Index 



Fox ranching (cotit'd) PAGE 



food and feeding 36, 38 



necessity of experienced keeper 39 



in Ontario 13 



practice 25 



in Quebec 13 



woodland site for ranch 26 



Fox skins, final value of silver. ... 54 



how to judge 48 



production of 54, 109, 110 



quality of 52 



red, prices of 23 



Foxes, best furred 23 



black, prices of 15 



breeding of, to secure dark colour 18 



diseases of 41 



rate of increase 52, 54 



mating and gestation 39 



results of various matings 17 



sales of, for breeding 49 



speculation in 49, 50 



Frauds in selling furs 9 



Fraser, Alfred, decreasing fur supply 4 



increasing fur prices 4 



French fur buyers 107 



Frost, Wesley, on climate of P.E.I. 25 



on fox-farming 50 



Fur-bearers, defined 96 



domestication of 10 



the precious 11 



Fur-bearing animals, breeding of. 125 



Fur buyers, French 107 



Fur-farming, animals used in, in 



Canada 1 



Canadian legislation re 135 



common red fox 16 



experiments by United States . 71 



laws re 40 



Fur market at London 105 



Fur News Magazine, on diminish- 

 ing fur supply 5 



on skinning 97 



Fur News Publishing Co 56 



Fur prices, statistics of 146 



Fur produced, annual value of . . . 138 



Fur production, statistics of. 138, 139 



Fur sales, London 105 



of Hudson's Bay Co., 1850-1911 148 

 Fur-seals, importations of, to 



London 145 



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Fur trade, centres of 104 



English 107 



Furs, geographical classification of 110 



deceptions in 7 



dyeing of 100 



frauds in selling 9 



imitations of 7 



list of misdescriptions 8 



list of permissible descriptions . 8 



popularizing 6 



produced yearly 139 



raw, commerce in 104 



re-naming 6 



scarcity of 2 



weight and warmth of 103 



world's sales of 104 



G 



Generosoff, Vladimir, on sable 



breeding in Russia 12 



German fur dyeing 100 



Gestation, period of, for foxes. ... 39 

 Gordon, James, early P. E. L fox 



breeder 15 



Gordon, J. S., sales of fox skins by, 



in 1910 113 



Great Slave lake, reindeer at 95 



Greely, A. W., on blue foxes 58 



Grenfell, Sir Wilfred, introduction 



of reindeer by 93 



H 



Handling fur animals 129 



Harmony Co 104 



Harriman Alaska Expedition 127 



Haywood, Benj., rearing of foxes by 13 

 Henley-on-Thames, marten farm at 78 

 Holt, Renfrew & Co., fox ranch 



of 13, 114 



Hoofed animals 10 



Hudson's Bay Co 104 



auctions, fur prices at 147 



fur sales, 1850-1911 148-159 



Hudson Bay seal 6 



Hunter-trapper age, passing of. . . 9 

 Hunting of fur-bearers, keenness of 3 

 Huth, F.,&Co 105 



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