups 

 with blacker markings on the belly, neck and points than the red 

 parents. The pups are about the color known to furriers as 

 "bastard." 



(5) When a bastard red fox and a silver are mated often the 

 litter is on the average 50 per cent silver and 50 per cent red. 



(6) Bastard red parents often produce a black or silver pup in 

 a litter — the proportion of silver being about one out of four. 



(7) The exceptions to the above rules are that sometimes the 

 colors do not segregate, but rather blend, as in roan cattle when 

 red and white hairs are intermixed and not separated into distinct 

 patches. Cross foxes are produced by mating a red and a silver 

 and sometimes, an intermediate color is secured in the pups. Thus, 

 in some districts, every combination of the red, white and black 

 color of foxes is found. There are foxes which are : 



Silver or Light Silver. — Silver all over, except possibly the 

 neck ; dark below and white only on the tip of the tail. 



Silver Black or Dark Silver. — Black all over, except the tip of 

 the tail and the silvery hairs on the hips and forehead. 



Black. — Pure black all over, except the tip of the tail, with 

 perhaps dark silvery hairs discernible on close examination. 



What constitutes a pure silver fox ? 



The three paragraphs above will explain. 



It is given as a curious fact, while the white tip is given as the 



