110 



COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION 



The Japan fox or Eaccoon 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 



Geographical 

 Classification 



The quotations published by fur-bu3'ers make a geographi- 

 cal classification of furs, thus: 



Red Fox No. 1, Large: * 



Alaska, Northern and Western Canada $12.00 



Newfoundland and Labrador 8 . 50 



Minnesota, Wisconsin, Dakota, Missouri, Michigan 7.50 



Eastern Canada, Michigan, New York, and Northeast- 

 ern states 6 . 00 



Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.. 5.00 



All central and southern States 3 . 50 



Red Fox No. 1, Laege: t 



Eastern Canada, Nova Scotia, Labrador 9.00 



Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Ontario 8 . 00 



Northern New York, northern Michigan, Connecticut.... 7.00 

 Northern Pennsylvania, central New York, central 



Michigan ^-^d^ • • ^ • ^^ 



Central Pennsylvania, northern Ohio, W. Virginia, N^... 5.00 



Central Ohio, northern Indiana, Illinois 4.75 



Southern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, north Caro- 

 lina, southern Ohio, northern Kentucky 4.50 



Southern and Southwestern 4 . 25 



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 Eussia does 

 in the Old. It is quite possible, also, that the pelts of raccoon, opossum, 



* Fur News Magazine, November, 1912. 

 f Fvr Trade Review, December, 1912. 



