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COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION 



A discount of 2^ per cent off these prices is given and the selling 

 commission of 6 per cent and the carriage and insurance charges bring 

 the total cost of marketing furs in London up to about 9 per cent of 

 the selling price. 



Statistics for 1908 and 1909 are wholly lacking, the records being 

 reported lost. Satisfactory proof was furnished that the following sales 

 were made, although possibly not more than one-half the total quantity 

 of skins sold in the period 1905-1912 are represented: 



SALES OF P. E. I. SILVER FOX SKINS, 1905-1912 



The average for the last seven years would probably be slightly 

 lower if reports of all sales were available. On the other hand, the price 

 has advanced since 1905, most noticeably so in 1910 and in 1912. 



On account of the demand for breeding animals, but few skins have 

 been sold since 1910, and no ranches other than those on Prince Edward 

 Island have furnished proofs of the prices obtained for them. 



