ILLUSTRATIONS 



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



Frontispiece 



II. Full-Furred Foxes 13 



III. Range of Red Foxes in Canada {Map) 16 



IV. Red, Cross and Silver Foxes 20 



V. A Mated Pair of Silver Foxes 25 



Fox Pen in the Maple Woods 25 



VI. The Best Location For a Ranch is in a Woodlot 26 



VII. Detail of Fence Construction with Sheet Iron 28 



Detail of Fence Construction — An Alley Around Each Pen.. 28 



VIII. Usual Type of Kennel and Pen 2>3 



Cheap Kennel Constructed from a Packing Box 33 



IX. Floor Plan and Vertical Section of a Fox Kennel 34 



X. Plan of Two Good Types of Fox Ranches 36 



XI. Foxes of Various Ages and Attitudes 40 



XII. Range of Raccoons in Canada {Map) 70 



XIII. Range of Minks in Canada {Map) ; 71 



XIV. Mink Ranch at Lac Chaud ; 72 



Mink's Den, Artificial 72 



XV. Range of the American Martens in Canada {Map) 78 



XVI. Mink Sitting on His House 82 



Otter 82 



XVII. Range of Skunks in Canada {Map) 85 



XVIII. Beaver 86 



Live Skunks — Long Striped 86 



XIX. Range of Muskrats in Canada {Map) 89 



XX. Range of the American Beaver in Canada {Map) 90 



XXI. Stretching Boards 98 



XXII. A Collection of 34 Wild Silver Fox Skins, Worth Upwards of 



$21,000 110 



XXHI. T. R. H. Duke of Connaught and Princess Patricia in Saint 



Patrick Ranch 126 



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