ILLUSTRATIONS 



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I. Sitting on the Box in Which He Made a Railway JotrnNEY, 



September Fttr Fronlispiece 



II. A FuLi^FCTRRED Fox, Decembee Ftjr 15 



A FULL-FDRRED BlACK FoX, DECEMBER FuR 15 



III. A Red Fox Two Months Old, Showing a Dark Line of Blood 24 



A Cross Fox, Red on Sides, Neck and Ears, September Fur 24 



A Dark Silver Fox with a White Patch on His Breast .... 24 



A Black Female in October 24 



IV. A Mated Pair, \'ery Dark Silver ALvle and Half Silver Female, 



October Fur 31 



Pen in the ALvple Woods — Sunny in Winter and Shaded in 



Summer 31 



V. The Best Location for a Ranch is a Woodlot 33 



VI. Detail of Fence Construction with Sheet Iron 35 



Detail of Fence Construction, Many Breeders Prefer an 



Alley Surrounding each Pen 35 



VII. Usual Type of Kennt:l and Pen 40 



Cheap Kennel Constructed from a Packing Box 40 



VIII. Floor Plan and Vertical Section of a Fox I^nnel 42 



IX. Types of Fox Ranches 44 



X. Fox Kjttens Two Weeks Old 47 



A Three-quarters Black Fox Badly Frightened 47 



Keeping Watch on the Strangers 47 



A North Shore (Que.) Fox in August 47 



XI. PoL.\R Fox (White) Ranched in Russia 66 



A Russian Red Fox 66 



XII. Karakul Lambs, Three Days and Eight Days Old, Respec- 



tively 81 



XIII. Karakul Ram 85 



Full-blood, Coarse-wool Karakul Ewes and Lambs at Foot 85 



XIV. Floor Plan of Minkery 93 



XV. Min-k Ranch at Lac Chaud 95 



Mink's Den, Artificial 95 



XVI. A Successful Mink Ranch 96 



XVII. Mink Sitting on His House 100 



Otter 100 



XVIII. Beav-er 106 



Live Skunk, Long Striped 106 



XIX. Stretching Boards and Traps 119 



XX. A Collection of 34 Wild Silver Fox Skins 132 



XXI. T. R. H. Duke of Connaught and Princess Patricia at St. 



Patrick Ranch 137 



MAPS 



I. Range op the North American Red Foxes in Canada 20 



II. Range of Raccoons in Canada 89 



III. Range of Minks in Canada 90 



IV. Range of American Martens in Canada 98 



V. Range of Skunks in Canada 104 



VT. Range of Muskrats in Canada 110 



VII. Range of the American Beaver in Canada 112 



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